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Well, in a turn of events, it turns out this show is still a lot of touch tips when we want to, but we're going to keep it completely straight tonight.
We have Nick Ricada from Ricada Law on.
For the next 60 minutes, things are about to get weird.
It is approximately 10:25 p.m. Eastern Time, as you'd expect when you have a Jewish person.
They'll take everything from you, including your time.
Just come on the show, but they'll give you nothing back.
But disrespect love and, of course, all of your rights.
I did put up a quick picture and I did remind people something that I did want them to know because everyone was kind of like, oh, hey, you know, this is pretty crazy show.
Everything's happening.
Are you okay?
Is everything going on?
And I wanted to remind people that I wore a t-shirt.
So I want to bring this up on the screen.
I took up this little selfie here, you know, looking, got the nose hairs in.
And I reminded people, I'm like, grateful I just rocked past my goal of 199 pounds.
You and I both got into shape recently.
We cut off that water weight.
We're getting healthy.
And I did point out the fact people asked me what did the FC stand for?
What was the brand of the t-shirt?
And I just wanted to remind people that the brand FC on my shirt is a clothing brand dedicated to honoring the majority of Twitter users.
Well, okay, so from what I've heard, all of the people who reported him over the past several years, like a bunch of people who reported him years ago, are all having their reports confirmed now.
So it looks like there was the actual thing where if you had a blue check mark, you're really inoculated from sort of the normal system and you got put in this other thing.
I'm literally just visiting family, but it's because we didn't get to see them for like three and a half years because of the restrictions.
And so you don't have to be vaccinated to go to Australia anymore.
And so I decided to hang out.
And it turns out my job is just a piece of fabric behind a desk.
So it makes it possible to do this literally anywhere in the world.
And so I've just been enjoying with family and kind of like, I don't know, when you have years of being separated and your own like mother-in-law almost gets arrested for eating lunch outside, you know, and people, you have nephews born and things happening and you're not a part of your family's life for years.
My mom's dead.
My, you know, my family's not really connected.
And so then my wife's just separated forcibly from her family for years, doesn't get to see anything.
We had a planned trip in December to happen already.
And we're just here in the summertime because it's cold as shit in America.
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And I do love the fact that I bring this all up live.
My headphones were, my headphones were, I was doing the trial streams and my headphones were actually causing my hair to have like a bald thinning spot, like a band across it.
Dude, can I ask you this before we haven't gotten anything?
That's why literally the guy I'm working with right now, he's awesome.
His name's Mike, and he's incredible.
And he was like, basically, did you prepare anything?
I'm like, yeah, no, I have stuff I want to talk about.
And he's like, bro, let's just call this touching tips with Nick Ricada because I don't know if you're going to touch on the stories that you want to get into, but you're definitely going to get into some bullshit.
And I was like, all right, that's true.
That's absolutely true.
And then my Telegram betted whether or not you're going to filibuster the whole show.
Where's your locals?
You got to get your locals in here.
Don't forget, guys, if you want to right now, if you want to, Local's stream is broken.
Dude, the RMTP isn't working right now.
It didn't work on the last stream, but you can watch and rumble if you're in locals.
You would think that a lawyer would be like, oh, hey, you're retarded.
This is Nick Ricada.
He's got an army of ghouls in his locals that will support him till he dies.
Can he, you know, and everything he does is a controversy.
Remember, it's just, he's the craziest guy.
It's like, it's insane that there would be this married guy with kids that's just trying to have fun and not be an alcoholic, but be drunk every day, which is different, which is way different.
Is they're like, oh, name them, name them, name them.
And it's like, dude, listen, man.
I actually have this new, this, I was talking to a couple friends and we came to some similar conclusions.
I don't know what you think about this.
And a lot of people are probably going to disagree.
I do want to, we'll cover this story in a second, this Arkansas woman who was arrested for making bomb threats.
We'll get into that in a second.
But like, I just want to stop posting the L's of like white and black people, meaning all these videos are just like one white guy getting his face stomped out by like 10 black dudes.
Look, we know black people hunt in packs.
They only fight when they have the advantage.
They often have the advantage in the courts because there's so many laws to try to just let them out on instant bail.
They're overworked, whatever.
