00:24:39.320So with Tom Breyer, it was this time when like everybody knew who that guy was.
00:24:44.700Everybody knew who the sight reading guy, you know, pianist was.
00:24:47.880like it was just this rite of passage on the early days of internet and it wasn't just this video it
00:24:52.520was a series of videos so really and you i have to give credit because tom was just this amazing
00:24:58.760beautiful innocent autist i shouldn't say was because he's still around he had a car accident
00:25:03.320which is why i'm sort of talking about it him in the past tense a little bit in terms of his
00:25:06.840playing ability um she's still obviously still with us that neck beard is so aggressive so i
00:25:12.280mean he was he's just the neck beard is just it inspired a whole style of of follow-up pianists
00:25:18.120that are trying to imitate the neck beard and they'll never be at the level of tom bryard's
00:25:22.360neck beard now anyway i just but so this moment of of ron keeper first putting this camera he
00:25:28.680he's the one that got this music downloaded off online and and put it in front of tom's face and
00:25:34.920said let's and just go run with this because he knew tom tom had never played any of these games
00:25:40.120before he never heard any of his music before he has this very special type of of ability called
00:25:44.840sight reading and it's the one that i have other than better than like there's a million pianists
00:25:49.720that are better jazz and classical pianists than i am but at this ability of sight reading it's a
00:25:54.440very specialized skill especially being able to then just reinvent as you're doing it on the fly
00:26:00.360and tom was a master at it right so he's just making this up on the fly seeing this music for
00:26:04.280the first time which is to to a non-musician is kind of impressive but to a musician it's really
00:26:10.920really really really impressive like you can tell that this guy is at a level of mastery that that
00:26:16.120hardly very few people reach not that you can't but it's just a rare skill to have in top form
00:26:21.400so uh long story short uh this guy keeper um ron um messaged me one day because he saw that i had
00:26:28.200a ragtime youtube channel and he said you need to come to these ragtime festivals this was like
00:26:33.4002012 so a while you know 12 years ago ish to 11 2012 and um i went and i met tom and i immediately
00:26:42.440we hit it off because uh he could see that i had the similar kind of like spazzy add equality to
00:26:49.080my playing style and i was a sight reader right and i um i the for for what it's worth there's0.94
00:26:55.880always the purists and and everything right so there was the contingent of the ragtime community
00:26:59.800that was like only play ragtime before 19 dickity two and i'm like okay whatever i i want to play
00:27:05.960the modern stuff right i want to um i want to bring in the younger people and like reinterpret
00:27:11.800it out yeah look at i'm playing undertale i'm playing uh cuphead right cuphead who's got this
00:27:17.640great ragtime soundtrack um and the people and the younger folk are like wow actually yeah i'll come
00:27:22.280to the ragtime festival so i feel like they didn't really see the the merit in that the the the the
00:27:27.960ragtime head honchos the purists didn't like it they're like huh what is this and it's so funny
00:27:34.120because it's all like racist iconography too and all these all these old ragtime sheet music they're
00:27:40.200just like they're like today even i'm like oh man but anyway um so uh just because like the era it's
00:27:49.080from just from the air it's from it's all very like blackface uh type uh stuff and water they're all0.51
00:27:55.160have watermelons and they're eating chicken and it is what it is right but the it was all you say0.97
00:28:02.680that like it's like a bad thing but they it was embraced at the time if that makes sense right
00:28:08.120it was it was a music that blacks and whites kind of were like oh we both write this and we both
00:28:13.080enjoy this and it was used to kind of as a racial stereotype but it was not done it was not done in
00:28:19.400a way where black people were like oh no this is terrible they loved it and they were writing the
00:28:23.480this stuff too scott joplin the main ragtime composer was black right and and um you know
00:28:30.120joseph lamb the second best guy was white so it was something that it was it was uh again it was
00:28:37.180something that brought people together and they used it to challenge the status quo right so anyway
00:28:41.280tom bryer good old days right good old days right uh tom was great um he he he kind of took me under
00:28:48.120wing um and in 2016 he had a car accident uh brain injury and basically kind of lost the ability to
00:28:55.560play big tragedy i think it's the worst thing that's happened to music in the last 50 years
00:29:00.360i'm not even over exaggerating um he he was a composer of like 500 original pieces and they're
00:29:07.960all just golden and i i'm gonna make it a um a personal mission to record as many of them as
00:29:14.040as i can because i have one of the biggest collections of of his work that it's really
00:29:20.280hard to find and i have a digital collection of it and physical as well um so his work is is doing
00:29:26.600just just playing other pieces or is this our original works these are all original works
00:29:31.800oh wow original compositions that are that are again some of my favorite piano music in existence
