Premium Episode 135: Troy Casey AKA The Certified Health Nut (Sample)
A male model turned health influencer evolves into an anti-feminist COVID denier. Troy Casey — who goes by “The Certified Health Nut” online — runs what he calls “the man clan” and is deeply involved in a nutrition and supplements multi-level marketing scheme called Purium. But you might know him from slapping his balls over a fire, sunning his butthole, or perhaps even drinking his own piss. Or from being a speaker at the recent Q-pilled New Age event we attended in Sedona, Arizona.
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Welcome, listener, to Premium Chapter 135 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the Certified Health Nut, Troy Casey episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rokitansky, Julian Field, and Travis View.
Last weekend, Travis and Jake ventured out to Sedona, Arizona for a three-day New Age conference that saw speakers promote QAnon, alien disclosure, starseed origin stories, and harebrained cryptocurrency schemes.
The reason these agents were dispatched to this semi-kinetic situation was simple.
I had become interested in a character who sat at the intersection of a lot of these belief systems.
He was a male model from California turned wellness influencer who had evolved into an anti-feminist COVID denier.
Troy Casey, who goes by the certified health nut online, runs what he calls the Man Clan, where other dudes pay to gather around him and learn to be more masculine by way of Wim Hof breathing exercises, ice baths, semen retention, and his particular form of Tai Chi, which he often practices naked at gatherings.
On YouTube and Instagram, Troy also constantly promotes his book, Hashtag Ripped at 50, and Purium, which is the health supplement and nutrition multi-level marketing scheme he's involved in.
So, this week we're going to step into the shoes of the Certified Health Nut, who is known for slapping his balls over a fire, sunning his butthole, and of course, drinking his own piss.
The Certified Health Nut has 110,000 followers on YouTube and nearly 100,000 more on Instagram.
He built his following over time, searching for a coherent aesthetic and a message since at least 2007, when he posted a video entitled, The Power of Nature.
In the video, Troy is standing on a hiking trail in California, He looks like a pretty generic male model, shirtless, donning a traditional haircut, and no facial hair.
As he speaks to his then negligible audience, Troy lunges at the camera with a characteristic manic energy.
Hey!
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Kablam!
Wow, so young.
I know, so young.
And such an energetic pitch, too.
This video reveals a few things about Troy that are crucial to understanding his origins.
One is his penchant for multi-level marketing schemes, which at this point was more of this Amazon-related stuff that you heard about in the video.
Later it became Puriam.
The second is his relationship to his body, which he uses as a sort of case study, proving the effectiveness of whatever he's selling at the time.
Troy had been a male model in his younger years, with the goal of becoming an entertainer or at least a reality show contestant.
He still proudly recounts being a model for Versace during Milan Fashion Week in the 90s.
At some point, Troy discovered the joys of ayahuasca and practiced taking it in guided ceremonies in the Amazon rainforest.
He's got a video from 2008 entitled, Ayahuasca Ceremony in the Amazon with Shepebo, that shows him lying down with abject fear in his eyes, as a shaman from the Shepebo-Konibo tribe in Peru rubs his face and sings.
It looks like a Patrick Bateman vacation video, and it's very bizarre.
I don't mean that it's bizarre that he would partake in ayahuasca, but even then, when he was supposedly experiencing the most transformative moment of his life, he was also capturing content, and hoping that it would propel him to wealth and fame.
At the end of the video, titles appear over the images.
I feel very blessed to be alive and experience the healing powers of the Amazon, Ayahuasca, and Elisa.
The woman then kisses his face and he smiles as the sound of thunder, edited in, echoes dramatically.
Amazonherbsite.com.
Superfoods to die for that economically empower indigenous tribes to stay on their ancestral lands and preserve the Amazon.
Troy, before focusing on this spiritual work, had also tried stand-up comedy.
Now, this is kind of a long sample, so what we're going to do, Jake and Travis, is you'll just put your hand up if you want me to pause because you have something to say.
Okay.
And I think this early stand-up set really does demonstrate a lot of the contradictions at the heart of Troy Casey.
Yeah, so you have your safe words ready?
Yeah.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
My name is Troy Casey.
I'm here to entertain your soul this evening.
First of all, I'd just like to give a bunch of love out to everybody.
And a big fucking bucket of love.
Okay, now that we've got that new age granola out of the way, let's just get something straight, folks.
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
Hate me because I'm an asshole.
And being an anal orifice Is in the eye of the beholder.
So, it's a really funny thing.
People can talk about my looks all day long, but the second I mention it, I'm an asshole.
