(Note: Since my Tumblr deplatformed my blogs without warning, rhyme or reason in 2020, I'm thinking to start posting bits and pieces from my archives here. Ultimately, archives will be posted for paying members, and small donations, but for now, here's a freebie...)
Back in what I call "The Last Days of Silverlake", a bunch of us converted our diesel Benzes to run on recycled veggie oil.
Personally, I was inspired to do this when MOCA (or was it LACMA?) blasted Los Angeles with an advertising campaign wherein they posted art descriptions all over town. Like, above a strip joint, they would have a billboard that looked like the Helvetica-fonted descriptions posted next to paintings, which said "Depravity: nudity, alcohol, and dollar bills" the way that artists' materials are listed next to their works.
One day, I was at the gas pump, filling my then Honda Civic, and there was one posted on the pump itself which read: "Middle East Dependency: fossil fuels, war, death" (or something similar). It hit me HARD, and I switched over to an ancient Mercedes, and converted it to run on veggie oil, immediately.
We had a really cool underground recycled veggie oil scene going, until then Governator Ahnold made it illegal, because corruption. That was how I met Deepak, lead singer of Deepakalypse, who delivered the cleanest recycled oil in town, at all hours of the day and night. If you're not hip to his music, I recommend checking him out on Spotify. He's rad.
Anyhoo, my Ashtanga yoga friends Anastasia and Ian recruited me to be in their commercial. I was the only one they styled, and I HATED my stupid pink outfit and the dumb bow around my waist. Like, with the hot burning passion of a thousand suns. Ew.
Fun fact: My Benz was rear-ended while parked on a side street in West Hollywood the day before we shot, which meant they could only shoot it from the front and the side. I drove to a wedding in Palm Springs later that day, and thus changed clothes in the car en route, only realizing AFTER the wedding that I had put my blouse on backwards, and looked like a retard the whole time.
When they asked me to jump on the hood and dance, I asked for some music. I'll give you one guess as to which artist I chose (Hint: it rhymes with play-dee-OH-read
Also, you can see what my teeth looked like in this little video before I grew an ever-widening gap that makes no sense whatsoever - in this dimension, at least.
Anyways, this video makes me smile, because the Eastside of Los Angeles was such a special place back then, and we were all so hopeful and optimistic, and confident that we were effecting positive change.
Today's episode is a little different...and kind of a big deal.
I'm announcing some major shifts, including why this will be my last podcast— for now.
But before we get there, we're diving headfirst into: Tesla virtue signaling, disposable relationships, why we're building secret cases against the people we claim to love, the bizarre tribalism infecting both the Left and the Right, women in business, integrity (or the shocking lack thereof), and why I'm far more interested in honest writing than feeding the endless content machine.
This one's spicy. Stick around until the end for the announcement that changes what's next.
What if the biggest battle of our time isn't political?
What if it's psychological?
In this wide-ranging conversation with journalist, author, researcher, Courtenay Turner, we connect the dots between technocracy, psychology, AI governance, education, propaganda, and the institutions shaping modern culture. From Tavistock and the evolution of psychology to AI voting, social engineering, transhumanism, and the regulatory infrastructure emerging around digital governance, we explore how systems of influence shape the way we think long before they shape the way we vote.
We also dive into eugenics, the philosophical roots of modern psychology, education as behavioral conditioning, the promise—and peril—of artificial intelligence, and why discernment has become one of the most important survival skills of the 21st century.
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The Cult of Me + Why/When Your Truth is Irrelevant” Part 1
What do a rock concert, a customer service fail, AI, propaganda, the Santa Fe obelisk, and our collective obsession with "speaking our truth" have in common?
More than you think.
In this solo episode, I unpack the increasingly narcissistic programming that's convinced us self-expression is the highest virtue—even when it comes at the expense of service, discernment, accountability, or each other.
Along the way, I expose how media sneaks editorializing into reporting, why technological "progress" without wisdom/balance is a recipe for disaster, how language reveals the consciousness beneath our culture, and why I'm officially taking my investigative journalism to Substack.
If you've been wondering why everything feels increasingly self-centered, emotionally manipulative, and intellectually bankrupt...this one's for you.
Part 2 will drop for YOU, my beloved supporter, next week.
Show Notes
• Why collective coherence is being ...
Emily and I just dropped our 125th episode of Words. Hurray!! In it, we delve deeper into the Peter Thiel long game, Tucker's 10-point plan, and a very special MK Ultra/Twilight Program easter egg Emily found.
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