Elijah Schaffer: The Dark Side of “Viral” Internet Culture | DSH #1790

You know, Jack Doe already, if that's even how he pronounces his name, is worse than an online

He's a scumbag who's abusing women

He's taking advantage of young girls separately who are barely of age

He's promoting them to children

He's getting young kids know the name of adult stars

And then he's repackaging it like they're not adult stars

Alright guys, here at Amphus Day 3 with Elijah Schaefer

Finally, met each other

We've been talking for years man

Dude, it's good to see you too man

What's new in your world? You deal with a lot

You know, every time you think something's going really well in your life

You can expect a catastrophic failure

And that's why I think God gives us good moments

It's so we can prepare for the impending doom

And it's not to make anyone depressed

But you're promised only death in taxes

But on the way towards death and in the process of paying taxes

You got to put in the work

You got to actually put in the effort

And with that's going to come some serious challenges

And right now being sued for $5 million

Jesus

Like the FBI director's girlfriend

And this comes right after a season where I thought

Everything was going perfect

It was all going my way

And you know what, I think God gave me a little bit of fresh air

Just so that I could be prepared for this season

And it's hard man, I'm genuinely struggling

To get through

I'm genuinely having a hard time man

Anyone getting sued for that amount of money

I think can relate

You know, my first lawsuit

I was bedridden for weeks

Really

It was a similar amount to you

How did e-commerce store at the time

And every text you send without the customer's approval is a $500 fee

And what happened was

When they abandoned their cart

When they were checking out on my site

My program would text them

Hey, you forgot to purchase this order

Finish your check out

No way, dude

So you know

You know what's funny

This is the second time I've been sued for millions of dollars

The first time I got sued

Was for having Nick Fuentes on my show

You got sued for that

I got sued for millions of dollars

For hosting Nick Fuentes on my podcast

Thank you for 2022

Sydney Watson

Australian YouTuber

Who was my co-host at the time

I would thought it was weird

I got sued for sexism

And then people thought it was being sued for sexual

Like assault or sexual harassment

But it was sex harassment based upon me targeting her as a woman

And I always thought the loss who was weird

Because she was a friend of mine

And I didn't know what I did

Turns out the lawsuit

Which is for like seven figures

Had four to five pages

Of talking about how I had Nick Fuentes on my show

It damaged her reputation

It gave her vertigo

She had health problems

And a organization

Led by Kurt Schlittener

Who's a prominent lawyer

Kind of picked up the legal fees

Allegedly

And launched this lawsuit

So they claimed it was about discrimination

But really she was bitter because Nick Fuentes made her look bad on a podcast

And it ruined her reputation

It says she couldn't sue him for being smarter than her

She went after one of her best friends

She was my neighbor too

Wow

And yet tried to get me fired

They stole my YouTube channel in the process

Crashed my career

Got me stuck in law fair

All because I had a person they didn't like on my podcast

It was a crazy time

But I beat that one

Got out completely

Apparently it's not illegal to have Nick on your podcast

But it'll cause your problems

I know you've built some of the same problems

You were too early I think, wouldn't it

Because now everyone has them on a show

It's true, you know

I think you were a year or two earlier

It's unfortunate

You know, it's

It's unfortunate

I almost got fired a few times

We're having Nick on my show

And

It's not great because you know Nick

The Nick called me out on his show

And

Recently

Yeah, just the other day

Like two days ago

And essentially degraded

Like tore down my work

And who I am

And basically said

I'm gonna eat it

And then I'm not smart

Basic

So like that's kind of how he presented it

And maybe he's right, I don't know

But

He's just like you know

He presented a situation of saying like

You know, I try to press him

I'm not voting for Donald Trump

And

You know, if I had

Watched his podcast

Maybe I wouldn't have voted for Trump

But there's two things on this number one

I've got no hate in my heart for Nick Fuentes

Okay

People have to realize

I know he doesn't care

Because he doesn't see himself as having friends in politics

But I've always seen him like a friend

We've been friends for about 10 years

Wow

And

When I first met him

He was

Essentially completely canceled

And I don't mean he was a nobody

Because he wasn't important

I don't mean he was a nobody

Because

He

Is it effective

I mean because Ben Shapiro

And Cassie Delan

Effectively got him canceled

This is what I was working at blaze

Which was the

The sister network daily wire

And blaze was bigger than daily wire at the time

Oh way

Yeah, so I had a flagship show on blaze TV

We were bigger than daily wire

And uh

Essentially

I invited Nick Fuentes on my show

Back in like

I think it was 2018

It was a long time ago

And they wrote the script for me

They told me what I had to give a disclaimer dude

To have Nick on my show in 2018

I just say I do not agree with anything this guy says

I do not align with his values

Yeah

And I didn't know anything about him

At all

He was a podcaster in his room

He had a little camera setup

And

I brought him on my show

At the time

You know

We had a lot of interesting people working for us

I worked for Glenn Beck

Really

Worked for Mark Levin

Wow

These names people know today

But you know I got called into the office

After I had Nick Fuentes on my show for the first time

And I got grilled

Are you a white nationalist?

Are you a white supremacist?

