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Jan. 5, 2025 - On Brand

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OB #93 - Russell's Magic Necklace: Part Two

We get into the origins of the magic necklace, going all the way back to the 1800's to discover what orgones are, and what orgonite is. It is somehow even dumber than part one. Support us on Patreon! Buy a magnet handmade by Lauren!

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	Where did this guy come from?
	It's like he's been doing it for ages.
	He's very confident.
	Plainly, and this is a matter now of fact and record, I'm right wing.
	I feel that Christ may have had a better vision.
	Is this misinformation or is Vivek Ramaswamy in the laboratory?
	That's sort of like a poem.
	Is this Eminem?
	Man, if we didn't come together in that stream, I'd say it was just the key.
	Now, these are the kind of conversations I think that the legacy media can no longer compete with.
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	This is On Brand, a podcast where we discuss the ideas and antics of one Russell Brand, and as promised, here is part two, part deux, of the Magic Necklace shenanigans, and this time we'll get into the origins of where all this EMF-blocking nonsense comes from.
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	All right.
	And without any further ado, let's get into part do of Russell's magic necklace.
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	I hope you're on a lovely, wonderful Halloween.
	And it was very spooky and scary.
	I hope you did the monster mash!
	And all the ghouls and goblins.
	And everyone had a great time.
	I just want to play around in that voice.
	I do want to do that.
	I'm really excited.
	That's a lie.
	I was about to lie.
	Keep talking about ghouls.
	We're all getting time, you little bit.
	Okay.
	So, part two of the Russell Necklace experience.
	I'm...
	Yeah, so if you are just joining us for this part, I highly recommend.
	I won't be referencing a ton, but definitely go check out part one and see what all the hubbub is about as far as this Aries Tech lifetune.
	Product that Russell is potentially making.
	It is a product.
	It is, in fact, a product.
	It is a product that is available for retail purchase.
	Yeah, unlike NFT crypto mining, you at least get a product with this one, and that's something.
	The bar is so low.
	It really is.
	I just thought about the product you're getting, and I'm like, ugh.
	The thing is, what I did want, I tried.
	To find the equivalent of some cheap little shitty piece of jewelry.
	Because I'm not going to buy one.
	I don't have one.
	And I refuse.
	Please don't, also.
	It's not funny if you have the money rolling around.
	Please don't.
	Oh my god, please don't buy a thing.
	Don't give these people money.
	Yeah, right.
	Even if it was 30 bucks, don't do that.
	But definitely...
	Just don't give them any money.
	But I don't...
	Like, I have had cheap, shitty pieces of jewelry like this in the past that, like, shows up as a free gift with something else.
	Or, you know, my mom's a jeweler.
	I worked around a jewelry store, like, or I grew up around a jewelry store.
	That's, like, the first job, you know, is, like, working in your parents or whatever.
	And just having, you know, like, I get boxes of broken jewelry from people to put into, you know, also.
	Always accepting donations of old broken bullshit for shrines.
	Just email me.
	But like, you know, my mom will accumulate the stuff that just detritus of the jewelry store.
	And I couldn't find something shitty enough to represent the thing they're gonna send you.
	Because it's a sticker.
	It's a sticker.
	Yeah, the bar is just that low.
	It's just, yeah.
	It's like getting a beer koozie from a baseball game.
	It's like that.
	That's what they're giving you.
	That actually has a function.
	Well, listen, I mean, I have certainly combined cheap, shitty pieces of jewelry with nicer, or maybe just more substantial.
	So, like, it can be cheap, it can be free, but usually old is kind of, like, make something nicer.
	That's kind of what I tend towards.
	But yeah, so I couldn't even find something in my weird stashes of shit that I like.
	Also, if something's very cheap, it's very lightweight because it's just resin.
	It's just plastic.
	I like gluing those to shrines because it doesn't add any weight.
	It's like sparkle, but not weight.
	I don't even have something to show you that's shitty enough.
	I'm sorry.
	Right.
	But suffice to say, we're getting into...
	So that's kind of what we talked about last week.
	And I'm picking back up in kind of the lineage of where I think this came from.
	So.
	And I keep saying the word orgone and either you know what that is and you're like, ooh, I already listened to that podcast.
	I think there's a podcast that I did not realize was out until the very end of all this research called The Opportunist.
	And I think it might be a series of different people that are opportunists on the internet or it's about Sherry Schreiner.
	I do not know.
	But yeah, if you know about Sherry Schreiner or whatever, if you've heard these words.
	It's entirely reasonable to wonder, like, why are we talking about orgone or orgonite today, while the term isn't used anywhere in Aries text advertising or literature?
	It's kind of what we're, you know, like, why are we talking about this?
	And I think I have connected it.
	But, and, I mean, that's even, like, a marginally significant, like...
	In one way, it's marginally significant because it is kind of all lore, but in another way, I think it's relevant to consider.
	And even what I'm saying is, I'm not even telling you not to buy a thing that says Organite.
	I'm not telling you not to buy something.
	I'm telling you why I would not do it, and I'm not going to.
	Because I have a problem, and if you...
	Also feel moved in the same way.
	Cool.
	Or also just, I don't know.
	I mean, like, live your life.
	But the thing is, and this is my message with all of the purchasing, you know, like purchasing power, vote with your dollars points that I make.
	Just keep it in mind when you are making your consumer choices because there is an impact.
	It's usually on workers in the Global South that are getting paid a pittance or not at all.
	Just know that that's what you're participating in.
	And if you remember that enough, then I think, yeah, I guess it feels bad, but you should feel a little bad.
	There's some shame that's fine and correct.
	If it starts to get tough to make these consumer decisions, that just means you're paying attention.
	And you can find alternatives.
	You can figure other stuff out.
	I'm here to give options.
	I'm not here to stop the thoughts.
	I'm here to continue them.
	Even though the same sentences can be used as thought stopping in other arenas.
	Give it up to the States kind of thing.
	It's so frustrating.
	Anyway, so the word is not in the literature anywhere.
	First, I haven't surveyed their literature exhaustively because there's too fucking much.
	There's a lot.
	Yep, there's a lot.
	There's too much.
	It might be there.
	It also might be present or even prominent in previous iterations of the company or this company's product.
	I don't know.
	There's too much.
	I mean, I have a...
	I have a very limited amount of time to do the thing that I'm doing.
	And I don't really need that information to make my case, necessarily.
	Rather than looking at the names of things, I'm going to roll out receipts.
	Technically, I shouldn't be able to access the kind of information on a private company easily as just like a layperson.
	And I don't really have the skills or access to do that efficiently if I chose to do so.
	There are journalists that do and there's like industry kind of like magazines and stuff and they do.
	I don't.
	And I just had to make an economical choice in my last episode not to look into the doctors behind the brand, kind of assuming like, yeah, they're probably con artists to some form.
	And I'm making a similar choice here to focus on information I can work with rather than chasing after information that is ultimately kind of inconsequential.
	And I want to focus on actual events and the actual impact in the real world.
	At the end of the day, the impact is what counts.
	It's also a better use of my time to discuss tangible things that happen rather than devoting energy, which is hard with WooWe Wellness.
	So the fact that I have them, I want to focus on that.
	voting energy to aspects of the story which rely heavily on speculation without like load-bearing a low-bearing amount of like factual support um like what is russell's cut from customers uses referral code it would be great to know but we just don't have access to that information it would be happenstance right if we found yeah yeah so al What do you know about Orgone?
	How have you heard about it?
	Here.
	What do you know about Orgone?
	What have you heard about Orgone?
	Honestly, I have not done that much looking into it, particularly.
	It's an area that has always just seemed...
	Not wishing to offend anyone, but pretty dumb to me.
	It seems like within the kind of energy healing realm of stuff to me, but like, you know, physicalized.
	You have experience with that, though!
	Like, you've been around that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But nothing...
	Orgones and Orgonite and none of that ever came up in my personal experience.
	Sure.
	And so, yeah, I've kind of skirted this entire issue.
	I've had pop culture reference exposure to it and Peep Show and whatever else.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	Yeah.
	Well, technically, that's it.
	Right.
	That's it.
	You have been exposed to it and you understand that it is basically a type of...
	Like the common parlance is like a type of like energy, right?
	That's kind of it.
	Yes.
	And we'll get into that in a little bit.
	Because it feels like, and like what you just described, it feels like just sort of this cultural detritus idea that's just, it's like another word for like chi or prana or whatever, like energy, like life force energy.
	That's not where it came from.
	And they rarely do.
	Just remember.
	If anybody's been bopping around the old Behind the Bastards or any other similar feeds for quite some time, you find out like, oh no, there's probably a terrible person behind it.
	And so, again, I'm trying to temper the importance of this kind of connection.
	So I don't...
	I'm not trying to get whipped up into a froth over it.
	But technically, the connection that set off alarm bells in my head between the Ares Tech Lifetune stickers and the history and pedigree of Oregon was tangential.
	It's like what rang true to me.
	And I think the connection is more important to explore because of the real world impacts which should be tied to this particular event of woo lore and the subsequent retail market.
	Much like...
	I think this is a great example.
	Much like how homeopathy was a respectable or even government-sanctioned practice in the alternative sphere for many years.
	And now we know, thanks to the availability and proliferation of information on the internet, which can strip away the obfuscation of alternative medicine marketing, that the guiding principles of homeopathy are virtually identical to the ancient Greek philosopher slash...
	You know, one of the father's medicine, in loose terms, Galen's theory of the humors and like cures like.
	This is medieval.
	This is medieval medicine.
	Yeah.
	And so this is where we get the medieval idea of like, this is a particularly extreme one, but I think it's good as an illustration and I get that it's gross.
	Brace yourself.
	Because listen, also the BBC did this on television, so I'm just describing it.
	Really, really good series, Victorian Pharmacy.
	It's fantastic.
	I think it's Victorian Pharmacy.
	Anyway, so this is where we get the medieval idea of crushing up earthworms into a paste to heal a nasty bruise.
	Worms and earth creatures kind of look like bruised skin, and so the bruise heals on its own, but you wipe this putrid slurry on the affected area, and it was believed to be curative.
	So like, it's like.
	Like could be...
	Looking like something, smelling like something, or even shaped like something.
	That's pretty loose standards.
	Yeah.
	So in the late 1700s, Samuel Hanneman, the father of homeopathy, took that like substance, diluted within a carrier agent like water to make a tincture to such an infinitesimal degree.
	So to be virtually nonexistent.
	And that is homeopathic medicine preparation.
	It's probably good, because sometimes it was arsenic and sometimes it was whatever.
	Yeah, it's a good thing there's no proof that the like substance would cure an ailment anyway.
	In fact, according to Hopiopathy, the smaller the amount of active ingredient present in the prepared tincture, the more effective and powerful the medicine ultimately is.
	That's convenient, because you can really save money on the raw ingredient at that point.
	Sometimes you can just set the ingredient next to the wine.
	You don't even have to put it in.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Sounds stupid.
	It sounds stupid when you actually parse it out.
	Sounds profitable.
	Yeah.
	But practitioners are still swindling millions of dollars out of sick desert people every year.
	So the impact is what really matters.
	And I also think it's easy to get into the weeds and lose the plot.
	And, you know, as far as like talking about the doctors, talking about like trying to find these pieces that like may not even be present.
	Right.
	Not unreasonable, certainly.
	And again, I'm interested.
	I'd love to know what they were up to.
	If I'm not going to be able to find that information, I'm going to use what I already have.
	And also, that is to say that using those examples, it's not the bleach church.
	MMR or something is a Miracle Cure bleach church.
	It's so orgone and organite is not uniquely dangerous as a wooey wellness item available for retail purchase.
	There are many snake oil type products in the market, some very dangerous and should be illegal.
	And I mean, the bleach church was also like there were legal proceedings, but still it's like not stopping.
	Right.
	And this is merely one, which aside from the exorbitant price is relatively harmless.
	And I think even it is it is responsible for coverage to say, like, this is stupid.
	Don't buy it.
	But it's not going to hurt you because it's not.
	But I believe and this is again, this is for me.
	The pedigree should matter to the consumer and to the producer and the producer's claims who bears responsibility.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	So, that's kind of what...
	I'm going for.
	And I think as this fits into what...
	I don't know.
	Russell doesn't give a shit.
	Russell's taking the money.
	And he loves baubles.
	It's a match made in heaven.
	It's fine.
	Whatever.
	But I think more importantly, I think this product is an excellent microcosm of an example for...
	The great unified conspiracy theory theory.
	Which a lot of researchers and interested parties have talked about when figuring about how QAnon came to be and took hold.
	I think these little trinkets are a physical object which synthesized bits and pieces of woo over the years to become one big solid mass like a snowball rolling down a hill.
	The QAnon conspiracy has been described similarly and needs to be understood that way, especially in the interest of debunking inaccurate information.
	Because like...
	Pulling these pieces apart certainly helps us who are fortunate enough to not be caught up in these kind of cycles.