And it's an L for black and white people when we post these videos because it's like white people just get stomped out.
I feel like this is a little gay, but let's just, we'll be a little gay here.
This is like one of those, one of those girls where it's like, the only way you could do it is if you're doing it with the homies, not doing the homies, with the homies, because it's like kind of like, if I'm doing this by myself and you find out about it, it's embarrassing.
But if we do it together, then it's like, do you know what I'm saying?
Not only do you make more money and you have less problems when you're independent, like, like, it's like the idea.
Like, people are like, oh, what's going on in your life?
And I'm like, well, I've, you know, I've, I'm on the internet.
I know everything that everyone else in the world knows.
And I called the CEO of Slightly Offensive.
I talked to him and I asked him like what his thoughts are on Elijah Schaefer and his life and everything that's gone on in it.
And he called me back and just said, I'm just, we're totally okay with it.
We approve.
We're not going to fire him and we're going to keep him on board.
And so like, if you're going to get mad at me for the CEO of Slightly Offensive says, we like Elijah Schaefer, we're going to keep him going.
That's the power of being independent.
The CEO calls me, easily just says, you've got a job.
Stick with it, buddy.
And I just stick with it.
So me and the CEO, my psychiatrist call it schizophrenia, but I just call it working independent, you know?
It's I'm just saying, like, you, you know, do you know how much bullshit?
I'm not joking.
Do you know how much shit you would be involved in if you worked for a network?
Because you're a target and you're just a target.
And you just have so many people in your ears all the time that like it makes you depressed.
Like you actually lose the will to live kind of.
And not because everyone sucks, but because it's like, imagine if the people in the internet that suck, which is almost this entire industry, now had power in your life.
Yes, but I love the aboriginal complaints because we'll get back to what you were saying, but I want to get, but because they go like, oh, we were the original people.
We were here for 10,000 years.
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You know, oh, yeah, yeah, we were here for 10 days and years.
So you're telling me you were here for 10,000 years, which I don't even buy the timeline.
And a couple of just like fucking thieves and some like shitheads, some homosexuals and some stuff got put on boats.
And you had like nine boats show up with a couple homos and a couple like guys who stole loaves of bread and they conquered you without even shooting a shot.
They handed you a bottle of Jack Daniels and it just wrecked.
They didn't have to bring smallpox.
They just gave you alcohol and it ruined your society.
It destroyed you and you got conquered by liquor, your whole culture.
And you've made the entire society about their whole, if no one knows, it's not like African Americans.
It is like these people still sleep on like pig bladders and stuff.
Can I just say this is why I love being on the show with you?
Because I actually, I actually, like, unfortunately, because I come from a network, like try to kind of structure my shows.
Like, really, like, I'll have like a pretty good layout.
I have like themes, and I really try to hit videos and like cover certain topics.
And I just know with you, I'm like, I don't give a fuck anymore.
Like, I, do you know what I do what I did?
Do you know what I did?
I, the other day, I also did this.
I made a little graphic for my Twitter.
It's kind of gay, but also I made a little graphic.
Um, and I thought that was kind of cool.
And because I saw everyone was making graphics, the Hodge twins, um, other people.
I don't know who anyone is, random people.
And I go, I got to get a graphic too.
So I made myself a graphic, and that's the kind of shit I'm doing in my time.
But also, I was going to say, with with the controversies and all this stuff, you know, happening with the round faces, is I still feel like I keep a pretty good spirit, no matter like what shit I get from the FBI, no matter what's happened.
Like, I mean, it's like I filmed all the riots while I was mourning my mom's death, like in the middle of that.
Like, I literally went from her funeral to go catch a riot right after that.
And I went from a riot to her funeral.
So it's like, you know, I've like kind of learned to deal with a lot of shit.
And I find that this industry has a lot of people who really haven't done shit, but they complain about everything.
And you'd expect there to be a lot of problems from people, like in terms of like, you know, people going after you and whatnot, like with this retard.
Because if you think about it, the entire media sphere, and I'm guilty of this sometimes.
So like this is that idea where you throw yourself in there.
I'm actually awakening from this mindset is that people are just like programmed to create their own problems, like to generate issues.
Like I saw people at the Super Bowl writing things.