00:29:37.080um and but there is a whole new generation of ragtime and early jazz composers so see this
00:29:45.220just to step aside for a second like this is what i'm interested in more than anything right this is
00:29:51.240my love and my specialty and yet i'm portrayed as like this really crazy evil person in a lot
00:29:58.460of circles you're just an anti-semite actually right and and i i wrote a couple satire like
00:30:04.540you know tom lehrer uh that sounds familiar so he he's like a he's a a singer songwriter a jewish
00:30:12.460singer songwriter though he was a secular jewish guy he famously did the element song where it's
00:30:17.660like there's antimony austenic aluminum selenium and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and uranium
00:30:22.460and nickel neodymium neptunium germanium and iron americium ruthenium uranium um so he did other
00:30:28.300songs like werner von braun when he kind of made fun of how the u.s brought nazis over into the
00:30:35.620rocket programs right the operation paperclip right so he was all about um political uh satire
00:30:43.280and commentary so in the 50s and 60s 50s and 60s yeah yeah this is and and again my parents generation
00:30:49.960everyone listened to tom layer everyone loved his stuff they all had his records i mean he was banned
00:30:54.160in australia they tried to arrest him for some he had some pretty risque and bawdy stuff but he
00:30:59.880went after everybody right so he went he went after um um you know the u.s but he went after
00:31:06.560jews he went after he no topic was off the up the table for him but he could get away with it because0.76
00:31:11.780it was in a time where like satire was possible but this was also during the time when um like0.95
00:31:18.600the 60s right when there was this sort of fake counterculture moment that happened this movement
00:31:24.440it was it some of it was organic but then some of it got co-opted really fast i mean we saw the
00:31:29.020same thing happen in occupy wall street and all that stuff many 30 40 years later right but there
00:31:34.960was this time when it was okay to use song to be to challenge the status quo the jester uh i don't
00:31:42.020know if you know the smothers brothers they're a duo a comedy duo um i do they have they had a tv
00:31:47.680show and they're they were great really talented funny musicians but they started going out uh
00:31:52.960going after the vietnam war in their very high profile tv show and they got canceled they were
00:31:58.640they were one of the first to get chopped right so and we saw everyone that was sort of the
00:32:02.720counterculture folk that got the ones that stuck around that were actually fake they're the ones
00:32:08.640that were silent during the whole covet stuff right so this this moment that it has it passed
00:32:14.880really and and um this void the people the tom layers of the last generation they he gave up
00:32:21.440tom layer famously stopped writing songs when henry kissinger the war criminal won a nobel peace prize
00:32:30.720so kissinger won after bombing cambodia and laos and all that um won a nobel peace prize just like0.54
00:32:38.080obama did for basically being black a president right that's why he won his nobel peace prize
00:32:42.960then he went and bombed everybody with drones and everything started a new war whatever uh but when
00:32:47.760kissinger won uh the prize tom lehrer famously said uh sat satire is dead a political satire is
00:32:56.000dead uh in in a world where something like this happens and um i tend to agree with him uh but
00:33:02.240what's the the the best irony i think is that kissinger died uh last year and tom lehrer who's
00:33:08.400almost 100 is still alive so um i feel like tom did actually get the last laugh so in a lot of
00:33:14.480ways i think i'm trying to i'm trying to carry on his legacy by doing this musical satire stuff
00:33:19.200ironically he used to work at the same university uh that i was fired from for doing his for for
00:33:25.120playing singing his songs verbatim just singing his songs for singing his songs and my songs
00:33:32.160but but but same idea same idea but some of the ones that they cited or some of the the i would
00:33:39.540you could say the most extreme things are in he sings in his songs too so in terms of just being
00:33:46.320like classically racist or sexist sure um he's got one called um the the the good old days of
00:33:52.300dixie or something like that and he's basically like let's go back to the days of of whipping
00:33:57.000slaves and everything and like oh yeah and and it's he's like having a good time but it's people
00:34:02.080get it people understood at the time that this was a joke right so if i try to sing these songs0.70
00:34:09.140now they'll call me white supremacist i'm like no no no no no no no this is a jew making fun of
00:34:15.900like rednecks right like it's this is it's a it's a hypothetical i don't actually feel this way it's
00:34:23.160like you have to almost like pretend like a movie that's what comedy and satire is i got in trouble
00:34:28.500on youtube but also with a church i used to work at playing organ for a song called you will never
00:34:34.080be a woman and it was a really tame song even though the title is a little bit you know like
00:34:39.320but um this is an original right yes it was one of my first that i did during the covet time and0.74
00:34:44.800i'm like fuck it i don't care anymore because i saw um dave chapelle was doing a comedy special0.67
