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- 0:02I am the way I am. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, my
- 0:46name is Brett Keen from God TV radio.
- 0:49I hope you're all having a blessed day out there.
- 0:51I hope your Christmas was good, your New Year's.
- 0:54I hope you made some good resolutions and some goals in
- 0:58your life in order to move forward and have the future that
- 1:01you've always desired. Amen to that.
- 1:04I've been doing a lot of great shows lately with Steven known
- 1:09as Proverbs 27. Check him out.
- 1:12Make sure you go to his Channel just giving a little shout-out
- 1:16to him. We've had some pretty awesome
- 1:18people on my show. Adam lore has been Arne.
- 1:22We had a big long discussion about artificial intelligence
- 1:25and some of the new technology that's coming out, that's trying
- 1:31to replace music and art pretty fun discussion.
- 1:35And of course, we be in that he's my pal, we just kind of
- 1:40went into many various topics and things Well, Adam lore, and
- 1:45my friend, Stephen and lots of Christians as well as atheists,
- 1:49have noticed that for some reason.
- 1:52After all these years, there are still people who want to come on
- 1:56the show, no matter what. We're talking about, no matter
- 1:59what were involved, then, who want to get a taste of that?
- 2:03Nostalgia. And what I'm talking about is
- 2:06I'm associated with a podcast, I got on a long time ago with the
- 2:10drunken peasants. This was during the time.
- 2:13That PJ Kirk. The Amazing Atheist is Brother.
- 2:18Paul's ego. We're still doing the show
- 2:21before they went on to do Deep Fat fried.
- 2:26I was on the show at least from between eight and ten times.
- 2:31And at this point, there are still people who watch that
- 2:34material and then they come over and they want to ask me
- 2:37questions as if it was done yesterday.
- 2:39And to be honest with you, a lot of it I can't even remember
- 2:43everything that we actually talked about or whatever the
- 2:46case was and to be as Fair as possible.
- 2:50I was paid a thousand dollars for each show.
- 2:53Really, the only thing I was thinking about whenever I got on
- 2:56There was getting paid and being able to have nice Christmas has
- 3:00those years and all that I didn't really care about the.
- 3:04How shall I say the drama or the aggravation?
- 3:07It was kind of like kayfabe going on to WWE wrestling or
- 3:11something where, you know, two people put on a performance or
- 3:14whatever and then people get entertained.
- 3:16And that's it. I've been doing so many
- 3:19interviews since then and before then and been on so many
- 3:22podcasts and shows. I literally, I just simply as
- 3:26Older man do not have the memory capacity to remember every
- 3:31single topic or subject matter that's ever been thrown at me.
- 3:36I apologize for that. Maybe one of these years I'll go
- 3:41back and look and see, and be able to give a more extensive
- 3:44answer on what the hell was going on, or what was being
- 3:47talked about. However, because I seem to have
- 3:52been branded Arn to that type of material and content and that's
- 3:59something that people go and watch and listen to from time to
- 4:02time, I am forced to deal with a lot of people that I don't know.
- 4:07Total strangers who come in and ask me, many, many questions
- 4:12about my Association and I felt like today, I would answer one
- 4:18of the major questions, a lot of people ask, apparently, when
- 4:22people go over there and see they can tell that me and the
- 4:25Amazing Atheist at least a new kids who are watching that
- 4:28stuff. They have found out and
- 4:31discovered as he older atheist and religious.
- 4:34People already knew this long ago that me and the Amazing
- 4:38Atheist actually used to be two peas in a pod.
- 4:40We used to be good friends. We used to be two guys, used to
- 4:44talk with each other hang with each.
- 4:46There and I really, really dug the guy at one point in time.
- 4:51So, obviously one of the big questions that the newer
- 4:54atheists and the kids, and the young people who watch the show
- 4:58nowadays, wonder what happened then how how did you go from
- 5:02being like, really, really good friends to it.
- 5:05Turning into what it is. You know, during those days of
- 5:09drunken peasants and and where is it now?