People I love, by the way, and I'm not even calling them out.
It's just like, it's almost like you look in a mirror and you see something where it hadn't happened.
And they're like, I'm already upset at the halftime show because I know it's going to be satanic garbage.
And then it wasn't really satanic garbage.
And then, and then she just did like the Illuminati symbol or something like that.
And then these people were like, fuck really mad about it.
But also, like, Andrew Tate does that thing too, and no one cares.
So is the TradCon right wing against it because it's pro-Satan and abortion or for it because it's pro-Hitler?
It's a question that a lot of people have to deal with.
That sums up media in a nutshell.
It's like my favorite thing was when I'm trying to say with media is that people create their own problems.
It's like this generated outrage that is, I have to have a strong opinion about everything.
And my brain is going, it's changing a little bit because none of what we've been saying or doing has done anything except for do makes shit worse?
Yeah, we think we made it worse.
I think Joanne Donovan from Harvard, who said that I helped cause the riots by filming them, even though she just got fired from Harvard, by the way, I said it happens to the best of us, Joey.
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I'm fat, but this is where, dude, oh my gosh, we're going to get into this discussion.
I just had an epiphany on air.
I just had an epiphany on air.
It's true.
Fucking hipsters, which we know this, but this is where fat acceptance came from.
Because style used to be about looking good, but when it became about irony, what's more ironic than a fat person looking good?
And so what, remember, remember how many fat chicks were hipster with the long green, with the long green thing, the owl necklace, the lipstick?
I think I have a video that is pretty, pretty substantial.
I think, do I, let me see if I have it.
That is pretty, pretty much describes this stuff.
Maybe I don't have it.
That sucks.
I guess I don't.
Wait, do I probably?
You know how you like message, you have so many DMs, you have no idea who you've been talking to and who you have not, and you don't know what's going on anymore.
And then it's just until you're in, and you find out everything.
Okay, well, I don't have it.
But it's like, do you remember, remember hipsters?
It was all about the irony.
It was all about looking a certain way.
And so you have like Joanne Donovan, who, unfortunately for us, is fat and ugly, but that was her stage.
That was the arc.
Like, that's the kind of chick that would show up at the coffee shop.
And that's where the only thing good to come out of the hipster stage was coffee shop starting to also serve alcohol.
That was cool.
Because American coffee shops didn't do that.
They started serving wine and beer and stuff.
And it was like, all right, cool.
Now coffee shops make sense.
However, Joanne Donovan is the archetype of fat chicks becoming socially normalized.
No, I was going to say, I'm going to say on the side note is, is that I've noticed is that you're like me too, where you just work and you just make content and you just kind of like deflect the bullshit and just like have fun.
I mean, you include bullshit intentionally, like just have fucking around on like Twitter.
But then like you're fucking around on Twitter and then someone like takes it too personally and they take your personality too personally and then they end up showing up at your work.
Like they end up show up at your work to jump you and you're like, and then they end up just like spreading bullshit and stuff, which is funny.
It is funny.
But ironically, it's really crazy to me in this whole industry that I've found to be weird is that I feel like I've been pretty transparent about the kind of person I am.
I've always like, you shouldn't take anything I say too seriously.
The description for the show is everything we're saying is a joke.
Nothing we're saying at all is serious.
Do not take anything in the show seriously.
It's a joke seriously, I swear.
That's the description for this video.
But I feel like over the years, like it is an unlisting, an un I mean an unidentified length of list of people that I've more than slightly offended.
And I'm starting to question if I might actually be autistic.
I'm not even joking because I realize I think I might actually have autism.
I'm going to go get tested because I realize I'm just like myself and slightly offensive.
And then people are like, oh my God, I was so offended by that guy.
And you're like, well, I thought by like making a show with a name, I could finally communicate my personality.
And I thought you like, it was like, what I do for a job would sort of communicate the kind of guy that I am.
And then you have people being like, you know, Elijah says he's a pastor.
Like, fucking don't I never say that.
I've never said that in my entire.
Have you watched my show?
Have you watched it?
It's like when people get mad at you and you're like, have you ever watched his show?
Have you ever seen it?
Do you know what he's doing?
Do you fucking know?
