 Good morning, so I want to talk about this video I saw in the most unexpected of places that hit me right in the feels and I think it's it's something I've been thinking about more and more. It's very personal to me, but it's also relevant to you no matter where you are Okay, so the video I saw again most unexpected of places. I saw it on Sam Hyde's channel Okay, Sam Hyde puts up a video on his YouTube channel I mean most of his stuff I think he pay walls but he still has a YouTube channel and he puts up this video saying oh I got an email or someone contacted me and they said hey Sam. You're really cool. Hey, thanks a lot You inspired me to start smoking weed and you know Sam does this video saying okay, listen I don't know where you got this idea. Maybe I made a joke about something like this, but I don't smoke weed I've never smoked weed. I don't endorse it. It's not a good thing No one in my life has ever been positively affected by it. It's a it's a bad idea basically And you know that that really got me thinking because you know It's very rare that Sam Hyde ever breaks character whatsoever I don't know maybe he was on just some intensely high level of irony that I didn't even detect But it was a very genuine video and it got me thinking because this actually drives me nuts nowadays I feel like I have to deal with the same kind of thing I mean I don't do like edgy comedy or something like that So, you know, maybe maybe a little less extreme in my case But let me let me give you a personal example. It's actually going to be an awkward example because he's probably going to be watching this video But um, you know, I think about my little brother. Okay, so I have a little brother in case you don't know a cat I have a little brother and You know when I was in high school, I'll just say this when I was in high school I sort of hung out with like not necessarily Terribly bad kids but like stoners and you know, we used to skip lunch me me and another group of friends used to skip lunch and go like freestyle rap and stuff like that and You know, I was never like a bad kid in high school. I sort of held I mean, I was a little rough around the edges and stuff But you know, I cursed and you know, I was a little edgy, but like I never really did drugs I never did any of this kind of stuff But the thing is I used to make jokes about stuff like that or I would be really light I would have a lot of levity when talking about topics like that or you know I'd listen to rap music and I you know talk about the the content of it like it was nothing You know what I mean And I did that around my little brother a whole lot and he was in middle school at the time We actually never went to high school at the same time I'm a little bit older than him But I realized what when I left home and when I went to college and came back I realized that he had basically internalized because basically he saw the stuff that I was talking about and he was like Oh, this must be cool. So this is something I'm really gonna take serious and run with so he let's just say that, you know, he ended up making a Long series of extremely stupid life decisions There were many times that he came home and he was like, oh man, I've ruined my life this time and And he did some pretty I mean, I'm he didn't kill anyone But let's just say he he put a bunch of hurdles in front of his life that he didn't have to do and to this day You know, I don't know like 10 years later He is still dealing with those hurdles, you know, I mean, it's not to say he's living on the street or something like that He's he's fine, but let's just say he still has some of the vices that he, you know got during this period Or if anything, they've gotten worse So, you know, none of this is to say that I'm like personally responsible for him But I will say even though I'm not personally responsible for him, obviously It does keep me up because in some sense, you know, I do have a responsibility to set an example and You know, I failed to do that. I failed to make it clear what actually is okay to do or what isn't okay to do Now this actually keeps me up a whole lot nowadays not just about him But just in general about, you know, what what do people make out about me given what they see me see about me on the internet You know, many of you guys know that when I first started my channel, you know, let's say we did live streams I didn't have I would have no qualms about like cursing on live streams or like talking about sort of degenerate topics now Of course in all those cases it would always been it would always be like, oh like You know, uh, you know, my friends used to do drugs. This is stupid or you know I had sex with a girlfriend and that was stupid But like I know that a lot of people just by the mere fact that you know, you're talking about stuff like that It seems like either it's an endorsement or that's supposed to be a normal thing and the nutty thing is Nowadays you can literally just turn on the media. Okay. I mean put yourself in the shoes of like a zoomer like a You know a teenager nowadays Turn on the media and what kind of messaging do you see you see, you know Every show has like eight-year-old kids like cursing profusely You know, everyone's having sex when they're 13 And no one has any like there's no such thing as loyalty or anything like that marriage doesn't even matter You know, everyone's doing drugs especially smoking weed and everyone who does so is just like Successful and smart and edgy and if that's the messaging that kids are getting and they have no You know real reality-based alternative to that like they they have no proper way of diagnosing what's going on in the world You know what I mean? I mean all those friends of mine who I said, oh, they weren't that bad You know, they were just stoners or something like that I should say when I graduated from high school when I when I left Literally one year at college and I came back to see my friends Literally half of them had started doing heroin. I mean, it's insane like heroin when I was a kid heroin was a drug Oh, you just made jokes about because no one would be so stupid to do that But now that's like a normal thing for I mean normal quote-unquote now It's I mean, let's just say people who do that kind of stuff don't last very long But that's a thing that you know because people were inundated in this culture that of course as kids we mocked Oh, yeah, like rap music rap music is gonna affect me. Oh, yeah, like you know I'm not influenced by culture or something like that and then you realize like literally all everyone around here It's just like that impressionable. It drives you nuts. I don't know. I sort of feel like I was I Was the odd man out because I was like, yeah, I'll talk about this kind of stuff But you know, I don't condone it or something like that or obviously I wouldn't do something that stupid But of course even even I did stupid stuff just not anything quite that bad Um, so anyway, all of this is to say That just to be clear hold high moral standards for yourself. Don't just do that But try You know, I'm not telling you to lie about anything But be sure to state your your actual views on the kind of things that like kids see in culture You know what I mean because Ideally, I mean in an ideal world, of course, you don't even have this messaging from the media going on But you know, at least you should have like, oh parents or like churches or like You know kids who are a little bit older who know a little bit more setting explicitly a positive example Even just telling people you shouldn't actually do this actually goes a long way You know when I was a kid our parents and this is the fact of the matter of a bunch of parents A bunch of parents are just cucked a bunch of churches are just cucked nowadays They're too afraid to like tell their kids basic stuff like oh, it's a bad idea to do this It's a bad idea to do that because they know that if they even give children like basic Like common sense moral guidance just like don't don't do drugs or something like that That is something that's so relentlessly mocked by the media that they feel like they're undermining their own authority in doing it Okay, but that's a risk you're just gonna have to take you're just gonna have to learn how to do that Because you know the media is so antisocial nowadays that I mean that's just what you have to do And I mean honestly on that point It it's becoming increasingly hard for me to think that you know, the people who run the media are just like Oh, honestly out of touch or they just have different worldviews or something like that It honestly seems like they're trying to tell kids to just make the worst decisions in their life I mean, I don't know how anyone could even watch television and think oh, this is like a gritty, you know A representation of life. It isn't it's like people trying to make life evil and trying to tell people that oh, this is a normal thing to do um, so anyway So just to be clear, I'll close this video by saying just to be clear this this Channel is unironically a christian channel. Uh, there don't do drugs in case that isn't obvious Don't come to porn especially don't come to porn. That's like that's a big one Um, and don't do anything like in general degenerate and you know what's degenerate usually I mean and the fact of the matter is a lot of is is I don't know Overcoming your own concupescence. I suppose um, but anyway I don't know. I should do another video on this, but uh, hopefully that's enough. That's just something I've been thinking about