00:34:49.340uh this is like this is in 2021 so that sticks and stones uh this that's the one with uh the0.88
00:34:57.420comedy yeah i don't remember sure um but yeah so this is the song i wrote i was like wow why is um
00:35:03.700dave chapelle getting why are they getting so mad um at dave chapelle at dave chapelle because he
00:35:09.540did like a trans joke but it wasn't even that edgy yeah i didn't yeah it wasn't even that edgy and
00:35:14.540i'm like okay so i was like i'm gonna write a sweet kind of 60s 70s rock style classic um tom
00:35:22.560waits kind of style a song and then kind of like just try to make people meet in the middle and
00:35:28.640not be extreme and um i i was stunned um it really um it blew up on 4chan first of all which was
00:35:37.140hilarious but i i am i i got doxxed and then i got called into my church and my church was like
00:35:43.940so i really woke like rainbow flags outside church in liberal california right so that's
00:35:51.060what we're dealing with i mean it's yeah my fault for working there but i've been there for 15 years
00:35:54.720before that stuff started happening right and i was just the organist right so they called me in
00:35:59.060and they're like it's a gig well i mean it was one that i loved too i put a lot of time in and i was
00:36:02.860a salaried church organist which is a really highly sought after position right one i had
00:36:07.620worked for for a long time so they brought me in and they're like you need to do an apology video
00:36:11.940uh and delete this is back when i was still on youtube right they said i need to delete the
00:36:16.080video and i need to do an apology video and explain how it was just a joke and i'm like
00:36:19.680like i'm not gonna explain to you that it's a joke of course this is when the covid's there
00:36:25.380they're all this was 21 22 this is 22 the one that you're listening to the original version
00:36:31.940was from the video was from 2021 okay that's the album version and this came from the authority of
00:36:37.980the local church or like the uh yep yep the heads oh they all got together it was like a
00:36:43.400you ever watch monty python they're like no one expects the spanish inquisition right like it
00:36:48.960felt like i was in the in the inquisition right and they were all they all had their masks on
00:36:52.780right and i wouldn't do that right so they opened all the doors and they were all like trying to
00:36:57.340make sure they're all sitting by the doors because i you know i was a super spreader probably right
00:37:01.360and and then of course um they ended up firing me but um not for the video um for the uh for the
00:37:08.700they end up doing a vaccine mandate um in the church uh and they they required everyone five
00:37:14.380and up to even enter the building to be vaccinated which was like like they were like your kid all
00:37:18.940your kid has to be vaccinated and like and i'm like i can't work in a place like that and they're
00:37:23.520like okay bye-bye so that was that so so is there an apology video there well i
00:37:31.340i later wrote a song called i apologize and don't put that one up um because that'll get you in
00:37:36.460trouble uh but i wrote that one um when i think it was when joe rogan was apologizing for like
00:37:42.860saying the n-word i think he was he went on this apology tour he was like i'm super sorry i like
00:37:47.660said bad words in the past so i wrote a song called i apologize and um and then i i i wrote another
00:37:54.220one called never be rude to an arab which is actually a monty python song which has some
00:37:59.740pretty naughty words in it and and i remember um uh people got really mad at that and i and they're
00:38:05.180like this type of comedy is not you know wouldn't has never been appropriate before then i shared
00:38:09.820the monty python video i'm like bro this was normal in the 70s and it's like to just to say
00:38:15.340these words and to laugh about it and no one got offended like when did it become illegal to be
00:38:21.260offended by you know i think i saw a video in england that was going viral some dude called the
00:38:26.700cop a muppet you know anyway so they got in trouble for that he got arrested for it wow
00:38:33.900for calling a cop a muppet i mean that's what it looked like i could be wrong but
00:38:37.340that's crazy man that's that's ridiculous and but in the states we have people showing up in
00:38:44.780doxing and folks like nick right to get into that right like sure so we have their own free
00:38:50.780speech issues and i can talk to you about what you know i've been through with with the doxing
00:38:55.500well on on twitter and and all that stuff and and my work keep getting fired and stuff so it's a
00:39:01.420it's a it's a tough thing and there and then i have people that support me they're like you know
00:39:05.420free speech includes uh you know there used to be phone books with people's addresses and numbers
00:39:09.740i'm like well yeah but back then there wasn't this weaponized um internet that could be something
00:39:15.420could be shared six million times in two seconds right there's a different world now this is not
00:39:19.500phone book era 90s 1990s anymore right that we grew up in yeah so before we get into uh the nick
00:39:26.640stuff and more about shadow banning and that sort of thing give us your red pill you know kind of
00:39:34.240uh what's a bridged version you know like how like how did you because because you started to make