- 5:12Kind of questions. Now, I originally planned on,
- 5:17just taking a break for the week and letting people watch all my
- 5:21live shows and all my content. I've put an unbelievable amount
- 5:25of material over my YouTube channel, and I wanted to give it
- 5:29a chance to be seen and heard and all that.
- 5:33And I had fully planned on that, but I woke up this morning and
- 5:36I'm my wife gave me Some warm pie and orange juice and it
- 5:40literally launched me like a monkey on a rocket out in the
- 5:44space. I felt like I had a lot of
- 5:45energy and I've made a couple videos responding, the questions
- 5:51people have had and it's really helped me out in my existence.
- 5:56Like people will ask me questions, I'll respond to it
- 5:59and then if someone in the future ask a question, I can
- 6:02just simply give them the video, they can watch it and then take
- 6:06whatever they're going to take from it.
- 6:08So I figured why not do that with this topic that way if
- 6:12someone comes on my show and they say Brett Keen I'd like to
- 6:15know ABCD and all this kind of stuff.
- 6:19I can just get it out there and I'm also asked repeatedly and
- 6:23interviews to this always seems to get brought up.
- 6:27Why was there a crash and burn? Why did Things Fall Apart?
- 6:32So now hopefully after I answer this in debt for people though,
- 6:37I say ah now I understand I don't have to ask him about it
- 6:42in an interview. I don't have to get ahold of him
- 6:44on Skype or emailing more. Get on the show, asked him in
- 6:48these guys, spend 10 minutes describing why this all went
- 6:53down like it dead. Well, the story's pretty simple.
- 6:58I like the guy during the time on YouTube, whenever I was
- 7:02making videos, The Amazing Atheist has made a couple videos
- 7:06in this past, talking about how he admired me and he respected
- 7:10me. I was one of the top atheist at
- 7:13the time. Now, I'm a Christian.
- 7:14Obviously, a Christian theist, is what I refer to myself as,
- 7:20and he watched me for a year, whenever I was an atheist and
- 7:24the kind of content I was I mean was called church phone calls
- 7:28where I called churches, and I debated them, and I discussed
- 7:31them. Some videos were actually, you
- 7:34got to see me actually aren't video going to a church and
- 7:37having a discussion with people. I did videos where I was going
- 7:43after the church for all the money that it makes off of
- 7:46people. I had this real bad problem with
- 7:50some of these churches who would steal from good Christians and
- 7:55then Basically run away, take all the money in the vault or
- 7:58the case or whatever. And then leave people stranded.
- 8:02I also made videos about little old senior citizens, who got
- 8:07taken advantage of by TV evangelist.
- 8:10I mean, my thing was always about fairness and about truth
- 8:15to me, I didn't have like some kind of chip on my shoulder
- 8:21whenever it came to the concept of God.
- 8:24In fact if somebody He came along and proved to me that God
- 8:27existed back. Then whenever I was an atheist,
- 8:30it wouldn't hurt me now and it wouldn't have caused any
- 8:33problems. I was more than willing to
- 8:36listen and hear what people had to say and that's one of the
- 8:40reasons why I started getting chose to go along to begin with.
- 8:44We're Christians were allowed to talk me, 24/7 practically and I
- 8:50suppose I'm still kind of that way.
- 8:52Now where people can come talk to me and and do do the same
- 8:57thing. I think that I've gotten better
- 8:59technology since and now if I don't mind Pat myself on the
- 9:03back for that. So I'm promoting The Amazing
- 9:09Atheist. He said that one of the videos,
- 9:14one of the kind of videos that he watched of me, that really
- 9:17struck a chord, was the videos where I talked about personal
- 9:21stuff as many of, you know, since the time of doing YouTube,
- 9:26I would make playlists. And I had a personal diary
- 9:30playlist and I still have one where I share some of the pains
- 9:34and anguish has happened in my life.
