DAVID HARRIS JR. | The Danger of Christless Conservatism (Ep. 981)

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This is Undaunted.Life.A Man's Podcast. I'm your host, Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. David, I've been excited to talk to you for a while, but I don't normally get to talk to someone in studio after eating pancakes and hash browns, and so we just checked that box, though. I mean, you're feeling pretty good with that? Very good. So guys, if we burp into the microphones or whatever, this is not a normal setting, but no, we actually got connected.

You know, good buddy of mine, Matt Grassmeyer, who's done The Forging Table and done all that, he ran it to you at an event. You know, he's always kind of scouting for us, you know, seeing if there's somebody that would be interesting on the show, and like, I had been following you for a long time, and you know, kind of following your page and getting into everything, but I mean, just what you've done in the conservative space is pretty interesting. And even as we were talking about at lunch, the conservative space is kind of weird right now. It's like kind of fractured and all that, which we'll probably get there later in this conversation. But even just, there are a lot of people that know you, that follow you, don't know anything about your story. They don't know anything about kind of the ups and downs that you've experienced in life, in your faith, with addiction, different things like that. They just kind of see, you know, they see the memes, they see, you know, the pictures with Trump, like that kind of thing. But let's go like all the way back to your childhood, because like, you know, obviously you are kind of a collection of what happened to you as a kid, you know, as an adult. I think all of us can kind of check that box. So let's just start there and work our way forward.

David Harris Jr. (3:07)

Sounds good.

So raised in a Christian home, dad was black, mom was white. They're both in heaven right now. My dad went there last year and my mom went there in 2009 But raised in that home, born in Northern California, parents moved to Oregon. They divorced when I was nine. My dad literally picked me up from school and we drove from Clannet Falls, Oregon back to Redding. I didn't see my mom again until we were in court. Didn't really know what was happening. They were getting a divorce. And the judge actually asked me, pulled me into his chambers. I have a seven-year younger daughter, excuse me, sister, my parents' daughter that they had adopted. And she was two at the time. And the judge pulled me into his chambers and he said, son, who do you want to live with? Well, nine years old. I'm like, well, I'm a man.

I've got dark skin like my dad does. He's got like a lot darker skin. But he's a man. I think I want to live with my dad. And the judge is like, well, I don't want to move you. I don't want to split you and your sister up. So we both went to live with my dad. And I didn't realize, I mean, again, I'm nine years old. What do I know? I don't know. I don't know how much of that actually had bearing on the judge's decision.