DAD TALK TODAY

Tonight at 9PM EST.

Hundreds of questions have been sent in about the Whittakers, West Virginia, APS, the investigation, and everything surrounding the story.

Tonight I’ll be reading viewer emails and answering as many questions as possible.

With nearly 300 emails already submitted, I probably won’t be able to get to every single one, and I’ll avoid repeating questions that have already been covered during the stream.

See you tonight.

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Coming up in about 30 minutes. Guys I've gotten over 100 questions and emails. Going to do my best to get to as many as we can. See you soon.

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 22

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Every night this past week, I've been coming on at night. However, I plan on being with my family tonight. But I will be coming on earlier. The last episode I told people if there are any questions they have, anywhere where I can help connect the dots I am an open book. I'll leave the email address in the comments below. Feel free to send your questions for the next hour and a half.

After 10 months of a smear campaign, I will not put up with disrespect towards me or my family , and I promise you I won't even see it. I've got a team compiling these so that I may answer it for everybody who is truly seeking clarification and I will be doing so in the next few hours. I want to address whatever confusion anyone may have, but I do have limits because there's confusion on my end about a lot at the same time. 

Thank you guys for showing up and all of the support this past week. All I have is my word at this point, and I know what I did, I know what I saw, and I refuse to stay silent. 

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 66

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Tonight’s video got delayed because the main fiber line feeding internet to this area got cut. Right before I was about to announce and do this, we got the notice. It wasn't just me, It was my whole area.

How convenient? That happens guys, I'll be back tomorrow night. 

But before tomorrow night, I do want to say this:

The last couple days have honestly been therapeutic for me in a lot of ways. For the first time in a long time, I’ve started feeling more like myself again.

But while I was waiting tonight to find out when the internet was coming back on, I became aware of some of the things being said and done online — and honestly, I expected every bit of it before I ever spoke publicly again.

The fake comments.
The fake stories.
The smear campaigns.
The attacks on my family.
The attempts to twist every word I say.

Guys, I knew when I came back out talking that I wasn’t stirring up one or two bees. I knew I was kicking the hornet’s nest.

Because what I witnessed there involved way more people than the public realizes. I personally saw things that were not supposed to be going on involving people I still don’t even know. I’m a Georgia guy. I didn’t know these people, who all was connected, what all was happening behind the scenes, or how deep some of this actually went.

And honestly? I think the hornet’s nest is bigger than even I fully realized.

But for 10 months it benefited a whole lot of people to keep this narrative reduced down to the two faces the public saw on camera the most.

One of those people should have never been dragged into this to begin with.

And you’re talking to him.

For anybody still believing that narrative after everything that’s already come out, there’s probably nothing I can do to change your mind anyway. But I think anybody paying attention can see this situation for what it really is.

There was NEVER anything about this story I wanted hidden — including myself.

When investigators got involved, they didn’t have to come find me. I went to THEM.

Open book.

Phones.
Messages.
Social media.
“Tell me what you need.”

Cooperative doesn’t even begin to describe it.

And something else people need to understand:

I did not go to West Virginia trying to build my platform off this story. I never even mentioned the name Dad Talk Today while I was there, even though people asked me constantly. I would just tell them I was involved in fathers’ rights advocacy because that’s not what I was there for.

But what people also don’t understand is before any of this happened, I had already spent years traveling this country speaking out about broken systems, corruption, fathers losing their children, and institutions that are supposed to protect families instead destroying them.

Holding powerful people accountable does not scare me.

It never has.

What some people thought was just some guy from Georgia making videos was actually somebody who has spent years confronting systems exactly like this and trying to expose the failures inside them.

And after what I experienced there, I’m telling you right now:
This is not the only story like this in West Virginia.

Not even close.

And I fully intend on continuing to shine light on these situations and showing people they DO have the power to hold institutions accountable.

But accountability requires people willing to stand in the fire.

It comes with pressure.
It comes with attacks.
It comes with sacrifice.

I’ve already lived with it for 10 months.

What’s a little longer?

See y’all tomorrow night.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 52

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Tonight at 9:30 PM Eastern, I’m finally going live to speak about everything in real time.

🕘 Time Zones:
• 9:30 PM Eastern
• 8:30 PM Central
• 7:30 PM Mountain
• 6:30 PM Pacific

I’ve tried over and over to sit down and make a perfectly edited video about this, but every time I did, I found myself going back through the trauma, overthinking everything, getting sidetracked, and never feeling like I could fully get it out.

So tonight, there will be no edits. No cuts. No “perfect version.” It’s just going to come out as it comes out. Real and unfiltered.

A friend will be joining me live to help keep me focused and on track because this has honestly been one of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to talk about publicly.

I will NOT be taking questions or comments during the stream. This isn’t going to be a debate, an argument, or a back-and-forth. I simply need to finally speak and get this out.

For a long time, I felt like I couldn’t. Tonight, I’m going to.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 70

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I owe you all an explanation.

It’s after midnight, and at this point I’m not even going to attempt to keep making the video tonight because it’s gotten too late.

And for that, I apologize.

I said something was coming tonight, and I wasn’t able to deliver it. But please understand me when I tell you this was NOT for lack of trying.

My whole family is my witness — I gave this everything I had.

I spent almost 6 hours tonight trying to record this video, and I’ve actually been trying to make this happen for almost 2 weeks now.

