Watching Andrew Tate's Emergency Podcast
It's August 7, 2026. I'm Jerry Banfield, and this is my life, my vlog. I just finished watching Andrew Tate's interview, and wow, it's really left me thinking. The name of it was the new Andrew Tate Emergency Podcast with Jack Neal. I've had enough experience myself that I can see he's mostly telling the truth. From my experience, from what I've seen as an online influencer, from having been canceled a couple of times for attacking the matrix, it's left me with a lot of feelings. What really matters? I create all these videos online. Yesterday, I filmed 25 videos and uploaded them across channels. I've been viral online a few times. And Andrew Tate is getting attacked by the matrix. He's just pissed people off. From what I see, they are putting fraudulent charges on him — absolute corruption, no morality at all. It's total insanity, and I've faced enough of that personally. It's left me thinking: what am I doing here? Why bother making these videos when you know the environment you're making them in is so corrupt? What do you even do in this world when there's that level of corruption?
Banned From Udemy in 2016
For example, in 2016, I was banned from Udemy. I was a top 10 instructor doing absolutely nothing wrong, nothing against the policies. I pissed off probably a handful, if not 10 or 20, people who worked at Udemy — especially in the trust and safety team. I was out there showing how much money I was making. I was showing everybody how to make money, showing everybody the exact details: how you go hire people to make courses for you, share copyright, and market them on YouTube. I was running a huge ad system. I was running affiliate marketing. I was a big deal on Udemy, and all my accounts were blowing up all over the internet — millions of followers on Facebook, hundreds of thousands on YouTube. Udemy was the centerpiece of my whole system because I was making millions of dollars on there. In some of my last months, Udemy was paying me around $80,000 to $90,000. I was getting offers from other course platforms too — I made about $100,000 on StackCommerce. And Udemy banned me anyway. I was doing nothing wrong. Even the policy team emailed and said, well, less than 10 percent of your reviews are questionable. I'm like, yeah, because I give out hundreds of thousands of free coupons, and people take my free coupons and sell them on Fiverr. The other thing they said was that I had improper co-instructor relationships. You mean I joined somebody else's already-published course, added half the content in the course, then marketed it? It's clear there was no legitimacy to what they were doing. It was: we're just going to shut this guy up because we can, because we're tired of hearing him tell everybody how to make money, and we're tired of him being the biggest voice on this platform.
What's funny is I felt so bad, like I'd done something wrong. I hadn't done anything wrong. I showed up, I used all the tools at my disposal, I followed all the policies, and they banned me anyway. Lots of times when we get a negative action from authority, we feel like it's our parents disciplining us and we're a bad boy or bad girl. But I'm really proud of what I've done.
Demonetized on Facebook Gaming in 2022
Then came Facebook in 2022. I was demonetized on Facebook as one of the top 20 Facebook Gaming partners — millions of followers, huge amounts of views. Everybody on Facebook Gaming knew Jerry Banfield. I had retro game streams; I remember I made $3,000 streaming GoldenEye one day. I did NBA Jam and all the retro games, and I played Call of Duty: Warzone. From what I saw, I was one of the only top streamers playing Warzone who wasn't cheating. Not all of them cheated, to be clear — I don't think StoneMountain cheats, for example — but almost all the other ones were cheating. That's how they were good at the game. I played in-game with some other top Warzone players, and these guys were cheating. I was one of the only people who wasn't.
And then I got demonetized because I changed my race. In a world where people are changing their gender, it seems logical that you could also change your race, because it is a legal fact in the US, where I am, that race is a self-identified characteristic — you can change your self-identification anytime. But Facebook Gaming canceled me, saying my post was hate speech for changing my race. No, it wasn't hate speech. I was attacking the matrix. I was showing people the irrationality and insanity of the control system being put on people — people artificially divided into all these camps, encouraged to identify with them and fight each other and feel excluded, instead of working together to see the people who are corrupt and screwing all of us over. We don't even know their names.