	But we know about cognitive dissonance and it makes people double down their resolve, not retract if they're confronted with information in a lot of different ways.
	Yeah, so the QAnon's conspiracy lore pulls from all kinds of conspiracy theories that would otherwise exist in their separate ecosystems with little to no overlap.
	You know, like anti-Jewish, like Poison the Well narratives, like medieval Poison the Well narratives, Rothschild Jewish bankers, ancient aliens, reptilians, Illuminati, Freemasons, illegal migrant voting buses, blah, blah, blah.
	They all got balled up and packaged into one mass and synthesized through the conduit of like...
	Pizzagate and 4chan and 8chan.
	Oh, while obscuring the origins of these...
	Y'all hear me.
	We've all dealt with this.
	You're obscuring the origins of these traditional conspiracy theories that serve to, in essence, single out the other as deserving the blame for the ills of the world and create a convenient scapegoat for the actual ruling elite, which is a whole other conspiracy that's totally true.
	Yeah.
	And all of this other stuff just obfuscates that, you know?
	Exactly.
	You're focusing on fake bullshit.
	Look at the real stuff.
	It's happening right there.
	I can see it.
	Yeah.
	Just like turn your head five degrees and yes, you're right.
	Right.
	So while obfuscating these origins, the origins of all these pernicious bigoted tropes to the point where like, and being able to mash them together to like.
	To, like, kitbash, right?
	Into this one kind of, like, Voltron.
	And, you know, to the point where, like, I have to explain to my friend that his friend, the guy from High on Fire and Sleep, the absolute legend...
	Responsible for bequeathing.
	We mere mortals with the record Dope Smoker, a.k.a.
	Jerusalem, is what he named their best song.
	They named their best, coolest song a piece of art which has demonstrably, measurably improved the quality of my finite mortal human life on this earth and many of those around me.
	I have to explain, right, that he's believing in spreading anti-Semitic misinformation even though he's never said a crossword about a Jewish person.
	My friend thinks I sound crazy and I'm being a dick for accusing his friend of being a bigot because it sounds nuts to explain.
	And I'm like, I'm looking at your face and I'm like, dude, I know I sound crazy and I'm insulting a person you like.
	And I'm putting words in his mouth that he's never said.
	And it makes sense that you would be put off by that if you have no frame of reference.
	But that's where we are.
	Because of the obfuscation, like there's layers upon layers of obfuscation over the origins.
	Context matters, you know?
	Totally!
	Well, and origins of, like, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was proliferated in this country by Henry fucking Ford!
	You know, the last name that's on cars every- thousands and thousands and thousands of cars in this country?
	And is taught as an American hero pioneer in school?
	Fuck me!
	It's just ridiculous anyway.
	So we find ourselves in these places, right?
	And because the QAnon ecosystem of belief is made of a composite of all these types of lore and conspiracy theories that kind of collect it into one narrative, it has the ability to then keep the ball rolling and comfortably, either like awkwardly or eventually comfortably, assimilate all future iterations of conspiracy theory.
	The truly dangerous element of QAnon as a conspiracy movement is the ability to adapt.
	Just like a...
	Just like a virus.
	To absorb new information rather than be hindered by it.
	You know, like the Borg.
	So...
	It is a unique challenge we're facing because of the unique situation that we are dealing with as far as technology goes.
	That's the lesson I'd like to impart and hopefully show my work.
	We're doing long division today.
	How I can trust my gut and be skeptical at the same time.
	It's not just possible.
	It is well within your ability.
	But we all have to practice.
	To maintain that set of skills.
	We still gotta hit the gym.
	We still gotta do our planks.
	We still gotta, you know, do our...
	Yep.
	It's a muscle.
	If you don't use it, it goes away.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Right?
	So.
	Yeah.
	So let's start this.
	Okay.
	Paige and Dr. Freud.
	That's literally where we're starting.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	No, really.
	I know, right?
	So we pick up the story in the late 1800s in Austria with a protege of Sigmund Freud.
	Well, I mean, like I say, protege.
	We'll get to it.
	More like a colleague, right?
	A guy named Wilhelm Reich.
	He was born in an upper class, upper middle class family in 1897. He had a fairly privileged but unusual childhood and lost both his parents at an early age, 10 to 14, respectively.
	Well, that's, yeah.
	We know that's how this starts.
	We know.
	Yep.
	Every time.
	But guess what?
	Orphans.
	Not all orphans crime.
	So, certainly an element.
	No excuse.
	A little more of a excuse here.
	He also fought on the Italian front in World War I. That's upsetting.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	So, he returned.
	I mean, that's also part of, like, why Germany was primed for Germans to Nazis.
	Because that was a rough thing to do.
	World War I. Not great.
	Didn't handle it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So he returned from the front with interest in both.
	So like lightly interested in Marxism, which grew over time and psychology.
	Those are like related, but in a way that we don't necessarily recognize today because we've sort of worked through these problems of like what freedom means.
	And joined Freud's clinicians team after he studied psychology, becoming a full member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association at the age of 22. Now, he started off respectable.
	He wrote a book that was good.
	His first album, great.
	Famous debut, Curse of the Debut album.
	Pretty good.
	Makes sense.
	It's Kanye.
	It's what we're looking at.
	Great debut!
	We're finding out how similar these are!
	Unfortunately!
	Right.
	So he began to investigate the human sex drive and developed a theory that an orgasm must be composed of collective energy that involves the entirety of one's being.
	Okay.
	Fine.
	But he's not using the term energy here in the way we would refer.
	He is using the term energy here in a way that we refer to like a circuit or like what comes out of the plug in a wall, not vibes or feelings.
	Yeah, so not like chakra, but he means like power, power.
	Like power, yes.
	Wow.
	Oh, that's fun.
	I like that.
	When you think about it at the time, like, that's the thing is like these kind of like cursory understandings.
	We don't have an excuse for those now.
	Because like, oh yes, there is electricity in our body.
	There's electricity in our brains.
	But not enough for that.
	Not enough to work with for a machine.
	This is why people shake when they have orgasms.
	You know, that's what it is.
	It makes sense.
	Yes, the thing is, electricity is present in the brain.
	Okay.
	Not like what comes out of your wall socket.
	It's different.
	And that's, I mean, it's a whole other thing.
	We also, like, that makes sense over 120 years ago to be like, we just discovered, or we're theorizing before we have the tools to discover electricity in the brain.
	We don't know anything about chemicals.
	It's an interesting hypothesis, right?
	We're starting there, okay?
	Reasonable.
	And the distinction matters, and for the time, it's kind of valid as far as, like, testing an idea, right?
	He was experimenting with energy, and he understood, and it's not, the hypothesis is like, oh, I can see where he's coming from, you know?
	Like, energy, like Benjamin Franklin experimenting with electricity with a key tied to a kite and a thunderstorm.
	That's kind of the experiment, right?
	How do you experiment practically with sex energy, though?
	I'm gonna assume it's by fucking, that's...
	Well...
	And what does that entail?
	Consent, right?
	Like, the notion of consent, which moved a lot slower than research, okay?
	So, the thing is, too, is, like, I think we have to understand that there is a basis of, like, good work.
	Like, he had the potential to be fine.
	And useful.
	And to build a foundation that got us to where, like, neurology and, like, and even psychoanalysis is today as we understand, you know, like, and even though there's so much we don't know about the brain.
	So, like, it is very complex.
	But instead of, like, applying the scientific method and checking himself.
	Against it, he's like, I have reinvented science because I'm a Whiteman.
	Which is a tale as old as time, unfortunately, right?
	So in his psychoanalysis sessions with his patients, Dr. Wright would have them stripped down to near nudity.
	And as part of the psychoanalytic process, he decided to add manually manipulating their bodies to release orgasmic energy as part of his medical practice.
	Oh, so is this where this began?
	Okay, okay.
	Interesting.
	So the cultural lore around Victorian women visiting doctors, because also this is after the Victorian period.
	We're talking early 1900s.
	But that's also, no one understands where our social mores come from.
	We don't know that it's just Victoria and before that everything was different.
	We're like, people have always been this way.
	No!
	No!
	It was like one lady, one abused woman's ideas.
	Right.
	Right.
	So.
	Dr. Reich would have them stripped down and do this thing.
	And the cultural lore around, like, women visiting doctors who treat their hysteria with masturbation has been, like, proven to mostly be apocryphal or at best, like, over-exaggerated.
	Because also, like, we have...
	Like, we're using Sears and robot catalogs and connecting dots and stuff.
	We don't know what actually, you know.
	And, like, patents and stuff.
	It wasn't, like, whatever the history from, like, Road to Wellsville and, like, cultural understanding is, like, not, whatever it is, it isn't exactly what the truth is.
	But because there was so much repression, like, all of this is because of repression around sex.
	And if you are so repressed around it, then there's not a lot of specific explicit language, unfortunately.
	And so this guy could be one of those people that's trying to nail down explicit language that normalizes this very normal human function that we all participate in for the most part.
	Or if anything else, you were born.
	So that's participating in the reproductive...
	Cycle.
	Like, it literally makes all of us, we are all a part of it.
	So normalizing it by understanding is one thing.
	So we don't have, like, we just don't really have the, like, we have to kind of rely on anecdotes, but anecdotes are, like, people aren't going to talk about it anyway, so whatever.
	Yeah.
	Well, with all the repression around it and everything else.
	Exactly.
	But I think this guy is, yeah, I think this guy is the base, is at least part of the basis for that story.
	Because he's real, he wrote books, he corresponded with medical contemporaries and scientific contemporaries all over the world.
	He kept journals, he did lectures, he worked at a ton of different institutions.
	He's real, we have proof of the whole fucking thing.
	Right?
	Right.
	So, would you please start our cloud-busting video?
	And let it play while I tell you all this story.
	Okay, so.
	Yes, indeed.
	That's some clown-busting goodness.
	Oh, baby.
	Oh, my gosh.
	All right, so Wright kept up with this type of practice for years, but Freud, after successive attempts to rein him in, grew increasingly concerned and wrote Dr. Wright, basically, like, of Dr. Wright.
	Basically, this doctor thought the genital orgasm was the solution to every psychological problem.
	If Sigmund Freud tells you you're too obsessed with sex, you might be too obsessed with sex.
	Right?
	I mean, I will say, it does make you feel better for a little bit.
	For a little bit!
	And could potentially cause a whole raft of other problems if that's how you're trying to fix your brain shit.
	That's not what it's for.
	It doesn't feel like a long-term solution to me.
	It really isn't.
	It really isn't.
	So, let's go back.
	It's going to get a little dark.
	There are two contexts to understand his unusual childhood, right?
	Oh, no.
	Well, as he tells it.
	As he tells it.
	So, he's...
	Right.
	Anyway.
	So, as he tells it.
	He was sexually precocious from a very young age.
	As in, he claimed to first attempt, like, initiation of his first sexual encounter with a household staff member at age four.
	That's young.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	He engaged in sexual encounters with their farm animals on the estate actively throughout his upbringing.
	He, quote, began a daily sexual relationship, end quote, at age 11 with one of their housekeepers that continued for years.
	And he started frequenting brothels daily at age 15. Right.
	One could call him, he would maybe call himself naturally hypersexual if we believe that he was initiating these encounters or even was capable of consent.
	Or the more likely context and what his daughter believes is he was a victim of persistent sexual abuse from an early age.
	And that's probably what that sounds like to all of us.
	That's not a groovy childhood.
	That's a very...
	Damaging, dangerous place to grow up.
	And there is something to be said for, like, that kind of upper-middle-class bubble, giving him access to all these things, and then those things also having access to him.
	And if you've listened to...
	There was an episode or a series recently that Behind the Bastards did, I think, a couple months ago about, like, the...
	Overcorrection of repression in, like, specifically German culture to be kind of, like, not as, like, too free.
	Ooh, just not really seeing sex in a healthy way, but the other direction, which he's, I think, very much a part of.
	And I don't necessarily blame an individual for wanting to look back in their...
	I think we've all done it.
	You know, to recontextualize, like, oh, well, that was my choice, that was my decision.
	But if you are psychoanalyzing people, you have a responsibility not to bring that bias, okay?
	So I think it's fair to say he's biased in his worldview and approach to treatment, to the point of being unreliable as a researcher clinician, in my opinion.
	Because he never really...
	Cops to, oh, that was bad for me.
	It's like, that was great for me, much like Russell.
	The problem, as we understand today, also is that his patients can't give informed consent because he had no scientific basis for his treatments.
	He was just sexual encounters with his patients.
	It was a ruse.
	Whether he believed that it was or not, it was a scheme.
	It was a scam.
	Reich was a proponent also of sex among teens and children, not just study and treatment.
	And that's what Freud was concerned with and tried unsuccessfully to intervene for a long time.
	Reich's career was still thriving throughout the 1920s and he opened several clinics in Vienna that were also Marxist.
