Recovery From Chaos-JD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of JD, a former crystal meth addicted ex-con now working in recovery in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Mark, thank you! This was such an incredible experience! I appreciate you having me on! Thank you everyone for the kind comments! One Love! 🖤
JD now tell the people who you really are a phoney that created a image for TH-cam you didn't have all those tattoos in prison tell the people how you added them after. Also tell them how you magically didn't go to prison on a drug charge a few years ago as a "career criminal" or tell them how your friends with a child abuser and women beater yet you say you against all that go ahead JD tell the people some truth
My man! Love ya brotha, keep up your great work💯💨
You are the definition of a champion brother. Much love and congratulations on your success ya big fucka ❤🇭🇲
One love bro. Your ability to reach such a broad and diverse community is inspiring. Thankyou for sharing your story, and making a difference. Much respect from Melbourne Australia 🙏🌏💙
Love your short videos on here. They make me laugh and are educational. Thank you for sharing your stories.
It’s nice to hear him talking at a normal volume and relaxed tone for once.
I agree totally I really like the guy and what he does, the positive changes he's made and helped others make, but I'd love to hear him just talk chill like this regularly, I get that he's passionate about his stuff and gets amped up, but I can relate much more to this tone and demeanor. not knocking him at all, glad he's successful and doing well in life now. I'm a recovering addict myself, did lots of dirt and did time but got sober over 15 years ago and just live a simple quiet life now,work hard and am focused on my family taking care of them and doing right.🙏🏼
Lol! His channel can be a bit much if you're not ready for it, I totally agree. But I have to tell you that I love the guy. I think he's great. ❤
But still love... WOODCHIIIIIIIPPEEEEEERRRR!!!
@@tommiegirl2441 it’s not “a bit much” it’s just annoying. I’d definitely subscribe if he wasn’t doing the constantly yelling artificial high energy thing that was coined by TH-camrs who’s target audiences are children.
@@tommiegirl2441 so I guess it is a bit much actually. Hahahaha
I saw the thumbnail for this video, and realized that it was one of my favorite TH-camrs.
I love this channel. It leaves me in tears more often than not, but that's a good thing. I think we need a reminder once in a while, that we're all part of the human race, and we're given empathy for a reason.
I especially loved this episode, because I love the work that JD does, spreading love and positivity, even while tackling some pretty horrendous issues.
Recovery is a gift for sure!
Same here. I just binge watched his "shorts" about Diddy and I'm scrolling and see this and recognized his tattoo and his initials.
Old interview I know but I come back to it every so often. JD is the reason I’ve stayed clean. He’s real unfiltered and deeply honest. I love that guy.
He is a breath of fresh air JD. & Thx for commenting n3e. JD will always be true to us when others are fake 🦨💨
He is the reason you stay clean?!
I’m so glad you’re clean.❤
Sounds like ur gay
JD you’re a great man. As a former marine and Iraq war veteran thanks for respecting us veterans.
Thank you for your service
If you listened to his story, he was not a great man. He could've killed several people in those chases and other crimes. How is that good? Sure he turned his life around, but great men don't do what he did. But his story really exposes how jacked up our justice system is. Don't glorify the man. He would tell you the same
@@theshapeexistsJust stfu :) great men overcome, that's it and that's what he did.
You on the other hand... You know 😂
@@theshapeexistsThey're equally dangerous and deceitful drug addicts. These things flock to one another.
He poisoned loved ones and made addicts, he's a con man selling stories, he don't care what he sells as long as it sells, this guy is a penitentiary politician, he don't care, he is greed
I am a firm believer that people who have addictions and got clean are the best mentors to help save other lives and get them into recovery.
I totally agree. A family member of mine is a recovering alcoholic and she's helped so many people. And also helping others helps her too. It keeps her motivated. I just think if I was an addict I would want to hear from someone who has had the same experience and how they got out of it. Because you know they get it.
Of course
I know this to be so very true. You’re so right. No disrespect to the ones who put in the work of earning a degree and not saying they don’t have empathy or compassion. I know from the way I feel my motive for helping is straight from the heart. Having lived the life I am the person I needed. Nothing beats compassion and real empathy. Again no disrespect
I was clean 6 years before Covid and the media sent me back to where I thought I’d find peace! I’m not a worthless junkie, just a high functioning hide it from the world type which is even worse!
