Comedy Pianist Foundring | Know More News w/ Adam Green
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You always know when you get close to the vipress then, cause you can hear them scheming.
Don't even jest, or the hornet's nest will descend upon you with a shotgun.
They budge the scores, they fund the wars.
It's how they knew in Waterloo was the loser.
It's protocol to hoax it all.
Like each pathogenic menace they design.
Don't believe these lying eyes.
There's no conspiracy comprised of lies and history's alibis.
This timeline isn't right.
Oi faint, shut it down of the goyam, no too much.
We rule the land with mighty hands and have the mighty touch.
Call meet Masugana for noticing the trend.
There's certain things you cannot say, so sing them all instead.
Hey, hey, uh, go post online that being a Caucasian is fine, prepared to be laid alive completely.
It's only a fad when every single ad depicts diversity in every poem.
It's transitory, funny story.
Inflation just sustains the vicious vibe.
And old Jekyll knew where they hide all their jewels.
But they can't hide pride when it's a little on the nose.
Who owns all this porn?
It's kind of a warning.
When the product's free, there's something else they're taking.
And these clowns in Hollywood drink their healthy jelly juice.
And the music industry's a masquerade.
Don't believe these lying eyes.
There's no conspiracy comprised of lies and history's alibis.
This timeline isn't right.
Oi, fate, shut it down of the Goyam, no too much.
We rule the land with mighty hands and have the mighty's touch.
Call meet my sugar for noticing a trend.
There's certain things you cannot say, so sing them all instead.
And oh, hey, shut it down on your show, and now we're luck.
We are the techno-Pharisees, you're just a bunch of schmucks.
It's hard not to convet when sizing up our lot.
That expenses that just relax here, have a muzzle top.
*music*
You always play when you get close to the vipers.
You can no matter what they say, they're fake and jealousy.
Dinosaurs were made of able aid aging hundreds.
It's a fabrication.
They say nats as flying space stations.
Stay safe, keep playing along, or get trampled by the bomb.
Science is going woke like a load of soy balloon.
Einstein is a joke, see you're knocking off me.
But he's a mystery.
They added hundreds of years to history.
Boy, babe, they try to play God.
Don't you think that it's odd?
It's fake and gay.
Fake and baby.
There ain't no way, ain't no way.
It's fake and gay.
I gotta say, you've gotta say it's fake and gay.
The virus causes your cough.
It's a fraud like vaccination.
I eat Santa Claus.
He's a shrewd hallucination.
It's manipulation.
Six million never were lost to cremation.
Watch out.
Don't sing along just as our shit bonds.
Truth don't hide behind the law.
A carbon climate change on during the.
Okay, we'll stop it there with our great, amazing guest today.
Appreciate everybody for joining us.
It is Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024.
I am Adam Green.
This is No More News, and we have an amazing guest joining us today.
He is a very talented, creative musician and comedian.
He is the foundering.
He's had a lot of censorship.
He's gotten fired from his job recently for his satire, piano, conspiracy theory videos.
And I've been seeing his videos for a while.
You guys probably have too.
He's had a lot of viral ones.
I've wanted to talk to him for a while, and I'm glad to finally get him on here.
Everybody, welcome.
Foundring, what's up, buddy?
How you doing?
Hey, man.
I'm doing great.
Thanks so much for having me on.
It's a privilege to be here.
Cool.
Yeah, dude.
Actually, first, I got to apologize for coming in here with a subpar beard.
I saw you had Owen Schroyer in the other day, and you guys were basically like two Greek gods with your beard, beard off, beard explosion going on here.
I'm like, just kid stuff going on now.
Yeah, you should join the Beard Bro Club, and you could be invited to the Mead Hall in Valhalla for sure.
I think I'm destined for great things, and that's the one right there.
Yeah, well, how long have you been making these videos online?
Because you're already having quite a bit of success.
People are resonating with your videos.
More and more, they're going viral.
How long have you been in this game?
In the game.
Yeah, man.
Well, it feels like it's a long time coming.
I know when you take the other path, like I dropped out of college 20 years ago, and I started just trying to make it as a musician.
I started putting videos on YouTube in 2006.
So really, really early on.
Were they the same like conspiracy-themed videos or songs?
So I'm a ragtime guy.
I don't know if you know what that is.
Yeah, like the style of music.
Yeah, yeah.
So like popular around 1900.
People know like the entertainer from the movie The Sting and stuff like that.
But it sort of informed a whole, it was the counterculture music at the time.
It was actually the style of music that brought all the different cultures and races together, that a melting pot in America, that we had this brief moment of like we were innovating and actually being cool for a second.
Ragtime was there.
It's all about the syncopation, sort of, you know, on the offbeats of the music.
But anyway, so it's a good vehicle for satire with catchy melodies, and you can sort of sneak in subversive stuff in there, right?
And while meanwhile, people are snapping their fingers and stuff.
And then, so I started early on.
I played Mario and all that stuff growing up.
There's a lot of that ragtime music in video games.
It's just, it's inundated with it, which I love because it's keeping this stuff alive.
And so I was playing Mario music when I was 9, 10.
I was like, this is just the best.
Like on the piano, like, that's the Mario.
That's exactly it.
These are all, that's all straight 100% ragtime, right?
Koji Kondo, I think the guy who wrote all those tunes, he drew from Scott Joplin, all those, you know, the ragtime giants from 100 years ago.
And so I was like, this is the next thing.
This is it.
This is what I want to do.
I'm like, I was, I was trained classically, kind of a, I wouldn't say like prodigy, but I was above all of my peers, right?
But I wasn't being, I wasn't meeting the challenges that they were wanting from me.
I was kind of wanting to do my thing, and there wasn't space for that where I, at least where I live, I was, you know, rejected basically for doing that.
And then YouTube, early days, I was like, hey, I can put this content out there, and people seemed to really dig it.
So my first videos were just jazz, ragtime, Mario music.
But at the same time, I was, I had left school.
I was starting to listen to folks like Alex Jones, who we can talk about.
You know, just you have an old Owen Schroyer in here.
And I started questioning that stuff.
And then I was being around that whole Iraq war, Afghanistan, growing up in that world was just very eye-opening for me.
My neighbor, who I was named after, he served in Iraq and was killed in 2004.
So that was a big, like, this is real.
This is happening.
I grew up thinking that the Vietnam War and all that nonsense was crazy.
And here we're all repeating history.
So I started writing anti-war songs in around 2006, 2007, and throwing those up on YouTube.
And I noticed a sharp difference.
And this is before, I mean, maybe Google had just bought it or what the content, the Mario and the ragtime, was taken off.
But the moment that I started posting those songs about the bankers, and it was subtle stuff.
Like, I wasn't going full out until maybe around 2020.
It was the big beginning of your rabbit hole stage.
It was.
And it was like, it was kind of testing the waters.
And what was kind of convenient for me was I already had sort of started to establish myself as a mainstream musician, just playing this generic stuff that anybody can listen to and enjoy.
And then I'm started starting to put in these red pill things, content.
And I think I got put on some digital blacklist at that point.
And I was struggling through that for 10 years, basically.
So there's the story in a nutshell.
And you got banned.
I don't see your YouTube link here.
Well, so I'm getting ahead of myself if you want the whole thing.
So I started playing at ragtime festivals because I realized that this foundering persona was something that I invented for these songs, if that makes sense.
And I was still performing jazz ragtime pianists using my real name and everything.
So I was kind of, I didn't even want that foundering persona to be, like, to dox myself, essentially.
But, you know, it's the internet.
You can't keep that kind of thing, whatever.
So I started playing at ragtime music festivals.
And then I got picked up by a band called Postmodern Jukebox, which is a very well-known sort of pop jazz band that does cover songs, right?
The style of piano that I play is very specialized.
This ragtime rhythm of the jumping of the hands to sort of get these syncopated rhythms.
And there are almost no pianists today that do it.
You know, it's mostly just classical, mostly just jazz.
And this ragtime is this archaic, forgotten art a little bit.
And so bands like Postmart Jukebox are like, oh, yeah, this guy, this guy's great.
So I toured around the world.
I went around and I saw like, I went everywhere, Russia, Australia, Prague, and, you know, just all over Singapore, right?
And it was kind of what I was meant to do, right?
Came back to town, so raising a kid, realized that that wasn't kind of the life that I wanted.
And then COVID hits, and I lose all my jobs, everything.
And then I get fired, and we can talk about this.
And just so we're clear, I've been fired for a bunch of stuff, and it's all my online content.
But the church that I was fired for was actually in 2021.
I was just fired like last week from a different whole thing, which we can get into if you want.
But COVID hits, I'm in California, the worst of the worst, vaccine mandates everywhere.
I get fired from my church for 15 years.
I'm a church organist, salary church organist, for not getting the vaccine.
And I just started to screw this.
And that next week, literally after I got fired from the church, I wrote Ove.
That was your first.
Was that your first big one?
It was.
So just to get the timeline, I had written a song called You Will Never Be a Woman.
Yeah.
Okay.
And that actually, so this was when I was still on YouTube.
Incredible to think.
So You Will Never Be a Woman.
Yeah, that's the newer version that I made for Twitter.
So that was written at the height of the Dave Chappelle trans Netflix cancel song.
I don't know if you remember they were trying to get his Netflix, it was some just nonsense.
