Season 1 · Episode 48

Damon Darling Vs Walmart and Sam's Club Ban

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0:00So you guys are both gonna get issued a trespass rewardings from Walmart, okay?
0:04You guys are no longer allowed to go to any Walmart's any Sam's clubs or any Murphy gas station for life
0:09Okay, so there's a life ban whose issue in that what whose issue in the Walmart is
0:17So what would we do? That's any private business can I didn't go to Walmart?
0:22I came as I can't just do it for no reason again, even if no reason even if we're not they don't
0:36A
0:37Life ban
0:39Not come back in 90 days five years ten years
0:4450 years
0:46He's not even 50 not a ban till the holidays
0:53but for life
0:56This man now has a better shot at getting in a member's only golf club
1:02Than Walmart
1:04especially in the state of Ohio
1:08But welcome welcome welcome welcome
1:11back to alienize photos industry talk
1:15with your host photographer Jackson and I just wanted to share some light and my personal reflections on
1:25Damon Darlin's
1:28band from Walmart and
1:29Just being a creative entrepreneur as he is a comedian, which is a form of creativity
1:38Through your vocal telling jokes and also educating people so no
1:46personally a
1:48lot of comedians that I know are
1:51educators are they put history and current events in
1:56You know their stand-up
1:58Which I feel
2:00very very important
2:03now
2:05I've never been to one of his stand-up
2:08comedic shows
2:10But plan on it in the future when he comes to Ohio, maybe my hometown, Cleveland
2:17See it at the funny bone
2:20Definitely check it out. I definitely want to support and
2:23And
2:25But just just me being an entrepreneur I wanted to
2:31Just reflect that
2:33You know one thing
2:37Close multiple doors like one incident can close multiple doors like
2:43You know you getting banned from Walmart
2:47Who was also affiliated with Sam's Club and Murphy?
2:52USA gas stations, they're all connected and a band for one can be a band from thousands of locations and
3:02multiple brands
3:04not just you know the Walmart's the Sam Clubs, but
3:08Multiple brands that they are affiliated with not directly but you know
3:14They may have partners or people who they do business with so
3:20You know my lesson from that is before acting or acting out or acting up
3:26map the corporate relationships
3:30The blast radius can be small
3:34But it's bigger than you think you know
3:40They say why did he get banned and oh f Walmart work boycott in Walmart?
3:48I mean all he's being good. He's doing good
3:52Doing these charitable acts. He's giving money away. He's paying for groceries. He's paying for people
3:58X Y & Z
4:00You know speaking life and encouragement to people
4:07but how Walmart took it as
4:11disruptive behavior disruptive to their shoppers and
4:17You know just a respect and being you know shopping in peace and I get that but I
4:26Know when I heard that
4:28Life ban is like wow for someone being banned
4:33For life not just a couple months not just a year not five ten years before the life I
4:42had to do my own research and I
4:46Watched a lot of Damon Darlin's videos mainly on Instagram
4:51But some something told me to dive a little deeper and I watch
4:56some of his
4:57YouTube episodes like the long form content versus the short form
5:02which is a contrast and especially like those older videos like
5:07It on social media doesn't show him clipping his toenail or getting someone to clip his toenails
5:14or him pouring milk on us like I did not see that on Instagram, so
5:18Me checking out his YouTube. It was like a different person to me like wow I
5:24Did not know that like I was surprised so it
5:28It made me take a step back. It's still me back a little bit. I'm not gonna even you know lie on that
5:34but
5:36I'm like wow I
5:39Did not know
5:41And I'm not thinking in the other way, but
5:46That definitely hurt your brand
5:49And I know his biggest drive was to get his coffee brand me mom's field coffee and
5:57All the Walmart's but just going back to what I said earlier
6:01You know one
6:03Action of yours what incident can close multiple doors
6:07And he can't take it somewhere else
6:11Have different partners different relationships, but to me I feel like he should have went about it a different way
6:20No partner with a nonprofit to do these charitable acts to buy people's gas and groceries and give back
6:29Donate or even partner with Walmart's own
6:33You know a charitable
6:36foundations Walmart foundation
6:38The one that Sam's Club have you can find it all on no Walmart org for their no
6:45nonprofit and charity acts
6:48but if he didn't want to do any of that just starting a
6:53Nonprofit and keep a record of all of this and have people you know donate to his cause and he you know
7:00Recycle and give it back and partner with other nonprofits or
7:06You know there's there's other ways, but what I?