Because I know what he does and I don't take it seriously.
I just, I just think you're having fun and you talk about serious issues when you need to.
Some people, this is what I've learned about the internet over the last year: I thought people were trolling in how serious they got on stuff.
Nope.
You think you have autism?
The internet has it in spades.
It's crazy.
And people get really serious about everything.
And so to the point where, and I think you ran into this or have run into this plenty of times, if not recently, but when you make a joke and then someone gets mad and then you have a couple options to do, right?
Like you can try and fight it, which doesn't work.
You can't fight someone's opinion on the internet.
You will never change it.
So you can fight it.
You can stay completely silent or you can laugh.
And the crazy thing is, for most of the time on the internet, I always just laughed at shit.
And then there are some things where when you laugh at it, people think that you're not laughing.
And you're like, but I'm laughing.
And they're like, no, you're not.
You must be angry.
And you're like, no, like, I'm laughing with you.
And then they get really mad about that.
The fact that you're not like taking their thing seriously.
And it's funny because the whole time they were asking you to laugh and they were laughing with you.
And then this thing comes up and they're like, but you can't laugh about that.
It's like, what the fuck do you mean?
I'm like, I laugh about everything.
It's everything's this silly joke.
And that's how, because if it's not, right, this is the reality.
If, if everything isn't a silly joke, then everything is really fucking depressing.
And especially in conservative media and as a conservative or right-leaning or I don't consider myself conservative.
I never have.
I've always been a libertarian.
People kind of ascribe conservatism to me because I have kids and I go to church and stuff like that.
But I'm really like a libertarian.
But if we take the right-leaning media person's approach to everything and you don't laugh, the world sucks and it's depressing and everything is bad and it doesn't get better.
No matter what you do, you've got to laugh.
You've got to back away from all that and just smile because otherwise you're so fucking sad.
Look, I know there are people who run into weight issues in their lives because like I knew someone who she was like super thin and pretty in high school or whatever.
And then she had a kid and then she had a second kid.
And the second kid, she got gestational diabetes and her body just packed on weight.
And she was working like when I met her, I was working with her at this place and she was working her ass off to try and get back down to being to being thin again.
But it was really hard because she gained like 80 pounds that didn't go away when the baby came out.
Because I don't know if you know this, but if you gain 80 pounds when you're pregnant, the baby's only like 10 of those.
And the rest of that is you.
So she gained all this weight.
And this is why I can't work in the workplace anymore, Elijah, because this was at my job in the financial industry.
And she would have me, like one day I just called her fat just offhandedly.
I was like, God, you're fucking fat.
And she's like, that's what I need in my life.
Like, wait, what?
And she's like, I need you to fat shame me all the time, every day, because I need motivation to get on the treadmill.
And so I was like, so wait, you want me to come into work next to you and make fun of you all the time?
And she said, yes.
And I said, well, you'll never hear it over your chewing, you fat cow.
But so that's where my fat shaming actually started.
But can you imagine doing that in 2023?
Like, Jesus Christ, I would have been fired in a heartbeat.
And people can say what, and people say whatever they want.
You know what I mean?
But I find that you said the same thing too.
I tend to do the same thing.
I either laugh or stay quiet and I let my life be a little bit of a mystery to people.
I find it to be quite funny that people today like don't understand that basic idea.
Like we've lost, we've lost two values in life.
And I refuse to give these up no matter how bullshit our culture gets.
This is, okay, this is where my autistic rant comes.
Do you know why I fucking, I'm not conservative?
I've never identified as conservative.
The most I've ever said is a California conservative as a joke.
And people took that even that seriously.
They took that really seriously.
It's like, you don't know that I, you don't think I, you don't know I come off like a fag or whatever?
You don't think I know these things?
Of course I do.
You guys let me know every day and I appreciate it and you subscribe for it because you love the truth with a little bit of glomo hobo insertion.
But it's like the reason why I hate it is because I've worked in this industry.
The people in it don't fucking care about anything they're talking about.
They don't care.
Most of them are feminists.
Most of them are liberals.
They're progressives.
They don't care.
They found a business and a model and things to talk about.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
They found a job.
They're entertaining.
Do you think that Johnny Depp gives a shit about pirates?