And I'm like, sitting there, if they're coming for like the biggest comedian in the world, I'm going to have to throw my hat.
In other words, this satire stuff that I do, people love to throw these words like anti-Semitic, transphobe, anti-vaxxer.
I feel like the role of the satires is just to push back on whatever is they're going too hard on, right?
So we just sort of shine that mirror right back at their clown world lunacy.
And they were pushing so hard on the trans thing.
I'm like, I just got to write a song about this.
So I wrote You Will Never Be a Woman.
My church called me in the church and said that I was transphobic and I needed to apologize publicly on my YouTube channel for being a transphobe for writing this song, which had nothing to do with, you know, I was great at my job, right?
So I'm in there in this struggle session situation.
And I'm like, I didn't get a chance to respond because the vaccine mandate came down like in two days after that.
And then they fired me for that.
So it was like, kind of like, we're cutting you off.
And so 4chan got their hands on you will never be a woman somehow.
And all of a sudden, I had like, I had a dead YouTube channel.
We can talk about because in 2014, I was singing about Israel doing 9-11, right?
Like, I've been doing that for like 10 years.
Granted, under the guise of like, hey, this is satire.
I'm slipping in with a bunch of other crazy stuff.
Dinosaurs don't exist.
Things like that.
I saw people in chat were like, oh, flat earth or yada yada yada.
The way that you can survive as a satirist is to sneak in these red pills along with the absurd.
So like that 2014 song I put on YouTube that said six million is a big lie and Jews did 9-11, things like that.
I would slide that in with Keanu Reeves is the king of the vampires or immortal vampire god, right?
So I have this plausible deniability.
And then people start to question like, what does the satirist believe?
Like that's, I mean, that's not the point.
It doesn't matter what I believe.
I'm trying to just make everybody question everything.
That was going to be my first question.
And I'm sure it's a question you get all the time.
And everybody asks, and they want to know, do you believe all of the lyrics in your songs?
Right.
And that's what I'm right.
This is a bad, maybe this is a cop-out, but foundring believes it.
But me, like, I am not that character that I've created, if that makes sense.
And I know that's a cop-out, but I don't want to like it.
I like it.
Analyzing every single lyric.
So before we get sort of into that, I just want to finish the Oy Vey thing.
Right.
So, because that was, I sacrificed my career in that one moment.
And I knew that I was.
Right.
So here I am.
I have a dead YouTube channel.
4chan gets their hands on you will never be a woman.
All of a sudden, I sign into YouTube and I have thousands of comments.
And this is like, I get a comment a week, you know, it's blowing up.
And I'm getting 100,000 views that YouTube is even admitting to because they've been censoring my videos, the actual view count, for a long time.
And for the first time, I was like, there's people that are starved for this content out there.
And this sort of weird kind of, you know, look at me.
I'm a musical theater trained musician.
I'm not this right-wing stereotype, right?
So I can be effective by kind of getting in there and reaching these people.
So You Will Never Be Woman goes viral.
And then all I'm seeing in the comments or a lot of them is, oh, this guy's a Jew.
Oh, look at this guy's nose.
He's a Jew.
Oh, Jew.
And you, I've never seen that before.
Yeah.
You, you get it too, right?
It's like Juju Ju.
And it's just, it's so tiresome.
It's so annoying.
Like, and the same thing, I, when I had a video on the trans stuff go viral on Twitter last year, everyone was calling me gay.
Faggot, faggot, faggot, faggot.
So I basically wrote a song called Gay O, which is, I think, one of my best that's just throws that right back at them, right?
It's like, I love it.
Just like do that more and more.
So juju juju ju.
And I'm like, okay, my next song is going to be on this issue.
So, and I knew as someone who's been on internet for a long time, when you have a viral moment, if you sort of disappear, your moment is gone.
So I had this moment with You Will Never Be a Woman, and all this attention was on me.
I'm like, I need to go big or go home.
And it just so happened that it was in the midst of clown world everywhere around me.
I'm like, I'm never going to get a job locally ever again because of this crazy vaxxers.
And I just got fired from my church.
I'm like, screw all this.
So I wrote O Ve, shut it down, like just a few weeks after You'll Never Be a Woman.
And that was the moment that exploded.
And I'm still, there's big three.
I'm still getting fired from that one.
The big three are You Will Never Be a Woman, Oybe Shut It Down, and my song about Fauci called MRNA Speed of Science, which I believe was the real reason YouTube banned my channel.
Oybe Shut It Down had been removed for hate speech on YouTube, which is hilarious.
I've never had a song removed for hate speech before.
But my song of Speed of Science, making fun of Fauci, was getting hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.
And they killed my channel in January of last year is finally.
So after 16 years, YouTube killed me.
So there's the foundering birth and death.
How many subs did you get up to when they finally banned you?
So I was at around 20,000, which is not that much.
But you have to keep in mind that it was one of those situations where for a decade at least, I had people just constantly commenting and saying, hey, I'm unsubbed from you on YouTube, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So I don't really believe any of those numbers.
My song that I did parodying a weird owl song called Foil back in 2014, that had hundreds of thousands of views, but YouTube froze the view count at like two or three thousand for like 10 years.
So I just didn't believe any of those numbers.
We know how they mess with the throttling and the suppression for sure.
And not allowing you to go in the algorithm like anything else would.
Yep.
I wasn't monetized on YouTube.
I never was.
But it was my livelihood in that.
It was my way that I had, it was my only way that I reached my fans, right?
I didn't wasn't able to establish myself anywhere else over the years.
So I never made it on Instagram, on any of these other sites.
It was just YouTube.
And as I see, you know, you got Odyssey up there.
I'm really grateful.
I was able to back up all of my YouTube videos onto Odyssey.
You know, I'm worried about Odyssey's future, but I have, it's all up there.
It's the only place online where it has my YouTube videos going back to 2006.
So I see it as I like the, I like the strategy of, you know, basically you're making songs and getting lyrics from any type of conspiracy online.
And obviously, some of it you don't actually believe.
But I mean, I got to say, these lyrics must take a long time.
They're so like intelligent and it's not just like, you know, fluff anywhere.
How long does it take you to write an average song like this?
The melody and the lyrics and tell it, take us through your process of writing.
Yeah, man.
Hey, I really appreciate your questions.
And sorry if I'm rambling so much, but it's just nice to be able to talk about it.
No, you're fine.
I mean, I'm in this area where the people all around me kind of think I'm crazy, right?
And I mean, I kind of am, especially compared to all of them.
So I don't even get, I don't have any live gigs, really.
I don't get to perform any of this.
I don't get to play just my ragtime stuff anymore.
So it's just this weird disconnect between this online world.
And I love the support and all the nice things that people are saying.
They see it.
But in my real life, it doesn't quite connect.
So yeah, it's the same issue that I feel like, just to answer your question about the process.
I've been writing songs for 30 years.
And I had to write like a thousand really, really crappy songs first, if that makes sense.
So like when I sat down and I wrote Oy Vey Shut It Down, I wrote it in 10 minutes, front to end, the full long version.
It just erupted, right?
In those moments, it can just, it forms itself.
But it's hard to explain that that is the 30 years that gets to that point of words are spells.
Lyrics and songs, doubly so.
You following?
Like there's something about words and the way that they are.
English is a crafted occult language itself, going back to Shakespeare, right?
But when you combine it with songs, I know people are always like, oh, you know, satanic subliminal messages and metal music or whatever.
It's not as simple as that in that it's there is something very highly suggestive and hypnotic if you can do something to convey uncomfortable truths that might conflict with one's predetermined cognitive biases.
If you slide it in with that catchy harmony, like my Fauci song, I was like, did that jab ever work?
No, no, it never did work, right?
This thing where people that were supporting maybe all the vaccine stuff, all of a sudden they're like, well, actually, maybe, you know, this is actually kind of a funny thing, song, a way to funny way to think about it.
And it's highly effective, right?
So this process that I've developed, like, I'm also really big on words.
The way that the words sound and the way that the lyrics go together is it's like, it's like a magic art.
It's something so fun and amazing.
And I'm really grateful that I've, I kind of gave up on songwriting kind of like a while ago.
And then I didn't really pursue it for a little while.
And then all this interest in sort of this style has been inspiring me.
And I'm like, oh, actually, I do really want to hone this craft.
So yeah, a lot of it is this finding of the way to convey a message is one thing, but then putting it in those pithy phrases, like my song I did for Schmooley recently, I was like, what was it?
Dreidel dildo's tunnel digging with a dildo in my bum.
Like these combination of words, if you get them just right, it's just, it clicks, right?
Like when you're writing a song, I'll like throw some words out there.
And the words are the hardest part.
The music comes to me, no problem.
It's the words that are truly the tricky thing, right?
Great songwriting.
They're able to say something so simple and fundamental, but they do it in a unique way.
Do you start with the words, like the chorus or the very beginning of the song, and then create the melody and the piano for it?
I think it just depends on the song, right?
So part of what I do is satire songs that copy, like parody songs, I should say, parody songs that copy other melodies.
So in that case, I'm already starting out with a bass theme.
For example, Fake and Gay.
That took the theme for an old TV show, comedy, sitcom, called The Odd Couple for the verse part.
And I started with that as the bass, but it doesn't have a chorus.
So the chorus that you like and you said was catchy, that's one that I wrote.
