I didn’t realize my channel was so important to people. In hindsight, I perhaps could have left up the video as an archive and simply done a goodby video.
However, I’ll explain here a little bit of what I’ve told people via PM. I’m simply getting to many messages to reply to them all.
In my career, I work for the government. I’m responsible for punishing evil doers. That almost always means depriving violent criminals of their freedom for decades or the rest of their lives. Sometimes that means actually taking their lives via capital punishment. It is a heavy burden. It is also often thankless. Its a constant war for the heart and soul of the local community.
For 3 years I took a break from the work. It was during this time I founded my Youtube channel. I returned to the war after 3 years. I kept Florida Bullfrog as an escape and posted periodically for the next decade. I even wrote my book. However, maintaining Florida Bullfrog as a side project took my farm away as my private way to recharge. Instead of enjoying my farm an animals for myself and my family, it became a job to constantly make content. Even writing my book took a lot out if me. The weekends I spent writing late into the night would have been better spent with family and resting.
I torched the channel because I had to “kill” Florida Bullfrog. I don’t think he’s me anymore. It used to be that “me the prosecutor” was a mask and Florida Bullfrog was the real me. Now its reversed. I had always hoped the channel might become a way I could leave the practice of law behind. Now its clear I’m called into this profession as my life’s duty. So I had to terminate the part of me that was holding on to a simpler life.
