Jeff Schoep

And, you know, I look back now and I try not to blame anybody else because these are my choices, my poor choices.

So I take responsibility for that.

But at 19 years old, that changed my trajectory.

I felt like my whole world just collapsed at that point.

Did you think like, wow, all these people are mad at me, maybe I'm wrong?

No, you know, you would think with this kind of stuff going on in your life, you know, you would reflect on that.

But I doubled down.

And that's pretty common in that world when someone is faced with that kind of pressure is they double down, they become more entrenched.

So it's like every lash of the proverbial whip, anybody that tried to stop me from being involved in it or tried to dissuade me, it just made me more dedicated to it and more intense in that belief system.

So I'm thinking I'm going to ruin my band's career now.

So I quit the band.

I shaved my head.

And then I put all that energy that I had put into music into the movement.

I felt like I had no choice.

What that did, that doxing, it affected my mother's career.

So, I mean, this was a – hate has consequences.

And hate was like a downward spiral for –

And this is very common for anybody that's involved in it.

It separates you from your family, from those you love.

It isolates you.