And I go what's going on here

All I did was ask a guy about his you know

Thoughts on war about his thoughts on the future

And that was the first time I had a threat

Like you know if you want to have a career in media

You can't be having these kinds of conversations

And I was taught real quick early on in my career

But if you want to be something great

If you want to actually make money in the right wing industry

You can't have conversations like

Like you had with Nick Fuentes

And they made that pretty damn clear

From the get go one one less than a year into my career

That he was blacklisted

And and they effectively cancelled him

You know they effectively made him disappear

But I

I want to let people know

I have a problem with the modern media game

Because it's all about clout

It's all about how edgy can you be

While still maintaining your monetization

And how can you attach yourself to people

Whether you agree with them morally

Whether they're reprehensible people

In a way that's going to drive your viewership

There's no authenticity in the media game anymore

And it's not about truth

It's not about productivity

It's all about money and fame

And those are the death of man right

The lust of the eyes

The lust of the flesh and the pride of life

That's what the devil tempted Jesus with

And the wilderness

When he was on his 40 day fast

And that's what people are falling for today

But back in the time

Having Nick on your show meant cultural and career suicide

I had him on multiple times

I actually

Believe I got him in person to his first conning show

Major conservative network

I snuck him in a backdoor through security with a hoodie on

Wow

Couple minutes before my show

Through him on the set

Didn't tell anybody he was on set

And it went live and I immediately got a text message

Fucking what are you doing

Wow

Why do you have this guy in our studio

And that's that that I was saying

And not only did I get in trouble

Threatened with being fired

But a little while later

I think I can sue for several million dollars

For the act of having that guy

My show and it was worth it

And I would do it every single time

Because I don't care if there was

No cloud or I didn't do anything

He has the truth in my opinion

He knows what he's talking about

And if I could just do a little bit

To help normalize the conversation

Fight the censorship that's going on

At the very basis of that

And do my part to ensure that people like Ben Shapiro

Don't have the

The monopoly on the conversation

I think it was worth it

And I don't think there's creators like that

Too far spread into our industry

Who actually will do anything that would hurt themselves

You're rare breed

You're very rare breed

Do you think speaking of Ben Shapiro

Do you think him calling out Megan Kelly

And Candace on stage yesterday was

What kind of move do you think he was making there

That was very interesting

Yeah Ben Shapiro is bleeding subscribers

Because he's a liar

Ben Shapiro has an agenda

And he's essentially like the Jack Doehardy

Of conservative politics

He's been pimping out his followers to lies

Cash in and drive in Ferraris in the process

And at the same time

Thinking that none of us notice

He's a complete short asshole

And that's who Ben Shapiro is

He's like the millennial version

Of a insufferable

Kick live streamer

But you don't know what to do

Because they have so much money and power

They can pay everyone

To work for them

And to act like they like them

And when you call them out

What he's matter

He's jealous

He's jealous because

They're telling people the truth

Candace Owens and Megan

Are on the nose

About what's going on

With the Zionist agenda

In our country

They're being threatened behind the scenes

Guys we're being threatened behind the scenes

You know Seth Dylan

The CEO of Babylon

Be a major organization

He's threatened

My company with severe legal litigation

Because when Charlie Kirk was murdered

You know I got on the phone with

With Candace Owens

I got on the phone

With a couple others I don't want to name

And we started an joint investigation

And I had a friend who was at that Hampton's meeting

Yeah

There's this new technology floating around

That people cannot stop talking about

It's called the light system

Before you roll your eyes

It's not some gadget

You strap on or supplement that promises the world

Every once in a while

I come across something that actually stops me in my tracks

And the light system is one of those things

This isn't a supplement

It's not a biohack

It's a full on energy environment

Built to help your mind and body synchronize

Recharge and operate at a higher level

It uses light patterns

Color frequencies

And coherent energy fields

All the stuff that your body naturally responds to

To create a coherent energetic field around you

People are saying they feel more clear

More centered

More live in their environment

And honestly the science behind it is fascinating

As I've seen a lot of wellness tech