What’s crazy is this used to be my life. I used to sit down, hit record, and knock videos out in one take without even thinking about it.

Now I honestly can’t even count how many times I’ve tried to make this one video.

That’s what 10 months of suppressing feelings, staying silent, pressure, accusations, fear, harassment, and carrying all of this around has done to me.

My doctor has had to medicate me for multiple things since this began, and every time I start talking about this situation, especially the painful parts, it’s like my brain shuts down trying to avoid the hurt. I lose my train of thought, overexplain things, forget words mid-sentence, and honestly it’s been embarrassing for me.

Some of you saw me try doing podcasts during all of this, and the truth is I thought finally speaking about it would make me feel better.

It did the exact opposite.

Every time, I felt even worse afterward because I still couldn’t fully tell people the truth while being told to stay silent. That pressure built up for months, and when I finally started talking, it all came pouring out at once.

That’s not who I normally am.

And the truth is… this story did not begin last year.

Those problems existed for decades.

What made my involvement different was that I wasn’t just documenting a family — I was documenting the actual conditions, the neglect, the needs, and the failures surrounding that situation in real time.

Tomorrow night, come hell or high water, you’re finally getting the truth I’ve wanted to give you this whole time but felt I couldn’t.

And there is absolutely no way I’ll be able to get all of this out in one or two videos. It’s going to take time, and I’m going to spend all next week trying to work through this piece by piece.

It may only be part one tomorrow night…

But you’re getting it.

If you pray, pray for me. If you don’t, send me some well wishes.

I almost thought this broke me.

But I got back up.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 68

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10 months of being told to stay silent about what really happened.

I was never at the center of this because of what I did…

But because of what I know.

“For everything done in darkness will come to light.”

The silence ends tonight.

I refuse to be anyone’s patsy.

#TheSilenceEnds

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 79

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I’m thinking about making a video just for fun — kinda a trip back to growing up in the 80s and 90s.

Those restaurants our parents used to take us to that aren’t around anymore…

Bonanza, Po’ Folks, Shoney’s, Piccadilly, Ryan’s Steakhouse, all that stuff.

I’m gonna mix in old commercials and clips and just keep it light, nothing serious.

Before I do it though, I’m curious —

what’s a restaurant you remember going to as a kid that’s gone now?

Drop it in the comments, and I might add it to the video. I know I’m forgetting a bunch.

5 months ago | [YT] | 20

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💔 ANNOUNCEMENT: “Lost Innocence — The Story of Sophia Larson” | A Dad Talk Today Documentary 💔

Tomorrow, after more than three years in the making, I’ll be releasing one of the most emotional and important projects I’ve ever worked on.

When I started Dad Talk Today, it was to give a voice to fathers who had been silenced by a system stacked against them. But early in my journey, one story forever changed the way I saw this fight — the story of five-year-old Sophia Larson.

Her father, Alec Larson, came on my show six years ago to tell the unimaginable: Sophia accidentally drank from a water bottle that contained her mother’s crystal meth.

It was a senseless, preventable tragedy. It should never have happened. The bottle sat within reach of a child — and what followed was a nightmare no father should ever have to live through.

Even worse, after realizing what Sophia had ingested, she was not immediately taken to the hospital. In a desperate attempt to avoid getting into trouble, actions were taken that only made things worse. By the time help was finally sought, it was too late.

Sophia was gone.

But this story isn’t just about loss — it’s about why it happened. Alec never had the chance to protect his daughter. As a young dad who couldn’t afford an attorney, he had no rights. The court system automatically gave custody to the mother — and Sophia paid the ultimate price.

Her life could very well still be intact today if fathers were automatically granted equal rights to their children — without having to fight through a broken, biased system that favors one parent over the other.
That reality hit me harder than anything I had ever covered.

Up until then, I had told stories of injustice — but this was the first time I told a story involving death. And not just any death — the death of a child.

Every interview, every question, every moment working on this story was heavy. The emotions were overwhelming. But these are the stories that must be told — because they’re real. Because they matter. Because unless we face them, more children will suffer the same fate.

With the help of an outside investor who believed in our mission, we spent over three years, hundreds of hours, and six figures to produce this documentary — complete with professional actors, reenactments, and the highest level of production we’ve ever done.

After waiting over a year, hoping for international distribution, I’ve decided it’s time for everyone to see it. Tomorrow, I will be releasing “Lost Innocence: The Story of Sophia Larson” free for everyone to watch — right here on my personal Facebook page and on the Dad Talk Today YouTube channel.

This is a story you need to see. It will open your eyes to an issue that is rarely covered — one of the most important issues of our time: protecting the relationships between fathers and their children.

Please watch it. Share it. Talk about it. Let’s take Sophia’s pain — and turn it into purpose, hope, and lasting change.

This is more than a documentary. It’s a message. It’s a movement. And it is a Dad Talk Today documentary — a story meant to be seen, remembered, and acted upon.

"Lost Innocence” tells the story of Sophia, a five-year-old whose life and pure innocence were stolen far too soon. Her death was senseless and preventable, a life that could have been saved by the one meant to protect her, while her father — the one who could have truly kept her safe — was kept out of the picture and was the last to learn of her death.

Tomorrow we release this i memory of Sophia Larson. RIP

#DadTalkToday #LostInnocence #SophiasStory #FathersRights #JusticeForSophia #FatherhoodMatters

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