The David Knight Show - INTERVIEW: YouTube Attacks Homestead Christian Family

Episode Date: November 11, 2022

The family with 8 children had a 6 yr old YouTube channel "documenting our daily life, trying to homestead and grow our own food and raise the next generation of leaders." Then they began covering current events.  TD & Matt, father & son from TheTexasBoys.com on how censorship has come to their channel with YouTube examining years of videos to find an excuse to purge themFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughZelle: @[e-mail] App at:  $davidknightshowBTC to:  bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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Main market excluding specials and place bets. Terms apply. Bet responsibly. 18plusgamblingcare.ie All right, and joining us now are T.D. and Matt, father and son, thetexasboys.com. And they contacted me because of censorship issues that they were having on YouTube and I'm going to let them tell you exactly

what happened and how they're being, well first of all thank you for joining us guys TD, Matt tell us before we get into what happened to you how vital Google and YouTube was to what you're doing tell us a vital Google and YouTube was to what you're doing?

Tell us a little bit about your business and what you're doing and how you're using that platform. Okay, so just a little bit of background is about six years ago when our boys were much smaller, they got inspired to start a YouTube channel and it was just going to be kind of like a hobby thing. They watched a lot of YouTube and were inspired by a lot of different people in the homestead type community. And that's what we desire to do is homestead, be more self-sufficient and live a more basic, simplistic type of lifestyle, largely in part due to what was happening in our society and culture and post-modernism and all this post-truth stuff. So they started a YouTube channel.

It was kind of a hobby. And then about two years ago, Matt said, you know, I really want this to be a business. And the YouTube channel was growing slowly and so we came up with the idea of making our own products and having our own website and that kind of monetized our channel on our end so that they could have a generate a revenue stream um so then fast forward to about six months ago yeah six months ago six months ago, our growth on the YouTube channel was very, very slow. And I kind of figured out that the homesteading market has been very, it's very, everybody's doing it.

And it's very saturated. So I was like, we got to do something different, something kind of definitely different because we need to do something different something kind of definitely different because it's we need to do something different sorry yeah just distinguish yourself from other people so anyway um we figured out talking about world events was very popular and it was right on the cusp of everybody's attention and everything that was going on in the world and all the crazy things happening. So we started talking about everything that was happening in the world and it just kind of took off and video after video after video just going absolutely viral. And it

was amazing. And we were able to talk about the truth and there was lots of other homesteaders out there that were bowing the knee to these big corporations. And they were like, look, they got their community guidelines. We're not going to talk about their golden cows and stuff like that. And we're like, well, we don't really care. We're just going to go ahead and put out this information and talk about it as much as possible and just kind of feel how much we can push around with this certain type of stuff so we went from 30 000 subs to almost 100 000 subscribers in about 90 day period or so

yeah and then what happened was they um they gave us our first warning it was a video about dennis bushnell he's a nasa uh propagandist that pushes pushes all this um you know green agenda and you know we're all going to die unless we eat halophytes and you know we're going to be able to convert saltwater and all that stuff all this eugenicist type fabian socialist stuff and um so we we put this video out there We were very kind of selective in our we were trying to work with the newspeak. We even beeped out some words like the MRNA. We're used to trying to speak with cryptic language because we're on YouTube. But we kind of referenced MRNA in a very uh shrouded way well they they hit us with a

warning for medical misinformation in that video um and obviously you know they take the video down yeah well then um we're just like what you know um big deal then we we did a uh video on biden's address when he did the creepy kind of uh hit Hitler guy with the red background and all that stuff. There was many there was many channels that did that very similar type video. Well, they took that. They waited two or three weeks and then they hit us with our first strike and said, oh, that your your election deniers and you know and in my video i said i clearly stated that we didn't even vote for the president in the last election you know because we're not we're not trumpers and we're not you know we're we're libertarians we're way outside of the spectrum of the you know the the uh at live score bet we love ch Cheltenham just as much as we love football the excitement

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it's just it's there to make you feel good about yourself maybe or something but it's just instantly oh yeah yeah once you feel good about yourself maybe or something but it's just instantly oh yeah yeah once you get on their list as a matter of fact i've been kicked off seven times off of youtube and uh only one time did they did they do that uh that thing with uh you know three strikes and you're out but they don't give you any answers for anything all the rest of the time they just all the rest the time, they just said, you're gone. Bye.