The reason I know this is I was a model for many years.
Thank you.
But I had to quit that job.
I was too sick.
Not to mention, those fuckers didn't have any fashion sense anyways.
Fuck them.
So anyways, I did have an audition the other day and my girlfriend dropped me off and she's like, break a leg, honey.
And I was like, okay sweetie, it's not that type of audition.
It's a print job.
Thank you.
So she said, I said, no, it's a print job.
She says, OK, well, then suck a mean cock.
Yes.
So this illustrates the whole unscrupulous business of modeling.
Motherfuckers trying to get in your underpants all the time.
Yes, Travis?
Yeah, so, I mean, is the joke that—I really don't understand what the joke is.
Is the joke that he's working in a scrupulous business?
I mean, I was trying—at first, I thought he was trying to go for, like, an Andrew Dice Clay kind of thing, where he just says a lot of, like, obnoxious or self-aggrandizing things.
But he's benefiting from an extremely warm and friendly audience, I have to say.
Yeah, it's small.
It's like a bringer club, let's put it that way.
Small night, friends are there and they make a decent part of the room.
To deal with this stress, it behooved the model to do copious amounts of drugs.
And thank God I had the proper upbringing.
Because my parents were hippies from the Haight-Ashbury era, San Francisco.
And they used to like to put acid on my Froot Loops.
Yeah, I'm glad you guys think that's funny.
See, I was a little hyper and they figured, hey, let's give him a conscious awakening and, you know, maybe it would slow him down.
Anybody see the movie Chucky?
That was me, Haight-Ashbury, running around.
A funny Chuckie though.
So wait, so are these are these jokes?
Or is he just trying to recount his childhood trauma in front of an audience right now?
Yeah, that's true.
Have you been to a stand up open mic?
That's the def that defines it.
Yeah, I was like, let me just let me just like do a stand up open mic and let's talk about my fucked up childhood and the fucked up industry I worked in and sort of my his own weird trials and insecurities.
But it's not really like in a comedy way or self-deprecating way.
It sounds like he's trying to get something out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, on the one hand, I would say that, you know, his jokes obviously, you know, needle.
I mean, he's clearly really green, you know, in this performance, but he's got enough confidence and he's good looking enough that I wonder if Because I have some good friends who do stand-up, and you watch their first, you know, their first kind of open mic nights, their bringer nights, and it's not all that much different than this.
Minus some of the, you know, self-aggrandizing, you know, nature of the jokes, but I don't know.
I mean, it's kind of not as bad as I thought it was going to be, and I think maybe if he had stuck with it, I didn't dig through his embarrassing archives to bring this video up.
This is a video he has posted on his certified HealthNut channel.
So he's proud of this.
I think it, like, shows to people in his eyes that he was a good comedian and then decided to switch to health practices.
Right.
Yeah, actually grateful for my parents and everything that happened.
So I'd like to take the time right now to thank God, my mother and father, because they gave me a very large dick.
And they circumcised it.
It's the Circumcised Supersized Combo Patch.
So, um, this endowment has given me more confidence than a Harvard education.
Been a real hit with the ladies.
And it's given me a high level of street credibility.
Any brothers in the house?
They know what I'm talking about.
So that's his first like true cultural miss.
Yeah.
Like, where you're just like, what are you doing, dude?
No!
No!
And this was even in, like, you know, what, probably the late 80s?
This was from 2006.
Yeah.
What I like to do with my big dick is fuck.
Anybody like to fuck here?
I'm not talking about make love or any of that shit, right?
I'm talking about fuck.
I'm talking about getting down and dirty.
I'm talking about busting out the extra virgin olive oil, because this is some psycho Billy shit I learned in Italy when I was there, and just pouring it all over and fucking mounting your prey, getting down and just doing it.
And sometimes the girlfriend is like, Honey, don't you think you might enjoy it a little bit if you slow down a little bit?
And this stops me right in my tracks.
And I go, slow down?
That's some feminist cerebral concoction for cunnilingus.
Which, by the way, I practice.
But right now, we're in Neanderthal man mode, and I don't fuck it.
But since we're on the subject of sexual evolution, why don't we practice a little gestalt therapy here?
And I'll be responsible for my orgasm, and you be responsible for yours.
I'm glad you guys think that's funny.
Because I don't have a fucking girlfriend.
He had one funny joke in there, and it was after doing the whole Neanderthal sex thing, and then goes, well, I don't have a girlfriend anymore.
