The past couple years have been interesting. I’ve stood by and watched a number of rumors about my personal life circulate and die. You cannot address every conspiracy theory or half-baked reddit post about yourself once you become a public personality. Once you get into that tit for tat, it’s game over for your peace of mind… and your free time. There’s no need to clear up the record, but I want to. As a public personality, one of my favorite quotes is “if you want to be understood, explain.” The public demands that, as they should. And as my health appears to be in decline, I don’t want dishonest people writing my life’s story. LOS ANGELES I moved to Los Angeles from south Florida after a show idea I had was successfully crowdfunded, raising more than US $6,000 on the Internet to produce a season of a grassroots YouTube show dedicated to many of the political and economic issues raised from my bedroom in Florida, where the original audio podcast was “headquartered.” I loved that period of my life in Florida, interviewing local politicos and self-help gurus and bartenders. If I could go back to that, I would. Because it was perfect. In Los Angeles, I aligned with a toxic personality who billed himself as an attorney. In reality, his attorney status had been revoked after a couple of back to back DUIs in the state of California, but since an acquaintance Joe Rogan had vouched for the guy, I allowed him into my world. What a mistake. He squandered a significant portion of the crowdfund on alcohol and vice; we parted ways shortly after that, despite his baseless threats of retribution. His personality defects were ultimately my fault, because I was desperate to have a contact “on […]
