Episode 85. A Discussion with Comedian Deece Casillas
CONTACT US: Email: paranaughtica@gmail.com Twitter: @paranaughtica Facebook: The Paranaughtica PodcastContact Cricket: Website: www.theindividuale.com Twitter: @Individualethe (correction: I (Coop), suggested that the politician who shot her dog was Tulsi Gabbard, I was wrong, it was Kristi Noem who I was thinking of)Today we have a comedian joining us, the one and only DEECE CASILLAS! Deece Casillas is an internationally touring comedian originally from L.A. and now living in San Antonio, Texas, who has performed internationally including all over the United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, and the Bahamas. He has been featured on LMAO TV, Amazon Prime, Tubi, Apple TV, Roku Comedy Channel, has recorded two albums: The Northwest Comedy Mixtape Vol. 1 + 2.Deece was voted Northwest's Best Comic the last four years in a row, and is a two time winner of the 50 Hour Film Slam Sketch Festival in Spokane, WA.....and has recently released his 1-hour special: "Not Your Cup of Tea" which is absolutely hilarious. He was a regular writer for the comedy website Points In Case, and published his first book in 2011 called, “Insomniac”, which is a psychological thriller...and he is releasing his debut comic book, titled, “KILL STAN”, later this year (2024). We will be touching on a very wide range of topics including MKULTRA, Stephen Paddock and the Harvest Festival shooting, Thomas Crooks and the Trump fiasco, the drug culture, Kovid, Kameltoe Harris’ Policies?, government terror attacks under the name of ‘drills’, doing shows on the road, Deece’s worst times touring, and of course, the Catholic Church.Enjoy.CONTACT DEECE CASILLAS:IG: @deece.comedyInferno.earth (comic book)Email: deececomedy@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
So, Deez Casillas, internationally touring comedian who has performed all over the United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, and Bahamas.
And he's been featured on LMAO TV, Amazon Prime, Tubi, Apple TV, Roku Comedy Channel, and has recorded two albums, the Northwest Comedy Mixtape Volume 1 and 2. Deese was voted Northwest's Best Comic the last four years in a row and is a two-time winner of the 50-Hour Film Slam Sketch Festival in Spokane,
Washington, and has recently released his one-hour special, Not Your Cup of Tea, which is absolutely hilarious.
I watched all that.
That was good, man.
Good stuff.
Thank you.
Thank you.
He was a regular writer for the comedy website Points in Case and published his first book in 2011 called Insomniac, which is a psychological thriller, and he is releasing his debut comic book titled...
Kill Stan, later this year, 2024.
Originally from LA and now living in San Antonio, Texas.
Dece, welcome to the show.
What's up?
Thanks, guys.
You know what?
I should have sent you the abridged bio, but that's all right.
These people, now everyone really knows me.
You know, my favorite movie, Snow Dogs.
I lost my virginity at 14. I am circumcised.
Anything else they need to know that I should put in that bio that didn't get from that?
Oh, that's great, man.
And I do apologize for my Barbra Streisand look today, man.
Wasn't really going for it.
Just kind of happened this way.
Nobody complains about Babs.
Come on.
Exactly. So you wanted to come on today to talk about MKUltra and possibly a little paranormal, which, I mean, we're all about.
Yeah, a little bit of everything.
However you guys want to do it, man.
I like what you guys are doing.
I'm into all that.
Pretty much anything.
It has to do with conspiracy.
Although I even hate the term conspiracy.
I hate it.
It's like people who are pro-life.
It implies that the other half is pro-death.
Exactly. It's only controlling the language to control the narrative.
I feel like it's just...
Stigma around conspiracy that I don't like.
I like that it's just conspiracy now.
They just kind of drop the theory like, okay, we can't even pretend it's false anymore.
You're just dumb for believing it anyways.
Well, I mean, we're taking the term and we're bringing it.
We're bringing it back to a more positive light.
We're embracing the term conspiracy theorist now.
That kind of means something these days because we're like batting a thousand, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, we have this batshit crazy conspiracy theories that are just fucking batshit stupid.
And then you have the ones that are like, okay, what really happened at the Las Vegas shooting?
Sure. Who really was Steven Paddock, you know?
Those aren't conspiracies.
I mean, they're conspiracies because there are multiple people.
More than three people talking about a plan to carry out.
And you can make theories about them.
So, therefore, you can make theories about those conspiracies.
So, you know.
Yeah, well, the crazy thing about these days when you start talking to people about these things, what blows my mind is you present to them actual facts and information.
And then they're just like, yeah, what are you going to do?
And it's like, no.
There's no adjusting of, like, when you're like, hey, isn't it weird that in the Las Vegas shooting that, like, 18 of the witnesses who were on the ground, they were vocally saying that there was another shooter on the ground.
All those people randomly committed suicide in, like, an 18-month span.
Like, is that weird?
Is that not odd?
You know?
I mean, that'd be really upsetting that nobody believed me.
I'd just do it too.
I mean, definitely nothing to that.
And the crazy thing is, they said like a third of the victims are like 60 dead, right?
They said a third of them had headshots.
So, like, that's just crazy, man.
Perfect headshots.
Cops are walking around like, look at that.
It's right in the middle of his forehead.
It's almost like people were just being executed.
That's the guy the CIA should have tried to get to shoot Trump.
He would have got the job done, I guess.
They wanted to do it.
He wasn't available.
Somebody was depressed about something they learned on that day.
Well, there wasn't enough DEI going on.
They couldn't find someone to replace a white person.
Sure. Yeah, I am a...
You're going to have to let a guy come in with a wheelchair next time.
It's just how it's going to have to be.
He'll bring a lift with.
They'll help him set it up.
Holy fuck.
Yeah, that's actually funny ties into all this nicely because I do have a theory that there's...
That the shooter quite possibly could have been tied to still MKUltra stuff that's going on.
Because that is too convenient, man.
I don't think that this was just some random kid.
I think it was a plan that went...
The shot didn't land, and then they just got to scrub it.
They didn't even have a press conference about it.
They just memory-holded this whole thing, and no one talked about it.
It was a big deal for three days, and then it's just gone.
Gone, dude.
Little things come out now and then, but yeah, mainstream media does not cover any of them at all.
If someone were to take a shot at Biden or Harris or anyone, I mean, that would be still, they'd be breaking a fucking tap.
We'll be breaking that down every goddamn evening.
There'd be a bracket in the news cycle.
With updates every week, just constantly showing you when other stuff is on.
Like those COVID numbers?
But we don't have to worry, because the CIA went out of their way to say that MKUltra had nothing to do with it.
I totally believe it.
So we can be extremely reassured that that definitely didn't happen, and we're all very paranoid for thinking that.
Yeah, you know, officially MKUltra ceased to exist in like 1972, I think, was when they officially shut it down.
But, I mean, that's bullshit.
There's no way that...
The CIA doesn't just stop using things that are beneficial to them.
No. They also claimed it didn't work, which I'm pretty much doubting as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's ask Charles Manson about that.
It didn't work at all, guys.
Or Jim Jones.
Yeah, I think they definitely had something to do with this shooting.
I think likely Kennedy with Oswald.
And then what's his name?
The guy that shot Oswald.
Also, what was his name?
Who's the guy that shot Oswald after?
Jack Ruby.
Jack Ruby.
Yes, with the gang ties.
After getting turbo cancer.
Or he got turbo cancer afterward.
Yeah. All these guys had ties to Jolly West.
And who was Jolly West?
Because he was a huge psychiatrist, wasn't he?
Yeah, yeah.
So he actually had interactions with all these guys, with Jack Ruby, with Manson.
And he was just kind of this mysterious figure who was just like, what?
He was associated with one university.
I'm trying to remember which one.
Let's see.
UCLA? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
University of California.
Yeah, he was at UCLA.
But, yeah, he was absolutely intrinsically tied with the MKUltra project.
I mean, he was at the Haight-Ashbury Clinic in San Francisco where they were...
Where they were conducting like Operation Midnight Climax.
Are you familiar with that?
George White, yep.
Yeah, so yeah, where they would dose up the Johns and then watch these guys all.
But also that's where they first encountered like Manson and stuff like that, where he didn't.
He was involved with Visit Manson in prison multiple times and it's, yeah.
Wild scenario.
So he was definitely part of the whole Laurel Canyon, all that shit coming out in Laurel Canyon.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, well, they say that actually Manson never really did, because he didn't actually commit any of the...
Killings. And they say he actually never even dosed himself, that he was never even taking the drugs.
He would get these other people drugged up and was kind of like the CIA's middleman because they just wanted to undermine the hippie movement.
It's scary because it was actually an effective revolution that was happening in the 60s and the establishment wanted to undermine them and make them look dangerous in the eyes of the culture.
So how do we do that?
Well, let's have these crazy hippies kill a bunch of people up in the Hollywood Hills and make everyone be paranoid.
Which is insane because...
It's the same group of deep state people who were pushing all the LSD with the Grateful Dead and like Janis Joplin.
All those people, like the CIA, these groups are like pushing acid out to people.
They wanted people to eat acid.
Backfired on them.
Well, it's like they had different factions and they kind of like fight amongst each other inside the deep state.
Like each one has their own agenda and they're like battling each other to carry out each other's agendas or some shit.
Yeah. Well, I mean, the CIA has long been in control of the drug trade in America and involved in it worldwide.
You know, if you look at, like, the 80s with Ricky Ross and the cocaine epidemic, I mean, he was working for the CIA the whole time.
If you know that story about the guy, what'd they make a movie about him?
Tom Hanks, or, you know, Tom Cruise did that movie, Made in America.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Barry... Bury something?
Yeah, something.
I mean, guys who they ended up finding out were working for the CIA.
And again, that's one of those things where when you start telling people these facts and be like, no, this isn't hearsay, this isn't conspiracy, this is fact, and you show them evidence, and again, normal day-to-day people are just like...
Yeah, crazy, man.
Like, no, not crazy.
Fucking nuts.
Like, react bigger.
I need you to not be like, you know, this should be a bigger issue that you're concerned about, you know?
Exactly, man.
People, yeah, it's, you know, the old saying, ignorance is bliss.
And it's like, it truly is for a lot of people when they just keep their head in the sand and they, you know, you tell them these things and they just don't want to hear it.
They just don't want their cognitive dissonance.
To be attacked in any way.
They're so comfortable living on this one-track mind with everything just hunky-dory birds and bees and all things good.
Rainbows everywhere.
Being perpetually trained with this shock trauma where this extra upsetting news disrupts the apple cart.
They're used to having constant fear and terror shove down their throats of all sorts.
But now here's an extra, even much worse thing that's actually true.
They get so much BS to be afraid of constantly that I feel like they'd have a lot easier time accepting it if they realized all that other stuff was horseshit.
Well, I think that's part of why they're focused on these things that don't even matter.
It's just like pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Just these little things that keep them occupied and scared.
And, you know, anything that the media is pushing out there that's...
Like, anytime the media is pushing anything, my first inclination is always, why do they want me to believe this?
Like, what do they get out of this that makes them want...
It's like the...
Like, when they started that fuckery with the UFOs last year, when they started changing everything.
Oh, yeah.
Right? So, I'm like, what do they gain out of changing this to UAPs?
They didn't really have an official reason as to why they were changing it after 60, 70 years.
But the reason is obvious.
If you control the language, you control the narrative.
So what they do is they start changing it to UAPs.
So now people don't know what that means and people are too stupid to keep up.
So when they start talking about UAPs, there's no connection anymore.
People aren't concerned about it because they don't think about what it actually means.
And they can start actually releasing files and talking about things more openly.
And people don't have that immediate big scare effect of what it would be if it was like UFOs.
Yeah. And it only takes one generation for...
Information just disappear.
People forget so easy.
So it takes one generation for the history to just be erased, essentially.
And so we grew up with UFOs.
UFOs, UFOs everywhere.
And now it's like UAPs.
The moment they changed that and they had that congressional hearing or whatever it was, it was probably even before that.
My whole interest in UFOs and aliens was just like...
I just don't know anymore.
It's not interesting.
If it's not interesting, that means something's going on.
The government is in on it doing something.
Project Bluebeam?
You learn about that, and then you're like, okay.
So they're using this whole UFO, UAP thing to just get people distracted about something, right?
Are they going to fake an alien invasion?
Well, that's actually...
A theory I've had is that I think it may be literally like a War of the World thing, but like a false flag, where they use it as this cry wolf and pretend that we're under attack and get everyone to...
Give up all their rights, whatever.
