OWEN BENJAMIN: Any business or venue in debt to a bank is controlled and has to do what the banks say. So the next step is finding platforms that will let you on or build your own platform.

This happened to me 5 years ago. Private companies can do this. I legally fought it with patreon when I was kicked off for that. After 50k in legal fees I learned that this is legal in america to do.
So the next step is finding platforms that will let you on or build your own… https://t.co/wkccTGm70x

— Owen Benjamin 🐻 (@OwenBenjamin) September 7, 2024

This happened to me 5 years ago. Private companies can do this. I legally fought it with Patreon when I was kicked off for that. After 50k in legal fees, I learned that this is legal in America to do.

So the next step is finding platforms that will let you on or build your own platform. Which I’ve done. Same with venues. Any business or venue in debt to a bank is controlled and has to do what the banks say.

So the solution is to have your own land or venue without debt. You can call to action your listeners to chip in. Which is what I’ve done successfully.

Their next move is a slander campaign in media to claim you’re an evil terrible thief. You have to resist that and live as clean and honorable as you can. And just accept that people will leave you because of the slander. It hurts but it happens.

People close to you will be given offers to betray you and slander. This will happen. All it does is reveal who was always going to betray you.

I’m way way way down the chess game at this point. I know your instinct is just to feel like the world is unfair and to complain about it for sympathy. But that doesn’t actually do anything.

This road gets real biblical real quick. And it’s very hard.

If you wanna just stay comfortable and easy. You can do that. Just do your best with whatever you choose.  

Hope that helps! 

OWEN BENJAMIN: so adversity is something really good. Someone like me matured a lot faster and I've innovated a lot more, and my life is a lot richer BECAUSE of the oppositions I've had

My message to the youth. Embrace the struggle. You will thrive. Trust me. And share this with people who need to hear it. pic.twitter.com/AsGuur43qr

— Owen Benjamin 🐻 (@OwenBenjamin) April 27, 2024

I can tell the despair meter and the psy-op meter is getting cranked up right now, and I genuinely do have a lot of compassion for the youth and I think my stories and my perspective may help you out a little.  

00:25. Okay so I've been posting a lot about the Baby Boomers. The Boomers!!  And people are like, "How dare you, big bear! Don't you know Tim Dylan already does all this?  He's one of the biggest comedians on Patreon.  Don't you know you're just cleaning up old Tim Dillon scraps?"  Let me tell you a story.  I was doing baby boomer jokes in 2016, 17, or 18.  I was doing the whole "Oh, we went to the moon!"  The "Duck, baby boomer!"  

The Connect with Johnny Mitchell.  I'm actually very mass demographic as the kids would say.  

Can't rent out a house on AirBnB.

It's one thing to talk trash; it's another to not let me compete.  But don't pretend that I can't compete with them.  I'm not even allowed on the platforms.  I'm not even allowed on YouTube.  And to have people say, "Oh, you're just taking Dave Chappelle's joke."  No, bitch, I did that joke 6 years ago, before Chappelle.  And being ahead of the curve with no criminal record, I'm a family man, I'm happy, I play music.  It's just not real competition.  One of the reasons I think that Timmy Dillon is allowed on, who's very funny by the way, I think he's more free than most.  He's more unique than most, is because he's fat and gay, and that plays into the depopulation agenda.  But here's my point: I'm basically a basketball player who got kicked out of the league for dunking, and now everyone dunks and they still pretend I'm crazy.  That could easily make someone bitter.  Like, imagine if you were trying to play basketball and you were not allowed to wear shoes, and your basketball was just a giant boulder.  And here's the irony.  I'm still competing.  My last special was great, and the beauty of this, and this is the advice I'm giving the youth, cream rises to the top.  

06:25  And so adversity is something really good.  Someone like me matured a lot faster and I've innovated a lot more, and my life is a lot richer BECAUSE of the oppositions I've had.  I got into farming, and I got into de-centralized comedy.  I developed a relationship with my listeners.  I tape specials in tents and it's beautiful.  And so when you're given opposition, in the comedy world, my story is crazy.  When literal criminals, murderers, drug traffickers, like disgusting people pushing gambling and sodomy and alcoholism on the youth, yet I'm not allowed on the very platforms that they are, to this day, 

God is above these wicked people. 

17:00  It's not fair that I'm not allowed to compete with these people that I was years ahead of.  But it is in the big picture.  And I've gotten better for it, I've gotten healthier for it.  If I was on the road all the time, I wouldn't have had 4 kids.  I wouldn't have been able to crush that ovulation cycle like I did, you know.  I kept my wife pregnant for 7 straight years.  You can't do that if you're on the road.  "Oh, I'm going to miss ovulation.  I'm in Cincinnati."  I wouldn't trade anything for my family.  I could sell out Madison Square Garden every day for 20 years, and I wouldn't trade that for 1 giggle with my son, for 1 day playing catch with him.  I reek of authenticity.  So keep crushing.  You're doing great kid.