7:10Would have want to see you know in some of these videos
7:14Because there's a lot of homeless people as you know
7:20Passing away from hunger starvation
7:24lack of good quality water and care
7:28You know see some of those charitable acts
7:32with you know the homelessness that's on these streets and
7:36Being from where I'm coming from in the state of Ohio
7:39Which were both from no couple hours apart
7:45it is
7:47It's evident and is a solution is needed definitely
7:52but
7:53You know giving back to the middle class or lower middle class and
7:58You know people that struggling I get it, and it makes more of a story, and it's more interesting then
8:06you know what I just proclaim and just stated, but
8:11at the same time
8:13If we're going to do it
8:17Let's just start at the lowest level work our way up
8:20Especially in our home state or home town
8:24It's only right
8:27but
8:29You know to each his own I'm proud of what he's doing, but I just want him to recognize that
8:36You know being banned from Walmart, which is a big big corporation
8:41we all know and when these other organizations are
8:51doing their research when a
8:54Deal was being made or offer
8:56To get his coffee brand me mom's coffee fuel coffee in you know one of these other stores
9:05It's gonna be hard cuz that's gonna be the first thing they see like a live band and
9:11You know that's gonna raise a red flag and raise their eyebrows like should we do this
9:18Without doing even
9:20more research
9:23It's hard for them, so
9:27This is something I thought about and something I want every no entrepreneur business owner
9:35content creator
9:36Creative entrepreneur to really really think about as you're building your own brand as you're growing your brand
9:43and your public awareness
9:46and it's in it's hard because
9:50You know
9:51the chaos and
9:53the pranks
9:55The jokes
9:56You know the negative stuff the fights the all that gets attention and goes viral
10:03versus all the good acts and
10:08All the positivity that could be seen
10:12Like it needs to change and it hurts that
10:17you know
10:18Having to do these pranks and jokes sometimes and being in chaos
10:24Gets the attention the fire the viral attention
10:31man, it hurts
10:34And it's like why?
10:37can it be different because
10:39Doing those different acts hurt your brand
10:45it hurts your brand and
10:48That's one thing I always
10:51pride in just
10:53The brand especially as a personal brand and him being a face
10:59literally the face of his coffee brand
11:03Kind of depth damage the reputation in public and different brands and corporations and companies
11:12so
11:13Just something I wanted to take from this all
11:18You know kind of share light on especially to my audience my followers everybody that
11:24Trust me or come to me for advice like this is a lesson that I definitely wanted to document and
11:32You know documentation becomes intellectual property
11:36everything you post as an asset
11:39but on the flip side
11:42If you do something
11:44You know like that milk stunt and all the pranks like having someone clip this toenail
11:51in the middle of the story like what's
11:53but um, yeah that you know come back fire even years later, so
12:01Just be careful what you do what you put out
12:05Messages you portray
12:10Give off and tell
12:13Just just being more aware and more conscious of what you're doing
12:18It's good to uplift people give back to people
12:23And do good things for people and know everything doesn't have to be
12:31Glaring glam or chaotic or something negative just to get attention
12:39But remember
12:41Hey, make it interesting make it fun
12:45Make it great make it powerful
12:49You are the best you could be
12:53And I'm just I'm just proud of Damon Darling success and
12:59You know
13:00Just the numbers
13:02Across YouTube Facebook Instagram tick-tock
13:08Coming across
13:10almost 8 8 million
13:13This is in August so
13:16maybe by the end of
13:182026 or beginning of
13:202027 if I have a collective billion followers, which is amazing
13:26that doesn't even
13:28Testify for the people that doesn't have social media or who haven't even subscribed
13:34But really support him in real life and people who speak over, you know him in real life
13:42Positivity and praying
13:44prayers and all that good stuff
13:47Like I said, I definitely want to check out and support
13:52one of his
13:53Comedy shows upcoming stand-up comedy shows. I think I
14:01Think he is stopping in Ohio at funny bone
14:04So I definitely get my tickets or if not, I know he had one in Columbus
14:09So I'll check that out either one
14:13We will see
14:15Yeah, this has been like a wake-up call to me like
14:19be more mindful your brain even the people you collaborate with and everything just
14:25Man, it's like a wake-up call. Like I said
14:29That life ban is different Damon Darling versus Walmart versus Sam's Club versus Murphy
14:36USA gas station
14:38and this is
14:41photographer Jackson
14:42Steve Jackson of alien eyes photos media
14:48Bringing you another episode of alien eyes photos industry talk
14:54And this one is on Dame darling
14:58versus
14:59Walmart
15:01since he was banned from Walmart, I
15:04Just wanted to report and share my light and teach a little lesson that your brand
15:11Especially personal brand is viable and one door closed can close multiple doors without you even knowing
15:19So just stay conscious of that
15:22Continue to raise your vibrations your consciousness and your peace and love
15:27in this universe
15:30Again, I am photographer Jackson and I am signing out
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