	This whole thing.
	So licensing and legal qualifications were not his concern after his initial...
	Okay, so his practices grew increasingly problematic as he doubled down on his theories and he kept getting fired and hired and fired, kind of like bouncing around Europe at many different clinical and academic institutions.
	Until being Jewish and a Marxist, he caught the last boat out of Norway in 1939 to avoid the Nazis in World War II. Yeah.
	And he had started doing like this kind of research in Noru, which he landed in Maine and he set up shop in Maine in America.
	And where he joined the great tradition of quack doctors straying far out of their lane of expertise by so thoroughly misunderstanding basic lab sterility procedures that he thinks he witnessed the origin of life itself.
	It was actually common atmospheric bacteria, but he thought he'd isolated.
	Orgone, the life essence energy, similar to chi or ether or prana, right?
	Orgasm, orgone.
	That's where that's from.
	Right.
	Basically.
	Right.
	Okay, interesting.
	So simple.
	So in the 40s, he built and sold human-sized boxes.
	They were basically Faraday cages, and they looked like old icebox refrigerators.
	Just like a wooden box.
	It's human-sized.
	And so I found there's also a whole lot of glowing language about this guy and his pseudoscience and a claim from the Graceful Heart blog.
	Oh, bless him.
	Entry, A History of Oregon.
	And all the citation links.
	Baby.
	I'm so glad my computer had not crashed trying to get to any of this stuff because those links are all dead at best.
	Definitely not secure.
	So they were citing organizeyourself.com.
	No longer an active website.
	Yeah, good bless.
	And I wanted to, like, I didn't have time to, like, go through archive.org and try to find all this stuff.
	I bet it's there.
	So anyway, so Wright constructed the first orgone accumulator, also known as an ORAC, O-R-A-C, all in caps.
	Orgone accumulator, which is the box, right?
	It consisted of alternating layers of...
	Organic and inorganic material.
	In chemistry, organic refers to any carbon-based material.
	That's what they're saying, right?
	So it was intended to produce a strong concentration of positive orgone energy, which would have a healing effect, end quote, from that little blog post.
	Metal lining on the inside, like with a wooden cabinet kind of around it, basically an isolation tank.
	Dr. Reich recommended his patients sit naked or close to naked for extended periods of time as a treatment, like a home treatment.
	He sold these things.
	He claimed energy could be concentrated and amplified.
	And there were health effects that are identical to the blog now on Aries Tech website and all these, like, I mean, it's very basic shit, right?
	Increase sexual potency to heal all psychological ailments and potentially even cure cancer.
	He did a silly experiment that doesn't apply to mice.
	He also invented what he called a cloudbuster.
	What has been happening next to us this entire time.
	Right.
	Now his is different, his is bigger, but this is exactly what this guy is doing right now in this video.
	Also, yes, like the Kate Bush song, as depicted, Wilhelm is depicted by Donald Sutherland in her song.
	He plays Wilhelm Reich in her corresponding music video for that song.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	So there's like a cultural cachet, you know, like I think, and that's not necessarily like bad.
	And like, quackery, you know, seeps into the public consciousness.
	And if we can all like, if we're all allowed to engage with it responsibly, and there's like a system in place to protect people and have like healthcare and not be desperate, searching for answers where they don't have any, then like, it's a fun toy to play around with, you know, as far as like...
	These, like, conspiracy theories, and we usually engage with them, like, healthily, and like, oh, that's weird.
	Isn't that funny?
	So that is a real thing, right?
	So, right, so the Cloudbuster, which he, which grew out of the ORAC cabinet, and it looked like an anti-aircraft gun made of tubas.
	So he claims...
	Right, so he claimed the clouds were basically concentrated orgone energy that he could attack with his anti-aircraft air blaster gun and break up those clouds to make rain.
	It never worked, but he did manage to scam a bunch of blueberry farmers once, which is sad.
	Did it make noise?
	It doesn't make noise.
	I was hoping it would be like, I'm gonna get you clouds.
	Okay, that's a shame.
	None of this stuff.
	Well, then how is this guy in this video doing all this amazing cloud stuff?
	Wind!
	It's wind!
	You know what breaks up clouds?
	Wind.
	That man is playing pretend for fun.
	Honestly, like, as a kid...
	So, and if you're just listening, the video is this guy and he's got his little contraption that kind of looks like a turkey baster on, like...
	It looks like it's a tube and like a cylinder.
	Picture the shape of like an electric like turkey carving knife, but it's just a tube.
	It's like if a kid wanted to play at like carving a turkey, but he only had a can and a stick.
	It's not more than that.
	That's what we're watching right now is watching this.
	Lovely man.
	This guy's waving at clouds, and they're disappearing.
	He's waving at clouds, and then he sees whenever parts of the cloud, like, it's this beautiful fluffy cloud on a gorgeous, you know, like, clear, sunny day, and...
	He's kind of instinctively moving.
	He's like, oh, I'm trying to move this.
	He's swirling his little wand around at a cloud.
	But then when some of the cloud starts to break up, he's like, oh, no, I'm doing that.
	And because the cloud dissipates because the wind.
	He's like, no, it's me.
	No, it's not.
	You're a child.
	Which is charming if there were no body count to this, right?
	Yeah.
	The FDA used to have some power and actually stop bad actors selling bunk-like science doohickey bullshit.
	And in 1954, so he's got this whole, like...
	Enterprise in Maine, right?
	In 1954, the FDA ordered him to stop selling his energy accumulator box and stop claiming that it had any medical benefits.
	And similarly, in the 50s as well, the FDA also challenged the claims that L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology made about the e-meter and niacin under the same framework.
	And this is where we are because the FDA did not keep that power.
	Now we're here.
	If only.
	What a different place.
	So Wilhelm also assimilated and synthesized other conspiracy theories in his own, claiming that he had detected energy alphas, which were long cigar-shaped UFOs and clouds that were poisoning the earth with chemtrails of bad orgone radiation.
	That's where chemtrails actually come from.
	Not him.
	This is like a synthesis, but he helped.
	Yeah, so the FDA enforced their ban on his products.
	They seized all of his equipment and boxes and even recalled all of his books, even the one good one, and destroyed them, which is like, on one hand, seems a little extreme.
	And so I remembered hearing about this in an episode of The How-To Heretic, which will be linked in the show notes.
	And the guys, kind of the way they're talking about it is like, this was an overreach of the government and this was too far for the FDA. And kind of, I think that accurately, it made a martyr out of the guy, which is not good.
	Not good for our purposes.
	Oh, it's just an illy coffee can.
	Oh, I didn't see that the last time I watched this video.
	Yeah, it's a coffee can.
	God bless.
	Okay.
	Oh, what a gift.
	What a happy life I get to have.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	Thanks, Earth.
	Thanks, humans.
	Yum.
	That's adorable.
	The thing is, I'm so thrilled with human creativity, right?
	I am of two minds about all of this.
	Okay, so.
	So he sees all of his equipment and destroyed it because he would not stop.
	One.
	Practicing medicine without a license.
	And two, would not stop selling products that were provably counterfeit per their claims.
	Include being debunked, the box being debunked by Albert Einstein himself.
	Albert Einstein.
	Albert Aloysius Einstein himself was like, I liked you.
	I tried to reproduce your test.
	This is crazy.
	Stop it.
	Yeah, I feel like if Bert comes for you, there's no coming back from that.
	Big names!
	That's it.
	You're done.
	It's like the big name endorsement on the front of the book is, absolutely not!
	Right?
	So they burned all his books and equipment through him in jail.
	And he died in prison in 1957. The wellness blogs, which are very pro-Oregon and think it's really cool, including this guy with his little cloud buster.
	Bless him.
	And also, they're very reverent of Dr. Wright to the point of beatification.
	They treat him like a martyr and mention absolutely nothing.
	Did I cut that part out?
	Did I not say this?
	Oh!
	Yeah.
	Oh, I didn't.
	I missed it.
	Okay.
	So he also, while he was building all these boxes, he was like selling bullshit.
	He also continued...
	Continued?
	Girl.
	What are we doing?
	Okay.
	His home-based...
	Continued.
	His home...
	Flub.
	His home-based unlicensed medical practice until he could no longer operate amid all the accusations of sexual misconduct from staff and patients.
	So, none of that is mentioned in...
	Any of these blogs.
	And they are...
	It's not a couple.
	They're fucking everywhere.
	He is cited as the father of Orgon and Orgonite with no mention whatsoever of being a lifelong serial predator.
	What did...
	Do I keep that?
	Uncle Dan had a really great way.
	It was like...
	Anyway, yeah.
	Sex-obsessed...
	Sex-obsessed exiled Rainmaker weirdo, right?
	Yeah, sounds right.
	They mentioned nothing about a lifetime of sexual abuse he perpetrated on adults and children.
	I think that's a fucking problem.
	And that's why I'm mentioning it, right?
	And it also had a lot of weird cultural influence because all of this goofy writing can be shared and shared and talked about for fun.
	We're watching a guy point at clouds for nine minutes or something.
	That's part one that I sent you to make a clip of.
	This dude is doing this all day at his window, filming it, putting it on YouTube, and being like, I can make rain.
	What does rain and clouds have to do with orgasm energy?
	Nothing.
	Except for this guy.
	He connected these, like, the idea of clouds, chemtrails, organ energy together.
	So...
	We also know that isolation tanks have tangible health benefits for some people.
	So he was onto something in a way, but the wrong thing.
	And all the essay muddies the waters beyond recognition.
	He should be thrown out and considered a charlatan.
	Instead, Kate Bush made a song and a video about him.
	Because she doesn't know about that.
	I'm positive.
	I am absolutely positive.
	People like...
	Ellen Ginsberg and Patti Smith had these boxes in their house.
	And now we know a lot about isolation tanks.
	They're not going to be good for everybody, but they're definitely good for some people, especially whenever you're feeling overwhelmed.
	Maybe our brains need to unplug and chill out.
	And that's real.
	He wasn't doing that.
	He did that on accident.
	But people still give him credit for the quote-unquote technology.
	It's a fucking box.
	It's a fucking box.
	So, okay, so we've got claims that are exactly or similar to Aries Tech, which they are so vague.
	They shouldn't apply, but I think that they will.
	So we've got mental health, sexual potency, cure all potential ailments, maybe, including cancer.
	Plus, cloudbusting or making rain and chemtrails.
	And we've got the constituent parts of the actual object alternating layers of organic material and inorganic material.
	So it was either water metal or he would use fiberglass and steel wool and alternating.
	It's a Faraday cage.
	Right.
	Bad news, everybody.
	We aren't cassette tapes.
	So we don't need to be in a Faraday cage to stop.
	We don't store information on a magnetic surface.
	So a Faraday cage isn't going to help you as a person.
	Now, the thing is, we learn about, oh, there's chemicals.
	Oh, there's electricity.
	Oh, iron in our blood.
	We're magnetic.
	Nope.
	Nope.
	That's not what is happening.
	But that's what these people are playing on.
	Right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	As we mentioned last week, you know, if you're not going to be physically affected by magnets, Faraday Cage ain't going to do shit to you.
	Like, there we go.
	Yes, right.
	But sitting by yourself quietly in the dark, super helpful sometimes.
	Yeah, go for it.
	And we all need to do it sometimes.
	Sure.
	Right.
	And so that's the thing is like he could be he could have been figuring that out.
	And this is also this is what repression does.
	He's like I don't get to like sex is weird for everybody and we don't talk about it ever.
	So I'm going to overcorrect and say that sex fixes everything.
	Both are wrong.
	Both are wrong.
	No.
	Fun theory.
	Disproven.
	Roundly.
	And he still managed to operate for 50 fucking years.
	So.
	Now we're going to talk about Organite.
	And actually, let's see.
	I think if you want to play the how-to clip.
	Yes, I do.
	Let's party with this and you don't have to turn on the sound because the music was crazy.
	Yeah, I got rid of it.
	And I did speed it up as well.
	Yeah, so sorry if you're listening.
	You're kind of going to miss out on this one because it is mostly pictures of this guy doing his thing.
	Making an organite pendant of some description.
	And so he's showing all of his steps that I will describe in a minute.
	But, you know, suffice to say, like, if you want to watch this, it's in the video and you can come to your, you know, you can come to Patreon and you can watch it.
	It is interesting, I think.
	And, yeah, so let's see.
	We're watching this orgone get made.
	Bless him.
	Bless him.
	Jeez.
	Right.
	Yeah, it's not hard to do.
	And he's got piles of shit that I have absolutely had in my home.
	But it will stop this and that, which is electricity and cell towers.
	Okay?
	So toss these, his little pucks, under them.
	Peace.
	Yeah.
	Peace, Primal 111. Bless him.
	So that's Organite.
	That's the basic like how to clip.
	We're good with that.
	So thank you.
	Um...
	I'm sorry. - Right.
	So, we know, again, now that we have all this access to information, it's such a blessing, I feel.