Today I'm feeling proud, because lots of days I think, man, why did I have to screw that up on Facebook Gaming? I should have just taken my money and been a good boy, played my video games every day, and kept the $10,000-plus a month I was getting. But I remember, before that, feeling that just making money is empty and hollow and useless. You're a sad person when all you do is show up and do anything to get paid. That's a pathetic life. There's more to life than just making money and making sure your family is taken care of. In fact, I believe that's how our whole system got to be such a mess: people only think of themselves and their families. You should be thinking of everyone and everyone's families, not just your own. I'm proud that when I stepped up that day to do my livestream, I willingly offered myself up as a sacrifice. I'd been canceled on Udemy before; I knew what could happen. Some of the stuff Andrew Tate talks about — I got some of the same kind of stuff directed at me after I changed my race, and so did people I know, who've asked me not to talk about it.
Watching Andrew Tate talk about it, part of me went, man, I should have just taken my money. It left me feeling a bit bad, like, what have I done by comparison? But then: you've been one of the few actually willing to take on the matrix. You've been one of the few willing to step up and say this is all bullshit and I'm going to fight it — even if it costs me money, even if my marriage was perhaps irreparably damaged by it. My now ex-wife didn't agree with what I did. She didn't see anything in it, wouldn't look at it — she saw it as purely bad and a sign that she was with the wrong person. Being willing to sacrifice myself to attack the matrix, to show everyone what BS this entire system is, significantly damaged my marriage. And almost all of it is BS. I don't even want to identify specific pieces — almost all of it.
The First Scam of Your Adult Life
Andrew Tate was calling out the education scam, and everybody asks me, are you saving money for college for your kids? No. In my experience, college is BS. College is where I started getting in debt, and I've been in debt the rest of my life — college was the first money I ever borrowed. It was an utter waste of my time that programmed my mind up with junk, and I would never encourage my kids to go. The way I see it, college is the first scam of your adult life. I got into alcoholism there, which set in pretty sharply. My integrity, which was decent, and my self-respect, which was decent, got wrecked going to college, and it's taken a long time to even repair that. It was a ridiculous environment, full of alcohol and full of all this liberal programming. And to be clear, I'm not a conservative — I think both sides are crap.
Not Going to Give Up and Submit
So today I'm asking, what am I doing here? What's my purpose? I'm ironically caught between "you've already done a fantastic job" and "just give up." And I'm not going to give up. I'm not going to give up and submit. You know what I love about Andrew Tate? He's not just going to give up and submit either. Can you imagine saying no to $50 million to just shut your mouth and have everything be fine? Because I can. I've said no to all kinds of money and opportunities, because I'm not going to participate in helping the matrix rip you off and sabotage you. To me, one of the gateway realizations is that almost nothing that comes out from authority has any legitimacy to it. Almost all of it, I've come to believe, is manipulative, lying, deceptive control practice.
It's funny — with dating, I've been thinking, oh, I'm trying to show women what a safe man I am. But if you look at it from the point of view of the matrix, I'm dangerous, because I don't believe all this stuff being fed at me, and I'm willing to step up and do something about it. What we need to do is do something with our minds and our mouths. We need to stop believing this stuff. We need to start creating our own reality, and we need to start talking about who's doing what. Who is contributing to oppressing everybody else? Who is even in charge of this? I was talking with a family member about Trump, and I said, Trump's not in charge of anything. Somebody is telling him what to do. Who's telling Trump what to do? Who is calling Trump? He's taking orders from someone — who is that? We all need to know who that person is. I'm here to support that. I'm here to support the revolution, and it's dangerous to support a revolution in the matrix. But I'm here for a reason. I'm not here to contribute to the matrix. I'm not here to contribute to everybody being put down. And unlike Andrew Tate, I'm not here to just try and help men.