Go into these, like, we built these five-minute cities you'll be safe in.
Or 15-minute cities, I mean, whatever they call them, you know?
Yeah. And get everyone to pile into these places for safety.
And then you can never go out because it's, like, bad.
It's radioactive.
There's whatever their excuse is.
And they just keep everyone...
They're monsters out there.
Right, right, right.
Yeah. The Village.
Remember that movie?
Yeah. It's a twist.
It's a twist.
And it's like, that's what it's going to be.
It's going to scare everybody.
Just think, like, 50 years in the future to all the kids that grew up with being taught, like, that's the way life is, you know?
They don't know past, like, those 50 years.
They don't know how we grew up in this world.
Things are changing quick, you know?
And, I mean, by the time we're old enough, like, I don't know, how old are you, Dees?
41. Man, we're right there.
By the time we're capable of getting Social Security, we're not going to be able to get it.
Because they're going to be slicing that off the next 10 years.
And the 15-minute cities are a real thing.
It's planned out.
They have the plans.
The WEF talks about it all the time.
World Economic Forum and shit.
Yeah. I think the people are always like, oh, why?
To what end?
And why?
Like, why do they want to do this?
Well, I couldn't exactly tell you why.
I do know that, you know, money, power, and control is basically what it's all come down to.
And, you know, when you've got...
And it slowly happened.
It slowly started breaking apart.
You know, a big part of it, I think, is when the –
What was it?
Obama in 2008 or something like that?
Or 2016?
When was it?
The Federal Trade Commission broke apart the rule where you couldn't have more than four media outlets.
You only used to be able to own a total of four media outlets, whether it was print, radio, TV, etc.
Change that so you could have as many as you want.
Well, now, like, four companies own basically all the media in the world.
So it's like, yeah, that's a really dangerous thing.
They kept it separate before so you could rely on different sources, you know?
So you could have alternative places to go find information instead of just four conglomerates giving you all the information.
Most of them agree on the same information conveniently and just shove it down your throat.
It's like, yeah, there's no other way to find and disseminate anything.
It's almost like the same person owns all four of those.
What's his name?
Sumner Redstone.
He owns the National Amusements, which owns all of that shit.
I'm looking at this thing.
Nickelodeon. Of course he owns Nickelodeon.
Everything Nickelodeon related.
Showtime, HBO, Paramount, everything.
AXS, BET.
Oh, the real trick was years of training to get people to get so many people that were easily swayed programmed into this mindset to the point where they could conglomerate it in the first place and convince enough people to do things like enforce censorship.
Yeah. Until you get that certain level of saturation, this idea is just going to die on the vine because there just isn't enough groundswell of support behind it to create anything but artificial movement,
which doesn't last.
But if they got everybody thinking this way by teaching everyone a certain way, well, then a lot of people, if they don't actually bother to think of themselves, are never going to alter their thinking and agree anyhow.
Yeah, I mean, it's been a slow trickle.
It's like after 9-11 and the Patriot Act, you know, that was kind of a big turning point, obviously.
In my opinion, 9-11 was just a false flag for a million reasons.
And then which in turn gave us the Patriot Act, among other things.
But the Patriot Act began truly stripping a lot of freedoms that Americans had left.
But, you know, they did it under the guise of we're coming together.
This is for freedom, for keeping us all safe, you know, to fight terrorism.
And people...
We're so scared and also unified for the first time in so long that we went along with it.
And then, you know, so that was like the slow breakdown.
Then they started doing these mass shootings.
And I don't know if you guys remember, but it was probably like 2018.
They were trying to pass this bill about mass shootings, and they call it the Home Safe.
And what it was, it was a lot of things that they wanted to implement that had to do with facial recognition and geotracking.
Basically, it's all stuff that they implemented in COVID.
So essentially they took the exact same bill that was home safe.
They relabeled it during COVID and everyone signed it and it passed.
So they just didn't have the right thing yet and enough fear out there to get people to fully endorse it and go all in on it.
But they're like, Mass shooting still isn't enough to get these people scared to give away the rest of the rights.
What can we do?
Oh, global pandemic.
That'll do it.
And that was the one, the final one that really tipped the scales that got everyone to just give up.
I mean, you see, it's like the way everything's flipped.
I mean, you know, the Democrats used to be the ones who were all for free speech.
And now that's completely flipped.
They're all about censorship.
Yeah, man.
Dude, it's like super demonic, man.
I don't know.
I don't know.
You look into that shit, like what they're all about.
It's like, I don't understand how people could back that.
Anything they do.
Anything you hear about them.
It's like, ever since Hillary Clinton came to the news with Huma Abedin and all that shit.
And like, Comet Ping Pong and this and that.
And it's like, there's another one.
Comet Ping Pong.
That was another of those psyops.
Where the guy who went in there, I forget his name, like Edward something, but he went in there to shoot the place, right?
He brought his AR-15 in there or whatever.
And he shot three rounds off through a door and it just hits the hard drive where a hacker found child pornography that they were trading through James Elephantis' computer at Comma Ping Pong.
And so this guy goes in there, shoots, hits the hard drive, hard drive's useless, all gone.
And then he gets arrested.
It turns out his dad was part of an intelligence community in the CIA or some shit like that.
So all these guys are connected to intelligence agencies.
All these people.
It's crazy.
What's his name?
The kid who shot Trump.
What's his name?
Matthew Crooks.
Or possibly Michael Yeardley.
We don't really know.
They actually traced Cell phone triangulations from his cell phone going to this location in D.C. that's like an FBI base of operations.
It was like a block away from it or something?
Yeah, they kept going back and forth to there.
And then also, magically, they can't get into his phone or it all got scrubbed.
They go to his house.
Nothing's there.
He doesn't even have silverware in it.
You're like...
Yeah, why is this?
This seems weird for somebody who scrubbed this whole house.
Who could do that in such a quick period of time and know ahead of time that they would need to do that?
Yeah, dude.
I've been looking into the whole Harvest Festival shooting and Steven Paddock and that screams inside job.
That just screams it.
If you look at the crime scene, where his body's laying, you know, he apparently, they say officially, he suicided, right?
You look at the picture of where the blood stain is, there's a dried stain, and then there's a fresh stain halfway over the dried stain.
So there was a body there, the body was moved or something and replaced, and then a handful of casings was thrown into it, and a bullet lands right on top of the blood.
All of that would not be possible.
The way he's laying and where the handgun, like, everything is just out of place.
Everything is out of place.
Just none of it makes sense.
Yeah, but again, you bring that up and you're the crazy one.
Or like that, what's his name, who's that guy, the Clinton affiliate, that they found himself hanging from a tree with a shotgun wound to the chest.
And they said he killed himself, but where he shot himself with a shotgun was 30 feet away from where he hung.
So you're telling me he was able to shoot himself in the chest with a shotgun, go 30 feet.
Hang himself.
And now I'm like, yeah, I don't know if you know how a shotgun works.
But a shotgun at close range is not going to allow you to, you know, and there's no like trail of blood or anything.
It just, you're like, this is crazy.
This is not reality.
And people just, you know, they just hear that story.
And if they even hear it, you know, if that is even something that's in the zeitgeist at all, because Lord knows the media is not.
Reporting on that shit.
It is.
It's all memory-hold.
Everything is memory-hold.
You've just got to get the people who stay on track and constantly talk about the things, you know?
Otherwise, it will just be forgotten.
Well, the main trick they get is they always make sure that when it comes to the initial reportage, those ones have got to be their guys.
That's never the independent reporter who walks up on the, quote, scene.
Yeah. Which is a very apt description for it, frankly.
Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely a well-planned scene.
Yeah. Oh, man, I was reading, there's like an Associated Press photographer, one of these photographers.
He's like the official photographer.
He's everywhere.
So whenever one of these events happens, I forget his name, dude.
But he's always at these events, and he's always the one taking pictures, and those are the pictures you always see on the news.
So this guy just knows things are going to happen.
Well, I better go there and take some photos.
And take a photo of a bullet cruising by Trump's head, and it's like, ah, come on, come on.
Yeah, it's just starting to get a little too convenient.
And I think, you know, it's wild too, though, because they're finally, you know, the government is ingenious but also dumb, and it took them a long time to realize that, like, they couldn't,
it wasn't the 50s anymore, you know?
You couldn't just shoot.
Kennedy in the 60s and get away with it.
There's evidence and there's ways people can track things and independent people online trying to do stuff.
But now, also, anytime something comes out too, I'm just like, again, like I said, I'm like, why is this information coming out?
You gotta question everything.
That's why conspiracies can be so weird too because you're like, who's reporting this conspiracy because why do they want me to believe this?
What are they pushing?
Because there's always a twist in every different theory that these guys...
I mean, I'm part of it because I do it too.
But I try not to put out bullshit.
I try to, okay, this makes sense.
I'm going to look into this.
I'll post this.
I'll repost this.
So, sometimes I think I'm part of the problem.
You know?
Being a conspiracy theorist and covering these things and pushing this stuff out.
But it's like, if you don't do it, then you are...
I don't know.
I feel like it's kind of a duty to talk about these things.
It serves a valuable purpose of justifying people's skepticism.
I mean, there was a period during the whole shutdowns and everything where I started to even question myself because the control of the news was so potent.
Where I was like, am I...
Out of line here.
Am I just making stuff up?
But no, all that crap was just suppressed.
All of that was hidden from me.
It was all kept away from my view and therefore I thought I was the crazy one.
And you got to keep in mind that the siloing is a major part of it and that a lot more people are skeptical than you believe.
So we actually serve a valuable purpose of encouraging people that are already skeptical to remain so rather than to just go, oh, I guess nobody else thinks this way.
I give up.
Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, I think more people are starting to come around and get shrewd.
I don't know if you saw this clip on, I don't watch the show, but I saw it on social media on Colbert.
He had this lady from CNN on, and he's interviewing her.
And they're talking about how they try and report the news, this and that.
And Colbert goes, well, yeah, because CNN, you guys try to be fair.
Honest and balanced.
And the audience starts laughing.
That was such a great clip.
Is that supposed to be a laugh line?
Well, it wasn't, but I guess it is now.
Was that a laugh line?
That was so great.
That must have caught Colbert off guard, right?
He probably didn't expect that, or is that kind of what he was pushing for?
I think there's no way he expected that.
Because he's such a fucking liberal cuck.
Yeah. He's so caught up in that.
I mean, he's the guy that during COVID had, like, the dancing needles telling you to get a fucking, get the jab, you know?
You're like, oh my god, this guy's 100% bought and sold.
But, yeah, just to see that, and just know that those people in that audience were like, That was funny to them.
It made me proud a little bit.
I'm like, okay, so they're wising up a little.
Which is really interesting that his audience was laughing about that.
That's crazy.
Well, I don't think...
Is it just...
Here's the thing.
I don't think...
Like, those late night shows...
They film them at like 2 o'clock on a Tuesday, right?
Right, right.
I mean, there are people that go and try to get tickets, but a lot of times they're just grabbing people off the street.
They have PAs going out in New York and being like, hey, you want to see The Tonight Show for free tonight?
And they'll give them tickets.
And it's just like tourists and shit like that.
So it's not necessarily like...
His audience or fans.
A bunch of foreigners who have no idea who he is or what he's talking about.
Don't even talk English.
So it's not like it's just people who believe in everything he says.
They're just people who are on a fucking vacation from Peone, Iowa.
And they're like, hey, you want to go see this show?
They're like, sure, it's the big city.
I used to think that guy was really funny, man.
Like 15 years ago or some shit?
Way back in the day.
The Colbert Report was great.
He was hilarious.
His character was great.
But again, even as much as he and Jon Stewart were both left-leaning, obviously, there was still a little more balance and still a little more parody in what they would talk about and how they would...
You look at Jon Stewart now.
He's maligned by the left.
He came back and said, great, Jon Stewart's back.
We love this guy.
Then he's like, hey, maybe Biden isn't the best.
Then they're all like, fuck this guy.
This guy's a Nazi.
God forbid Jon Stewart have the dignity.
And honesty to look at a camera and look at his constituency and be like, hey, I do consider myself a Democrat, but goddamn, these people they're throwing in front of us are a fucking joke and we need to demand better.
And people get mad about that.
Yeah, I don't get that.
All you have to do is watch one Kamala Harris speech and be like, we want this woman in power?
No. No, absolutely.
And obviously, she's just a fucking puppet with whoever pulls the strings.
Obviously, they all are.