	But there was a time when the internet was brand new and only bad information could find people to fuck with it.
	It was very like the gun show pamphlet circuit type.
	You know, it's like clandestine information.
	You kind of had to be a little on the fringe to, you know, get it, whatever.
	Be in the know.
	Right.
	So if you got this little nugget of information that you found at the library or something, like, it was a lot easier to kind of bake the lore around it.
	And there were a lot of people that were saying a lot of things.
	They'll sell pens and paper to anybody, maybe.
	That's just true.
	Okay?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So, back to the Graceful Heart blog.
	Here's a quote, and they were talking about the history of Organite.
	In fact, one of the first mentions of a device very similar to Organite was by Franz Barden, 1909-1958, a hermetic practitioner who had great experience with the occult and healing.
	Sick.
	I bet he did.
	Barden's solid condenser consists of a mixture of the seven planetary metals.
	Who's decided that?
	Lead, tin, iron, gold, copper, brass, and silver.
	Coal and resin.
	Practically the same ingredients as organite.
	With a little exclamation point.
	Cute.
	Right.
	So, organite as we know it was first made by Austrian Karl Hans Wells.
	In 1991, he improved on Reich's organ accumulator by creating a device made of metal particles cast in resin.
	Unlike the ORAC. Which accumulated both positive orgone or deadly orgone.
	POR or DOR pin in that.
	Wells' orgone generator instead.
	So this guy, Carl Hans Wells in 1991, his orgone generator turned DOR into POR. Right.
	Deadly orgones into positive.
	POR. Positive.
	You picked up on it.
	D-P-O-R. These are serious, serious terms.
	I don't know why you think it's silly.
	P-O-R, positive orgones.
	D-O-R, deadly orgones.
	You'd think the opposite would be negative.
	That's not true.
	Yeah, I was going to say negative orgones is what I'm more familiar with.
	Deadly has a very specific meaning, you know, in the general parlance.
	Yes, it kills you.
	Yeah.
	Not just negative.
	It's fatal.
	Right.
	Usually with a degree of immediacy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Right.
	So, okay.
	And I've referenced it before.
	What I told Al, you know, before we started this little series, it's like, there's a lot of videos I cannot find that I... I distinctly remember sifting through a long time ago on YouTube.
	And so I couldn't find those, but there's still a ton.
	And one tutorial video, one lovely hippie crafter gal in their home with a videographer who sounds like they're breathing her boyfriend or girlfriend, partner.
	because I know the face you make when your partner has to film you doing something to put on the internet.
	And there's a little, there's like a tinge of morosity.
	Just sadness behind it.
	It was like, honey, I know, I'm sorry.
	Just do it.
	And before YouTube was really big and popular, we weren't necessarily camera ready.
	So you could hear heavy breathing the entire time because it was too close to their face.
	God bless.
	There's a charm to it, you know?
	And you're like, been there.
	I've had to delete a video because I'm like, oh no.
	I'm nosing all over the microphone.
	Fuck!
	They didn't.
	They left it.
	An ASMR thing.
	Darth Vader is the videographer.
	Bless.
	So she doesn't say positive and deadly.
	She uses these terms like DOR and POR very seriously as like scientific terms.
	And she even addresses them directly, right?
	And somehow they had to do with the organic natural element, which is organized.
	And she's like, and DOR, well, we can't have that as deadly.
	But she didn't say deadly or positive.
	Acronyms can sound very official and very important and scientific.
	Don't be fooled in the same way.
	The same Darth Vader produced video.
	This precious angel of a white dreadlocked crafter also invoked the originator of research into these different elements, which should be included to make true organite.
	And she kept trying to, she was like, oh, I don't remember his name.
	I don't remember his name.
	And he's like a researcher from the mid-1800s.
	And she said enough of the name where I found it.
	And she was searching for the name Carl Hans Wells, the guy from 1991. But his name sounds old in German.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So she heard that name and that name says 1800s to her.
	Not unreasonable.
	Incorrect.
	But I could see your line of thinking.
	1991. 91. 1991. I remember it.
	Very recent.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	So Don and Carol.
	So more from the Organite Recipe article.
	Okay.
	I also love how strict and bitchy they are.
	I mean, this is everything, but people that originate these kind of recipes and ideas are present in the Organite community.
	Very particular.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	So from Don and Carol Croft, big names in Organite, they advanced Organite further and who...
	Who would credit with, like, originally making the tactical organite as we know it today.
	Tactical organite?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Remember, tactical organite.
	That is crucial as, like, an understanding that these people are doing, right?
	So, also a note on organite, making the ideas of metal, then crystal, then metal, then crystal, and so on, is incorrect.
	Not only a waste of crystal, but a waste of energy.
	Bless them, they're trying to save you money.
	So, the organite component.
	Inorganite is the resin being made of long chains of carbon polymers.
	Yes, that's true.
	All of them.
	It's a polymer.
	Okay.
	The inorganic is the metal shavings.
	Organite is an induction matrix.
	The metal particles being coated or insulated by the resin act as electrical conductors, which attract surrounding frequencies, which the quartz neutralizes or converts to a beneficial energy via its electrostriction properties.
	That is, even that word, electrostriction, is in quotes, and it is claimed as the Converse of piezoelectric property.
	I don't know that that's true.
	Google did not agree.
	Right.
	So, in essence, the greater the volume of metal shavings, the stronger the organite.
	Oh.
	So, does that make sense?
	Is that checking out?
	Well, none of it makes sense, but yeah, I follow the logic.
	Following the logic, right?
	Yeah.
	And I know it's easier.
	Ah, man.
	So, I have pictures.
	I don't know.
	Let's see.
	Actually, let me see if pictures would help.
	Um, because I think it would make a lot of sense.
	Um, a lot more sense, but I don't really wanna...
	Yeah, we'll get to it.
	We'll get to it.
	We'll get to it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We saw in the video the guy putting shavings and stuff.
	Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right.
	You're right, you're right.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So that's, that's what we're, that's what we're dealing with.
	Okay.
	Um, let's unpack, like we did last time, let's unpack some of these uncommon terms.
	Like, like, not commonly used terms, um, which means something different in science.
	Yeah.
	And so piezoelectricity is the property of certain materials to generate an electrical charge when subjected to mechanical stress or to deform when an electrical field is applied.
	The word piezoelectricity comes from the Greek prefix piezo, which means to press or squeeze.
	As a crystal enjoyer, as a person who enjoys crystals and other semi-precious rocks, there's a lot of claims.
	And crystal is often invoked in place of knowing real science.
	Often, much like how, you know, the Wu has co-opted quantum crystals kind of thrown in there.
	And because, right, so I've included an explainer video on piezoelectricity in the show notes.
	It's really interesting.
	It applies to common devices like...
	Barbecue lighters and quartz watches.
	The guy explains it.
	It's great.
	It's very interesting, right?
	I can explain it, basically.
	So mechanically, quartz has a very specific application for generating a spark of energy that's useful for the inside of a watch, you know, to convert the...
	Like, basically, your watch is tiny, so you need these kind of, like, tiny little parts.
	Or to power one of those, like, long, like, stick lighters, the long, like, barbecue lighters.
	Because they don't use flint.
	They use a quartz, like a piece of quartz.
	Under the same principles, basically static electricity.
	So there's a polar charge in...
	That basically builds up and is released when the quartz piece, having been sliced at the necessary cross section, is a very specific cross section that needs to be sliced.
	I have plenty of quartz.
	You gotta cut it in a certain, like, a very specific angle to expose the structure of the quartz.
	And, like, you need the hexagon structure.
	Right.
	And so, because it's got kind of, like, a little bit of eye, like, eye and eye.
	Ionized charge.
	And the structure is like, you know, it doesn't fit together perfectly.
	So you get a little bit of a quote-unquote electrical, but like an electrical charge on an ionic level.
	Interesting.
	Right.
	And so the necessary cross-section is required and it has to be compressed.
	Oh, I love that all of these things.
	It's so close and so far.
	It has to be compressed.
	And with like a barbecue lighter, it is struck.
	Like there's a big spring that you have.
	That's why it's the click when you push down on the barbecue lighter.
	You need like a millisecond of a lot of force to hit this little hammer onto the quartz and then combine that in like that makes a little electrical spark that lights the lighter when it's combined with lighter fluid, right?
	So also something to keep in mind when we're talking about the application of quartz here.
	As a neutralizer, or a calming effect, or vibe adjuster, which we will keep hearing it, is the wooey meaning in application.
	Quartz is supposed to harmonize vibrations according to crystal healing lore, not science!
	Science makes tiny little spark that makes your watch work.
	But because we know the pieces of quartz are in some electrical or fire-making...
	Simple machines.
	That's another thing like, oh, there's electricity in your brain, so it's just enough to not know anything.
	Yeah, so some tutorials.
	This is what I found fucking fascinating, and I do not...
	No one has a reason to know this.
	You don't need a reason to...
	Like, you shouldn't know.
	No one should know this.
	I do, because I've been interacting with, like, how to make resin stuff for...
	Decades at this point.
	And I've made every mistake you could make.
	I've ruined everything you could ruin.
	I've used all the stuff that's commercially available.
	I know.
	So I'm going to remind us that the tutorials reference Dr. Reich's initial experiments with alternating layers of fiberglass and steel wool.
	So organic fiberglass, inorganic steel wool.
	Fiberglass being the insulation.
	Not...
	So there's a lot of different ways to do fiberglass.
	Fiberglass resin was the popular medium for making these orgone blasters.
	So as in fiberglass boat resin was very common because that was the only thing that you could buy at the time before like craft stores started selling like Alumilite and Virotex.
	And it's also, like, it's been available industrially and for, like, marine applications because it's an excellent, very versatile sealant.
	And it's also the stuff that doesn't work for my purposes.
	Because it has different properties.
	It just doesn't work for what I'm doing.
	I need, like, a nice shiny coat over...
	Let's see.
	I wonder...
	I don't have a good one because I just restocked everything.
	Yeah, I got this.
	So, this is in process.
	So, like, I need that nice, shiny coat of resin on top.
	And two-part epoxy is what works for what I need.
	Two-part epoxy works for other stuff, too.
	But there is a fiberglass resin.
	It's a different chemical makeup that just needs...
	It's like the bottle.
	So, like, two-part.
	I have two bottles.
	That are different colors.
	One is a hardener and one is the epoxy.
	And so that is like one-to-one ratio.
	Also, I'm not good at math, so the ratios never really worked for me.
	With fiberglass, you get a big bottle of the resin stuff, and then you get a little bottle of Catalyst.
	So you need drops of Catalyst for ounces and ounces of this thing.
	And I never really made it work for myself.
	Other people do.
	And...
	Dude, this is amazing.
	Alright.
	Also, what...
	Doesn't work for my needs and what I want to use.
	Fiberglass resin, the kind of stuff that is like the goop is all in one container and then you need a couple of drops of catalyst.
	It's just a different application, right?
	So fiberglass resin does shrink a tiny bit in the mold.
	It also doesn't cure in the same way that two-part epoxy resin does, which makes it hard to work with for my purposes.
	It works great.
	For, like, clear, deep pores and molds, which, like, most of us probably already have something in our house that is this today right now in some form or fashion.
	It also sets up in, like, less than an hour, whereas mine takes, like, overnight to cure, maybe a few days to harden completely depending on atmospheric conditions.
	It's a pain in the dick.
	It's a different kind of pain in the dick because fiberglass is, like, kind of more, it's, like, intense, toxic.
	And technically, technically, two-part epoxy that I use is not...
	just resin now it is refined um but it makes a different substance right it's just different applications right so uh in the same tutorial the reference plus all of the others that are more like contemporary
	so like early 2000s on um once the fiberglass was kind of found in reich's talking and then fiberglass resin was made commercially available again by casting craft you You can get it anywhere.
	Or not anywhere.
	Michael's or Joanne, you can get some.
	Same tutorial claimed the fiberglass resin shrunk and therefore added pressure on the crystal and copper metal inside of the organite.
	This was the most fun part for me to find.
	Let me tell you something.
	So it shrinks and therefore compresses it and makes the energy come out, right?
	They very seriously reference the PSI of the pressure on the interior inclusions as to generate energy from the crystal.
	They are referencing piezoelectricity, which is the thing that makes barbecue lighters work.
	And that's the same.
	Essential component that they are claiming activates the crystal.
	That's why all the Ares tech stuff is like, it's not powered.
	You don't have to plug it in.
	Because there's pressure on the crystal from the fiberglass resin that shrinks.
	Now.
	Oh, I love it.
	That was like a present.
	Because I know.
	I don't use that resin.
	One, I'm not good at volume math.
	Two, it just doesn't work.
	I don't do deep pour molds.
	I've tried.
	I'm not good at it.
	I've accepted that about my reality.
	Other people are.
	So it's very common to include delicate items in your resin art like metal leaf, paper, flowers, etc.