No, he's just fucking playing a part.
Okay.
He's like in a part.
And you see his life.
His life is different than the way he is on screen.
But one of the things that I hate the most about this is that the reason why it's really hard for people like you and me and why we'll never really fit in is because everybody else is told, well, then just change who you are.
Like it's like, oh, we don't like the way that you talk about this.
They just change it.
Oh, please stop doing this.
They don't do it.
Please start doing this.
They do it.
For you and me, we're just being ourselves.
Like, unfortunately, if I'm going through a hard season of life, I'm going to be retarded.
If I'm going through a good season of life, I'm going to be a little less retarded.
But still retarded.
And it's like, this is the functional human being.
So I'm going to have a lot of problems because I'm going to have resistance with people, with jobs, with things, because I'm not going to change who I am.
I mean, I'll submit there's always a grift.
You have to like, you know, you can't just pull your balls out, you know, whenever you want.
Yeah, reminding you, somebody else invited that guy into the network.
And it's not, it's not my guest.
And I was trying to be nice.
I've always been trying to be like when people are not my, like my close circle, they're somebody else's friend.
I'm not going to be an asshole to somebody else's friend.
Like I'm just going to treat them and like I'm a stranger and be amicable as always.
And I'm going to assume if there's any problems that it's their own problems, right?
It's their own issues because I don't know them.
I don't know what their relationship is.
I don't know what's going on.
All I know is they know each other.
That's it.
But the whole point about this industry that makes me the most upset is that because people are in this for the wrong reasons and because people are not who they are and they're fucking phony is that They don't bring with themselves any dignity at all.
And so because they're in this like competition to get ahead through how much I can compromise myself and how much I can submit to the machine, they'll just, they have no respect for privacy, no respect for truth, and they bet and wager against people like us and our decorum and the way that we behave.
Like if people are going to be fucking retarded and shitty to me publicly, I'm not going to turn around and be shitty to them.
Because I don't work like that.
Because I'm not, this isn't a game to me.
I'm not like, oh, well, you're fucking fucking with me.
So I'm going to do this to you type of thing.
Like I'm just going to be like a normal person in a normal job and be like, hey, we're all work together.
I know things about everybody.
Why the fuck would I talk about them?
Because I'm not a fucking dumb motherfucker like that.
I'm retarded, but I'm not a dumb motherfucker.
And so then everyone's always like, well, let's give the dumb motherfuckers attention.
And then you get all these people coming in around the dumb motherfuckers that are dumb motherfucker orbits, you know?
You got dumb motherfucker A and the dumb motherfucker orbits, the Griff tubers and all these people.
Let's just, we can't produce anything on our own that's of any substance.
So let's just find the YouTubers who are trying and are actually doing something.
And let's just talk about them and go on their shows and do this, which is fine too.
It's all a griff down the road.
But it ends up with this really disingenuous industry where like, it's like, like you said, where everyone feels like they're in competition with each other and they need to step on each other.
And it's like, and it's tempting to me because believe me, I could blast some of these motherfuckers out of the water with the 10-foot pole.
But you know what?
I just don't fuck with it.
I don't fuck with it.
And I don't do it.
And so it's like, and I just going to say it's like, I laugh at stuff and stuff that I can't laugh at that I think, hey, I'm not trying to ruin anyone's life.
I'm not trying to do anything.
I'm not trying to humiliate people or anything like that.
I stay quiet.
I respect privacy.
I have humor.
But it's like in an industry that's supposed to be about information, trust, and humor, it seems like everyone in this industry is so fucking offended and also untrustworthy.
It's kind of like, I don't know.
It's an unfortunate thing because it doesn't need to be like that.
We could literally all just be friends and have fun and there's no competition and we could grow together like the gun guys do.
But instead, everyone's like, hey, let's try to stay as small as possible because big tech, the government, the institutions, universities, everyone's against us.
So I try not to talk about him too much because I really just don't, I don't care.
And I don't want to get into a bunch of fucking shitty drama all the time.
But you brought up Ralph earlier.
And he's a good example of this because for me, I'm like friendly with everybody.
I might not be like friends with you.
Like, oh, I'm going to drop my life to go help you out or something like that.
