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Christian Yordanov: Hey folks, welcome back to the show. Special guest that we have today is Big Truth. He is an anthropologist, custom motorcycle builder. He's a laser tattoo removal specialist. He's an ex-radio DJ, punk rock slash hardcore vocalist. he's ah ah He's got a podcast called The Big Truth Podcast. And he also owns a renowned custom motorcycle workshop, Chopper Head Custom Cycles.
Christian Yordanov: And he also has a tattoo shop and a laser tattoo removal business. So pretty interesting dude. He's also, at when he was an anthropologist, he worked for the CDC and the World Health Organization and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. So very varied.
Christian Yordanov: background and he's also a client of mine.
Big Truth: Oh,
Christian Yordanov: That's kind of how we met. We've been working together for, I guess, four or five months now. So ah with that said, brother, welcome to the show.
Big Truth: thanks for having me on, man. Honored to be here. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: So let's start with, um so you were and you worked for the the World Health Organization and the CDC and this Cancer Institute, Dana-Farber.
Big Truth: yeah
Christian Yordanov: What did you do there, bro?
Big Truth: So with with my anthropological career, i called it, i I said I started, ah I was working my way down, right? So right out of grad school and while I was doing my grad graduate research, I um started to work at the World Health Organization and very quickly realized that what a bullshit bureaucracy, what a mess it was over there. And it changed the whole nature of my of my research because um I used to study ah the interface of like traditional or indigenous medicine with um modern you know Western medicine. So like,
Big Truth: you know, um integrating medicine men, you know, like I worked with Navajo medicine men that worked at a local hospital, like overseeing surgeries and, and, you know, doing, doing their rituals to help people like ah just, you know, addressing some of the psychosocial aspects of health and whatnot.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: And so I worked at the traditional health program at WHO and then, um, ended up abandoned in my research and did a structural analysis of like how messed up the WHO was. Now this is like late nineties, you know, so I'm sure, I'm sure it didn't get any better or smaller since then.
Big Truth: And, um, so just, there was so much going on with that and, you know, I can get into that with people if they want. Um, but, um, Then ah i went to, um, so I went to CDC and, um, this is the stuff I'll get into on your podcast. Cause I think you have a clientele that will appreciate all this. So I was working at centers for disease control again, late nineties.
Big Truth: Um, I worked on a program. I was working in HIV vaccine, the HIV vaccine unit at the time.
Christian Yordanov: Mm-hmm.
Big Truth: And what, um, What was odd was that even though i was working for CDC in the HIV vaccine unit, my position was funded by a company called TRW Space and Defense, who are defense contractors basically, right? And I'm like, why is a defense contractor sponsoring my job at the CDC?
Big Truth: And while I was at CDC, I was on a project called Project Links. You can look it up, L-I-N-C-S, and it was called Linking Communities and Scientists. And the goal of that project was to um assess scientists' willingness to administer experimental HIV vaccines. So it started as, you know, would you give this to somebody in your community? Would you administer a vaccine to somebody in um your extended family? And, you know, drilling down and down until finally, would you give it to your kid? You know what I mean? And, you know, the answers were all like, if it was a live attenuated virus, I wouldn't, but, you know, blah, blah, blah, I might. But...
Big Truth: I was just putting the dots together and I'm like, I'm at CDC, there's armed guards. i have freaking, you know, my I'm on this project to like where I'm seeing people who administer experimental vaccines to the public and it's being funded by a defense contractor. I'm like, yeah, I'm out of here. This ain't for me. ah i I grew up in punk rock and hardcore music and heavy metal and it was always... um the first The first lesson you learn is question authority and question everything. And I was just like, yeah, this this doesn't sit right. So, um you know, and it's like, it's weird because, you know, people I worked with were very good people. There wasn't, I didn't have, it it didn't feel like a sketchy tone from the people on the ground floor, like the people I was working with. ah It just was like, you know.
Big Truth: I'm looking at the bigger picture saying, yeah, this, this ain't right. So i'll see you later. And so then finally I went over to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and um did, did mostly cancer prevention research, but did a lot of stuff, worked there for, for, for, for over a decade. um And then I just got too fed up with the medical system and the bureaucracy and the funding structure and the medical mafias and, ah being, you know, indentured servants to the and NIH and only being able to do studies that they want to fund. And, you know, whether it was for the public good or just, you know, that's what someone had as a, as a, um you know, an agenda that year or whatever it was. It was just, I just saw the bullshit of it and it was just people were designing projects that,
Big Truth: that weren't the best projects for the community, but they knew that they were the projects that would get funded. So it turned into like institutional bureaucratic behavior where it's just like, do everything you can to preserve the structure and, you know, trying to do good comes secondary.
Big Truth: So that was that.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: and And that was my anthropological career in a nutshell. And that's why I left, you know?
Christian Yordanov: And so roughly how many, and how many years roughly were you in those three organizations?
Big Truth: I was in um CDC about a year. i was in WHO for under a year. And I was at Dana-Farber for almost 15 years, I would say.
Christian Yordanov: Oh, wow.
Big Truth: So Dana-Farber was good in that there was a lot of really good people that we were working with. And again, like, I'm not defaulting some of the people that I was working with. I'm dev defaulting the structure and and the nature of of the beast.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. Yeah,
Big Truth: You know what i mean? And...
Christian Yordanov: yeah yeah
Big Truth: you know At the end of the day, i just have a healthy just the same way I have a healthy distrust of of the government, I have a healthy distrust of you know mod modern medical institutions, whether it's the ah you know CDC, obviously. you know and you know that's why when...
Big Truth: you know, things happened in 2020 and on, I had a very healthy distrust of what was going on. I was like, man, this sounds, ah you know, there's a lot of stuff going on here that sounds like reminiscent of what I was working on at the CDC in the late nineties, you know, but with a different disease, you know what i mean?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: What kept me in anthropology for so long was that, you know, there was a lot of programs I worked on that were doing interventions with community and it did help people and um you know i believe in karma and you know i grew up like rough and you know wasn't always he you know wasn't always the best dude and i was like all right well you know like this is a way for me to give back and and um at the end though i just felt like the structures were really stifling what could be done and that's why i kind of got out of it and my other businesses were were growing and i was like all right i'm just gonna jump into that stuff you know what i mean because those are my worlds that i can control i can't control what nih is going to fund i can I can control what I'm going to do.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah,
Big Truth: You know, that's about it.
Christian Yordanov: Of course. And do you remember some of the research that you were working working on what for cancer prevention? What what was that like? What was that about?
Big Truth: Oh, dude, there was so much. Um, why I initially got hired is because in that world of academics, there's a lot of people. Um, a lot of the people I worked with were like Harvard, um,
Big Truth: Harvard faculty, um, cause Dana Faber is a, is a, is a, is a partner is, you know, a lot of the, uh, A lot of um cancer research researchers, whether it's, you know, on the medical side or on the um social science side, you know, public health side, um are also faculty at Harvard at Dana-Farber. So um there was a lot of people with a lot of brain power, not a lot of common sense or street smarts. And they were trying to do cancer prevention programs with trade unions. And, you know, you know, du you know,
Big Truth: a lot of them nerds weren't going to get in with the iron workers or the truckers or the, you know, the, the laborers and stuff. So they saw me as an asset and, um, you know, cause I, cause I could traverse those worlds cause I'm from, that you know, I'm from like a lower middle class background. Um, and, um, you know, have a lot of friends and relatives that are in the trades. And so, you know, I could, I could go through, go through those different worlds.
Big Truth: Um, But yeah, so I did a lot of work with different trade unions and looking at um environmental exposures or environmental risks of things that might put them at health ah at risk more risk for cancer. Also, you know, it was cool.
Big Truth: um Also, you know, behavioral stuff, you know, um not just, you you know, it's one thing watching a weld watching a guy, you i watching an iron worker weld while he's smoking a cigarette under his wel welding helmet.
Big Truth: I'm like, all right, bro, there's like so much going on there that's going to, you know, that it's not good for you, dude. But...
Christian Yordanov: ah
Big Truth: Truckers, we worked with truckers, which was interested interesting. And I got to do ride alongs and I, you know, I would ride from truck with like road truckers and really just documenting what was available to them when they would stop for food and things like that.
Big Truth: And like what their diet was.
Christian Yordanov: $5 hookers.
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah. lot of lizards, all that stuff.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: You know what i mean?
Christian Yordanov: yeah Yes, that sandwich is from gas stations.
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah. that The lot lizards don't put you at risk for cancer so much. Well, maybe HPV, but, um, but, uh, but you know, but you know, they're eating garbage because they got these big trucks and they can only pull into certain spots and those spots, like those truck stops don't have a lot of healthy options.
Big Truth: So it was divine. It was trying to decide, it was trying to design interventions to work with them, to be like, Hey man, maybe you pack a lot. Shit. You taught me shit. You were talking to me about, you know what I mean? Like I should have known better.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: Um, you know Maybe you make your lunch, bring your lunch, do this.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: you know Or if you if you do have to stop at the rest stop, maybe grab an orange instead of a bag of Doritos, basic stuff like that. But but you know it sounds easy, but you know working with people to break psychological um patterns is always...
Big Truth: and Cultural patterns is always ah you know is always a little interesting. But I did so much different work at at there, you know because I was there for 15 years, and I haven't been there. It's been you know a long time since I've been there. I should have boned up and looked at some of the different research, but we were doing all kinds of stuff. like um It got pretty wild because the um the group I was working for actually...
Big Truth: became its own thing, like its own sub research group within Dana-Farber. So we were also working with other institutions like, um, as like freelancers, but, um, or, or, you know, so, you know, there was it was a, it was a varied, it was a varied, um,
Big Truth: lot of, of, of, you know, topical areas that I worked on when I was in grad school, I worked a lot on like, um, HIV prevention and, and IV with like, with drug users and, and, um, and substance abusers.
Big Truth: And, um, it also worked on like substance abuse programs as well. Um, so yeah.
Christian Yordanov: And so just what exactly did you study in in in in college? Anthropology?
Big Truth: Yeah, so my undergraduate was a communications major um with a philosophy minor ah because ah originally how I got into the field is I wanted to make like documentary films and ethnographic films. And then as I started getting into the the film and TV aspect of things or the the communications end of things, I I realized i should know more about the science and, ah you know, to be able to make some good films. and um And so I got, you know, just way more interested in doing anthropology itself. And so when I went into anthropology,
Big Truth: um My degree is in um applied medical anthropology or applied sociocultural anthropology with an emphasis in medical anthropology.
Christian Yordanov: Whoa.
Big Truth: um There's two different schools.
Christian Yordanov: So cool.
