{"id":1495,"date":"2012-11-11T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2012-11-11T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T15:07:28","slug":"in-depth-interview-with-dr-know-mainman-kyle-toucher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/11\/11\/in-depth-interview-with-dr-know-mainman-kyle-toucher\/","title":{"rendered":"In-depth Interview With Dr. Know Mainman Kyle Toucher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview by Elena Whidden<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Oxnard CA-based hardcore punk\/crossover thrash veterans Dr. Know recently played a high-energy show at Hollywood’s Key Club on October 12th, with Ghoul, Mentors, Witchaven and others. Our writers Avinash and Elena were both at that show, and were highly impressed with the band’s performance. So we decided to fix up a chat with founder, vocalist & guitarist Kyle Toucher to explore Dr. Know’s past, present and future in detail, and present their story to our readers. Enjoy Elena’s great in-depth conversation with Kyle below. We have also embedded HD videos of a couple of re-recordings put out by the band this year. Check those out as well, and visit the band on their facebook page<\/a><\/strong> for more info.<\/p>\n

So you got the new lineup together on the same day that Brandon Cruz announced the break-up of his version of Dr. Know and your lineup is from the This Island Earth <\/em>and Wreckage in the Flesh <\/em>era.\u00a0 So were you planning on putting the band back together for a while? It happened so quickly.\u00a0 And what were the logistics of that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know it\u2019s weird, it was kind of bizarre providence that it kind of fell on the same day. \u00a0Oddly enough, it was actually on my birthday.\u00a0 It\u2019s true it was on my birthday, August 18th<\/sup>. \u00a0In 2009 we tried to get it airborne, and it was just weird dumb luck that it happened that way. \u00a0Tim Harkins, the other guitar player in Dr. Know, had been kicking around the idea for a few years because the Brandon thing was really bothering us. A) it wasn\u2019t Dr. Know and B) they were running around singing my songs- it was the whole thing you know. \u00a0The analogy I make is, it\u2019s like watching somebody fuck your girlfriend.\u00a0 It was that bad, and that does weird things to you. \u00a0It was just a weird collision of timing. \u00a0We made this announcement on Facebook that we\u2019d had this meeting with the four of us who were on Wreckage<\/em>: Tim Harkins, myself, Mike Purdy, and Larry White. \u00a0We announced that we were gonna do it and that same day, by some weird miracle, Brandon trumpets to the world that his version of Dr. Know is broken up. \u00a0Guess what:\u00a0 They weren\u2019t together anyway!\u00a0 We went ahead and started doing some rehearsals, and Larry couldn\u2019t make the commitment that we needed him to make.\u00a0 And at the same time, my divorce really started snowballing, and everything started getting so out of control and so hectic that there was really no way I could do it.\u00a0 So we had to push it back another 6 or 8 months, there was so much I had to deal with. \u00a0My whole life got disordered, that changed everything. \u00a0And once that window opened up again, Mike Vega stepped in on drums, who is the brother of a friend of mine. \u00a0I was also in a band with that friend in the 90s, and so I asked him, Steve, if he wanted to be in the band and he said \u201cNo, get my brother, he\u2019s a badass,\u201d and so, Mike shows up and he was still playing with a band called Lightning Swords of Death at the time. \u00a0So he hops in, we start playing together, and so it\u2019s all still Ventura County natives shit, personal lives, and playing together, and so we just kept drilling and drilling, so we could do our first show, which was about a year ago, late November in Ventura. \u00a0The reason why we made the commitment then in 2011 to go ahead and go full steam is of course the air was clear of the whole divorce nightmare, and Tony Cortez from Ill Repute had asked us to do this show at the Ventura Theater for a bowling tournament that he\u2019s run for a year, and so he goes, \u201cIf you guys come back and headline this thing, it\u2019ll be huge,\u201d and so we said okay. \u00a0\u00a0The place was packed, and the response was really good, and I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen the video for \u201cGod Told Me To\u201d that we put out, but a lot of footage from that night is in there. \u00a0So it just all really clicked and started working, and while we were rehearsing we said, \u201cWell there\u2019s no reason to come back and play the songs, if we\u2019re gonna play, it\u2019s gotta sound better, it\u2019s gotta be presented better, it\u2019s even gotta look better than it did 25 years ago,\u201d because if I\u2019m 50 years old out there playing Dr. Know\u2019s stuff, I can\u2019t go out there being a mess. \u00a0You know what I mean, we can\u2019t have the band be a half-assed thing.\u00a0 You gotta just pump the whole thing up.\u00a0 You gotta take that go-kart and turn it into a muscle car.\u00a0 So that\u2019s means going under the hood of the song and making sure to at least tweak the arrangements a little bit, tighten everything up, just give it a nice, big, bold, heavier face-lift.<\/p>\n