Like I could, if I'm an acquaintance with someone online, I'll do something for them online.
Like they need help with a Twitter campaign or whatever.
Happy to do that.
But I'm talking like real friends where you will go do stuff physically for them.
You know, you have their back when they really fucking need it.
That type of thing.
But I'm friendly with just damn near everybody.
And it takes so much for me to not be.
Like people can disagree with me.
They can shit on me a little bit or whatever.
I don't really care.
But people like Ralph, like they, they're so addicted to this fucking drama and fighting that you're talking about that they will like just cast you out.
And it's like, why, why is this so hard?
Like, I'm fine with people who, you know, talk shit about me or make fun of me a little bit here and there.
And they have disagreements.
I can be fine with that.
Why can't other people just do that?
And we can all be kind of this weird gay circle jerk of like content creators.
I don't understand, dude.
I don't understand why people get so fucking mad at everything that they're like, I got to cut these people out constantly.
And I, and I actually mean this, and that's what I meant about being independent is better.
I've actually been a lot happier independent because, like, I, dude, I was honestly like pretty, pretty not like happy for the last couple years for a lot of reasons.
Um, and I realized that a lot of it is like, this is where it's like, the positive thing is, is we're often in prisons that we build ourselves.
We're in self-built cages.
And it's like, like, I, you know, you're under this illusion that I'm, I'm, I have to be around these people.
I have to do this thing.
And a lot of people have this too, even with their family.
Like, they get in this toxic relationship with their like parents or different things.
Like, well, I've just got to do this and I've got to do that.
But like, I finally broke free one day thanks to my mentors and people that are like, dude, you, you lose when you stop laughing.
You lose if you're not having a good time, if you're not enjoying yourself, if you, it doesn't matter how good the money is or what's happening, you've really got to seek peace on the inside.
And it was hard because I decided, you know, I made a lot of hard choices to just to just try to seek peace and to really like really look inside and see who, what, where, when, and what was going on.
And like, yeah, I was like, dude, like, I'm visiting family.
Like, you know, how nice this is to see my wife around her family.
Like, you know how nice that is.
Like, like when they, when there's been separated by tears and sorrow and years and people getting fired and things happening because of horrible mandates and to see like just the love and to get her to see her, you know, her nephew and just that she never got to meet and just just absolutely the love.
It's like, we can take control.
I can hang up a piece of paper anywhere in the world and talk on the mic and have a good time.
And it's like, I was my own worst enemy.
For the last couple of years, I could blame anybody.
I can blame anything.
I can get mad.
I could get bitter.
I could do anything in my life.
But you know what I'm going to do?
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And I have, and I feel good about it.
And it's like, and I can say this genuinely.
I haven't felt, I didn't feel happy in years, genuinely happy.
And I didn't even know what happiness was.
And sometimes I think I'm having an anxiety attack because I feel like euphoria and like good.
And I feel like just so wait, wait, listen, what's going on?
I'm like, oh, yeah, that's just called feeling good.
Well, and that's, that's what I think is like an Ohio train.
But that's what I think is the key difference is, is I think that because I've evolved in my brain, that it's kind of like you grow past people and you go, you go, you grow past seasons in your life.
And so sometimes like, I think this is why we need God.
And this is actually why I tell people it's not because I don't ever preach that I'm like some perfect guy.
I've always said I've plenty of struggles.
I'm imperfect.
I've made a lot of mistakes in my life.
I talk about them on my show all the time.
But one of the things I can say is God is light and the enemy is darkness.
And when people are acting in the name of the devil, which is to kill, steal, and destroy, right?
Burn, loot, murder, BLM.
When people are acting like this, this is the nature of man.
We all move in this direction.
When you're living in darkness, darkness together creates greater void.
But when you evolve in the light, when you're in the light of Christ, when you start transforming on the inside and you start actually finding that, like, it's not just like, oh, hey, look, everyone, you know, I lost weight.
Hey, look, everyone, I'm doing good.
It's like you just genuinely are doing good and you're enjoying life.
And you're aware that you're not perfect yet and you're never going to get there, but you're just, you're actually finding real transformation and real answers.