	So this bangle is fiberglass.
	Come on.
	Come on.
	This bangle is fiberglass resin.
	It is 14 years old.
	All of those very delicate fern leaves, they're discolored because it's not UV. That's another thing that's like a pain in the ass about resin.
	It doesn't protect from UV. So they're old.
	It looks old.
	But this is as delicate as you're going to get.
	Or like metal leaf, if you think about it the wrong way, it will crumple into nothing.
	It is difficult to work with.
	So if you're telling me there's enough pressure, because like the barbecue lighter, you need like, you push down like that pressure that you feel when you click a barbecue lighter.
	That's the hammer hitting the quartz.
	That's the type of pressure.
	And it's a millisecond that like needs to make a teeny, teeny, teeny, tiny spark to ignite a teeny little bit of lighter fluid.
	Right.
	So.
	The same amount of pressure won't even, not even just crush, won't even amend a little tip of a fern leaf in 14 years.
	I remember because I got it for a Christmas present.
	So I know exactly when I got it.
	Pressure is not being applied.
	I got, like, I had a ring that had, like, a piece of a playing card in it.
	That was the first thing I got that was a fiberglass resin.
	Also, the back doesn't really cure the same way as the front, so it just didn't work for what I was doing.
	And it's just, there's properties that just don't work for me, but I had to find them all out the hard way.
	So that's why I know all this stuff about these different kinds of resin.
	Pressure is not being applied in the interior in the way that it's described by all these Wu merchants, okay?
	So Metal Leaf in particular, right.
	Are you trying to tell me that you can't, in fact, measure the PSI of that thing?
	What?
	I love that.
	I don't even know where they got the number.
	Right?
	That's what I want to know.
	I want to know how they figured that out.
	Here's the thing.
	It shrinks on the outside.
	It shrinks away from your mold.
	So if you're trying to make something that's the same size all the time, or you're trying to make a consistent thing, that's the thing.
	The gal that made this bangle that came off of Etsy fucking 14 years ago that showed up for me for Christmas, she made it work for her.
	And that's cool.
	I did not, it wasn't working because it does shrink in the mold just a little bit.
	Pressure does not occur to any significant degree inside or at all because those leaves look the same as they did on the plant before they went into that bangle.
	So just squeezing a crystal does not create energy.
	It fucking breaks if you take...
	If you take pliers...
	Ah, fuck.
	And...
	Here, I got another piece.
	And I squeeze this piece of quartz crystal.
	It's not going to make electricity.
	It will break.
	PZ electricity is not just squeezing a crystal.
	Okay?
	So...
	It's just...
	It's...
	But that's what they're saying.
	That's what they're saying in no uncertain terms.
	And it is essential to the operation of Orgonite in this current iteration.
	Because, again, while I was mentioning all these other people, it's the snowball that's baking.
	And it's, like, the snowball is, like, picking up all these other little weird woo-y things.
	Like, fiberglass resin that magically you can buy at a craft store now.
	And, like, oh, we know about...
	And we know about electricity and blah, blah, blah.
	It's more commonly understood, but not...
	It's more commonly heard of, but not really commonly understood.
	We're in this weird amorphous information soup time, right?
	And fiberglass resin in particular works great for their purposes because they are claiming to make a new rock.
	Orgonite.
	Barber glass resin is great because it cures extremely hard if you do it right.
	I didn't.
	It was still soap.
	I can get my two-part epoxy to harden really well depending on the environmental factors and how well I do.
	It doesn't always work and I can fix it, but it's bendy.
	I tried to find something.
	I'm like, I have this shit everywhere.
	So common is to not even have a thing.
	You can imagine.
	It's a little flexible.
	You can get it kind of hard, but fiberglass resin is one of those things that it's really hard.
	It's harder.
	I think part of that is because it's more brittle because it cures a lot faster.
	You've got a much more brittle structure of substance.
	And so it can feel like a rock.
	I've broken pieces sharp enough to cut myself.
	So the resulting substance can feel like a rock or like crystal.
	And if you don't know any better, that's the colloquial term organite sticks because it feels hard as a rock and resembles a mineral.
	So they think they're making like a new mineral.
	Yeah, like I was saying.
	I know.
	It's no small coincidence that producing Organite coincided with the explosion of commercial New Age retail concerns, you know, like popping up in like metaphysical shops in the early 90s and the availability of materials that were either exclusively available through industrial or professional suppliers.
	And they would sell in huge batches if you could get your hands on the stuff.
	It would be expensive.
	It's incredibly difficult to work with.
	And I will say, let's see.
	I wear this baby every time I work on stuff.
	I wear a respirator.
	I wear safety goggles because I kept not wearing them.
	Mike was like, I'm buying you some.
	Stop it.
	You have to wear them when you do things.
	I'm like, okay, fine.
	I have ventilation.
	How dare you?
	How dare you?
	It's difficult, not impossible.
	And like, the more Joann's and Michael's are around and the more you can sell this stuff on Etsy, make money, like this kind of little like cottage industry grew up.
	And like I said, like I said before, like, I almost made some as a fun joke when I was seeing it pop up on Etsy, you know, like, but also the stuff I was saying was like, that's kind of ugly.
	I don't really.
	And it felt a little weird.
	I'm like, is this a religious thing?
	Is this like an energy?
	Like, I don't believe it.
	So I'm not going to make it.
	It would have been fun, and I kind of talked myself out of it, and in retrospect, I'm glad my instincts were correct.
	So, here's what they're talking about more.
	And again, this is going to rhyme with all the Aries tech literature.
	Okay.
	How strange.
	I was hearing this shit, and I'm like, uh-uh.
	I know about this stuff.
	So, quote-unquote, a true...
	Organite, basic organite, is made of only three materials.
	Metal shavings, a conductive material, bound in and separated by resin.
	The metal must make up at least 50% of volume of an organite piece.
	They included a very handy chart about various metal options with corresponding colors.
	It's a lot like candle magic or like, you know, what you see for crystals.
	Resin.
	I know!
	Part of it is so, like the most distant part from what we're talking about today is adorable and fun and cute.
	And I hate that it's got such sinister derivation, right?
	Resin, a non-conductive material that is also referred to as the organic component.
	Epoxy is an organic compound made up of chains of carbon linked to other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, or nitrogen.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	Guess what else is organic?
	Arsenic.
	Okay.
	Whatever.
	We know that.
	Natural crystal stone.
	This is like you have to have, which they didn't use to say.
	Often raw quartz crystal.
	Raw.
	So this thing I'm holding right now is not raw.
	This is polished.
	This has been rock tumbled and polished.
	This over here, this is raw crystal.
	Raw quartz crystal.
	But any, oh, I guess, but any genuine quartzite crystal can be used.
	But they prefer raw crystal, but that doesn't look pretty, so that's not what you're going to find when you search SD for it.
	So from what I can tell, the serious organite makers insist on at least a 50-50 ratio of metal shavings or swarf, which is like, if you...
	They're like, hey, go to an aluminum recycling place, and there are these little curls of metal.
	They're just like shavings, or like any kind of industrial fabricator.
	They have all these...
	It's like a wood shaving.
	If you're planing a piece of wood and you get a little curl, you get the same thing in metal.
	And actually, that's why you should always wear goggles and hand protection, because they can be very thin slivers of metal, and you don't even see them, and they get stuck in your hands, and it really hurts.
	So, swarf to resin, right?
	So, it's a good...
	Suggestion, but that's also a good suggestion for making a solid resin casting, because if you aren't using enough resin, the thing won't be solid and it'll fall apart.
	So that might even be why someone decided on 50-50, because that's what they tell you in the instructions to make resin pieces.
	It's like, not too much inclusion, or else it won't be resin, and it will fall apart.
	Yeah, and these...
	It's on the Airstech website, right?
	So very similar.
	Descriptions.
	And so there's another kind of tutorial.
	I think the final edit was in 2021. It's an earlier blog post article.
	And it's compiling information that is older than that.
	So we're kind of like, we're condensing a lot of older tutorials and stuff.
	And I remember, weirdly, encountering a lot of these early resin art tutorials and blogs, right?
	And this is kind of what clued me in when Russell's necklace thing came up.
	I do want to, let's see, where is this thing?
	So, also, let me share my, where are we?
	Share my screen real quick.
	Because we're going to reference a little bit of what we talked about.
	Do you want to share?
	Oh, no.
	I just liked it.
	Oops.
	Okay.
	Crystal Organite.
	Can you see this, Al?
	I'm like kind of...
	Oh, yeah.
	There we go.
	There we go.
	Yeah.
	So this is where the baking...
	Don and Carol.
	The lovely Don and Carol.
	Came up with this, like, coiling copper around a crystal.
	And there's organite, the Sesco coil, which is a particular coil.
	And so there was another picture.
	Like, there are pictures that are hard to find.
	But, yeah.
	And let's see.
	Let's stop sharing.
	Could you pull that back down for me, please?
	Just to see what they're...
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So.
	We saw a quartz little quartz wand that you see on like a necklace you get from the mall.
	Or a groovy metaphysical store.
	The Nature Company.
	And then there's copper wire wrapped around it.
	Would you like to know where they got the idea?
	Oh, let's go back to the tattoo machine.
	This tattoo machine, there is a magnet in the middle of this copper wrapped, I think you can see a little bit of it.
	Honestly, you probably shouldn't be able to see it.
	I might need to hit some it with liquid electrical tape.
	But there is copper wire wrapped around.
	It's like the fun part of making tattoo machines.
	There's a magnet in the core and there is copper wire wrapped around it a whole bunch to make an electromagnet.
	That's where they have the idea.
	It's not doing anything.
	And then they're saying that the pressure from the fiberglass resin shrinking will make...
	The quartz and copper coil act like a battery or power.
	Enough to create a current of some description.
	Yeah.
	And I have not seen anyone break that apart.
	I mean, the internet's big.
	I don't know.
	But I shouldn't know what an electromagnet looks like fundamentally as a person, except that I worked with them for fucking 11 years.
	And also, I made resin shit, so I know about this.
	This is the weird coagulation of my own experiences, the LB's particular set of skills, that is, like, crazy to me right now.
	And look at it, right?
	Let me tell you, right?
	I mentioned last week, you know, the pickups made the same thing, right?
	Magnets wrapped in coil.
	You know, I regularly change out magnets.
	If I don't like the sound of the pickup, you can do that.
	You can change it to a different makeup of magnet, which is really fun.
	Let me tell you, if...
	If it was possible that this thing created enough charge and it was crystal and shiny and everything and was enough to power like a guitar and that kind of stuff.
	You would need to plug it in!
	You wouldn't need to plug it in.
	If you wanted it to go through an amp, you'd have to figure that out.
	My point is more like, musicians love shiny shit.
	Like, if that was possible, we'd have fit the entire industry would be full of that by now for so many reasons.
	Well, here's the thing.
	Because they are not using real science anywhere, technically, if it was a crystal, and you put pressure on it, I don't know, by playing?
	And then you just set an amp next to it, because that's the science that AresTech is claiming, that you just set this little object in the area.
	So musically it would be wireless technology without any of the need for like...
	If that were in any way true.
	What an excellent example of why this does not work and we know it doesn't work.
	It would have revolutionized the music industry.
	Yeah.
	It'd be crazy.
	So like I already told you, right?
	Organized jewelry was already on Etsy in the late aughts.
	And I almost made a fun little thing.
	But it was a lot uglier then.
	Also, something I had whiffs of while it was going on.
	Like, I saw some of this content.
	There's one specific video in my mind I fucking remember like it was yesterday.
	It was like a yellow table and it was, it was, it was, the angle was very specific.
	And that's whenever, that's initially I was like, I can't find this thing that I know, I know what I saw.
	And I could not fucking find it anywhere.
	And I told you, I was like, oh, this is frustrating.
	But I didn't know what was really up with it.
	I'm like, oh, what they're making is ugly.
	I'm not going to learn anything from them.
	Even though I have learned actual resin art tips from Orgonite producers.
	For real.
	For absolutely.
	And I have no incentive to hide it.
	That's absolutely true.
	Because these people were sharing this information, right?
	And some of you already know.
	When the news finally broke, I was like, oh!
	With the Sherry Shriner cult.
	Um, which has also been referred to as the alien reptile cult.
	So, uh, we're going to get back into the lore and pedigree of Organite here.
	Um, I'm going to try to breathe through some of the aspects of the cult for the sake of staying on track, but I think, um, she's inextricably linked.
	I don't know how to what degree, but she is inextricably linked to the proliferation and popularity of Organite today as we know it in like the wellness woo.
	It was one of the central focuses of her cult lore and maybe the most coherent and tangible substance, keeping the group glued together literally.
	Production was a massive part of this group.
	Also, meth.
	We'll get into it.
	Yeah!
	Meth.
	Ooh, meth.
	It's a crystal.
	Right.
	So basically, we talked about Dr. Reich and then all these other little bakers adding their pieces to Orgonite and making a long story and first act very short to Sherry Schreiner.