\"\"Would you say that\u2019s been one of the hardest parts of coming back for you guys? Changing the go-kart into what you\u2019d like it to be?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually, it\u2019s just natural to do it that way, because of the maturity level, and how many years it\u2019s been. \u00a0I was twenty-two, we ran until early 1990.\u00a0 Now we\u2019re a lot older and more experienced. \u00a0We have careers now, and we just see things differently.\u00a0 If I hear one of the old Dr. Know albums now, I hear it totally differently than I did when I made it.\u00a0 And it\u2019s like reading a story or a paper you\u2019ve written six months later, you go, \u201cOh, I should have changed that.\u201d \u00a0We\u2019re taking the songs, tightening them up, tuning them up; you\u2019ll certainly recognize them for what they are, it\u2019s just they\u2019re presented more professionally and more coherently. \u00a0We\u2019ve done everything from arranging songs in a certain running order so they blend, to some vocal changes, and some guitar things. \u00a0Even down to guitar gear and stuff like that. \u00a0It\u2019s just gotta sound better, and be a much better presentation than it was 30 years ago. \u00a0It\u2019s a different time, and we\u2019re different people now.<\/p>\n

Gotcha.\u00a0 So I saw that Dr. Know has re-recordings out- what are your plans for those? \u00a0Are you going to trying to reach more people?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yes, definitely trying to reach more people is on the list. \u00a0No one has been more shocked than us at the demand for them that proved to be out there.\u00a0 So once we started playing, we played Ventura Theater. \u00a0That was home, that was gonna be good.\u00a0 I think our second show was Baldwin Park, and it just exploded into this huge fiasco. \u00a0It was just the most crazy thing I\u2019ve ever seen. \u00a0Seriously, my mic stand just went down constantly, as if it were made of rubber\u2014you\u2019ve never seen so many feet flying in the air!\u00a0 Really fast songs, they shut it down, there was a helicopter, the whole bit.\u00a0 We still have to go back there and finish those guys off! \u00a0What we\u2019ve been doing for the past year is doing shows around the area to get our sea legs back, get our performance together, get our presentation together, get experience on the set, songs coming in and out, blending things together.\u00a0 But the response is getting better and better each time we do it.\u00a0 The Key Club was really our first proper Hollywood\/Los Angeles show, so we wanted to wait to do something like that just until we had a few shows under our belt. \u00a0Working out the bugs, stuff like that.\u00a0 Power of the Riff was really good for that, in August. \u00a0So we really haven\u2019t travelled much except in the general area. \u00a0We did go to Vegas to do Punk Rock Bowling, which was a great gig too. \u00a0We\u2019ve played with Toxic Holocaust and Ghoul and Midnight, Adolescents. \u00a0I don\u2019t care who it is, as long as the show is cool and the situation is straight.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you guys have any plans for more extensive touring in the near future, maybe outside of Southern California?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, absolutely. \u00a0And that\u2019s the goal for 2013, now that 2012 is coming to a close. \u00a0We\u2019ve got one thing we\u2019re gonna be doing at the end of December in Orange County. \u00a0But after that, it\u2019s all about getting the record together. \u00a0We could go on the road right now just on the old catalogue and still do some good shows, but we also want to make a record, get the new material cooking, we\u2019re in the writing process right now. \u00a0We wanna be real selective and put out a collection of top-shelf songs that are really heavy, really groovy, that knock you over the head, and then take that out on the road.\u00a0 We need to get up to the bay area, we haven\u2019t even been there yet. \u00a0We still need to go back to the Northwest, back East\u2014we haven\u2019t been on the East Coast in 20 years. \u00a0So you\u2019re right, all of this needs to be done, and that\u2019s what our 2013 blast radius will encompass. \u00a0We\u2019ll be taking little trips as we\u2019re getting the record together, just so we can go out and do shows and be seen, and after we get the record done then we\u2019ll go out. \u00a0And we\u2019ll probably go out like in Alien<\/em>, in short controlled bursts! \u00a0We look at shows totally differently now. \u00a0It used to be a great thing to go play, have fun, it was party, party, party, stay out to 4 AM. Now it\u2019s let\u2019s go out there and do the job and just slay. \u00a0We have kind of a different attitude about it.<\/p>\n