But the numbers coming out on this new study

Of the light system are actually insane

Researchers measured human chic cells

Before and after sitting in front of the system

And get this

A 30-minute session boosted cellular conductivity

By 61%

The study even showed increased conductivity

And isolated DNA

Which is associated with stronger structure

And better repair pathways

The result

More clarity

More balance and more alignment

You can save $500 now

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And I remember we were talking about it

And I accidentally tweeted about it

Before we were going to go public about it

And Seth comes in

And starts threatening one of my employees

A girl too

Like my weakest

My weakest link

He's coming

He's like

Hey, we're watching you

We're you know

We're going to we're we're we're keeping track of every word you say

We're going to like basically

This is a major legal intimidation

Because we decided that we were just going to ask

Certain questions

That make his death suspicious

And that's all Megan and canister doing

They're just asking questions

They're trying to find the truth

And we're being threatened

With excommunication

With censorship

Being pushed off

The law like Barry Wise said

Ben Shapiro

We don't tolerate conspiracy theorists

And what are conspiracy theorists

In 2026

As we go in

It's anybody

Who does not have an undying support

For the Zionist agenda

That's it

We are not at a civil war drill, Barry

We are not in a civil war set, Dylan

You keep saying there's this fight

You have Zionists

Who believe in the Israeli agenda

Overtruth

That are willing to sacrifice

Not their lives

Because they're cash now

They're going to sacrifice your life

They're going to sacrifice my life

They'll put us on the altar

They'll chop our necks

They'll make sure we can't feed our families

They don't care

As long as their agenda stays dominant

And the rest of the rest of the people they're fighting

It's anybody that just believes in the truth

That's going, you know

America, there's too much damn

Israeli power in this country

And I just don't know how

I can go down the street

And I see my bridges falling apart

I see Iran as a roots

Can get a knife in the neck

I can't wear a Rolex

Even in the streets of Los Angeles

Without fearing from my life

Can't have nice things

We can't have nice things

And yet we can send another $15.8 billion to Israel

That's what we want to know

And that's why they're trying to cancel us

Because simply put

We're getting in the way of their unending money pit

They got the CIA

They got the military industrial complex

They got a trillion dollar bankroll plan

Jeez

And we don't want that to go towards other nations anymore

It's not an anti-Semitic man

It's not hateful to love America

Bro, speaking of walk around LA

I couldn't even walk around Phoenix last night

It's crazy

Dude, I almost got robbed on the way to James O'Keefe party

Well, I was done

I was wearing this

But like, you think Phoenix is like

A city like you can walk around

We live in America

But that was a reality checked for me

What happened? I mean

I mean, I walked past a homeless person

He had a knife out

He was like, I had no-

How did they look?

Pretty homeless

Do they look like people who would rob you?

Bro, he was eyeing

I could literally see him thinking about it

So, they didn't look like me?

No

I figured

No, I could see the person bigger about it

They say

When you're around

Never relax

Right?

You can't relax

It's true man

It's like, you can't relax, dude

I'm sorry that happened

You know what? Being robbed, man

You know, that's the truth

And you know, I almost died from a group of

of scholars and engineers

Wow, Inella

Uh, in Philadelphia

Actually, several times, Ashev had issues

But in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a couple weeks earlier

You can see this on footage

A young astronaut

A NASA model employee

Pulled a gun out and pointed it to my head

While I was recording journalism

Look this up

Well, I just shave for gun pointed to head

Oh, I thought you were jumping about the astronaut part

Well

That's what they call them

They call them are astronauts, doctors and engineers

But uh

Let's just say their heads are in the clouds

I don't know if these people are so bright

But uh, this, this young Nike tracksuit

Wearing

You know, got fresh jays on

Astronaut

Pulls a gun out, points it to my head

And he pulls the trigger

And you hear it go

And it jams

No

And he tried to shoot me in the

Like in the face

And you can see this on

You can see this happen

It's like kuching and it jams

And so I duck

And I run

And I'm like man lord, thank you

And I credit god for being alive

Jesus saved my life

I'm not dead man

And I'm thankful anyways

For that

But then a few weeks later

I'm in Philadelphia

And

I'm recording a protest

And they start looting

Right? These are different

These are the same kind of doctors and engineers

Not do you track what I'm saying here?

