Keep the Dream Alive

TrueAnon presents: The Game

The Lamest Show On Earth

Welcome to TrueAnon Presents: The Lamest Show on Earth, a three-part mini series on the phenomenon that is Tesla Motors and the carnival barker at the center of its show: Elon Musk. We’ve often said that Jeffrey Epstein offers us a lens through which to view larger networks of power and influence and ways to ascertain how they operate and impact the world. The story of Tesla Motors offers us the same opportunity: how a nerdy dot-com gold chaser hacked the self-satisfied neoliberal green political regime and orchestrated a cacophonous symphony of thirsty social media marketeers, auto industry executives, captured and bought off media, and the bull market ride of the century. At the center of all of this is the pied piper of the redditmen, our very own epic bacon PT Barnum — Elon Musk — who rightly understands that branding really is everything and that so long as you can keep the music going the party doesn’t have to end. Now that Tesla has a gun to the head of the American economy, there’s only one question left: how long can the show go on? 

In Pt 1 we begin with the bizarre history of Elon’s family, the origin story of Tesla Motors and the weird wild birthplace of both modern conservatism and progressive neoliberalism, California. Featuring: chiropractors, Ronald Reagan, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, divorced guys, Italian nuclear physicists, tightrope performers, bearded ladies and The Coca-Cola Company.

The Lamest Show On Earth (Part 1)

Welcome to TrueAnon Presents: The Lamest Show on Earth, a three-part mini series on the phenomenon that is Tesla Motors and the carnival barker at the center of its show: Elon Musk. We’ve often said that Jeffrey Epstein offers us a lens through which to view larger networks of power and influence and ways to ascertain how they operate and impact the world. The story of Tesla Motors offers us the same opportunity: how a nerdy dot-com gold chaser hacked the self-satisfied neoliberal green political regime and orchestrated a cacophonous symphony of thirsty social media marketeers, auto industry executives, captured and bought off media, and the bull market ride of the century. At the center of all of this is the pied piper of the redditmen, our very own epic bacon PT Barnum — Elon Musk — who rightly understands that branding really is everything and that so long as you can keep the music going the party doesn’t have to end. Now that Tesla has a gun to the head of the American economy, there’s only one question left: how long can the show go on?

In Pt 2 we track Elon’s movements over Silicon Valley from his self-proclaimed acceptance into Stanford University to his odd obsession with the letter “x”, to his coup at Tesla Motors and his attempt to hold it all together in the face of both personal and global bankruptcy. Featuring: Peter Thiel, malaria, Lance Bass, John McCain, the Mars Society, and remember the show Desperate Housewives?

UNLOCKED! The Lamest Show On Earth (Part 2)

Welcome to TrueAnon Presents: The Lamest Show on Earth, a three-part mini series on the phenomenon that is Tesla Motors and the carnival barker at the center of its show: Elon Musk. We’ve often said that Jeffrey Epstein offers us a lens through which to view larger networks of power and influence and ways to ascertain how they operate and impact the world. The story of Tesla Motors offers us the same opportunity: how a nerdy dot-com gold chaser hacked the self-satisfied neoliberal green political regime and orchestrated a cacophonous symphony of thirsty social media marketeers, auto industry executives, captured and bought off media, and the bull market ride of the century. At the center of all of this is the pied piper of the redditmen, our very own epic bacon PT Barnum — Elon Musk — who rightly understands that branding really is everything and that so long as you can keep the music going the party doesn’t have to end. Now that Tesla has a gun to the head of the American economy, there’s only one question left: how long can the show go on? 

Pt 3 concludes our series with an explanation of just how Tesla manages to book profits, the rise of Elon’s media machine, the $TSLAQ movement and why you should think twice before stepping into one of these cars. Featuring: whompy wheels, regulatory arbitrage, the SEC, skinny tea, spiritual chiropractors, your dad’s 401k and decapitation.

UNLOCKED! The Lamest Show On Earth (Part 3)

Welcome to TrueAnon Presents: Keep the Dream Alive, a history of the legendary analog recording studio Tiny Telephone San Francisco.

In this episode: moving to SF; the band breaking up; renting a space; Survival Research Labs; assembling a team; the first tour.

Interviews with John Darnielle, Greg Freeman, and John Croslin.

