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I wanted to talk about monetization.

De-banking.

Shadow banning.

and the next pandemic, whether or not it's a lab-generated amalgamation or maybe a climate variant.

I think I've decided finally to throw in the towel on the website. I want to thank, I appreciate all of our customers, all of our awesome customers that have supported us through the years. It's just been with a lot of expense, carrying costs and all these different things. I think I'm gonna, I hate...

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I throwing in the towel on anything, I hate quitting, but I think I'm gonna do it. And this is what I wanna talk about, monetization and debanking and shadow banning. When we started social media, we know about Incutail and all that stuff and knew about it then. we weren't, we didn't finally wake up in 2020 or anything. We'd been paying attention for a while. And so we knew that it would never be

There would never really be a way to monetize it from their end, which is why we started the website. Because when my oldest son said that he wanted to do this as a business, that's when we decided to go with the website, because we knew there would be consequences to honesty.

The reason I'm bringing this up now and I think it's relevant is we're still in this constant state of extreme tribalism and the left-right paradigm and all these different things.

For any of you that remember way back in 2020 with all the medical misinformation and all the other reasons that they were giving people community strikes and disappearing them and all these different things and debanking people. Well, for one, that never really stopped. And now that everything's honky dory again and they're giving everybody their channels back and it's all peace and harmony.

and all the world, know, like it's all Peppa Pig and everything. It's not really like that.

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You know, we started the website. We had an enormous amount of success thanks to our super awesome customers and hard work and whatnot. And what first happened after some of the strikes and shadow banning, we got debanked. And we got debanked twice. We got debanked by Stripe and then we got debanked by Square. And our website was unfortunately with SquareSpace

because I just let the kids set it up because it was quick and easy and we know what you pay for convenience and what we paid for our convenience was getting debanked and through Stripe and at the time we had online courses we had reoccurring revenue which wasn't a ton but for some young teenage children it was pretty awesome you know a couple thousand dollars a month and then probably with all the different reoccurring

Streams that we were generating through the website was probably about $3,000 a month So nothing to sneeze at it paid them for a lot of front-end hard work and all that kind of cool stuff So when we got debanked the first time that all completely disappeared and went away and the only way to reinstitute that is to reinstitute with a new Card processor and all that good stuff. So that totally went away and then I said well I don't want this to happen again So I hired somebody to redo the website and invested like 10,000

dollars and between the website and the coffee and different things and wasn't really happy with either of that and you know the shadow band

We've been shadow banned since like 2020 or 2021 probably. And that has never went away. And it's one away for some people and the algorithm and all this stuff, but it it didn't go anywhere. And it's coming back. And for all these other people that got silenced and then somehow magically either at the behest of Elon Musk or DJT or whatever, they get to come back.

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and talk and have business and make money and all that stuff. That window is not even ephemeral. That window is an illusion and it's a carrot. And so we see this larger growing, all right or...

true media and I would be scared to death if I was creating electronic content for a living. I would be, I would, I would not be optimistic. And I certainly wouldn't want my future,

swaying in the balance of that. And like I said, a lot of these people have gotten reinstated and their views have went up and have went through the charts. And then we have all these other like super hyper weirdo freak kind of people like the Nick Fuentes's of the world and they get blasted. And the reason that these

people that got deplatformed that were rather extreme.

ultra extreme like The reason they get reamplified. This is for the whole civil war thing that they've been continuing wanting to Exacerbate so that's why these people get amplified. It's not like Everything's right in the world again and free speech and they get reinstated magically because of The algorithm like none of this stuff happens by accident. This is by design and these people getting replat

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and reinstated serves two purposes. One, if they're reinstated they can get amplified to create more

division and then also all the anti-semitism stuff is there a useful pawn in like getting the right-wing version of the hate speech thing passed you know like when you can't get the crazy pink-haired liberals to pass the authoritarian totalitarian

dictates of the they, them and those and the technocrats and all that stuff. You get the orange guy to do it, you know, and he does the same thing. It's just, you know, it's a little bit better. It's just not as bad, not as fast, you know, but, but at the end of the day, you still got the same end result and it's part of the dialectic and it's part of the right left paradigm. And I know there's a new Christian right and they're going to work within the paradigm and

going to show them and all that stuff and I can't think of a bigger fool's errand than that. I mean if history hasn't told us anything, I explain this you know not to not to go on a rabbit trail but I explained this one when people asked me why I'm not a Republican and I said well conservatives don't conserve anything but that's easy but the reason I'm not a Republican is because the very first Republican president despised the Constitution

and was a fascist totalitarian dictator that imprisoned his opponents and did all the things that they want to do now and that they are going to do in the future. And that's why I'm not a Republican because the poster boy of the Republican Party is Abraham Lincoln. And if you're not up to speed on that, you can read D Lorenzo's work.

