Jehovah's Witnesses: JT Life at Bethel Public Talks - Episode 4 

Funny thing is they couldn't be more wrong about the appeal of a southern voice. Especially to English speakers from other parts of the world like UK, New Zealand etc. We love that beautiful accent!

JT- u have such a great speaking voice & knack for telling a story! Absolutely appalling that you would be turned down! Being born & raised as as a JW- I know a good speaker when I hear one! Few & far in between! And Lady C is another force to be reckoned with! Bravo! Preach on, brotha & sista! 👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤

Your "Life at Bethel" series is on fire! I absolutely love these, and I thank you so much for sharing these experiences. p.s. Keep'em coming!

Your video literally brought tears to my eyes. Lol. I'm here crying. "Jehovah will wok something out." That was the Jehovah I loved. All loving, all powerful , reasonable JEHOVAH. They took that love of just his name alone from me. I haven't been in a Kingdom Hall in ten years now. I believe it's a dangerous cult that I was born into. But hearing you repeat what God should mean and how he should make you feel reminds me of why it was so difficult to leave. Thanks. All powerful. All loving. JEHOVAH. How did the society kill that feeling from me? Wow.

Woohoo! I caught another JT special right when it started. Doesn't happen often. It's like winning the lottery. 😁 Loving this series JT!

I am really enjoying your insight and experiences. I wonder if you had an English accent would you been critiqued so harshly in the beginning. I realize one of the main reasons I like you and your wife’s channel is that you are very down to earth, humanistic, and philosophical. You are doing great work and waking people up! Many blessings!

"We lost a governing body member! We *lost* a governing body member..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I was born and raised as a JW in upstate NY. I remember in the late 70s, JR Brown coming to our congregation . All the black folks in our congregation was SO proud of having a black CO speak. Having a black CO was a novelty in itself. Remember in those years, it was very rare to have a person of color (especially black) in a upper management position in the JW organization.

JT i had to pause the video to laugh! “Society said 2 plus 2 equals 9”...sad but true. I had about 3 of those chronology public talks in my repertoire, and it sure was confusing sometimes lol

I just LOOOOVEEEEE hearing JT's stories. Such a great story teller!!

I know this video is two years old at this point, but I'm just now seeing it. I love your videos. They're so full of warmth and heart--no wonder the GB doesn't want witnesses watching this. You speak exactly like every brother from the South I've ever known. You're not bitter. You have good memories of the organization, but you don't let emotion cause you to outsource your thinking to other men. I admire your channel very much.

I really love listening to you speak. I find your voice very soothing.

Great Story JT...JR Brown...Wow I haven't heard that name in many years. He was the one Brother that people in Chicagoland and surrounding areas would flock to see He was so popular that if he had started his own church, .people would have followed him. Very dynamic charismatic speaker!

I could listen to you for hours! Your congregation was lucky to have you. I was talking with my husband yesterday and we both concurred that watchtower has driven out its most talented, honest hearted and intelligent people. Thank you, Lady C and Daniel for all you do!

Your storytelling-talent is PHENOMENAL!!!! I am laughing and crying at the same time when I hear you talk. I am sure you was an awesome elder and the clearer it is, why you and your wife left the organization. Best wishes for you both, I can't wait for the next toppic 😊😍❤️💐🙏🔔

Thank you JT. Love the George Gangas experience. I had many in my '85-'88 Brooklyn Bethel time. First Saturday off since I was there, I went shopping on Montaque St. This bent over elderly man with a placard and 2 magazines on it, comes down the busy sidewalk approaching all he can. I take him for a local brother. (Non Bethelite) He spies me and approaches me. I tell him, with a little "new boy" pride: "I'm a Bethelite." He says simply: "Oh, I live there too." I saw him a bit later at lunch and figured out who he was. So humble it floored me. Another time he visited our Midtown Manhattan congregation for the public talk. Going in service he never made it to the territory, as when he walked up busy 14th Street towards the territory, he spoke to everyone he could. I had lots of personal encounters with him. Thanks for sharing yours with us.

Man!! I wish I could get my family to see this.

My best friend is JW, andI am a Muslim reporting to God only. She helped me, when i was very ill, and was honest and trust worthy. I am leaving all I have to her, and donating my body to Medical Science. The name of the game is RESPECT.

Hitting the “Like” before I even watch it, because these are ALWAYS good!