But when you're there, what I think what happens is this is why I think God wants us to rely on him so much and at least rely on that spiritual change is because he wants us to stay a step ahead of the darkness, the people, the minions, the demons, the people.
Because what happens is so they attack us.
And this is also with everyone in our industry.
You feel like you have to attack back and you have to go do this.
But it's like when you're evolving in the light, I'm separate from the darkness.
And so then the darkness comes back and it's like, let me attack.
But it's attacking somebody that doesn't exist anymore.
It's attacking somebody who would have responded, who would have felt the need to get involved, who would have felt the pain, who would have taken it personally.
And instead, I'm like, you know what?
I'm enjoying life.
I don't even need to pay attention.
That's what I think is happening with a lot of these videos on Twitter and stuff where it's like, I don't even want to share them anymore or I'm feeling like my mind's changing because I'm going, I'm evolving and I'm evolving and I'm grateful for that evolution because people pay to do everything but change their inside.
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I'm not saying that you're a creator or that this or that, but I meant like there's a certain point.
That's the whole, that's the whole matrix idea is that there's a system and there's a job and there's even a trap in content creation to get you to like play into something rather than to be who you are made to be by by God and to enjoy yourself.
How many people do you know that are angry, that are upset, that are always pulling people down?
Do they look happy?
Do they have lots of kids?
Do they enjoy themselves?
Look who's not doing that.
Nick Ricada is not doing that and he has kids and he's happy.
You will always have little bits of your life that are mini fires, but you try and minimize those as much as possible and build the house big enough so that the little fires don't burn down the whole fucking structure.
But dude, I try and encourage people like this all the time because you get into this trap where you do the nine to five thing.
And the nine to five thing is that's the normal sort of American condition, right?
Like that's the majority of the thing.
And a lot of people will be there forever.
And that's okay.
It is okay to do the nine to five, but you got to know that you're worth more than the nine to five is giving you because that system is rigged in favor of the person who has the job.
However, the little known secret is that you're actually really fucking valuable, especially after you've worked that job for a while because all of the training and shit that they put into you has made you more valuable.
And I think people lose track of just how much they're worth because they go, oh, this is the nine to five thing.
I got to do it.
This is what my dad did.
This is what his dad did, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
But it's not.
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And that's what the nine to five companies are all getting scared of is the fact that you don't have to do the nine to five.
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No, but I think people they get disheartened because they're like in their 20s and they're like, they're like, I'm not where I want to be.
I'm not even close to where I want to be.
I'm in this shit.
Well, yeah, everybody goes through shit in their 20s.
I think for men, especially, like life starts getting a lot better as you start going through your 30s.
And for me, it's been getting better every year since about 36, 37.
And it's like profound changes.
But it was all these little setups that I had and all of these little places where I made decisions to work and then eventually risks that I took and making yourself ready and insulated in case those risks fail because you're kind of failing a lot of shit in life.
You have a long time to live and that's going to happen.
But that's what we need to be doing.
Whether it's in your nine to five job and you're working towards that promotion and then more importantly, knowing your worth when those promotion opportunities come up, knowing to ask for more than they're, because they want to pay you the minimum that they'll get for, you get you for.
And you're worth more than that.
And once you go independent and look back on your life, you're going, holy shit, I was worth this much back then.
I just literally didn't know.
Like that's that's what you realize once you go independent.
And so people like that, that's the encouragement is that people need to go out there, know the know their values, know what they're worth, and then and then find that independence and freedom.
Because I tell you what, the greatest thing on earth is being able to go out and be who you are and not be worried about it.
And I bet right now there's a guy who's not on camera who really, really is experiencing that a lot lately.
And I remind people this, you know, it was really hard when I it was it was really hard even in my last job because when I signed in my last job, the company had just gone through a massive lawsuit and they were they were on the decline.
And when I actually signed, everyone made fun of me and was like, you're an idiot for joining that company.
It's going to collapse.
Luckily, they had an amazing CEO who was really intelligent, very, very smart.
And I was there and I got asked to help build the company.
And it was really hard.
It's hard to sign on to a company where there's no money.
Everyone's giving you shit.
And they've built something.
A lot of people have built something really cool over there.
And I've seen it happen.
And yeah, and it's hard.
And then, you know, bad things happen and things change and whatever.