Women Need to See How the System Crushes Men
Women need to understand how this entire system is crushing men and how that hurts them. Women are going around looking for strong men, but then everything is set up to crush men — because men are dangerous. Women are usually much more cooperative, which is good when you're trying to raise kids. Men are willing to be disagreeable, to the maximum extent, and that's important, because most of our society has raised us to be agreeable and optimized for obedience. When I was eight years old and wouldn't obey my dad, he had me sit in my room and write thousands of times: "obedience — to obey, obedience — to obey." No. I will not be broken. I will not obey. I will do what I want to do. One of the turning points in my life was seeing that I will do what I want to do, and I don't care whether it means being demonetized on Facebook and getting roasted with millions of views — most of them talking crap about me, most of them calling me a racist, most of them making up stuff that had nothing to do with me changing my race. I don't care whether it means being canceled on Udemy and having my friends there say, "Jerry, don't mention me publicly, because I don't want to get banned like you." I'm proud of the life I've lived here.
It's kind of a turning point for me now. Are you going down the path you've gone, where you're up against the matrix? And how do you navigate that? Because I'm posting all these videos and I'm intending to get views. All my channels are growing. At the same time, I know there's a ceiling to that. Jerry, you can only run your mouth so much at this level before somebody gets a hold of you. The smaller I am, the safer it is to run my mouth, because the people higher up don't care if a guy is talking to a few hundred people on his vlog — who cares, this little guy can run his mouth all he wants. But you start getting a bigger and bigger platform, and now somebody says: shut him up. Just like when I got huge on Udemy, somebody said shut him up. When I went viral on Facebook, you could see the top people sitting there like, shut him up — enough of his bullshit, he's making us look stupid, he's making our whole control system look idiotic. There are no rules. There are no policies. They're just used to oppress you. There's no integrity to it. Yes, I know there are real people out there committing real crime, but there are also people the laws are used against where there's no real crime — they're charged with stuff to shut them up. I was talking to a family member about some of the charges on Andrew right now, and I said, I don't believe any of that. That stuff is easy to make up. These are very easy charges to make up.
What I Saw as a Police Officer
I've been a police officer before, and the reason I quit being a police officer is that I realized I was just the muscle for the matrix. I saw it when I was ordered not to take powerful people to jail. I've seen it. I've been in the streets. People freshly committing crimes — and I've seen the lieutenant and the major come out at three in the morning, with the whole squad ready to take this person to jail, and the major says, give them a ride home. Why? Because this person knows them, and we're looking at getting our funding cut if you take them to jail. So give them a ride home. All of us went home pissed. You can't be serious. This person, who committed a worse crime than average, gets to go home despite everything they did — but someone who did something not nearly that bad needs to go to jail and have their life ruined. And it didn't have anything to do with race or class; it had to do with power and status. Once you see it from the inside, you understand: at certain levels of power and status, the laws don't apply to you anymore. In my view, if you're a billionaire, the laws don't apply to you anymore. All you have to do is be cooperative with the other billionaires. If you piss the other billionaires off, then you're going to get it. But if you cooperate with them, you can do whatever you want and it'll just be covered up, and anybody who tries to get in the way gets paid off.
Working Together More Effectively
So, man, I'm grateful to be here today. And I'm grateful for all of you who've joined the Jerry Banfield Family. I see how I want to work together with you all more effectively. I create a lot of content for you, and if you want to monetize my content, if you want to put my clips up, I never file copyright strikes. You can put my clips up wherever you want, and I'll make them available to you in the Jerry Banfield Family. I don't even have Instagram or TikTok — you can put all my stuff up on there and keep all the money from it. You can affiliate-sell my community and make money off of that. Those of you who really care about me — I need to work with you more effectively.