Thanks for the good memories. What I love about Critical Thinking is the objectivity. It's important to know when to walk away, and examine what "truth" is, but after years even decades in any place there are some good memories and wonderful people we met along the way. Thanks for sharing this with us. I smiled and laughed watching this one😊

I agree with you on where it's headed. Even up until 2017 when I attended my last meeting,once a month the presentations for field service were broadcast on the screens. Its being slowly introduced for everything to be coming straight from bethel. Thanks JT 👍

I could listen to you all day JT. Your story telling ability is amazing! Please give us more weird and wonderful stories.

This was great. You were more than fair. It actually made me remember some of the good times I had when I was still a JW. I also had brothers that served as mentors to me as my father died when I was 10. JW’S are mostly good people being misled. I hate the organization but still love the people that help me become the man I am today.

Thanks JT, it's amazing how long this organization has gone with calling their teachings the truth.

I love a good story teller... JT..Your charisma is sooo infectious.

Really enjoying this series JT. Brings back memories.

At around 8 min. I personally thought that why are we not conscerned for our brothers and sisters falling away or even disfellowshipped? We just seemed conscerned about our hours and getting individuals in! Made no sense to me! I really believed we were in a life saving work, and i would spend countless hours at the library( not the UN library) on my own time doing reasearch to collaborate the watchtowers ideas, in order to help save people! I would pioneer by myself and allow others to say a prayer as long as i could say one too before studying! I was so into my faith! But we would just throw our brothers away when they made a watchtower mistake! Why couldn't we just leave it to jehovah this time in judging? Affecting his WHOLE social and family structure in a blink of an eye! To now understand that they are spirit directed and make mistakes! So this is one of the big things waking me up!

You are a MARVELOUS storyteller, JT! Love this series.

JT, man, you're such a great story teller. I could watch you all day! Love these anecdotes about gb members, elders, the behind the scenes stuff that rank and file members would never have known of. Keep it up!

Love it! George Genghis sounded like an interesting guy. Refreshing approach.

Wow that was a classic story JT.Its really crazy how we treated those governing body members like rock stars or God like status.

I bet JT's public talks were great, just by the awesome and entertaining way he brings his message. I'm glad he's now using this talent to make these RU-vid videos, I love hearing these stories.

UNCLE JT!!!! I'M LUVIN IT. YOU HAD ME HOOKED AND LAUGHING ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT. THEN YOU GOT ME WORRIED AT THE END. WHEN I SAW THAT COMMERCIAL, MY BODY WENT COLD; IT GOT ME THINKING. I DO AGREE THAT THIS WILL HAPPEN.

I thought your voice sounded familiar. I listened to those cassettes heavy in the nineties. 95 2001. They kept me spiritually strong. They were my association at my job. Thank you jt. Its too bad they didnt compensate youd have a great pension.

Wow JT your experiences are truly amazing. About 40 years ago I basically was raise by elders. My bible study teacher became like my dad so I would spend a lot of time at his home. And he was hosting a governing body member and I was just a kid but I think he was brother Franz he was very old and frail and short in statue. My bible study teacher told me to stop making noise because brother Franz was preparing a talk but I look in the room and he was watching TV and saw me then started reading again. I had no idea who he was. Wow.

That Governing Body dude sounded like a pretty cool guy.

Awesome J.T. I can see that too about the public talks being broadcasted. They won't have to give the guest speaker a token of love(money) for their travel.

JT and Lady C you are just the best. Your honesty , sincerity and knowledge is clear and admirable

The Broadcast P/Talks are already happening with high frequency in some parts of the world. Thank you JT for your honest and positive presentations.

I appreciate you and your wife, I've been listening to you for several years sense I left the Kingdom Hall. I'm 67 years old started to study when I was about,18 years old. To make this short I stayed in for almost three decades, I was a pioneer when I stopped,so I was not spiritually week as they say. I knew something was not right at that time I went through much hardship and stress because I didn't want me and my kids to die when the end can. You see by 1975 I had 2 children and was already in a few years, than later I ended up with 4 children. I stayed in for until June of 1996. I was reading an article from the Awake, "Are Jehovah's Witnesses an occult?" I not only read it I researched it, and from than on my time taken from Bible study's to researched, so I sent a letter and me and my 4 children left, I didn't draft out I walked out. Thank you guys for the support you-all are sharing, GOD Bless you ♥️.