00:39:38.760these very political kind of out there songs uh during covid you're saying pretty well um was
00:39:44.160there anything before that that was significant that kind of informed your uh rebelliousness or
00:39:48.660you're sort of uh balls to like put these songs out there so uh 9 11 was a big moment for me i
00:39:55.740mean it took me a few years it took me a few years um i kind of started rebelling in high school like
00:40:00.640we all did right but i went to this really intense college prep school high school um i was you know
00:40:05.960i had straight a's i was working really hard um it was in the symphony i was doing all this you
00:40:11.060know music stuff and i burn out and and but i i i got rejected to all the schools i wanted to go to
00:40:16.680even though i i had top i was i should have been right i wasn't diverse enough is really what was
00:40:20.920going on and i went to a really bad woke college in the midwest um and i i crashed out there really
00:40:27.440fast um and then i just started writing a bunch of music uh and i had access to a software and
00:40:34.060a laptop for the first time in the mid-2000s it was like some kid 19 year old kid could actually
00:40:39.480make studio quality music for the first time ever and it was really exciting so i i just
00:40:45.360was thrilled with that and so i i i came back to california i started making music but then i
00:40:51.120started i had time my brain was busy for the i mean it needed to be busy it needed to be occupied
00:40:55.940right and i started researching shit online and this was a time when the internet was like
00:41:01.380you were able and encouraged to be anonymous and anon you were it was you could have as many
00:41:09.760monikers and personas as you wanted that was what was so cool about it right we all had our
00:41:14.320hotmail accounts and we had crazy names for ourselves right i mean not saying that people
00:41:19.280still don't do that today and have screen names but it was like it was in this it was before web
00:41:24.1002.0 where there was like only so many sites where you could like make an account and if they were
00:41:28.820they'd kind of be like these out of the way forums or something like that for the most part i love how
00:41:32.600we talk about like we're like two boomers basically like back in the early no but it feels like that
00:41:37.100it's really hard to explain to like the gen z kids what how different it was and how it was so
00:41:42.920exciting it was like this wild west right so i was able to go on these forums like you mentioned
00:41:47.440and i started um arguing with uh massad spies you know but you know what i mean like i i would
00:41:52.800with i started listening to alex jones and and bill cooper it was a big one right the william
00:41:58.100cooper right i started listening to his pop show because he um uh you know he was he he died in
00:42:03.1402001 right after 9 11 um and then i i spent a lot of time on reddit which is i'm embarrassed to
00:42:10.640admit it now but in the back in the early like 2006 i bailed on reddit in 2018 but i was i was
00:42:16.500a redditor for a while there well no so i'm talking about 10 years before that when it was
00:42:20.620really small and um i started i started spending a lot of time on our conspiracy
00:42:25.400the the reddit subreddit our conspiracy are you familiar with our i don't know the lore of our
00:42:33.160slash conspiracy no it used to be it used to be good back in the day huh pull up a documentary i
00:42:38.040made called um reddit covid conspiracies and coups it should be on x um reddit covid conspiracies
00:42:46.840and coups i made a three hour documentary so i don't fault you oh whoops whole thing um yes
00:42:55.480that's the one that's the one um check this out if you get time it basically goes over the history
00:43:02.280of reddit and it talks about its early inception as basically a massad spy tool kind of like and i
00:43:09.400talk about that and um you know so gilane maxwell right sure she was the first power user on reddit
00:43:16.120right so she she was dude no way yeah so she was the account maxwell hill she was the first account0.88
00:43:23.320to get a million karma which is how um uh that you count points so she was actually the first account
00:43:29.000to get two million karma as well and there you go so that that group conspirator that was a um anyway
00:43:35.000so this is a long deep dive into the history of specifically our conspiracy but how it was part
00:43:39.800of a broader narrative of reddit as a whole and um a whole nother documentary could be made about
00:43:46.120the donald right so there was a this is a sub i'm aware and then that so they got they started
00:43:52.040basically taking over reddit and then reddit basically first castrated them cut off their
00:43:57.640balls and then quarantine them yeah and then they got rid of it and then they did that to all the
00:44:01.480covet subs too conspiracy they did it to all the right-wing subs as well conspiracy is sort of the
00:44:08.360containment zone for all of these groups right and the mod team has sort of been holding its
00:44:15.160own and pushing back but during covet and it was specifically after jan 6 there was a major and
00:44:21.560idyllic gate was a big part of it which is great that you brought that up italy gate was what
00:44:25.800But caused a senator, who's the first lady that you show, a U.S. senator in the very intro, she – Tammy, what was her name? I can't remember.