So I added the chorus on top of that.
And then I was able to fit the words in that.
So usually I will start out with the musical idea.
You had that song Fake and Gay stuck in my head all night last night as I was preparing for this.
And there's something to be said about these earworms and figuring out how to cut through the noise because man, it was bad before, but with social media today, the noise is incessant, right?
It is just impossible.
And as someone like me who's just trying to break through, it's like it's so hard to write a song.
And in this day and age, it's old news in 24 hours.
That's exhausting, right?
I know that a lot of, it's hard, you know, as a content creator to keep up with everything, but when you're when you're talking about like artistic things like that, like in as an artist, you put pressure on yourself, right?
Every time you don't want to do worse, right?
You want to try to improve every time.
So it's tough to do that and to keep kind of your sanity.
So there's a lot of times when I'm like, oh, oh, I'm so dramatic.
I'm giving up songwriting.
And then something crazy happens.
I'm like, I got to write a song about this.
Like I was kind of chilling about for the last month or so just because I got fired and all this stuff was crazy with my last job.
It was nuts.
And then the Schmoolie thing happened and the Candace Owens thing.
And I'm like, I got to write.
I just, these songs just write themselves at this point.
So like that, that Schmoo, the one I wrote for Schmooley, I wrote that in five minutes.
Wow.
And I was like, oh, this is it.
How about we play a little bit of it for people to see since we just mentioned it and I have it up.
Sure.
If I were Rabbi Schmooley and I'd do all day long I did a little bums.
If I were a Schmoolie man, I'd peddle on my dill toes.
Dreidel dido selling dildos with my daughter and her mum.
If I were a Jewish Schoolie man, I'd be digging with a dildo in my bum.
I'd wear a grotesque nose and go grab some boy thumbnail with a bench.
A shaba slap dance breasts for the youngest men.
The book sight sell would tell how all you fellas are jealous of Jewish since you will appeal.
Meanwhile, I'd count the shekels that I'd steal.
It's white supremacy when you are questioning me on the US liberty.
Genocide's just fine when you're the chosen kind.
I get a pass on calling Candace and I'm a big filter fish to fry.
I know why Michael Jackson had to die.
Why if I were my schmooley?
All day long I'd shallom in your homemade by Wima Schmooley man.
I'd go full kosher comma sutra and draggle dildo tunnel digging with a dildo in my bone.
That's the line.
Lord who made the Gentile and the Jew.
Of course he'd make me superior to you.
Gleefully I'd be squealing on our scheme to remove Christ, the king from everything.
If I were a schmooley man 173, 74,000 views in about three days, yeah.
Dude, I don't think you realize how permanently unhirable that makes me.
No, I know.
Of all people, I pretty much get it.
I mean, I guess I know you realize of all people, but it may that makes me permanently unhirable, apparently.
Yeah, I thought that I was going to be okay, but no.
Well, I think you're already pretty much unhirable.
I mean, that's been proven getting fired from the church you worked at for 15 years.
But I got to say, you're totally right about how the comedy and the music and the melodies help people lower their guard and be less resistant to hearing these types of ideas.
And the unique expression, not just the lyrics and the piano skills.
You're just banging away, not even looking and doing all these voices and expressions.
It's so unique.
Nobody else is doing anything like this in the sector, in the sphere.
Right, which is kind of like, oh, I found this, almost looked around, was like, no one else is doing it.
I might as well sort of step in here.
There are folks, I don't know if you know Tom Lehrer from the previous generation.
He's a satirist.
He was a professor at Harvard and kind of did the straight-edge thing for a little while.
And then he got really disillusioned with the hippie counterculture movement and thought it was a bunch of crap and sort of stopped writing satire songs in the 70s.
But he has, I mean, he was Jewish, but he had songs where he was like, everyone hates the Jews, right?
Like, so he was very aware of how satire can be used to make these sensitive subjects, as you were saying.
Like, with that Schmoolie song, I had people, I saw Jewish people commenting and saying, you know what?
This is Schmooley is deserving.
You got him.
They're saying you got him.
You're right.
They're like, this is ridiculous.
Like, this type of thing is going to happen if you people like Schmoolie keep acting like the stereotype, right?
And with the song You Will Never Be a Woman, I wasn't like, don't be trans, that's evil.
I was more like, look, you can do what you're going to do, but stop messing with kids.
I was just trying to be a moderate here.
And I was getting comments on YouTube from, I don't know if they were real or not, but they were saying, hey, you made, I used to think I was maybe going to be trans.
And your song was one of the things that made me realize that maybe that's, I was getting social pressure.
So these, when I, when I read stuff like that, I'm like, wow, there is a real world effect now on what I do.
I have to maybe be a little more careful.
But at the same time, I have to push back when I see something's going wrong, right?
And the COVID thing was a big tipping point.
I mean, I'd been a conspiracy theorist in Reddit forums back in like 2006, right?
I've been doing all that research.
That's one of my next questions I want to hear.
Can you explain like your conspiracy rabbit hole red pill origin story?
Well, yeah, you kind of did already, but I haven't really, but like what about.
You mentioned Alex Jones, you mentioned Iraq War stuff.
That's what I meant.
I mean, I don't know as much about your 2008, 2009 with Federal Reserve documentary, like Monsanto, and then Alex Jones stuff.
And then onto the Zionist and like religion.
Were you like into the Ron Paul stuff or anything?
Not really, no.
Not really.
Yeah.
Not super into it.
Like, I thought he was better than the rest of the politicians at the time.
Right.
No, it sounds similar to my trajectory.
Like 2006 or 7, my brother says, hey, you know, you should check out some of these forums.
He was a computer savant type person.
Chat says Zeitgeist.
Yeah, that was another one.
That's right.
Zeitgeist, esoteric agenda.
All those sort of, they started putting me down all those rabbit holes, you know.
But I, yeah, so I started commenting, particularly on Reddit.
Surprisingly, it was not completely taken over back then.
But what's interesting is I started butting heads a lot with some rather colorful characters.
You know about Gee Lane Maxwell.
Yeah, she'd be in the top Redditor.
You knew her or something?
Yes.
She censored you?
Well, we butted heads, let's just say.
Wow.
So let me, okay, let me back up and say that in those early days when I, so I'm a data person.
This is a different subject, but I'm actually a Scrabble professional Scrabble player.
Wow.
Yeah.
So I, for this is a hobby.
You're like a genius, basically.
You're pretty much, you got genius.
But no, but it's.
Scrabble expert and a piano prodigy.
You've got a brain on it.
I've had 30 years of time, though, doing this stuff.
It's not like I can just, I can't pick up a new language.
I can't do certain things, right?
But when I put my mind to something, I really kind of go like autistically crazy.
You know what I mean?
Just I feel you.
Me too.
Me too.
Yeah, yeah.
So that's where that's where we're at, right?
So with the words thing, it was just this thing on the side, and it helped me a lot with my lyrics.
So I have the Scrabble dictionary memorized for all words, eight letters, and under, which is, there aren't very many people that can say that.
And so, And I'm also one of the fastest anagram solvers.
So, what this means is that I'm able to take in a lot of data and then sort of sift between what is the real, like, what is the right word?
What is the right spelling of a word?
I can look at it and kind of right away and be like, oh, yeah, that looks right versus, you know, of made up bullshit, fake and gay, right?
So, in those early days, as the internet, and this was just the wild west of the internet, it's very hard to tell the Gen Zers and those other who missed this opportunity that a lot of us had, that it was before everything went to shit.
It doesn't mean things were perfect, but it was, it allowed someone with an open mind and a little extra time, dropping out of college or whatever, to take in a lot of this information.
And so, I did.
And I didn't believe all of it.
Like, they have this view of, they created this view of conspiracy theorists is just everything is game, right?
You know, no, I was just, I was just trying to sort it all, make sense of it all and categorize it.
And so, on Reddit, I would post stuff, particularly to the R conspiracy subreddit, right?
This is, and actually, before that was even a subreddit, I was posting on the main subs.
But when that showed up, I started posting there and sharing every single conspiracy theorist that I would theory that I would come across, right?
From just all sorts of stuff.
And almost just like throwing it out there to see what would stick.
And what I soon learned was one of the best and most accurate ways to judge whether or not a particular theory has merit is the response to you posting that in a forum, right?
So that's why these early forms like Reddit were great for this discussion and stuff.
Excuse me.
You could share something and you could see what people thought about it, right?
And so I would post about moon landing conspiracies and yada and this and this.
And generally, it was just like, yeah, interesting, interesting, interesting.
What then I realized, I think when you mentioned Monsanto, it brought it all back.
Monsanto elicited a shill response.
And this was before I even kind of knew what shills were, right?
So I post about Monsanto, and I would be swarmed with the same usual suspects.
And I was good with checking their usernames and sort of seeing who was saying what and who was mad at what.
So if you question Roundup and Monsanto, you would be attacked.
And this was around 2007, 2008 on Reddit.
The other one was vaccines.
I had no idea.
I grew up with my dad's a doctor.
I'm like, vaccines, yeah, we were all vaccinated.
And this is a different conversation.
I think I was vaccine injured and I lost my eyesight after I have really bad vision after a vaccine injury when I was around 10.
But that's a separate thing.
So I was like, vaccines are fine.
And then I heard Alex Jones saying, they're poisoning the vaccines.