I have 12 yrs Clean it's so True walk the walk talk the talk I share and try so much to help others it's Helpful to me as well ❤
Suffering makes you wise. You can't get that kind of wisdom any other way.
Damn that’s so true.
Lessons learned are never easy.
I've got 7 months and 27 days bro...finally done with all the drugs. Today I'm there for my kids, living in a long term rehab currently but doing well.
I identified with being relieved to be arrested. If I didn't get arrested I wouldn't have been able to stop. I thank God for my sobriety and take it one day at a time.
Love the video, very Inspirational
🎉congratulations
I spent from 14-41 in active addiction. If I live until 12/23/23 I'll have been clean 10yrs. Point being... you HAVE to keep your sobriety your #1 priority every single day. The first day it's not your #1 priority is the first day of your road to relapse. JD is the real deal. I've been watching him for a long time. Living on the tip top of Appalachian Mountains it can be 25-30 miles to the nearest NA meeting if you can find one.
Watching people like JD on TH-cam really helps me keep myself positive.
JD... if you happen to see this "THANKS" for everything you do. "THANKS" for not being full of sh_t and always keeping it real!!
Hey..did u make it to 10 years???
Happy 10 years brother
I hope your life journey continues on a sober path. Addiction is nasty. People who never dealt with it do not understand that substances literally rewire your brain for life, regardless of how long you've been sober. It's always that thing on your shoulder or the back of your mind. Every day.
You sound high typing this bruh
did ya make it?
JD deserves this interview. He’s such a talented guy with a crazy back story. Glad he turned his life around.
Thank you!
@@JdDelay5150 salute brother 🤘🏿🤘🏿
JD is a lame that thinks child molestation is funny he does skits where he pretends to be a chomo fuck that fool
I cant believe I didnt see this sooner
If only he were talented enough to have been there for his son before he killed himself from his absolutely shit upbringing. Major respect to anyone who comes on this channel and speaks at minimum their half truth, but it seems everyone just forgets about these people’s kids when making these comments. Can’t help but feel his son’s anger as I understand what it’s like to go through having an inattentive, irresponsible, basically psychopathic father
I love JD. I watch his stuff on youtube and tiktok all the time. He is incredible!!! Thank you so much for this interview. I learned a lot about him that I did not know. EPIC interview.
J D is such good people. He gets people in rehabs, councels and passes out narcan in drug areas. Hes someone who is a benefit to society.
I was abused from age 7 until 10. And never told anyone until I was in my 20s. Same thing ... I acted out and was labeled as the bad influence and my parents put me on medication to calm me down. I didn't know what was wrong with me and started smoking and drinking at 13. My first son was born when I was 15 and the second at 16. Both of whom my parents had adopted out. When I finally went to counseling I remember the therapist asking why I didn't see any red flags when I was being abused. I was so angry! I explained that this was my experience, and I knew nothing else. Nobody warned me as a 7 year old of the dangers of pedophiles, plus all 3 times it was someone I trusted so by the 3rd time I thought it was just par for the course and it happened to all young boys. I am sorry this happened to you as well! Abuse in any form is not something a young child should ever endure! Always talk to your kids ... even if it is embarrassing, it could save them from a long road of confusion and drug and alcohol abuse ✌❤
Absolutely on point! I’m sorry to hear you went thru that, but your story has the power to help others!
That therapist was a jackass. Putting the responsibility on a 7 year old?
@@JdDelay5150 yours as well! Cheers ✌
@@kimstephenson3876I suspect many therapists are liabilities themselves and are just doing a job ...imo you have to have a "calling" to be an effective one i.e. intrinsic to your sensibilities and humanistic talents.
Children should never have the burden of trying to figure out something that they cannot. I have a lot of respect for you.
I'm from Michigan and work with kids who have been neglected and abused. There are SO many children struggling with being abused daily. God bless our children. People like this young man should be able to go to schools and tell his story to inspire other young people. Thank you for having the courage and strength to tell your story young man ❤.
I agree, it hurts my heart for the children, I just can’t believe there are so many very sick Adults out there, it’s hard for me to not wonder about every man I see and wonder about every child I see with a man while working at a grocery store, on the street, neighbors, your mind just goes there.
@@flowergarden1426Every man? Daaamn.
