Monday evening I spent time talking with Ab of Fakeologist and a man calling himself “Frank the Salt Guy”. Ab is from Canada and Frank from Australia. The entire conversation is on Fakeologist, and you can listen here.
We ranged far and wide, from Miles Mathis to Modern Monetary Theory. Frank is a smart, lively guy, and I was happy he was there to make it a three-way instead of two-way affair. Ab, as always, brings a dose of healthy skepticism to my wildest ideas about fake deaths and people who fake their deaths and become other people.
Part of what I want to write about in the days ahead is a set of photos brought to me by Tyrone McCloskey. Since I mentioned it on the Fakeologist show, I’ll talk about it here. Tyrone has found, in my opinion, the living man who once went by the name of Andy Kaufman, the Man on the Moon himself, and the guy who did a mean Elvis on the Johnny Carson Show. I’ll show the Carson clip below, and I need to pick Tyrone’s brain about where Kaufman might be now. I haven’t checked his details, but someone said on the show that if alive, Kaufman would be 77 years old.
Piece of Mindful 
And when I see Kaufmann I see Jim Carrey playing him. Another set of brats? Anyway very good comics indeed. Kaufmann is a good advert for treating lung cancer the pharma way vs on your own, like they did with Steve Jobs. I love how people assume Jobs would have lived longer if he took mainstream treatments – with no evidence to support that claim, if he actually died that is.
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Poor Jim, his personification of Kaufman in Man on the Moon was spot on, but the Academy Awards ignored him. Said one, he did not impersonate Kaufman, he channeled him.
So what?! I remember Jamie Foxx got best actor for his portrayal of Ray Charles. He too channeled. I think the immensely talented Carrey was snubbed because of his overall comedic persona. But he is easily one of the greats, alongside Robin Williams, and … I can’t think of any others.
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You guys brought up AI and data centers toward the end of the episode, which inspires so much speculation because the ostensible reason or use doesn’t seem that credible. So I wanted to recommend to anyone interested this article from Curro Jimenez, where he speculates that it’s about “tokenization” of the economy – a kind of financializing of everything – and/or more total, real time surveillance (as many have said.) Also recommend the comments, some with industry knowledge chime in-
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/is-the-ai-data-center-boom-building-the-infrastructure-for-tokenization-and-control.html
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I want to veer off topic , but stay contemporary, in 1970s history. My comment is directed toward Miles latest repost about Watergate, that does not make sense to me from a historical consistency perspective. I believe that our presidents are actors/caretakers, are not elected but rather selected, and do what they are told, with their fidelity assured by their high status in the Masonic system. Indeed, even Miles has suggested that Nixon had a “rabbi” – take what you will from that.
My contention is that if Watergate was a CIA psyop, Nixon was a actor in this theater all along. So why Watergate? To re-instill some faith in the American government after Vietnam and the cultural revolution of the 1960s, carried out by the CIA, and other organizations. Vietnam was a traumatic time for American young men especially, with nearly everyone of a certain age having to worry about being sent to the other side of the world, for some pointless war. Nixon was a fall guy, and a knowing one. Along those lines I also believe one of the goals of the Apollo program was to demonstrate the government, particularly the federal government, is capable of doing something good, if not great. My opinion is no, the federal government is always oppressive, and parasitic, incapable of anything positive.
So are we really thinking Nixon was some kind of good guy? That strains credulity, and common sense, based on the modern revisionist historical narrative.
One great thing about living in this age (of the internet) is we have history unravel before our eyes at a rate never imagined before. Which I think is a reason for the acceleration of top down information control with agents like AI of late, to lock down the official story of history, which skeptics such as the commenters on this blog, have been de-constructing and destroying piece by piece the past 25 years, since 9/11.
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Thanks for the heads up. That post is more like the old MM than any I’ve seen in years. There’s a lot to take in. Just a couple of passing observations: His statement that Nixon was not bugging himself and that he would have destroyed his tapes when he saw trouble brewing is a head-slapper. Of course! That there was no “deep throat”, ditto. That the 18-minute gap, maybe covered elsewhere, contained nothing, again, big ditto. Also, and he knows this, The White House Plumbers were actors sent out to deliberately botch jobs and be caught. Watergate itself and Ellsberg’s psychiatrist give plenty of evidence of this.
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“So why Watergate? To re-instill some faith in the American government after Vietnam and the cultural revolution of the 1960s, “
Idk, wasn’t it just more demoralization and pushing more people to cynicism about “the establishment,” and toward left wing politics of dissent? It did glorify mainstream journalists as righteous do-gooders and a check on the abuses of the powerful.. the impeachment of a sitting president, going out in disgrace and his delusional victory sign as he flies off in a chopper, was not a high point for those invested deeply in patriotic mythology, maybe.. for the younger generation of “hippies” it was vindication.. Archie Bunker loses, Meathead wins (just spitballing, I have a sketchy knowledge of the era.)
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I heard a funny clip related to this on fakeologist the other day. Norm Macdonald was talking to Jerry Seinfeld (I think? Sounded like him) and said he did a Nixon impression, but only of Nixon during his famous Frost Nixon interview.. and it’s Nixon making fun of how ridiculous the plumbers story is and all that, being very sarcastic. I’ve never heard the original interviews though.. or seen the movie they made about them-
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