so you make your living full-time right now making videos for YouTube let's start it was back when
Nabil and I were going around we were speaking and we were speaking and debating but there were
people in other parts of the world who would say I can't be there could you post it on YouTube so
we started posting stuff on YouTube but it was kind of like it was kind of like secondary I was
like an afterthought and when something would happen you know if something would happen to us
or something like that we would post it on YouTube but YouTube was really still secondary to us if it
wasn't until we posted a video this is when that guy Terry Jones was down in Florida and he was
announcing that he's having a burn the quran day i remember your video on that is hilarious yeah
David what are you doing those are qur'an's are they no you're not gonna burn these books are you
well the thought had crossed my mind no don't burn these books books are fellow valuable information
here let me randomly pick one and open to a random page with maan sent to every Muslim province one
copy of what they had copied and ordered that all the other Quranic materials with a written
in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies be burnt let me see that Ruth mod ordered that all
other Quranic materials be burnt so there's already been a burn the quran day but wanna
be I don't know David perhaps one of these other books that are filled with valuable information
can help it's a good thing you didn't burn them let's take a look at one at random oh here's one
sahi Muslim yeah I debated the guy on whether Christians should be burning but I actually
had a televised debate with him but at the same time at the same time I'm debating this guy I was
also thinking well I mean Muslims are flipping out because this guy's about to burn Korans but
Ruth maan the third of the rightly guided caliphs burned all the Koran he burned them all and so it
was like wondering well you know what why is no one pointing that out so Nabil and I made a video
called the original burned the Quran day and in that video we basically go through you know and
we were doing it humorously but we go through the Muslim sources showing that according to
the Muslim sources there were so many differences by the time you got to the third caliph the third
leader after Muhammad that he decided he had to burn all the evidence so he burned all the
qur'an's and then issued his authoritative Quran and so we made a video containing that information
and then so we Neil and I posted that on YouTube and then I don't even remember at this point
how long it went by but you know 10 days 2 weeks something like that some time went by and I looked
in it and it had a hundred thousand views that had reached a hundred thousand views which you
know it's got way more than that now there are other there other videos that have you know way
way way more than that but what was interesting was I I clicked on YouTube analytics the analytics
that was that was showing where people were watching it and I started looking down through
the countries and at the top was the United States and then it would be like Great Britain and so on
but I got down to like 6th or 7th place and it said something like 3.6 percent or 3.8 percent
Pakistan and I thought wait a minute three point three point eight percent of a hundred thousand
that's like thirty-eight hundred people it's 38 hundred people in Pakistan I could never tell
that many people that in Pakistan that they would form a mob and they would kill you if I tried to
tell them all this information about the Quran and so it was kind of like something a switch
went on right when I realized wait a minute wait you know for 14 centuries Muslim leaders have been
able to keep to keep their people insulated from hearing any criticisms of what they're
telling them and they're able to keep their able to keep their people insulated from hearing any
serious presentation of an alternative to Islam but all of a sudden the power of the internet and
technology allows us to break through that and speak to people directly in Pakistan directly
and directly to people in Saudi Arabia and so I was I was just thinking that that's I'm N going
around doing lots of speaking maybe I should focus more on YouTube and then over the you know in the
following years I just focused more and more and more on YouTube until it was pretty much all I
was doing because it was always in my mind hey you know I could go speak to 100 or 200 or 500 people
but I make a youtube video and you know 50,000 100,000 or 500,000 watch it there so focusing on
that Wow so you've built it up how many videos do you have now on your YouTube channel over a
thousand make sure the exact count but yeah and how many views do you get a month now on
average um if I post consistently I've been up if I post almost every day throughout a month I will
get between 4 and 5 million if I'm posting more slowly it could be you know 2 to 3 something like
that but yeah basically million someone maybe you could reach more people if you just went around on
the speaking circuit and lecture big conferences and churches ya know that's that's what's cool