It's okay.
You know, people come and go.
Things happen.
People say things.
People do things.
Sometimes people die, right?
I mean, it's life.
It's on sometimes there's COVID lockdowns.
Like shit happens.
But what's really cool is, especially, this is why you have to go out and try and even fail sometimes is because I've built so many things.
I've built so many shows.
I've built, I've helped build networks.
I've built people's careers.
I've done things.
I've, you know, built things into labs.
I've gotten degrees.
Am I doing all those things now?
Not in not necessarily, but I've combined all that together and now I'm doing my own thing.
And now I've never spent this much time with my wife.
Like this is, and it's like, this is really good, right, baby?
No, but, but I mean, like, it's, it's actually really nice.
I don't have to go to the office.
I don't have to do anything.
I'm just home.
I get to work on my own stuff.
And I'm so thankful for all the SOBs, which remember, you guys are at locals, ElijahSchafer.locals.com.
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But well, also too, but to be fair, like not, it's not even like a joke.
Like not only has it been a hard year, but also it's like when I was at the Blaze, that was the problem of the last few months is something happened to the channel when they released the shorts.
And my views, like in like the middle of summer, they like one, the next month they tanked by half.
And it's basically been me like salvaging the channel since then.
And then like I can release shorts and they get 10 million views and then release a video and it gets 25,000 views.
You're like, well, this new algorithm sucks ass because if you were already throttled, now you're triple throttled because they throttled everyone and I got throttled for shorts.
This is what this will be the last major piece of content we look at.
But I actually make my own shorts.
There's actually a couple funny things, by the way.
I'll show you a couple things before we end.
I found out there's all these TikToks that like use my clips as like there's just this viral clip apparently that people use to like self-deprecate themselves.
And so like this guy's like me to myself when I miss a note, right?
So this is like, this is like the voice inside your head.
I'll say the other one for the other show on Friday, but I want to say I do make shorts and I am pretty proud.
Where is this one?
I make them and I'm like, they take a long time, though.
Like, I just made this one, and it gets like this one right here.
Do you know who this guy is?
Yeah, you're right.
It's Klaus Schwab, the architect of the World Economic Forum and the inspiration for the COVID lockdowns that ruined our lives over the last three years.
Well, he was speaking at the World Government Forum, and he had a warning about artificial intelligence saying that whoever controls these technologies is going to be the next superpower that controls the world.
But to be fair, it's like, it's like, I also feel this too with like the idea of throttling.
Like I never take that into consideration.
Meaning, like I've like, meaning when I say I've been throttled, people know that.
I've gotten letters.
Like, I mean, there was like a moment where YouTube contacted the network and was like, this channel is borderline and we're fucking, we're Xing this one out of our algorithms.
Like you can keep the rest in your network and we're demonetizing this channel and we're like removing everything from it because it's not okay.
Nothing changed with me.
Just the status quo changed.
So I know that we are and it's fine because it's like I've had like four or five TikTok accounts shut down.
You know, it's like this just happens all the time.
My Facebook just got shut down.
Shit like this happens.
I'll start a new one, get it back up to 200,000 followers, get it shut down.
It's like kind of annoying, but it's just the way that it works.
That's why I'm banking on Rumble though, dude.
That's why if you guys go to Rumble, subscribe to the Rumble slightly offensive is because it looks like they're probably a few years behind in terms of like the platform being what it's going to be, but don't sleep on it because it's like nice that even if I only have 30,000 subs right now, I'm gaining like 200 a week, 150 a week, but they're not going to get deleted next month.
So maybe I'm not big.
Maybe it's not growing, but I know that my Rumble is going to be there.
And that's what's nice about it.
I don't give a fuck about the numbers now.
It's like those 700 people watching right now will be there Friday.
And I'm trying to work with them a little closer on some stuff because it is really frustrating on YouTube to when you see that a channel with like 70,000 followers can get the same amount of views that we can.
Because as you guys say, you don't get the notifications.
You don't know when we're live.
We try to go live, but in the end, it doesn't matter because you're just a human being.
So you don't remember.
You're not always like turned on.
You need that notification.
You need that alert.
You need that reminder.
And you're not getting them.
And we got 100,000 new subscribers since December.