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An exploration into the mind-warping sales techniques of people who tell it "like it is." Enter the world of the hypnotizing shamans who create their own realities by convincing millions to believe their stories.

Found footage featuring Everything is Terrible clips, Donald Drumpf, Access Hollywood, Greg Scott, Peter Popoff, L. Ron Hubbard, Vic Berger, Jim & Lori Bakker, Jeff Flake, Lost Animal, Howard Stern, Wendy Williams, and Ivanka Dumpf.

Join me on a psychedelic journey of religious and philosophical exploration. Buckle into your personally appointed set and setting and take the ride into an auditory scrapbook of contradictions, insights, and slide whistles.

Found-footage featuring Bob Odenkirk, Duncan Trussell, Allah-Las, John Dehlin, Michael Coe, Sam Harris, Bart Ehrman, Bad Lip Reading, Adam Curtis, Ariel Pink, Joseph Campbell, Fletcher C. Johnson, LA Priest, Jordan Peterson, Louie Anderson, The Kinks, Foxygen, BBC archival radio sounds, and a bit of original music.