But the fact that this woman was propped up to the position she's in, which is all planned, become vice president, and, you know, it's all orchestrated.
But the fact that so many people just bite the bullet and believe it and love her.
And she's just up there.
Like, I was watching the news today, dude, just seeing what was on TV, going through all the channels, right?
And she was talking.
This woman does nothing but smile and cackle and makes everything a joke and she's like, oh, look at me!
Everyone's, like, praising her, but it's like, look at the state of this country right now.
Why are you laughing?
Why are you doing this?
You should be, like, focusing on the fucking problems.
Talking about these issues, borders are.
And it's like nothing.
She's just up there laughing the whole time.
Like, yay, look where I am!
Oh my god!
Can I get another Xanax?
Can I get a bottle of wine?
Let's do this!
You know, it's just so fucking unnerving, dude.
It really pisses me off.
Aren't things really expensive?
I have a $40,000 necklace on my neck.
It's crazy, because everyone who decided...
Overnight, that was like, Biden is great.
He's going to be the next guy.
We're going to keep him in there 100%.
Then overnight, they're like, fuck him.
Kamala Harris is it.
Everyone who kept touting her immediately, I go, name one policy.
Name one policy she has that you are a fan of.
I don't want to hear what party she's for.
I don't want to hear what color she is.
I don't want to know what gender she is.
Tell me a policy.
You like.
I'm like, this is the woman that in 2020, when she ran for president, she was pulling at less than 1% and didn't even make it to Iowa to the first fucking primary.
That's how unlikable this lady was.
She didn't...
Fucking Tulsi Gabbard came out and nuked her in the first debate, and she didn't even make it to Iowa.
That was a funny debate.
Oh, it was great.
I mean, so you're telling me four years ago she didn't even make it to the first primary, under 1%, and now she's suddenly the best candidate to be president?
No, dude, and she's just not doing any talks with the media.
It's like, is this how brain-dead America is?
Are we this brain-dead?
Yes. Yes.
The thing that horrifies me is that what people are doing in that sort of belief by action that I...
That I like to always mention is that what they're demonstrating is that they knew...
That Biden was effectively a puddle of brain mush the whole time and wasn't running crap.
And are perfectly okay and content with just voting for the party forever.
And so it wouldn't honestly matter if she was replaced again because the next person would be just as amazing and they would bring just as much joy.
In fact, they would actually bring three times as much joy and four times as much strength.
And amazingness and power and will and resolve and other empty words that we can use to describe nothing.
Well, and that's part of the problem because you see people who, you know, I think that's the most common thing is people are just going to vote for their party no matter what.
And you see, you hear people say that where it's like, no, I don't necessarily love Harris or like, I don't, you know, you're not voting for the policies you're voting or you're voting for the...
People who you think will make America better.
The whole lesser of two evils thing, basically.
That is perpetuating the problem.
You are part of the problem because you are accepting their shitty solution.
Demand better.
Demand better of your party if that's what you want.
In 2016, they bilked you out of Bernie.
You all wanted Bernie.
They conspired against him.
They kept him out.
They gave us Hillary, who nobody wanted, who was so unlikable Donald Trump, Peter.
Like, how did you not see that happening?
And then, so we get to the now where, okay, so Biden's running.
He's just inept.
He's dead.
He's a dead...
It's weekend at Bernie's.
He's dead.
And then you've got...
To get this, push this through, you're going to block anyone else from running in primaries across the country.
You won't hold primaries in some states.
So Biden keeps the nomination.
Then you take Biden out.
You give it.
She didn't deserve it.
She didn't earn it.
She didn't get one vote.
And then you continue to sue other political parties like the Green Party and Libertarians to keep them off the ballots in some states also.
And you're telling me this is the party of democracy and freedom?
This is not how you democratically elect a president.
She has not gotten one single actual vote to be president.
And she definitely does not carry out her duties in any other position.
She has not done anything positive for us, the people.
She's, you know, let a lot of guys fucking come all over her.
Come all ya.
So it's...
That's how she rose to the top, man.
She rode the pole.
She rode the fucking pole to the top.
Everyone knows that.
I wonder if she rode Big Mike's pole.
Probably. You see that necklace of Michelle Obama?
She's wearing a necklace and it says Mike.
Why would she be wearing a necklace that says Mike?
Or should I say he?
I don't know.
Is it Big Mike or is it Michelle Obama?
The big was on the back part of the necklace.
Not in the picture.
It's weird she'd wear a necklace that says Mike.
That is a little on the nose.
It's like she's just playing into it, though.
That's one thing.
A lot of these politicians, they read and listen to what conspiracy theorists say about them, so they kind of just, oh, okay, this is going to be fodder for them, so they just do things like that.
Yeah, do they want to feed into it?
It's the distraction.
Just to get people to not think about actual important things.
See, the thing that concerns me about everybody being so eager to vote for her isn't really that I'm totally okay with it just being an oligarchy from here.
Just throw whoever I was out in front of there.
I'll just wait for them to be installed and I'll be good.
I'm not necessarily convinced that getting Trump picked is going to fix everything, but at least the people that want to pick him are doing so with the intention of we want to vote for a person who represents us.
And we want a representative system.
They're doing it out of the place of what...
The reason they're doing it is because they believe they want things to be that way, which is...
As much as I don't...
As much as I have no faith in either one, at least you believe in something that isn't totally just a faithless oligarchy.
I've said for a long time, I think we should make voting...
More difficult.
And by that, I mean, you should be able to, you should have to, and if you...
If you want to officially vote for someone, when you write their name down on a ballot, you also have to write down three policies of theirs you like.
Great fucking, yeah, yeah.
So to prove that you're educated on this person and voting for them for a reason.
And if you can name three things you like about them, again, not their gender, not what party they stand for, not what color they are, none of that.
Not the pronoun.
Yeah, not the pronoun.
None of that shit.
I want...
Three policies they stand for.
And if you can do that, then I'm like, you know what?
I don't have to agree with who you're voting for, but I respect your opinion because you've done your due diligence.
Wow. Now as I think about it, can I even list three?
There's the no tax on tips.
There's the unrealized gains.
What's the third one?
What the fuck is her policy?
She said she wants to close.
She's going to close the border.
I'm like, bitch, you've been in charge of the border for three and a half years.
You couldn't.
Oh, wait, she actually made that a platform?
Yeah, she's talking about, yeah, they want, I don't know if they should officially close the border, but get tougher on border regulations.
And, you know, it's like, yeah, why now?
You know, because it sounds good or like, I don't know who, that one was weird to me because I'm like, I don't know who in your, To me, that was her trying to get people in the middle.
Because the hard left people are going to vote for her no matter what.
So she can stray a little and say, hey, we're going to be tougher on the border, which is a little more of a conservative view.
So if she says that, they're just trying to draw people from the right or the middle over to their side.
That's all she's doing right now, is trying to get those votes.
Because, again, like you said, The people who are going to vote blue are going to no matter who you put in that position.
Isn't that crazy?
You want to identify as a Democrat regardless of any policy.
It's like if they brought out a death penalty to Democrats because they're just Democrats, the Democrats will still vote for it because they're Democrats.
It's insane.
I nominate the goldfish from Earthworm Jim for president.
I'm looking at her policies that she's going off of whatever.
She's just literally piggybacking off everything that Biden was already doing.
That's all she's doing.
So nothing?
Nothing, yeah.
You know, there's some states where you don't even have to go through and vote for people individually.
You can just pull a lever that's like Democrat.
And it votes for every one Democrat across the board.
Just gets a slot machine.
Yeah. They have the same thing.
Yeah, it's called down ballot.
They call that down ballot voting.
Yeah, so you just...
Where you just go all the way down the ballot.
It's fucking crazy.
I have another...
And people think I'm kidding when I say this.
I think we should vote for the president the way we, like, the presidential election should be held like the TV show The Masked Singer, right?
So, like, everyone, you know, you got your candidate, you don't know who's, they're dressed up as an avocado.
You don't know who is...
They have a voice modulator.
All you get to do is ask them questions about policy.
You don't get to know whether they're Democrat or Republican or Libertarian or Green Party, whatever.
You don't know what gender they are, how old they are, nothing.
All you know is that it's a fucking avocado in front of you and they want to lower gas taxes and be harder on the border.
And you're like, alright, I like this.
No gun control.
To vote, you've got to text Ryan Seacrest.
It's going to cost $0.25 per text.
That's who you vote for.
I think that's how we should elect our president because then there's no identity politics involved in it whatsoever.
That would be amazing.
I'm all for it.
You could literally elect a giant douche or a turd sandwich.
But just, I mean, it sounds crazy, but think about the real ramifications of that.
If people were how shocked they would be if they ended up voting for someone they didn't anticipate, you know, like you just hear someone's policies and you're like, oh, I'm
No, that was...
I think you're thinking, wasn't that Mitt Romney's vice presidential candidate back in 2008?
The Alaska lady.
What was her name?
Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin.
No, it wasn't Sarah.
It was very recently because she wrote a book.
Oh, putting her dog down or something.
Yeah, she was just putting her dog down.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it was putting her dog down, I think.
But people are like, oh, she killed her dog.
She's just violent.
She shoots a dog because she loves guns.
Yeah, they're just making a big deal about it.
I don't know.
I don't know about that, maybe.
But even if her dog was...
If she was going to take her dog to the vet and put it down that day and instead she shot her dog, I don't have a problem with that.
As long as she didn't clip it in the leg.
Gun to the head, one shot.
That's your dog.
I almost respect that more.
You're doing it.
You're that final connection with your animal.
I wouldn't want to do it, but I get it.
Yeah. You probably have to pay money to go get it put down anyway, too, right?
Yeah. A couple hundred bucks.
And from what I hear, it's not exactly painless for the animal, either.
No, we...
Before they go unconscious, they experience some...
I heard they thrash a bit.
Dude, it's fucked up.
When I was a kid, we brought a dog to get it put down, and they literally put it in this little box thing.
It was like a giant microwave-looking thing, and it was just a red light in there.
I can't believe they let us watch this.
And they put our dog in there and it just slowly fucking laid down and died.
And I was like, what was that?
They gassed your dog?
Oh my god.
Did you take it to Auschwitz?
We must have.
I don't know where we were.
We took the train in there and everything, dude.
It's a dog to get put down.
It's fucked up, man.
It's a vivid memory of me standing there watching.
I was like, what?
The hell?
I must have been like four or five years old or something.
I was really young.
Your dog was only like three.
You just didn't clean your room and your parents were pissy.
This is what happens.
This is what will happen to you.
Yeah, that's why my room has been just spotless ever since.
MKUltra, man.
It works.
Trauma programming.
Conditioning does work.
Let's get into some MKUltra.
So what did you want to talk about in MKUltra?
Oh, man.
Good question.
It's such a broad subject.
I was trying to narrow it down today, but my God, there's so much.
We kind of touched on a little bit of it.
Well, can you explain to the audience what MKUltra is?
Yeah, so MKUltra was a project run by the CIA that was started in like 1953.
And it was based around using psychotropic drugs and kind of psychotherapy to be able to, essentially they wanted to figure out how to mind control people.
And it's...
There's some back and forth on whether the CIA actually originally conceived of it or there was some German scientists who they think the CIA got some paperwork from them after...
World War II and started fucking with this thing, which seems more accurate.
I think.
Yeah, it seems more accurate.
We did a lot of stuff off the backs of the Germans in 1940, you know, in World War II.
Same with the Russians, too, because they were doing something called, like, Project Chatter or something, and then the United States took it over.
Yeah. Yeah, they were doing a lot of stuff with like similar to MKUltra as well.
They were doing a lot of like sleep deprivation shit that Russia was doing some fucked up stuff with that.
Yeah. Just trying to figure out how to basically like a truth serum, a mind control.
They were trying to figure out how they could utilize this stuff and they figured out that people were very susceptible to suggestion when extremely I guess just loaded the gills with LSD.
I mean, if you, you know, they even figured out how to make it into like an aerosol.
And that's how they did that in at, again, at Project, what was it?
The one in, as I mentioned earlier, one in San Francisco where they get the Johns and...
Midnight Climax?
Midnight Climax, yeah.
These prostitutes would get these Johns in these rooms with these two-way mirrors and they would either dose them with a drink or they actually created an aerosol of LSD to get these guys just blasted and they'd watch them.
Yeah, dude.
Funny point on that.
So what they were doing, they would get basically politicians, people of importance, and they would go in there and get the prostitutes to get them to say things, to open up and get secrets from them.