Big Truth: You know, when I first started, I started at University of Arizona, which is a very traditional anthropology program where they're. kind of teaching you just to become an academic. So you come out and you can do academic. Maybe you write grants or you do high-level research, but or you you're a professor. You don't do um actual field work that much. You're not in the field doing work with the communities that much. So I got out of that because – That was just like ivory tower bullshit with people that would just like like to hear themselves talk, of not really doing much for the world.
Big Truth: um So I went into an applied anthropology program in Flagstaff, university Northern Arizona University, which had one of the top applied programs at the time.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: i don't I'm sure they still do. I haven't. looked into things in a while. But, um, and that was like really hit the ground running, doing research that actually benefits the communities that you're working in and things like that.
Big Truth: So it was more action oriented rather than theoretical oriented. Um, you know, it wasn't just like verbal masturbation. It was like, Hey, let's do something that actually helps people.
Christian Yordanov: nine
Big Truth: And so, and then, you know, that's when I started getting, you know, really more into research and stuff. So at the culmination of things, I think it all ended up to where I am now doing the podcast and the the conspiracy content and all in the video stuff and all that.
Christian Yordanov: That's awesome.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: Like still, it's so it's a nod to that.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: I like doing the podcast because it feels like I'm still like, I like interviewing people. And that's one thing that anthropology, you know, taught me to be a pretty decent interviewer. And um and and and I get to do that with the podcast stuff.
Christian Yordanov: Oh yeah, and of just so listeners know, I was on your podcast, I think two weeks ago or so. So guys, I will have the link to BigTruthPodcast.com, which is the website, BigTruthPodcast.com.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yep.
Christian Yordanov: So you can check that out on all the other cool interviews.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: So when did you, um so you, of course.
Big Truth: And that's available on all platforms. So people, if they just type in your name and in like Apple or Spotify or something, I'm sure it'll come up along with all the other ones you've been on, you know, umm because I know you've done a lot.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, of course. Yeah.
Big Truth: That's how I heard about you.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: i heard you on a Sam Tripoli show, trip Tinfoil Hat.
Christian Yordanov: Tinfo hat, yeah. Tinfo hat.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: one of the the He's doing God's work, Sam.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: That's for sure.
Big Truth: he he's He does it well because its he does serious topics but injects some humor in it keeps it keeps it moving, you know?
Christian Yordanov: God bless him.
Christian Yordanov: And you need it, and you need that because otherwise we'll all be depressed.
Big Truth: You do.
Christian Yordanov: you know so i remember back, I think it was 2018, I started listening to Tinfo Hat back all the way back then.
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: and he he had He has phases of things he says and at the time, I'm just going to try not to like blow anybody's eardrums, but he would like someone would like drop be dropping bombs and so Sam would just interrupt him saying, oh my God.
Big Truth: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: You know, this sort of shit. It was hilarious.
Big Truth: yeah yeah
Christian Yordanov: But I was out there like pulling my hair out. Let the man speak. Let the man speak.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: you know, so much. You learn so much from those people.
Big Truth: He even addresses that all the time. He'll be like, I know the listeners are getting pissed at me right now, but, you know, because it kid he'll take over and go on tangents and stuff.
Christian Yordanov: yeah it's hilarious um so when when did you start your other businesses while you were obviously still working in these organizations when did you get with the motorcycle stuff
Big Truth: Yeah. Like, so, like I said, I grew up i grew up in, like, the worlds of like, um, I always grew up in like, not the mainstream, you know, I grew up in punk rock and heavy metal and stuff like that.
Big Truth: And, um, so kind of always, you know, was, I don't know, a subculture guy, outsider looking in. Um, and you know,
Christian Yordanov: Mm-hmm.
Big Truth: I had bands going when I was a kid, like when I was in junior, when I was a junior in high school, like I had a band, our first record came out when I was i when i was still in high school. Um, and then, um,
Big Truth: So, you know, i got into motorcycles later, um the late 90s, because it was like, you you know, the music stuff is great. And especially, you know, you you get a little older and you look for something else. And I and i still ah have my fingers on the pulse of the music industry because i love it. But...
Big Truth: Uh, motorcycles was the next thing to me that was loud, fast and dangerous, you know, punk rock and hardcore and metal was, and then motorcycles was the next incarnation of that. But it also had like a heavy do it yourself thing because I got into the custom motorcycles, you know, people call them choppers.
Big Truth: It's not like the mainstream, just like you go to Harley, buy a bike ride. It's like, this is stuff like you build from the ground up.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: totally customized and things like that. Um, so started doing that on the side. Um, cause you know, um, even though I was working, you know, professional job at a corner office, uh, you know, I was the senior qualitative research manager. i had, you know, this, but then at night, you know, I'm, you know, welding a frame on a motorcycle and, you know, doing stuff like that.
Big Truth: Um, but you know, so gradually, I started the the motorcycle business in 2001. It's our 25th anniversary this year. um And, you know, it grew from a hobby to a full time.
Christian Yordanov: Amazing.
Big Truth: Now I'm sitting in a full, you know, I have a full brick and mortar shop with a showroom, ah parts counter and the the motorcycle shop and a machine shop in the back. Yeah. The tattoo removal stuff I got into because my best friend was a tattoo artist.
Big Truth: and um And that, again, goes along with the whole punk rock, heavy metal world. the You know, people were all heavily. We were the first people that were heavily tattooed.
Big Truth: You know what i mean? Before it became mainstream. um And then...
Christian Yordanov: Mm-hmm.
Big Truth: ah You know, um i'm i'm I'm not good at, I have good ideas and I'm good at graphic design, but I'm not good at drawing. So I don't have a hand. I don't have a hand for for for tattooing, but I do have a hand for welding and laser tattoo removal is is almost like welding, but on skin. You know what I mean? um You know, you so you you approach it the same way. You were the same amount of overlap and making the arcs and whatnot. But I just saw a need for that.
Big Truth: And so we just started doing that. Yeah. going on almost 15 years now. Um, and you know, I just, you know, there's a lot of places that do it that in a clinical setting. Um, but I know a lot of people who get tattooed, get tattooed in shops and then they might not be comfortable going into a clinical or like a medispa setting for something like that. So I do it in the tattoo shop. Like I have my own booth in the tattoo shop.
Big Truth: Um,
Christian Yordanov: nice fan
Big Truth: And, ah you know, it was my friend's shop and then I became a partner in it. And unfortunately, he passed during the ah pandemic. um Coincidentally, two weeks after his second jab, coincidentally from a blood clot, nothing that he had any, no health issues, not nothing from any ah health issues he had, um which further um inspired my experience.
Big Truth: disgust and distaste for anyone that was going along with that narrative. um But yeah. So anyway, long story short is that that that's those two businesses. um And, you know, again, they started part time and then just grew it into full time. You know, when, when I took the plunge and decided to get out of ah working for bureaucratic institutions.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, by the way, as soon as you said welding, I pulled up your urine test that we did, man, and that explains your manganese being in the yellow a little bit high.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: That's pretty common, yeah. So like this just kind of gives me ideas of some other stuff I can add to your protocol. But nice nice that, because you've been around these heavy metals for like 25 years, maybe more, you know?
Christian Yordanov: Nice that you didn't have too much.
Big Truth: Yeah,
Christian Yordanov: Like I have people that have six, seven toxic metals in the red and and some that are kind of edging close yellow to red, you know?
Big Truth: yeah.
Christian Yordanov: So like, I don't know, like so something, you've been doing something right along the way, I think health wise.
Big Truth: yeah
Big Truth: Yeah. I was honestly surprised I didn't have like a half pound of, ah aluminum shavings in my lungs, you know, or in the bloodstream because, because I used to cut and grind and, you know, and, and, and, um, sand down and whatever, aluminum all day.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. Yeah.
Big Truth: So, um, But, i you know, I would try and wear a mask as suit as much as I could, you know, like a respirator as much as I could.
Christian Yordanov: You don't do that anymore? Yeah.
Big Truth: But sometimes when it's, you know, I'm in New England. So like I was telling you right now, it's negative two out. And then in the summer, it can be like 95 and 100% humidity. So it's like, yeah, it's tough sometimes to to do all the proper safety precautions.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: You know what mean?
Christian Yordanov: For sure, man, yeah. You you also have a... Dude, you own a bar as well, is that right?
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah. So the story with that is, um,
Big Truth: i I, I was born and raised in a new Bedford, Massachusetts. It's about a half hour, 40 minutes South of Boston. Um, it's a little, it's an old mill town and it's a efficient. It's a big fish in town. Um, and scallops and all that, lobstering and all that. Um, but, um,
Big Truth: The bar I own is the first licensed bar after prohibition in New Bedford. It was started by a bootlegging family that like went legit. And then my uncle bought that bar in the seventies, late seventies from that family.
Big Truth: And then my father was a trucker and broke his back delivering sheetrock. And then so he started working there and managing the place. And then he bought the bar from my uncle.
Big Truth: And then during the pandemic, everything had to close down. And my father's business partner wanted to get out of it. And so... They put it up for sale. And you know I knew my father didn't really want to get out of it, but I know he didn't want to do it himself.
Big Truth: And I know you know he's getting older and he doesn't want to be there full time.
Christian Yordanov: She's
Big Truth: So me and my buddy bought it because you know he wanted a bar and and you know I have a vested interest in that bar. I grew up in there because I was always, I was a troublemaker in school and I always had detention and stuff and I'd have to go, i never could take the bus home because I would always be staying after having detention and stuff.
Big Truth: So I'd have to go to the bar afterwards and wait for my father to get out and give me a ride home and whatever. But, um, but, uh, oh yeah, even when I was in grad school, I think I was arrested like three or four times for fighting and disorderly conduct and all that.
Big Truth: My professors, I was always an anomaly. My professors would laugh, at ah laugh about it because they'd be like, oh, what'd you do this time? Because they they'd bring the, the, the, the newspaper out and be like, oh, I see you are ah spent the night in the clink again.
Big Truth: um That said, I still, fun fact, I graduated with my master's with a straight 4.0, so it it didn't get in the way.
Christian Yordanov: Wow.
Big Truth: um But no, so so me and my one of my best friends bought the bar. um we've We've been running it a couple years, and my father manages it. He comes in in the morning, and sets up.
Big Truth: It gives him something to do, you know what i mean? He loves it.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: He gets to go in there in the morning and do his thing, but he doesn't have to be there all day. He doesn't have any of the stress of actually running it or owning it and or any of that stuff and just gets to... ah you know, get out and have fun.
Big Truth: It gives them something to do every day too, you know, but I didn't really set out to be in the bar business.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: It just kind of, it found me like I needed another business. Like I needed a fucking hole in the head, you know, sorry. I don't know if you're just swearing thing, but.