"She had prepared Cornish hen, you know, lil thiny chicken" I about DIED! oh JT (and Lady Cee) you are the best!! Made my day

Could listen to you all day brother JT

So proud of JT & Lady Cee. Their channel is so educational and entertaining. Everyone please like and subscribe to their channel.

It's a joy, listening to you, JT. Just happilly laughed all the way while listening to Jimmy Bell with EXJW AnaLyZer. I, therefore, come to understand, that it isn't useful to carry on holding all this bitterness. You all reveal so much to me! I ddnt know about the gov bod members. They were treated like movie stars going to the Cannes' Festival. How people treated each other in the congreation? That's a thought! Be blessed both of u

Wow JT, I'm watching your series and I'm watching this one from the UK in the midst of covid. What you said about the future of public talks is basically what we are living now. I doubt very much of it will ever go back to 'normal' - Just WOW!

I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the LORD..

You're damn right the "truth" transformed my life. The truth lead me right out the door of JW-Cult-Org.

JT I can listen to you all day!😀 So funny and entertaining while at the same time very insightful. Keep up the great work brother!

God dame JT! that was bloody amazing. And im sure your right, no more local talks and just TV screens and mind controlled cult followers.

I can relate with the type of public talks you chose. I hated the chronological, profecy and the 2+2=9 talks. It never made sence to me. But the talks about the needs of the congregation as a whole; loved them. Some brothers would give these types of talks in a way that made me tear up.

Quite an entertaining series. I'm looking forward to the next installment....and the next....and the next.

JT I always look forward to your videos.

I love Brother Gangues, I met him on my 1st visit to Bethel. He took the initiative and spoke to me on the elevator.

All the friends in "urban areas" loved J R Brown. He was our hero.

JT What I totally like about your videos. You shoot from the hip. No bitterness. You simply tell it like it was. If the so-called truth were not so sad and destructive, it would have been comical.

Man JT I wosh the video was longer! The way you explain it makes me feel as if I were there! Thanks😄😄😄😄

Love you brother! Keep speaking truth !

Oh my God I forgot about the Watchtower cassette tapes we had a bunch of them they were white. Thanks for memory lane lol

Just short of words....🤗 Your creator will not abandon you. So be it.

JT very informative, I know for me I listen to a lot of talk radio if I don't like the tone of the talk show host voice althought the subject maybe good I will change the station! Also I would want to hear a public talk that interest me personally like singleness "the Benefits of being Single compared to being Married! I live here in the SF Bay Area I see JW's in field service just standing there and this is what I think: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.”​-MATTHEW 24:14. I say to myself I don't hear anyone preaching I just see you standing there! So it was good to hear about the Greek Brother that was able to start a conversation with everyday people!

Love The Uploads JT

Wow! I never thought about that before but I can see it too. With the amount of control the Governing Body wants to have over the brothers plus their now superstar status that they seem to love, I would not be surprised that you are right. All talks prerecorded by the WT.

I’m loving this series JT!

Love your series on life at bethel. Bro JT I really admire your candor. Very good presentation and viewpoint.👍🏾👍🏾

U nailed it with your predictions about the future of talks in the KH. The big screens with the broadcasts- it's happening. 2016 convention was when I saw this & felt the mind control in action. Been going to conventions since birth- & never felt is so strong until 2016. MK Ultra in effect!

Great video JT! Great story. I always liked Gangas.

Thank you for the story relating to George Gangas. Also, thank you for the insight into gigantic screens and G. Orwell

thanks for sharing....once again enjoyed it!

Dragging ourselves to the meetings to watch t.v.s of talks.

All the rules made me almost crazy, now I have terrible anxiety

Ready for part 5 Uncle JT!!

JT ... this was a brilliant PT! I can picture the day when this talk will be given on TV's in the true Kingdom, not in a hall, but in our heavenly Father's world to come. All those who have known and loved Jesus, our Lord and Saviour, will be their to applaud you. ...... love you brother... in Jesus' Precious Name. ... Dave

I love the way you tell your stories... You make them so alive.. Feel like I was there👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Thank you very much JT. I'm becoming a Junkie for this "series"... your insight and experiences are simply compelling

Don’t be surprised if/when you see Jehovah’s Witnesses walking around wearing smurf blue MWGA(Make Watchtower Great Again)hats!

