Hello Psychos,
I hope this newsletter finds you well. Today I’m going to share an excerpt from the solo show I’ve been working on. It’s called, “I’M ON LITHIUM: A Comedic Journey About Bipolar Disorder.” I’m having a lot of fun trying to crack the code on this creative endeavor. I’m finding a lot of catharsis through attempting to make comedy out of literal insanity. Working on this project allows me to reframe very painful and embarrassing experiences into something healthy and healing. Having people laugh with me about all of the crazy shit that I’ve been through is such a gift. Using comedy to make other people feel less alone about their own mental health struggles makes me feel good about myself. It’s my little mission lol. Thanks for being part of it!
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Excerpt from the current draft of “I’M ON LITHIUM: A Comedic Journey About Bipolar Disorder.” (Note: Punctuation is atypical because of the cadence of how it’s meant to be delivered out loud.)
It’s August of 2008, and I’m frantically running through the streets of Dublin, Ireland. I’ve got my black duffle bag filled with documents. And I’ve got my passport and my cellphone. And I’m terrified for my life, yeah. Because a couple days before I had to escape from America, because I was about to be indefinitely detained, without charge, by the government, because I stumbled upon some highly classified information. Here’s what I found out.
I found out that right after World War Two, the CIA collaborated with the Nazis, with the SS Nazis, the worst Nazis in order to better spy on Russia at the start of the Cold War. I also found out that Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s grandfather, worked for a company that helped fund the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s. And the fortune that he made from that, he used that in order to start the political dynasty that became the Bush family.
So now I realized that contemporarily what was happening in 2008 was that the CIA was working with underground descendants of the Nazis in order to stop something that was happening all over the world. Which was this natural evolution of consciousness that people were having where they were realizing that there was a connectivity of life. And that everybody’s happiness and value was necessarily connected with the happiness and value of everybody else, vice versa. And they realized that if a critical mass of people understood this new paradigm shift, what would happen is all sorts of power structures like, for example, intelligence agencies would become obsolete. The CIA would become obsolete. So they needed to assassinate me. Because I was spreading this idea. I was being an agent of evolution of consciousness.
But don’t worry, I wasn’t alone. I was being protected by the IRA and Bono from U2. The Irish Republican Army and Bono from U2 had my back… Now, either all of that was happening OR I was in the throws of a full-blown psychotic manic episode due to Bipolar 1 Disorder. It’s hard to know. It’s tough to tell. No, probably the whole psychotic manic episode due to Bipolar 1 Disorder. That was probably it…
Love,
JFOD
P.S. I’m still laughing in the free world any given Friday that I’m in town at Live From Outer Space at Cobra Club in Bushwick. We’ve been doing the show for 10 years! Roll through!
Love it! Fuck the CIA, man.
IRA/CIA all the A's! <3