Yeah

Model citizens

And uh

They start looting

A five below

A five below, what are you stealing

Discount one ply toilet paper

Like bro, I'll give that to you

I don't want that

And

I'm standing there

And they start yelling out

Get the white people

Like get the white people

And they start chasing white people

Around the area

They come up

A group of them

Because they always hunt in packs

And just

Split open my face dude

At gunpoint too by the way

At gunpoint

Someone has a gun out

Split open my face

Knock me to the ground

And they're around me and have a gun pointed at me

Talking about the color of my skin

And I'm not proud of it

But I had a beg for my life man

And I don't know if anyone's ever had to be humiliated like that

Like

You know you see a lot of people in very dramatic situations

Where they might get in a fight

When you have a group

Of thugs surrounding you

And you've got a family at home

And you're in an American city

This is America damn

This is our country

And you people are walking around like animals

And guess what

I found out the police had a stand-down order

So the very people who could have

They were right out

They could have stepped in

They could have

Saved a citizen's life

But they were told

Don't get in the way

Because George Floyd just

You know

People are upset

So they gave it law and order

For diversity, equity and inclusion

I almost got killed

Pointed gun

I beg in the Lord spared my life that night

Because they went out and shot a girl in a stomach

And it was so crazy

Dude they were so animalistic

They were robbing each other

At gunpoint over the looted goods

Even more ghetto

Than robbing a store over one ply toilet paper

They were putting guns to each other's heads

To steal the toilet paper from the other guy

That's crazy

Isn't that

That's the world we live

And the police stood there

With their hands in their pocket

Hundreds of them in a line

With their bikes

Just watching it happen

It's like that movie The Purge

Yeah

Literally right

Crime was built for like a day or two

That's what 2020 was purge

But for a year

Yeah

Yeah

The riots lasted a while

A year

A year

Yeah it was about nine and a half months

Yeah

I know some cities were worse

I think I was in L.A.

Or I mean it was pretty

They robbed

Beverly Hills though

Wheelchair as well

I remember what's the big street in L.A.

I forget

Road to Ale

Yeah it might have been Road to Ale

Yeah

They did

They looted everything

Yeah

Did you see

Well

Yeah also

It was crazy too

Like you know

One of the sad things about this modern administration

I worked really hard in 2019

Through actually 2018

Towards the end

To expose Antifa

Who are now designated as a terrorist group

And I used to embed myself

And go under cover as an extremist

And you know

I'm white

I'm gonna be honest

I think white people are pretty cool

And they get a lot of hate

But

There's a lot of white people

That are

Liberal and kind of retarded

And a lot of them were in Antifa

And I worked in Seattle and Portland

To expose

This growing terrorist network

And the government wasn't taking me seriously

And I was putting in reports for the DOJ

And I actually ended up

They ended up seeding

A federal building in Portland

With fireworks

With uh

Molotov cocktails

Trump sends in the DHS

To go secure it

Like a military zone

And this is during the height of COVID

And I remember every day

There was thousands of us

Surrounding the building

And every night it was turned into a war

Where we were just

Throwing rocks

Not me by the way

But the group I was embedded with

And assaulting all the officers

And taking over the federal building

There was a war over a federal building

And no one talks about

People looked this up

The war for the Portland federal building

It was a 30-day

Scrimmish war

That involved real live fire

Returning to each other

Actual seeding military tactics

And somehow

They don't know what happened

But foreign intelligence groups

Embedded themselves

And were training the antifa on

How to create

Military factions

And militia resistance

Using umbrella tactics

To block rubber bullets

Like in Taiwan

They had use

Put taking cones

And sticking cones

Over uh

The tear gas

And then pouring water to neutralize them

While

They were being trained by a foreign military op

Hundreds of thousands of dollars

Were being poured into this

And uh

Unfortunately, D.A. Jess

Thought I was an actual terrorist

So he took a gun

It's particularly

I don't know if it was a flashbang

I don't know if it was just like

Tear gas

But he shot me point blank

In my shin

Shattered my shin

Then I passed out

From blood loss and exhaustion

Old crap

Yeah, on the floor

So you can see I'm like

Recording filming and just goes

Oh my god

You just hear dusk

And then you're

And then I just like

You just see the camera just go

Dusk

And then it's just on the it's on the floor

And I was just I had to get rescued from that

So

Then I get evacuated

It was a very very bad situation

But it's like

You know, I've lost a lot

I don't have any feeling in my face

I've had bones broken

I've had a beg for my life

I've seen people get killed

I saw, you know

I helped Kyle Rittenhouse

Get exonerated

Cause I helped film him

Getting murdered

And truth

Yes, you were there, right?