So you guys are making a new record though?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Definitely, that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing now is getting the writing together. \u00a0We\u2019re taking a different approach to songwriting than we used to. \u00a0We\u2019re seeing things through different eyes now, and none of us had made an album together in so long. \u00a0We\u2019d love to unroll, but quality over quantity you know. I\u2019d rather go in there and do a decimating hour, than be onstage for 90 minutes and have some of the lag. You didn\u2019t really think the last Transformers <\/em>needed to be 2 hours and 47 minutes did you? \u00a0It\u2019s a movie about fighting bulldozers. \u00a0We don\u2019t wanna overstay our welcome. \u00a0We wanna come in, and hit \u2018em hard.\u00a0 And I want people to tell their friends the next day, when they see them, \u201cMan, you missed it, you should have gone!\u201d \u00a0If we\u2019re gonna come out and do it now, it\u2019s gotta sound better and look better. \u00a0We gotta go erase that harm that the band\u2019s name has taken over the last ten years or so. \u00a0I wanna block that memory out as much as I can.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Is that why you guys are not \u201cDr. Know\u201d on Facebook?\u00a0 You\u2019re \u201cReturn of Dr. Know\u201d I think?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well the first gig was billed as \u201cThe Return of Dr. Know.\u201d It had a nice ring to it.\u00a0 As for the actual Dr. Know Facebook page, I don\u2019t even know who the admin is. So that might reduce visibility a little bit, but we always have the Dr. Know domain name, we need to get that off the ground as well.\u00a0 If we put out an album, it wouldn\u2019t be under the name of \u201cReturn of Dr. Know.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s also why we changed the logo a little bit and worked the arachnid illustration into the Dr. Know lettering. I guess you could say it\u2019s rebranding in a way.\u00a0 \u201cHere\u2019s what Dr. Know 2012\u201d is all about. With full respect and admiration for the entire legacy we\u2019re moving ahead, and this is what we sound like.\u00a0 That\u2019s why we did a couple of remakes of existing songs.\u00a0 Dr. Know still plays that kind of music that you recognize, this is what it sounds like.\u00a0 So that\u2019s why we did \u201cGod Told Me To,\u201d we did \u201cMastermind,\u201d we put three out.\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna make them available for download for free, you can just do whatever you want with them.\u00a0 They sound really good because, Tim also recorded and engineered them and mastered them.\u00a0 That\u2019s what he does, he\u2019s an engineer\u2014that\u2019s convenient!\u00a0 He and I have been friends a long time, and we get along really well together, and he knows exactly what it should sound like.\u00a0 That last thing we recorded was the most fun I\u2019ve ever had in a studio.\u00a0 Playing these days, and playing the songs and playing the shows now, especially to a new generation of kids who are just as bat-shit crazy as the ones before\u2014it\u2019s great!\u00a0 It\u2019s the most fun I\u2019ve ever had in this band.\u00a0 The mission is totally different.<\/p>\n