Why I Deleted Hinge Again
On a personal note, I had a tennis date get canceled by the rain yesterday. I'm like, what? It doesn't matter. Every one of these things — I'm going to keep going. I did delete Hinge again this morning. In my experience, dating apps are designed to make men feel bad and to put all the power in the hands of women. And at the same time, dating apps sabotage women, because they make everything so shallow. Women really need depth to get to know somebody, and yet dating apps seem to reward shallow. Dating apps are hard for women to use because of decision fatigue. I got 20 likes or so on Hinge in the last week, and think about the decision fatigue: for every single one, the woman has to make a decision, yes or no. It's not the obvious nos that are hard, or the obvious yeses — it's the bulk in the middle. Maybe 10 or 20 percent of the guys are obvious nos, 10 or 20 percent obvious yeses, and then you've got the bulk in the middle where it's, "this guy might be nice, but I don't know — and there are 200 other guys just like him." That's what dating apps are for women: decision fatigue.
My best connection I've made with a woman this year was in person. So dating apps leave me feeling like there's another way. I feel like an idiot for spending $350 on Hinge in the last week and then just deleting it. And I wonder — how is it possible that I send all these roses out and don't get a single date in person from it? It's important that I learn these things so I can teach them, so I can tell men: never use dating apps. If you have any self-respect, don't use dating apps. Work on yourself. Look good. Exercise. I'm going to go to a yoga class, and there are going to be a number of beautiful women there. Yesterday I went to a yoga class and there was a beautiful woman right next to me, and I didn't even talk to her, because I was in such a bad mood that my tennis date got canceled by rain and the woman hadn't responded to me in about an hour. I'd asked if she wanted to do something else, and after about an hour she said, "I'm going to be lame — staying in." Okay, whatever. I went to yoga and then to an AA meeting, and I shared and I swore and I talked all kinds of shit, and the men there loved it. And I realized: I need to be talking to men, but I also need to talk to women, because women need to understand that while I understand women's lives are hard, men's lives are brutal. The absolute worst things happen to men more often, and so much of the psychological stuff out there seems aimed at just disempowering men.
The Kind of Woman I Need in My Life
And that last queen I dated — that was not bringing out the right dynamic either. I need to date a woman who hypes me up, like all of Andrew Tate's women hype him up. Can you imagine? Andrew Tate said they went to all his women and told each one, you're number seven on his list, these six other women got more money from him than you did — and none of his women turned on him. They publicly defended him. Those are the kind of women I need in my life — not women who flake out, cancel, get overwhelmed, "oh, it's too much pressure." I need a woman who wants a real man. And it's funny, the disconnect: it seems like we're programmed to consciously want one thing but unconsciously want another. So many women say they want emotional intelligence, but you don't want to see your man cry — even though crying is an effective way to express emotions. You want emotional intelligence on the conscious level, but subconsciously you don't want that.
And then men are programmed to just give up. Submit to the matrix. Go to work. Do your job. Don't even try. Play these video games — grind this video game out, here's a distraction, get into some other distractions, throw your life away, it all doesn't matter, it's all hopeless. No, it's not. It's not hopeless. It's hopeless if we keep lying down and just taking the money and being willing to do anything to get by and survive. We need a spirit of being part of something bigger than ourselves and bigger than our families. And today, I'm really feeling that spirit. So that's what I've shared. I'm glad I'm small enough that I can still say almost anything at this point.
Going Forward Under the Radar
And yet, I want to be able to go forward. I need to be able to communicate this stuff, but do it in a way that stays a little bit under the radar. So we'll see how that goes. I hope this was inspiring for you in your day.
I'm sharing the Andrew Tate video I've been talking about inside the Jerry Banfield Family, because to me, that kind of information matters. You need to see what is happening in this world. You need to see how people who speak out against the obvious crap that's happening — like me — just get canceled. They don't even break any of the rules. They just get canceled for taking on the BS, corrupt matrix that is the entire power structure on this planet. Some places are less corrupt than others, and I'm disappointed to see what happened with Andrew Tate in Florida, since that's where I live.
If you want to follow along as I keep learning these lessons out loud — deleting the apps, meeting women in person, and figuring out what actually works — you can watch my Dating playlist. All right — time for the next video.