No explanation. No three videos that we found of yours that we don't like. No, you're just gone. And the last time they did that was when I had Christmas music. They just, because they know who I am. And so it's personal at this point. Yeah, I created after they'd kick me off i thought well i'm just gonna stay off and i thought well last year i did uh some christmas music that i i uh

performed and i had six tunes and i put it up at christmas time i thought well i'm gonna put those songs up on youtube i'll create a channel and put it up there and uh they left it up for six months and then they took the whole thing down without any complaints about anything i mean there wasn't any copyright violations nothing so they just took the whole thing down without any complaints about anything. I mean, there wasn't any copyright violations, nothing. So they just took the whole thing down. So I understand, you know, they've got my number. I've got their number. But yeah.

Well, you know, I really like what you're doing. I really like what you're doing because as you point out, I have, it's so the land is what you're talking about. And I have talked about your videos in the past. You're doing exactly what should be done. You know, we need to keep one eye on, you know, global events and current events and that type of thing. It's kind of like the sword and trowel type of deal, you know, where you keep an eye out as to what's going on, but you're really focused on what you're building there.

And I understand, and that is a really good match for somebody who is doing prepping and talking about how to, you know, prepare for yourself and how to make yourself self-sufficient. Many people are doing that, typically doing that, because they are looking at world events. That's the thing that motivates them. So it's a natural to have that. But it's also a natural that they're going to try to stop that. And I think you probably offended them, even though they're not going to say it, you probably offended them by showing people how to take care of themselves, especially the people that are going to be doing that because they understand what's happening globally.

Yeah, exactly. And so they hit us with that first strike. We were only off a week and we decided to, when we came back, to double down. So we started doing two videos a day and we were able to rebuild our traction uh and then out of the blue they went back into our archives and picked a benign homesteading video from five years ago wow and matt was just showing some homestead tools one of them was a knife he did he was not utilizing or using the night just showed it he just showed it in the video and they flagged it as a dangerous child activity and um and then they hit us with two weeks and then this time now they they're take taking away our subs our views yeah the first up yeah the first strike it was it was like they just they took us off but then they didn't stop

everything else the views were still fine subscribers were still fine everything slowly started to send but it wasn't like the second stripe everything stopped like dramatically like they just turned off the switch so everything just totally stopped income stopped subscribers stopped. Subscribers stopped. And then, you know, the website sales, it obviously just puts a massive crush on our website sales. Because that's our main source of income. Are you on any other video platforms besides YouTube now? We are. I think this is kind of like an interesting topic.

We're on Rumble. We're on Rumble. We're on Odyssey. And for whatever reason, unless it's more or less punditry or global events, it's very difficult to get traction and views on these other platforms. It is. And that's the problem we're running into. It is. Because YouTube really is the public square. And they know that.

And for all those reasons, as we've been saying for the last, it's now been five years this has been going on for me, that's why the government needs to step in and regulate this. These people should not be allowed to purge people off any more than the electric company or the phone company should be able to kick you off because somebody at the phone company was listening to what you were saying to somebody and they cut off your phone service. These people ought to be given, you know, part of their section two 30 stuff where they say, well,

you're not a publisher and we're not going to treat you that way. You have Jack Dorsey going in to these hearings one after the other saying, yeah, we are the digital public square. So fine. Let them run like a utility company. Don't hold them responsible for anything that's there. And yet the government does hold them responsible. And beyond holding them responsible, demands that they do this type of censorship. So they're actually acting as the deputies of the government to do things that the government is prohibited from doing.

And the government is pretending that it's not doing it because it's doing it to these people. So I would suggest, you know, I don't know if you've probably tried this or not, but I've seen some people do this, that they will have their YouTube channel where they have a lot of subscribers and they'll say,

you know, just kind of give a general idea of what we're talking about. But if you really want to see the full video, there's things that I can't say here that I say in the video at Odyssey or at Rumble or wherever, you know, and talk about the website. But just do it in a general way like that to keep this thing going, because I think you're going to need to try to work within the system in that regard. I don't have any interest in doing that, but a lot of people have done that and it's been successful for them to do that, to just use YouTube as a way to guide people to these other drive traffic. And the good thing about that would be because we do want to drive traffic away from YouTube