Yeah, right there

Watch crazy

Right there

Right there

Watch him

Watch him

Kill a pedophile

Dude, you've been through a lot

It's been weird

You ever you ever seen a pedophile

Yet killed, it's pretty cool

I can't say I have

I'm not going to say I'm mad about it

Like, you know, people say it was a

pedophile

But let's not bring it

Let's not bring a religion or race and do it

Yeah

I mean, that is a coincidence

But

I mean, he killed a pedophile

Who's trying, he's a minor

The guy was trying to grab his gun

And he shot him

And that was a turning point

In American history

Yeah

And they tried to put him in prison

For life

For life

For saying that he murdered

Innocent black people

But thanks to the footage of people

Like myself

Like, like, Jorge

And others that were out the daily color

We were able to use

Our online footage to exonerate an innocent man

And I want to remind people of that

You think that your work's not important online

You feel like

Oh, I got to get clout

I got to get clicks

I don't care about clout and clicks

My work was used to exonerate a young man

From being unjustly put in prison

That is what matters to me

They used my footage to keep Trump

From getting kicked out when he got impeached for January 6

I was there that day

I filmed the violent start

And when I saw that my footage got entered into official records

And Trump remained president

Did not get disgracefully removed

A sitting president

Whether I liked him or not

He didn't unjustly get removed

Because of my work

That's what work used to me

That's what media used to mean to people

How does what I'm doing

Make the world a better place

And now it's how

How can I get money into the only fans

Girls pockets

Who am I'm also abusing

You know Jack Doe already

If that's even how you pronounce his name

Is worse than an online pimp

He's a scumbag who's abusing women

He's taking advantage of young girls sexually

Who are barely of age

He's promoting them to children

He's getting young kids

Young kids know the name

Of adult stars

And then he's repackaging it

Like they're not adult stars

Putting them on YouTube

YouTube used to be a place for community and fun

You watch Roblox stream or Fortnite

But then when you find out the creators of Fortnite

Or also the same creators of the adult industry

If you ever look into that

But the same people

You start to notice why they get jiggly

And the body parts move

It's the same developers

The same people as the hub

Wow

Connected to Fortnite

So when you see a lot of the same

The same issues going on there

You see there's been a target on kids' lives

I hate the new creators

I hate who they are

I hate the streamers

Your looks Maxine can go fuck itself

You know what matters human souls

And the young men are suffering

And they need God

And they need love

And they need redemption

Because they're depressed

And they're upset

Who gives a care to

Okay, if you're magging people

Good for you

You're better looking

Clivicular

Oh like face modification

Yeah, what is clivicular doing?

I've never seen someone get more lost

Surgery, did you see that?