	Also, irritatingly, it's not me as to the lack of information about Sherry Schreiner.
	Not a lot is known about Sherry Schreiner.
	There is a, so, and if you want further reading, I will have it linked in the show notes.
	There is an article from the New Republic on the alien reptile cult.
	And then...
	She's mentioned in Anna Merlin's book Republic of Lies, which is about conspiracy, like American conspiracy theorists, and also the second season of Vice's series The Devil You Know, which is definitely on Hulu.
	Oh my god, watch it!
	If you're interested, it's right there, and they're very well done.
	So season two, which is in 2021, was released in 2021, on the alien reptile cult.
	So there's a lot out there that I don't necessarily need to get into that part of it, because it's available.
	I'm trying to focus on the orgone, but it's also really...
	So I'm going to try to explain it.
	You know, stop me if I need to make sense of something.
	So basically, she was an early adopter of what would be considered underground information sharing technology.
	So she made the jump from, like, the gun show New Age UFO experiencer convention to groups on the Internet as soon as it was available.
	She started what was basically an Internet radio show in the early aughts.
	Where she discussed her quote-unquote downloads or like channeled spiritual advice and prophecy.
	So think like Ramtha, Akashic Records, Nostradamus and numerology.
	You know, this is all after the Y2K shit.
	Think remote viewing, ascended masters, like Ouija boards, like all of that channeling, right?
	But very, very Christian.
	Like also fundamentalist Christian.
	So she's also channeling angels and she's praying prayer warriors, like all that kind of stuff.
	Like think.
	David Icke.
	That shit.
	Okay.
	And so I also remember vividly that reptilian conspiracies were everywhere.
	And this is before YouTube.
	So I remember seeing like David Icke shit on the History Channel.
	Basic Cable.
	It was everywhere.
	And I think Sherry, but not just her, hit upon exactly the right time for reptilian conspiracy baking because...
	And baking is what like QAnon...
	I keep using that term.
	They're taking the QAnon drops and then deciphering them, what they refer to as baking.
	So baking is like, you're creatively writing your lore.
	And so she's baking because digital photography was also like...
	In the process of saturating any and all visual representations in media with the reptilian conspiracy, now where film blurs, digital images pixelate, or blur and pixelate.
	And that's a new weird phenomenon for human brains to get used to.
	It also magically was one of the telltale signs a reptilian was catching their eyelids blinking sideways instead of up and down, or like, you see a photo and they're like...
	They're revealing their true reptilian selves, okay?
	So, Sherry Shriner, and what we are more familiar with today, unfortunately, Sherry Shriner was kind of one of the OG transvestigators, and her methods were adopted by transvestigators like Libs of TikTok.
	So this is still...
	Very present in our culture, and it's very toxic.
	So she would analyze grainy, crappy early smartphone images or video that was taken when people were in motion.
	For example, great examples like celebrities getting in and out of cars.
	And if your digital camera didn't have a good enough video card, then fragments would happen in video and make the image look weird, famously.
	One video of Donald Rumsfeld moving quickly getting out of a car claimed that because the video looked weird when he licked his lips, these investigators could see he had a forked tongue.
	So he was a reptilian, right?
	I mean, of all of the people that would be more believable, Rumsfeld is one of them.
	Are you familiar with this kind of, like, weird, like, this weird portion of the internet has been around for a long time?
	Yeah, yeah, the queen is a reptile and all this other stuff.
	Yeah, yeah, it's been around a while, yeah.
	Yeah, and the thing is, is, like, I don't know, will we ever run out of celebrity gossip?
	Literally never.
	Or, like, political gossip?
	Literally never.
	So this woman, Sherry Schreiner, had so much material to work with, she would have these, like, Long internet radio broadcast where she's just looking at pictures and describing things and she's saying she's channeling her angels.
	So she was both an early adopter of technology, but she was also terrible at it and refused to understand it.
	Think Carrie Cassidy and like scalar weapons or scalar attacks when maybe you just need to restart your router, baby!
	Also very similar to Alex Jones, like claims that Anderson Cooper was not actually present at Sandy Hook because of a glitch in the video feed that was broadcasted on television.
	Rather than understanding the quality issues of live video, skeptics of Sandy Hook assumed Anderson Cooper was actually in front of a green screen and it was all an elaborate ruse.
	It was digital video.
	And the thing is, is now we know that.
	Yeah.
	So, now we know that, but it's still happening.
	It's crazy.
	Anyway, so, yeah.
	So, Sherry J. Schreiner of Carrollton, Ohio, through blogs, self-published e-books, Twitter, Facebook, and a prolific YouTube channel, the self-ordained messenger of the most high God advocated for her sci-fi inflected version of the apocalypse with wild-eyed zeal.
	So, that was from the article.
	Yeah.
	The article's great.
	Definitely go read it.
	So, and she was a practitioner of lack of a better term.
	Oh, I also, a really great resource that I also have linked is Cult Podcast did a series on Sherry Shriner years ago.
	Did a great job.
	And it's very digestible.
	And there's a lot more kind of like individual experiences that kind of dovetail really well with the Vice documentary.
	And Paige did a really great job of describing this.
	So a lot of this is kind of like quotes or like rephrasing from like Paige's descriptions is awesome.
	So definitely check it out if you're interested.
	So her conception of evil took the form of the reptilian conspiracy that David Icke made popular.
	I think that's mine.
	Yeah, that's mine.
	Yeah, it is also classic, like classical style, like anti-Semitic, like anti-Jewish conspiracy trope.
	Right.
	Sherry said a lot of stuff.
	She had a lot of time to say a lot of things.
	But basically, how she engaged with the concept of orgone energy according to her conspiracy and some theosophical teachings.
	Probably the dude from the...
	Turn of the century that added the seven planetary elements or whatever.
	It's the life force energy we all have, and the reptilians are keeping us down by feasting on our orgone energy.
	We don't need to physically feel injured, but we're tired because it's also kind of like the psychic vampire concept, right?
	That's a very real thing that happens when someone is exhausting and draining.
	Do we all experience that?
	Yes, relatable.
	This is also now where QAnon gets the adrenochrome element of the Pizzagate conspiracy.
	This is very, it's blood libel, right?
	So it's all like based on blood libel, which were anti-Jewish and starting in the medieval ages, maybe before, but we don't really know.
	Old idea.
	But they were also central to most witchcraft investigations and accusations.
	So who are we targeting?
	Women, strangers, and Jewish people.
	Like, just people that don't look like you.
	Usually bore the brunt of very similar brands of accusation.
	Women's laughter is inherently coded as witchy and diabolical.
	That's real.
	So we are living in that reality.
	That, like, by dint of being Jewish, by dint of being a huamern, you are exhibiting evil qualities through your existence.
	Not by anything you're doing, just your laugh is evil.
	You know, or your customs are evil because we don't understand them, right?
	So once YouTube started, which is 2005, so Sherry started, like, I don't know if it was on 2005, but it was very soon after, and she had hundreds of videos by the time this all wrapped up.
	So she started taking her internet radio show content and her informative websites, quote unquote, basically blogs, which...
	Picture a Y2K conspiracy-looking blog.
	That's exactly what they look like.
	It's almost quaint.
	So that's what that is, right?
	And posting videos to you.
	So she takes all that information of blog and internet radio and starts posting to YouTube.
	And her ministry...
	Quote-unquote, her ministry, often congregated on Shriner's Facebook page where she posted multiple times a day.
	So we're trying to look at how she's accessing all these people.
	And it's another quote from the article.
	In a time of emboldened bigotry buttressed by the White House's trickle-down chauvinism and political paranoia.
	True.
	We are not helping as a society to fix any of this, I think is the point there.
	Schreiner's message found an exuberant audience online.
	Together, her videos have garnered more than 3 million views and more than 20,000 subscribers.
	Yeah, when she was alive, she called this impressive flock her quote-unquote ministry.
	Also, do not forget, this is...
	Deeply rooted in fundamentalist Christianity, right?
	You've read the whole Bible.
	I'm sure you'll keep up just fine.
	Right.
	So Sherry Shriner develops this thriving following through YouTube and her Facebook group and also kind of subsequent groups.
	And so she's like making a OG regular old cult where she has like her main followers.
	They're also mods of her group, right?
	um and she's assimilated the organite element into her conspiracy matrix to boost ostensibly the energy like the organite boosts the energy of her prayers and her prayer warriors she calls herself a superhero and they're superheroes because angels are powering your your flock um and then directing that that energy at the powerful elite reptilians um but they're also aliens just so we know uh yeah
	the other so like even ancient aliens which is a fucking tv show that we like seasons and seasons it's that is part of In no uncertain terms.
	Ancient aliens is part of this conspiracy.
	It is part of the reptilian conspiracy.
	It is an intrinsic element.
	There is a new Graham Hancock series out now.
	Pushed at me on Netflix the other day and I nearly threw my fucking remote at the TV. Well, it's also, I mean, it's there.
	Like, and it's been there.
	I mean, bad news about Rage Bait.
	But like, yeah, this is part of, it's all fucking part of it, which is crazy.
	Anyway, back to my notes.
	Here we go.
	So, let's see.
	So she is making, and I... Again, so what I told you earlier is I can't find a lot of stuff.
	I think that basically, so the cult has a body count.
	There were people that believed, much like Heaven's Gate, that if they would unalive themselves, that they would reach a higher plane of consciousness, that they would ascend, basically.
	And that has real-world consequences.
	And it did, for several people.
	There was also, and what they talk about in the Vice documentary, which I think we'll get to in a minute, but there's several fatal crimes that are associated with her, so a lot of her shit that I could access before readily has been scrubbed from the internet.
	Rightfully so.
	I'm not looking for it, you know?
	And so, basically, like...
	She would, and she did this for years, and she's not the only one, but she was uniquely able to kind of like manipulate people, so she did really well.
	With like, you know, she, let's see, so let's actually look at Oregon Blaster.
	So I'm going to share the old screenie weenie.
	Bada bing, bada boom.
	And then we'll take a look at one of her...
	Can you pop that up there, Farmy?
	So this is...
	Can we get up in there a little bit?
	No?
	Okay, fine.
	What you can see here is like...
	Ugly, right?
	It's like an ugly little puck of like fiberglass boat resin also is what they would recommend using is like kind of brown.
	And then so you have this like and it's in a muffin tin.
	So it's this like square or not.
	I'm looking at it.
	It's a circle.
	Lauren.
	Okay.
	Yeah, it's the bottom of a muffin.
	We all know what that looks like.
	And and so it's got like the shavings.
	Sunk in there, and there's a crystal on the inside, and then, you know, that kind of, like, you can see some of the actual color of the fiberglass resin, like, at the bottom.
	And these are ugly.
	We see, right?
	They're ugly.
	Oh, yeah.
	They are not attractive in any reasonable way at all.
	Not cute.
	Not cute, right?
	So then we look at it.
	No, I didn't want to do that.
	You stupid.
	Anyway.
	These are a little nicer.
	These are the more contemporary.
	But also, I just, like...
	Googled Sherry Shriner Orgone.
	So this is still going on, and they are a little nicer.
	They use clear resin now.
	It looks cuter.
	But basically, when we're talking about Orgone Blaster, because it blasts the Orgone.
	Much like cloud busting.
	So the Orgone gun was busting the clouds with energy.
	Not sound.
	Energy.
	This is the same concept.
	Now, this is what we're dealing with.
	This is what we're looking at.
	Dude, I just, I live.
	So now we can kind of see it.
	It's this like puck of metal shavings.
	And so these were basically like how the thing is supposed to work from all these tutorials is that you have this puck and you place it somewhere to counteract EMF. Was integrated into this lore in, like, the early 2000s, especially whenever we started having cell phones.
	There was, like, kind of a panic and hysteria about, like, cell phones causing brain cancer that was very overblown.
	But, like, we'll talk about that at the end.
	But, yeah, so the same kind of similar, like, hysterical moment.
	And so she would make these orgone blasters, and you would have to put them...
	In places where there was EMF, but also they processed, this little puck would process somehow DOR, deadly orgones, into POR, positive orgones, because the fiberglass shrinks and makes the crystal into electricity.
	And then the metal, the metal is higgledy-piggledy and pell-mell.
	So it scrambles, it doesn't remove.
	The orgone energy, it processes it and then makes it nice into P-O-R. So it converts D-O-R to P-O-R. Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	For example, so Sherry would also go on these, like she would have, you know, she, like any good cult, you have an inner circle and you got to do very interesting, fun things with your inner circle so that the rest of the members can aspire to it.
	And so she took...
	For instance, once, I think 2014, early 20-teens, I think, she took her group to New York City to wage psychic warfare by walking around and praying and placing these little orgone blasters everywhere.
	And she claims that she freed a bunch of beautiful turtle beings.
	She also claimed that reptilians had...
	Underground tunnels connecting all five boroughs.