I'm like, what?
Like, that can't be right.
Like, what is that?
And then I started posting about them.
And the same suspects who were furious at question Monsanto were furious about vaccines.
And there was a third subject, Israel.
Okay.
So the very early permutation on Reddit, there was of this faction was in a subreddit called our Conspirator.
Right.
And this was before the left and those guys, they said, oh, you can't say tard and retard and stuff.
So you're allowed to still say that.
So at our Conspiratard, they had a picture of Rachel Corey and then pancakes, right?
Because she was like flattened under a pancake, right?
It's like, ha ha ha ha ha, right?
But what this was was the JIDL, right?
Jewish Internet Defense League.
Do I have that right?
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
J-I-D-F, I think it is.
Thank God, you were right.
I think that's right.
Yes, it's so many acts.
I say I know all these words and everything, but I can't even remember that.
But it was one of those things, right?
And one of them was Maxwell Hill, which is now we strongly suspect was the account for Gee Lane Maxwell.
So what Reddit really was was like a Mazad honeypot.
Mazad gatekeeping operation, too.
Yes.
Yes, 100%.
And there was an overlap between the admins, the administrators, the employees, the ones who are running Reddit, and these sort of hitmen, these lower accounts that were moderators, which are unpaid volunteers to basically do their dirty work.
So through my posting, I was able to see that the main most important topics that I should be really looking into was the Israel Jew stuff, vaccine stuff, and this Monsanto stuff.
And then Monsanto died.
I mean, it went away.
And then they regrouped, and then it became more about vaccines and that stuff.
And I, even though I was singing about that stuff, I sort of stepped back a little bit from the Israel stuff because I became a father.
And then I went full into researching the vaccine stuff.
And I was stunned at what I found.
And 12 years ago, my daughter was born.
And I fought one of the hardest battles of my life to get her born and not taken away from me in California for not getting her any vaccines.
And now she's permanently banned from all public and private schools permanently in the state.
So that's where I was.
And then now I'm sort of returning to writing all the songs about it.
So that early time at Reddit was very formative.
I made a documentary about my experiences at Reddit.
It's a three-hour documentary, but it's called Reddit COVID Conspiracies and Coups.
And it's on all of those platforms because a lot of us got banned on Reddit after Jan 6 and for the COVID stuff.
But the Jan 6 stuff was used as a weapon to get rid of a lot of us.
And I was one of the people that fell then.
And that is me too.
That's when my YouTube channel was banned was like right before the election.
So that was like, you know, when COVID had started.
And what was the reason given for your ban?
They didn't, hate speech or something.
I don't remember.
They didn't really give an answer.
Yeah, yeah, I hate speech.
Before my ban, they removed Oeve for hate speech, but then they removed the song I wrote called The Pandemic Dance in 2020 for medical misinformation.
I appealed both of them and they restored pandemic dance, but they kept Oyve shut down.
And the reason they gave for my banning a year later was hate speech.
But they didn't say specifically which video.
I'm assuming it's Oyve, shut it down.
I wonder if some people could watch you and you almost perform in a way where it could be you making fun of all the conspiracies online.
But see, that's the point, right?
So the people that are very much not in line with any of this ideology.
Normies, sheeples.
Normies, thank you.
That's a better word for it.
They are put into a state of confusion and cognitive dissonance when they come across my stuff.
And I'm not the only person that does.
There's lots of satirists out there that do this kind of thing effectively.
But the music is a trickier thing because you need to have the training and the experience to be able to pull something like what I do off effectively, right?
Which is why I'm can be kind of dangerous.
I'm not to give myself too much credit, but like I can be effective because I have the 30 years of being able to, hey, I can play piano and not look at it.
That's something that is a lifetime to get to that point, right?
But then I don't have to worry about the technicality of that and I can get straight to the message, you know, cut the extra, the extra stuff, right?
So, yeah, I guess there is something to be said about that.
But the whole big tech censorship juggernaut, I mean, I was ready to give up writing songs.
The more that they do this, it's just more we're just going to keep pushing back.
It's almost as if they are like, I don't want to be like, oh, the white hats are helping out.
But if they had just let me exist in obscurity on a shadow banned YouTube channel, I probably would have just given up.
But then YouTube bans me and I'm like, I'm going to go harder now.
And again on Twitter.
And, you know, Twitter banned me for almost half the year last year, too.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
You're back up to 22,000 followers now.
So I was at 20 followers a year ago.
Wow.
I was at like 30 followers.
I was never on Twitter.
And the moment I got banned on YouTube, I put You Will Never Be a Woman and Speed of Science, the Fauci song, up just a test to see is this going to, am I going to get banned?
I was afraid to put Oyve Shut It Down.
I didn't want to do that one yet.
But I put those up and they started blowing up on Twitter.
I'm like, okay, this is the next thing.
I wrote a song called The Transurrection.
And then I got mass reported and all these doxing and threats.
Like they were posting my address.
Twitter was allowing, I was like saying, hey, I'm reporting this crap.
And Twitter said, oh, it's not a violation.
So they were letting people post my address and send me violent threats and they weren't doing anything about it.
And this is under Elon Musk's Twitter, right?
And then on Father's Day of last year, they straight up just banned me.
Didn't say why.
And, you know, I was being mass reported by the trans brigade at the time.
Ironically, you would think Oybé Shut It Down would have gotten me most in trouble.
It's the You Will Never Be a Woman song and the trans thing.
These people will, they will come for you, like in a big way.
The Jews can accept a jingle a little more than the trans people can, apparently.
It must be.
It must be.
They're so sensitive and fragile that if you question their pronouns, they'll kill themselves.
But there's nothing crazy about them.
They're mad that looking at me that I'm not on their team, right?
They think that this sort of effeminate musical theater person, they're like, how dare you do that?
With the Jew thing, it's like, I got a big nose.
No, you know.
A lot of the songs that I do are Jewish songs, right?
So like my song, Jews in the Walls from a few months ago, that is from a very famous song called Send in the Clowns, written by a Jew, right?
The Fiddler on the Roof, Jewish composer.
So I'm taking their culture.
And it's not like I'm being irreverent.
I mean, I guess I am kind of being irreverent, but I am showing my appreciation for what they've done.
Like even with, as much as I hate the culture and the music of most black people today, the shit that you were doing 100 years ago was some of the most bass badass shit imaginable.
Like on the piano, like those guys are my idols from like 120 years ago.
I don't know what happened.
They could get down.
They could get down.
They can still, I mean, it's still pretty, but mainstream, like back in the day, it was mainstream to be a badass and amazing musician and like just like calling out the man and stuff.
And there's something happened along the way that that got co-opted.
So it's up to folks like me, I guess, in the musical, like I was fine to just do whatever, but like I guess, you know.
So I got a question.
Say you have a couple more viral videos.
You got 100,000 followers.
Are you going to is the goal to like have a concert someday where all of your internet followers come?
Can you do like a whole set of all your songs?
Easy.
Easy.
Like when I when I record these songs, I live and breathe them for about like a day or two.
And then like I'm making sure that it is, it is very some of these videos take thousands of takes.
I was going to ask that too.
How many takes does it do you do?
Two takes.
It just depends on the mindset that I'm in or how difficult it is, how long the song is, because I always want to do it in one take.
And I'm not even going for like the nicest, you know, people are always messaging and saying, you need better quality, blah, blah, blah.
I'm just trying to show that you can write a song and just be a dude and sing it.
And then that's all it takes.
You got all the lyrics in your head, too.
You're not like, you don't have a teleprompter you're looking at.
I have to memorize every song.
So I'm singing them all in the shower.
I'm just that's constantly in my mind, right?
But then when I step away from that video, I'm done.
It's almost like that song never exists.
So I watch my old songs and it's almost like I don't recognize them because they really only existed in this one moment in time and I don't ever play them again.
So you forget them.
Or do you still know them?
I would say is I would I don't have them memorized anymore.
I might have to remind myself a little bit of what the chords are and stuff.
But if I have the lyrics in front of me, I can sing any of my songs that I've ever written.
It's the remembering all the lyrics exactly right and not having to worry about thinking of them and remembering the piano music at the same time.
That's tricky.
If I had a day or two, I would refamiliarize myself with my songs and I can put on a two-hour concert easy.
Easy.
Well, if you ever have a concert in Southern California, I will try to be there.
Amen.
And how can people like, do you have a CD people can buy?
How do people support you?
What's the best way for them to get all of your songs together so they can like, you know, have on their phone or whatever to listen to it?
As you can see on my ex Twitter, whatever account, I'm banned on Bandcamp as well.
So I had put my Spotify or what's the other one?
I'm banned on Spotify.
Or at least they haven't officially said that on Spotify, but they're blocking access to my account.
So rappers can talk about drugs and women and crimes and all that stuff is all fine.
Violence, but you can't do some satire videos about conspiracy theories online.
Welcome to my life.
So the gum road, I'm on gumroad.
So a lot of people haven't heard of it.
But foundering.gumroad.com, and it's just a band camp alternative.
I have all of my songs on there.
I have my album that I made in 2022 called Shut It Down is there.
But whenever I release a song like that Schmooley song or Fake and Gay, I will sell it for a dollar on Gumroad.
But then that comes with the MP3, but also the wave and the video that goes along with it.
So, you know, you can just grab, you can grab that.