Featured tracks: "Borders" by Ganfalloon Bus and "The Dream Is Over" by MKUltra.

Survival Research Laboratories show from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeNdH2ByfCM

Keep the Dream Alive Part 1: The Dream Is Over

In this episode: scamming hotels; when touring gets tough; thin profit margins; the brutal real estate market; signing to a label.

Interviews with: Ben Gibbard, Joel Hamilton, and Laura Dean.

Featured tracks: "The New Year" by Death Cab for Cutie, "It Ends With a Fall" by Okkervil River, and "You Were My Fiji" by John Vanderslice.

Keep the Dream Alive Part 2: Damage Control

In this episode: the calendar gets full; sticking with tape; working with big bands; musical conservatism; owning the means of production; women in recording; love on tour.

Interviews with: Daniel Handler, Beau Sorenson, and Maryam Qudus.

Featured tracks: "Holy Roller" by Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, "Trance Manual" by John Vanderslice, and "Buck and Judy" by Deerhoof.

UNLOCKED — Keep the Dream Alive Part 3: How the West Was Won

In this episode: capitalism makes you crazy; numbers shrinking; relationships spiraling; losing family; giving up on touring; the beginning of the end.

Interviews with James Riotto, Samantha Crain, and Danielle Goldsmith.

Featured tracks: "Fangless" by Sleater-KInney, "Paint" by Samantha Crain, and "Harlequin Press" by John Vanderslice.

UNLOCKED — Keep The Dream Alive Part 4: Gruesome Details

Welcome to the fifth and final chapter of TrueAnon Presents: Keep the Dream Alive.

In this episode: facing the inevitable; the sacred and the profane; falling in love with LA; opening in Oakland; embracing digital; on the road again.

Interviews with Merrill Garbus, John Congleton, and Tabor Allen.

Featured tracks: "cracked pass words" by John Vanderslice, "If" by The Dodos, "Coast to Coast" by Tune-Yards.

UNLOCKED — Keep the Dream Alive Part 5: After It Ends

Synanon’s boom years and rise to prominence in California.

Structure of Synanon’s governance and businesses.

Explanation of Abraham Maslow’s beliefs, Weird California in general, and the psychological and geographical milieu that influenced Synanon.

Beginning of violence and rule breaking at Synanon, early stages of how it becomes a cult.

The Game Part 2: Squares

The Game Part 3: The Game

Part Four: Liquor, beatings and tax fraud bring trouble for Synanon, Straight Inc. blooms in Florida, WWASPs international criminal syndicate, and the cash-fueled ascent of behavioral modification programs.

This episode contains discussion of rape, self-harm, and suicide.

The Game Part 4: Dissipations

The Game Part 5: The Return

Part One: The Early Years of Chuck Dederich, a history of rehabs and Alcoholics Anonymous, acid tests at UCLA, and the birth of Synanon.

Additional voices by: Mark Ames, Michael S. Judge, Ben Howard, John Vanderslice, and Matt Christman.

The Game Part 1: Dopefiend [reupload]

Unlocked! We round out our series on the Falun Gong by talking through the surreal rise of The Epoch Times, the money behind all their weird YouTube videos, and their fruitful partnership with Steve Bannon. Also: what is actually up with that whole organ harvesting thing?

UNLOCKED: Episode 286: Falun Gong Part 3: Crazy Rich Asians

We’re joined by booze journalist Dave Infante (twitter.com/dinfontay) to talk about the hidden history of the Coors family and their funding of the New Right — plus, developments at Anchor Brewing.

Dave is the editor of Fingers (www.fingers.email), an independent newsletter about drinking in America, and a contributing editor and columnist for VinePair.

Episode 307: Lite Power

Benjamin Fong joins us to talk about his new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st century Binge (versobooks.com/products/2981-quick-fixes). We chat about the uniquely American obsession with drugs, the war machine’s love affair with meth, the burgeoning psychedelic movement, and why everyone is so desperate to get high.

Episode 309: I Need Weed And Speed

We put on the balaclavas, chamber a round, and head to the cockpit to talk about the beautiful period in world history where hijacking airplanes was hot. A spiritual successor to our previous airplane episode.