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from the Mises Institute. He's written probably, I don't know, probably four books on Lincoln, all heavily cited with real facts and all that kind of cool stuff. I did a podcast about the real post-war consensus, so if you want to reference back to that. But yeah, unfortunately I will be winding down the website.

And it kind of stinks, but I just don't have the time commitment and it doesn't have the functionality. It's like, it's too challenging to, yeah, it's just, it's not what I wanted and I don't have the time to make it what I want. And right now I might relaunch the website if some of our younger children

become interested and want to monetize it and figure out a way. And then if they want to do that, that'd be a great, even a homeschool project for them. So I'm excited about it. I'm just going to mothball it probably, hopefully. I think I can do that. but I'm just shutting it down. I probably will keep up. do very much the podcast is kind of a passion project and I do enjoy that. I enjoy talking to other interesting people and also just

communicating back and forth, throwing ideas out there.

And the bandwidth is minimal because of whatever. And I know it's because I'm not creative or I'm not saying the right things or I don't have the good things to say and nobody's interested. These are all these shadow band talking points of like, but if you just said it better or if more people aligned with you, it would get amplified.

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and that's just not true. mean, that's observably false.

We talked about monetization. So we got debanked twice. I mentioned that.

And there was one other thing, and I usually try to use a note sheet. And I knew that this would happen if I didn't use a note.

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but it's escaping me at the moment. So.

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I can't, I can't recall.

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cut.

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Uncut. Yeah, so this all revolves around, I don't know if anybody remembers the pandemic. I guess we can say that word now. I guess we can say the word pandemic and COVID-19 and all these different things. And if you haven't looked lately, there's this new thing that has recently started circulating and it started not in a wet market, but on like a

bird seeing, expedition, and these people of course were on a luxury cruise boat, you know, and now we have to track and trace these people. And the storylines...

really kind of terrible and the way they recycle them it's like back to the future 24 but they they should at least get creative with like their storylines because I think this other this new thing was grown in a scientific enclosure and it was the guy's name was

Phony ouchy or something like that or it's his brother or something now I'm being a little bit funny, but probably not and I you know, sometimes you feel like the Babylon B when you joke about this stuff and then it actually happens but Yeah, so I say all that to say this like If there is any like real information going out It's only by the grace of God If it's going out at all

and getting amplified because all I'm seeing is those that are getting algorithmed in a positive sense, you can just see that they want civil war.

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and then with all of this international nonsense and foreign interests

quite observably like controlling everything and we continuing to fund them at breakneck speed and continue to plunge ourself deeper into this forever war. I am sure terrorist extremism is going to uptick. I'm sure there's going to be some type of domestic incident. There will have to be

to create any kind of positive sentiment around this forever war. You know, this has got to last another 20 years, because Afghanistan, it lasted at least 20 years. And this is no difference. This is the deficit spending monetary model.

You know, since World War I, this is the bankers playbook. This is how they do it. This is how they've always done it. And this is why the left and the right both vote for it. Because it's the same team. It's Team Purple.

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So I was just observing things and I wanted to give a little bit of our background, give a little bit of our story. And then also explain to all of our awesome customers. We only get like maybe a couple orders a month. And I do apologize to our very faithful customers. I just can't.

I can't invest the time that it takes between sourcing and packaging and then packing and shipping. I just, I don't have the bandwidth to do it and...

And there's, you know, unfortunately there's no rate of return there and we are working on several other things where there's incredibly large positive rates of return and that brings me kind of to my final point. You have to be, if you're going to do something, if you're going to... I'm bringing this up because I was referencing, you know, like online...

businesses and companies and the internet is still like

at this very minute. mean, this could change in five minutes, but the internet is still a incredible place to come up with an idea, monetize it, put it out there to public and broadly distribute it. It still is that currently, maybe, and it may be, it will be for the next five years. Maybe it will only be for the next five minutes. So I'm not saying don't take advantage of the opportunity because I am going to be doing a podcast. Somebody asked,

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me. They wanted my opinion on Christians and making money and these different things. So I'm going to speak to that. I put a lot of thought into that and I'm going to do a podcast on that. if you want to hear that, subscribe, stick around. I will be doing a podcast on that as my schedule permits. But if you are doing anything online,

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The concerning part is there is no...

There is no ubiquity online in the sense of like when they want to turn you off, they will turn you off. We got debanked twice by two different processors that were unrelated, unaffiliated on different platforms. You know, so the only reason these supposed like

counter narratives are streaming right now and that they're able to get any type of monetization and have any type of marketing, branding, brand affiliation stuff on a large, in a large way, in a large sense is because it's being allowed because that can be turned off like that. Like very easily. We were

Absolutely no buddies. We were nothing. We had a hundred thousand subs. We were like redneck hillbillies living in the woods in Texas. And not only did we get like turned off, like we got, we got like maliciously attacked. Right now, right now, this is another reason why I'm turning off the website. Right now.