00:44:39.500She evoked on the night of Jan 6, she said Reddit conspiracies led to the attack on the Capitol.
00:44:47.800She blamed Reddit conspiracy theories. I'm not kidding.
00:44:51.320And the next day, a bunch of articles were written in the mainstream press that Reddit conspiracy led to the attack.
00:45:00.660So they did a basically coup of the entire sub where they neutered the whole mod team, the moderator team.
00:50:28.240That's what I really love about your stuff is not only is it clever and has this like political teeth to it,
00:50:33.920but sometimes they're just like, they're so melodic and heavenly.
00:50:37.240it's like this is so much truth and beauty i love it love it well you know again to give credit to
00:50:43.000um postman jukebox the band right we would take these songs that i would find heinous some maybe
00:50:49.160not so palatable like taylor swift and then we redid them right so um for example we took um
00:50:56.120like shake it off the song shake it off which i hate that song shake it off shake off but we did
00:51:00.760this sort of motown fun version of it and i kind of like i kind of grew to like it and then i took
00:51:07.240it and i did a song called mazel tov have you seen my song mazel tov no you might get in trouble is
00:51:13.960is it is it at the same like uh is it like a parody of uh shake it off shake it off so it's
00:51:19.880mazel tov mazel tov but it has some bad words in it that i don't know i don't know how to spell
00:51:24.840mazel tov even whoops yeah it's m-a-z-e-l m-a-z-e-l yeah t-o-v uh t-o-t-o-v it might you might need a
00:51:34.980space in between them uh it's m-a-z m-a-z this this this i skipped my i skipped i skipped my hebrew
00:51:44.180lessons you're you're you're gonna fail your your bar mitzvah bro i know it's not good so again this
00:51:51.780song right look i'm even wearing the post-modern g fox shirt they're probably really bad at that
00:51:55.540just a little that's a little inside joke with myself right
00:52:00.820i gotta i think that's like what i'm doing right now right so um so yeah like i took this song and
00:52:09.120i made it fun right i made it like i i made it i they're they got these tricks they have these
00:52:16.660tricks they have these pop music tricks these spells these formulas what we were talking about
00:52:21.200in the beginning and they have had a monopoly over them for a hundred years right and we are
00:52:30.160now using their weapons against them and they hate that they hate that and that's why we're
00:52:37.560getting banned and shadow banned is because they're like you you can't do that that's our
00:52:41.900tricks those are our tricks i'm like actually in fact here i'm gonna use your tricks but i'm gonna
00:52:46.300to make them better right and and uh so that that's why i haven't heard this one this is a
00:52:51.500banger that's good i think there's something uh because you were talking about it earlier like
00:52:56.440the the magic of the lyrics and the spells and how it really you know it influences people in
00:53:01.320ways that i don't think we really understand but i feel like the parody is even more powerful for
00:53:06.120basically the same reason right it's or it's already an earworm people have already heard
00:53:10.260the melodies and especially like you said when you can get like the same like the same phonetics
00:53:15.400in the same spot as the original that's when it's really like yeah like like the rabbi shmooly song
00:53:20.960right which is based off of um fiddler on the roof if i were a rich man right which is a
00:53:26.660so it's this very catchy familiar formula but i basically just sung a song for rabbi shmooly
00:53:37.580and um he he he he hasn't liked it yet i i i feel a little bit bad there um come on really
00:53:45.420what's going on here it was a song just for you rabbi i did get the krasensteins to block me
00:53:51.680because i did i did a song for the krasensteins too so i took that one as a win when i did when0.60
00:53:56.320i got them to block me for that one um yeah i mean hey he's just a guy selling butt plugs all
00:54:01.720right what's wrong with that what's wrong with that um but uh yeah i mean so you got i i also
00:54:10.640it's not the same consequences by any means but i made a very simple tiktok questioning like
00:54:17.140teaching trans kids about it was very simple i'm like did you know that transgender people are
00:54:23.50070 70 more likely to unalive themselves and i'm like oh are you should are you sure we should be
00:54:29.220taking teaching this ideology to kids and this blew up and then like you know my account was
00:54:33.920gone the next day you can still go on and find like the people stitching it and calling me a
00:54:37.420monster or whatever but it's it's true that for some reason that uh why do you think that community
00:54:42.200is so sensitive well i i have personal experience multiple times so i i i did lose my youtube
00:54:49.880channel of 16 years like i said a couple years ago now a couple years ago next month and um rest
00:54:56.140in peace of course yeah well it's fine because look at we're i'm i i was stuck in this place
00:55:01.200this shadow ban place i would have been there forever like them banning me has now streisanded
00:55:06.380me right so now it's liberated so much more it has liberated me it really has and i'm pissed that
00:55:11.280i lost my like my life's work and all that but anyway oh there's no backups for some of it well