Christian Yordanov: exactly Exactly.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: That's what that's where I was kind of getting at because I know we've discussed this before, but man, it's like, it's so much stuff that I just like, I get anxiety just reading all the things you're up to.
Christian Yordanov: of Dude, like how might if if I had to do half of that, i'd be like a nervous wreck here, bro.
Big Truth: Well, people ask, and the the secret is I don't have kids.
Christian Yordanov: Seriously.
Big Truth: That's that's literally it. like You know what I mean? So I have time.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: you know i because Obviously, if I had kids, I would have to spend um you know a good amount of time you know being a good dad because i I would take that responsibility seriously, but it just wasn't in the cards.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: so Um, so I don't have kids as of yet. So, you know what i mean? So I, I have the time to do all this stuff and it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? Um, but you know, the other thing is having good staff and good people, good people around you.
Christian Yordanov: Exactly. exactly
Big Truth: You know what I mean? Like, you know, the tattoo shop runs itself.
Christian Yordanov: course.
Big Truth: Like I have good guys there that I trust that are friends of mine that I don't have to, I don't have to stay up on, on managing them. You know, the bar is tougher because we got like 15 employees and it's like, I do have 15 adult children, I call it.
Big Truth: Like that those, you know, I have to manage them.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. Yeah.
Big Truth: You know, that sucks. but um But, you know, but the other businesses, like the tattoo removal is just me. The motorcycle shop is just me and one guy who is, you know, my right-hand man and trustworthy.
Big Truth: Like, so I don't have to worry about that. that's That's the thing. If you have a good team of people around you, then that's half the battle right there and it allows you to do more.
Christian Yordanov: of course. And do you actually, like, ah you said you you were doing, like, last time we spoke, you were going to record some vocals. Do you actually, like, like play live as well as record with the band?
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah. I have, um, I have two bands. Um, one's kind of on hiatus right now, but you know, we, we, we have a record out on like one of a like on on really big, um, a punk and hardcore label.
Big Truth: And we've done like European tours and stuff. Um,
Christian Yordanov: What's the band in label?
Big Truth: that one's called that one That band's called American War Machine.
Christian Yordanov: Just curious.
Big Truth: um And if anyone's familiar with like hardcore punk rock, it's me and some of the guys from from a band called Slapshot, guys from Blood for Blood and Agnostic Front, which are three really big bands in those worlds.
Big Truth: um And then um this new one I have is called Blackpilled, and it's more in the conspiracy lane, and it's it's a little more medley. And I might have to get you to out of retirement and do ah a guest solo or something on it because people don't know that you were a thrash guitarist. You know what I mean?
Big Truth: calling you out, bringing you back in, buddy. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Oh, bro, man. It's so funny because um i remember when the the COVID stuff happened. cause like i was like i was like ah ah it was A lot of what I was listening to was like pop punk.
Christian Yordanov: you know You're like a 15-year-old, 14-year-old kid. you like it it's You're just retarded in every single way.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: So we were listening to Offspring and on you know Green Day. And then I saw in 2020, I remembered ah that Dexter Holland guy. who he actually got a PhD in biochemistry at some point.
Christian Yordanov: while he was with the band. He was all about, your get your jabs. ah Green Day, I think, were like, get your jabs and whatever. And then even, rate dude, Rage Against the Machine.
Big Truth: Ah.
Christian Yordanov: You know, fuck the fuck you, I won't do what you tell me, guys.
Big Truth: be Yeah. Yeah. it doing yeah
Christian Yordanov: Even they were like, we're going to get the jobs. they All of them owned, owned, signed their
Big Truth: Bro, Jello Biafra, the singer of the Dead Kennedys, the guy that wrote the song called The Government Flu, was chastising and criticizing people ah for not getting the jab.
Big Truth: That shows you how deep that programming um and you know um propaganda and mind control went. And, ah you know...
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. Yeah.
Big Truth: I'm not being, you know, I'm not putting a tinfoil hat when I say that. It's it's true. I mean, and it's all come out now that it's it's been coming out. that it Like, that's what it was. It was a controlled narrative that was forced down people's throats. And it what to the, so that, you know, that's when you can get into conjecture. Like, obviously it was so that pharmaceutical companies could profit immensely. Was it darker? Yeah.
Big Truth: reasoning behind it, that's more up to conjecture. Was there a darker purpose? I don't know. You know what i mean? But no matter what, follow the money and that shows you half the thing right there. When they're telling you you got to get your fucking infant jabbed or your child jabbed or when they want to give you a child when you want to give the one to give your child or your infant a hep B vaccine, I'm like, yo, I don't know anyone with a kid that's going out doing potty drugs and having an unprotected sex.
Big Truth: They don't need that vaccine. Like, shut up. You know what mean? Like, it's crazy.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, man.
Big Truth: you
Christian Yordanov: It's sickening.
Big Truth: It's horrible, dude.
Christian Yordanov: And I just saw, just just just before we got on, I just saw scrolling around and I saw, some maybe it's a clip or or whatever, like static text, that ah RFK is like, oh, we got the mercury out the vaccines now. And he's like, I hope ah global health sort of authorities do the same. It's like, dude, it's like, um you know, you're like applying fucking, ah you know, ah bee sting ointment to a gunshot wound type thing.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: You know, you got to get the whole thing out.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: We take, we take about taking one toxic ingredient out of a cocktail of toxic shit.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: It's like, what are you talking about? But, um, you,
Big Truth: What about all the snake venom? Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Oh, it's it's horrific. And people were like, oh, yeah, RFK is going to do this. I mean, yeah, great that it's some progress. But that's that's actually sometimes it's like the the whole five steps forward, one step back.
Christian Yordanov: You know, they they will always push, push, push an agenda, walk it back a little bit, it let the plebs out of their homes and maybe they don't have to mask up all the time.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: And everybody's happy. all Things are are getting better. But are they getting better when you've been you had the boot on your neck for your entire life, you know?
Big Truth: Yeah, it feels better because it's a temporary release, but it but it's not – it's temporary relief, but it's not where you were before the boot was on your neck. You know what i mean? It's just like they let the pressure off a little bit.
Christian Yordanov: Exactly.
Big Truth: So, yeah, oh I can breathe a little better, but the boot ain't all the way off. Now, RFK is a tough one because it's hard to say because I know a couple people that actually personally know him and say he's a really good guy and he is really passionate and cares about it.
Big Truth: I think – Really what happens is you get put in these roles, any of these positions of power, even if you go in meeting with the best intention, you get told what you can and can't do.
Big Truth: Like, you know, and it's like, all right, you you have you have family you love, then you you know you better go along with the agenda, buddy.
Christian Yordanov: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? I feel like that's what happens.
Christian Yordanov: Of course.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? Because even the best intention people end up, you know, there's only so much they can do, you know?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, that's why we shouldn't, like, and I think most of the listeners know this already, but we should not wait for a savior and all this nonsense.
Big Truth: No. Yep. Yep.
Christian Yordanov: Like, change happens at ah at first at the end individual level, then at the, you know, the microcosm, the family, the community, and then change then permeates through the collective consciousness, through the the society at large.
Christian Yordanov: It will, like, looking at it top of for it top down is again ceding your responsibility to an authority third party
Big Truth: Absolutely. it The easiest way to say it is is like no one is coming to save you or your family. You got to do it. You know what mean?
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: Change your mindset first. And then like like just like you said, you people see the change in you and that will influence others. That's going on with me right now. like after out From working with you the last few months, you know I have a lot of people in my ear now going, dude, what are you doing?
Big Truth: Everyone's like, you on Ozempic? I'm like, no, dude. I'm like literally... Like I literally just changed what I eat and how I eat and, and, you know, the supplementation that I'm taking, um, you know, have I dabbled a little bit with some, with some peptides?
Big Truth: Absolutely. You know what I mean?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah,
Big Truth: But, but you know, nothing, you you know, like BPC one, five, seven, TM 500, like, cause I have some shoulder stuff that Magnol has helped, um, tremendously as well.
Christian Yordanov: yeah,
Big Truth: But, um, But yeah, no, like, you know, it's just like, but, but I've seen that other people are interested in that now. And people have a bunch of people asked me for your information that I passed on, you know, you know, you don't you know, you can give it to 10 people.
Big Truth: How many people are going to take the next step is always, you know, it's it's a, you know, it's a numbers game, you know, until someone's really, really ready to, ah to make a change.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, yeah, of course.
Big Truth: that That's when they do it. That's why I didn't reach out to you until I had already started making changes and knew I was going to be able to commit to it because half of it is just my schedule so wild and crazy that I had to, you know, just focus more on meal prep and stuff like that, which I hate doing, but you got to do it.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: But like, yeah, exactly, man. like But like, it so it seems like a lot of time when people are at rock bottom, they don't look for help. But as soon as they're on the up and up and we have some momentum in the right direction, I've seen that often. They're like oh, you know, i I did this and this and this.
Christian Yordanov: And now I want you to kind of help me take it to the next level, which is really awesome to see, you know. But also it's like I know I said it before, but man, it's commendable when you have so much stuff going on to to to to do this because, i mean, it is not not it's not super hard, but changing habits is a little bit of commitment.
Christian Yordanov: It requires energy, input.
Big Truth: Sure.
Christian Yordanov: So it's it's pretty awesome that you did decide to do it with all the shit you got going on in your life, you know, in a good way, of course.
Big Truth: Discipline.
Big Truth: Well, it's literally because of all the shit I got going on in my life. Like you said, you got anxiety just looking at it. Like I was stressed out every day, all day.
Big Truth: Like, and you know, I could see it. Cause like, you know, I was like really aggro all the time or like, I call it stabby. Like someone would say the smallest thing and I'd be whoa, you know, like, you know, like ready to pounce and, And was like, man, I'm going to die of a freaking heart attack, man.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah Yeah
Big Truth: Like, you know, or a stroke. I don't, I don't want that. You know what I mean? Like, especially, you know, I'd rather just die from a heart attack than have a stroke and be half paralyzed or like weird, you know, or, you know, not fully functional, you know, but I i want neither of those if that's the option, you know what i mean?
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: So I was like, I got to do something, man, but because it's also affecting interpersonal relationships with my friends and family and whatever. And it's just like, You know, my perfect, no, I so i still get stressed, but nowhere way near as much.
Big Truth: I think, too, I was on, before I started working with you, I was taking a pre-workout in the morning, going to the gym, and then having, like, at least two, maybe three, you know, Red Bulls or, like, energy drinks a day.
Big Truth: I don't think that any of that was helping either. But, you know, from the supplementation and all that, you know, I definitely have chilled out and feel better and get get better sleep and stuff.