We are getting these, this like malicious purchases. It's like insane. We get like, we get maybe two to four real orders a month. These malicious, fictitious purchases, we get like eight a day. And they order like the same thing.

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They order this obscure thing and it has real high shipping and they keep ordering the same thing and goes to different people and different addresses all over the place with different emails. It's wild. It's wild and I don't, there must be.

So it's one of two things. It's either more of the same people that did the debanking or it's just like some kind of like spammer thing because if the order went through and I got the money, you know, I would ship the product but somehow they must be able to get the order to go through and then reverse it somehow on their end so that I never see the money. I'm trying to figure out totally how

the scam works, but we get like eight to 10 of these orders a day, like every day.

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And thankfully, the processor has is pretty awesome. And they are somehow able to catch it. So it's all very interesting. It's all very interesting. it's all stuff you learn.

You don't know things until you, a lot of times, until you work through it and figure it out. And that's what we've been doing this whole time. It's just kind of like try, fail, adjust. You know, try this, try that, see if it works. you know, and then when you get maliciously financially attacked, you never kind of forget that. my whole philosophy is like, well, we'll just figure out a way to circumvent it.

And as of this moment, I don't think there's a real way to circumvent it.

As an experiment, for those of you that still enjoy what we're doing and listening and all that stuff, I might do like a buy me a coffee thing just out of pure curiosity to see if that would even, what would happen. That would be a social experiment. I do a lot of those, but that would be purely a social experiment expecting nothing. But.

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It's just a very interesting time we live in. And this isn't like a Black Pill Doomer Gloomer thing, but I will close in saying this. Whatever you are doing.

Make sure it's in the real world space, in real life, with real people, with your community. Work with your community, know your community. And I'm not talking about your social media community, I'm not talking about your Facebook group, I'm not talking about your Discord whatever, whatever any these, Signal, or any, like.

And I know all that stuff is bulletproof, like Signal, which was supposed to be encrypted on both ends, and unhackable and all that stuff. But what we clearly found is that that digital realm doesn't exist. There isn't an impervious space. There's not an impervious space in the real world either, but if you're building something in the real world,

you have the most amount of control that any of us have. If you're building something in the digital realm,

It can be turned off like a light switch, much like your Bitcoin. And I know Bitcoiners don't like to hear that, your Bitcoin can absolutely, you can hardwalled it. You can do whatever you want. If they want to turn it off, they can turn it off. If they want to turn my bank account off, they can turn my bank account off. I I absolutely know that. I've experienced it. So, I mean, it's not even, yeah, so it can happen, but.

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If anybody tells you any of these things, there's this impervious way. It's the same reason why there's never been any challengers on social media that have gained any type of traction. Odyssey was probably the best. They figured out a way to monetize it with crypto. And then the SEC trumped up this fake thing and got that.

Odyssey was probably the most functional and probably had the best Concept of a monetized platform and was relatively easy to use and seemed like It was getting Had the greatest potential, you know Rumble's just it Rumbles fake

Like, we've been on Rumble for so long and Rumble is just, you know, it's the alt-right version of, you know, Palantir and Andral and all the other defense, it's all like DARPA's right wing, you know, it's all it is. And...

So, if you're going to do something, do it in the real world with real people.

really focus on loving your family, whoever that is, extended family, if you're married it's your wife and your children and your church family and spend and invest time there. If you have some business ideas, do it in the real world.

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locally with your community.

Because if your plan is to develop something digitally and distribute it, that's fine as long as everything's honky-dory. But when things aren't honky-dory and you are a person that has real principles,

and real values and real convictions and you are overtly Christian and you're actually biblically Christian. You're not like this watered down Jesus loves everybody and he's coming back riding a unicorn and giving out gummy bears and know, Tootsie Pops and all that stuff.

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you know, there'll be consequences for that. And count it all joy. I'm not saying to, you know, I'm not saying to self-serve anything. We count it all joy when we fall into diverse temptations because we know that the trying of our faith work at the patience. And me bagging the website isn't me losing my patience or anything. It's just, it's just you have to,

In life, you have to evaluate everything that you're putting effort into and you have to prioritize your time because your family needs your time, your children need your time, your friends need your time, your church needs your time. And that doesn't mean that I'm not dissing any of y'all that interact and communicate. I appreciate every one of you and enjoy that.

but we do always, even in business and in life, we always have to think about where we invest our time, where is the greatest impact. And right now it's not online and I can't see anything.

in the foreseeable future, I only see that becoming more problematic. I don't see that ever getting any better. The current administration, I've warned against the hopium and all the QAnon sense and the white hatters.

and all those good guys that are in the government, wherever they are, other than maybe Thomas Massey. I mean, you could say there's one out of how many parasites? Out of what, 500 and whatever parasites, and that doesn't include the lobbyists and the different Apex and all them, those and that stuff. There's one guy. Man, talk about feeling out of place.