That is the ticket, is that the way that that character works is if you are the chauvinist piece-of-shit male model, but your punchlines are about how it pisses everybody off and you can't understand why.
There's something in there that I really But he can't do it.
I really do think that if he had honed it and put in the time and just like really beat
it out and worked on his material, got a good 10 minutes and a good 15 minutes, I honestly
think he might have had a shot at doing this because he's got the confidence.
But he doesn't have the satire.
He is incapable of being that character because he believes the things that character believes.
Exactly.
He really does want to just make half his set about how big his dick is.
Yeah, yeah.
No, definitely, definitely.
I agree with all that.
Despite his caustic attitude, Troy gets married and has two children over the next few years.
He continues to appear in his videos with very little clothes on, he returns to the Amazon, Do you feel like you could use more energy in your life?
a masculinist health influencer called Paul Cech of the Paul Cech Institute, who becomes
this kind of sensei. He also continues to shoot videos that demonstrate his intent to
get on television. Here for example is a 2008 video entitled "Troy Casey, Certified Health
Nut TV Reel".
Do you feel like you could use more energy in your life? Do you feel that what's waiting
for you is on the horizon?
Hey, it's Troy Casey, the Certified Health Nut, here today in Miami Beach to talk about
exercise.
Nice.
Exercise doesn't need to be complicated, it can be simple.
The first thing that you need is the proper uniform.
The key to this stretch right here is time.
So we're not out to make anyone bad or good.
We're just simply here to offer new choices for people.
We're talking to Ken Boatwright, bodybuilder, and we're asking him, what is health to Ken Boatwright?
The food with chemicals is over here, and the food without chemicals makes you feel great!
Which one do you want?
And how do the steroids make your liver feel?
Or do I want to be out there like the Certified Health Nut, bouncing off the walls, getting all excited, energetic, at 41 years old, being ripped to the bone, strong as Knox?
It's the Certified Health Nut, and he's in the middle of the Amazon!
I am Mrs. Health Nut, and I'm here to talk about natural birth.
No, I'm a little lost today, and my feet are wet, and I almost walked through quicksand.
The thing is, there's really nothing to fear.
Do I gotta rethink what I'm putting in my body?
Do I gotta rethink my education, the media, the government?
Like, what's really going on on this planet?
What are the effects of genetically modified organisms in the ecosystem on planet Earth?
What does that do?
He said, son, when you grow up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned?
What do the Mayans know?
He said, will you defeat them, your demons, and all the non-believers, the plans that they've made?
Okay, now we're going to get serious.
There's no degenerative diseases down there.
Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, onset diabetes, obesity, it doesn't exist.
Did you say that most of your colon cancer patients are full of shit?
Well, usually if we're going to operate, we'll do a bowel prep and they're not.
I'm not talking about physically, I'm talking about mentally.
So can you please attempt to describe the series of shocking things that you saw towards the end of that video, Travis?
You know, yeah, well, what really struck me is that whenever he asks a question that he thinks is funny, he has this this like, he has this look on his face, like, I don't know, like a child pulling a prank, like so pleased with himself.
Like when he asked the question, apparently, a doctor about whether his colon cancer patients are full of shit.
And then the doctor attempts to answer earnestly, is like, no, we usually cannot perform surgery in that way.
He's like, no, no, no.
He still keeps going.
Really uncomfortable and weird.
And then there was a bit at the end where he feeds something to Samantha Bee, who at the time worked for The Daily Show.
And this is after showing us the water birth of his wife.
Yes, that's right.
With the child.
Maybe I blocked that part out.
I went momentarily blind as that appeared on the screen.
But yes, in between all these high energy, jokey, manic, weird things, there's a child being born in water.
It was pretty surreal.
Yeah, you don't want to put your water birth in your TV reel.
This is the TV reel.
This is a TV reel!
So, things are going great.
Today, Troy Casey resembles an extremely fit Rick Rubin, sporting a long beard, allowing his body hair to develop freely, and generally dressing like a Los Angeles fitness hype beast.
He has also developed along the way a series of bizarre health practices.
Perhaps his most famous is the ball slapping.
In the following video, Troy is standing in a speedo over an open fire and whacking his balls with his hands as he does breathing exercises.
You can hear his assistant groaning as he gets started.
Ball slapping!
[Sigh]
[Typing]
[Sigh]
[Typing]
Another of his more exotic practices is butthole sunning, which is a term coined by an LA-based influencer known as
Ra of Earth.
The original YouTube video sees three men, buck naked, walking towards a group of teepees in a gorgeous natural setting.
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