Great information JT agree 100%

All of your uploads are tactfully enlightening. Certainly not a vibe easy to achieve, well done!

Bethelites striking a B-Boy stance in the intro 😂..... Naughty

Deep....no words... Just deep!

They are doing that now at the convention now. You are looking at a screen a brother from bethel is giving the talk wow!!!

They’re doing it already. The talk before the memorial was a canned video. It felt very impersonal. This was the last meeting I attended at our hall. It felt contrived with no real content.

Another perfect video, 👌 bringing out points I have always thought. I truly want both you and lady C coming to dinner at my house in the new system. I have no doubts about that.

Voiceovers is something I would’ve enjoyed doing back then.

As someone who's from Seattle, I enjoy your accent. It's endearing 💕🥰🙂

I was raised as a Jehovah Witness. My mother, grandmother, aunts, cousins, one of my grandmothers' sisters and two of her kids are baptized. I also have a 2nd cousin (with whom I had my weekly Sat morning bible study). I know a lot but didn't know all this. Between Winston(WT Examination), Crisis of Conscience, Jwfacts.com, Daniel and JT with Lady Cee I could never be a witness. I wasn't baptized ever and after 17 I chose "the world". Honestly something besides the usual attraction to so called worldly people and things and the fact that I am recording artist didnt help. My mother was the spiritual head (already an issue) my stepdad wasn't interested although he studied briefly with my Dad's uncle. And my parents have a rough relationship so going to the Hall was constant but not consistent. I did some field service as an unbaptized publisher. I lived with the dark cloud of "the end is tomorrow" in my head and I only knew JW doctrine. I could regurgitate JW speak...catch phrases and cherry picking scriptures when I talked to people who weren't Jehovah Witnesses. All I knew...my mind was afraid to consider anything else and even attending or performing as a Saxophonist at churches used to tear my conscience up. My mother was my voice of consciousness. We are close. But I always questioned " am I hearing God or mom?" My family I'm closest to are the witness side. So I towed the line of the "it's the truth but I ain't ready to commit" vibe. World events would scare me into going to Hall or my family would plead. Until I was about to get married I never took a true stand on my beliefs. I walked away from the inculcation of the WT at 40 years old..im only 44 now. Its hard to be around my family and not want to tell them what I know. It's a shame that I don't get any consideration when things come up...the witness automatically thinking they know more. And won't listen.

Part 5 JT please!!!! Keep it coming!!

Also..more story times please...you and Lady Cee...we need a Lifetime network show or OWN with Oprah....

Great video enjoyed it very much.

Gave you a thumbs up even before listening to the video.

Lmaooo great video! Appreciate the effort y’all put into this.

Great story telling, really enjoying these.

Oh, Lord! The Brother Gangas story has me screaming, lol! "We're gonna have to fight today!" I lived off of 125th, and then moved to 177th and Grand Concourse. I cannot imagine how crazy this must have been back in the day, 😂

...thanks for sharing your experiences inside the secrecy of the Watchtower Org....a very rare glimpse for those of us on the outside...🏢👀

As soon as you mentioned the 2 tv screens, I immediately thought of, "1984". Great series JT.

Really interesting and honest series about your time in Bethel. I really enjoyed it

Public speaking skills are those qualities that door to door magazine salespeople need to master to be successful. Judge Joe Rutherford helped put himself through law school by selling magazines door to door...

You finished up really strong...that is the future of the public talks (PTs)...Witnesses staring blankly into a television screen The 'preaching work' has evolved into people standing around a magazine stand and when they do interact, showing people videos on cellphones and iPads. That's what happens when you get rid of the Theocratic School, right? I left in 1987 WHILE I was still a 90 hour/month pioneer, you know, before the GB were egotistical Televangelists and we went door-2-door TALKING WITH PEOPLE. The religion is almost unrecognizable now.

Thank you for putting together your videos. I was born and raised as a JW and had a couple of friends that went to Bethel. It was my goal as well. However I "left the truth" in 1984 but I still somewhat believed the teachings for the next 25 to 30 years. Being on the outside for so long, it is amazing the difference in what is taught now as compared to then (e.g. overlapping generations). I enjoyed listening to your experiences because it allowed me to reminisce on the good or enjoyable experiences of growing up a witness. My wife and friends have no idea of what it was like.

Really enjoyed these videos. You sound like a very decent man JT.

Great video. Thank you.