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And they're getting ready to like, they're throwing all the money at it. They're getting ready to toss in. That'll be interesting. It's all gonna be interesting. yeah, well I appreciate y'all listening. I just wanted to come on here and encourage y'all. I always encourage y'all to get your feet in the dirt, plant something, know about your food. But even outside that concept.

Whatever you are doing business-wise, monetary-wise, I want to encourage you to do it in the real world. You can still use social media. You can still leverage it as much as it can be leveraged. I'm not saying that, know. Use technology or whatever, but develop a skill. We've been kind of counseling some...

older teenagers that are just getting out of school and we're just like, develop a skill, learn a trade. If you want to go to school, go to school for a trade. Learn a trade and work in the real world. You know, I know the fantasy is to be a YouTuber, I would, I mean, I would really, you know, the beauty of all of it is, is if we had developed,

some large income stream from all this it would just be it could be eliminated overnight which is what we saw we were yeah you know at the time at the time when we got turned off the first time we were doing 30 000 a month on the website

and 10 to 15,000 a month in ad revenue. Now all that only lasted three months. We had the three highest months right before we got totally clobbered. And that was back in 2021 or 2022. And that's how long I've been trying to swim upstream and...

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fight the power and all that stuff. still gonna do the podcast. Still wanna interact. I would like for there to be more interaction. Because for some reason, there's just not a lot of interaction, which I really miss. you know, at one point in time on Fountain, there was a lot of interaction and I really liked that. And I like Fountain. Which is, for those of you that don't know what Fountain is, it's a...

Podcast platform where you can listen to podcasts and it's crypto based and I'm not a crypto guy or anything, but it's a really Neat platform where you can easily communicate back and forth and have a conversation Half the time when people comment on YouTube like it goes in the YouTube rabbit hole and like you can't you can see that they said something and then you try to find it and it's just you know, that's why it's interesting people that get

crazy offended on YouTube when you don't respond to different things. Like, if you knew how much stuff got just like memory hold that you never even get to see, yeah, it would be frustrating if you're a rational, logical human being and you enjoy communicating with other people. It would be frustrating, you know, almost like it's intentional, you know, to make you feel like.

you don't belong here and you're not wanted and the technocratic overlords can do whatever they want a little bit like that but but yeah I appreciate you all watching it's such a beautiful day and I think I do have a hint of whatever the new current thing is or whatever just feeling a little bit

Low energy, feeling a little low energy today. but love and appreciate you all. None of this was a knock on any of y'all. It's just an observation of reality and I just find it real interesting as, and I love to listen to all different kind of cool online content, but it's just really wild.

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to see things kind of like now that it's cool again, you know, and all the, even the Homestead Tsunami where all these people relocated to the country and then they've already moved back. We personally know five or six families that did that and they moved from different states and moved back to the terrible states that they complained about.

wild stuff like stuff you can't explain but now that everything's cool again you know and then you see they they trot on there they're trotting out the the hunter or whatever and I'm not saying that this is the one either but but we know from the different tabletop exercises that there's going to be another one and you know it says they're going to constrict and expand and constrict and expand and every time they constrict they just won't expand back out quite as far but you know we're watching all these people get reinstated online

and their content gets turned back on and then even their bandwidth gets, they even get algo'd and they get amplified.

And it's not back to it. And truth is truth. And if truth is getting out there and getting amplified, great. if 200 people, which has basically been the average on YouTube, listen to this, that's great too. Maybe another four or 500 on the podcast, maybe another, it'll probably get more views on Rumble, which is kind of funny, because I was hating on Rumble. I really hate Rumble, it's terrible.

Well, because it's just fake. It's just a, you know, it's just the antithesis to YouTube, but it's the same, you know, it's like the Republican version. If it was political...

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YouTube would be the Democrats and rumble would be the Republicans because there is there's only there can only you know, that's why the Christian nationalists, you know They'll sit there and talk in a circle about how we have to work within the right-left paradigm and they mock Libertarians because you know, they're whatever because they're not Christian like there's no Christian Libertarians or anything And the Libertarians do have the best ideas, you know, and everybody always wants to point to the drug

stuff but no I'm talking about monetary policy and just basic like anti-interventionist leave-me-alone like contract contract based society contract covenant yeah very very old technology ancient technology covenant yeah and very effective but I won't start

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I do want to do like a good, like, I haven't done like a good riff in a long time where I just extemporaneously go down wherever all the little rabbit trails lead. I miss that too, but, alright y'all. To all 200 of you that are gonna watch this, I love you. I appreciate you. And, we'll see you on the next show.