Episode 312: The Romance of International Skyjacking

In this spiritual followup to our previous episode on Charter Cities, we get a glimpse at Galt’s Gulch Chile. We investigate how a farming community built on Ayn Rand’s principles fell into a freaky web of lawsuits, arrests, freaks, pencil mustaches, and a shooting at a Chilean protest by an American YouTube economist in a yellow vest.

Show Brace is in on 8/29 in NYC: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/good-brain-tickets-674395975517

Episode 314: Life, Liberty, and Squat Chilean Businessmen

We welcome Dr. Orisamni Burton to the show to talk through the history of American prisons as technologies of counterinsurgency, George Jackson, MKUltra, and his forthcoming book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396326/tip-of-the-spear).



Targeting Revolutionaries: The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970 – 1978: twitter.com/orisanmi/status/1661703964000133121

New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners: truthout.org/articles/new-docs-link-cia-to-medical-torture-of-indigenous-children-and-black-prisoners/

Episode 316: Carceral Warfare

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We get online to talk a little shit and go over some of 2023’s biggest losers, from two of the biggest haters.

Episode 317: Haters And Losers: It's All Love (trailer)

We talk about the Ebola outbreak at Burning Man, and the trickster, the tricks, and the tricked.

Episode 318: B For Ebola

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A minor surge in Gay Obama Panic on the right leads us to investigate reformed human trafficker Larry Sinclair’s claim that he performed fellatio on then-Senator Barack Obama in Gurnee, Illinois.

Episode 319: How Larry Met Barry (trailer)

We’re joined by author Sean Howe to talk about his new book, Agents of Chaos (hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-howe/agents-of-chaos/9780306923913/?lens=hachette-books), about Tom Forcade, the Yippies, the Zippies, the feds, and the fakes.

Episode 320: High Times and Misdemeanors

We begin our multi-part series on the legends and myths swirling around the POW/MIAs allegedly left behind in Indochina with an explanation of how we got there in the first place: The Vietnam war, the Golden Triangle, secret bombings, aerial campaigns, army wives, and Ross Perot.

Episode 321: Dude Where’s My Dad: POW/MIAs (Part One)

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Part two of our POW/MIA series examines the freaks, scammers, bone sellers, and widow seducers who made the alleged POWs in Laos a big business.

Episode 322: Dude Where’s My Dad: POW/MIAs (Part Two) [trailer]

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We close out our series on POW-MIAs by talking Rambo II, the National League, big-eared Ross Perot, more scams and kooks, normalization and Elizabeth Warren.

Episode 323: Dude Where’s My Dad: POW/MIAs (Part Three) [trailer]

We welcome Vincent Bevins back to the show to chat about his new book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/if-we-burn/9781541788978/?lens=publicaffairs). Starting with the June 2013 protests in Brazil, we walk through the last ten years of uprisings in various cities around the world, what was learned, what wasn’t, and what is to be done.

Episode 324: Burn After Reading

We’re joined by crypto-court reporter Jacob Silverman to talk about the first week of the trial of SBF, witness testimony, betrayal, parents, what makes a polycule and more.

https://airmail.news/issues/2023-10-7/the-journalist-and-the-fraudster

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor

https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/the-coming-trials-of-sam-bankman

Episode 325: Sam Jailman Trial

In light of the current situation in Palestine, we are unlocking this episode, recorded in 2020 with Noah Kulwin, with a brief new introduction. You can check out the other episodes mentioned here: 

Episode 131: Norman Finkelstein Part 1 
patreon.com/posts/episode-131-pt-1-46466625

Episode 132: Norman Finkelstein Part 2
patreon.com/posts/46617424

Episode 281: Next Year in Jerusalem 
patreon.com/posts/episode-281-next-81129240

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We welcome back Noah Kulwin to discuss the explosive yet basically unseen Al-Jazeera documentary The Lobby detailing illegal lobbying efforts by the Israeli government and just why you literally have not seen this film

The Lobby UK: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTzCgnbENCKuz7fqU12xNBce

The Lobby USA:

* Episode 1 — youtube.com/watch?v=3lSjXhMUVKE
* Episode 2 — youtube.com/watch?v=XytkI7afHcQ
* Episode 3 — youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-Dm4pO0xY
* Episode 4 — youtube.com/watch?v=_1OgxfCT044

UNLOCKED: Episode 75: The Lobby

We’re joined by Akram Salhab, a Palestinian activist based in Jerusalem, to talk about Gaza, the West Bank, refugees & more.