buying because I mean like like you know the technology improves things right I mean during
the time of Jesus you had to speak on the side of a hill and sort of shout down to as many people as
you could and you know then we eventually get the printing press and you could put out more stuff
that way then we get radio then television but for television media television studio and now
any idiot with a camera can record stuff and send it around the world and so we are going to be the
generation that brings it to know how true that is I mean here we are I'm making a video that's
going around the world and so we are we are the generation that's going that are going to be able
to share the gospel with more people than anyone else in history right I mean you know you know a
generation ago we've said Billy Graham right but guess what we have we're going to have greater
technology and we're gonna be able to share the gospel with more people because of Technology
and says that it's not that it's not that we're any better we're right we're better presenters
of the gospel or anything we just have access to things that that earlier generations did I
mean no one could have dreamed that you could talk to someone in Saudi Arabia from your cell
phone so I think how many people Billy Graham was able to reach sometimes he had these huge
crowds maybe even have a million people in a crowd but now you're reaching oh I'm not talking about
myself I'm talking I know you know people are not because linking all the people you're reaching do
you ever get threats I used to I used to post them I would post them in like batches of like 10 or 15
or something like that at a time but yeah they say they're gonna you know kill me of course and
do all kinds of things to me rape my wife kill my wife you know kill my kids things like that
but you know I'll be telling people about you to tell about that one time you uh had the guy
said he's gonna come kill you and you said well this you know this weekend I'm gonna be down in
Orlando at the First Baptist Church and I've got a lunch break at noon yeah how about if I meet
you out in the parking lot and you can kill me there and if you don't then what fill in the rest
I don't remember this that that happened multiple times Oh times one guy one guy said if I met him
down in Times Square kill me so I went down there and I you know I get on my camera okay I'm here
here's the time I'm here so that happened there another time a guy said he was gonna kill me in
Manhattan I told him which train station I'd be at he never showed up and I think the time and it was
funny because when it would happen in churches I would say okay here's where I'm gonna be but
then I would like record at the beginning of my presentation of the church I would start off and
say okay before we get started are there any are there any jihadis here is Ibrahim here Ibrahim no
Ibrahim and I'd be recording myself okay Ibrahim you I told you where I'd be and you're not here
and so yeah I guess the people inside felt safe then huh yeah well that's awesome man that's just
awesome the way and now you're helping others you know build their YouTube channels and yeah well
really I look I look forward to it right cuz I mean yeah like you know we're kind of learning
this after we learned other things right we had other ways of doing things and now we're trying
to get better and better at this but the next generation they're growing up in it right this
is gonna be normal for them they're learning this from the time they're kids and so I think
the next generation is gonna be doing it even better and so you know I'm gonna give I want
to give the you know I want to give other people as much much help as I can so they don't have to
learn everything over again I mean so you've gone from attempted murder Oh blooded murder
ready cold-blooded to now a Christian Crusader yep cold from cold-blooded murder to Christian
Crusader yeah David would you know it's cool to you know MIT with your background oh you did try
to kill your dad as mild as you were I remember you know when we all lived up in Virginia Beach
years ago before we moved down here that we'd tell people we were left our kids with you what you
know if we went out you wanted to babysit we'd we would thought nothing of leaving them alone
with you of course we didn't like our kids but huh no I mean we would have felt totally confident I
mean cuz Christ has just transformed your life completely it's amazing I did always think that
was a little weird though right like with my wife marrying me and stuff right and she said
you know I just feel like I could trust this guy with my life and I would always be thinking yeah
but I mean like suppose you're 99% sure that I'm okay and that I'm a new creature in Christ and
stuff aren't you like slightly concerned that I'm still mental I thought the same thing I thought
the same thing with them being like what's wrong with you people yeah I wouldn't fully
trust me yeah well I because the consequences are are steep you know if you were lying or work
really transformed but just like anything in life we have to go with probabilities right we
can have 100% certainty with very little anyway man appreciate it love what you're doing mm-hmm
you