And then obviously they could use all of that, because they were recording it too, so they could reuse all of the blackmail.
George White, who was leading that project, I forget if he was a CIA director, I don't forget what his position was, but he literally...
Put a toilet because he was in there so long.
He literally just put a toilet in a room with the two-way mirror so he could watch.
And he just had his toilet there so he didn't have to go to take a shit or piss because he wanted to watch the action.
And the next to him, he liked martinis or something.
So he had a big, just a big jar of martini next to him.
So he could just sit there and drink and take a shit and piss on the toilet and just watch these people have sex on LSD.
Yeah. Well, and, you know, I think this was kind of a precursor to some of the stuff you see now, and probably what was...
Related to Epstein Island, where you compromise these people so they become indebted to you and forced to do what you want them to do.
And I mean, that's my theory on Epstein Island, is these people didn't necessarily know what was happening at first, and then they get compromised.
Well, we've got tape of you banging this 13-year-old girl, and we would hate for that to leak.
To the media, so I guess you're just going to have to vote this way for this pharmaceutical bill or whatever.
And right there, what you said, man, the blackmail is what makes this country so shitty, dude, because they're literally put in a position to vote for these really shitty politicians and these stupid policies that just erode our rights.
That's the whole plan.
So MKUltra had a bunch of different programs within it, right?
So they had, like, Project Bluebird and Artichoke.
Oh, man, I don't even know.
There were so many of them.
Yeah, what were some of the other ones?
I'm trying to think.
They also had some crazy, like, secret detention camps, too, that they don't tell people about in, like, Japan and Germany and shit like that.
You know, it was like a precursor to Guantanamo Bay, where they were just holding people without due process, without any actual charges, without any court date, you know, no right to speedy trials and stuff like that.
Let's see.
But, yeah, they use a lot of different drugs.
I mean, amphetamines, mescaline.
Yeah, I mean, anything you can imagine.
Cocaine. Just imagine if you're like a cocaine victim.
They're just like, how would they do that?
How would they make it a liquid to drink or something?
Like, drink this drink?
Well, the amphetamines, if you look at the amphetamines that the Nazis were using back in the war, those guys were dosed up like crazy.
I mean, that's why they were...
Well, they were yacked out of their minds.
And they had like, yeah, like a liquid amphetamine that they would give these guys to shoot them up with.
And they just like, you know, they would just go nuts like 42 hours.
That type of thing lasted well into the 70s.
Because I got a buddy who was a Marine.
And he's a lot older than me.
And he's a Marine like the 70s and into the 80s.
And he goes, when I first got...
We enlisted, and we'd get stationed overseas.
He goes, they would inject us with this.
They wouldn't tell us what it is, and we didn't get to ask questions, he goes.
But they'd inject us with this stuff, and I thought fucking thunderbolts were coming out of my dick.
I felt so awake.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, when you're in the military, you don't get to ask questions about what they're putting in India and what they're doing and why.
I mean, you're just completely beholden your property.
You've given up all your rights.
Yeah, my dad, he was in the army in the 80s.
And just as the basic training stuff, they would throw these guys in tents with mustard gas type shit.
Oh, yeah.
Dosing people unknowingly, unwittingly, and even forcing them.
It's so freaking unethical.
And I imagine a lot of the suggestibility comes from the fact that when you're giving somebody hallucinogens unknowingly, they're not going to think, oh, happy times.
They're going to think, I am having a psychotic break and going insane.
Yeah, life is over as you know it.
My brain's destroyed.
I can't think straight anymore.
They just continue to experiment.
Like you said, all the way up to the goddamn COVID shot.
Let's break some HIPAA rules here.
Did you get the shot?
No. Thank God.
Good fucking job, man.
Not even once.
Technically, you can reveal your own info.
I got COVID.
Because what happened is I was living in Washington State at the time when COVID happened.
And I was like, you know, like most people, I think, at first you're like, oh, this is crazy, like unprecedented, you know, kind of interesting, kind of scary.
Nobody knows what's happening.
And then after the first, you know, like two weeks to flatten the curve.
And then they're like two weeks and like two more weeks.
And then I'm like.
Oh, this is kind of weird.
And then the third time, they're like, oh, we're going to do another month.
And I'm like, okay, I see what this is.
They're just boiling the frog.
And then the information starts coming out, and you're like, this sounds like bullshit.
So I started going to states where I could do comedy.
I went to Florida and went there for a couple months and just did shows.
I came to Texas, started doing stuff.
I went to Idaho, where they were open.
And I ended up getting COVID in Florida before there was any vaccine.
And I had it, and I didn't really know.
I was a little worried for a couple days, but I was just pretty sick for a couple days.
I was still moving around, kind of not dying.
And then it passed, and then I got it again.
And I've had it like seven times now, at least.
Yeah, I think I'm right there too.
And then when the vaccine came out, I'm like, I don't need this.
And I also didn't trust it.
But I'm like, there's no way I need this.
You know, I've had COVID several times now.
Beat it.
Each time was easier.
My natural immunity is way stronger.
And I just didn't trust it whatsoever either.
This fucking operation warp speed.
Let's get this thing on track in three months.
Like, no thanks.
Fuck that.
When they first came out, I was like, this is an experimental vaccine or whatever.
I was like, well, why would anybody want to put an experimental vaccine in them?
The government doesn't even know what it's going to do.
You are the guinea pig.
That's what really got me.
I've been anti-government ever since I can remember, dude.
I don't know why, but I've always been against anything that they've fucking said.
I fucking hate the government, dude.
All my fucking friends and family around me are just clamoring to go get the fucking shot.
I'm just like, what the fuck?
Why are you so worried about this?
It didn't make any sense to me.
They got sick, I got sick, and it was like...
I was very active.
I'm still very active, but at the time, I was extremely active, and it didn't stop me from being active, but my back hurt.
My back really hurt, but I also broke my back.
So kind of exacerbated that or something.
I don't know.
I had basic cold symptoms.
I didn't lose my taste.
I didn't lose my smell.
And that's happened, like you said, like seven times.
My experience was pretty awful, but my whole family got sick for about a week.
And it was rough, and it persisted for a good long time afterwards, like in our lungs.
For almost two or three months afterwards.
It was extremely...
But the actual initial symptoms were only the first four days.
And this occurred actually right before we were actually shut down, which as soon as we got the shutdown notice, a lot of other people were paranoid.
I was automatically freaked out as soon as I got the letter because it was literally one of the four or five scenarios that I'd read for Global Takeover was...
As soon as I read it, my heart sank and I thought, is this it?
I was terrified.
I didn't necessarily look into...
I hadn't necessarily heard of Project Lockstep or anything, but this was literally one of the scenarios that was put forth of how they might take over.
I was suspicious from the jump.
It certainly seemed like a dry...
Like a dry run of that, of how people would react and figuring out how to manipulate people.
And they did it masterfully because, you know, again, they got the left, those people who are usually freedom of speech and fight against the system people to get on their side.
They figured out if you give people just enough food and money every week and keep them separated and in a little bit of fear that you can control them very easily, you know.
Oh, yeah.
And yeah, you know, but no, I mean, I really early on was like, I'm not, I wasn't afraid of it.
I was going to live my life.
I was just doing stuff.
I'm like, if I die because of this, then fine.
I'm not going to hide and not live my life, though.
I mean, I canceled gigs because...
They wanted me to get a COVID shot to perform at places.
And I'm just like, I'm not doing it.
And they're like, well, you just got to get it before you do the show.
And I'm like, well, then we'll cancel the show because I'm not going to get one.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I gave up.
Yeah, they very readily spread initially.
It felt very...
Targeted, so to speak, the initial spreading of it.
It felt like it became more natural over time as it spread through the population.
But the initial one, it felt like a flowing wave.
Everyone caught it and got over it.
And then by the time the shot actually came out, most people probably had already had it and gotten over it and or just never got it at all.
Yeah. And then, I mean, you know, and then again, you know, by the time the shot was out, the information about the real effects of it and the real death rates and stuff like that was already really pretty relevant and readily available.
But people were already still so bought in on the fear, you know, and then they're like, oh, this will stop transmission and this will stop you from getting COVID.
Then they give her the shot and people start getting sick.
Like, well, you can still get it.
But you can't transmit it.
Like, well, you can still transmit it, but you won't get sick.
Okay, well, you can get sick, but you won't get in the hospital.
Okay, you might still be hospitalized.
You're going to get pretty fucking sick.
And also, this is only going to last for like three months.
They kept moving the goalposts.
And then, you know, it's like, so why are we even getting this, you know?
Why are we even getting this?
And then people who have it were still mad at you if you didn't have...
The shot.
And I'm like, okay, well, if you got vaccinated, you should be okay.
What are you worried about whether I got it or not?
You're protected, right?
But still, that was a problem.
It didn't make sense.
That was my argument because I have had a flu shot since I was a kid because it was mandatory to go into elementary school or whatever back in the day, right?
And so I haven't had the flu shot since probably seven or eight years old.
That was my whole thing.
If you're protected against the flu and I'm not, what are you worried about?
Because you're protected with the vaccine.
You're not going to get sick.
That's what the government told you.
So why are you worried about me being un-vaxxed?
I felt very persecuted at the time because I am completely devoid of them.
Yeah, I was like, do people hate me now?
Does everyone hate me?
Am I like the most hated of all?
Because I'm even more non-compliant?
Because at some point it stopped being about, once the BS about preventing it fell apart, it stopped being about whether or not you were protected and started being about, do you have the mark of compliance?
Right, right, right.
Yeah, are you socially compliant with our agenda?
And it's really weird because, you know, it was only four years ago, but it seems like we shifted timelines into this life where it's always been this divisive.
Because it just seems like we've always had this division of like, Are you for what the establishment says we should do?
Or are you a Nazi?
And I'm like, I don't know, man.
I think that sounds more like the Gestapo than anything else, you know?
I mean, you're talking about a literal totalitarian government.
I mean, when people try to argue that, it's like, look up the definition of totalitarianism.
It's waking up.
Every day, turning on your TV and finding out what you're allowed to do that day.
If that isn't the definition of totalitarianism, I don't know what is.
And that's exactly what they were doing during that time.
And exactly what they've continued to carry over with people bought into the party line and agendas, you know?
Yeah, that's exactly it, dude.
And now they're, like, pushing out, like, round two, COVID's coming back, you know?
That's been in the news lately.
COVID's coming back!
We have...
The better vaccine now.
We have a great experimental vaccine.
And monkeypox, obviously, is coming along with it.
A weird little factoid about that.
They're trying to reclass...
I think something's up, because I've seen a few whispers of it, no confirmation yet, that the cases are being reclassed as MPOC.
They were very anal about, no, call it M-Pox.
It has to be M-Pox.
And she's like, but it's properly called this.
No, call it M-Pox.
And it's like, are they doing that because it's actually something different?
It is just M-Pox, yeah.
Like, are they casually admitting that this is a side thing from that disease?
Interesting. Yeah.
Yeah, I'd have to delineate and separate it somehow.
Interesting. Yeah.
I mean, the scary thing is that we now can confirm fears we've had our whole lives that the biological warfare that they can commit in a heartbeat is very easily committed.
And not only that, but, you know, the population is very easily controlled and swayed during this, which it's disheartening.
It doesn't leave me a lot of hope for the future, to be honest with you, because.
I've said this a lot over the years, but we're already divided politically about 50-50 in this country.
And then once you break that down, only about 25% of that 50% can actually...
Wants to do something.
Then only about half of that 25% is able to do something actively to fix the situation.
When you get it down, they actually did the numbers.
There's only about 3.5% of Americans that are actually willing and able to fight for change.
Actively in America.
Holy hell.
Yeah. So you're like, yeah, you're fucked.
The situation is dire.
And that's not hyperbole.
No. And I've had this discussion so much with people.
Like, when it comes down to it, they have the FEMA camps ready to go for anybody who's anti-establishment, whatever.
It's like, when you have a group of fucking police show up at your door with guns about to take you to a FEMA camp, what are you going to do?
Right. What are you going to do?
Most likely, since 3% of the people are ready to fight for a change, everyone's going to willingly go to the FEMA camps.
Just willingly walk into those FEMA camps.
And then the ones that don't are going to be forced.
And, you know, this has happened throughout history.
And what people don't understand is that history does repeat itself.
It really does.
Or echoes itself, I should say.
Yeah, and the problem is, ever since the Patriot Act, now they can detain people with no due process, with no charges, and detain you indefinitely, even as a U.S. citizen,
as long as they feel they have cause.