@@mikuspalmis not Everyman but these stories affect the mind. I had really good men in my life as a child, I had two stepfathers that spent many years behind prison bars Neither one of them ever touched me as a child, I also grew up in Detroit ran the streets as a kid and had plenty of babysitters and only encountered good men as a child, so I know there are good men, these stories hurt me deeply and my heart goes out to these children.
@@flowergarden1426tf? No it don’t. You just hate men you sick bastard
I’m subscribed to his TH-cam channel and I always watch his shorts. I love the fact that he protects those that can’t protect themselves.
What a Phenomenal Dude....Bless him & his loved ones...Hes humble and to the point.
Thank you! Much love!
Glad you're here JD. You're helping many people in crisis.
You’re fucking incredible; and what an amazing inspiration you. I’m celebrating 3 years clean and sober on the 25th and it’s been a wild ride but so grateful to be free from the chains of addiction.
I’m so proud of you!!! WDR!!!
Hey, JD! I'm really happy for you that you found your niche. Good for you for being smart enough to fight the drugs. I'm 70 and gave up sex, drugs and rock and roll at age 28 because I was afraid of losing my two girls. Incentive. It was either change or drown myself in the river. Glad I stuck around. So about age 60 I started smoking pot for pain. I haven't touched any hard drugs because I am scared shitless of them. That fear is good. You are a living example of a little saying I learned at a recovery program... Make your mess your message. You're doing a good thing for your clients and yourself. I hope you come back again.
Wandered away from this channel a couple of years ago. There were so many people who were on a death spiral and would lie about wanting help and just double down. I had had too many liars in my life to watch more. Found myself addicted to jd's TH-cam shorts and heard he'd done an interview with Mark. Here I am again. My issues were buried and gone over thirty years ago. My exit involved treating my mental illness, sobriety just came along with that. I now have a nephew on the same rough road I was on. These stories don't get old for me because they pop up every generation in my family. Thank you Mark for finding the light in the darkness. Thanks jd delay for being funny as hell on your channel about stuff most people can't laugh about. You guys are opening routes out of the depths and I am watching people helping themselves out of the bottom. I am full of gratitude, for you reaching back in, when it would be easier to never look back. Maybe one day something you guys are doing will help my individual family members. Love both of your channels. Keep it up guys.
if there ever was a true story movie about JD, I would watch front row center. he's so humble and very positive from his experience
My Son's life is so similar to yours. He just didn't get caught as much. But, your feelings on family, sobriety and living for others was pretty much the same. Yet, he never felt loved. And he never gave up the bottle. He passed in his sleep on 8/14/21. Not quite 43. I'm thankful that you got ahead of it. ❤
I am so sorry to hear that! I hope you are feeling better, after experiencing such devastating loss and grief, over your son's passing. My heart goes out to you for your pain and sadness. I appreciate you taking the time to share your story about your son.
My brother died from addiction in Aug 2021 too. He killed himself he wouldn't have done it if he wasn't drunk. He was nearly dead already from booze. Heart and liver shot. Life in ruins. We called the cops before but they didn't show up in time. I wish I could have helped him or carried some of his burden but I wasn't able to. I lost 2 dogs and a brother that summer. Sorry for your loss I can relate.
I've been watching Jd's channel for a short time. I found out about this through his recent stream. Jd has such a crazy story, he's doing so much good now, an amazing life story. My younger brother was hooked on meth for quite sometime and living in Albuquerque NM. I was so worried he was going to be found dead. Luckily he took my dads help and went to a great rehab in Texas and he's been clean for several yrs now and owns his own carpentry business in Tx. Jd really seems like a genuinly good guy at heart.
I love JD’s message he shares. He’s helped my recovery & I’m glad he’s around to do all he does. It’s harder to stay clean than get clean so we need ppl like him. Thank you
JD you have clearly done some deep healing retrospective work because it show up in your accountability. There is nothing more beautiful than raw honesty.
Thank you for being a light in other peoples darkness. Your story is truly one of hope, spirituality and inspiration.
I send you best wishes and love for a continued life of service to humanity.
❤
Incredible JD. I am so thankful for you and especially for sharing your story with us. I’m an addict too and had many years clean. I relapsed recently and am getting better. Not working a program was my biggest downfall. I love watching your videos, they have made such a difference in my life. We’re all worthy, and deserve to be clean. If it wasn’t for you I don’t think I would have gotten clean again. Thank you, thank you, thank you. God Bless you and your family ❤
It's so incredible coming from the perspective of only seeing JD's content on his channel to seeing this interview afterwards. It puts so many things in perspective now.