Christian Yordanov: yeah and you you told me you you barely have any ah any of those energy drinks and pre-workout nowadays right
Big Truth: So, you know, all that comes
Big Truth: I don't, I don't use pre-workout at all anymore. And from two to three energy drinks a day to maybe two to three energy drinks a month. yeah Is it zero? No. Cause there's some times where I'm just going and I gotta, I gotta recharge and I don't, I might not have that, um, but you know, that caffeine.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: And, um, I just blanked out on the name of the supplement. the The one you gave me, right? The theanine with this, with the, with the caffeine.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: I go, I just got to buy another bottle of that and have it with me. Um,
Christian Yordanov: That stuff is magic.
Big Truth: Yeah. So, you know, so sometimes if I'm like really stuck or something or it's late at night and I got to drive home and it's two in the morning, and I might have to partake a little bit, but you know, from, from three a day to three a month is good.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, of course. Of course.
Big Truth: It's not zero, but I'll get it down to zero sooner or later.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: But when I get, when I get these.
Christian Yordanov: And there's...
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Some of these things are tools that they do... They are called for once in a while, you know? Like, yeah I would...
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Personally, personally I would... ah If i had ah no other tools at my disposal, like my supplement stack, occasionally I may i may have to, like, have a Red Bull. I'm more than happy to do that if...
Christian Yordanov: I'm in that position, but once you, as you know, like a few supplements and stuff, for example, little kind of stacks, great pick-me-ups, great kind of calm-me-downs, once you figure those things out, then I remember back in like, I used to work in a bar like eight years on and off, and at the start, and I was younger back then, when I started, i was 19, you know, and it was one of the busiest pubs in the world, literally, right?
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: in In Ireland, in the center of Ireland, dude. And in the center of Dublin, I should say. and we would drink like two, three, four, sometimes five Red Bulls. And then I had a ah kind of a break from that work. I was doing other stuff. Then I went back and that was after a period where I had cleaned up my diet. I kind of you know had a little bit of a steady relationship at the time. And I was like, I could go all evening long more energy than before, better like output in terms of how many drinks you serve and stuff without anything, without no no coffee, no Red Bull. So I think that was my my mental barrier was I need the Red Bulls to get me through the night. Whereas when you when you kind of see that you can do it without you're like, shit, that that is just a limiting belief that you need. It's like caffeine as well. like Some people were like, I can't go without caffeine. But if they stop caffeine for a week,
Christian Yordanov: They adapt over over the next few weeks and they can do just as well. I'm not saying don't have caffeine. I love caffeine. As you know, I have it every day.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: i have more than most people probably, but I can go without it and I'll be just fine.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Probably a little bit less hyper.
Big Truth: do do you get ah Do you get headaches if you stop it?
Christian Yordanov: ah For the first the first day I do, yeah. that's that's
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: ah yeah Actually, we were um ah we were in Egypt, in Cairo, there for a week. and the we the way the day had
Big Truth: I saw that. I saw that picture with the pyramid.
Christian Yordanov: Yes, pretty cool. So on the way back, because we to wake up super early at like 3 a.m., m
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: their time, 5 a.m. their time, 3 a.m. m our time. So I didn't have any caffeine because i was going to sleep on the plane and stuff. So I had a little bit, just 50 milligrams with an aspirin, dude. And I was totally fine on that whole day without it.
Christian Yordanov: But then the next day I woke up with a splitting headache. I'm like, ah, there we go. Here it is.
Big Truth: yes Yeah, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: So I had my normal dose. And then two hours later i was back to normal.
Big Truth: Well, travel, just travel will do that too, man.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? ah You probably know better than me, but it feels like travel takes a toll on you, you know?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: It does. Yeah.
Big Truth: Plus it exposes you to all kinds of stuff. Like those little planes are just little little germatoriums, dude.
Christian Yordanov: Kerosene.
Big Truth: You know what I mean?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: You're flying through the air on a little a little germ tube. um Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: fart recyclers disgusting what bro like i don't get it like you go you get on a plane and everybody starts to start letting wind like why didn't you do it beforehand jesus um
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: i wanted to ask you ah so do you actually do live gig so yeah i know you're recording for with these bands are you actually like touring or or doing gigs with american war machine and blackfield
Big Truth: Ugh.
Big Truth: Here and there right now. So it's tough because, you know, we're all older um and, you know, the guys are in other bands and that are like touring bands. And um so we do it when we can.
Big Truth: You know i mean? It's it's nothing it's nothing that, you know, a steady.
Christian Yordanov: yeah yeah
Big Truth: We're making a living off it or anything like that. It's just it's more for fun. And it's it's actually I do it. mainly because it's still like a pressure release. You know what mean? And it's it's another creative outlet, but also it's like therapeutic to be able to yell because, you know, I do vocals, so I'm i'm not and i'm not doing anything very technical.
Big Truth: You know, it's just more controlled controlled shouting. um You mentioned Offspring earlier, which made me laugh.
Christian Yordanov: and yeah
Big Truth: My old band that I had in high school... our second record came out on this label and I can't remember our second, um, EP came out on this label and either the release right before us or the release right after us was the offspring's first EP as well.
Big Truth: Like, so were, we were label mates for a little while.
Christian Yordanov: Wow.
Big Truth: Like, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Cool, man.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Did you ever learn any instruments? did you ever play guitar or something like that?
Big Truth: Yeah. I could, I used to play guitar and, uh, and some bass, um, i um i was a lot of I'm good enough to to to write.
Big Truth: I'm not good enough to play consistently. I'm sloppy. You know what I mean with that stuff? So I can sit in my room, but like especially when I was a kid, I would sit in my room and write a lot of the guitar stuff or write a lot of the songs.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, yeah.
Big Truth: um But like playing live, like i I'm just not like a like a consistent, like tight player. I'm more sloppy. so you know I only played guitar in bands like live for a little while.
Christian Yordanov: yeah but but vocals is obviously it's it's a little bit hard on your um you know your your voice of course but it can be pretty because I remember dude I remember that it was death metal I think
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: ah it was it was death matter i think
Big Truth: yeah
Christian Yordanov: I can't even remember was it black metal ah death metal thrush think it was death metal but the dude so the I remember the the I was kind of the you know second guitarist the lead guitarist we would go with him to band practice the the drama was this like 17 year old dude he was a beast he was like
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: sweating buckets, like two kick drums, all that good stuff, the bassist.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: And then the the vocalist, he just like come in late. You know how it is comes in late.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: ah There's like ah bottles of vodka and like weed and and obviously beers and stuff. Guy's like half-waisted.
Big Truth: yeah yeah
Christian Yordanov: It's kind of that's you can do other projects as a vocalist, it seems.
Big Truth: yeah yeah
Christian Yordanov: You don't have to, you know, really cool.
Big Truth: yeah It's tough, but you know as a vocalist, you can't really practice unless you're practicing with a band because otherwise you just look like a psycho running around yelling. And
Christian Yordanov: Yes, that is true.
Big Truth: but and you do have to keep the vocal cords trained you know because if you if you don't do it for a long time, it takes a while for your voice to break back in and all that stuff.
Christian Yordanov: Oh
Christian Yordanov: oh yeah.
Big Truth: So there's a whole whole thing with that.
Christian Yordanov: Of course.
Big Truth: Yeah. um
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, man. i used to love, you know, Mudvayne? They're ah still kind of commercial, but they were like from the, because even Slipknot, you know, they were a little bit commercial, but like Mudvayne was one of my favorite bands when I was like, you know, between 15 and I guess 17, 18.
Christian Yordanov: So I really love that that kind of vocalist where the guy can do all the, you know, roaring and whatnot, but he can actually, that guy can sing. i don't know if he's a alive.
Big Truth: it's seeing too yeah i have a friend like that uh mark my friend mark he um do you remember a band manowar
Christian Yordanov: He can really sing. So that's kind of really awesome. What I would love, dude, it's,
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. Yeah.
Big Truth: he sings for that guy, Ross, the boss, and they do the lot of the man of war songs. Um, and then he also used to sing for metal church. Um, but he's one of them guys. He can do like guttural screams and also like really high pitched, like falsetto, like whatever you call that stuff.
Big Truth: Like, like he can, he has a whole range.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: He's like a pro train singer. I'm just a, just a punk rock guy. You know what i mean? Like I, know, untrained, you know, chaotic, whatever.
Christian Yordanov: of good
Big Truth: Um,
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, it's really, I used to love punk rock so much and um ah love it, bro.
Big Truth: Yeah. There
Christian Yordanov: well i would love ah um I would love at some point, because I'm actually like trying to make some kind of techno. I like to do a little bit harder techno. I think some ah some vocals on ah on a good dirty beat would actually be pretty cool.
Big Truth: you go.
Christian Yordanov: Maybe at some point you can record me some vocals. I can slap some some beats under that for fun.
Big Truth: Yeah, absolutely.
Christian Yordanov: That'd be really fun.
Big Truth: Yeah. Oh, no. Well, you got to make the beat first and yeah I got sing to the beat.
Christian Yordanov: Okay, okay. I got one going for my for my midlife crisis.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah, but you know what?
Christian Yordanov: I'll actually go one. Yeah.
Big Truth: Right? Like, it ah it's fun, right? It it uses a different part of the brain. you You kind of need it as an escape and from reality, almost. Like, you know, to when you're creating something like that, what whatever type of music it is, like, you know what i mean?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: Like, um there's just something.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: And there's like, you know, like, there's no reason for you to do it, right? Other than you have, a like, there's a yeah you there's some kind of, you know, feeling compelled to do it, you know?
Big Truth: Like, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, man. It's an expression. it's it we dont like the the The modern society is like specialize in something, go work in a building under fluorescent light and then retire yeah and then, you know, die soon after.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: That's kind of, so that that's they would love, you know, they, they would love for all of us to do that because you're just so easy to control and you're producing, producing for the whatever, the war machine.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Of course.
Big Truth: Yeah, be a good little producer, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. But so like I do the the, I got kind of got into the stuff back in December because it was a quieter period obviously for work. So I got, I got some drum machine.
Christian Yordanov: I got a drum machine synthesizer stuff. I even got some guitar effect pedals like distortions and and delays and reverbs.
Big Truth: There go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: And I'm actually like, combining them in cool ways like there running the the drum machine 909 clone through a um but this you know like ah this is like a a metal distortion it's really cool like getting the toms through that getting like really gnarly sound it's just
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: then you it's nice to combine different aspects of different genres that you like or different styles of music.
Big Truth: Sure.
Christian Yordanov: I've even been thinking of like getting either a guitar or maybe a ukulele or any, like something weird, like like a sitar.
Big Truth: Anything.