No

You got a jaw surgery yesterday

And it went really bad

He's a

Don't you feel bad? He's 19

I feel bad, bro

He's also trying to get the shin surgery

To increase his height by two inches

But what's the point of that

Like what's the point of looks Maxine

Now your God is your looks

And the truth is

Is women do care about looks

At that age

But as they grow up and develop

If you want to attract a quality woman

She cares about character

Facts

So if you're a young man

And all you tell a young man is his looks

Look, looks will get you girls

But it won't get you women

Won't get you a good woman

Correct, you're not going to get a mom to raise your kids

And it's like all these people today

Becoming white supremacists

And neo-naxies and whatever

Look, if you're a white supremacist

I have two questions for you

How many kids do you have

Because if you love the white race

Where are your children

And two, what have you done that's supreme

What are you doing

Complaining on the internet isn't going to help us

Yeah

And people like Clav

Clav got asked

Israel or Palestine

And he goes neither

Nothing helps me mug

Fair question

We got to stop the team politics

Politics is not a team sports

You don't need to

He doesn't need to have an opinion on that

But it does make me concern

That a 19 clavicular so insecure about his looks

That he's having to alter himself

With

Life altering surgeries

To achieve what

Does he need any more clicks

Does he need any more views

No, he's one of the most popular people on the internet

Does he need more women

No, he's pulling tail quicker than anyone I've seen

So what is it for

It's the same trap

A heroin addict falls into

It's the same trap

That an alcoholic falls into

It's called chasing the dragon

It'll never be enough

You have a god-sized hole

And you can fill it

With things that you think are going to lead you

To satisfaction

It's never going to be enough, Clav

I wish like a look him and I say

Man, it's never going to be enough

We've all seen those guys with botched faces

And big lips and the bow talks

And you go

Why did you do that to yourself man

Why do you look like it, you know why

It's the same reason someone dies of cirrhosis from alcohol abuse

Or cocaine addict gets a heart attack at 30

Sin always keeps you longer than you wanted to stay

Cost you more than you wanted to spend

And takes you further down you wanted to go

You are a spiritual being

And vice including vanity will take you down

And I'm nervous for these looks, Maxors

Because their vice is vanity

And vanity is ruined a lot of women's lives

It's crazy to see it ruining men's lives too

You mentioned alcohol a few times

I know you quit, was that recently

Yeah I did, I quit alcohol a few months ago

How long were you drinking for?

I've been drinking, I was drinking pretty much non-stop since 2012

Daily?

Pretty often like four or five times a week

Yeah, holy crap

So most days, yeah, I've been drinking

Thanks for being honest about that

A lot of people drink more than they let on

There's a lot of people watching this podcast right now

Who would be really scared

For people to know how much alcohol they drink

Because when you're a drinker, you learn how to do two things

You learn how to make sure that nobody knows

That you're drinking as much as you're drinking

So that you don't have to get judgment

And number two, you're always thinking about drinking

And it's a scary, scary road to live on

And you don't realize how lost you are

But think about this

And a lot of people have an alcohol problem

But we've normalized alcoholism so much today

That people don't think they're alcoholics

It's like an ant living on an ant hill and not thinking it's a bug

I'm like, well, I'm serrated by ants, it's like, but you're a pest

Yeah, but everyone's a pest around me, but is it make you less of an ant

And I think with the

I'm not here to lecture anyone

I'm not in any place to tell anyone how to live

But I do want to let people know

If you are out there

And you're sneaking alcohol

If you're at restaurants and you're stopping by the bar

When you're with friends to take that extra double shot

Just to get a little ahead

If you're going to go to parties and you're pre-gaming

Caught pre-gaming

You're drinking some liquor just to feel like

You know, a little more of a buzz

So that people don't judge you

If you're going for the 9% beer

Instead of the 4% beer

I'm not going to tell you you've got a problem

But do you have a solution?

And that's what I want to ask

Is this a solution?

Because alcoholism is a progressive disease

And I don't know if I was an alcoholic

And I don't really know

You were functioning

I was functioning

My dad was a functioning alcoholic too

Yeah, what is that?

He could read a book a day

But at the end of the day, he would drink a 30 pack of beer

But that's what he would normally drink

Yeah, but it gets there

It gets there

But what I'm saying is

It led to a lot of health issues

You know what I mean?

Mental health issues

I think mental health and alcoholism are pretty

Yeah, intertwined too

So he's a big deal

If you're angry, angsy

You snap, you get abusive

You can't maintain relationships

You can't arbitrate

You become not on compassionate

You become a victim

You start feeling you're a victim

And everyone doesn't understand you

It doesn't

What it does is I tell people this

The difference

Is anyone can stop drinking

But can anyone stay stopped from drinking

And I may drink again in the future

I don't know, but I knew

And I asked myself this

Can I become the man I want to be

With alcohol in my life

And the truth is

I couldn't and I can't

Why?

Because every time I drink alcohol

I don't do something bad

Every day I drink alcohol

You don't cheat on your significant other

Every time you drink

You don't end up in jail or with a DUI

But every time you get into a serious problem

Ask yourself this

Were you drinking?

So you're playing a game of roulette

Right

And because the good times are there

You forget about the bad times

True

The bad times can ruin your life forever

And so you just ask yourself

Do I want to be living a life

Of some bad times

Or ruining

Or do I want to live the best possible life

I can imagine

And for me

All I could speak for for me

I couldn't live the best life

I wanted to live

And keep up the way that I was drinking

And

I credit

Credit God

I had an experience of God on an airplane

And God told me

If you don't get your life right with me

That you're going to die

I heard a voice tell me you're going to die

Wow

Were you drunk?