to these other platforms. And so that would help you and it would also help the platform as well. The other thing that we're going to do, I'm sure you're aware of HB, because we're in Texas, you're aware of HB20, which is Texas House Bill. So we've contacted the Attorney General, and they're going to formally send a complaint letter to YouTube on behalf of our channel And we'll see if HB 20 has any teeth or if the Texas Attorney General is really serious about this stuff. I mean, of course in high profile cases. They are yeah, but here's some little peons like us

so we'll see how interested our state legislature really is in free speech. Well, how do you feel about this? Because I was just talking about it and I wanted to, I got you on a couple of minutes late because I wanted to lay the foundation for how are we supposed to think about this? Typically, they're coming after freedom-loving people, people who believe in the free market. And so a lot of people are reluctant to say,

well, I don't want the government coming in and regulating them because, you know, they have their freedom. I see this all the time from Reason magazine. I see it all the time from the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute, these think tanks that are conservative or libertarian. They say, no, we don't want the government telling any corporations what to do. Well, I have a different viewpoint on that i mean how do you feel this do you feel this is a a violation of freedom or should the corporations be able to do whatever they wish to us well it's

absolutely a violation of freedom and the other thing that differentiates youtube i mean youtube was founded and established and funded by the cia and incutel so i mean to try to rebrand and repaint it as a um corporate entity when it's really just an extension a private yeah private entity yeah to say well this is a private youtube is their private property and they can do whatever they want i don't want the government coming in and telling me what i can do in my hardware store, something like that. Right. And that's not what's happening. The whole point is YouTube isn't this private.

It's a public-private partnership. It's In-Q-Tel. And it gets all of its funding from the government anyway. So all the more reason that we should at least be allowed to vocalize on there and express ourselves in a free manner, you know, according to the Constitution. That's right. Yeah, you know, when we go back and we look at it, I was talking about how it has been for Adam Smith from the very beginning was pushing back against corporations saying that they were antithetical to a free competitive market, that they're creatures of the state,

and that was even before you had the government directly funding their creation, as you point out with In-Q-Tel. You know, they're not even trying to hide that anymore. In the past, the CIA would do that type of thing covertly. But then, you know, when it was important for them to use the internet as a point of control, they came out and they said, yeah, we got this new venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel. And so they funded a whole bunch of different competitors, all of whom were going to do their bidding.

And so we need to understand what this thing truly is. And we had to understand that these are not persons. As I said before, we need to start thinking of these corporations as if they were, um, some kind of, uh, you know, dystopian science fiction, uh, uh, episode where they are cyborgs walking around pretending that they are human because they got skin on them or something you know that's really that's really what they what we're looking at we're looking at skin jobs who are walking around amongst us and they have eternal life the corporations are never going to go anywhere they can raise money on wall street

just like the it's just like printing money for the federal reserve i mean they all they have to do is give a good story to people, and they can continue to operate, losing money for decades. And we've seen that over and over again. So companies like Blockbuster and things like that, they continue to operate for like 25, 30 years, losing money every single year because they had an interesting story. Moderna, which now is in the money,

they operated for 10 years just on happy stories about what they're going to do in the future. And then they have now become these massive imposing corporations because they have now partnered with the government in so many different ways, Moderna and Pfizer and all the rest of them. So we need to understand the difference between them and we need to understand the difference between this kind of crony capitalism stakeholder capitalism and a free market but especially when it comes to things like free speech when we have this this conflict between what people perceive to be as a private things the corporations are not private they're public and they're regulated and created by the government they are intermeshed with the government and it is a kind of fascism.

And it should not come as any surprise to us if we understand that they're fascists. It shouldn't come as a surprise that they're being used in a fascist authoritarian way. That's what they ultimately are. Yeah. And I mean, these creatures of the state, I mean, this corporate entity is problematic on every level of every society. You

know, you have the 501c3 churches and every illustration of these corporate fictions are problematic on every level. Yeah, that's right. So your model right now is to, you're going to fight this through, see if anybody in texas is going to take your side on this and ask them for um you know some explanation and for some uh what are you looking for to have them remove these strikes uh what is yeah we want to get the strikes removed and just get our channel restored we proactively went back and uh deleted some of our videos to not give them any extra fodder uh because our videos are backed up on odyssey and rumble we started a backup channel the texas boys reacts and we're kind of starting from scratch with that and still