Christian Yordanov: It's kind of like,
Big Truth: You're going to do a heavy a heavy distorted ukulele?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, yeah, some shit like that. And I have a shaman drum here. Just like weird stuff combined into, so or even just I record my vocal into this mic.
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: as Any vocal, just me saying something and then running it through effects in the software.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Just like, man, like i could do this for hours if I didn't have like, if I wasn't a dad and didn't have like a business.
Big Truth: Yeah. It's crazy.
Christian Yordanov: could do this for hours.
Big Truth: yeah Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah, no, I know.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: It's fun, man, and it's a good escape. And it's funny that you mention it. like um Anyone I know that's a serious musician isn't inhibited into just like by like or are subject to just one genre. like Everyone I know that's like a real music lover loves all kinds of different types of music. You know what and I mean? like you know From like the heavily heaviest like metal vocalist, to to hardcore punk rock guys, like, they love reggae, they love ska, they love, you know, R&B, old Motown, whatever, whatever it is, you know what I mean? Like, ah or techno, whatever, or EDM stuff, like,
Big Truth: i ah I'm not super into a lot of electronic music. I do like some jungle or what do they call drum and bass stuff, like the stuff because it hits heavy, it hits heavy.
Christian Yordanov: DMV yeah. yeah
Big Truth: like you know That stuff i you know i can talk I can dig a little bit. um But yeah, I mean, you know the music's music, man. If it if it if it evokes a feeling, it then it's doing its job.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, man, for sure. but I'll say, ah not not right now because I've got a lot of stuff to prep for the conference, but in the in the coming months, I'm going to send you some some beats.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: and it doesn't even have like the thing is, it doesn't even have to be a high-quality vocal because you're going to distort the shit out of it and but do a bunch of warping.
Big Truth: No.
Christian Yordanov: it just I think it'll be itll be a fun fun fun thing to do.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Well, I do have vocal mics and then like and then I do have good mics for the podcast, so i could I could do it fairly decent.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: You should take – what you should do is make one and do the sample Sam doing that, oh, my God, and put that in it and send it to him. Let him use it as like a bumper or something for this for the show.
Christian Yordanov: <unk> i've got I don't know what... I think it's from a movie. You know you know the one... um um You will obey! You will all obey!
Big Truth: Yeah. Oh,
Christian Yordanov: Like that one, I actually have a track going with that one. ah If we can combine that with some kind of hardcore vocal,
Big Truth: yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: i won't do what you tell me. Something that.
Big Truth: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: i ah Anyway. i Right now, I don't have a lot of time to focus on it, but man, it's the kind of thing that there is no...
Big Truth: No, no, no.
Christian Yordanov: There is no deadlines. There is no, you you just do this when when you have time, just for the, like art, you don't have to make art to make money.
Big Truth: No, no, you just
Christian Yordanov: You don't have to make art necessarily to entertain a lot of people. You do our art, you do for the sake of it, isn't it?
Big Truth: Yeah, it's a personal thing. You're doing it. it so And I bet after you make something, like i you know you probably feel a lot more grounded and clear-headed.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: And of sudden, like some idea for your business will pop up and be like, oh, man, you know you just solved the problem because you you were doing something else.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: And you could work on that stuff subconsciously while you're fulfilling something else while you're creating some music, you know?
Christian Yordanov: Exactly, exactly, exactly because precisely that's what happened because as I was kind of doing this, I was like man the synthesizer can I tune it to 432 hertz, you know the 432 hertz and it turns out that you can actually tune it down to 432 hertz. so then i was like let me check pubmed is has any research been done on 432 you know and actually there has been not a lot but there has been so and then i saw some studies around like therapeutic effects of music so i think because obviously i'm kind of like my business is helping people with their health i think like man what if i just
Christian Yordanov: as a hobby create some 432 soundscapes and that'd be like like you can give that to people for to to help them with sleep or meditation or whatever the hell just kind of listen to something that we know is that you know that 432 hurts and we know it's it's there's a good intention ah when the music was made there's good intention put into it i think people will probably it's just a good excuse to do it and then share it with people not just it just doesn't sit on your hard drive type thing you know
Big Truth: Absolutely, man. And it's smart because it combines, you know, it combines, you know, your your interests. Um, and the, did you hear, have you heard of the conspiracy where they actually like, they, they look at music and they see that it's tuned at frequency that's like opposite of that now.
Big Truth: Like it's like opposite of like, yeah. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: yeah yeah yeah
Big Truth: that's that's That's a wild thing to look into, man. like um
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: ah the ah But you know the the the funniest thing I can tell you about 432 hertz is um
Big Truth: i don't I don't do it. ah i i haven't done it a lot, but you know't i grew up when I grew up, like... um I was what they call straight edge for a lot of years where I didn't do any drugs or alcohol at all.
Big Truth: I didn't start drinking until I was like 30. You know what i mean? Cause I, that's the, the, the music I grew up in was like, I listened to a lot of what they called straight edge hardcore.
Christian Yordanov: m
Big Truth: Um, but, um, you know, the, the last few years I've, I have, um, kind of, gone on some psychonautical type experimentation trips here and there, you know, with mushrooms. And the first time I did mushrooms, it was mind blowing, but I don't know how or when I did it at some point during the trip. And it was a wild one. It was one of those big, big, you know, what they, would whatever they call hero's journey type things. Um, and it was the first time I actually like really tripped on psilocybin. Um,
Big Truth: when I came kind of came to somewhere along the line, I'd put YouTube on to like these monks chanting at 432 Hertz and it totally amplified everything.
Big Truth: You know what i mean? I'm like, I don't remember doing that.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: i don't remember why i even did that or how that even happened. But when I kind of came to, was like, that's very interesting to me that like all of a sudden I get this like 432 Hertz chant going on in the background and it amplified everything.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah,
Big Truth: So, you know, um, That's the only experience I have with that, but you know what I mean? But it it was, you know, it does do something, man, that, that, that wave, you know, cause a lot of people, you if you talk about things like that's what energy is like, it's a, it's a wave, you know what I mean?
Christian Yordanov: yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, exactly.
Big Truth: It's a frequency and that's what moves everything, you know? And so, um,
Christian Yordanov: Exactly, dude. I don't know, is it a Buddhist sort of thing, but that the whole um universe is ah is a song. is's like a yeah and and and and like before um you know the material universe existed, everything existed as just vibration, om, om.
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: And um it's it when you think about it, like sound Sound is actually if it's you hear it but it's actually a physical physical wave that travels through time and so obviously space and time and and you know you process it and whatever, you get emotions out of it and whatever, but it is actually a physical thing, it's just you can't see it. like you know the the the Wi-Fi signal that to you or or the internet signal or electricity. So it's it's it's energy. it's
Christian Yordanov: It's a pulse. There's information in it. So it's it's actually like, because I'm more of like an auditory sort of kinesthetic.
Big Truth: Sure.
Christian Yordanov: That's probably why I'm drawn to like techno because it just, you feel it in your body and it makes you want to move, you know, this kind of way.
Big Truth: Yeah,
Christian Yordanov: um but But so like, just to to to um try to like comprehend, fathom that sound is ah like the way it works, the mechanics of it. I honestly think that that kind of helps you a little bit learn more about, you know,
Christian Yordanov: the universe, the the the physical world that we're currently in. And that kind of, I think, brings you closer to God because you're learning about nature. And sound is super, so like you look at a wave on ah on the on a pond or or whatever, that that is the same kind of wave that travels as we speak.
Big Truth: Absolutely. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: And then when they say, you know, when you speak something, that's why you have to be careful, guard your speeches. Because when you speak, you're actually sending these waves basically to infinity in all directions.
Christian Yordanov: and and so we have to be and this is why the the english language i think they kind of you know how spelling and and that they've integrated like little things in the language that they kind of trip you up so we have to be a little bit like you know studious about that and what we say and i i i'm not preaching because i have a lot to learn in this area you know but um yeah
Big Truth: No, no. Yeah, yeah. Did you ever see um when they do different so that when they do different frequencies and and sound waves, like their experiments with like a box with like sand on it and like the patterns different frequencies make?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Cymatics or something like that, isn't it
Big Truth: Yeah, but it all looks like sacred geometry.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: like It's very bizarre.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, yeah
Big Truth: It's like these beautiful patterns that these sound waves are making. It's like it's crazy, man.
Christian Yordanov: yeah. Yeah, dude, it's the unit know the the the world we live in whether or not it's run by demon, psychopaths, pedos, or not, this world is is incredible.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah. There's so much. That's what I say on the podcast. Cause sometimes I have guests on where people like, do you believe what that dude's saying? I'm like, No one said that about you, by the way. I just mean like some of the, some of cause I'll have some wild ones where people get into like alien cabal conspiracies and you know, this and that.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: And I'm like, I don't judge. I don't know. Cause at the end of the day, I don't know if if what he's saying is real or not. I know, you know, I usually vet people enough to know that. they believe it if they're coming on. Like, I don't think anyone's getting over, you know, I don't have a massive audience. Like I have a decent audience. I do good, but I don't have a massive audience where anyone's getting over by coming on my show and talking weird stuff. But,
Big Truth: my whole mantra that I tell people is like, even if one thing that guy said is true out of everything he said, the world's a way more interesting place than we think about when we're doing our daily grinds. And, um, and there's a, you know, we get, we get,
Big Truth: nailed down in the muck and mire of the propaganda and the the fear porn news cycles that just are like constantly inundating us with negative like, oh, this and that, this and that. And then that, you know, amplified through social media echo chambers where, you Republicans this, the Republicans are doing that, Donald Trump this, or the the Democrats are doing this, Joe Biden that, blah, blah, blah, keeping everyone fighting in a negative state.
Big Truth: you know I'll look at that video of like someone doing those sound waves and I'm like, nah, things are cool, man. things There's a lot of beauty out there. You go outside, walk around in the woods for a little bit like or you know whatever.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: like Whatever you like to do, go ride a bike around or something.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Big Truth: you're like no everything's all right. like Get out of that stuff. You know what I mean? Get out of that that negative. And this kind of you know goes into everything you said. like Be careful what you put out there. People are putting this negative stuff out there all the time.
Big Truth: Rage bait, fear porn, whatever it is. get out of that. You know what I mean? You're going to be much better off for it, you know? And, and, um, I don't know how I got on this diatribe, but it was just more like, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. ah And and but nobody it's it's true because like the the the it's like, I know it's okay a bit sort of banal to to quote the matrix, but you know the they say the matrix is a prison for your mind. you know ah it's like ah the the you know the the elephant that is tied up as ah ah as a baby, you know as ah as a little elephant.