This guy is absolutely 💯 amazing , he is SO EDUCATIONAL. AND I LEARNED A LOT. I FEEL SO BAD HIS SON DIED. BEST INTERVIEW I'VE SEE IN ALONG TIME. HELLO FROM CANADA ❤️ 🇨🇦 😊
Big love and respect to you!
It is me….our is this channel getting better with the broadening of interviews? Loyal subscriber
As someone with chronic pain, I feel this resinates to me. Every month i get so mad at myself for letting the power the pain meds have over me. It affects me personally because it CONSUMES me with pill counts to make sure i don't throw myself in withdrawal at the end of the month... I will definitely be looking into your youtube. Thank you.
I hear you, I’m in the same boat. I have chronic pain, too. I’m always on target when it’s time to refill but it’s a scary thought knowing I’m so close to going into withdrawal if anything gets in the way. Bless you for posting your comment. You helped me. ;)
Congratulations for you both! Two exelent men making a difference interviewing another! Hands down a couple of my favorites.
A special thank you both for reminding me to do the right thing. I've been a little over 3 years off black. The daily lessons have helped. But it's as JD said I had to finally heal myself. It's very different now from before. I now have more than myself to stay well for.
Black as in fentanyl?
@@007janerussell fetty pills are sometimes blue, the heroin I used to do was black tar. IDK. The language changes so much over a short period of time. Narc used to mean an informant now it means narcissistic person. Maybe the urban dictionary may be helpful.
Much love!
@@007janerussell black means black tar H. Popular on the west coast. It's a gooey black form of heroin, looks like hash almost. The powdered stuff you see on TV and Movies is more what the east coast gets or got at this point everything is basically fentanyl powder from coast to coast.
I'm able to empathize with a lot of JDs story, and thankfully after a lot of trial and error I'm finally on the right path. Thanks JD, you're an inspiration to keep going.
Raw, honest, intelligent, humble. You don’t see him over the top embellishing the story for clout. But that character, charisma and leadership skill is something he leaned on throughout. I like the energy of the TH-cam shorts. Never want to see him go dark and flip the switch on the wood chipper.
He speaks so highly of his loved ones. Says a lot about his character. Thanks for sharing your story 😊💕
I never knew you interviewed JD!!! That’s awesome!!! Love ya mark and JD
So glad I FINALLY got around to watching this. God bless you JD. ❤🎉
Love it brother sober 10yrs off the H just glad I made it threw for my family keep it up brother
JD your energy is awesome and your heart is so beautiful. Your helping people with the knowledge that you gained is amazing and I am grateful for folks like you who touched the world of drugs and crime and turn it around to help others reach their goals hopes and dreams. The best teacher was once the student. Thank you Mark & JD for your contribution to educate and enlighten people! Blessings ❤️
Thank you!
Love JD and his INTENSITY about EVERYTHING.
Two of my favorite content creators. Collabs like this make me feel like a main character.
I really like this guy. He’s had such a colourful life. It could be a movie. He’s honest, he’s done good and bad in the world, but he has repaid his debt to society. I am so glad he has found healing, recovery, love, sobriety, gratitude and peace. Cheers, from Country Victoria. Australia 🇦🇺 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Cheers! From Brooklyn NY🇺🇸
They make up a lot of it. Remember, this is from their point of view. They punch up certain parts to make the story more interesting and they play down other parts.
Thank you! Cheers from Florida!
@bob proctor JD is a fraud its clear as day he has ego ISSUES I honestly think hes a homosexual all that yelling is fake the big guy look fake the man got his tattoo after prison that explains alot he's trying to portray a image he isn't
The way I gasped when I saw that JD was on Soft White Underbelly!!! ❤😢 I adore both channels. It's good to see this side of him ❤
Finally a video of this dude where he isnt shouting the entire time.
I watch JD's videos all the time and it is really nice to hear his backstory. Keep putting in the work buddy!!
Jd it was cool seeing you relaxed and calm, your voice is normal volume and your use language that is less offensive not as aggressive and you are very professional and youre so intelligent but you sound like you are so nice! Jd, your humility is clearly showing and speaks on how far you've come in your recovery. If this side of your personality showed up more often on your own channel, you'd definitely attract even more followers than you can imagine. You're looking healthier here too.
