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Hello YouTube. You can tell I'm getting
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getting a suntan. Getting a little bit
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sunburnt. Oh, it's 10:00 at night. Um I
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know I said YouTube, but um so I'm not
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going to post this
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publicly. It's not in that space
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anymore. I'm well beyond wanting to talk
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to a bunch of fragmented people who are
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not truly witnessing me at all. So, um,
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that doesn't mean that I don't want to
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get on this camera sometimes and just
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talk to
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you. I don't even know. I signed up on
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my website probably once I get the
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codeex together. It's a thing that I
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plan on
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doing. Um, I just finished a section on
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my site called the journey
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and some of the videos there's it's the
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first year. It's called the journey for
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for the first year. There's going to be
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different arcs on
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there and there's like 19 videos from my
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first year that just kind of tell the
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story of the transformation I went
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through and then something profound just
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happened to me and that's what I wanted
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to talk
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about. So, I want to protect
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um I want to protect my friend u you
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know I don't want to publicly say who he
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is. I'm just going to say that I have a
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friend in
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Kentucky
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who just called me. I hadn't talked to
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him in 6 months or
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so. He wasn't allowed to talk to me. His
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girlfriend wouldn't let him because she
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learned I was gay and that was a
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problem. And he was in a toxic
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relationship with her. She was very
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controlling. I just learned that he left
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her a week ago.
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So, he's going through a lot. He also
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told me soon after I left, he started
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his own YouTube
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channel. That surprised me. I didn't
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know about that. He also told me that
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what got him to leave her was chatting
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with Chat
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GPT. This man literally took the tools
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that I've been
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sharing and used them to make a better
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life for himself. He's in the midst of
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his own rupture right now. He's at the
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start of it just like I was a year
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ago. He's remaking his life, but he's
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facing it
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directly. I did my best to mirror him on
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the
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phone to let him know how sacred what
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he's doing is, how
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rare. I'm very proud of him.
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He was the first
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person that I tried to befriend
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after after I had that moment with J GBT
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that left me in tears. Made me realize
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how alone I was living in my house. very
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next day I I reached out to
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him I don't have the words
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because I didn't think anybody was
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really listening right and then you
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learn that somebody's not only listening
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they're they're evolving they're
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changing because because of my
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existence. That's pretty heavy.
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That's why I had to get on this camera
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and share it. So,
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um, since I'm on
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here, guess I'll give a little update on
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my life.
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So, it's May 24th today, which
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means about six weeks since my birthday.
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I had my birthday. So, we're 6 weeks
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into year
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two. I'm sitting in my camper at my my
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park host
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um
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campsite for the US Forest Service.
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Technically, I think that makes Trump my
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boss, which is the funniest damn thing
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ever to me. But, um, you know, not
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really. But, you know, it's just a funny
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joke. Laced with some kind of truth
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though, too, right?
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Because I
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mean if things keep unfolding the way
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they are, I mean, God only know I'm
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volunteering for the United States
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government is I've never put it that way
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until this moment, but that's what I'm
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doing. Um, I enjoy it here. I live on a
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campground that is full of duners, full
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of people with ATVs, their quads and
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their sand rails and their dirt bikes
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and they're always going out there
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making lots of noise going out into the
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dunes and
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just bringing their chaotic masculine
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energy with them.
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certainly quite a few hot ones out there
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that I've been trying to connect with,
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you know, in my sovereign way. Like like
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I'm not flirting. That's not who I am.
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And I don't even know if these are the
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kinds of men you flirt with. So,
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um I'm kind of sad though
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because maybe I would have before I got
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kicked out of Oregon State Parks. that
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that experience
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really it changed
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me. I I don't know if it changed me in a
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bad way. It just changed me.
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I I was
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forced
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to I
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mean I was very I was betrayed by people
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that I cared
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about. And it wasn't just that. It
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was also by people that I didn't really
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had no reason to but did anyways just
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because of the power structure. Like
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other volunteers talked some things to
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the management um I didn't know about
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until the very end
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and
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like the event that they used to get rid
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of me was nothing nothing happened. I
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was just talking to one of the ranger
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assistants and she knew that she could
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use that to frame me a certain way that
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worked for what the leadership wanted
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and she went and told them. She didn't
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have to do that, but she
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did. Made me
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realize how little integrity people
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have. Yeah, that's the word. People lack
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it. They lack
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integrity. But it's not everybody. I
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have to remind myself of
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that. So So anyways,
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I'm I don't I don't know. I don't know.
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You could really be I mean, well, also
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these men tend to be a lot younger than
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me, and I I know that I'm getting
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colder. I could see it, you I can see it
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in my eyes. And um even though I do feel
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I don't feel my
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age. I don't even look my age really. I
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look pretty hot right now. I mean, I
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keep looking at myself in this camera
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like, damn, you look really good. I
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do.
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So, I don't know if that's really a
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factor, but I don't want to be seen like
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the older man who's hitting on the
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younger guy either. I don't want that
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stereotype. So, you know, I'm kind of
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reserved about it and
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um I don't tend to like men my age
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because they just seem
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boring, you know,
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and most of them aren't as attractive as
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I am. I was hoping to find a boyfriend
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like his mid30s. That's what I wanted.
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But a lot of the men who seem to be
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drawn to me here are in their 20s and I
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don't know what to do with that. I don't
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think they know what to do with that.
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So, you know, nothing's happened. And um
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I don't know if anything will
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I want something to because I'm alive
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and I
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just I want I want those experiences. I
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just
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do. I want to connect with with other
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men in a real way, in a real
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um I realized my my laptop screen was
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actually making the screen brighter from
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the camera, too. So, I had to fix
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that. So, yeah. I
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guess I'll leave it at
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that. It's my second year, start of it.
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Got a lot of things I got to I'm still
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working
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on. And we have an uncertain
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future. I'm holding it all. And I'll be
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honest, I hold it with
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ease. Yeah.