 Hello everyone welcome to another video. So a bit of a break from the animal rights stuff today and I thought I'd do a video that's a little bit more personal to me and since I've been shaving my head with all this quarantine and no hairdressers open it's been showing a lot of my scars here and I've got this scar on my eyebrow here and all over my body I have scars. If people don't know about my life I think I've been pretty candid about that since I started you know was in gangs was going down the wrong track a lot of drug use a lot of fighting a lot of bad stuff going on so I have a lot of scars from those days so I thought I would do a little video to explain where I got my scars from so I thought I'd go back to the earliest scars that I've got and this one here brings me back this scar here on my elbow the way I've got this scar is we're drinking one night my friend did something that was out of water and we ended up getting swarmed by a group of guys and I got beaten up really badly I fell on the floor and I got hit in the arm with something like a bar or a metal bar or something like that and it broke my elbow broke my little joint there and it actually popped my elbow open I got kicked in really badly I couldn't sleep all night I went to the hospital and that's how that scar happened I think I was about 15 when that happened also on my arm here I've got a scar which is really silly this scar here when you're young you do silly things really drunk really upset burning my arm with a cigarette lighter went through a few layers of skin really dangerous to do too because when I went in for my broken elbow they looked at this scar on my arm and said you know this is really dangerous you can get blood poisoning from burning your arms so badly or something like that really really not a good idea to do that so if you're a 16 year old kid and you're drinking alcohol 15 year old kid don't burn your arms with a cigarette lighter um okay so on the back of my head I've got a couple of scars um so there's one here and one behind my ear and they were from a really bad fight that happened at a night club and my mate ended up getting a really bad black eye and fractured skull and I got punched in the head with some rings and that was just alcohol basically caused a lot of these things alcohol misunderstandings just carrying on just being silly I can't remember how old I was I might have been 18 19 for that one still young and stupid okay let's move along oh and my shoulder here this one's interesting because this guy here's actually a bit I got stabbed with a small dagger and you would think that that was my enemy that did that but no that was actually one of my mates and we used to get pretty rough and rowdy and you know ego's flying around and yeah he stabbed me through the shoulder yeah that's the type of guys I was hanging out with getting stabbed by your own mates um oh okay so this one here this was a this one here is really big but I'll try to get a close up for you it's actually a big lump it goes right back this one was quite serious uh so what happened here was my birthday I was at a pub uh drinking and doing all those other things and my little brother he ended up getting into something with some guys and got a black eye and all that and I come back in and seeing the black eye and I walked up to the guys and and there was over half a dozen of them and uh yeah I was defending my little brother I felt out like I was defending my little brother and got into this big bar brawl with a bunch of guys where there was bar stalls being thrown and ashtrays being thrown and I ended up getting hit over the head with a jack daniel's bottle so if anyone's seen a big jack daniel's whiskey bottle um that's what went over my head here and I didn't see it coming but I woke up on the floor and apparently it was about 10 minutes later because I got up off the floor ready to you know keep fighting as I was drunk and you know out of control and um and my brother comes up to me and says you've been knocked out for about 10 minutes so there's no point fighting and I end up going to play the slot machines with this big big split down my head and then finally um got taken down the doctors got oh mum picked me up and took me down the doctors got stitched up and I went back out and partied so that's the type of you know mayhem we're getting up to and I I really didn't have much of a threshold I just keep going and going so a bottle in the head wasn't going to stop me from finishing my birthday night of partying so let's keep going oh this one here this is probably one of the most serious things that happened to one of the more serious things that happened to me um uh I don't really want to get into too much detail about how this come about but um I got run over at high speed after yeah maybe we just won't get into why why that happened but I got run over really high speed and I flung up in the air really high and I thought I was basically dead I had an epiphany this is one of the epiphanies that I had about karma because the events that transpired before that revealed to me that your actions uh have a reaction so everything you put out you get back and part of me being run over that night actually showed me that I went out looking for trouble we found it and it actually come back to bite me on the arse and this is when I really started to think about karma it kind of it kind of planted that seed that sort of led into my veganism later later on because this happened when I was about 20 yeah the karma thing was like you know I couldn't see anything good coming out of harming animals for my taste pleasure I just you know didn't see that as a good thing to do just like I didn't see is going out starting fights and getting the big brawls was a good thing to do because it comes back on you and yeah so my so my head there's a massive long scar down the center of my head here another one here and the Jack Daniels bottle scar reopened so that all had to be glued back up big chunk come out of the side of my neck here on my legs my kneecap popped open um scars on my kneecaps I couldn't walk for literally a week like I said I thought I was going to die my stomach