Mega fan of you JD. Glad you did this interview. Seeing how coherent and articulate you are even after all the years of amphetamine abuse is a true testiment to the power of neuralplasticity. You are very inspiring man. Love you
I appreciate the kind words, but you can’t be a fan, that’s a one-way street. We are friends because I love and respect you too!
@@JdDelay5150 fuck yeah man. I gotta ask, what do you think of EMDR therapy? In my personal experience, I was only able to halt my drug use when I had insurance that paid for it. Seeing that you advocate for a holistic approach to recovery, I'm sure you're at least aware of it. I am also a survivor of CSA and like you, that is where the bad behavior that eventually lead to substance abuse started
My man! Absolutely love this dude. So articulate, intelligent, given everything he has been through. A real Gem he is. Salute Mark, and JD. Keep Grindin💯💨🔥
Aye! Thank you!
JD, I dug ya from the time I found your channel! I'm only just stumbling across this now & wow, this meant a tremendous amount to me! You are amazing & a God send to so many! Sending love and light to you! I'm proud of you! This was beautiful ❤️
The Truth is what sets us free. Thank you
JD I love you bro. You spit so much truth. You're probably making folks very uncomfortable with the truth your sharing. Thank you for all that you do. One love brother.
Well done that man, keep up the abstinence and recovery work 👍
JD has my utmost respect. He has been thru it, and his humility is refreshingly direct and conducive to the message of recovery and clean living that he embodies.
"Either kill me or cure me" That's the pivotal moment we hit when it is actually time! Walking back into the lions den to help others walk out, is when it gets real. Thanks for what you're doing!
Awesome story JD. I work as a nurse in the DOC and always hope for the best for my patients when they get ready to exit the system.
This guy needs a podcast - he's a natural. Very inspiring.
He posts on TH-cam daily, his name is JD Delay.
I do post everyday! A lot of shorts, not as much full length as Mark. He is incredible at what he does!
@@JdDelay5150Your YT channel is 🔥
Best wishes JD!
😎✌️💯
@@JdDelay5150Just discovered your channel. I just wanted to personally say THANK YOU for inspiring content and striving to give back to the community. You are loved bro.
Never thought I'd see JD of all people show up on this channel but I enjoyed it💯
Great interview Mark. This guy is in the trenches doing the work where it needs to be done.
Im so glad you are clean and sober i think u are showing alot a people listening to your story
It is so very common for males who are molested in their youth to question their sexuality
I think he more than questions it
@@Jp-312. yep, the guys Ive spoken with about it have really struggled with it. How would you term it better?
@@Seajunkie have you seen his TH-cam smh all he does is yell about child molesters to the point he's starting to give off chomo vides himself
JD is one of my most favorite TH-cam content creators AND recovery coach/advocates. GREAT interview ☺
Wow, I didn't realize our growing up was so similar. Aside from the fully present parents and religiousness. But I've been through it too, it honestly helps hearing someone else saying the hard things for me to say as relaxed as you did. Makes me realize it was never something to stay silent about. Thank you JD. You're a real one.
JD your are literally telling my story almost word for word... difference is i was in the deep for amost 30 years and i will have 5 yrs clean this year in a couple months... keep up the good work
JD, you are an incredible inspiration to everyone! There are a lot of people in this world that don’t understand what your past can do to your present and future! We need more people like you that can share your experience with a troubled past and how you can use it to fortify your future. Thanks for all you do❤
Redemption is one of the greatest things that can happen to someone who has fallen. JDs story is a good one...keep preaching it brother.
Jd, your story reminds me of my cousin. He was a a big man, biker covered in tattoos, tough guy. He was a Crack addict for years. He was a mess for years. He finally in his 40s got clean. Started working as a peer counselor at the rehab He went to. Unfortunately he is no longer with us. Not from drugs. But your story reminds me of his. Keep up the good work dude
This man is super inspiring. ☮️ 🇺🇸
He posts daily, JD Delay is his name.
Thank you!
@@scotts272good looking out, my brother!
This was a really valuable interview, thanks JD for sharing, and thanks, Mark, for having him on.
Born in Healdsburg California and my Italian family is from Guerneville. I'm a drummer as well. And mainly raised San Leandro/Oakland. Your appreciated for your experience and keep up this, please.