- 9:36Basically, people could find out about my life whenever I was an
- 9:41atheist, And one of the problems that was happening during that
- 9:46time almost 20 years ago was, I was taking care of a disabled
- 9:50child, whom the doctor said was going to pass away.
- 9:54So atheist and religious people were constantly wanting update
- 9:59Sprouts. What's going on with your kids?
- 10:01How's your wife doing and all that?
- 10:03How is your family? Wanting to know.
- 10:07If my daughter was healthy issues, getting any stronger,
- 10:10she was healing. And a lot of eight.
- 10:12Atheists and religious. People were very invested in my
- 10:15life and what was going on with my, my loved ones.
- 10:20And I really appreciated that I'll I'll never forget the love
- 10:24and kindness that atheist and Christians and people of other
- 10:28faiths had towards my family and what was going on in my life.
- 10:33Well, the Amazing Atheist. We started talking about that
- 10:38and he said, hey man, he goes. I know I know some atheists.
- 10:43Actually told you that you should probably put a PayPal
- 10:46link out for the Times whenever you have bad bills or you're
- 10:50getting overwhelmed with hospital bills.
- 10:53You see, I ended up the reason why I ended up putting PayPal
- 10:56out in the first place is because people encouraged me to
- 11:00do that because I was getting my family was getting Overwhelmed
- 11:03and hospital bills for our child.
- 11:06We didn't have health insurance and we couldn't afford it.
- 11:10So we were getting buried under debt and he noticed that I put
- 11:15that PayPal link out due to the encouragement suggestion of
- 11:18non-believers. And he said, how much money are
- 11:22you rolling in to take care of your daughter, and all that in
- 11:26your family? And I said, well, it helps with
- 11:30bills. It helps with You know, being
- 11:34able to get diapers and helps with being able to get groceries
- 11:37around the house, it's not making a huge impact on the
- 11:40debt. That's Bill did not but it's
- 11:43it's definitely making life a little bit more tolerable and
- 11:47possible to exist and he said that's pretty amazing.
- 11:52He said so if a person gets up on video and talked about like
- 11:56pain and problems and all that, then people may help out and I
- 12:00said well the atheist community. I told him I said TJ the amazing
- 12:06I said the atheist and the Christians out there are very
- 12:10kind they were at least at that time period.
- 12:14They were really really helpful. So I said to him.
- 12:18Yeah there if people have problems and someone thinks that
- 12:22they can help these people appear to have extremely big
- 12:26hearts and they want to they want to try to do the best they
- 12:29can. They're very charitable very
- 12:32altruistic. And he goes, huh?
- 12:36Well, that's interesting. Now, to be honest with you, I
- 12:40had no idea why he was so fascinated with the income that
- 12:45was coming in or anything like that.
- 12:48I figured he just wanted to know if my family was being taken
- 12:52care of or something, I figured he was just showing some kind of
- 12:56concern and we talked and we talked and we talked and then
- 13:00one day he ended up getting a blogtv and he started telling
- 13:06people that he was sexually abused by his father Family
- 13:09members and he also said that he got raped by someone in the
- 13:14church. And I remember when he said that
- 13:18my chin just hit the ground, I was like, oh my God, I won't, I
- 13:23didn't say. Oh my God, I was an atheist
- 13:25time. But I was like, oh shit
- 13:28basically. Wow, I did not know this.
- 13:30I've talked to this guy so many times and then promoting his
- 13:34channel and he never, once told me any of this really dark
- 13:39horrible stuff. And I even started to get this
- 13:43idea in my head. Now, this is probably why he
- 13:46ended up leaving the church that was ran by his father and all
- 13:50that the father who went to prison for scamming people
- 13:53because I knew all about that. I knew about his father, ripping
- 13:5635 million dollars off of kids and doing all that, but I didn't
- 14:01hold that against TJ himself his father did the scamming and then
- 14:05TJ was completely separate from what his father did is how I
- 14:10felt about. Bout it.
- 14:11Even though TJ did tell me he worked for his dad a few times,
- 14:15I still didn't condemn him or hold it against him.
