LIVE RADIO! Gonzo Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. Live From Tbilisi; Thaddeus Kozinski and Tom Breidenbach Discuss “COVID-19 and the War Against Reality”

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First hour: Ever hear of “gonzo journalism art”? I hadn’t either, until I encountered the work of Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. The Naples Daily News explains:

(While he was managing a Miami condo) one of Vaca’s tenants, high on crack cocaine, jumped on his desk at work and proclaimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. The man promptly was fired from his job, and Vaca wanted to evict him. But the situation turned into a complicated series of lawsuits, and Vaca soon found himself fighting conflict of interest, corruption and censorship in the justice system.

At one point during the trials, which became colloquially known as “the Crackhead Jesus trials,” the presiding judge forbade Vaca from documenting his experience with the courts.

But he found a loophole in the judge’s orders. The judge specifically prohibited him from using “electronic media” but never said anything about art, and so modern-art-gonzo-journalism was born.

Later, after the lawsuits were settled, he turned his story into a graphic novel and a movie, “Crackhead Jesus: The Movie.” The film has attracted a cult following…

Second hour: Philosophy teacher Thaddeus Kozinski has just published a new book, COVID-19 and the War Against Reality. Another philosophy professor and frequent Truth Jihad Radio guest, Peter Simpson, summarizes: “The book discusses the perceived rise of a global totalitarianism under the cover of the COVID-19 pandemic, framing it as a spiritual and moral crisis that challenges the concept of objective reality and sacred
truth.”  Yet another brilliant Truth Jihad Radio repeat guest, poet Tom Breidenbach, wrote the forward…and joins the conversation.