	We call that the subway.
	She also claimed that her group and their orgone-busting psychic warrior adventure saved New York City.
	And without them doing that, then it would have sunken into the ocean.
	New York City itself would have broken up and sunk into the ocean had they not made that trip.
	Wow.
	So they're like unsung heroes then.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Save the whole New York City.
	I mean, wow.
	So, she has this, like, resin art factory cult.
	And to do all the stuff she's trying to do to keep this enterprise going, everybody starts doing a lot of meth.
	And what we know about meth.
	I mean, that's the logical thing to do.
	Really, like, clear-headed, not paranoid at all.
	Yes.
	Now.
	Yes.
	In 2018, when I was listening to this episode, and also...
	Moving crystal to crystal.
	Yeah.
	So these, like, ugly fucking orgone blasters she was selling for $45 a fucking piece.
	I thought that was outrageous at the time.
	Because what's cute and genuinely cute is there were other Organite producers who were giving people like, here's my recipe so you can save money making these.
	You use these industrial ingredients.
	You make sure to do it outside.
	Keep yourself safe.
	There's these instructions that are for making resin stuff.
	And they're like, listen, because you need a lot of them to go under all of your...
	Equipment, all of your electrical equipment, all of, like, anything that produces an EMF or an EMR, because they'll say electromagnetic radiation.
	This sounds very familiar, but yes, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, and specifically, so there's, like, all right, so, yeah, so that's...
	So she's making money off of selling those.
	She's making money selling trash.
	And they were...
	Flying off the shelves.
	So they need a mess so they can make it.
	Which, that does happen to some Etsy producers, unfortunately.
	That's the nature of small business in America.
	It's kind of sad.
	She also had a GoFundMe that garnered her several thousands of dollars because she had no other operating costs.
	She claimed she was always sick, whatever.
	So she had this steady stream of hefty amount of donations.
	Probably in the hundreds of thousands over the course of her...
	I need money.
	And her conditions kind of remind me a lot of what Romana D'Lo, the Queen of Canada, is doing right now.
	She's not paying for anything.
	All of her members in her cult are paying for her to live and treating her like the cult leader.
	She doesn't have to think about anything.
	She just commands and they hop to.
	What we watched previously is the cloud blaster.
	Now, you will also see the term orgone tower blasters.
	That term is literally cell phone towers.
	So they had people going and proliferating.
	Not just Sherry Schreiner.
	There were other people doing this that I don't know how involved they were with Sherry.
	I don't know how engaged they were with Sherry, but she was certainly in the mix.
	And because she was so prolific in her online presence, I do think that we can attribute an outsized influence as to why the orgone blaster has proliferated as a wellness device.
	So tower blasters literally cell phone towers.
	So, making orgone tower blasters, people are making those in their backyard to put under cell phone towers and power lines.
	Like, the video we watched earlier was like, this works on these, so that's why he showed a picture of power lines next to a road.
	Very hectic place.
	Very, lots of bad energy.
	Hectic place.
	Pollution.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	And under cell phone towers.
	So.
	That's kind of all I want to talk about with Sherry Schreiner, but we're up to speed as far as Organite being popularized and proliferated, but also being so far removed from Dr. Reich in a wooden box with metal in it.
	In the same way that the dude from High on Fire has no idea he's talking about an anti-Semitic trope, right?
	Yeah, it's come a long way.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	So.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	And I tried to find more about like Don and Carol Croft.
	There was this guy, Dan of Bali Gifter, who was quoted very heavily in one of these how-tos I found.
	Charmingly, frankly.
	He was a UK expat who'd been living in Bali for 20 years.
	And so Bali Gifter, what that username means, because obviously these are in forums that are lost or hidden and I can't find them, right?
	Because believe me, I tried a lot of links that were all stone dead.
	So gifting is making and placing tower blasters by cell infrastructure.
	So Bali Gifter means Dan.
	Emigrated to Bali as a UK expat and he's gifting, he's placing tower blasters and he has a whole map and everything of where he put all these tower blasters and the weather was better and it started to rain and everyone feels better when they hold them.
	Oh, he cites evidence.
	Oh, wow.
	All this stuff.
	Well, I'm convinced.
	I don't know about you.
	The article I found this is also on artresinworks.ca.
	Artworks Resin Canada.
	So all of the stuff we've been talking about is on a resin art blog, which I have absolutely used before.
	Has come up in search.
	It's got great suggestions how to not let bubbles happen in your shit.
	Because bubbles are my nightmare when it comes to bubbles and inclusions.
	So.
	All the links are dead.
	Except one.
	I'm so happy with myself.
	Let me tell you something.
	I'm going to wave my little selenite wand to celebrate.
	Also, I do want to say, I didn't write in here, and I assume people know this, but quartz is the most common mineral on Earth.
	It's everywhere.
	It's pretty, it's fancy, but also if there's white rock...
	In your driveway, it's quartz.
	Like, it's everywhere.
	Yeah, it's abundant.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Oh, God, I'm so happy with this, let me tell you.
	So we're going to...
	Basically, I found this Organite dossier.
	Dirty dossier?
	Okay.
	Well, and it was a link to this PDF, which is hosted by OrganiteNotNightShop.rs.
	Okay.
	.RS, Russia.
	So, not totally deniable, right?
	A little valid.
	But also, there's Russian...
	I don't know.
	I feel like Russia and America are just...
	They're girls that don't get along because they're too similar.
	There's a lot of that.
	They wore the same dress to the party and they've just hated each other for reasons that are entirely arbitrary because they act identical.
	So to say, anytime I'm like, Russia, I am indicting America as well.
	It's like, we're both assholes and we act like assholes in the exact same way and we need to admit it.
	Yeah, the same imperialist bullshit comes from both directions.
	And it's like white chauvinist, like, yeah, all that.
	It's very specific.
	Yes.
	So, if you'd like to pop my screen up there and we can take a look at it.
	Spreading, life-spreading energy of Orgonite and the Orgonite effect.
	This is from an article of a lovely publication published by a Russian guy.
	In 2009 called the Dot Connector.
	This is, and it's a dossier because it says dossier on the top, as you can see.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	Organite dossier.
	This was the wealth of information I was looking for.
	I found this at the last minute.
	I found this last night just because I was frustrated and I couldn't find a lot of this stuff.
	So we've got worldwide Organite resources.
	All of these links are long gone.
	Long gone.
	Just so's your nose.
	Organite uses.
	So, let's see.
	This is the Borgone Blaster, the anti-aircraft gun made of tubas.
	Oh, it's such a shame that didn't make a noise.
	I don't think it's the real one.
	I think that's from the Kate Bush video.
	So, it's probably cooler than the one the guy actually made.
	Yeah.
	So, I'm going to read off here.
	Organite uses.
	Let me tell you.
	You tell me if you think Ares Tech is making the same claims.
	And I'm going to try to speed through them.
	Like, put on electrical mains, boxes, fuse boxes, and electric meters.
	Place under any electrical device, computer, microwave oven, TV, fridge, etc.
	Place on stereo speakers.
	Organite, quote, works harder when stimulated by sound.
	Okay.
	You know, because the guitar pickups.
	Place under chairs where you work on computers.
	Place on or near Wi-Fi routers, mobile phone chargers, satellite dishes, anything that picks up a remote signal.
	Place on windowsills if there is a mobile mast within two miles.
	Put under beds and sofas because that's where you sleep and sit.
	Put near water pipes, radiators, in or on the toilet cistern.
	Organite loves working through water.
	Why?
	Go fuck yourself.
	Use it to raise the vibration of Use to raise the vibration of water or food.
	Place in each corner of every room.
	Use as a space-clearing tool, either in problem areas in the home or on a ley line.
	So like Sage, just wave it about.
	Yep.
	Yes, exactly.
	Use to facilitate meditative states and raise your vibrational energies, which is what Sherry Schreiner was doing with this organite.
	She was doing prayer warriors, convincing people that were probably mentally ill.
	That they were not sick and in fact the voices they were hearing were superpowers and then the organite amplifies your prayers.
	Use in stressed work environments from classrooms to offices.
	Carry in a pocket to help with personal negative energy clearing.
	Put in the dashboard of your car.
	Use it to improve plant growth.
	Bury it next to your favorite tree.
	Put under pet beds but adorable.
	Make sure the pet can't chew it!
	Yeah, and place under a mast or pylon, okay?
	So, you need a lot of these, which early on, yeah, you need a fucking shitload.
	So people were buying them at $45 a pop from Sherry, and that was highway robbery at the time.
	So the prices of these fucking things is insane.
	I was going to say, the pendants we're looking at are a minimum of 90, so there's been some inflation going on.
	Okay.
	We're going to get to the Peace Day Razy stance.
	I can't wait.
	So we're talking about making a Cloudbuster here.
	Oh, there's a picture of someone with their cat next to their Organite pyramid and a pyramid in their fish tank.
	Adorable.
	Fine.
	Fish looks happy.
	Yep, true.
	Yes.
	So I busted the cell phone towers in Bali.
	This is Dan from...
	So I just saw Dan from Bali Gifter getting...
	Quoted everywhere.
	I could not find any of his other stuff.
	I didn't look in the internet archive.
	But this is a little map that he made where he busted all the cell phone towers in Bali.
	So this is what I'm talking about, right?
	Wow.
	He's been busy.
	There's a lot of dots on that map.
	Yep.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Do you see this box?
	How to make a cell phone button.
	A cell phone button.
	Just like...
	The Ares Lifetune 1. A cell phone button.
	Which is...
	That bitch right there.
	That's a cell phone button.
	Looks very similar.
	It's identical, except Ares Tech makes it cuter and cheaper.
	But claims that it's the same thing.
	I'm sorry.
	What did I say?
	And charges 90 bucks for it.
	Aha!
	This is the connection I was fucking looking for between Orgone and Ares Tech.
	This is it.
	This is in a publication where these all fucking little whack jobs spread around their little ideas.
	I win!
	I did it!
	This is the smoking fucking gun, and it's amazing.
	Would you like to read the paragraph at the beginning of this?
	Lovely little side documentation.
	Of the how to make a cell phone button bit?
	Yes, please.
	If you can see it, I can try to zoom in a little more.
	Fuck.
	Other way.
	Zoom in just a touch more and I'll be able to do it.
	Can you see that?
	Yeah, that's all good.
	Recent studies have found that the microwave radiation from a cell phone is quite likely to result in a brain tumor on the side of the head, favored by the user after about 2,000 hours of talk time.
	Do we all have giant brain tumors?
	No?
	Okay.
	Yeah, human race has been wiped out.
	A small button of organite will greatly reduce the dangers of brain cancer by transmuting the negative energies into positive orgone, which will have a healing effect on the brain.
	These cell phone buttons are easily made using the same balance of ingredients as regular Organite, although the quantities need to be greatly reduced to a practical size for attaching to your cell phone with double-sided tape.
	Aha.
	That is the same thing.
	They have a picture.
	It's not as cute.
	Ares Tech found a cuter and faker way to do it.
	Right.
	So let's see.
	I'm going to try to speed through these to kind of get...
	Also, this is the exact process I was describing in the last episode and a little bit in this one.
	It's the same thing.
	So find a suitable mold.
	So sieve some metal shavings.
	Any metal will work fine.
	Some would argue that's not true.
	But it's best to avoid using filings or metal dust.
	There's a reason.
	It's adorable.
	If it clogs your drain, it won't work.
	Whatever.
	Anyway.
	Mix in some small pieces of crushed quartz stone or crystal.
	Powdered quartz will work fine.
	Place a teaspoonful of mixture in the bottom of your mold so it's flat.
	Pour enough catalyzed resin over the shavings so it all sinks through and leave it to cure.
	Sandpaper the back and put on a layer of double-sided sticky tape.
	That, that is...
	This.
	100%.
	It's just the Lifetune one is cheaper and shittier.
	Well, the Lifetune one...
	No, I mean, they're bullshitty.
	The one you make at home is ugly.
	This one's cute, but it's the same thing because using a metallic paint...
	That's the gold.
	It's engraved and then the metal, like, and then the metallic paint, like how, let's see, are we somewhere else?
	Yeah, okay.
	So, like Mike said, like Mike told me, you know, when we talked about last week, you can print on a piece of paper, like copper ink, and if you connect a circuit, like if you touch one end and the other end of electricity, you can complete a circuit.
	Same idea.
	They are using metallic ink in these, which also...
	Minute amounts of metal.
	But that's what they're using in these little buttons.
	So you carve the grooves, you know, the micro nanolithography.
	You're carving the image into the piece of plastic.
	And then you're putting metal around it.
	And then in the center, what we're looking at right now from the Ares Tech website.
	These Ares microprocessors are manufactured with precision using a photo masking etching process, which we talked about last week.
	State-of-the-art micro lithography equipment, I bet.
	Carving is very sophisticated these days in manufacturing.
	The etch, even like this, this window was open and Mike walked past it.