This was a wonderful interview. I've been following JD for quite a while now, & knew his story, but not in as much detail. He had quite an effect on a dear friend of mine- so much so, that my friend was encouraged by JD to become a recovery coach/peer counselor. When he was going to classes, he reached out to JD, & JD was really cool to him, offering advice & ideas, & told him he could reach out anytime he needed help or had questions. That's when I checked out JD for myself. Yeah, he's loud. But it's because he's passionate about what he's doing. Plus he can throw some humor into very dark subject matter, without diminishing the pain those subjects can cause because he's been through being victimized himself. I'm a proud member of his "wood-chipper family".
Be proud of where you are now! Keep up the good work!!
JD I just came across your videos and I’m so glad you are doing what you do! My 1 year old great granddaughter listens to you and watches you as if she is as interested as I am and she knows what you do for love’s sake 💕 I look forward to seeing more 🙏 keep doing well ❤
Music saves lives, and I'm so grateful it was there for JD. 💚
Bro knowing what happened when he was 6, it makes sense on why this guy would lay down his life to (for lack of a better term) exterminate every Chomo in this world
A noble crusade indeed.
As soon as I heard your voice, I heard you say "woodchipper". God bless you man. So glad we get to hear your story and your commentaries.
I don't know how I don't remember watching this. JD Delay is one of my favorite people. One of the few prison type channels I follow. He's taught me so much a person who's never been in trouble or jail but it's all so interesting to hear others stories.
This guy, JD, is so awesome. He’s a survivor. He now spends his time to help others. He has a big heart. As a fellow survivor of child abuse, I respect him so much for his stance again those that harm children. ❤️
I never talked about it, either.
Took a long damn time to even approach that storm in my head.
That Tom Waits song, The long way home, always hit me right where it hurt. “Got a head full of lighting, a hat full of rain”.
Finally opened up to my wife a few years ago about the whole situation.
Misspent my youth getting into fights and on the wrong side of the law. Put that behind me by 26. Met my wife nine years ago. We’ve got three beautiful children. Two boys and one girl. Just turned 40, we own our home and vehicles.
Had the same feelings about it as you did, JD. Struggled with what it meant. How to deal with it. How to move passed it.
Never really goes away. Made peace with it, but it never goes away.
Made damn sure that my children will not go through that under my watch. Will not allow the school system to essentially mentally do to them what physically happened to me. We home school. No perverted and degenerate outside influences.
The wife and I are focusing all of our attention on the kids now. My daughter has scoliosis, so it’s mostly trips to the children’s hospital two hours away trying to get that fixed.
I say all of this to point out, there can be a decent chance to turn things around after going through abuse in your youth, getting on the wrong side of the law and generally making dumb decisions.
Experience is something we desperately need, but only get after the fact. Some are born into way better situations, end up hitting rock bottom and begin to dig. Others start essentially at rock bottom the moment they first draw breath out of the womb. Then end up giving their children a childhood drastically different than theirs.
Having a relationship with Jesus Christ helps immensely. It did for me.
Awesome interview and I'm happy to have run across this fellas background story. I have only seen the TH-cam shorts. Thank God this guy was able to come to terms and become an absolute beast for serving others. I admire your honesty and ability to communicate your trials in life. Definitely kept me engaged. Thx
@JD DELAY What a Raw & honest interview!
It helped me to learn who you are and where you came from, I very impressed with what you've done with your live! Keep changing peoples lives by helping them find themselves!
Love, A Survivor myself!
Excellent interview! I found JD a bit ago and have been hooked ever since. I love your channel, and i thought it was way cool for what you did for the folks you taped in Appalachia. Incredible coverage of the family you helped out of heart. Much love, ❤Stormi
JD Delay, you are a success story, so far!!!! Never forget what that poison did to you. I have been off the meth since Christmas Day 1995, but in all honesty I am a daily cannabis user. It works for me. Its cool to hear your story. I've been watching your channel for 3 or 4 months now. I appreciate real people. Be well, stay the course, and know that you are an inspiration.
Every time I find an interest in someone on TH-cam 9 times outta 10 they’ve been on SWU and for that Mark I love your channel even more 🫶🏽
Wow. JD, that was a great segment. Thank you. Im not one in need of what you teach now but i have friends that have gone through treatment to just fall backwards again and its sad. I watch a lot of your you tube shorts and enjoy them. Thank you for your content and inspiration.