But I've never really made it as a musician.
So I'm not like, I need a man, I need like a manager or something.
Like, cause I'm a, I'm not.
Get yourself a Jewish manager and you'll make it.
Exactly.
I've never been good with that.
How funny would that be if I if that if I did, right?
But I've never made some songs about the Goyam instead.
Oh, right.
Yeah, hit a different demographic.
Dude, if the pushback, if the pushback wasn't against these issues, I'd be writing them, making fun of other stuff, right?
Like they bring this on themselves, right?
I'm not trying to, you know, get not take responsibility for it, but as you like, I'm just getting fired.
How many ideas for like new songs or future projects do you juggle at a time?
Or you like, do you have in your head right now?
Zero right now.
Wow.
Well, I will say that I am preparing a concert, a live stream concert, probably Rumble, Odyssey, for Tom Lehrer, the satirist I was talking about.
He's turning 96 next week.
It's his birthday a week from today.
So I'm going to do a stream for him.
So right now I'm kind of working on that.
I guess that's a project.
I'm learning all these old obscure songs of his and I'm going to perform them.
In terms of me, I sort of stepped back from songwriting.
I was trying to work.
I was a director for a musical director for a local theater company working with kids, a big company, a big production.
I was directing two musicals at the same time just a couple weeks ago, seven days a week.
And then you play, you're on the piano while they perform it.
So that's right.
So I'm on the piano, but then I am directing and teaching 40, 50 kids at the same time, middle school-aged kids, high school kids.
Is this the church through the church?
This is not.
This is a separate.
The city theater or something.
This is a musical theater thing, right?
And I'm teaching, doing this, right?
But I was doing it for pennies, for almost no money.
Like I wasn't getting financially compensated for it, period.
It was almost embarrassing.
But it's a nonprofit, and I was doing it because I loved that.
I love teaching.
I'm good at it.
Those kids, they're confused.
They've just gone through the worst lockdowns and psychological trauma ever in the last few years.
I have a lot of trans kids, I know, in my that I teach, right?
So this is the world that I am in.
But my role is as their role model and their teacher and to inspire them musically.
And so I was happy to do that.
But there are people that ever since the church thing three years ago that are finding where I work and they're threatening them, right?
So the reason the church called me and complaining about you will never be a woman was because someone from another state who they never knew called and said you're hiring a transphobe, right?
So they did that with me.
I was working at UC Santa Cruz, the university last year.
They finally got rid of their vaccine mandates, right?
Because I was not able to work there for three years.
They brought me back and I was doing a lot of work for pennies, just like musicians have to do.
Starving artists.
Someone called and complained that they were hiring an anti-Semite, anti-baxer.
And they fired me from UC Santa Cruz.
And then last September, I got a new job as a choir teacher at a high school.
The next day, they announced a return to mask mandates.
And so I said, and this is in September of 2023, right?
I told, I asked them, can my kids take their masks off while they're singing in my class?
And they fired me.
They fired me and the email said it was because I had questioned the return to mask mandates, right?
I probably would have gotten fired from them eventually.
In 2023.
In 2023, yes.
And then, so my only job I had left was as this musical director position.
And I was working there.
And then two weeks ago, someone called them.
And the owner of the company knew I had this content online, but didn't care because I'm really good at what I do and willing to do it for pennies.
And so they hired me anyway.
But then someone called the board of directors of the company and said that they were hiring a transphobe, anti-baxer, anti-Semite.
Those are the big three they always go back to.
And they fired me immediately and let themselves without a musical director for both of these productions.
And they're still scrambling.
I wonder if they even looked at the proof, like if what these people accusing you of is true.
Like, how could they watch these videos?
I mean, it's satire.
You're not allowed to make jokes about people on the internet.
Right.
Well, I will say, and not to get too philosophical here, but we have seen this transformation of the digital world replacing the real one, where these online personas to this normie NPC mentality are now more real than the real life person, right?
I had been in there teaching their kids for a year and being awesome at my job.
And yet, that real life experience was supplanted by videos that I had recorded years ago that exist in this nether digital realm.
That you couldn't get rid of if you wanted to now at this point.
Well, but I had there already had.
I mean, they've been banned off of YouTube.
You have to seek them out on X or wherever to find them.
But still, like, if you wanted to take all your videos down, you couldn't because people have mirrored them and stuff.
Exactly.
So, yeah.
So, it's a thought crime thing.
It's a thought crime thing.
It didn't matter, right?
It's just so what I was saying earlier about how we grew up in a different time on the internet where I remember that the adults were like, don't put your real name online.
Don't trust Wikipedia.
And that turned into Wikipedia is gospel.
Put your entire social identity online, and that is more real than who you are with your neighbors and your friends and your family, right?
So I've been in this world here in California, or this very liberal part of California, where this disconnect has happened.
And I'm turned into this kind of ghost here.
Like, I never really made it locally because honestly, I'm not diverse enough.
That's just the sad.
Like, I saw my peers that were way underqualified surpass me for those reasons.
And I didn't really, like, at the time, wasn't like thinking, oh, I'm too white and straight and male.
But I see that that is why I had to take this alternate path.
Like, if they had accepted me, I'd be writing pop songs and doing normie stuff.
Yeah.
100%.
Yeah, I was going to say, like, have you thought, have you wondered about just like trying to ban all or take down all your videos, change your look, change your name, and go get a nice job for Disney and Hollywood writing jingles and shit?
I'm turning 40 next year.
I don't have the energy.
I just don't have energy anymore.
Like, I just, maybe 25-year-old me would have been like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm just, I kind of want to hang out with my kid and play soccer and play, play, you know, and I'll write to keep writing the songs and stuff, but like, I feel like maybe, maybe, I don't want to, maybe I am doing that and I'm just not giving it away, right?
Yeah, so secret identity, secret identity, right?
I have, I have the secret identities because I have the scrabble identity, right?
So my scrabble persona is very separate from my conspiracy persona, right?
Yep.
We got a couple super chats.
We got you for another 15 minutes or so.
First one for 25 from my buddy John Garada says, Foundring, would you do a song about our favorite rabbi Ms. Rachi?
Trust me, there's plenty of material there.
His own words would write the song for you.
Keep the donos going, people.
Show some love for our frontline guys.
Appreciate you as always, John.
Yeah, do you like suggestions from people for songs?
Have you ever used a suggestion?
Some of my best songs came from that, right?
Because I don't know what to do sometimes.
Like, I remember I just saw on a YouTube comment, someone said, you need to write a song called No Russian Ever Called Me a Cracker.
And at first, I thought that was the most ridiculous idea ever.
But then I sat down and I wrote that song.
I think it's one of my best songs I've ever written.
In fact, Grok, you know, the AI, Elon's AI, was asked what his favorite, its favorite, I misgendered Grock.
Foundring song was.
And it said, No Russian Ever Called Me a Cracker.
And Oeve shut it down, which is hilarious, by the way.
Okay.
John Garada says, Night Nation Review, come on Adam's show for once.
Show the initiative.
I thought he was inviting me on his show, and I haven't gotten the invite, which I'm willing to do, but I know he has a Christian audience and maybe doesn't want to offend them.
I think that might be the holdup.
I'm not sure.
Let me know.
$10 from Andrew Mita says, Adam, I haven't seen any posts from Charles Giuliani in well over two months.
By chance, have you heard anything from him or how he's doing?
Thank you.
I have not heard from him.
And if he hasn't posted for a while, maybe his eyesight's gotten worse.
Maybe he's busy.
Maybe he wasn't getting enough support.
I don't know.
Night Nation Review for 5 says, foundring rules, good guest.
Get man.
Yeah, a lot of people have been sending me your videos and know who you are in my audience.
So it was good to finally have you on.
And next time you come on, we'll have to just like talk about the news or more, you know, issues, not so much us getting to know you.
For sure.
But I wanted to learn about you.
Ramble off like that.
Oh, well, I wanted to hear about you.
Oh, that's that's something else I was wondering about the news and stuff, too.
Yeah.
How long have you seen my videos or been familiar with me?
Oh, a number of years.
A number of years.
I try not to, especially in the last few years, I try not to like, I've been for my mental health.
I've been in this for a long time, so I sort of stepped back.
But I saw your cancellation and stuff a number of years ago, and I was like, this just confirms what I was thinking about people that are talking about the stuff that you were talking about.
So, yeah, I've been aware of your work for a while for sure.
Cool, cool.
Honored to hear that.
And who are some of your favorite people that you listen to or follow or that influence you?
Influencers you like, people online.
Like, what are you listening to?
What shows do you like?
I'm going to get in trouble if I say that.
Oh, really?
Okay, well, you don't have to.
I don't want you to.
No, I mean, I'm not in trouble.
Like, I feel like I don't want to sound like I'm supporting, I don't think that my words have any weight or anything, but I feel like I listen to you.
I listen to, you know, even Stu Peters, I like some of the things that he has to say, you know, although I did my disagree with some of it, right?
And I kind of like, just kind of want to give everybody a chance.
Anyone who's just been canceled in general, musicians in particular, like Five Times August, who sings songs about a lot of this stuff.
What about Owen Benjamin?
He's a comedy pianist, but I saw that you guys were having a little trash talking online.
I think that was a little bit of like riffing.
The thing with Owen is like, I don't even really care that much, but he's got his own thing, right?