00:55:17.420i was able to back up a lot of the original uh originals onto odyssey but my original videos
00:55:23.320are gone and all the views and all the comments and all the links over the years sharing to reddit
00:55:27.800and sharing to all the it's all white so all that record is just gone and a lot of it's like you're
00:55:32.280gone from existence right so some i'm still getting messages from people i mean like why
00:55:35.880haven't i seen you on youtube for a while like they have there's no way that i can it's just
00:55:40.200it's cruel it's really it's psychological how big was your following when you got nuked well
00:55:45.960so it's hard to say i had like 20 000 followers which is not that much right i think it was there
00:55:51.480was something it was something bigger that i had like i was that that number wasn't real to me you
00:55:56.280know what i mean like it was the again the legacy of what i of of the videos that that was it's a
00:56:02.680trip to think about how they could be manipulating the numbers and actually relating it well the
00:56:07.240numbers weren't real so i did a song uh in uh just to test the waters when i realized that they were
00:56:13.080messing with my channel was around 2013 2014. so i did a song called foil which was um the weird
00:56:19.800al um song where he did aluminum foil it's like a conspiracy theory mockery song he did on his from
00:56:25.300his album then but i was like you know what i'm actually going to go hard on this so i did a 10
00:56:29.220minute version of that in 2014 and it went viral like actually viral and that was the first time
00:56:35.220that i actually saw aluminum foil this is the one right so i start out singing his version but then
00:56:42.320i start singing about michael hastings um i start singing about sandy hook i start singing about um
00:56:48.900uh 9 11 right and i'm dropping it's like red pill after red pill of like just dosing dosing
00:56:54.500them up and this wasn't a time when this wasn't really being done on youtube so this was one of
00:56:58.500the first moments i think that youtube had to contend with that because it was going viral
00:57:03.460where if you just search for foil the word foil my video is the first to pop up for like a week
00:57:09.060but what ended up happening was that they froze the view count at only a few thousand but i was
00:57:13.700still getting the likes and i was still getting the comments like thousands and thousands and and
00:57:18.900i ended up so more likes than views yeah and um it linked to my soundcloud account yeah and my
00:57:27.140that because it was going viral my soundcloud had like a hundred listens on every song it got 30
00:57:32.420000 listens on soundcloud right because this viral spillover was coming over from this youtube video
00:57:37.780right right um it wasn't the soundcloud track wasn't going viral right it was because everyone
00:57:42.740was going to from youtube but youtube was showing like 3 000 views and my soundcloud had 30 000
00:57:48.340and it had like tens of that so yeah youtube shut it down how many takes did this take this is a
00:57:53.300single take i'm guessing single take yeah it's just i don't remember it was 10 years ago bro
00:57:59.300yeah but i wrote this fast because this was right when he released his thing right um so anyway so
00:58:05.300i was marked a marked man a marked channel for a long time so i feel like they let me sort of coast
00:58:10.020from this but i never had a viral video after that video until you will never be a woman seven
00:58:17.720years later i had a dead channel like i would upload something and i had get 10 20 views even
00:58:21.860though i had the videos with millions of views right because that was my channel was being
00:58:26.780suppressed but i had millions of views on all these ragtime all these mario stuff going back
00:58:32.760to like 2007 i had some of the earth early viral videos back then right of ragtime stuff
00:58:37.800um so people were still finding them i'm curious if you've stayed up to date on this because i
00:58:42.380remember hearing this uh probably in the early 2010s there was this big controversy with vivo
00:58:47.960where it's like oh a bunch of fake views on like a taylor swift song or a rihanna song and it's
00:58:54.000like don't worry guys we took away the faith fake views it'll never happen again and then we've
00:58:59.020never heard of any fake views being pumping up any pop songs ever all the every metric every
00:59:04.580metric on the internet is fake and gay as far as i'm concerned especially on twitter twitter x is0.87
00:59:09.500really bad but youtube's bad they're all bad um vivo yeah i had a vivo thing i remember that i do0.85
00:59:14.800remember that and then they started being weird and so i kind of stopped using them but i just
00:59:18.640thought it was noteworthy that they're talking about fake views back then and then like that's
00:59:22.860it we fixed it it's never gonna happen again it's now yeah and then yeah it's it's all it's all so
00:59:29.060it's manipulation right they're manipulating they know how to make and i don't know if it's a group
00:59:33.060like this could be ai that we're dealing with right this rogue algorithm i don't know what it
00:59:36.980is but it's we are test subjects and it's trying to inflict maximum like trauma on us to keep us