- 14:20If anybody's interested in that, you can look into something
- 14:23called the Thomas Kirk diploma Mill fraud.
- 14:27Scandal that was big his father went to prison for it.
- 14:32Well TJ got on blogtv. He tells people these horrible
- 14:40stories about what was happening and then immediately after
- 14:44telling the stories, he put a PayPal link up for people to
- 14:50donate money to him. He said, look, I'm having it
- 14:53real hard I've been thinking about all this stuff and I could
- 14:56really use some help from The Atheist Community or even
- 14:59religious people if you want to do things and he looked really
- 15:03somber, the video is in black and white.
- 15:06Dwight. I have a copy of it or my
- 15:08YouTube channel, you can all see it for yourself.
- 15:11In case you have any doubts or skepticism about what I'm
- 15:14talking about. So, obviously being that, I
- 15:17loved the guy I cared about him after hearing this horrid thing
- 15:23that he decided to tell publicly thousands of people who
- 15:27generously ended up donating tons of money to him.
- 15:31I would eventually get on Skype. I just got done doing a show
- 15:39with someone not like a podcast show but I was doing like an
- 15:44interview with someone and I wasn't sure the person that I
- 15:47was doing an interview with was trustworthy.
- 15:51So I have this tendency where I record my conversations to make
- 15:54sure that the person doesn't try to take me out of context or
- 15:58edit me up or do anything ignorant with the video.
- 16:01And I forgot that I still had the thing recorded and I ended
- 16:05up pulling TJ into a call with me where he got up on video in.
- 16:11It was like I think we were using Skype at the time and he
- 16:16was on video and he was still had that black and white screen
- 16:19that was going on. He had not changed his filters
- 16:24or anything on the video and I said to him, TJ, this is
- 16:28horrible, I'm so sorry about what happened.
- 16:31What happened to you about you getting sexually, abused and all
- 16:35that and I said no wonder you're so pissed off at the god concept
- 16:39and religion. No wonder you come out as the
- 16:41Amazing Atheist and all that you have sounds like you got a lot
- 16:45of pain in your life, man. If you ever need to talk about
- 16:49it or you ever need to, you know, have somebody to cry with
- 16:53or whatever. I'm here for you, man.
- 16:55I've been abused in my life. I got hurt and everything.
- 16:58And now I felt like Maybe this was a time that we could share
- 17:04with each other and just really bombed as friends and all that
- 17:09and relate with abuse has happened in our life and he knew
- 17:14that I went through some miserable crap.
- 17:16And my existence, I in reality, my life was hell growing up.
- 17:23Well, I don't know if it was like some kind of Consciousness
- 17:27thing or if he just felt bad because he had did what he did
- 17:33to that audience. But for some reason, he decided
- 17:36to have the moment of honesty with me.
- 17:40Maybe it's because he respected me and admired me at that moment
- 17:44or something. Why he decided to tell me this
- 17:46and didn't just intentionally come out, lying to me.
- 17:51But he said, Brett and I've got this video up because I
- 17:54accidentally recorded that, as I told you all, I was doing a like
- 17:59an interview thing before he got on the phone, so I didn't intend
- 18:03on doing this, but once I had it, I was kind of between a rock
- 18:07and a hard place. He said brat I never, I never
- 18:12had anything like that. Happen to me, I never was
- 18:14sexually, abused. I was no one ever did anything
- 18:18like that. Nothing, dark ever happened to
- 18:22me. Brad, And I'm like what?
- 18:26And he said, no man, nothing, nothing like that happened.
- 18:30He said, I watched your videos but where you talked about the
- 18:33real abuse and pain, that happened in your life, and I
- 18:37watched people donating and supporting you and I just wanted
- 18:42some money. I wanted some attention.
- 18:45And I go you did this for money. You did this for attention?