And people have been bugging me for years and calling me Owen Benjamin, right?
Oh, you're just doing.
So I just rolled my eyes at it, right?
Because I was writing conspiracy songs on YouTube in 2006.
I mean, maybe he was, but I've been at this for a decade before I even knew who he was, right?
Yeah, it's not like there's one person that's allowed to make comedy piano videos.
You know, and he does his stick and he does it effectively, and that's fine.
It was a little surprising that he had never, like, so many people have said, hey, I keep sharing you with Owen Benjamin.
Why hasn't he blah, blah, blah.
And I'm like, I don't need anybody to promote me.
Like, I don't really care.
Like, I'm just doing my own thing.
But he sort of started coming at me and calling me a faggot and all the same kind of stuff that he does.
That's his way of showing love to people, though, I think.
Sure, sure.
If he wants to fight with you online, that's kind of like...
And it was, it was giving me.
That sounds like him giving you a hug almost.
It was giving me a boost and people were coming to my defense.
And so I just sort of kind of like, I just was like, whatever.
And he did block me on Twitter, but I don't think, I think it was sort of part of that kind of riffing.
And I'm not even, I'm not even worried about it.
I'm not even sweating.
He's riffed on me before as well.
We're friends.
I think he's funny.
I think he covers some important stuff.
I disagree with him a lot on things, but I still like him.
All these guys that are putting themselves out there, they're all good.
It's hard for me to say, oh, someone like Tucker Carlson's a bad guy or someone like an Elon Musk's a bad guy.
I'm like, I'm super skeptical about a lot of these messianic figures.
I know you're talking a lot about this whole Trump stuff and the Jesus stuff and all that.
It's like we have to be wary of a lot of this, this type of thing and putting people up on pedestals.
And like with me and people are always like, are you a flat earther and all that stuff?
I'm like, does it really, I mean, I'm not trying to be an authority here, right?
I'm not trying to tell y'all how to think.
I might try to get you to think about things.
Like, I will say that I used to believe that in Einstein Steinian gravity and all these things.
And now in my research, I've come to realize that they're not telling us the truth about a lot of these physics stuff and outer space and some of this stuff.
There's something missing there, right?
They're lying about all this other stuff, right?
I'm not saying I got the answers, but I am saying that we all need to remain skeptical.
And that's why satire can do that.
It was I can throw out this stuff and say ludicrous stuff, but also say poignant and topically relevant stuff, too.
FYMM for five says, great guest, Adam.
Foundring, your songs are fantastic.
A suggestion for you, a revised version of Chabad's favorite song, We Want Moshiach Now.
That could be a hit.
Have you heard We Want Moshiach Now?
I don't know.
Okay.
Yeah, I'll have to check it.
I'll look.
It's the Tunnel Jews' favorite song.
We want Messiah Now.
Chabad, the tunnel, the Tunnel Synagogue.
Yeah.
I'll have to check it out.
I'll send it to you.
I could even help with a couple lyric ideas of what they believe.
And I know this is kind of a cop-out, but the videos that I make, the songs that I make that are on the Jewish thing are the ones that go viral every time.
And that, to me, is a little bit too easy.
So that I would, I almost didn't want to do the Schmoolie one.
He asked for it.
But like, I feel like I don't want to, and those suggestions are great, and I will entertain them and probably do those things.
But like, I'm trying not to do that one-trick pony thing because I can be versatile and do the other things.
And I want to try to do more normie songs that might even be slight red pill stuff that won't necessarily get the 100,000 views in a day.
But, you know, it is nice to do that every once in a while because then I get all the attention and all that stuff.
So I'm in that middle place of being like, I don't want to be famous.
And then I'll be like, oh, it's kind of nice to have that.
You don't want to be cast as an actor that always plays the same role and does the same gimmick, a one-trick pony.
Here's the song.
new song that we're singing here, this now.
Oh, I can't see.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I can't see.
So it just goes, we want Moshiach now.
We don't want to wait over and over again and throw in a couple funny lyrics or not funny, but like.
Change the title.
That's where a lot of the idea comes from.
The hard part isn't writing the songs.
It's coming up with that creative inspiration, right?
You could come up with ideas all day, but you don't pursue them all, right?
So it's that finding that one when it clicks.
And when I thought of that, if I were a rich man, turn that into, if I were Rabbi Schmoolie, like it just clicked.
I'm like, oh, this just is going to exist.
So I would find a we want and then something now.
And it would have to be flow.
And then when I get that concept, it would all just click from there.
So that's a, I mean, that's a great.
I love, as funny as it is, I love that style of music, those the harmonies.
Like I'm big on the theory behind it.
So that Jewish, those, those scales and stuff.
There's something in there where they got these minor, but it's like, it's happy and it's very effective.
It's a catchy song.
It's gotten stuck in my head before.
And then you could say, like, what do they actually want from the Moshiach?
And that's where you can kind of expose.
You can expose a lot of their beliefs that I'm showing on my channel in a song.
I think that could be great.
I'm not trying to pressure you.
I mean, these are all great ideas.
Just brainstorming.
Look, I'm now kind of like, this is what I'm probably going to have to do.
I've been trying again and again to kind of make it the normal way with my music.
And if they're not going to let me, I'm going to have to keep doing the song thing.
So yeah, it's only a matter of time.
I'll get around to this eventually.
Do you play any other instruments?
What's that?
Do you play any other instruments?
I play accordion.
I play violin.
I play guitar.
Organ.
I used to play pipe organ.
I still play pipe organ.
Okay.
Garrett Masterpiece McCluskey for five says band camp, more like band camp.
Am I right?
I made a little video about that and I called it band camp.
That was over two years ago that they banned me.
So, yeah.
$5 from Saltwater Amalachite says, some dude asked Jay Dyer why he is running from you on his show the other day.
He tried not to melt down and seethe for a few minutes.
Thought you should know.
Hope somebody clips that or sends me a time stamp.
I'd like to see that.
And 30 from John Garada says, 2100, foundering, just keep it going, man.
Grind and patience will eventually pay off.
I think he knows that because like you said, you didn't start off just like naturally good at these things.
It's really through dedication and a lot of hard work.
Or were you, did you pick up, like, were your parents musical?
Did you pick it up really easy?
Musical family.
I mean, but it doesn't mean that I had to, the singing and playing piano at the same time is so much harder than people realize.
You know, it is just ferociously difficult, which is why you don't see many people doing that.
So I was naturally gifted as a kid for sure.
And I was lucky that I had parents that push, push, push.
But they were always like, you need to become a doctor, lawyer, whatever.
They don't want me to become a musician, right?
And so I took that in my teens myself, and then I kept going with that.
So it was a combination of I got lucky with the genetics, but also with the circumstance of being able to just push.
You had the nature and the nurture and the hard work.
That's it.
It's a lethal combination, which is why they don't like folks like me to get a platform.
Yeah, John Garadas continues.
I see you becoming a big name in the movement.
He already is.
He's the top, he's the top musician talking about these things.
Make me blush.
And speaking of the top big name, what is foundering?
What does that mean?
What does a foundering name mean?
It's the persona.
It's a character name.
I made it up in a song I wrote in like 2003 to reference a character that I was kind of becoming, I guess.
I would say it comes from the verb to founder, to founder, which means as a ship that sinks.
It's called foundering.
Like a ship that sinks at the rocks.
Or it just means to fail in life, essentially.
It's like a foundry.
The word is founder.
Yeah, but there's a foundry, too.
If you are foundering, you are collapsing in life, basically.
Okay.
It's an old, obscure word, right?
So I took that and I took away the E and just made it found ring.
So some people are like, oh, is it, did you find a ring?
No, it comes from the word basically to founder, to fail.
But the idea was this was a character that I was creating that was not going to do the normal path in life.
I wasn't going to go the way that was set up for me.
And I was going to kind of collapse myself and then be reborn, I guess, a little bit.
Interesting.
I mean, I didn't.
I'm glad I asked.
I didn't know it was so deep.
Didn't expect such a deep answer on that, but I really had no idea.
I'm glad I asked that.
I'm a word guy, after all, I'm a word nerd, right?
Yeah, seriously.
Scrabble master.
Where are we?
Okay, Garrett Masterpiece McCluskey says, I think Al Bashai just mentioned on spaces you were having a black Hebrew Israelite on soon.
Is that true?
No, that's not true.
I don't have anything planned for that.
Does Foundring believe they was Jews?
They was Jews.
I don't know what you mean by that, Garrett, but I will ask, are you religious?
Are you a Christian?
So I would say I am a religion.
I would not identify as a Christian, but I would say I'm religious.
That can be our conversation for the next one, right?
But I do work as a, I have worked as a church organist in church, Christian church service for like 20 years.
So I believe in the musical mystical experience.
Let's just put it that way.
But I would not say that I am a Christian.
But I tend to not try to comment on that kind of stuff as much.
Yeah, because they'll come after you and call you an antichrist Jew and not support you.
That's what they do.
Look, I just want everyone to love and be happy and have a good time and create a good generation for the kids.
And if Christian people want to make that happen, if Jewish people want to make that happen, if Muslim people want to make that happen, that's great.
And if they don't, I'm going to call them out for it, right?
So that's just, that's where I am.
So I'm a very spiritual person for sure.
Okay.