And they call it whatever they want.
You know, they can call it terrorism.
They can call it domestic terrorism and classify it however they want.
So if you think that, you know...
Oh, well, they'll take me, but I'll just call my lawyer.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Good luck, buddy.
It's not gonna happen.
Yeah, it's creepy.
Medieval peasants had more rights under the Magna Carta.
I was gonna mention the Tuskegee, where they freaking injected all the syphilis into the African Americans.
Oh, yeah.
Like, come get a shot, you know?
Yeah. That didn't teach people.
I guess a lot of people probably don't even remember that or know about that.
Yeah. But they...
Went in, in the United States, and just shot up all these African Americans with syphilis to just study the effects on them, to treat them.
They also did the same thing in fucking my second home, dude, Guatemala.
They did the same thing down there.
Totally infected thousands of Guatemalans.
Really? Purposely.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
And they've done it everywhere.
You know, those are the ones that...
And those are the ones they don't manage to fully disappear.
I still remember stories that I used to read where you'd get whispers and postings of it.
Only a few different sites would pick it up.
And then you go to look for that stuff a year or two later, it's just completely gone.
It's not that it is forgotten about.
It's been wiped.
And then the question is, why would they wipe it?
Why would I need to use the Wayback Machine to find these facts?
Yeah. If you were wrong, why wouldn't you just retract?
Why would you erase the story?
There's another story, too.
I always have problems finding it when I want to look for it.
Because Google doesn't let you find it.
You've got to go on Brave or DuckDuckGo.
I use Yandex.
Also good.
Yeah, yeah.
Because even DuckDuckGo and Brave are starting to get a little dicey.
Yeah, but there was this, it was in like Pennsylvania, somewhere back east, that they let off, they tested this chemical bomb in a subway.
Wait, this is in Pennsylvania?
It was somewhere in back east where they have a subway.
And I don't remember if it was in Pennsylvania, but somewhere back east in a subway.
This is in America, but it was in a smaller area.
And all these people ended up, like, basically everyone in this area started getting bladder cancer.
And a bunch of people have died from this cancer over the years.
I mean, this was probably back in the, I don't know, 60s.
But I'm trying to remember the details.
But yeah, when I try and look it up, man, it's hard to find anything on it.
Was it this U.S. carries out bioterror experiment using non-toxic gas on New York City subway?
Maybe it was in New York.
But a bunch of the people ended up getting bladder cancer and dying.
When was this?
2016. Is that about the time?
A little bit longer ago than that.
So that's a different government attack they did in the United States.
Oh my god, dude.
That was like DHS.
Maybe that one didn't poison people so they can talk about the one where they didn't poison people.
Non-toxic!
Yeah, non-toxic already sounds suspicious.
On this one, it's like, what's the point of putting out this non-toxic gas into these train stations?
What the fuck experiment is that?
Also, why are you doing this to people unwillingly?
That seems illegal, right?
Very. Just throwing this toxic gas in there and, you know, see what they do.
The fact that you have to insist it's non-toxic, if you're conducting a bioterrorism experiment, the presumption should be that it's just a gas that spreads through the air that's non-toxic so you can see where the gas permeates, right?
Like, you shouldn't need to tell people, oh, by the way, it's not toxic.
Like, God, that really just shows how distrustful the government is.
Like, by the way, this time it's non-toxic.
This time.
Don't worry, this time, yeah.
So, scientists with the Department of Homeland Security have been testing the flow of air in subways around Washington, D.C. and Boston to develop a defense and emergency response plan in the event of a biological weapons attack.
That, they do!
My god, five coronated incidents.
Okay, that was Aum Shinrikyo, that was the Tokyo thing.
Yeah. They basically, fuck, they were behind that too.
That guy, man, because they raided his compound, man, the Amshurikyo guy.
He had a government helicopter.
He had all these government-issued weapons, gases, toxic chemicals.
This guy had everything.
Where would he get all that stuff?
Only the government.
A country with really strict gun restrictions.
Yeah, exactly.
You don't get the stuff unless you're provided it by someone who has it.
Yeah, it's hard to get that stuff.
You can't just run down to Walmart and pick up.
Government issue.
Yeah. Military equipment and stuff.
I just picked it up at the government helicopter store.
Yeah, you have to order.
It'll be here.
Just come pick it up tomorrow at 4 p.m.
It'll be ready.
Full of gas.
I mean, but, you know, they've done it all.
In America, they've done it in other countries.
I mean, how many regimes have they toppled and puppet regimes have they propped up to?
You know, they did it in Nicaragua, you know, with the Santinistas.
That was all about the cocaine trade.
Then, you know, in the Middle East with Iraq, that was all about oil.
Then Afghanistan was just about the poppy trade.
Funny thing, so my cousin was a Marine in Afghanistan, and he said that they were tasked in guarding the poppy fields, right?
Because Afghanistan is responsible for just over 80% of the poppy production in the world.
Right? And so he said one day, he goes, all these guys in unmarked black vehicles and uniforms came in and collected all, all the, just tore up all the poppy fields and took it away.
And they're like, who are those guys?
And their superior officers were just like, it's above our pay grade.
Don't ask any questions.
Jesus. Oh, yeah.
And then conveniently, soon after that, Heroin trade in the world went up like 120% or something like that.
So, well, if 80% of it was in Afghanistan and then went away mysteriously to someone in the U.S. government, and then heroin trade went up 120%, where do you think that came from?
Yeah, I mean, they'll do it here, they'll do it in other countries.
And again, like I said a couple times now, you start talking to people about this stuff, and there's no...
There's no actual response.
There's no, like, oh my god, they're doing that and getting away.
There's nothing.
They're just like, yeah, that's crazy, man.
Anyway, there's a marathon on tonight, right?
Is there a new Marvel movie this weekend?
What could distract me now?
Exactly, dude.
Exactly. What's your take on the transsexual story time?
Oh. Is that even still going on?
Have they stopped that finally?
I think that is a policy of Kamala.
To do that?
To have more of it?
It's mandatory.
No stories unread by people not dressed up as the opposite sex.
Even if you have children in your own home.
It is interesting.
It's funny because if you go back and look in history, almost every...
The downfall of every great civilization, right before the downfall of them, they start to get extremely feminized.
And things like this, like transsexualism, starts to happen.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Don't at me, people.
I believe there are some transsexuals in this world.
I believe some people feel like they're born in the wrong body.
Whatever. And if, you know, you get to a certain age and you want to dress different or get your dick chopped off, I don't give a shit.
Do what you want to do.
But, and there's always this pushback of, why are you so mad about these people reading to kids?
And I'm like, I'm not mad about them reading to kids, but do they have to dress up?
Like, is that, why are we sexualizing reading to kids, you know?
Why are we doing it?
Like, just let them go read to kids, you know?
Just put on your fucking PJs.
Put on some sweatpants and a hoodie and go read to kids.
That's fine.
I encourage that.
But when you're adding some sort of element of indoctrination to it, no matter what it is, whether it's your religion or your sexuality or your beliefs in any way, I think that...
You got to be very cautious with that.
I think, you know, kids are very easily swayed.
I mean, you can see that with the way that in, I think, in girls ages like 12 to 16, that girls identifying as transgender has gone up like 1,300% or something like that in the last couple of years.
Like, that's...
Crazy. I mean, again, I believe that some people probably feel that way, truly, but that is a mind virus.
That is just, you know, we were all very gullible and very easily swayed when we were at that age.
You know, we wanted to be with whatever was cool, whatever was trendy, you know?
Like, trans is just, you know, the new generation's Genco genes.
I miss the Jankos.
You know, but it is hilarious to me.
It is hilarious to me that you, so like a kid who's under 18 can go and decide, make the decision that they want to get their dick chopped off and inverted into a vagina.
But then if they want to get that vagina pierced, they have to get their moms to sign off on it.
What kind of sense does that make?
What are we doing?
No, it's so fucked.
It's so fucked.
Yeah, see, if you think about it, the message, the overall thrust of it is really about the same.
Like, I don't know what it was before I was born, but the message when I was younger was, you are not okay with who you are.
You need X product to be okay.
And it's the basis of all advertising.
It's the basis of practically all of society, really.
And it's just the same message.
You're not okay with who you are.
You need this change to be okay.
Nothing can be okay until you consume X product made by us.
And then things will be okay.
But without that, nothing will ever be okay.
And yeah, it's a new product being pushed, but it's the same message.
Well, here's what's crazy.
So, looking up some figures.
So, kids diagnosed from ages 6 to 17 with gender dysphoria.
In 2017, it was 15,000 children.
To 2021, it jumped to 42,000.
Oh my god, dude.
This is what's very telling.
Look at where it's at.
California tripled.
New York.
Two and a half times.
Washington doubled.
All these very, very liberal states.
But then you've got states like Michigan and Massachusetts and stuff where it's not happening.
It's like, oh, why?
Why is it not happening?
That's nuts, dude.
What's the endgame there?
Now imagine if JNCO could actually make you purchase jeans every month forever.
They would have never needed a new gimmick.
What's the endgame with all this push of transgenderism?
Is it population control?
Well, I think if you feminize a culture, they also can't fight back, you know?
I mean, you do need...
I hate to tell you, listeners out there, men and women are different, for better or worse.
How dare you!
We have different traits in general.
In general, there's exceptions to rules, but in general, we have different strengths commonly and different weaknesses commonly.
And it's like that because that's how you make a thriving species.
You have people, you have two genders that do different things to keep...
The species alive.
But if you feminize us all and, you know, take away our strengths and our masculinity and start using phrases like toxic masculinity and men become feminists.
And that's not saying, like, you shouldn't care about women's rights.
You know, I think absolutely women should have equal rights as men.
You just become a cuck to it all and literally get your manhood and testosterone taken away.
Yeah, yeah.
It makes it very easy to control a society.
I don't get it.
It takes a certain mindset to be able to be swayed that easily, dude.
I don't know.
What is it with some people that they just believe anything?
I don't get it, dude.
Could force everyone to have diabetes.
Diabetes. So you'd be forever dependent on a pharmaceutical and have to be a good little citizen and stay in line because otherwise you ain't getting your insulin.
Yeah. So yeah, it's the same thing.
You're signing people up for permanent medical procedures.
If suddenly the government starts oppressing you and you don't agree with it, well, what the hell are you going to do about it anyways?
You've got to show up for your next appointment.
And yeah, if your social credit score is too low, you're not getting your next shot.
Yeah. Social credit score.
Yeah, the big pharma, there's more MKUltra.
Everything that they were doing back in the day with all these programs became big pharma, became your Xanax, became your...
What is the antidepressants?
It can be your Zoloft.
It became your Paxil, you know?
Yeah. And I don't know what the number is.
Let me just see this really quick.
Percentage of Americans on antidepressants.
How about this?
Or just pharmaceuticals.
Oh, my God.
On prescription drugs.
All right.
So 66%, according to two sources.
It's why they want there to be such a stigma against psychedelics.
They want people to take their antidepressants.
Well, now they're pushing mushrooms and ketamine.
Yeah, but they want the small micro doses so that you can create an especially bitchin' report so that you can be a better part of the system.
They don't want you to take breakout doses where you might actually start thinking, well, maybe the system's full of shit.
That's what I thought was funny.
They're effectively rationing enlightenment and saying, oh, you can have a little bit.
Well, anytime the government tells you that something is okay now, you got to wonder why.
You remember about a year ago, they started talking about how Biden was talking about how they wanted to integrate Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, and they were thinking about starting to use it and accept it.
And you're like, okay, so get out of Bitcoin, get out of cryptocurrency.
If it becomes mainstream, it's now lost its usability.
It's no longer this free trade blockchain system.
It's now just part of the trade system.
And then once they're using it, it's over.
It's over, man.
I have a small investment.
I stopped investing.
I'm just letting it ride its course at this point.
I'm actually investing more in just silver right now.
Smart. I don't know.
No one knows what's going to happen.
We don't fucking know what's going to happen.
Yeah, well, gold went to an all-time high recently.
Yeah, I can't afford that.
Silver's been gradually going up.
I've always followed the market over the years.
It follows a pretty regular pattern every year where...
Towards the end of the year, it starts going up and creeping up as people start becoming more reluctant to sell it off, reluctant to buy it and more eager to sell it to keep things going.
And then post-Christmas, after tax season, everyone replenishes their silver stocks and it inevitably drops down.
But at the same time, if you actually follow it over the years and don't just buy and sell like randomly, it's just been creeping up gradually about 50% over the past 10 years now.