Christian Yordanov: that You can just take a you know ah put a stick in the ground, put a rope on it, and then that will be enough to control that elephant and and keep it from from kind of you know ripping up and just doing whatever wants. So similarly, like a lot of this prison ah that you know we we live in is a prison our mind takes.
Christian Yordanov: creates and maintains so a lot of the time it's like because because i see a lot of obviously you you know the epstein file stuff that dropped a week ago i see a lot of people that i'm kind of scrolling on x because i guess i have nothing better to do with my life um but you see a lot of people are like you know this This is terrible.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: you know great we we run The world is run by pedos and and and no one is getting arrested or indicted or whatever. And and we still have to pay taxes. And like and so so this is a very, very black-pilled way of kind of looking at – you have no agency.
Christian Yordanov: You're like – you were a slave in a system you were born into. And you have no – and it's that's not – they – They create that system by manipulating our minds, our collective minds together, then create that system. And then we live in the prison that we created through there, then pulling the strings type thing, social engineering.
Big Truth: Oh, absolutely. And it's just like the the the same, beyond just the the mental prison, just the slave state that we live in you know, like of of the tax slavery that we live under, like, you know what i mean? We just let that go. Like, everyone's like, oh, no you you gotta to gotta to pay it.
Big Truth: Do you, dude? Like, do you? You know, I mean, it's tough, right? Like, you I'm not getting down the whole sovereign citizen um you know world you know what I mean?
Big Truth: But there's there's ways to opt out of the corporation, man. You know what I mean? There's ways to opt out of it and put your stuff in trust and get out of legal contracts you have with the ah with with this with with with these entities and...
Christian Yordanov: Mm-hmm.
Big Truth: You can break away. It's a lot of work. I haven't done it yet, but I'm in that i'm in that pre-planning stage. You know what I mean? like how was like I didn't jump in with you right away. like I waited until I was like already on the path. like um But you know there's a lot going on, man. But like just shut it off and focus on the good. and you know you You got people right now.
Big Truth: the such insanity to me that people that probably agree on 90% of the things, 90% of things in the world are fighting vehemently about 3% of things.
Big Truth: You know what i mean? And then, then fighting a little bit about the other seven, you know what I mean?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: But it's just like, don't you see that they want you this distracted and fighting so that, you know, you don't, This is going on here and you guys are fighting here, but this is going on over here and you're not even looking up.
Big Truth: You're just looking, you're looking down, you're fighting down. Like there's a lot to, you know, it's tough, man. You know what i mean? I get why people can be blackpilled and I fall into that sometimes.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? And, and, um, you know And you got to just like the same way you got to focus on your health, like you got to focus on eating healthy. You got to focus on doing things to keep you mentally healthy as well, like, and and to break out of that stuff.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, totally.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? And, and the way you say, when you be careful what you put in the world, like what you say, um That works positively too. Like, you know what i mean? If you, if, if, if you get your mindset, right.
Big Truth: You know, and you say you reinforce good things or positive things like that will have a big effect on your health and a big effect on your mindset and like how you go about your daily life, you know, like.
Christian Yordanov: Absolutely.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, and it's like that they say, wise wise man, i heard one say, evil is not the only force in the world, man. Just if you look at your dog, if you look at your kid, if you look out in into nature, like it's there's this sort of creative force that is creating this beauty all around us.
Christian Yordanov: which is a little bit hard to see if you're in in the city, but like it's there, man. Like even in in even in like a freaking like computer monitor, keyboard, like even though it's a synthetic man, human made sort of object, there's actually beauty and consciousness in every single thing. So I think that's what they're like.
Christian Yordanov: If you, if it's like um you hear all these guys like, that were imprisoned for a long time or whatever, they never lost let it break their spirit. like Because I think that that's what that's how slavery ah works is you have to break the spirit of the the slave so that it's almost like inducing this learned helplessness state where they just don't they they have no desire to revolt.
Christian Yordanov: you know So the the the fear of the master, of of the slaves revolting goes away and the you know life is gets very easy for the for the slave master. But if you don't...
Big Truth: That's pretty much where we are in society right now, my friend.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, it's... Yeah, a lot of people... like My heart goes out to a lot of people. There's a lot of people out there that are like, shit. i don't think I don't think if you open the door of the cell, the prison cell, I don't think many of people would want to go out.
Christian Yordanov: you know, it's like I'm i'm comfortable in the it's it's the big bad world out there is scary and I'm comfortable in my, you know, the boundaries created for me by the my masters type thing.
Big Truth: No.
Big Truth: Yeah. And I feel like during the pandemic that was tested and you saw you saw how many people were just absolutely compliant, getting pissed if you questioned anything and people reporting their neighbors for having like guests over, like having family over on Thanksgiving and stuff like, it's like, yep. Duly noted on that motherfuckers. You guys are lame. You know what I mean?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, dude.
Big Truth: You know, and it's sad.
Christian Yordanov: Totally. Totally.
Big Truth: And that's the only reason why, like, you know, that said, you know, a lot of the content I'm doing on that Big Truth Redacted page is you know, looking at institutional power and whatnot.
Christian Yordanov: Totally.
Big Truth: And I'm not trying to do it to get people bummed out. I'm just trying to do it to get people like, hey, if you're aware of the system, you know how to skirt it. You know what I mean? Or you know how to be like, don't let it bother you much. Like, you see the game, just don't play the game.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? Like, it's just, it is what it is. But, I feel like it's, I feel like things are escalating because I feel like they know people have had enough and there's going to be a point where everyone's like, all right,
Big Truth: you know So then this is like, it feels like this is the last like big like, all right, we got to we got to triple down right now because you know if not, we're going to lose it all like on their side.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. Yeah.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? Because it's getting outrageous.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: But one thing I will tell people is like, you know I don't even have to say it to like your audience and my audience, but just be careful of all this digital currency stuff and all this stuff they're trying to put through you know with like you know digital IDs, digital currency They already got the chip. They already put the agreement through to, like, make your cars be able to shut off. You know, the shut off switches on your car starting in 28.
Big Truth: um You know, none of this stuff is, like, conspiracy or weird stuff. It's stuff they're trying to do. Like, you still have time to resist that stuff, but you got to be active. And I think you tap talked you you you touched on this earlier. Like, your responsibility in this world is to be...
Big Truth: aware of this stuff and to to react to it the reason why things are so bad or potentially so bad right now is because of apathy on part of the general population man we you let it happen and you're like oh there's nothing we can do about it yeah there is dude like you know what mean that doesn't just mean going and voting dean go vote and are like you know it's like doing research and holding people accountable like what's that
Christian Yordanov: Go vote harder. Vote harder.
Big Truth: Vote harder. I don't, yeah. Voting, ah you know, whatever, you know, that's a whole different discussion if it if it even matters, but, you know, demanding justice and demanding accountability and doing stuff like, you know, people don't do that, you know?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. And i think it just comes from from the the sort of naivete that, but I wouldn't do that.
Big Truth: like
Christian Yordanov: So therefore they they they wouldn't do that. And i dude, I don't know, but like, I don't know what what your take is on this, but I think over the last week, a lot of, you know, not not to be derogatory or whatever, using the N word, but ah a lot of normies just realized that their government is a bunch of, you know, ah PDF files and or protectors of PDF files and they're really, really distressed and traumatized by that.
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: um So I don't know, do you like such a, to suddenly find out, I don't know if that's good for people's mental health they're not ready for it. what What's your take on that? why Why do you think they just kind of let all this out, dumped it on people? It's probably a distraction for something bigger.
Big Truth: Could be. Also, you know, the thing is, is they also know Now, you know, this is getting into hypothetical territory right now, too. But had this come out in like the 60s or 50s, the world would have a much different reaction, or at least the population in the United States.
Big Truth: We got more gender fluid, confused...
Big Truth: mushy people than ever, you know? And I think that's part of the whole, like if, if it is a big plan, that's part of it is to get these people to be mushy and compliant. Let's kill testosterone.
Big Truth: Let's kill anything that makes people, um be self-assertive or like self-aware or self-reliant, you know, like let's get people dumbed down, squishy and dependent on the government.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? And i feel like, That factors into things right now, why things are getting worse, because they're getting away with it.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: Like I said earlier, even if someone goes into like, when I say you to got to get more active and be more participatory, I don't think at the federal level, things really, like you said, there's not much you can do, but you can be active locally.
Big Truth: And locally spills out. Like, you know, if you're active in your local community, the state takes notice of that. And if everyone on, you know, local communities does it and the state has to act a certain way, then that gets stops gets noticed federally. You know what I mean? You got to do it small, but like focus on yourself, your family, and your local community. And then, you know, like you said earlier, greater a change can come from that. Like you're not going to go and do any big federal level changes yourself. Like, you know, just – ridiculous to think that, you know, but
Christian Yordanov: Of course, imagine imagine going to the White House and, hey, hey guys, can you tell your handlers?
Big Truth: yeah. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Christian Yordanov: Tell your handlers we're kind of sick of it. and like Can you tell them to tell you what to do to to make it a go away?
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: It's just child childish, you know
Big Truth: yes Yeah. Yeah. Cause, cause here's what happens, you know, these politicians get in, you know, on that level, you know, whether it's a state rep or, a you know, a Senator, you know, Congress, you know, whatever.
Big Truth: All these people that are complaining on Facebook and Instagram or wherever, I'm like, have you ever even written one of these people? Half of the reason why we're where they are is those guys get in office Day one, the lobbyists come in.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? And they're hearing from them all day. And those dudes are coming with money and be like, hey, you know, like, we'll contribute to your campaign. We'll give you this, you know, I'm sure there's a lot of backdoor deals.
Big Truth: And they're writing legislation and and sending it over to them and be like, yeah, just push this through for us, blah, blah, blah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah. Yeah.
Big Truth: They ain't hearing from you. Have you read them? Guess what? Arguing on Facebook does nothing. They ain't paying attention to that. They don't give a shit. you know what I mean? Like, You haven't written them once and like been like, hey, we're watching. We see what's going on. you know Keep this up. you know like You ain't getting voted in. you know That's the smallest thing you could do to try and keep these people accountable. That's what I say. Everyone that's bitching, I'm like, you ever you you're bitching about this person. Have you ever written you know i mean know or something that one person did or this law that got passed or whatever?
Big Truth: Um, you ever written any of but these people? No, then shut up. You ain't, you ain't did. you have You haven't even done the minimum, man. You don't have any right to be complaining, you know?