- 18:51What, what the hell, man and I said don't do, don't you
- 18:55realize. There's people out there who are
- 18:57hurting and suffering, who have went through absolute hell, who
- 19:01actually do need help and you do this, I said, why didn't you
- 19:06just make a video where you said that you needed help with your
- 19:09bills or something? You're having a hard you didn't
- 19:11have to make up some shed or tell some false story like that,
- 19:15that was horrible. What you did.
- 19:18And he goes, yeah, well what can I say?
- 19:21I'm a sociopath so, After that, I couldn't look at his face
- 19:32anymore, I couldn't talk to him. I felt like he was no more
- 19:37better than his father. Scamming people, and using his
- 19:40Charisma, and his imagination and creativity to rip people
- 19:45off. That's the reason why I called
- 19:47him a scammer. That's the reason why I called
- 19:49him a lying fraud because he used his popularity in The
- 19:54Atheist community, that tell them SOB stories that weren't
- 19:58even true. Stories about having the most
- 20:01horrific kind of abuse happened to him.
- 20:04And then he ripped people off aren't all that money.
- 20:13How can you forgive somebody like that?
- 20:15How can you I mean what do you do from that point on when you
- 20:19find out the someone is willing to falsely accuse, their own
- 20:22family members and people in their life or even blame a
- 20:28Christian Church never did nothing wrong to him.
- 20:33He I just didn't, I was speechless.
- 20:38I didn't know what to do with this.
- 20:40So that was the first incident, everybody always ask, what was
- 20:45the first thing that caused it to ignite?
- 20:48What was the first thing that causes the crash and burn and
- 20:52that was it? So obviously people are going to
- 20:56ask. What did you do about it?
- 20:58Well, I actually pondered it for about a week before I made my
- 21:01move. I thought should I just forget
- 21:04it? And that would be really
- 21:07difficult for me because I was one of the main atheist at that
- 21:12time. Who used to bitch, about
- 21:13Christians and preachers who steal money from the vulnerable
- 21:18in the week? I would make videos about abuse
- 21:23that goes on and how nobody says anything.
- 21:27How you hear about these the Catholic church with priest
- 21:30being moved around and not getting any consequences for
- 21:33what they do because nobody speaks up or does the right
- 21:38thing? And also, I cared about the
- 21:42atheist community. So I thought if I don't say
- 21:45something, this pastured may continue to rip people off.
- 21:50So I didn't know what to do. I was fighting with this moral
- 21:55ethical dilemma inside my heart on how I should handle it.
- 22:02There was the one thing where I had learned to care about this
- 22:06guy for all this time, and I wanted to, I had wanted the
- 22:12support am originally but now I didn't trust him.
- 22:17And I felt like people were getting abused.
- 22:21Manipulated and emotionally dragged through the dirt in
- 22:25order to have this happen. Well, I decided But the best
- 22:34practice I could do is just tell the truth and tell people would
- 22:37happen. And I had the video to but the
- 22:40back myself up and prove it. So, I put the video up, I let
- 22:46everybody see, and I expected it to be a dumpster fire.
- 22:50I expected everything to just explode.
- 22:56I expected that the atheist Community would be extremely
- 23:00pissed off. But something ended up happened
- 23:04and that shocked me. It surprised me instead of a lot
- 23:10of atheist. He lot of younger atheists, who
- 23:12looked up to t.j. Kirk or the Amazing Atheist.
- 23:15Instead of them seeing that as abuse and itself or a lie
- 23:21straight from the Bottomless Pits of hell, they decided that
- 23:27they would find every reason possible to burn me.
- 23:33It's like they cared about the guy so much and they felt that
- 23:37what he was doing was so important that they literally
- 23:41close their eyes to what he had done.
- 23:44And they kept on promoting and promoting and they would invest
- 23:49hours and hours of making videos trying to make me look like the
- 23:53crappiest worst person in the world.
- 23:58They said, everything from claiming I was a pedophile who
- 24:03had sex with his own kids. They claim that I abused my
- 24:06wife. They claimed that I was a
- 24:08plagiarists. They knew that I was in Arthur
- 24:10and that I was selling books, so they ended up spilling in on to
- 24:15my Amazon older books that I used to have up.