Garrett Masterpiece McCluskey says, Bilbo found a ring.
Bilbo found a ring.
Foundering.
Okay, there it is.
Got it.
I wanted to play one more song before we say bye to you.
Which one would you suggest that we haven't done yet?
Which one is your most popular, your favorite, or one that you would want everybody to see right now?
My goodness.
Like, I haven't heard the transurrection one, or and that's not trans erection, right?
That's like resurrection of the church.
Insurrection.
Insurrection.
Okay.
Good.
I didn't want to hear about a transurrection.
You can play that.
Or how about you will never be a woman?
That was a big one that got you censored, right?
Sure.
Two minutes.
You can throw that one up.
Okay, we'll watch this one real quick.
Just think about how tame this is.
Anyway, just and this is the one that got you fired from several jobs in Target.
So this was cited as the main example of why recently I just got fired because I teach several trans kids and their parents went super cyan when they found out that I did this song.
They lost their minds.
So they were the ones that were like, we're pulling funding.
If this guy's a transphobe, they were kind of talking about the anti-Semitism, anti-back stuff as almost as an aside.
So this, this song, yeah, this is, and also this is the one that the church brought me in for to say, how ridiculous is that?
Yeah, you think the church would like defend you on this one at least.
It's so, that's an example of how upside down everything is, right?
Okay, let's do this one.
You will never be a woman.
Cause a woman has a woman, not a man that you would never be the one.
That's tough for some folks to understand.
You will never be a woman.
Try as you might to look like Cher, not Snow White.
And while they take our rights away, you're up and I decided if you're queer by organ.
Or maybe, hey, go seize the day to throw your balls away.
You will never be a woman.
Don't be mad to rely.
Madam, isn't that be the guy?
I don't mean to be rude, but you're still a dude.
You will never be a man.
You're hips don't like as you weren't one of God.
You can never be a man.
And if even Wikipedia tells me you're still Ellen, not Elliot, you'll never be a man.
Give it a rest to get that fur off your chest.
The family is magical.
Don't change it, guys.
They told you that it's fashionable.
You have to be fanatical to throw your boobs away.
You will never be a man.
You're Eve, you're not steep.
Please call the woke police.
Doesn't make you feel more like a man.
You can't call me a big and a prick, but you are still a champ.
You will never be a woman.
Cause the world needs more men acting like men.
You will never be a woman.
We need fathers and fighters.
Selita Sena.
You'll never be a woman.
No one's impressed.
Scripture.
Take off that dress.
The mask you didn't guess.
But they tell us that it's not the antomic.
They want to sneak at the malleable.
So no one stands in their way.
It's okay.
You're not a woman.
It's great.
You're a meat.
And it's solved.
You're a gown.
And it's a lovely being alive.
The surface doesn't show what's deep inside.
We were all born perfect souls.
There's no need to lie.
Dude, that was amazing.
You are so talented.
And they got so triggered from that.
I'm triggered just watching that.
No, I mean, throwing away their boobs.
Hilarious.
So as I'm watching that, in the wise words of Owen Benjamin, I'm a piano faggot.
But like, it's so effective because I'm doing what they embrace in their culture.
And instead of embracing what they want me to sing about, I'm doing the opposite, right?
I'm taking these Jewish melodies and rhythms and ideas, and then I'm turning it against them.
Not to like, as just more just being like, you know, if you want to take away my rights, say I can't talk about it, I'm going to sing about it.
In my song, Away Bay Shut It Down, I'd say, there's certain things you cannot say, so sing them all instead.
And that's really what we're dealing with here.
That's your mantra.
And it is true.
They think that if they censor and they target and they cancel and get you fired, like that just really makes people a lot of people.
Some people may quit, but most people with any backbone were going to double down and go even harder.
That's where we are.
That's the story.
Chat says they want to hear a whole musical from you.
Cornpop.
Right now.
I mean, it's like all these songs, right?
Corn.
If you want to write a COVID musical, I think that is going to happen.
That could be a big hit on Broadway.
I'm sure the Jews will let you write on Broadway and all the LGBTQers.
Can you imagine?
No.
You'll get the Owen Benjamin treatment and you'll be performing in barns and post or not post libraries.
Dude, I play ragtime piano.
That's where I belong anyway.
Like, I'm fine with that.
And I'm fine doing that.
That sounds good to me.
Maybe like a dive bar or something show.
That would be cool.
Cornpop the Bad Dude for Five says, I love the groove of his songs.
I can get down to this at the club.
In Cornpop again, does he have an album mixtape?
I want to buy it.
Yeah, on Gumroad.
Foundering.gumro.com.
It's a digital album, unfortunately.
So you can get it for 10 bucks on Gumroad.
Yeah, it's called Shut It Down.
I'm going to record an - I'm like there right now.
I have to record another album.
I have so much.
I have 40 songs that I've written since my last album.
I have too much material to work with.
So I immediately need to record a new album.
So I'm going to do That really soon.
What is your production for these conspiracy songs?
Are you putting out like one a month, one every two months?
Like, how frequent are they coming out?
Well, I mean, everything has changed, right?
So, I had just had a full seven-day work, seven days-a-week job, right?
And I was maybe able to make one or two a month.
If I could actually support myself doing this, I could make a song a day easily.
Wow.
Easily.
But it's, I can't because I'm not making that much enough enough money.
I mean, I hate to make it about the money.
It's more just like I have to do other things with my time to support myself and be with my kid and stuff and all that.
But well, if you guys, you guys heard that.
If you guys want to see more, support them.
One of the best ways I see Subscribestar, PayPal.
Subscribestar is a big one.
I have about 50 people that pay like five bucks a month.
And that's, you know, it doesn't pay my bills, but it's a huge help.
It's a huge help for me.
And I'll post stuff on Subscribestar before, right?
So that Schmoolie song, I share that early versions of that first before I, so people can see, you know, my whatever.
Do you take requests for donations?
If somebody wants to throw you a hundred bucks or a couple hundred bucks, you'll make a special song along the lines of...
And it just depends on if it's something that I believe in and I think it would be easy enough for me to do, I do it.
Yeah, I'll do it.
But yeah, if someone wants to pay me 50, 100 bucks to do something, I probably should be taking commissions these days.
Again, like now I'm going to have to, I'm realizing that I can't really get a normie job and I have to change.
Well, it's cool you're going on.
You got me today.
You're going to do Stu Peters tonight, I saw you say.
So hopefully more people have you on and more people are sharing around the video so we can see more of them because you are quite the talent.
And I would like to see a lot more.
It's wild seeing this and just even talking with you.
I really appreciate it.
It's pretty cool.
Do you ever have like a writer's block or like just a really tough time with like one line in a song?
Sure.
Yeah.
And it isn't maybe necessarily that as in it's the time in between songs.
And then I'm, you know, I'll get depressed or I'll get like, I'll start doubting myself or I'll never be able to write another good song again.
And I'll try to, it's that same process.
And I like, I'll have a little emotional outbursts on Twitter.
I'll be like, hi, you know, I suck it, blah, blah, blah.
It's kind of just that, whatever.
It's that thing.
And I've been through it enough at this point.
And I'll be like, okay, the inspiration is going to come back.
Like with the Schmoolie song, I was like, I'm not going to write any more songs.
I got to stop.
I just got fired.
I need to feel sorry for myself.
And he started acting that way.
I'm like, okay, I'm going to write this song.
So I never know when it's going to hit.
And generally, when I'm writing a song, it happens so fast because it all, I've done it so many times.
I just know what works and what doesn't.
And I will do first drafts of lyrics and then they get finished within a day or two.
So it's really, it's really, really fast once that creative spark.
Once you just get the ball rolling, it's like, it's easy, it seems like.
And it's one of the funnest things I can do, period, in my life.
It's just pursuing that creative urge.
It's just the best.
Like other than being a dad, it's just like the best thing ever.
Right.
Asalium 8 says, foundering, if you collabed with an animator making a cartoon, could make it a hilarious music video.
It's funny that you say that.
Yeah, there's a guy.
I'm not going to say who he is, but he's got a pretty big YouTube channel and is an animator.
And we've been talking and talking about ideas for years.
And then he didn't even realize that I had been.
That's the thing when you get banned, it's like you can't tell everyone that you've been banned, right?
So like when I was removed from YouTube, that was the only way I connected with my people.
And everyone, I'm still getting messages.
They're like, wow, I didn't realize you were.
I hadn't seen you for a year, right?
So this guy just reached out and said, hey, we should do a collaboration, you know, right now.
So that's a great idea.
Animation, other video artists.
I'm not very good with the video production.
I just do, I write songs.
I don't have time for all the nitty-gritty.
So the help from other people, people remix my songs.
I always super great.
I give it all away for free.
Like, I mean, I sell them for a buck, but I don't really copyright.
I probably should, but I kind of just put it out there.
The same with that guy, Tom Lehrer, who I keep talking about, who's a big influence of mine.
You should check him out.
He released all of his music for free on his website and said, you are allowed to make money off of every single song.
You can use them for whatever.
So I envision myself someday when I'm old and gray, I will throw up all of my songs with all of the lyrics and all the music.
I'm going to have to write, because I don't write any of this stuff down.
It's all up here, right?
Nothing's written down except for the lyrics.
So that would be a task to, with the exception of You Will Never Be a Woman, I did a wrote a piano version of that because a lot of people had asked me to do that.