posting videos there uh my wife has started a channel And so we want to kind of diversify and kind of, you know, to kind of cover our bases and to create some ubiquity and some redundancy to kind of work around their tentacles and, you know, try to work the system. Well, I understand. I understand. And that is important for you you've been very entrepreneurial you've been uh forward looking and all this stuff and the only thing that you did wrong was you got on the wrong side of their narrative uh for whatever reason

you know they've got something they want to push people into and they perceived you as um you know rightfully or wrongfully uh they perceived you as offering a second opinion, and no second opinion will be allowed in this kind of corporate fascism. I believe, actually, it was a third opinion, because if we would have touted some type of Republican narrative, like other channels that criticized Biden's speech and pointed that out, they went uncensored and unchecked. But because we offered a more broader discussion and narrative, I think that's what... Yeah, it is interesting.

I look at some of these channels that have been completely left alone, for example. And they will say, well, we're shutting you down because you're hateful or something like that. And yet I look at a lot of these conservative alternative media channels where they do a great deal of mocking. It's all about mocking people and making fun of them and all the rest of the stuff. And it's like, well, that's not hateful to you. No, it's not about being hateful.

It's just about putting up content that they hate. and that means you know things certain things that will not be talked about you will not oppose their agenda on the pandemic you will not oppose their agenda on climate and you know several other these things and if you get in front of those agendas and contradict what they're saying that is what they. And that is what they'll shut down. And they'll call you anything. They'll call you anti-Semitic. I mean, I, it was the ADL that got me kicked off of PayPal. And, um, you know, I, I don't, I'm not anti-Semitic.

I don't even cover that issue, you know, but it was, um, they, uh, they use that, that label, you know, they, they had attacked me at the beginning of all this stuff because I said it was medical martial law. They said I was paranoid conspiracy theorist because I said the executive order locking everything down was going to be medical martial law. So that made me anti-Semitic. They even say anybody who talks about globalism and about a central thing, they take that as anti-Semitic because they said, well, if you say that there's

some kind of a globalist agenda, that's just code word for the Jews are running everything. Yeah. Has nothing at all to do with that. Yeah. That's what Kanye, you know, it's kind of weird how this whole ye thing, but he pointed that out. And it's real interesting what's coming out about him and his handlers and, you know, and the power structure. But he pointed out this power structure and look what they're doing to him and his handlers and, you know, and the power structure,

but he pointed out this power structure and look what they're doing to him. That's right. And the Jew, you know, this new, if you use the word Jew in any context, you know, they're going to immediately, you know, label you as anti-Semitic. And what's real interesting is if you go back into like a 1901 dictionary and you look up the word semitic it was a reference to all the shemites so arabic as well and they've literally even rebranded the term anti-semitism um into a new new speak they've totally and completely redefined it. And now it's totally weaponized.

And it's just to shut down anybody who talks about a global agenda. A global agenda that includes people like Bill Gates and Justin Trudeau and Klaus Schwab and all these other people. Not Jewish at all, but they use that to say, well, you are racist and you're hatred. Because they accuse everybody of being racist. So that is their code word for shutting everything down. Well, tell us a little bit about your channel while you're here, because, you know, I want to help you promote your channel.

Tell us a little bit about what you guys have been doing lately and just give people a little idea of what Sow the Seed is about. Well, we are a family of eight and we are all homeschooled and all of us brothers want, all of us kids want to stay on the farm and work as one big unit. And we just, I'm just not big on, you know, growing up and leaving the farm, leaving the family, leaving the legacy and going and starting my own thing. So dad and mom were able to pick up a good track of land. We've got 20 acres here, and all of us kids want to build our own houses on the property and just kind of work off the land. We bought our own sawmill so we can saw up all of our own lumber and everything like that.

And the other thing too was with the whole youtube thing which is kind of the real wicked part about it and how they can control it all is that none of us kids have this is our job um especially now how it's really taken off with business and everything putting hundreds and hundreds of hours into it and then just like that for them to turn it off is really painful so um anyway um yeah so that's really who we are we try to show the world all the things that are happening in the world but then we like to show the solutions there's lots of people that talk about oh this you know this is what's happening in the world but they don't really show the solutions or what they are doing to solve those problems. So that's why we grow our own food. That's why we plant fruit trees.

