Damage Reports : People of the Lie
Welcome to Season 2: People of the LieRaw, unflinching monologues from a man old enough to know better and tired enough to stop pretending. No guests, no uplift, no tidy morals:just the cold inventory of personal and generational wreckage.
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- Sep 13, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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The Courthouse Steps (opens the original)
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February 1979. I was nineteen, sitting at a San Diego bus depot with dust on my boots and a heavy pack, when a charismatic recruiter named John bought me dinner. He promised a weekend in the snow with good food and attractive women. Instead, I got driven up a mountain to an isolated Moonie compound—trapped in a web of sleep deprivation, endless chanting, and aggressive love-bombing. I barely escaped before the trap fully sprung, but not before paying for my own abduction. This is the story of ho
The Game of Dicks (opens the original)
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The Game of Dicks "Back in the 1990s, I was sent to a corporate training day. The topic? Communication. The lesson? One-upping destroys trust." Then the facilitator asked for an example. What followed was a story about four men on a building site, a smoke break, and a competition to prove who was most broken, most violent, most damaged. The game: my trauma beats your trauma. The prize: nothing. The cost: everything. No redemption here. Just discomfort. Listen if you dare.
Truth ; Not Tyranny (opens the original)
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"We were all waiting for the list.-- those elusive Epstein Files The one that would finally burn it all down. Epstein's little black book. The cosmic receipt of rich perverts. MAGA wanted Hillary's head on a spike. Liberals wanted Trump's mug on a pedo mugshot. Nobody gave a damn about the children. They just wanted enemies to crucify. Then Pam Bondi did her little dance. 'I have the goods,' she said. And the goods evaporated like piss on hot asphalt. No names. Just jet fuel receipts and proximi
DogShit (opens the original)
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35 years clean. Doesn’t make you wise. Doesn’t make you safe. Just gives you three decades to study your damage from every possible angle. In a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, asked to share about why he doesn't do drugs, he skips the grateful platitudes and delivers a damage report—because sometimes the only honest answer to "why not fire?" is a full accounting of the burns. This isn't a story about overcoming; it's a story about carrying. The crux of it is a video store, one week after leaving hi
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