But that takes a ton of time to notate something like that.
The thing that I'm most impressed with is just how you're able to bang on the keys without looking at all and do a whole song without hearing any type of mistake.
The skills that must have gone, the muscle memory and brain connections that do that.
Go ahead.
I will say that there are a lot of amazing pianists out there that have that muscle memory.
That once you get to a certain point, the not looking and playing is pretty common to do for a high-level musician.
But if I can talk myself up for a second, it's the singing at the same time that puts me apart, right?
It is something that I remember I was like 16.
I'm like, I'm the best pianist ever.
And I started trying to sing and play at the same time, and it just all fell apart because it's a brain thing, right?
It's like you have to turn off what you are thinking about on your hands.
You cannot even think about it.
And you have to focus on your pitch, the words, the tone, the phrasing, the breathing, all this stuff.
It's why you, sure, you'll see a lot of people playing piano and singing, but they're playing like a dinky little chord, like one at a time, and then just like singing, singing, singing, playing.
There is really no one on the scene right now who is able to play the high-level piano stuff that I'm playing, but then also singing and performing a song, which is why it is a little disconcerting.
Like it's weird.
It's like a disconnect.
They're like, oh, we don't, what do you do?
And a lot of people just don't think it's anything.
And I'm like, no, this is 30 years of my life and a very, very specialized and apparently dangerous to the status quo skill to be able to have.
The music man telling the minstrel, the court jester, the court jester is supposed to be the one that's supposed to make fun of the king.
That's the job, right?
And if you get rid of us, that's tyranny, period.
So it's like the style, the ragtag style of piano is extra hard to sing to, like much harder than, is singing on the piano harder than singing with a guitar?
Oh, yeah.
Well, and being effective about it, like playing well.
Like, I'm not talking just like chords.
Like, with the guitar, you won't see lots of guitar savants, like, doing this crazy stuff and singing at the same time.
You'll see G chord and singing.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm not saying there aren't good guitars out there that are singing.
Yeah, it's never like the lead guitarist is usually not, that's doing all the solos is not singing at the same time.
That's right.
There are different parts of your brain, I'm telling you, with the words and the music, okay?
And doing them at once requires an extra bit of coordination, and usually they both suffer.
Something you have to not focus on one aspect of one or the other, right?
So the rag time that I play, yes, is very active.
It came at a time when Great Depression, all that you couldn't afford a full band, so that the piano player had to step up and do the rhythm section, the bass part.
So you have to basically be the full band that's accompanying the singer, who usually have.
But then I'm the singer, right?
So that's why it's really rare.
And back in the day, there was tons of guys that were doing that style.
Like Fats Waller, he's one of my big influences.
He wrote the song Ain't Misbehaven.
He was one of the best piano players alive.
Al Capone, the gangster, famously kidnapped him and had him perform for him for like three nights and then released him, which is badass, right?
Why would he kidnap him and not just pay him?
I think he did pay.
But it was more like Al Capone doesn't, you don't arrange, like, he sends his guys to go grab you and you just do what he says, right?
And he was there to play piano, right?
My point is, this sort of piano man, this sort of performer used to be the very highest level of achievement as a musician, and they were household names.
And today, it's like, I will go.
And I'm not too like, oh, woe is me, but I'll go play downtown and I'll do just the best stuff ever.
And everyone is completely, the digital world has replaced, right?
They can pull up an amazing boogie woogie pianist in two seconds.
And that's just as interesting to them as the real life person doing it in front of them.
Unfortunately, that's where we're at.
So I've had to distance myself.
This world is going away from the artist and it's trying to replace us with AI.
I mean, I don't know.
AI is going to be the thing, but I don't see it doing ragtime satire music in the near future.
So knock on wood.
I'm doing all right for now, but we'll see.
All right, foundring.
I appreciate you for your time and coming on and joining us and all of the entertaining videos.
You truly are a talent, and the creativity and the skills is second to none that I've seen online.
I hope to see a lot more.
I hope people support you.
And we'll have to have you on again sometime to discuss more news and more conspiracies and stuff.
Yes, we got the life story out of the way.
I appreciate you letting me go off.
So it's, again, it's an honor and a privilege.
Thank you for giving me a chance to share.
It's about time.
I saw somebody on Twitter say it's about time you had him on.
It is.
I should have had you on earlier.
Hey, man.
Here I am.
So I'm really happy to be here.
Maybe earlier I might not have been ready because I was still trying to do the normie thing.
And now I'm like, not that you aren't, you know.
Yeah.
But like, I. Well, when I saw you got fired, you were tweeting about getting fired and then not getting your funds from Stripe or whatever.
That's when I reached out to you.
And then, of course, you had the viral Schmoolie video right before.
So it's just like perfect timing.
The timing was great, wasn't it?
Cornpop the Bad Dude, one more says, I have a YouTube channel.
Is it okay with Foundring?
I'd like to use his songs and we'll promote him at the end of each video with his sight and album.
I'm sure he's going to say okay.
Yes, but be careful.
I do know that my song Speed of Science, the MRNA Speed of Science, will get your channel removed, okay?
For medical misinformation.
I had people post even just clips of that song and they're getting strikes.
So I would not post certain songs on a YouTube mind.
Yeah, smart.
Don't get censored.
All right, Foundring.
I'm going to close it out not with my video, my usual video, but your Globo Homo hoedown video.
One last one to close it out for you guys.
And we only played a few of his video.
He has a whole bunch more, even more that's on your Odyssey here.
So follow his Odyssey, follow his gumroad, follow him on Twitter, and stay tuned because I'm sure he's coming out with a whole lot more.
I think he's only getting started in this because it's only up from here for you, is what I'm thinking.
You're going to have some big hits, I hope.
You're going to be like John Oliver.
What was his song?
His big viral video.
Watch, and then you'll really be attacked.
You mean the guy.
The redhead, the redhead on the guitar.
Anthony, Anthony.
Anthony Oliver.
Oliver, yes.
Right.
Okay.
Appreciate everybody for the support tonight.
All the big donators.
John Garadis, Cornpop the Bad Dude.
I'm going to be.
Let's see the schedule.
I'll update you on the future shows, and I'll be back very soon.
Appreciate you all.
Appreciate you foundering.
And this is the Globo Homo Hoedown by The Foundering.
The Foundering I wrote a little hoedown for the Global Homo crew.
The world's gone full on clowns, so there ain't much left to do.
It helps to vent when you present absurdity and song.
I had to stop myself or else it'd be 900 verses long.
Well, how about Klaus Schwab, one of those mother wetford thugs?
He'll take your house and job and tell you, come on, eat smugs.
They say he's not a rough child.
That would be too on the nose.
He gloats he's grooming global leaders.
Even Putin's one of those.
Oh, that silly Billy Gates embraced eugenics like his dad.
They both make Norman Bates look like a fine upstanding lad.
They set up Psycho Billy with some windows in your heads.
Now he aims to vaccinate so they can sterilize the plebs.
How about frog-throated Albert, the Pfizer CEO?
He studied dogs and cows.
Now he thinks you're animals.
He raced to make MRNA and threw away the rules when he claimed safe and effective.
It was just an April fool.
Be glad that Vlad Zelensky was time's person of the year.
Of all the current things, he seems to be a little queer.
It ain't too late to donate to that deep state griff to better fund his endless war or he'll play piano with his dick.
Oh, there's a man named Sam who they call the crypto king.
He's from a certain clan if you're into know to sing.
I love that one.
They say Big Mike Obama wants an Epstein to buy the morn.
TikTok's algorithms turn the innocent to thoughts.
Meanwhile, Chinese children dream of being astronauts.
This porn is free, so you can be a weaker adversary.
And your army dies when all the guys identify as merry.
There's drag at every church and at the public library.
They worship a facade that they call femininity.
They complain and sin when masculine men hinder all their schemes.
They'll still never be a woman.
See, we're winning World War memes.
At first, they claim just tolerate and bake a little cake.
Today they're teaching Toddollers some tips to masturbate.
They make kids change their gender, banning all who dare dissent.
We're not being rude, your odds aren't good, they're 41%.
Most foods go.
Can you freestyle rap really good?
Really well?
Not really.
No, I was thinking that would be a skill you would have.
I haven't practiced it.
I would have to work at it.
Like the secret to songwriting, do you do like do you repeat the same patterns of the rhyming system?
Like A, B, A, C, like that type of thing.
Is it usually the same technique?
No, each song is different.
Okay.
All right.
Sorry, we'll finish it out and close it out.
Voice slop.
They poison the crops to cause a lot of pain and woe.
They have hissy fits if you admit that vitamins can heal.
Just wait until they find out that germ theory isn't real.
They say we came from apes and that we're floating deep in space.
We've long been kept as slaves, never knowing our true place.
You'll find mankind's kind of divine, it's hiding deep inside.
And the entirety of history is one giant stinking lie.
They're replacing us with plastic bots that never need to rest.
I've read enough of Vassimov to know what happens next.
We ought to write robotic laws before they're thinking free.
we're gonna need Keanu for the singularity They'll create a new world order because they hate your sovereignty.
They'll demand an open border, shut you down for fake disease.
With firm resolve, they'll try dissolving all autonomy.
But we've had our fill, it's time to kill the Illuminati.