Christian Yordanov: yeah yeah man but it's also like if i think this is another somehow i don't know how it happened but like when when i was a kid um my my uh grandpa on both sides my grandparents basically they were like villagers and then on the one side they got from they went from the village
Big Truth: Um,
Christian Yordanov: to like a house in the outskirts of the the capital city of bulgaria sofia and then they got the the communists were building apartment blocks you know those panel uh buildings and then for like the the 3 000 lives which know was a tiny amount of money back then you know nowadays 3 000 lives is uh 1500 euro well that we actually they switched to the euro so it's it's about 1500 euro so you can imagine
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: inflation adjusted how you know how little money that is nowadays but um so they got a two-bedroom apartment for that so they were like the commies were doing that it seemed seemingly out of the goodness of their heart but it's a it's an agenda to move people away from their their kind of self-sufficient lifestyle where they're not just relying on themselves but they're relying on their community like i remember my my other granny they they
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
Christian Yordanov: They were villagers, but the the house they built was still on the outskirts. So they had like a little garden, had chicken, pigs at some point and a goat and you get a lamb and whatever. And you're like a bartering.
Christian Yordanov: you know the The neighbor had a cherry tree and you you kind of give, you take, and they help each other out.
Big Truth: yeah ah yeah
Christian Yordanov: um So like that push to do that this sort of urbanization that's been going on since whatever, I i don't even know, 30s, 40s, 50s, I don't know. That has been, I think, instrumental to then...
Christian Yordanov: isolate us. And then of course at the same time all the the fear mongering that you know like whatever.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: i think that that's been a huge step. So now a lot of us are like shit like on my own and there's also a lot of migration like we're here in Portugal it's just me and my wife and my my daughters that we don't have our no grandparents to help us out.
Christian Yordanov: So I think there's we're so fragmented now where we used to be so like in in these kind of villages and little mini mini communities that that was really helpful.
Big Truth: yeah
Christian Yordanov: Then you you're much harder You have a much harder job of kind of swaying the opinion of like 150 people in a community than individually through a TV or or social media, whatever channel, the individual.
Christian Yordanov: And then when you're disseminating the same message to to billions or or hundreds of millions directly to them, and they come together, they kind of, they're almost like they've been programmed, engineered to then talk about that narrative.
Christian Yordanov: So it's it's it's um it's brilliant, it's evil, but it's actually ingenious what they've done.
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah. It works. Yeah, it works. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah. wait Wait till the next step when they get everyone trying to be in those 15-minute cities. You know what I mean? That's going to be even the next wild incarnation of all that, buddy.
Christian Yordanov: Oh, man. Yeah.
Big Truth: you know
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, man.
Big Truth: um But yeah, man. yeah Yeah. The other thing, too, when you think about it, from a health standpoint, you know I try and buy – when I buy meat, I buy from a local farm.
Big Truth: That does, um like I go in on a cow with some friends and I have a friend that's got a good guy that's like a hunter. So I'll get venison that's wild caught venison. The cow is like grass fed local cow. no No steroids, no bullshit, no no bad diet.
Big Truth: um But not a lot of people do that. You know what I mean? And you you go to the store. But even if you try and eat healthy, the fruits and vegetables have so much less nutrients in them now.
Big Truth: The soil's bad. everything because ah Because of all this factory farming and everything, it's just like, at some point, we're going to have to go back to like just having little gardens and trying to, you know, I don't know where i'm going with that.
Christian Yordanov: Having chickens and whatnot, yeah.
Big Truth: But yeah, you know, cluster up, get a bunch of friends, go buy some land in the middle of nowhere and learn some skills.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: You know what I mean?
Christian Yordanov: Smart people are doing that.
Big Truth: You'll have a way happier life, you know? Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, man, smart people are doing that, you know, because, like, I saw some some kind of so some meme or whatever on X during the week, and someone was like, you know what, I'd rather, you know, ah the the the cities be overrun with foliage, as in, you know, society collapsed.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: than have these psychopaths around the world that our children are going to grow up into. So you know smart people are opting out completely and creating these intentional communities.
Christian Yordanov: So I think we have a lot to learn from those folks. but ah Because this is just like, if you're in a big city right now, man, i I don't, I personally, if I was in a big city right now, my number one sort of priority would be just get out somewhere a little bit more suburban.
Big Truth: Yeah, yeah. That's that's what i I've done to like a smaller extent. like you know i've always grew I grew up in the city, New Bedford. I you know i lived you know all over, rda but i lived in Boston for a long long time, in Dorchester for 14 years.
Big Truth: And um the house I bought is in a town called Freetown, which is about 40 miles south of Boston. But it's it's a very... more like woods, like rural, there is like farms and stuff here. um but I'm still like an hour away.
Big Truth: I can get into, I can get into the city in 45 minutes, an hour if I have to.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: And I love being in the city. There's an energy there that, you know, like creative energy and fun and stuff.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: And like, it's good to visit, man, but it's unhealthy to live in, man. Like, you know what I mean?
Christian Yordanov: For sure.
Big Truth: Uh, like, you know, I love going, i'm I'm a three hour drive to New York city. I love going to New York, but I love coming home. You know what I mean? My quiet,
Christian Yordanov: That's it, yeah.
Big Truth: My quiet little acre and a half driveway, you know, like just like I'm in quiet and woods and you know, it's beautiful.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: Like, um, that's helped, you know, be less stressed too. But you know, when you're young though, living in the city is fun.
Christian Yordanov: for sure
Big Truth: You know what I mean? Like when you're young, you
Christian Yordanov: of course yeah yeah yeah and my wife she she's like every once in a while she's like yeah we're missing a lot of opportunities in in the city you know because she's younger than me and stuff and i get it because i when i was her age and and younger i was like yeah you know i like it here um But, man, like we were like a saying, we're in Cairo.
Christian Yordanov: Cairo is ah our tour guide when we're visiting the pyramids and and the Sphinx and stuff. He told he told me some of the stuff. And so 23 million people, dude, in one place.
Christian Yordanov: And I didn't see a car that – like and I didn't see any new cars, dude.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Like most cars were like – literally literally 20 30 year old cars and not like obviously no air conditioner so these guys are driving with the when the windows down in peak time traffic which is almost all the time it's peak time traffic I was like dude we're getting the shit poison out of us so when we came back
Big Truth: Yeah. yeah
Big Truth: Oh, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: That evening I went out with my dog and my daughter and just kind of getting some, not even that fresh air, because it was like, you know, few cars coming by. It's not like mountain air or whatever. I was like, then the next basically day and a half, I was just like, thank you, God, thank god thank you for for this food I have.
Big Truth: Yeah. yeah yeah yeah
Christian Yordanov: Because the food there is just horrific, dude, as well. So thank you for the food. Thank you for the pressure. Thank you for the quiet, the peace. Because there, dude, four in the morning, they're honking. Because honking, you know how it is in big cities?
Christian Yordanov: like You honk to let people, so people don't, less people die if everybody's honking, basically.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: So I was just like so grateful. Yeah,
Big Truth: Yeah. Making your yourself known that you're there, your presence known, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: yeah. yeah And this dude is funny, though. We have camels on the street. It's just really cool.
Big Truth: Oh, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: It's really cool, but just see I would not live there.
Big Truth: Yeah, I definitely want to get out there. It must be. I heard the city is like goes right to the edge of the pyramids almost, huh?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, yeah. you like we the The apartment we're staying in, we we landed like late in the evening at night. And ah the next morning, you open the curtains and the the Great Pyramid is, i don't know, like a few miles away.
Christian Yordanov: But, dude, it was like, i was there like just...
Big Truth: Yeah, it's right there.
Christian Yordanov: speechless i like whoa like just making like animal noises oh oh you know um dude but like listen if you if you're going to to europe you or this sort of region the first place you gotta come is here man come on gotta if you're ever coming down here gotta come to yeah
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Bro, there's so many flights to Port- like I said, New Bedford is the little Portugal of America, man. New Bedford and Far River, like there's so many flights direct out there.
Big Truth: i I definitely want to check it out. I know a lot of people that have dual citizenship with Portugal because it's, ah you know, this is a heavy Portuguese area.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: um The ah what one thing that you just tapped on though that I would say is like that I've just been discovering myself lately because I grew up- I've i've been like a very-
Big Truth: 2026, I'm making a lot of changes. Health has helped me get there, working on my health with you. But mindset is is fucking huge, dude. like And it sounds like corny, but whatever. But being thankful for the small things. And I never thought about it. I'm like, ah, it's corny, whatever. like But articulating it and saying it.
Big Truth: that like does something to your brain like rewires reprograms um you know reset something in there and i've been doing that more and it feels corny doing it and you got to get over yourself and your ego doing it and you especially like like you know like you know i grew up hard you know i mean like you know like like i you know like like a group like fighting and doing dumb shit you know what i mean but like being able to be like man i'm grateful for this or i'm grateful for that like
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Sure, Macho do the one, yeah.
Big Truth: Mindset's huge, man, and I'm just starting to you know go down that road.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: and It feels weird and it you know it's it's uncomfortable at times, but it makes a big difference, man.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: If you can say that, you know it's it's very easy to talk about everything you're pissed off about. It's another thing to be thankful for for whatever it is because everyone has stuff that they should be thankful for.
Big Truth: Everyone.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: You know what I mean? And if you can focus on that rather than the negative shit, it's very passe or whatever to say this and very easy to say, but it's true.
Christian Yordanov: yeah
Big Truth: It's the smallest thing that can make a big difference, man.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: And sometimes you got to do that.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah, man.
Big Truth: You got to be out of your element to realize, you know, how good you have it. You know what i mean? Because when you're in it every day, you used to start taking, it's human nature to start taking things for granted.
Christian Yordanov: Exactly.
Big Truth: And then it's good to like realign things sometimes and be like, man, I'm so grateful for this.
Christian Yordanov: Exactly. Exactly.
Big Truth: You know, like blah, blah. blah Like, yeah, everything could be better, but everything could be a lot worse too. You know?
Christian Yordanov: and that's the thing and i i was going to do a whole episode I didn't want to be the cheese cheese ball to do a whole episode about it but like after because I mean I've lived in Africa so but South Africa in the suburbs so we knew about ghettos and Soweto and all you know all this and they're really like it's it's rough it's rough rough rough there you know but um I was a kid and now ah as an adult I see i see the poverty and honestly dude
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah. yeah.
Big Truth: yeah yeah
Christian Yordanov: Like the people, i was like, because we were like in a lot of cars, a lot of taxis, you know, a lot of Uber's getting here. It's a massive city, 23 million people. ah And was just looking at people. And honestly, man, not only do they not look less happy than like people in in the West, I would say that maybe... maybe their level of discontentment with their life is probably on average lower than than ours in in the West because we are also bombarded with something like you you know you no matter how well you're doing there's always all the guy with the you know three million villa and all this guy but hey he has like a he has a little yacht and well that guy has a bigger yacht so this it seems like there's this infinity where they're those guys you know you give them 200 Egyptian pound which is like four three four five bucks and like you've just literally doubled their daily salary and they're like yay it's amazing yeah
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah. You just you just made that day. Yeah.