- 24:20I have new ones now and decided to say things.
- 24:24Like, Brett keen. Can't write, he's a piece of
- 24:27shit. He's An idiot, blah, blah, blah.
- 24:30And I got this unbelievable amount of hate where these
- 24:33people just went out of their way to say everything bright
- 24:37Keen, throws his friendships away.
- 24:40Brett Keen turns on his friends, right?
- 24:43Keen can't be trusted, but Keen is not loyal.
- 24:46Brett kinas not good. They decided they basically it
- 24:52kind of reminds me of whenever the Jews were given a choice by
- 24:56the Romans and who do you want us to crucify the murderer?
- 25:03Or the savior of mankind. Now, I don't consider myself to
- 25:07save your mankind. I'm just giving you an analogy.
- 25:10I'm nowhere. Even close to being a saint.
- 25:12Folks, I've had my flaws and mistakes.
- 25:14I've always been honest about that, but it was kind of like
- 25:18the Jews are given a choice. Do you want your murderer?
- 25:22The guy who will move on forward destroying your enemies and
- 25:27doing the things that he did because that's what Barabbas
- 25:30had. Got a reputation for is where
- 25:34Jesus was preaching Peaks and kindness.
- 25:38Basically what the atheist had done in this analogy is they
- 25:41chose the Destroyer. They wanted the, they wanted the
- 25:45bad guy who was willing to do anything and to be their
- 25:50mouthpiece, they didn't want the piece, they didn't want the
- 25:53chill non-believer at that time, they didn't care.
- 25:57They put the wise and said, fine, he did this.
- 26:00He did that, we don't care. And they. literally, for I mean
- 26:08even now they some of them still go along with that crap and
- 26:13that's the story. That's, that's how it all
- 26:15unfolded. And obviously eventually I'd end
- 26:18up on the show and everything like that, drunken peasants many
- 26:22years later and then that would be basically a repeat.
- 26:27But I want to let you all know that when I originally got on
- 26:30the show. I had had a long conversation
- 26:33with TJ and the story was that we were supposed to try to put
- 26:39all of it under the bridge. We were supposed to put it aside
- 26:42and try to have a friendly podcast or show where we simply
- 26:46entertain people and there was comedy.
- 26:49But unfortunately TJ had swindled me again.
- 26:53You'd basically lied. He didn't want peace.
- 26:56He didn't want to shake hands and put bygones or in bike.
- 27:01Dawn's. No, instead he brought up
- 27:04several of his buddies and they decide to take turns trying to
- 27:07destroy me and that's what happened at least, that's how I
- 27:12remember it. Well, for now worn.
- 27:17This video has been really rude. It's refreshing for me to be
- 27:21able to put this out there because I don't have to in the
- 27:24future. Say anything about it.
- 27:26Again, I don't want to talk about it anymore, I don't want
- 27:30it brought up for my show. So now, when anybody ask I can
- 27:34just give them the link and say Here's here, is it from Brett
- 27:38Keynes perception, you can accept it or you can toss it in
- 27:42the trash, it's that simple. I do not expect that.
- 27:46My video is going to change the hearts or minds of anybody.
- 27:50I've been doing this for years. I don't expect anybody to go.
- 27:55Wow, that was wrong or horrible. What this guy did to someone who
- 28:00cared about him, yeah, I don't basically, I'm not expecting any
- 28:06kind of compromise or reprieve from this video that I've made.
- 28:14I'm just giving you the truth as I know it.
- 28:19Well, I hope you've all learned something.
- 28:21I am a very educational YouTube channel.
- 28:24If you would like to see for yourself to know that I'm not
- 28:27lying to you. The video is up and you can see
- 28:31TJ Kirk arm video and audio saying exactly what I said that
- 28:36he said God bless. I hope you all have a wonderful
- 28:40day and I hope to see a lot of you great people, religious or
- 28:43non-believer like on the podcast.
- 28:46God bless.