That's pretty good.
Pretty good investment.
Yeah. It's one of those things.
It's one of the few things that'll probably keep getting worth more, more and more.
Yeah. Yeah.
But it being cyclic now demonstrates that a lot of people understand it now to the point where they're generating their own market trend.
That's interesting.
It's interesting that you can really see that same cycle every year.
Yep, constantly up, but just up and down in that pattern.
I wanted to ask you, Dees, just kind of off topic, I mean, we're just kind of shooting around the bush here, but who's your favorite comic of all time?
Norm MacDonald.
No shit.
Yeah. Why do you like him so much?
Yeah, because he didn't give a fuck.
He was having a good time and didn't care if other people were.
He was just entertaining himself.
He was, yeah.
He was just like, I'm just going to say what's funny to me.
And if you don't like it, you don't like it.
His storytelling was off the hook, dude.
I just love that shit.
Very absurdist humor.
He's probably my favorite of all time.
You know, it's funny when people ask me that, because my comedy is nothing like his.
But he's definitely my favorite.
Always has been.
I mean, I used to...
I still remember a long time ago when he used to do Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live.
Yeah, I missed that.
I remember...
This was like an early joke, I remember.
For one of the times, I remember consciously thinking...
That's how you structure a joke, right?
And it was, the joke was, list of top 10 worst jobs in America just came in.
Worst job in America, crack whore.
Or no, second worst job in America, crack whore.
First worst job in America, assistant crack whore.
Oh, man, what are your duties to be an assistant crack whore?
That's great.
I was probably like 10 years old, something like that.
And I just remember listening to that and going like, oh, that's a joke.
Like that's the structure, the setup, you know, the misdirect and the punchline.
And it was just great.
I mean, there's a couple of the guys I like a lot, but Norm was, in my opinion, my favorite.
What did you ever think about Lenny Bruce?
Completely ruined SNL.
Lenny Bruce was an interesting...
It's one of those things where like you...
I respect what he did.
You know, it's like, you know, like, you can't, you can't do comedy without what he did, but also listening to his bits now, it just doesn't, it's like barely, it's like comedy,
you know, it doesn't feel like comedy, you know?
It's just like these, it's like these weird stories and a lot of just stuff that isn't really relevant as part of it too, but He was groundbreaking, but I also don't enjoy listening to Carlin that much,
even, just because it sounds dated.
I respect what he did.
I like some of his stuff, but I don't listen to a lot of Carlin's stuff and die laughing.
Right, right, right.
I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
I get it, especially when you put yourself in that time.
But, you know, listening to it now, like, I don't, you know, I listen to that, or I listen to Shane Gillis' new special, and I'm like, Shane Gillis is blowing the walls off, and Carlin, a couple times you'll be like, you'll listen to Carlin and be like, huh, okay, yeah.
Well, he was just like, he was just raw, telling it how it was.
His later stuff, I mean, his earlier stuff was a little different, I guess, but...
When he got older, they weren't even really jokes.
It was more just like exposing how the world is and the stupid bullshit that's in it.
Which he made funny because it was true.
And then you laugh at the punchline, which is like, holy shit, that's true.
That's fucking hilarious.
Also the bar raises.
You think about how up until 1990, 6 or 90, whenever it was, when Tony Hawk did the first 700, right?
Oh, the 900?
900. No one could do a 900.
Everyone thought it was impossible, right?
And then he does it.
Well, now every fourth grader with a skateboard can do it.
Yeah. Because that's the standard, right?
So when you think about back in the day, the standard for comedy was much...
Different. Carlin was pushing the limits, but he pushed those limits so other people could push them more.
Now you look at it and it's quaint compared to some of the things people have done since then.
It's like transgressive social commentary.
It's more dependent on being contemporary than a lot of other forms.
I feel like if you went back, you go back and watch an old Chris Farley bit.
It's so physical comedy related that there's parts of it that are kind of timeless.
Or like a Three Stooges skit.
It's still funny to this day.
Just simply because so much of it's not really reliant on things of the moment and stuff you're talking about at the time.
One of my favorites is Bill Burr.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know why.
He's just one of those guys.
He's just fucking hilarious.
I don't know why.
He rants in a way that no one...
Part of his genius is he's really good at not writing everything out to the word.
A lot of comedians write everything down to the word and it's always the same.
Every set, they do that hour.
It's always the same.
He has bullet points and then he just kind of goes...
And feels it.
So it feels very real and organic because it is.
I mean, he's probably repeating a lot of same things similarly, but each one is unique and organic in the moment, at least somewhat.
So it comes across that way.
And that's the biggest thing.
I think as humans we connect to...
Something when it seems real and organic, like it's genuine, we are drawn towards that more just naturally.
So when things are so rehearsed, we're kind of like, eh.
You're like, I don't know why, but I don't like this as much.
And it's because it's just not as genuine.
Can I ask who your least favorite comic is of all time?
I'm the least favorite comic.
Just the comic that you're like, that is dumb.
Why is this person a comic comedian?
I mean, anyone who's like a TikTok star or YouTube star, these people that like...
You know, the problem is that we've seen this rise of TikTok stars who have a bunch of followers and are really funny in like 30...
I don't even know if they're really funny.
It's not my thing.
But they entertain a lot of people so they can draw an audience, right?
And so...
Comedy clubs started booking these people because they put asses in seats.
And comedians always complain.
They're like, oh, this is a TikTok star.
This guy doesn't have an act.
He's not a comedian.
I go, yeah.
But comedy clubs are glorified Denny's with a psycho in the corner yelling.
They only care about selling more chicken wings and beer.
They don't give a shit about comedy.
That just keeps people there longer and more people there.
They can sell out a room with this guy who sucks.
They'll do that every night of the week.
So that has definitely been an interesting shift in comedy because you're fighting against these guys who come up on TikTok, don't have an act.
They tour for about a year.
Then everyone finds out their act sucks and they stop touring.
Yeah. So you've been in the business 15, 20 years-ish?
Yeah, probably about 17 years.
17 years?
What has changed from the early days to now?
The whole process of stand-up comedy?
I mean, the pay has not changed.
Oh, fuck.
That sucks.
It's already gone down.
We're cutting costs.
The pay has not changed, which sucks.
What has changed?
I think it's the way...
The thing now is, I think the biggest thing that's changed that I think is really beneficial is...
And this kind of happened for a couple reasons, but you can kind of go out and do your own thing.
Like, before you were beholden to whatever clubs would book you on the weekends, that was basically it.
Now, like, I still work for a couple comedy clubs across the country, but I don't do a lot of clubs anymore because I generally just book my own shows.
And I'm booking ahead so far where it's like, because I can produce my own show.
And do a one-nighter somewhere and four-wall it and take all the money.
And I can make more money in a night than I would doing a whole weekend at a club.
So, that has changed where, like, there's a lot of opportunity for that, you know, because I can go find a theater, rent out a theater, or I can find a, you know, I do a lot of shows at, like, breweries that have, a lot of breweries have stages, and you can get, like, 150 people in them.
So, we'll be like, I'll be like, I'll do this show, you know, give me a little guarantee, and then I'll ticket it, and I sell tickets and, you know, make up.
The rest of the money.
So that's, you can do that now.
You used to not be able to do that.
So there's a lot of opportunity for comics to go out and really just, if they're savvy enough and driven enough, you can go work every night of the week.
You can do a show every fucking night if you want.
That'd be rough.
That'd be fun.
It'd be exhausting.
It would be exhausting.
Fun, but exhausting.
Doug Stanhope, he only books his own shows with his fans.
He won't go do random clubs.
He won't do any of that stuff.
Because his act is very particular.
He only books shows for his own fans, which is, I think, great.
That guy's fucking hilarious, too.
Very cynical.
Very hilarious.
Yeah, and that's the benefit.
You can cultivate your audience with social media.
You can cultivate a following.
And then you can just kind of build your own circuit.
You can build your own tour.
You don't need the clubs anymore.
And, I mean, I encourage a lot of comics to go out and do it on your own.
Because, like, you know, the reality is if you're not working a lot of...
If you're not a draw, most clubs will pay you somewhere between $200 and $300 a show to headline, which isn't a lot, especially if you've got to travel to get there and then they put you up or something.
You do like an hour, basically?
You do an hour.
You're probably doing a couple shows over a weekend.
You probably do five shows in the weekend, so it's not bad.
That's also not great.
If you're getting $200 a show, that's still only $1,000 on a weekend.
You fly to get there, you're $700 or $650, and hopefully you sell some merch to make up some money.
So it's like, yeah, I mean, I'll do some.
That's tough.
Yeah, but if I can go do a show, find a place where I can sell tickets for Wallet, and I'll advertise and do my own thing.
Yeah, I'll do a couple of those in a weekend and then just call it good.
And then I don't have to do shows every weekend anymore.
I can take a weekend off if someone's like, hey, you want to come here?
And it's $175.
You drive three hours.
I'm like, no, I don't want to actually.
And I don't have to, which is nice.
You get to that point.
That just pays for your gas.
That literally pays for your gas to get there.
I'll just cover you.
Going to serve them at the comedy club, pretty much.
It's pretty crazy.
Is it dying?
Is the whole comedy thing dying?
Or is it coming back?
It's evolving.
I think it's actually stronger than ever.
Arguably stronger than ever before in the history of comedy.
But again, it's just evolving.
Because I think that comedy clubs are going to die.
Or be forced to change.
We've already seen some closing.
You're going to see some bigger chains that will grow and stay open, like the improvs and stuff.
But a lot of these little one-off clubs, they just can't afford it.
Because after a lot of the bigger comedians, I mean, think about how many comedians can you think of that do arenas now?
Probably a dozen at least, right?
Well, it's more than ever before.
Before it was like Dane Cook did one in the early 2000s.
But now you've got Tom Segura, Burt Kreischer, you've got Dave Chappelle, you've got Joe Rogan, you've got Mark Norman, Shane Gillis can sell stuff like that, Tony Hinchcliffe.
So you've got all these guys that can do big theaters and arenas.
And it's like, well, yeah, why would I go to...
Fuck in the middle of Mississippi and spend like Little Rock, Arkansas and do play the loony bins for five nights or I can go to Little Rock, get in an arena, sell all those people tickets in one night and get the fuck out of town.
So the comedy clubs lost all those big comedians and all the smaller comedians are going out and doing stuff independently like me.
So they're really losing a lot of business, you know?
Right. And they've got these TikTok guys, like I said, but those guys don't last very long.
What's your favorite venue you've been to?
Actually, my favorite comedy club in the world is Bricktown Comedy Club in Oklahoma City.
And then my second favorite is Last Best Comedy Club in Bozeman, Montana.
I was watching that set.
One of the most entertaining things was watching the audience.
Yeah, they're like, look at you.
Should I laugh?
Do I get to laugh at this?
It's too great.
Bozeman is a cool town.
I've done that club like four times now.
Or three times now.
The first time I did it, I was just like, this place is great.
This room is great.
These people are great.
Montana's weird.
You have places where it's very...
Sticks, very conservative.
Then you have, like, Missoula, you know?
Which is just a weird...
That is a weird town.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, Missoula is the university, and they really captured people there.
And, I mean, you know, Missoula's not...
I don't like playing in Missoula, so I was worried about Bozeman.
But Bozeman's been great.
The audience has come out.
They're cool.
They have a good time.
You saw my set and the shit I say, and they were cool with it.
They had a good time.
Five miles out of Missoula is Clinton.
It's just like a total grab bag wherever you go.
What is it about Missoula that you don't like?
Oh man, that town is very extremely, extremely, extremely liberal.
I've seen this happen in other cities.
It happens in Seattle and Portland also, really liberal cities.
Where if you're not from there as a comedian and you try to come into their town and do a show, they're very unsupportive and they're actually sometimes actively tearing down because they want to control their comedy scene and control what is said.
So they get threatened by people coming from outside areas to do comedy, which is unfortunate because, I mean, you should want to get Other people in from other areas, especially more experienced comics, to get an idea of what's happening across the country.
So it's tough.
I've got some friends there that do comedy, but overall it's not great.
Have you had to deal with a bunch of hecklers?
What's your worst heckler moment?
I had a lady in Idaho run up on stage and try to punch me in the face.
Jesus, a bit more than heckling.
What was the joke?
What was the joke that led to that incident?
It's actually, I call it my Karen killer joke.
She was a Karen, holy fuck.
That's a hell of a heckler's veto.
