Ep 160: Detoxifying the Black Pill: Self-Ownership & The Art of Communication with Benny Wills
The Way Forward with Alec Zeck
Alec Zeck
4.8 • 829 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Benny Wills shares his journey from Hollywood to truth-seeking, the draw of fear-based thinking, and how the truther community can move from awareness to empowered action. He unpacks the victim-perpetrator-hero triangle, explores the importance of effective communication, and offers tools for deprogramming scarcity and building values-aligned businesses.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, |
| 0:04.0 | and |
| 0:05.0 | The Benny, thank you for being here, man. |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, oh, here, man. |
| 0:40.3 | I appreciate being here. |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah, it's good to have you. |
| 0:44.3 | Let's start with your background and your journey from actor, comedian, poet, to online |
| 0:51.5 | entrepreneur. |
| 0:52.5 | You were in the sort of anarchist voluntary space for a while. I think |
| 0:56.1 | you still have a lot of those same perceptions, but maybe sort of softened your involvement with |
| 1:02.3 | some of that stuff. So yeah, let's start there. Let's start there. Yeah. Well, I got my start, I guess, in like a truth or space by doing comedy. And that was really just an outlet for me because I was kind of losing my mind, grappling with my understanding of the world by myself. And I had been studying to be a professional actor my whole life. |
| 1:31.8 | So that was the trajectory I was on. |
| 1:34.6 | I had an MFA. |
| 1:36.2 | I have an MFA in acting. |
| 1:39.7 | And then, yeah, my buddies and I, we decided to make a funny video once called Conspiracy Theorist PSA. |
| 1:48.4 | And we did it as a one-off just for fun. And it turned out so well, we thought, hey, maybe we should do more of these. |
| 1:57.1 | And so we leaned into it. And it actually became pretty pretty popular and we called our channel JoyCamp and |
| 2:02.6 | It resonated really well with people who were who were thinking the way we were thinking or similarly and |
| 2:11.6 | It provided like a nice release for people because they could laugh. |
| 2:18.2 | What year is this? |
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