#423 - Mark A. Michaels | Uncontrolled Experiments, Psychedelic Therapy, and AI
Release Date: 08/15/2026
Grimerica Outlawed
Regina joins Darren to discuss her journey from childhood dieting and food restriction to what she calls body mind harmony. They explore how diet culture, stress, hormones, and food choices affect our relationship with eating, including a conversation about intermittent fasting and GLP-1 medications. Key topics How childhood experiences shaped Regina’s lifelong pattern of dieting and food control. The physical and emotional costs Regina experienced after years of restriction. Why external diet rules can disconnect people from their hunger cues. How fasting and hormonal changes may...
info_outlineGrimerica Outlawed
Dr. Heather Lynn joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about the H Files, occult symbolism, archaeology, and what she calls “uncontrolled opposition.” The discussion moves from Heather’s claims of pressure and attempts to steer her work to broader questions about power, myth, and how culture shapes perception. Heather Lynn shares her perspective on the connections between archaeology, religion, media, and narrative control. Graham and Darren explore synchronicities, cataclysms, domestication, and whether the patterns we see are engineered, emergent, or both. Historian & cognitive...
info_outlineGrimerica Outlawed
Quebec Election Shock, Canada’s Culture Wars, and More We unpack Quebec’s election results and explore a range of political, public health, cultural, and technology stories. The conversation also touches on BC’s drug crisis, digital currency, UFO disclosure, and more. In this episode Quebec’s election results, the CAQ’s collapse, and what a Parti Québécois minority government could mean. Quebec separatism, regional political divides, and Alberta’s separatist mood. Reports of crows in British Columbia allegedly being treated with naloxone after suspected opioid exposure. ...
info_outlineGrimerica Outlawed
We talk with Brad Lail of The Awakened Pod about his book-in-progress, plasma portals, and why he believes UFO disclosure is being framed through a controlled, materialist lens. The conversation also gets into spiritual awakening, demons versus angels, and how propaganda and algorithmic suppression shape what people are allowed to see. Brad brings a Christian worldview, a military and media background, and a strong thesis: the UFO conversation is incomplete unless it includes theology, energy, and spiritual warfare. The Awakened Podcast, hosted by Brad Lail, is dedicated to uncovering hidden...
info_outlineGrimerica Outlawed
Climate change narratives, energy policy, Canadian fuel prices, political controversies, UFO disclosure, and more in this wide-ranging roundup. The conversation moves from AI and climate debate to the hosts’ arguments about taxation and oil, then into clips and stories about Peter Thiel, BC politics, and institutional trust. To gain access to the second half of show and our Plus feed for audio and podcast please clink the link http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support. For second half of video (when applicable and audio) go to our Substack and Subscribe....
info_outlineGrimerica Outlawed
This episode follows DrewCouver, an independent journalist documenting homelessness, addiction, mental health, and street-level drug use across Vancouver and beyond. Graham and Darren press him on what he is seeing on the ground, and the conversation widens into treatment policy, organized crime, NGOs, and what recovery should actually look like. Drew brings a highly personal perspective too. He talks about his own history with addiction, injury, recovery, group homes, and the way those experiences shaped the camera work and interviews he now does in the downtown east side and across British...
info_outlineGrimerica Outlawed
Energy prices, Canadian politics, propaganda tactics, and a stack of culture-war clips. It matters because the discussion keeps circling back to how narratives are built, repeated, and used to shape public belief around diesel, climate, medicine, and government power. We discuss Canadian and U.S. energy dependence, media framing, and a series of examples Darren and Graham use to argue that institutions are manufacturing consent through repetition, selective coverage, and bureaucratic theater. Key topics In this episode: Graham talks about working the fields and how combine harvesting demands...
info_outlineGrimerica Outlawed
Crrow777 joins Graham, Darren, and Rose for a wide-ranging conversation about solar observation, lunar oddities, UFO footage, and why he believes mainstream cosmology is built on bad assumptions. The discussion centers on what amateur observers can actually verify with their own equipment and why that matters more than official narratives. This episode is especially focused on the sun and moon as observable realities, with Crow walking through his telescope methods, his footage, and his broader view of consciousness, deception, and the coming era shift. Our old episode with Crrow777 ...
info_outlineGrimerica Outlawed
Crrow777 joins Graham, Darren, and Rose for a wide-ranging conversation about solar observation, lunar oddities, UFO footage, and why he believes mainstream cosmology is built on bad assumptions. The discussion centers on what amateur observers can actually verify with their own equipment and why that matters more than official narratives. This episode is especially focused on the sun and moon as observable realities, with Crow walking through his telescope methods, his footage, and his broader view of consciousness, deception, and the coming era shift. Our old episode with Crrow777 ...
info_outlineGrimerica Outlawed
Discussing Canada’s fast-moving “investment summit” and what they see as the potential sell-off of Canadian infrastructure, airports, and public assets. They connect the story to a larger struggle involving Trump, Carney, the EU, China, and the broader battle between national sovereignty and globalist power blocs. They also discuss the AI doomerism debate, arguing that fear around AI may be part of a wider political and industrial conflict. Later, the conversation turns to City of London theories, European history, Trump’s ancestry, and the possibility of funding a proposed $5,000...
info_outlineKey topics
- In this episode, Mark Michaels explains why he calls himself an "uncontrolled experiment" and how being conceived through artificial insemination shaped his worldview.
- The conversation covers the secrecy and social shame around sperm donation, infertility, and the long-term effects of not knowing one’s biological origins.
- Mark describes the eight-year process of uncovering his biological father through research and DNA testing, and how that discovery changed his sense of self.
- He connects that origin story to his interest in identity, narrative agency, psychotherapy, and the promises and limits of science.
- Mark discusses his early exposure to therapy as a child and his teenage experimentation with LSD, including an early bad trip and later renewed interest in psychedelics.
- The episode centers on his recent treatment program combining EMDR, ketamine, MDMA, psilocybin, and AI-assisted reflection after a severe post-divorce mental health crisis.
- Mark argues that ketamine-assisted EMDR can accelerate therapeutic work by making clients more open and reducing psychological defenses.
- He is sharply critical of therapy culture when it becomes passive, overly rigid, or unwilling to share power with clients.
- The conversation examines the shortcomings of therapist training, especially when practitioners cling to one modality and fail to support client-led exploration.
- Mark and the hosts discuss the "wild west" state of psychedelic therapy, including concerns about over-medicalization, bad actors, and unregulated practice.
- The AI section focuses on both usefulness and danger, including hallucinated facts, false confidence, "kissing my butt" responses, and the risk of reinforcing poor psychological ideas.
- Mark explains that AI is best used as a high-speed organizer and drafting tool, but only if the user already has enough subject knowledge to challenge errors.
- The episode closes with Mark encouraging people in crisis to get help, evaluate whether therapy is actually working, and seek support rather than enduring alone.