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Chilluminati Podcast

Episode 343: Chuck Barris - Unauthorized Autobiography ft. Davis

Chilluminati Podcast

Chilluminati Podcast

Society & Culture, True Crime, Comedy

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

While Jesse’s away, Davis will play…and have Alex tell him and Mathas the story of an extremely groovy game show producer who claims to have secretly killed MANY people for the American government???

CHILLUMINATI is a weekly comedy podcast hosted by Mike Martin, Jesse Cox and Alex Faciane. Hold on to your tin-foil hats and traverse the realms of the mysterious, supernatural, spooky and sometimes truly horrible - and your third eye will never be the same!

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Jesse Cox - http://www.youtube.com/jessecox 
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Editor: DeanCutty 
Producer: Hilde @ https://bsky.app/profile/heksen.bsky.social 
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SOURCES:
[BOOK] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - Chuck Barris
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/was-chuck-barris-a-cia-assassin-a-possibility-dangerous-mind-producer-says-988485/
https://youtu.be/AJbwGQbW05k?si=IQ1imLKgfrcdo0Tr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Barris#CIA_career_claims
https://web.archive.org/web/20160322065128/http://www.ign.com/articles/2003/01/23/being-chuck-barris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_a_Dangerous_Mind_(film)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170211215028/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,404266,00.html 
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-chuck-barris-20021230-story.html
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/11/29/Gong-Show-host-Chuck-Barris-has-married-his-roommate/6360340024268/

Palisades Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXz0L7K4Fo4
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The Worm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7s9ymQ9Kx4 
Tommy Maitland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e64HSt6HsJI 

Transcript

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Go ahead and do it on the iPad. Okay. Got this little pre-chatter, Dean. All right, here we go.

0:34.6

It's going to be in the episode. I'll listen to it. Gene has new shit.

0:57.6

A lot of the radio. Now, right?

0:59.9

Now it won't be in the episode, for sure.

1:01.7

You absolutely guaranteed it.

1:05.2

If that's the way to get it to happen, you just got to say something mean to Dean.

1:10.8

Why are you saying it like he's like a, like some sort of demon that we must please? He's a dean. A dean. Hello. Yeah, you can go to this. These are bad bits. Got these. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Chulamini podcast, episode 343. As always, I'm one of your host, Mike Martin. joined by one of my typical co-hosts, Alex Fasiani. The Leon S. Kennedy of L.A. The Leon S. Kennedy of L.A. And today, Jesse is gone. And we are joined by friend of the show, fan of the show, member of the Warp Zone, internet famous young boy. God. Except for that last one, I think a lot of that applies. You kind of are like a young boy. Like, you like, sorry ladies. He's made like you're like the like the cute one, right?

1:46.0

Like if I'm the if I'm the haggard one, you're the cute one, right?

1:49.1

I'll, I'll take it. I'm also the, well, I guess we're all anxious in our own ways. Oh yes. Oh yes. You guys should have seen. I know that you guys noticed that Davis has the exact same audio setup that he had in Christmas time.

2:01.5

Of 2005.

2:03.2

Yeah, 2005.

2:04.3

However. that Davis has the exact same audio setup that he had in Christmas time. Of 2005. Yeah, 2005. However, I have backup audio maybe running on an iPad in the room with him. So hopefully it'll be a little better. Maybe we'll see. I don't know. But this is the real Davis. I want you to know that you're getting him unfiltered. This is how he approaches everything. He uses Firefox instead of Chrome. It's just a little different. That's not true. I did have to switch from a sleeveless shirt to a sleeved shirt. That was your own. That was your own. You're like 95% getting the real. You deprived Patreon. And listen, I was willing to drive to, I was willing to drive.

2:35.4

I was willing to drive all the way to Davis's house to fix his audio for him and lend him an entire setup.

2:40.4

But I was stymied because all old Steinberg audio interfaces use the fucking old school house-shaped USB, which is like from a million years ago.

2:50.6

And no, I don't have like

2:51.9

an extra one laying around. So it's fun in watching two old guys try to describe cables. Like,

2:57.7

you have an XLR cable? What shape is that? But it shouldn't be this way because you boys have

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