This joke has gotten a lot of people, it's always middle-aged ladies that want to fight me or yell at me about it.
And you guys, if you watched my hour, you heard the joke.
It's where I talk about growing up Catholic, and it wasn't for me.
But I still remember the first time I went to church, as soon as that priest was finished, I pulled out my pants and I'm like, this is not for me.
And that joke...
Incites so much violence.
I was going to joke it was the Butte set, but nobody would actually defend Butte.
No, no.
To confirm, Butte does suck.
Yeah, yeah.
Actually, I got part of that conversation, part of that joke was actually inspired by a conversation I had with a heckler in Big Fork, Montana.
Because I had just come from Butte and I was shitting on Butte telling them about it.
This lady actually yelled out.
She goes, hey, you can't make fun of Butte.
Butte's historic.
And I'm just on stage.
I told her, I'm like, yeah, lady, so was Auschwitz.
You fucking suck.
And then I'm like, well, you're from Butte?
She's like, yeah, so is my husband.
And I go, oh.
Still live in Butte?
And she's like, no, we live in Kalispell now.
And I'm like, oh, because Butte's so...
Like, shut the fuck up.
Oh, my God.
So did this Karen, did she get a good hit on you?
She tried.
I slipped it.
She came up.
I saw her coming because she came running from the back.
Oh, fuck.
She came up on stage swinging.
I just slipped it.
She certainly tried.
Yeah, but that joke, I've had so many ladies walk out of my set or get up and yell at me in the middle of my set.
I mean, this one lady in another Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, this was Idaho again, she jumped up and she's in the front row and she just starts yelling.
She's like, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Your mother should be ashamed of you.
Like, you are the worst.
And I'm like, lady, why are you mad at me?
I'm like, I have not fucked any kids.
Exactly. They fucked a lot of kids.
This is the first you're hearing about this, you know?
I'm like, I'm sorry that I'm breaking this news to you.
And this time, it's so funny because this same conversation is the same thing we've been talking about this whole show, is that...
People are mad at me when I say that joke.
But here's the reason they're mad at me.
They understand the joke because it makes sense.
They all are very aware of the rampant sexual abuse on young boys in the Catholic Church.
They're mad because they know what it means.
If it wasn't real, they wouldn't know the context of the joke and they'd just be confused.
No, exactly.
I mean, when you have the Pope coming out and saying, yes, I'm sorry that all of our bishops and priests and raping kids, we're sorry.
Yeah. We'll make sure that it doesn't appear in the news next time so you won't be upset about it.
Okay? Instead of getting mad at the church and what's happening, they just get mad at me because I'm talking about it.
And I'm like...
It seems backwards.
I think you're mad at the wrong person here.
Yeah, I don't get that.
Why would they want to be angry at you?
It just doesn't make sense.
Wasn't there a huge Catholic child sex scandal that came out of Butte in the 70s or 80s?
Probably. There was a movie.
I'm sorry, Butte.
I feel like we're picking on you at this point.
Yeah, Butte, we're not picking on you.
You don't suck.
I am.
You're great, Peep.
You guys smoke meth.
You're historic!
Hey, there's historic bars and alleyways there.
The Motel 6 can't even keep the light on for you because the meth head stole the light bulbs.
Jesus, didn't they give you an upgrade?
Yeah, they did.
You want to know what the upgrade was?
What was the upgrade?
The upgrade was a room on the ground floor.
I'm not kidding you.
That's what the room upgrade was.
Was it any different?
You have like a...
Bigger minibar or anything?
He just said it's on the ground floor.
I'm like, oh my god, this is great.
How's that an upgrade?
Just think how convenient that would have been for you if you had been disabled in this hypothetical scenario.
The really crazy thing is that that says to me that if somebody did show up in a wheelchair, they'd just be like, well, I'm going to be helping you up there.
You have to pay for the roof.
Sorry, you're sunk.
The Motel 6 in Butte is so fucked up.
They literally had on the inside, because it's like a compound where you go in a gate and it's like, your inside is like 360 enclosed, right?
And in the corner, back corner, they had this garage where somebody was like working on their car in a garage.
And like, you know what?
That makes sense because the only way you would stay at this motel is if your car was broken down.
I've got to get this fucking car going, man.
No, it's...
I've been through Butte.
We broke down in Butte once.
We were on a skateboard tour and our van broke down and that was pretty shitty.
Pretty shitty.
I mean, we got another rental car but just happened to get stuck in Butte for a few hours.
It was like, fuck.
This sucks.
It's terrible.
There's nothing to do.
Yeah. My sister lived in a...
My sister lived in a historic building when she went.
I'm pretty sure every building is historic.
It was historically really, really old.
It was an ancient building with like 1930s era piping.
You're all getting lead poisoning when you're drinking water.
Awesome. Way to go, Butte.
And that place was booming when it was mining, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
So how is it still just looks like it's fucking 1920s there?
Yeah. Well, apparently someone in like the early 2000s, some developer bought a bunch of land out there and they were going to make it, they wanted to make it into like a Las Vegas in the middle of Monday.
That would have been hilarious.
And then they, I guess they got there and they just realized they're just like, this isn't going to work.
And they just fucking abandoned.
Oh my God.
That's like one of the Google guys who bought a shit ton of land in Whitefish and houses and parted downtown and built a huge big bar.
Casey's. I performed there.
Yeah, Casey's.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I performed there years ago.
Yeah, and then that guy comes out.
I don't know, the sexual assault or whatever they were trying to push on him because all these girls were coming out and saying that he sexually harassed them and shit.
Or no, he kept a book.
Of all his conquests, like, wrote their names down of every girl he had sex with or whatever.
And it's like, so what?
What's wrong with that?
Yeah, how did they find out?
Publish it?
Yeah, he probably published it himself.
I think you're allowed to do it.
Yeah, I think, I don't know if that's illegal.
That doesn't really sound illegal.
I mean, I'm pretty sure that you can brag about legally consenting adults you had sex with.
I mean, if you can't brag about that, like...
People are breaking the law a lot when they talk at the bar.
I'm assuming your scariest moment on the road would probably have been in Butte or something.
What was your scariest moment?
Actually, probably the craziest thing was it was just the...
It was just past, actually, because I saw it on Facebook.
It was the seven-year anniversary of this event because I saw the Facebook memory about three days ago.
But... Years ago in Colville, Washington, which is about, you know, probably 45 minutes away from the Canadian border.
If you just go hit Spokane and go straight north, it's on the way up there.
And we did this show up there, and it's me.
I'm Latino.
My Korean buddy and a black guy and then our white friend, right?
So it's me and my Korean buddy.
We go up there first.
The black dude shows up late, obviously.
The white guy showed up later.
But me and my Korean buddy show up there and we're like, okay.
It's like this fucking...
Roadhouse. Like, double-deuce roadhouse fucking place that we got booked for.
Oh, shit.
I don't know how we got booked here, how we ended up at this fucking place.
But we go in, and my buddy Tony, who was like this gregarious fucker, just talked to anyone.
He walks to the bar, so he's like, hey, what's up, guys?
You guys here for the comedy?
And this dude in a leather vest and, like, just...
No shirt on underneath.
Looks at both of us up and down and just gives us a zig heil.
What the fuck?
I'm just like, cool, this is going to be a great show.
Oh god.
So we kind of just hang out in the back for a while.
And then we...
My buddy, the white guy, gets there.
And he's with his girlfriend who's pregnant at the time.
And I'm like, hey, this might be a bad scenario, so you might want to get your pregnant girlfriend out of here.
But I don't know if this night's going to end well.
It was like a borderline hate crime the entire show.
We kept having to stop people from beating other people up.
When the black guy was on...
Jesus. When the black dude was on stage...
There were guys playing pool.
They were just like, fuck this.
I don't like this.
N-word in here.
With pool sticks.
A couple of them started going up to the stage.
We had to get in the way and be like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
What the hell?
Culver, Washington is extremely racist.
How did they think this booking was a good idea?
Who came up with, hey, you know what would be really funny?
We should book these people for this.
Like, who was the troll who came up with the troll here to book y'all hit that place?
We finally meet these guys after the show.
It's these two dudes who were just these giant drinks of water who just got back from Alaska doing oil drilling.
And they both literally had like, I mean, they were like six foot eight, just giant dudes, guns on their side.
They're like, hey, we like you guys.
We're real funny.
So if anything goes down, we got you.
Oh, yeah.
Thank God.
Let's go.
And they go.
And he goes, do you smoke weed?
And I go, I do tonight.
And I go, let's go.
Whatever you need.
I'm with you.
Fuck. Yeah, it was a wild evening.
I feel like whoever booked that was very entertained by the outcome.
Yeah, I don't know who thought it was a good idea or where.
How did your act go, though?
Was it good?
Good enough for the armed guys to be like, we like you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We made some friends.
But did you feel good when you were on stage?
Were you like tense?
Like, oh God.
No, because I mean, here's the thing.
Where I grew up was just, I mean, I grew up in South Central LA in the 80s.
So it was the height of gang violence, police violence.
So I was used to people getting shot, seeing guns, guns being pointed at me.
It didn't scare me.
So it was just interesting to do comedy under that.
Cloud. Yeah.
And trying to figure out who was there for the show.
It was a lot of crowd work and not really my normal set.
You kind of had to address the situation.
So it did break some tension by doing that.
And then you kind of get the audience on your side so you kind of have a little bit of a gang to back you up if there's a fucking race riot goes down.
Kind of make fun of yourself a little bit.
Yeah. Yeah, it was an interesting show.
That was probably the craziest one that we've ever dealt with.
But there's been a lot of crazy ones.
Self-deprecation for preservation.
Well, if you guys watched my special too, you probably heard the story about the guy in Florida.
Remind me.
So, this was another crazy one.
I was in Florida.
Beautiful state, minus the people.
Shout out Miami!
This guy after the show runs up and he's like, hey man, you were really funny.
He goes, what are you doing tomorrow?
You want to go on a fan boat in the Everglades and go get there?
Oh yeah.
Yeah, that sounds fucking awesome.
Of course, that sounds badass.
And we're out there the next day.
We're flying through the swamp.
There's no land.
I mean, literally, deep swamp.
There's not land.
That's not hyperbole.
This is scary, man.
This is some stranger?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fuck, man.
If you're in a state, you don't know anyone, and when people want to take you out the next day, you go do it, usually.
I don't know what I'd do today, man.
I just watched so many true crime.
You seem nice enough.
We're out there, and Again, no hyperbole.
I say this in the joke, but people might think I'm kidding.
But literally, there's alligators biting the boat in the water.
They slow down.
They're everywhere.
They bite the metal.
And it's wild.
It's fun.
He used to bail when you hear the banjo music.
We're out there, and it's fun.
But then all of a sudden, this guy stops, and he just looks at me out of nowhere.
And he just goes, hey.
He goes, y'all don't like the blacks, right?
And I'm just like...
What? You know?
And like, my head was spinning.
See? It's this situation.
And I'm like, no.
Yeah. No.
No. Not going on that ride with you, man.
Because in a heartbeat, like in a split second, this is what went through my head.
I go, I need to answer this correctly.
I go, I'm on his boat, middle of the swamp.
Things happen.
I could disappear.
You know?
So I just look at him and I just said, I don't know, man.
I'm pretty sure OJ did it, but beyond that, I don't really know.
He just stopped, dead, and he just looks at me, deadpan, and like, way to beat, way to beat.
Then he goes, you're funny, man.
I like you.
Come on, let's go.
Jesus Christ.
It was just this pregnant moment of, am I going to die right now?
Oh, man.
Was that just you and him?
It was me and him and one other guy, another comedian that I was with.
Okay, one of your friends?
Okay. That makes it a little bit better.
They just try to freak you out.
Oh, Jesus.
No thanks, man.
Wild stuff.
People get crazy.
Not my thing, man.
People ask you to do all kinds of crazy shit after shows, so sometimes you just do it because you have nothing else to do and you're in Naples, Florida.
I mean, yeah.
Fuck, dude, in the moment.
Yeah. In the fucking moment.
What are you scheduled for?
Anything coming up soon?
You got scheduled shows coming up?
Yeah, when's this release?
Is this live?
No, this is on Sunday.
What day is it?
Sunday? I'll probably release this Wednesday or Thursday.
Well, let's do this.
Let's do this.
I'll do this.
I'll release it on Wednesday.
Okay. So, if you're in San Antonio, I will be at Artisan Distillery, downtown San Antonio, this Saturday night, the 31st.