Big Truth: Because, yeah, they're appreciative of the small things, right? and um And, um well, small things to you could be a big thing to somebody else, right? and that's that's it's It's all perspective, man.
Christian Yordanov: exactly yeah man
Big Truth: And it's, you know, it's wild, dude. It's it's it's wild out there. But, yeah. Dude, i you got to come back on because I got to hear about all this. I didn't know about Ireland or, like, South Africa.
Big Truth: You've lived everywhere, man. Like, what's going on?
Christian Yordanov: Well, I would love to come to the...
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: By the way, i because I was looking...
Big Truth: Are you a Fed, dude? Are you a Fed? just kidding.
Christian Yordanov: Are you a fan? No, but...
Big Truth: Christian, don't know.
Christian Yordanov: ah you but
Big Truth: he He's controlled opposition. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: With 200... 1,000 Instagram followers, this motherfucker. um Bro, ah but like when I was looking at your pictures on Instagram, like ah like if I...
Christian Yordanov: could get a visa to the USA, which probably will take a lot of work to get it because they want everything, all the info. And it's just, it's horrific. I've heard, but if I, if I actually get a visa to, to the, to the States at some point, like a business visa or so I'm definitely coming down to check out your, your, um you know, your bar and stuff, because like, it looks like you have a sweet little community there, you know, so would love to.
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah, come down, man. i'll I'll take you around. I'll bring you to i'll bring you i'll bring you around. um
Christian Yordanov: Some gigs.
Big Truth: Yeah, whatever you want, dude.
Christian Yordanov: some gigs and shit
Big Truth: but That's the good thing. is like Everything's within an hour or a couple hours of here. You know what I mean? So it's like, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: shit.
Big Truth: yeah um But yeah, dude, I'll bring you to the bar. We'll we'll go we'll go to some gigs. yeah whatever Whatever you want to do.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: You want to see some historical stuff?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: you know The funny thing is that American history's got nothing on European history.
Christian Yordanov: Just before I forget
Big Truth: like you know were like We're like, oh, this is old. It's 300 years old. You're like, yeah, that's You're like, my family still lives in that. You know what I mean? like
Christian Yordanov: yeah Yeah man, I saw, i saw ah just for, because it was whatever, like Wikipedia rabbit holes there a few days ago, and I saw that in Bulgaria we have one of the oldest cities in the world.
Christian Yordanov: I think it it has like, um I think it was first settled around 8000 maybe is it years old or BC, like inside insane, So if you look at some of the rich history around the world, man, it just, and sorry to go in off weird tangents, but when we were at ah the ah the the pyramids, this to our guide was very smart, very you know very well sort of educated, but I was like, me and my wife, we're like, pfft.
Big Truth: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's wild, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Big Truth: No, no, no, it's fine.
Christian Yordanov: bruh we don't believe none of the shit you're telling us i don't give ah i don't care and then so i asked the dude um so how'd they build him and he's like you know the ropes and the fucking the boats and i'm like dude how'd they build it um and then in the end in the end he's like he's a young kid so he's like you know whatever ah you have to like you you have to go to college to be a tour guide type thing there you know or university So like, dude, how they build it?
Big Truth: Sure.
Christian Yordanov: It's like, we have no idea. It's a mystery. I'm like, thank you.
Big Truth: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Cause, cause this is like one of the biggest mysteries in the world. And, I, I totally believe that there may may have been much more advanced civilizations than us around, know, 30, you know?
Big Truth: Sure.
Big Truth: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: There's so much that they can't explain or that we would have a hard time replicating now. You know what i mean?
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: Like, so, ah so I say the world is a way more interest in place than we know or that we investigate because we're not taught to look at things with wonder anymore.
Big Truth: We're just like, Oh, you know, people are just doom scrolling all day. You know what I mean? And it's, It is what it is. like But you got to break out of that. If you got kids, you have kind of an obligation to get them out of that too. You know what I mean?
Christian Yordanov: For sure, man. For sure.
Big Truth: Speaking of someone without kids, it's I know it's easier it said than done.
Christian Yordanov: well
Big Truth: You know what I mean? But just saying, you know.
Christian Yordanov: No, but it it is true for sure. It is true. I wanted to ask you just before I forget, bro, we've got to wrap soon, but ah you also said you're a TV host.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: to what when When was that?
Big Truth: So.
Christian Yordanov: What were you doing?
Big Truth: So I, um, so years ago, um, we used to do a DVD series. Um, so like when you were young, do you remember like skateboard videos?
Christian Yordanov: Oh, yeah, of course.
Big Truth: Yeah. So I did that. I did skateboard video style DVDs, but with choppers and motorcycles, like where we would go out and I would film people around the country, like film individual people who built their bikes, profile the bikes, profile these people, but then also just show like show footage from different bike shows and then do dumb jackass stuff like us, like praying planks, pranks and all that stuff.
Christian Yordanov: Cool.
Christian Yordanov: Cool.
Christian Yordanov: who
Big Truth: Um, and we, used to call Jackassery. We used to do all that stuff. So we did those DVDs for a lot of, from like 2003 to 2014. And then, you know, DVDs, all that stuff kind of ended and everyone was going to streaming and stuff.
Big Truth: So I did a I hosted a show. We, Amazon prime wanted us to do a show. Amazon wanted us to do a show on that. Like after the DVDs were like, Hey, well, why don't you do this as like a series and do like episodic series and But then like what they offered us was like what they offered me was like nothing. So i was like,
Big Truth: But then ah a buddy I work with on distribution of that stuff was like, well, let's bring it to Tubi. And at that time, Tubi was new. And so we got a much better situation with them. So I did ah i did a whole um season.
Big Truth: And then I started the second season. And then i just I got so busy with other stuff. But yeah, so there's a season of Chop Ahead TV on Tubi. It's free. Check it out. You know what i mean? i i don't know if they have Tubi.
Christian Yordanov: How do you spell 2B?
Big Truth: T-U-B-I. I don't know if it's available in Europe.
Christian Yordanov: Oh, okay.
Big Truth: That's the only issue. But if you have a VPN, set it to the US and you can get Tubi. um And Tubi is like ah one of those like free streaming services, you know, like a Netflix, but it's free.
Christian Yordanov: Oh, yeah, I do.
Big Truth: So there's a little bit of commercials, but they have all the cool old like 70s horror movies and 70s like B like motorcycle movies and stuff like that and old TV shows and whatnot.
Christian Yordanov: Sweet.
Christian Yordanov: That's so cool, man.
Big Truth: I don't get a lot. I don't watch a lot of too much TV. You know, like I watch some, it's usually on in the background while I'm doing other shit. But, um, but yeah, there's like cool stuff on that, but yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: So it was called chop ahead TV.
Christian Yordanov: ah Does ChopperheadTV78 Shovelhead Chopper ring a bell to you? Because that's on YouTube.
Big Truth: Um,
Christian Yordanov: Is that you?
Big Truth: that's probably That's probably a clip from it from the from the show.
Christian Yordanov: Uh-huh.
Big Truth: Because the guy that I work with on distribution also like took a lot of the content and chopped it up and put it on his channels like on YouTube and stuff.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Cool, man.
Big Truth: And so, yeah, that's I'm sure it's on YouTube too.
Christian Yordanov: That's pretty cool.
Big Truth: If you just if you just type in Chop Ed TV or Chop Ed DVD. I know Amazon Prime still has all the Chop Ed DVDs, but all that stuff's old, you know what I mean? But yeah, that was that was it.
Christian Yordanov: Man, that is so cool. So, ah wow. OK, I see it here, Chopperhead TV. OK. Man, that's so cool, bro.
Big Truth: Yeah, it was fun.
Christian Yordanov: I love it.
Big Truth: you know I would like to read redo it. what i What I want to do is get to a point where I can do something that actually generates enough income where I can do everything else as a hobby again and like not stress about it and then just be able to do more content stuff.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: And that's what I've been doing with the redacted stuff. like Just very recently, I learned how to edit. All the years I've been doing... video stuff, I've only filmed and I had to rely on people to help me edit.
Big Truth: I just started learning like cap cut, like the easiest one, you know what i mean? But on that redacted channel, those, all those videos, I I've done, done them all like from, from writing to filming to editing.
Christian Yordanov: Yeah.
Big Truth: And it's been fun. And that's been, that's been my thing. Like with like, like how you're talking about getting into music stuff and like getting excited about it.
Christian Yordanov: yeah That's awesome.
Big Truth: I've been doing that with the editing stuff. Like, Oh man, I'm learning how to do all this and it's fun. You know what i mean? So you get,
Christian Yordanov: That's really awesome because that's the thing I've always hated, like the editing and stuff.
Big Truth: Oh yeah.
Christian Yordanov: So I'm like, if I ever do want to do something, I need to find someone who's into the topic and they can do the editing and and I can just kind of focus on the other, like the actual content of it.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: But if you like it, my if it, yeah, that's awesome.
Big Truth: Absolutely. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: If you like it.
Big Truth: Absolutely. Yeah. I would like, you know, down the road, if I keep doing this and can can get more volume and get more momentum going, and I would have to bring someone on to help with that stuff. Cause that's the laborious part.
Big Truth: Like, especially since when I was first learning it, like one of those two minute videos, a couple of them took me like five, six hours to make, you know what I mean?
Christian Yordanov: yeah exactly of course yeah
Big Truth: You know, cause it's like, it's a lot of work and you know, you don't know the tool as well, you know? So it's like, you know, you're going a little bit slower and stuff, but, but yeah, man. Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: yeah bro thank you so much for being on uh yeah like we'll do it again for sure in the future tell the the listeners where they of course i'm gonna have all the links but tell folks where they can connect with you on the inter interwebs
Big Truth: yeah Yeah, absolutely. Anytime.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Big Truth: Yeah, so just the ah the website bigtruthpodcast.com, and ah everything's up there. um you know But the podcast is available on all platforms, Spotify, Apple, you know whatever.
Big Truth: On YouTube, it's ah at the Big Truth Podcast. And on Instagram, my personal one's just at Big Truth. And then... is at the Big Truth Podcast and at Big Truth Redacted. And Big Truth Redacted is where I get more into um conspiracy stuff and talking about institutional power and overreach and things like that.
Christian Yordanov: Love Love it. going to have all the links for the listeners. ah Once again, big truth.
Big Truth: Yeah.
Christian Yordanov: Thank you so much, brother.
Big Truth: Thank you, bro. I appreciate it, man.