How so?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

You have to have had the experience, and lived through it, and had all that time in between then and now.\u00a0 It\u2019s a hindsight thing.\u00a0 I\u2019m 50 now.\u00a0 So I see those days as a fun learning experience, a great time, it really was.\u00a0 But now the focus has changed.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to be the best, most entertaining band that we can be.\u00a0 Not that we weren\u2019t conscious of it in those days, it just seems more focused these days, and I get a lot more out of it.\u00a0 I\u2019m putting more into it, and getting a lot more out of it.\u00a0 Plus not being hung over and drunk and smoking cigarettes and doing blow.\u00a0 I\u2019m too old for that.\u00a0 If I were still doing that, I\u2019d be a gray-haired mess.\u00a0 That stuff destroys you.\u00a0 There\u2019s no way we could go out and deliver the way we do if we were still doing that stuff.\u00a0 I\u2019m not gonna fault people for doing it, as long as it doesn\u2019t get away from you, have at it.\u00a0 Nowadays I don\u2019t have time to get loaded!\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot more rewarding cause I get so much more out of it.\u00a0 And I love seeing the audience go batshit\u2014you see so many young faces, I see the old school kids, I see people I haven\u2019t seen at shows in 20 years, it\u2019s cool!\u00a0 So in the end the whole thing is really awesome.\u00a0 My ass is dragging after a show or after a four hour rehearsal, but it\u2019s worth it.\u00a0 And both Mike Vega\u2014he just turned 31 actually\u2014he really helps.\u00a0 You gotta have a young guy back there on the battery, and he\u2019s doing a great job.\u00a0 Tim is a stunning guitar player and he\u2019s having a great time, and then Mike on bass, he\u2019s just enjoying himself, and when we go out there that energy and enjoyment translates too.\u00a0 You\u2019re not going to get the energy back unless you put it out.\u00a0 You get what you give in anything you do.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t learned that by the time you get to this point in life, you\u2019ve had your eyes closed.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You guys really do put the energy out onstage.\u00a0 That\u2019s for sure.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

You got to.\u00a0 When you turn your shit on, and it\u2019s that loud, and it sounds that gnarly, it sounds like it\u2019s speaking in tongues and shit.\u00a0 It\u2019s like that in rehearsal too.\u00a0 You just go off and just do it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how you guys rehearse?\u00a0 You all get together and just go?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes we\u2019ll stop, or we\u2019ll say let\u2019s do this or let\u2019s do that, I\u2019ll do something absurd and wrong. I\u2019ll play the song in F instead of E\u2014nobody\u2019s perfect.\u00a0 If we haven\u2019t played for a while, we\u2019ve taken a few weeks off, it\u2019s a little rough for the first 40 minutes.\u00a0 We can tell, but by the third hour, it\u2019s right back to being a bulldozer.\u00a0 We\u2019re really enjoying it though.\u00a0 And the response has been really good though.\u00a0 We can\u2019t wait to get out and start pummeling people.\u00a0 Competition is fierce out there!\u00a0 There\u2019s all sorts of good bands out there these days.<\/p>\n

Are there any new bands that you really like?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to doing shows with the newer heavy bands, I hear a lot of stuff on Sirius and stuff like that.\u00a0 I mean, heavy music, especially in times of war with the way things are now- with the world on the brink of big war and economic collapse and all the terrible things that are about to happen in the next few years.\u00a0 Horror films and heavy music can get a real uptake, and heavy music will get an uptake because it is a mirror of what\u2019s going on out there.\u00a0 You don\u2019t get a big bump in Taylor Swift\u2019s popularity when things go bad, but people start going to Slayer shows, they start going to hardcore\/metal hybrid shows, the kind that we have going and stuff.\u00a0 The pump is primed, heavy music is huge, it\u2019s worldwide, the pendulum has swung back the other way, people are putting groove and scary riffs back into things. It\u2019s cool, it\u2019s a great time to be playing the stuff.\u00a0 The receivers are wide open, and the world is completely connected together now, so it\u2019s great.<\/p>\n

