It was literally months after 9-11 and a coworker showed me tricks with paper money by folding all the denominations. Blew my mind. One bill had the towers falling, and all this other coded imagery. Woke me up and then Lose Change came out, ho boy! As a card carrying Bush supporter (at the time) I was pissed.

I was already awake prior, I had bought an independently published book about the Nevada Test Site that came out in the 1990s that had writings that I couldn’t believe. And all through the 90s I was buying 2600 The Hacker Quarterly. I wasn’t a hacker but I am, was fascinated by the subculture. All those things added up to understanding the absolute fuckery that’s been going on for centuries.