Episode 326: Palestine

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We sit down with Dr. Norman Finkelstein to hear his thoughts on Hamas’s attack on Israel and the devastation of Gaza. We listen as he takes a look back at his life’s work, tries to make sense of the world’s cowardice in the face of unspeakable violence, and offers some thoughts on what might come next.

Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein

Episode 327: It's Not Too Late (preview)

We sit down with Dr. Norman Finkelstein to hear his thoughts on Hamas’s attack on Israel and the devastation of Gaza. We listen as he takes a look back at his life’s work, tries to make sense of the world’s cowardice in the face of unspeakable violence, and offers some thoughts on what might come next.

Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein: https://www.amazon.com/Gaza-Inquest-into-Its-Martyrdom/dp/0520295714

UNLOCKED: Episode 327: It's Not Too Late

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The first of two episodes on funky white boy and alleged sexual predator Brett Ratner’s life, times, friends, and many fathers. 

(Episode was recorded before October 7th btw so the Israel parts don’t mention Gaza stuff)

Episode 328: Kiss of the Rat (Part 1) [trailer]

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The second of two episodes on funky white boy and alleged sexual predator Brett Ratner’s rise and fall, including multiple Chris Tucker movies, a cameo from Roman Polanski, and a one way ticket to Israel.

Episode 329: Kiss of the Rat (Part 2) [trailer]

We visited legendary writer William T. Vollmann (Rainbow Stories, Europe Central) in his Sacramento studio for a long talk about lots of things. Part one of two. 

Read his new essay “Four Men” in Harper’s: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/four-men/

Episode 330: Grief Is A Witch-Hag (Part 1)

We visited legendary writer William T. Vollmann (Rainbow Stories, Europe Central) in his Sacramento studio for a long talk about lots of things. Part two of two.

Read his new essay “Four Men” in Harper’s: harpers.org/archive/2023/11/four-men/

Episode 331: Grief Is A Witch-Hag (Part 2)

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We talk through the anticlimactic conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried (now Jailman-Jail), the great blinding of the Apes, the US’s doublespeak when it comes to Israel’s war on Gaza and the stark generational divide among supporters of the war

Episode 332: Crypto Zionism (trailer)

We sit down with Thomas Morton to seek emotional truth among the shaky facts of some bestselling bullshit memoirs and a recent comedy “scandal.”

Episode 333: A Child Called Bullshit

We bring back Aaron Good and Ben Howard for the 60th anniversary of the JFK shooting. CIA bureaucrats, fakes and falsehoods, the mysteries surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald, and more…

Listen to our previous JFK episodes here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/602?view=expanded

Episode 334: JFK 201 (Part 1)

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We’re joined again by Ben Howard and Aaron Good for part two of our discussion marking the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination. We discuss what exactly happened to Oswald in Mexico and who knew what at the bureau.

Listen to our previous JFK episodes here: patreon.com/collection/602?view=expanded

Four Died Trying documentary: fourdiedtrying.com/

Episode 335: JFK 201 (Part 2) [trailer]

We take a look at the life and times of the embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, who is facing tough questions from both the FBI and Manhattan prosecutors about his campaign's relationship with... Turkey? Featuring: straw donors, the Safdie Brothers, Ed Koch, open relationships, and plant-based diets.

Episode 336: Mr. Mayor Goes to Turkey

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WARNING: XXX EPISODE !!!! Based on a tip, the TrueAnon team dives deep into the rumored robot penis of Elon Musk — and talks Lovetron 9000, the SWAG method, Neuralink, dead monkeys, and penis beading.

Listen to our previous series on Elon Musk here: patreon.com/collection/522?view=expanded

Episode 337: Does Elon Dream of Electric Weiner? [trailer]

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WARNING: RACIALLY INSANE EPISODE 

We peel back the skin of Benny Shabtai, Israeli businessman, Swiss watch magnate, African croupier, and friend of Jeffrey Epstein.

Episode 338: We Shmuleys Three [trailer]

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