Very cool.\u00a0 I know you did work on Battlestar Galactica\u2014<\/em>do you still work in film and television?\u00a0 And if you do, how do you manage to fit Dr. Know around your job in film and TV?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We all have responsibilities going on.\u00a0 I work down in Los Angeles, that\u2019s where we rehearse too.\u00a0 I don\u2019t live in Los Angeles, but I work, and we pilot Dr. Know\u2019s ship mostly from down there, so that makes it a little easier.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just jet from the television studio down to the rehearsal studio.\u00a0 I spent a lot of time on Battlestar Galactica, Firefly<\/em>, those are the shows people know about, and those shows were very good to me, very rewarding, got to do great work, high profile stuff, it\u2019s a great way to make a living.\u00a0 And when you\u2019re in that area of work, you also run into a certain amount of lenience, people can be tolerant of a band, stuff like that. \u00a0And the people I\u2019m with now, I\u2019ve been with for years.\u00a0 If your stuff looks bitchin\u2019 who cares?\u00a0 You have to make concessions, if we have an episode to deliver in three days, I can\u2019t play a gig\u2026 that kind of stuff does happen.\u00a0 Others have other scheduling conflicts.\u00a0 We\u2019ll jump through the hoops as necessary in order to do shows that are important to us.\u00a0 We had to make a couple concessions to make Power of the Riff work, but we pulled it off.\u00a0 Energy in, energy out.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t put the energy in to solve the problem, you\u2019ll never pull it off.\u00a0 If it\u2019s worth it to you to find a way to hustle and make that show happen, whether it\u2019s a day job or something else, if you wanna do it you\u2019ll do it.\u00a0 No matter what it is, whether it\u2019s blowing up space ships on TV or delivering pizza.\u00a0 I\u2019d rather blow up space ships than sling pizzas!\u00a0 But there\u2019s days when that becomes a grind too.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great way to make a living.\u00a0 And Dr. Know is a great outlet for a whole other side of my creativity.\u00a0 I got them working together now.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Well, I\u2019m happy you guys pulled the strings to make these shows work, even though you\u2019ve all got other stuff to do.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not bad for such old geezers!\u00a0 We just gotta school those kids.\u00a0 Everyone has been very nice and very accommodating to us and very welcoming when we show up, it\u2019s just been great.\u00a0 We definitely wanna continue to do it.\u00a0 As long as people wanna see it, we\u2019ll bring it- as long as we don\u2019t break anything vital!\u00a0 We have to stay in shape, it gets harder as we get older.\u00a0 That\u2019s a reality that has to be dealt with.\u00a0 That\u2019s a big reason why my behavior has changed over the past few years.\u00a0 It makes everything groove better.\u00a0 We\u2019re really excited, we\u2019re excited to be writing again, and we\u2019re not gonna make the same record we made when we were 22.\u00a0 Not gonna make the same record I made when I was 26 and 29 either.\u00a0 It\u2019s still gonna be a Dr. Know album.\u00a0 Once things start getting a little juicy, we\u2019ll start throwing some tidbits out. \u00a0Maybe we\u2019ll end up in your <\/em>town! What would you think of that?!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what my town would do if you guys showed up, I\u2019m from Connecticut.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where in Connecticut are you from?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m from Greenwich, it\u2019s on the gold coast, I don\u2019t know what they\u2019d do with you guys, you\u2019d turn it upside down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019re from a very quaint Connecticut town, you\u2019re saying?\u00a0 We played in Stamford and Hartford, I can\u2019t remember where else.\u00a0 Stamford we used to play religiously, at an old place called the Anthrax Club, which was a basement club that was in Stamford for years. This was before your time, but this place was awesome.\u00a0 I think someone did a documentary film about the place.\u00a0 Everybody played there, it was awesome! You should look into the history of the club, it was a great club.\u00a0 You\u2019d play Hartford the night before, then you\u2019d play Stamford, it was a nice one-two punch, it was fun.\u00a0 All those places are on the list, the Midwest, down south through Texas and Florida.\u00a0 Of course what\u2019s really on the agenda is to finally get this band to Europe, we\u2019ve never done it.\u00a0 That\u2019s got to be done.\u00a0 That\u2019s a whole different thing.\u00a0 Part of the thing that hurt us the first time around is that we had no professional infrastructure.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have the management, we sort of came and went with lower level booking agents, that kind of stuff, so they never really got a whole pro apparatus behind us.\u00a0 It was kind of hard to flourish in that environment when everything was going through that system.\u00a0 Now all those problems have been alleviated, so that makes things easier too these days.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Are you guys gonna do the big festivals in Europe?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I mean, sure I\u2019d love to, without a record though you can\u2019t do it.\u00a0 I can\u2019t go, \u201cYeah! Years ago I had underground albums you guys liked,\u201d they\u2019ll be like, \u201cWho the fuck are you?!\u201d \u00a0I got scars on my knees that are probably older than people at the shows.\u00a0 You have to have something that\u2019s relevant.<\/p>\n