grazed off so I lost a lot of skin on my stomach and um the hospital because I signed myself out they didn't have time to stitch me up because I just wanted to leave so I'm myself out of hospital and they glued me up glued the hole in my neck shot glued my legs up gave me crutches and I basically was in bed after that for a week but um they gave me the wrong type of cream for my stomach it was an alcohol based cream and I put it on my stomach and it burned literally burned me to the core and it was one of the most painful to this day one of the most painful experiences of my life obviously that was early on in my my day so I kept going after that kept going down the wrong track this one here this scar on my eyebrow here um a lot of people talk about it when I'm doing my videos and they I think that these are the the stupid carnival people go oh look his eyebrows his eyebrows are thinning because of his vegan diet even though I had to shave my head again today because it grew back so quick and my beard grows so quick so yeah that makes sense my beard's growing my hairs are growing all over my body but my eyebrows are thin and they have no logic whatsoever but anyway what that is that was a it's a big scar it's seven stitches that I got so the way I got that is that I was at some other people's gang sort of headquarters and I got into a fight with someone that was hanging around with them and I started to win that fight basically it was a one-on-one type of fight as I started to win the fight I just remember getting knocked from the side really hard and knocked to the floor so someone come from the side and just boom and hit me on the in the side of the face and my eyebrows opened up really big and there's blood gushing out and very very uh you know very pretty brutal sort of eye split open thing but anyway yeah I went back in had a beer and then went to the hospital and got stitched up seven stitches across here so if you're looking at that scar that was actually from a fight it was sort of gang related fight I guess you could call it but yeah big guy big guy I'm not I'm not a big guy but he was definitely a big guy and knocked me on my ass uh didn't knock me out though but uh decent hit a decent hit so moving on oh this one here's quite hilarious actually uh this is this is a funny one so going from a serious one to a funny one the bottom of my chin here is pretty silly because I was uh this was actually I was a bit younger and I was drinking with my friends and um quite drunk too drunk to dance and I thought I was a good dancer and I did the worm I don't know if you know what the worm is it's where you jump up and you land like this and move down and I actually did the worm and split my chin open and that's how that happened so that wasn't really a cool gangster story that was just me being stupid oh and these these scars here on my stomach um so I got scars all on my stomach and they're stretch marks so if anyone's ever lost a bunch of weight um I was 40 kilograms heavier than I am now when I was on house arrest and I was clinically obese and depressed and this is where my turnaround happened when I was on house arrest and I found uh raw foodist and I started to juice and I lost a bunch of weight really quickly and um started feeling amazing and you know still eating animal products but I was mostly eating fruits and vegetables and then I went to prison and got out of prison and that's when I went vegan so the stretch marks on my stomach represent the transition in my life being overweight gang member addicted to alcohol and other substances really depressed and violent um getting onto the fruits and vegetables shifting my consciousness uh the the seed of karma you know from being run over and you know I've had been held hostage at gunpoint and you know been bottled and beaten up and I've done all those things to other people too I'm not you know I'm no angel in all of this but all of these these seeds of karma and then the fruits and vegetables and the idea of hurting animals and you know all of these things led to me being the vegan animal rights activist that I am today so these stretch marks are a big reminder of where I come from the scars on on my head and my body are all big reminders of my past and how far I've come and you know I haven't been in a violent altercation since I've been a vegan and since I've been sober the last time anything close to violence happening was when I was in prison um but I but after that there's really been for seven years no no violence on my behalf and I haven't been in any type of violent altercation that might give you an idea of what actually fuels stuff like this from happening like you know it wasn't me was it me that was violent or was it all those drugs and alcohol and the environment that I was in you know trying to trying to sort of defend yourself in a violent environment you have to become what that environment is otherwise that environment will swallow you up so yeah a lot of this is self-defense a lot of it was just alcohol and drugs and you know going out there being young and silly being trying to be a hero trying to impress your friends but yeah as you can see since I've been sober since I've been a vegan none of this has repeated it hasn't repeated so so people call me violent militant vegan joey carb strong you so militant no I'm not I've had a massive turnaround I used to be violent I used to be violent and that was when I was a meat-eating drug out drug taking alcoholic gang member okay so now I'm a sober animal rights uh vegan so yeah that just throws that argument straight under the tables it throws that into a moving car throw your argument into the moving car so anyways guys I hope you liked that video it's something a little bit more personal to get to know me to get to know the scars on my body where I come from um little bit of a break from the animal rights stuff but there's plenty more animal rights stuff to come thank you so much everyone leave in the comment section down below some of your scars where you got them from what you've learned since and yeah let's all remember our scars don't live in the past and try to be better than we were the day before peace