That's why our dad and our mom try to teach us all of the things that are happening in the world. Yeah. We're overtly unapologetically Christians in a biblical sense yeah that's why i really appreciate your program that you present a a christian worldview that's for lack of a better term orthodox you know where um with a sound theological approach to it um and we we want to illustrate that if you live um in an old world order, I guess for lack of a better term, where we believe in a patriarchal structure with a family that's led by a father, we're a large family by today's standards because we believe that children are a blessing from the Lord. And we desire to create a legacy. And we purchased two or three properties now because we want to give our inheritance to our children while we're living. So that one, they can enjoy it.

We can enjoy it. They're not going to farm us off to some old folks home you know uh they're going to be uh here to take care of us when we need them you know the way life literally used to be that's right we desire yeah i can see why you're so dangerous to them yeah that is antithetical to everything they want us all all atomized. They want to destroy the family. They don't want people to have relationships, certainly not within the family, uh,

within generations, uh, but not to the community either. And so that is, I can understand why you were so dangerous to them, uh, far away from the politics because their politics are all about that. Their politics of isolation,

of urbanization, of, uh, control and everything that you're doing to make yourselves independent of that system is making you stronger. And it's interesting that the one problem that you've got is the area where you have interacted with that system. And so, you know, I understand, you know, what you're doing, and it is good that you're

doing it. And I'm not saying to stop it or give up in any way at all. As a matter of fact, keep on doing it. What you might want to do is use that channel to support people coming to your area. I know a lot of people who have solved these problems and are showing videos about how to do it. They also give conferences where people can come and see that type of thing. That might be something that you could do. You're going to do that?

Yeah, we're planning a conference for next year and working with some of our local community to set that up. So that's going to happen probably September of next year. So we're organizing that right now. That's great. That's great. Yeah, anything that you can do to get outside of their control zone and, you know, just get it. We're going to have to have parallel societies. And there is going to be a spot there where we interact with them.

And we need to stand up and fight for our rights to be in the public square and that type of thing. But the most important thing that you're doing is what your channel was about. And that is the family and your self-sufficiency and your dependence on God. Those are the things that are really important, and I can understand why Sow the Land was so successful, if that's what you're doing, because that is what a lot of people are now coming to the realization that they need. And it is the antithesis of what they're trying to impose on us. The reality that we have seen historically, maybe you should call yourselves paleo farmers or something, but, uh, what they're doing in postmodern post-truth world,

they're just going to delete us. Yeah. That's right. That's the whole idea. That's right. Yeah. Uh, we may wind up having a situation where we can kind of more or less leave us alone like they have in the past. The Amish, you know, allow us to do that type of thing because maybe we're not going to be, you know, worth a problem to shut us down. But you never know exactly what these people are going to do. But I think if you can spread that truth and you can spread that, that's, that's a great service. It'll help you. It'll help other people.

I'm so glad to see that you're doing that and I keep us informed. Let us know what happens. I like to know if Texas does anything at all, or if they're all talk or as I say, uh, if they're all hat and no cattle, you know, um, yeah, we'll keep, we'll keep you. We'll keep you posted. So, um, our, our three channels are The Texas Boys, and then The Texas Boys React, and then The Texas Girls.

That's my wife's channel. So you can find us on YouTube. The Texas Boys are also on Rumble and Odyssey. Good. And then you can always check us at our website, thetexasboys.com. We have our videos there as well. And that might be the easiest way to find you, right? Just go to thetexasboys.com and you'll have, you got links there, I'm sure, to all these different video channels.

Yeah, we got everything over there. That's why we started, we started up before we got kicked off. We started up a membership thing so then we could actually have our audience over there on our own website because we can control that for right now. So, yeah, that's what we're doing. That's good. Yeah. I'd suggest, uh, also you start, uh, doing self-help stuff, uh, and sub stack and you can embed your stuff inside. That's a good market and that's getting bigger and, uh, and it is committed

to a freedom at this point in time. Uh, so that is one of the bigger free market areas and you can embed your videos from a different platform. You can set that up as a subscription thing or something like that. That would be good for you to do that. Great. Okay, well, thank you so much. And again, good luck to you.

You are living the lifestyle that many of us envy. I wish we were that organized in my family to do that type of thing. We kind of have an information homesteading thing, but we are far more dependent on the powers that be than, than you guys are. And so that, that is the goal. That's what I would like to see.

That's what many people like to see for their family. So kudos to you for doing that and for not only figuring it out and, and accomplishing it, but showing other people how to do it. Thank you so much guys. Great. Thanks for having us, David. We appreciate you. Thank you.

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