00:59:42.580uh coming back for more right it's it's this constant cycle of trauma endorphins right like
00:59:48.280i will be gaining hundreds of followers a day on x and all of a sudden i'm like losing followers
00:59:53.200every day for a week and i'm not doing anything different right it's a it's a game that they play
00:59:57.140right so yeah and and for those listening i think you're talking about this there's one for just
01:00:02.560consuming the content but there's also an addictive cycle for the creators as well of course they do
01:00:07.060a thing where it's very interesting on tiktok because it's like you know they they do this
01:00:11.220thing where they just like make you go viral and it's like it's just to make make me make more
01:00:15.080is this to me for me to be your content slave is that what this is about i feel even though i do
01:00:20.120kind of get into these funks i feel a little bit battle hardened it's funny i like say that like
01:00:24.480like i'm a warrior or something but for the years of doing this grind on social media of just putting
01:00:29.940stuff up and nobody's seeing it and doing it for 20 years really i am not as affected by that so i
01:00:37.160can kind of like i don't know i feel like i'm a little more immune to that and it kind of gives
01:00:41.780me this more more of a freedom to not have to keep up like i'm not really making money with a lot of
01:00:46.220these songs like i am getting some people do support me i really appreciate that but i'm not
01:00:49.780i'm not making a living out of it so i don't i never was monetized on youtube that was another
01:00:54.020thing so they let me exist because i was making them money which is so fascinating about why they
01:01:00.420they got rid of me right so what happened was in 2021 when i did you will never be a woman
01:01:05.860and all of a sudden uh it started blowing up on 4chan and then i wrote another one i wrote
01:01:10.900oh they shut it down and that one got me in trouble right that one started blow up too
01:01:14.740but then the one that really blew up again was um my speed of science song my mrna speed of
01:01:20.500side song i remember that and it was it was very tongue-in-cheek making fun of fauci i used this
01:01:25.700old kingston trio they're like in this old folk group from the 50s that all boomers know i took
01:01:31.140one of their songs and i added lyrics about questioning all the stuff that was happening but
01:01:36.900in 2021 you weren't allowed to do that you weren't allowed to say these things so i was like you know
01:01:41.940what i'm gonna sing them instead in one of my songs i say there's certain things you cannot say
01:01:46.980so sing them all instead so i was like you know what i can get banned for saying these things so
01:01:52.660i'm going to sing them so i wrote this song and it went viral on youtube in a time when you weren't
01:01:57.620supposed to this isn't this is an updated version i'm showing right this is the 2024 version this
01:02:02.900is the one i did this year that's right um the original one is from three years ago um and that
01:02:08.900started going viral um and you will um never be a woman we're both about to hit a hundred thousand
01:02:15.300views now i think that that they had way more right youtube was but 100 000 is a lot of views
01:02:21.460for a song on youtube making fun of fauci and saying you will never be a woman okay they both
01:02:27.620were at 99 000 converging on 100 000 the morning that i got my channel nuked and i did was getting
01:02:36.020mass reported because they were admitting it by the trans community where they um basically said
01:02:41.860we are uh mass reporting you uh for your song you will never be a woman and you're you will never0.89
01:02:47.620hit 100 000 views on that song and they were right they got they so my channel was nuked before that
01:02:54.440hit 100 000 so although youtube will never say what did it what song did it it was those three
01:03:00.840way they shut it down mrna speed of science but i think you will never be with the woman was what
01:03:06.220was the one that really triggered it because there were so many people that were talking and
01:03:11.900what was what was so interesting was the comment section there were thousands of comments and it
01:03:17.400was there were trans people that were like this song is a banger literally they're like i'm trans
01:03:24.520and you're right i'm a trans male i'm never going to be a woman i i totally respect that like i uh
01:03:31.080you know what i'm saying like and there were other other people like i'm trans and yeah we cannot
01:03:34.860we've got to stop trancing kids so there was this whole conversation being had in the comment section0.90
01:03:41.260of this video which is like look at me i'm a i'm a piano fag right i'm a theater kid right i'm like
01:03:47.100i'm like this dude that's like like look like like you know i'm i look like one of them i look0.73
01:03:53.820like i'm a lefty because i grew up in in liberal california and yet i'm coming out and i'm singing
01:03:58.780these songs and it breaks some of their brains a little bit i think it really did and it just made
01:04:03.820them go crazy they want to just destroy me right and and so um but i also i feel like what i can do
01:04:12.700what we can do with this type of content is we can bring people together right so with the with
01:04:18.300the speed of science song i had folks saying you know on both sides folks saying that i resisted