Were you sitting down

Why eyes closed?

Eyes open

Just sitting down

Listening to an audiobook

And I got like a memory

And planted in my head

You are going to die

If you do not follow God

With all your mind

With all your heart

With all your soul

With all your strength

And I looked up

And I was like

Is anybody hearing this

And I was like

Is that God?

God

What do you mean by that?

In my heart I knew

Everybody knows

God is calling young men

To actually be obedient

Everyone's talking about God now on podcasts

Because it's popular

But you know what all that God

God calls us to

He calls us to obedience

And that's so people don't want to talk about

But tell you about reading your Bible

How prayers helping you

How God forgives

Like Null Array

But a question is

Are you willing to stop doing the things

That you love

Which are the things that God hates

And are you willing to start doing the thing

That God loves that you may not like

Because that's what faith is

Your flesh likes the things

That it shouldn't like

And it hates the things that it should like

And that's why you have the faith

Because God comes in by his Holy Spirit

And he gives you the power

To begin to hate the things that he hates

And to love the things that he loves

But you know what

It doesn't happen like magic

You have to give up

That thing in your life

That you know is your God

And I don't

It might not be drinking

You can drink and be a Christian

You can drink and know God

There's nothing

God doesn't say you've got to stop drinking

You can do other vices

And like I still smoke cigars

But I should cut back for health reasons

But it's like

Am I not a Christian

Because I smoke cigars

No obviously not

But if anything in your life

Has control of you

If you are not in control of something

That is your God

And you are a slave to it

And why did God come

Not so that you can

Repent publicly and have on podcasts

To talk about it

It's that in your heart

When you go to sleep

You have a clear conscience

And if you were to die tonight

That you could tell God in the face

The Lord

I actually

Did what you said

And I want to have eternity with you

And I hope that young men

Realize you don't need to just go to church

And you don't need

Some some magic

You know words

And you don't need to wait till people see it

Guys, don't give up on God

Because the people in your life

Judge you based upon your past

You know who brings up your past

Women in the devil

Right

You know what people that bring up your past

Or women in the devil

They'll always remind you of what you've done

And who you were

You know what the boys and God do

They tell you about

Who you are now and where you can be

And God, it believes

In his plan

His plan is true

And it's for us to prosper

And for us to what

Repent and find change

And I just want to

I want to kind of leave a message here to people

If you are hurting and depressed

If you are dealing with

Anxiety

If you are walking around

And you're stuck in

Consuming adult content online

If you have things that you know are wrong for you

And you just can't stop

And you cry out to God

And you beg God

And you say, God

Please, please

And I bend there

You're like

Man, you wake up and hung over

And you're like, God, please

Just like

If you take this away

I'm like, I will do anything for you

And then what happens

24 hours later

Sometimes less

You're back on the hub

You're back behind the bottle

You're back doing the same thing

And you know what, I'm going to tell you what

That's because

You're doing it in your own strength

And you don't have to fight more than this moment

People say take it one day at a time

Take it one moment at a time with God

And that's how you find God

And if you're out there and you don't know God is

You're confused

You find God

By right now in this moment

Speaking to him

Because he has a promise

He says

If you draw near to me

I will draw near to you

Which means

If you take the first step

What is faith?

It's taking the first step

If you take the first step

I will show you more of myself

And like

The disciples who walked on the water

He said come out of the boat

Walk on the water

And when their eyes were on Jesus

They walked

And when they got scared by the waves

When they got scared by the storm

There was a storm going on

And Jesus approached them

And he tested him

The disciples started to sink in the water

Because why?

He was focused on the waves

He was focused on the storm

And in your life

If you focus on the storm

You will sink

And you will fall again and again

But if you keep your eyes on Christ

And what he's done for you

Don't worry about your mom

Things your girlfriend thinks

The life

You know the people around you

God said that you were forgiven

Believe in that

And start living like it

Being a Christian isn't

Being good so God accepts you

It's realizing that God has forgiven and accepts you

So act the way that He sees you

God sees you as perfect

When you receive His Son

So just behave like it

No

And if He said you could

Then you can and He'll empower you

Wow

Thanks for your wisdom brother

It's been a fun episode

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