I think metal is super relevant over there though.\u00a0 It\u2019s like you were saying, when things take a downturn, people turn to heavy metal, and in Europe there\u2019s such an economic depression right now in so many countries.\u00a0 I think it\u2019ll go over well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yeah.\u00a0 The only reason that isn\u2019t happening here is that they can print trillions of dollars.\u00a0 There actually is<\/em> a depression on, you just don\u2019t see it, in the breadlines or anything.\u00a0 You ever see films from the \u201830s and people standing in line for soup and bread?\u00a0 Well the reason you don\u2019t see that now is because of the EBT card.\u00a0 You don\u2019t see that because of digital food stamps.\u00a0 Otherwise you would see that.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got 50 million Americans that are having the government buy them dinner every night.\u00a0 20% unemployment and zero job growth\u2014that in my opinion is a depression, and we\u2019re in it. \u00a0There is a depression going on, you just don\u2019t feel it yet.\u00a0 And it\u2019s severe.\u00a0 It ain\u2019t over yet.<\/p>\n

Are the conditions you\u2019re talking about, is that something you\u2019d want to talk about on your next album?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like to stay informed about things.\u00a0 A lot of those subjects, you can call them geopolitical or social, or whatever- not whining, \u201cOh the world is unfair.\u201d If you look at the lyrics on Wreckage<\/em>, you can see that kind of stuff on there.\u00a0 The songs \u201cWar Theatre\u201d and \u201cMastermind\u201d are examples of those lyrics. The truth is<\/em> out there!\u00a0 Here\u2019s the caveat to it.\u00a0 It\u2019s not on TV.\u00a0 You\u2019re not gonna find out what\u2019s really going on as long as you\u2019re still watching TV.\u00a0 As long as you\u2019re head is stuck in some video game, or any of these dumbed-down pop-culture distractions.\u00a0 As long as you\u2019re keeping your head in that, you\u2019re in The Matrix.\u00a0 You\u2019re the guy in the pod with a pipe down his mouth, living in a dream world. All your opinions are being fed to you. You understand what I mean?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I think so\u2026 there\u2019s a lot out there interfering with the signal\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

TV is designed to lull you into a state of suggestibility.\u00a0 You just turn into a zombie as you watch the TV, then it\u2019s like \u201cWow, where\u2019d all the time go?\u201d\u00a0 And video games glorify violence and war, and make light of killing people, while dazzling you with pretty pictures.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to realize the kind of manipulation that goes on through large, mainstream monster media channels. In my opinion, the truth is out there, but it\u2019s certainly not on television.\u00a0 I work in TV, but I don\u2019t even own one.<\/p>\n

Really?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah.\u00a0 Be a pusher, not a user. \u00a0Remember what happened to Tony Montana in Scarface<\/em>? \u00a0I\u2019m not buying what they\u2019re selling, I\u2019ll put it that way.\u00a0 As long as we have the free internet, as long as the internet is open and not being crushed with terrible regulations, it behooves anybody, especially anybody who is obviously intelligent, to seek out alternative explanations to anything you hear on the news.\u00a0 Only 5, 6, 7 corporations at the very top, control all media in the world.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot of power in the hands of a very few.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s scary when you put it like that.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, you\u2019ll find out down the road, life\u2019s good.\u00a0 Life\u2019s great.\u00a0 It can be.\u00a0 I love life, I love being a human being.\u00a0 I believe we all have souls, and we are all fundamentally good. There is a ruling class, there is a control apparatus out there, a bunch of sinister motherfuckers.\u00a0 Real honest-to-god control freaks.\u00a0 They revel in people being distracted, being stupid, and that\u2019s how they take advantage of us.\u00a0 People wander off in a daze, how do they ever get anywhere?\u00a0 That kind of manipulation that does exist.<\/p>\n