	And he was like, we use all those, we use microns, we use all those words in printmaking.
	I'm like, honey, I know.
	So stupid.
	The etched nano slits are made to the exact width specifications of 0.4 microns and depth of 8 microns.
	He deals with this stuff, printing posters every day.
	Right.
	Yeah, right?
	So, the result is unmatched efficiency and effectiveness of the microprocessor.
	And we have a picture of, like, basically the exploded...
	So, like, if you get a modern...
	Oh, it feels like a Vandercook press.
	So, like...
	Oh, fuck.
	What's the...
	That's the specific name.
	I can't think of right now a specific type of printing.
	Where you have, like, a metal.
	It's how all...
	Newspapers used to be made.
	It's basically...
	It was like a lithotype.
	Was it lithotype?
	Anyway.
	Guys that translated the news article and then typed it out and made the block that would print the article in the paper.
	They would...
	And all the layout wingdings and everything.
	They would type out...
	They would type on this big, essentially like a forge machine, and so they would hit a typewriter, and then those words would be cast in lead inside the machine, and then that lead cast of the paragraph of words would be sent over to get set into the big slab of words that are used to print newspapers.
	Yes.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The exact same process is for any kind of like...
	The word is escaping me because my brain is a conspiracy against me.
	I should probably get one of these live tunes.
	Or I'm just aging and that's normal.
	Right.
	So this circular diffraction lattice is what they're showing us.
	It's just the thing that prints any stuff that embosses a piece of paper.
	It's how newspapers were printed.
	It's just basic printing manufacturing stuff.
	And what they're claiming, the circular diffraction lattices are like...
	Taking the energy and scrambling it all around.
	This picture is of the, like, the metal, like the lead ingot that would print a word on a piece of paper for a newspaper.
	This prints that image, that little blue fuzzy image in the middle, onto these Airstec stickers.
	So it's printing that picture.
	And I also saw...
	Yeah, so this is the self-affine matrix.
	This equation that means nothing in this context that we're looking at, I saw it somewhere.
	I couldn't find it again.
	I hate myself for that.
	But yeah, so there's all this, like, we're back on the structure page of the Aries Tech website, which actually I couldn't find again.
	But I had it saved in my history, so I found it here.
	And I don't remember exactly where I got it.
	So we have metal, we have resin, and thus, I'm reading from this little block of text, thus, without any need for a special energy source, the Aries microprocessor can use incident radiation to create its own wave superposition in the form of a space-time fractal quote-unquote crystal that can efficiently transform electromagnetic radiation it interacts with of various behavior,
	character and intensity into a coherent state d-o-r to p-o-r yeah What they are saying, actually, but right before this, basically what they're talking about is we figured out a way to, like, that little metal ingot for printing.
	They scientifically deduced the perfect random configuration that would mimic A crystal, but not actually be a crystal.
	So it would act like the crystal, the crystal wrapped in copper in the center of a piece of organite.
	That it would act like a crystal, but not have to be a crystal.
	So you don't even have to have a crystal.
	You just print the inside of a crystal onto whatever piece of plastic is inside that button, the cell phone button.
	Well, that's convenient.
	Uh-huh.
	I don't know that that's...
	I mean, I would think if that was possible, that Bic would do that with their barbecue lighters instead of actually use quartz.
	Who knows?
	That's what they're saying at the end of this.
	And let me tell you, it was no mean feat figuring that out, but I got there.
	So...
	I think, in no uncertain terms...
	I've proven exactly what the fuck my theory was.
	It's right there.
	I cannot tell you how thrilled I am.
	I'm smart and capable.
	I'm very proud of myself.
	I found that fucking cell phone button thing and I was like, that's Ares tech.
	That's exactly what that is.
	That's it.
	That's it.
	Fuck me.
	And they're selling packs of six because you have to put them on everything just like orgone blasters.
	Get it?
	Yeah.
	What'd I say?
	It's the exact same thing, just more expensive and stylized.
	I fucking get it!
	Get it!
	I know it!
	Ha!
	I win!
	It's sad and I win.
	Yeah, man.
	Yeah, now we get to charge $250.
	Oh, fuck.
	All right, well, still.
	$7 for a magnet.
	Go fuck yourself, right?
	Silly.
	So, I do want to...
	Yeah, yeah.
	Hi, I win.
	I figured it out.
	Suck it, everyone.
	Everyone can suck it.
	And also everyone listening and paying attention right now, you can also tell everyone to suck it.
	Thank you for coming along this journey with me.
	Now, what I do want to address as a coda to all of this is like, of course, electronics are bad for you, but not how they say they are.
	If you think about the reality of like, smartphones are packed.
	With highly addictive technology.
	And it's only gotten worse since, what, 2009 when that dossier was released and compiled?
	Where do we find out about bad news, bad weather?
	You find out you're late for work, rejected by a friend or loved one.
	The vector for all bad news we get has become our phones.
	That are also our alarm clocks that bother us to wake up every morning.
	Phones or apps like TikTok have parents convinced that some outside force...
	Some mysterious other is corrupting their child.
	Not that their child is growing up and learning about the world, but doesn't fit with their parents' worldview.
	Kids who go no contact with parents?
	Oh, the parents don't self-assess or introspect.
	They blame technology.
	And that's exactly what's happening.
	This is a tale as old as fucking time.
	And it's happening in this particular iteration.
	And I'm positive that, like, first of all, none of this would not come from the prolific predator, Dr. Reich.
	Dr. Wilhelm Reich.
	And it definitely, I believe, was proliferated and helped because Sherry Schreiner was selling these things like fucking hotcakes to the point where she had to have her cult makers take meth to make more.
	So that means there's a lot of detritus, including what I almost did myself, is to see on Etsy, I'm like, oh, that looks like a fun thing to make.
	I'll make one prettier and then people want to buy mine.
	That's how retail works.
	That's how the market works.
	So, of course.
	Electronics are perceived as a source of stress, especially for people who've got their head jammed so far up their own ass.
	They can smell their hair and they don't want to engage with the reality of how electronics work and how our new digital world exists.
	Like thinking that pixelated pictures are actually exposing reptilians.
	So you are specifically like...
	You're specifically...
	Preying on people that are looking for an answer that is not obvious.
	It is obscure.
	Systemic.
	Yes.
	So I do want to wrap this up with like, as far as what really stuck with me was the episode of Penn and Teller Bullshit where they talk about aromatherapy.
	And there's like a couple that are research scientists that are like the control.
	They're the science part.
	And they also have the wooey part.
	And they did a study on the efficacy of aromatherapy.
	Is effective, but not how we think, and definitely not how companies like doTERRA and Young Living market their products.
	Certain smells and formulations do not matter.
	Thieves oil does not protect you from germs or illnesses because we have roundly disproven the miasma theory of disease.
	Thieves oil is like grave robbing thieves oil or like thieves.
	So the lore is that this particular combination of smells, all the grave robbers would wear it and they wouldn't get sick around all the dead people.
	It's the plague doctor mask where the mask is supposed to be filled with aromatic herbs.
	That's the miasma.
	That is not true.
	They were onto something because if something's rotten, it smells bad, and there's also bacteria present, but it's not the smell that makes you sick.
	It's the germs that make you sick.
	So those ideas did lead to one form of very real science, but then letting them still float around and confuse the situation is how you get anti-vax, right?
	Right.
	So the miasma theory of disease...
	Thieves can't protect you from germs or illness.
	It can, however, potentially garner you a lot of compliments for smelling nice.
	Because that's been my anecdotal experience in surprising situations, like when I was in line for my breakfast bagel about a couple weeks ago.
	Because it smells good.
	It smells like cinnamon.
	the researchers did show that nice smells what we perceive to be nice smells make us feel nice it gives our brain a nice feeling if we associate calmness with the smell of lavender then smelling lavender will make us feel calm there is something to be said about brain chemistry being like oh i like that ironically after i watched that episode i dove headfirst into aromatic oils and shit because i was like oh yeah it does it's great and you find something that smells good now if i have a hard time yeah go ahead
	i have boxes of incense in in this room just just saying i Love the stuff.
	Well, if I have a hard time concentrating, sometimes incense helps.
	It's one of those senses that you can use.
	Mike has picked up on it too.
	It's this thing that's just like, okay, if I need to reset my brain, different smell.
	You know, it's one of those like olfactory kind of like, you know, you trick your brain to like make your own little Pavlovian response, right?
	Conversely, we can train ourselves to panic at the thought of having to open our laptop.
	There's work in there.
	There's technical gremlins in there.
	Frustration, customer service, all that shit that pisses us off the most, like road rage pisses us off, like instant anger.
	You will associate that with your computer because that's when things happen that make no sense and you can't do anything about it.
	Makes perfect sense to have bad feelings for the places where this bad news comes from, but it's not the EMF or EMR, which...
	EMR was what Dan of Bali Gifter was using.
	And that's not electromagnetic field EMF. It was electromagnetic radiation.
	So what I sussed out last week was like an old idea that someone else was saying, I'm not going to say field.
	I'm going to say radiation.
	They mean the exact same thing, but radiation sounds scarier.
	And that's exactly what Aries Tech is doing.
	So if the sticker makes someone feel better, which...
	Reviews say it does.
	It might legitimately have a placebo effect for a period of time, but the novelty will wear off well before you get $89 worth.
	There's 25%, even $50 worth.
	A peace of mind, you will not get that.
	You will not get the return on your investment.
	So...
	Is it a scam?
	Yep.
	That's...
	Yep.
	There it is.
	I did it.
	I win.
	No one will care.
	That's fine.
	It's for our edification, guys.
	Yep.
	We all know.
	Yeah.
	And it's not to say that we didn't instinctively know it was bullshit, but I wanted to know if what the orgone...
	Like, my orgone sensor...
	Not how they made it.
	My bullshit detector was like, ding, ding, ding.
	This seems...
	Yeah, and it's nice to be able to pin these things down as to why they're bullshit, specifically.
	That's what you'll need if you come across it in the wild.
	Yeah, why and where they came from.
	And these are half-baked ideas, but at the same time, I am of two minds about it, especially with folk art and folk art environments, the things that I really love about America.
	And I really celebrate a lot of outsider art is drenched in quackery or comes from quackery or the only way that...
	They can build a business around something is if a guy thinks that oranges will save your life and will cure all ailments if you eat enough oranges that you kind of turn a little orange like a flamingo.
	Like, that's the orange show in, I think, in Houston.
	Like, that's a real thing and that would not exist if some quack didn't have harebrained ass ideas about health.
	But he's not hurting anybody with eating a lot of oranges.
	Well, maybe he did.
	That's the thing.
	If there's a body count, that's the part that we have to be critical of.
	And it's really unfortunate because there is this kind of exuberant creativity that is adorable.
	Like making a tuba cannon?
	Great.
	Cute.
	Cool.
	Awesome.
	Yeah.
	Love it.
	But having access to victims for your entire adult life and career until you die in prison, not so cool.
	Yeah.
	To me, it's a similar notion to Wim Hof.
	It's like, yeah, the thing you're doing can be beneficial and there are some aspects of this that are correct, but also you're responsible for a lot of people dying.
	Getting up early, waking up, having a quick dip.
	Yes!
	That's the thing.
	Isolation tank.
	Yes!
	And even the argument was made in How Too Heretic that...
	It was a government overreach to, like, destroy all this guy's stuff and whatever, and also still didn't stop the ideas, unfortunately.
	And that's when the FDA took a much heavier hand and it didn't do shit.
	This is still proliferating.
	So that's an unfortunate reality.
	But also, like, I think maybe it was...
	There may have been an element of the similar thing that, like, they get Al Capone on tax evasion.
	And if we're familiar with true crime and serial killers, it's very common for only a few of the victims to actually be taken to the court and then get the person...
	Usually a man locked up away forever and to keep the rest of us safe from that person because they are dangerous in society.
	But there's usually other victims that are attributed very credibly.
	But like, well, we already got it and we don't want to risk losing a case by including too many victims because of the different circumstances.
	So it could have been.
	I don't know.
	This is speculation that the FDA was like, this guy is a menace and a terror.
	You think about prosecuting like.
	Prosecuting sex crimes in 1954?
	Oh, I don't know that they had the tools.
	We barely have the tools now.
	Yeah.
	So they probably were like, well, the FDA can get him on this and we're going to put him away because it's a danger to society.
	So it may have seemed like overreach in that part of the story, but I think if you look at it, but also that's speculative.
	I don't know.
	But yeah, there's a reason that your electronics are stressful and it's not.
	It's not electromagnetic radiation.
	Yeah, it's not organs.
	Yeah.
	Cool!
	Well, we did it, everybody.
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	Bye!
	And who is dead?
	You know what?
	I'm going to stay on topic this week.
	Wilhelm Reich, still fucking dead.
	What an incredible fraudster.
	Okay.
	Bye!
	That's not win-win-win.
	That's lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie.

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