01:04:25.420everything it was tr it was trauma for me i i can't even talk to my family anymore your song
01:04:30.860was the first time that made me laugh at this horrible experience and conversely i would get
01:04:36.060people saying hey i'm quadruple boosted but now i kind of like i get where you're coming from and
01:04:42.700how this was actually really silly you're making some good points in your i'm making some good
01:04:47.020points and i'm not trying to make say either extreme is right i'm trying to say we need to
01:04:52.140have what was coveted it was a way to shut everything down make it so that you stop meeting
01:04:56.860and talking about ideas that's the town square we used to have and they made that doubly worse
01:05:01.500by censoring the digital town square so we lost this human connection we lost this i lost the
01:05:06.300ability to play music for people i didn't realize how much i loved playing music like in churches
01:05:11.980and stuff until it was taken away from me because i was getting maybe selfishly a a wonderful
01:05:17.980experience by making so many people happy and i don't necessarily like making people mad at me
01:05:23.580and want to kill me with my songs like i don't get a joy out of it i kind of laugh at it sometimes but
01:05:29.420it's not what i want to do i want to play ragtime music and make people want to have their kids
01:05:34.140learn to play these styles so they're not forgotten like that's who my my what my main
01:05:38.300deal is and then i saw this sort of vacuum this um during covet of being like who you know i saw
01:05:45.660the trucker convoy right and i wrote my they wrote the song um honk honk honk i wrote a song for that
01:05:51.500that because i was like my kid and i we've been locked down for two years california was was
01:05:56.380atrocious and we saw there's such an inspiring thing and we were just sitting glued to these
01:06:01.800live streams yeah dude yeah and then like i saw this this this people coming together in a way
01:06:09.040and in such a way that it really resonated resonated with the whole world and i'm convinced
01:06:13.940that this event ended covert i i think it did because it was literally the night that of the
01:06:20.960crazy when when trudeau put his foot down that all of a sudden they pivoted to russia invading
01:06:27.740ukraine it literally was that not and all of a sudden the next day covid was gone i mean it
01:06:33.820didn't obviously happen over and speaking of ukraine look at the jumping castle look at all
01:06:37.840i love that that's not a quentin oh i love that no you're totally right i was i was down there
01:06:43.700at the convoy and it was uh yeah that's when the mandate started to reverse that's when things
01:06:48.720started to go away I was told I sent this song to some of the truckers and I was told that they
01:06:54.480played it at the actual convoy the my honk song which was so cool I mean I will I'll put that on
01:07:00.560my grave right that's so cool I had song played at the convoy right that's awesome um but no I
01:07:07.940wanted to kind of you stimulated a lot of thoughts for me which is um why what you do is so powerful
01:07:13.700and why they probably put so much effort into silencing you,
01:07:17.800which is, you know, it is a David versus Goliath story.
01:07:22.040Whenever somebody questions my worldview,
01:07:24.520because, you know, I have a lot of family and friends
01:07:25.880who think I'm totally nuts for being political or having my opinion.
01:07:29.280I'm sure you've had this experience before.
01:07:32.400But something I, I mean, usually it falls on deaf ears.
01:07:35.720But when I try to, you know, explain to them where I'm coming from,
01:07:39.040I tell them, you know, if you really want to understand how our world works,
01:07:43.020You need to like fully realize and confront the fact that the tools for propaganda have never been more sophisticated and powerful than they are now.
01:07:54.640Not just the distribution, but, you know, they can measure it.
01:34:43.580If I can see that in my own life happen, then it just makes me feel a lot better about what it must be happening all over the place, really, is what's going on.
02:17:43.920So I guess what I'm saying is that they've spent the last 100 years,
02:17:48.940oh, only one Beatles group can come every whatever, right?
02:17:53.260Well, no, we all have this ability to reach creative heights.
02:17:57.720And AI, for better or for worse, has now changed the level of the playing field again.
02:18:01.140where here i was the kid 20 years ago with software and a laptop like wow i can actually
02:18:05.800make quality studio shit for the first time now uh the next generation they can actually write
02:18:10.220full albums full operas with the help of ai and this is going to take away the creative power the
02:18:17.240record industry has has had a monopoly on for a long time so we're in this sort of uh again this
02:18:23.380this flux point this we're could go really either way um but where the power is being restored to us
02:18:30.760And folks like me, who kind of was just this random piano guy, now I can kind of show, well, if anyone, if you spend 30, 35 years like I have playing piano and honing their craft, you could reach great heights.
02:18:44.900You don't have to be this once in a generation figure.
02:18:48.280But you have to work at it, right?0.99