Then starting on the September 11th, because I always fly on September 11th, because what's the odds it's going to happen again?
Probably the safest day now.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
So starting off September 11th, I'm headed to Seattle.
I'll be around the Northwest for a couple weeks.
I've got shows in Rockport, Washington, Natchez, Washington, Belfair, Tacoma, Astoria, and then the 18th through the 21st, I'll be in the Seattle area for the Latino Comedy Festival, first annual Latino Comedy Festival.
So I'll have more dates on my account, like the exact locations, but they're in the Seattle area.
So check that out.
That'll be fun.
And also, my special, you can get it on my website.
It's all donation only, so you can get it for whatever cost you want.
You can, you know, five bucks, ten bucks, a dollar even.
It's a dick move, but you can get it.
And the big thing I'd like to tell people, though, is I am actually launching a new comic book that's going to be coming out in a couple weeks.
My first comic book series.
I'm pretty excited about that.
Yeah, dude, what you sent me, that looks great.
I've never been a comic guy in my whole life.
I've just never been into comics.
I was going to get into comics with you because I wanted to know how all that began.
But, like, your shit is fucking dope, dude.
The animation, I forget the dude's name, but yeah, that shit's fucking great.
The storyline?
Yeah. Kill Stan.
Yeah, Kill Stan's coming out.
You can follow the Kickstarter now to get updates.
It goes live on September 15th.
You can follow us on Inferno.Earth on Instagram.
That's the website.
That's the Facebook.
Inferno.Earth.
And, yeah, man, it's a 10-issue series.
First issue comes out or probably out in, like, November.
But the Kickstarter starts September 15th.
So please follow the page.
Follow us on Instagram.
Even if you can't donate or, you know, support the campaign, even just getting our numbers up on the Instagram and the follows helps a ton.
But I think people are going to love this book when they read it.
I've got a lot of people preview it.
Everyone's loved it.
I keep hearing it's an original idea they've never seen before.
Yes, I would say that.
Yeah, so I think people really resonate.
And it's not like a comic book, like a superhero thing.
I mean, it's through the prism of a vigilante, but really the stories...
About the guy and what he's going through psychologically, not the whole vigilante aspect of it.
That's just kind of an easy trope for comic books.
It was a violent one.
It had like Punisher levels of violence in it.
There is some crazy violence, but I think there's definitely...
The reason for it.
As you push further in this, you start to realize why there is so much hyperviolence in it because of this guy's mindset and how he feels about himself and his outlook on the world.
So, well, the...
Elevator pitch is suicide by vigilantism.
Stan is a loser with nothing to live for, so he decides to bang, literally.
He wants to die, and he gets wrapped up in this scenario where he actually ends up doing some good, and this neighborhood starts to revere him as a hero, and they need him to live, and they think he's doing it altruistically,
but he...
is selfish and wants to die and those things collide and kind of create a lot of personal friction and growth.
I wanted to see what caused that scene.
It's pretty good, man.
It's pretty good.
I saw one particular picture in the preview that I was curious how he got to that moment.
I know.
I wanted more.
But I don't want to get more detailers and spoiler people who refuse to even...
Well, I don't want to spoiler people who refuse to even watch previews because I normally am that type.
I just watched it because you were coming on here for the interview.
Generally, I'd rather just go read stuff and avoid previews entirely.
How long is it going to be?
It's 25 pages, the first issue.
There's going to be 10 issues total.
Nice. They're all about 25 pages, give or take.
Yeah, so they'll just be coming out.
We don't really have an exact timeline.
This one will kind of depend on what happens with this, but we're already working on the second one.
The scripts are written.
It's just getting the art done.
But yeah, follow the page at least, guys.
That means a lot to get followers on social media.
That helps with the algorithm gods and with editors and people, perspective people.
Look at the pages and what it's doing.
But again, if you can support it, I think people love it.
You don't have to be a comic book fan.
I think it's a story that transcends that medium.
It's always good when things are violent for a reason.
I was always a huge fan of the Johnny the Homicidal Maniac series because it was never just strictly about him being a crazy killer.
There was a lot of things dealing with psychology and human nature and everything that they were touching on.
It wasn't just strictly he went around and killed people because it was fun.
Yeah, it's important.
My favorite movie is A Clockwork Orange.
It's a great one.
Yeah, I mean, I love Stanley Kubrick as a director.
The book by Anthony Burgess is phenomenal, and the movie is really, really well done.
But on its surface, you know, when people watch it, they have a hard time watching it because there's a lot of gratuitous violence and sexual violence.
Yeah, full-on rape.
Fuck. Yeah, it seems very, like, just, like, why am I watching this if you don't...
Start to read the subtext.
And then if you really dig into it, you start to understand that this story is completely about how the author, Anthony Burgess, felt like society was completely crumbling and breaking apart and decency was...
Societal tissue was decaying.
And this is what his view, his stylized view of the future would look like if we continued down this path.
And he wrote that book because his wife was actually attacked and raped.
Oh, shit.
And that's what came out of this, is him feeling like, oh, is this decay of society and decency?
And if we extrapolate this, where will it...
Where will it take us?
Wow. And so, I mean, he really had a reason to write it, and it makes sense when you look at it in that view, you know?
When did Burr just write it?
70... I'm going to say 70...
Probably 70s, but...
Well, it was like 70s.
Okay. Four.
So maybe like 1969.
Wrote in the early 60s probably.
Let's see.
Let's see.
I can find.
Let's Google it.
Anthony Burgess.
That's supposed to be like the most peaceful time.
Clockwork Orange, his best-selling novel.
Let's see.
He wrote it in 62. So, yeah.
I mean, you think to have that kind of foresight in 1962.
Just imagine, man.
The next 60 years from now.
Oh, shit.
Okay, so you mentioned the book.
Adrenochrome. So in the book, is the milk adrenochrome?
Interesting. I don't know if adrenochrome goes back that far.
It could.
I honestly don't know.
That's a good question.
I've never thought about that.
But it certainly acts like the way adrenochrome is described as acting.
So it could be.
People mention that.
I'm like, huh.
Milk is adrenochrome.
I've never made that connection.
I'll have to do some research on that.
I don't know how far back the origin of adrenochrome goes.
As far as in the zeitgeist, it doesn't seem to go back that far.
I think they knew about it in the 50s.
There are documents of scientists isolating it or whatever.
I guess you'd say isolate.
I mean, they've known about it for quite some time.
Okay. Only now it's like publicly available.
You can fucking order that shit.
Really? Yeah.
You can order adrenochrome.
It's out there.
Pill forms.
It's crazy, dude.
You gotta store them somewhere.
There have been news segments about it.
News segments talking about all these adrenochrome...
Fucking being found at houses and shit, just like multiple bags of pills.
This says, uh, the Korova Milk Bar Sold Milk Plus, Milk Plus Velocot, or Synthmesic, or Drenchrome, they called it, which is what we were drinking.
Drenchrome. So they even call it Drenchrome in the- Holy shit.
So yeah, I guess it probably was meant to be that.
I never even made that connection.
That's pretty on the nose.
They don't put that part in the movie.
Wow, yeah.
That's insane, isn't it?
It's a new layer.
I never even realized.
I've done a lot of research on child sex abuse in government, like political shit, and that whole thing with Marina Abramovich and all those fucking weirdos.
And adrenochrome, and that got brought up, that Burgess was talking about the milk being, like, at the milk bar, it's actually adrenochrome.
That's freaky, isn't it?
And when I heard that, I was like, holy fuck!
Holy shit!
But here, I'm going to share my screen really quick, so you can see this.
Share? Can you guys see?
You can get an Alibaba.
I wonder if that's a honeypot.
I wonder if that's a honeypot.
So, adrenochrome for sale, you can get...
There are links.
Manufacturers. But yeah, I wonder how many of those are traps.
These are all...
I mean, they're all dot-coms.
They look like American websites.
Fuck, I don't know.
Let's click on one of these.
Let's go with this one.
What the fuck, man?
Adrenochrome. For sale.
A couple years ago, you could order designer drugs from Europe.
So, I guess it's not really that surprising.
Adrenochrome is an oxidation product of adrenaline.
Epinephrine inhibits COMT.
Promotes synthesis of prostaglandins in brain tissue in vitro.
Promotes a secretion of nerve growth factor.
Wow. 95% adrenochrome right there.
$1,947.
American Custom Chemicals Corporation.
Wow. Holy shit.
So how do they get away with manufacturing?
Is it like synthetic then?
Or fake?
Or how do they excuse that?
I mean, that one said 95%.
Yeah. Well, it's like LSD.
All they have to do to make it legal again, whatever, is they take a molecule out of it or add a molecule and it's not technically LSD anymore.
Yeah, that's how designer drugs work.
Yeah. So it's like, it's not LSD, it's LSD 25. Drenchrome.
This is crazy.
I'm really tripping on this whole adrenochrome thing.
Yeah, they literally call it Drenchrome, D-R-E-N-C-R-O-M.
But in the Clockwork Orange, they use a slang language that isn't actually a real language.
They have a made-up slang that is similar to other words.
That's pretty fucking similar to...
I train a Chrome.
Fuck yeah, dude!
Very similar.
It sounds like what you'd use as the shorthand if it attained regular use.
I mean, I don't know.
How much more proof do you need that these politicians and elite use it, dude?
Well, that's crazy to think that he would have had that knowledge in 1962.
Right. You know?
Like, that it would have been that it was, was it that ubiquitous?
Yeah, that prevalent in society?
Or was he just that in the know?
I don't think he was.
At the time.
He wasn't like a really...
He never seemed to be.
Anthony Burgess wasn't like this crazy renowned author.
He wasn't like a big, big time guy.
Oh, shit.
He didn't really catch much of notoriety until...
Kubrick made that book into a movie.
That wasn't until years later.
So, I found this ACS Chemistry for Life website, acs.org, Molecule of the Week Archive, Adrenochrome, February 5th, 2024.
Adrenochrome is a biomolecule product in the body by the oxidation of hormone adrenaline, hence its name.
The chrome in its name indicates that it is a deeply colored compared with white adrenaline.
Adrenochrome was known as long ago as 1856 when French neurologist Alfred Volpian, who also discovered adrenaline, observed that adrenaline turns red when exposed to air.
Interesting. Wow.
1856. Well, they just rediscovered.
When did they discover what it...
Right. So here's from Wikipedia.
It was a subject of limited research from the 1950s to the 1970s as a potential cause of schizophrenia.
While it has no current medical application, the derivative and all this other weird shit...
I don't know, whatever that...
Despite this compound's name, it's unrelated to chromium.
My guess is it was probably extracted before that period.
But that was the point where someone had to, quote, discover it to start to try to push it into the mainstream.
So several small-scale studies involving 15 or fewer test subjects conducted in the 1950s and 1960s reported that adrenochrome triggered psychotic reactions such as thought disorder and derealization.
In 1954, researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphrey Osmond claimed that a genochrome is a neurotoxic psychotomatic substance and may play a role in schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.
That's really interesting.
But they've known about it.
So in his 1954 book, The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, he mentioned the discovery of it and alleged effects of genochrome, which he likened to the symptoms of mescaline intoxication.
Wow. And then, yeah, Anthony Burgess mentions adrenochrome as drenchrome at the beginning of his 1962 novel.
Hunter S. Thompson talks about it in his 1971 book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Makes sense.
You're froze.
Hello? We are touching on touchy subjects.
I am getting some skippage.
Are you?
Uh-oh, talking about adrenochrome.
Yeah. Yeah, satanic ritual abuse stories.
Elixir of youth.
Interestingly enough, that says to me that MKUltra is effectively in the general lexicon at this point, where it's not even controversial to talk about.
Because, boy, the first second we said the SH word during that one episode, it kicked us off almost completely.
Oh, yeah.
I don't want to say it and get us kicked again.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, are you out of time there, Dees?
Do you have other things to do?
You want to call it a day?
Yeah, sure.
You know, I probably need to get some dinner.
I mean, it's 6.30.
Yeah, let's call it good.
Yeah, I appreciate this.
But yeah, everyone, please follow me on Instagram, inferno.earth.
Follow the Kickstarter, Killstan website, or you can follow me at dees.comedy on Instagram and all that stuff and get the special.
Yeah, even if you just like the shit, then at least it helps those algorithm gods we're beholden to these days.
Absolutely. Well, Dees, man, it's been fun.
Been fun.
Great conversation.
So, Dees, can see us.
If you want to come back on the show later on, give us an update on how life's going, man.
