Listen Up and I’ll Tell You a Story
I was born at the beginning of the 1970s—if you weren’t there, you’ll never get it—the son of two musicians, raised in Minnesota, and after some traveling around, I settled back in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (11,842, actually, but who’s counting?).
Back in the early ’90s, I worked for a pharmacist-turned-entrepreneur, Mark Foster, at his CD-ROM company, Quanta Press. (If you don’t know what CD-ROMs are, look it up.) When the business collapsed and the debts piled up, Foster arranged for two men to take him out to a field and shoot him, staging his suicide as if it were a murder. He got the escape he wanted, but the police saw through it. His accomplices went to jail for manslaughter, and none of his family got any of the insurance money. Not exactly a typical business learning curve, but one that helped shape my view of others, their motives, and the truth in all its gray areas.
My documentaries and writing tackle history and the human condition from perspectives people don’t always consider. I don’t fit into anyone’s neat little box—political, philosophical, theological—I’m more of a “plague on both your houses” kind of guy.
One of my main concerns is the rise of disinformation and conspiracy theories. My film Conspiracy Theorists Lie (2015) has earned me detractors among those invested in their distortions of reality.
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