Good Morning Everybody!👋🤓 or whatever time of day it is for you now. Peace and Love and All That Funky Stuff from 6:10am Brooklyn NY🇺🇸 to you and wherever in the world🌍 you are, my SWU fam.
And back to you ! 12:18 pm Paris
@youparejo Bob apremidi pou ou. I’m an Irishman but can speak Haitian Creole I assume that’s close enough to actual French where you understand it…no?
@youparejo Sak ka fete!👋😁
Currently 12:30 in South Africa. Hello world
@niocniL Hey niconiL!👋🤓 I think I remember you saying you were from close to Jo-burg?
I've been following JD's TH-cam channel for a while now. What an amazing human being. Truly.
I love this dude! So glad i found his youtube channel! This was a great interview, Mark! 😊
Mark, JD, God bless you both. Nice to see JD just talk and see the person behind the personality a bit. Always love a good backstory, nice to know the things that shape a person. Much love to you both
I always had high respect for you Mark, but the fact that you deactivate comments under your subscription channel promo vids just because people are voicing their criticism is pathetic.
Anyone reading the comments can have a comment deactivated. I believe Mark doesn't actually look at the comments anymore. I think the only way he'll see your comment is if you e- mail him. So, you can still respect him.
@@gwennk4962 are you lost? the comments can only be deactivated by the creator himself.
No point in having a comment section for a video that is barely over one minute long. As for the comment section in the videos that are posted free on TH-cam, anyone can, in fact, report ones that are extremely inappropriate. Sometimes that results in having them deleted, sometimes not. Also...how would you know people are "voicing their criticism" if there aren't any comments whatsoever?
@@karenfryberger4260 cause in the first promo video the comments were enabled and they were mostly negative and a few hours later the comments were disabled
Ohh he's deleting comments people are tryn to post this link exposing JD and everytime it's posted its deleted.
This is a heck of a come back story JD. I don’t know you but I’m proud of you. I’m so sorry about your son. I think he is super proud of the good work you are doing now. Take care Sir.
Working on "recovery".....that's good. But what about working on "restitution" for his criminality. Has he reached out to the working guy whose truck/tools he stole and couldn't work and take care of his family? Did he even reach out to any of his victims? Isn't that part of the 10-step program in recovery?
Come on Mark. Ask the real questions, the hard questions. Pull his criminal rap record, go back to one of his victims and post that interview. Let a victim of these criminals speak for once. Give us good decent folks a voice.
What a great interview! JD you really inspire me! Thanks for this amazing video Mark appreciate you both ❤
I was a sheltered high achieving kid. I went to school in Daytona in the early 2000’s and saw so much. Friends dropping friends off at my house ODing, taking friends to the hospital. I got into drinking. Had a girlfriend who loved Oxys. Tried Xanax a few times but it scared the shit outta me. To this day, I hate that city more than anything. I have no good memories from my time there. It’s such a sad place.
Ive listened to you alot and just came across this today on 5-5-24. Thank you for sharing your story. God bless you and your family. Congratulations to your recovery.
Is this Chris Carroll in Ann Arbor? 😂
@@jongrotrian5067 ummm no it's not. Is this Jon Grotrian in Ann Arbor? 😂
@@chriscarroll3635 ummm no it’s not.
Love love love this... Two great creators tryna make differences in people's lives
God bless you, JD. You are a true witness to recovery and making a better life for yourself. I saw statistics that said more people die annually from OD than during the entire Vietnam War.
Hey Mark & SWU supporters 👍
You are rapidly becoming a major influence in my life. Thank you JD.
Really cool interview. JD, thank you for your candor and ability to show humility. It is tough putting yourself out there. I am sorry you lost your son, you didn’t deserve that. Watching his videos, I didn’t understand his zeal. I do now. Good on Soft White Underbelly and JD.
This was an absolutely epic interview and so honest. JD is an amazing individual ❤️Thank you for all that you do !
@JdDelay5150 you are an amazing human. i came across you when you gave our Colorado Ped Patrol (CPP) a shout-out in one of your streams. Your work to bring awareness of the horrific sexual abuse of children and women to the forefront of society with at this time over 500K subs and many more supporters. The amount you give back to the communities is incredible. Thank you so much brah.