Reality Denial : The final DWG series with Brendon Burns [free version; no premium access]

EP 245 DWG Finale

A truly nail-biting tale of mental illness, acid flashbacks and altered reality that will keep on the edge of your seat. After surviving a one-in-a-million stonefish attack in February, international comedy legend and cult figure Brendon Burns, set off on a completely random journey, in pursuit of a Navajo spirit healer deep into Navajo country in Northern Arizona. A "spiritual vigil" that sends him to the brink of madness and back. Forcing him to face down the demons of his past in a truly hilarious yet brutally honest fashion.A series so filled with twists and turns that it will keep you guessing from episode to episode. And delivers such a life affirming, tear jerker of a finale that it may well transform you as much as it did the host.Warning! This is going to sound made up. But that doesn't change the fact that it's still exactly what happened!Part FiveFin!Warning! Fin!Buy the entire podcast archive, over 250 episodes for less than the price of a decent pizza at awesound.com/dumbwhiteguy/podcast/more info at brendonburns.nettwitter.com/brendonburnsfacebook.com/brendonburnscomedianyoutube.com/brendonburnscomedyClick to view: show page on Awesound

Ep 244 DWG Part Four

A truly nail-biting tale of mental illness, acid flashbacks and altered reality that will keep on the edge of your seat. After surviving a one-in-a-million stonefish attack in February, international comedy legend and cult figure Brendon Burns, set off on a completely random journey, in pursuit of a Navajo spirit healer deep into Navajo country in Northern Arizona. A "spiritual vigil" that sends him to the brink of madness and back. Forcing him to face down the demons of his past in a truly hilarious yet brutally honest fashion.A series so filled with twists and turns that it will keep you guessing from episode to episode. And delivers such a life affirming, tear jerker of a finale that it may well transform you as much as it did the host.Warning! This is going to sound made up. But that doesn't change the fact that it's still exactly what happened!Part FourBB picks up some hitchers that claim to know the very Patrick Scott he is randomly driving the Arizona desert looking for and winds up on a Navajo reservation, his first of many. He encounters some half wolf puppies and a few con artists looking to sell him some BS that isn't his brand of BS.Warning! Contains an ocean in the background and ... an announcement!Buy the entire podcast archive, over 250 episodes for less than the price of a decent pizza at awesound.com/dumbwhiteguy/podcast/more info at brendonburns.nettwitter.com/brendonburnsfacebook.com/brendonburnscomedianyoutube.com/brendonburnscomedyClick to view: show page on Awesound

Ep 243 DWG Part Three

A truly nail-biting tale of mental illness, acid flashbacks and altered reality that will keep on the edge of your seat. After surviving a one-in-a-million stonefish attack in February, international comedy legend and cult figure Brendon Burns, set off on a completely random journey, in pursuit of a Navajo spirit healer deep into Navajo country in Northern Arizona. A "spiritual vigil" that sends him to the brink of madness and back. Forcing him to face down the demons of his past in a truly hilarious yet brutally honest fashion.A series so filled with twists and turns that it will keep you guessing from episode to episode. And delivers such a life affirming, tear jerker of a finale that it may well transform you as much as it did the host.Warning! This is going to sound made up. But that doesn't change the fact that it's still exactly what happened!Part ThreeBB wakes up in Page and thanks to the advice of Nila from Bisbee and his old drug and alcohol counsellor from back in the day, he heads deep into Navajo nation hoping to randomly bump into Navajo lightning bundle man Pat Scott. He's reminded of an earlier "spiritual" journey to Uluru (Ayers Rock) back in 2006 that resulted in giving him the idea for his Edinburgh award winning show, fulfilling a boyhood dream. But he's not sure he can trust his memory of all that occurred, so this time he decides to pick up a couple of Native American hitchers, just to see what happens.Warning! Contains some bloke working on a tractor outside!Buy the entire podcast archive, over 250 episodes for less than the price of a decent pizza at awesound.com/dumbwhiteguy/podcast/more info at brendonburns.nettwitter.com/brendonburnsfacebook.com/brendonburnscomedianyoutube.com/brendonburnscomedyClick to view: show page on Awesound

Ep 242 DWG Part Two

A truly nail-biting tale of mental illness, acid flashbacks and altered reality that will keep on the edge of your seat. After surviving a one-in-a-million stonefish attack in February, international comedy legend and cult figure Brendon Burns, set off on a completely random journey, in pursuit of a Navajo spirit healer deep into Navajo country in Northern Arizona. A "spiritual vigil" that sends him to the brink of madness and back. Forcing him to face down the demons of his past in a truly hilarious yet brutally honest fashion.A series so filled with twists and turns that it will keep you guessing from episode to episode. And delivers such a life affirming, tear jerker of a finale that it may well transform you as much as it did the host.Warning! This is going to sound made up. But that doesn't change the fact that it's still exactly what happened!Part TwoAfter the events of Bisbee and all the acid flashbacks, BB goes on a "spiritual vigil" of sorts. As he pursues the Navajo elder who specialises in spirit-healing survivors of poisonous bites and stings. To confront some of his old bent reality flashback demons head on, he needs to visit a place he made up for narrative purposes in his debut novel "Fear of Hat Loss in Las Vegas". In the hope that he might separate the reality from the imagined. Instead some very trippy coincidences occur (which is the last thing he needs right now)!Warning! Contains a forty eight year old man stripping naked and doing yoga on a hill!Buy the entire podcast archive, over 250 episodes for less than the price of a decent pizza at awesound.com/dumbwhiteguy/podcast/more info at brendonburns.nettwitter.com/brendonburnsfacebook.com/brendonburnscomedianyoutube.com/brendonburnscomedyClick to view: show page on Awesound

EP 241 DWG Part One

A truly nail-biting tale of mental illness, acid flashbacks and altered reality that will keep on the edge of your seat. After surviving a one-in-a-million stonefish attack in February, international comedy legend and cult figure Brendon Burns, set off on a completely random journey, in pursuit of a Navajo spirit healer deep into Navajo country in Northern Arizona. A "spiritual vigil" that sends him to the brink of madness and back. Forcing him to face down the demons of his past in a truly hilarious yet brutally honest fashion.A series so filled with twists and turns that it will keep you guessing from episode to episode. And delivers such a life affirming, tear jerker of a finale that it may well transform you as much as it did the host.Warning! This is going to sound made up. But that doesn't change the fact that it's still exactly what happened!Part OneOr: IT TAKES A THOUSAND THINGS TO DRIVE YOU CRAZY AND A THOUSAND THINGS TO BRING YOU BACKOK, breathe. This is gonna take a while.BB has come back to Earth. For the first time he addresses being back in recovery. A lot of what happened to him mentally when he did too much acid and/or mushrooms from 2003-2006. And the nightmarish flashbacks and the magical thinking of the last few weeks. Which somehow wound him up stranded in a ravine in Northern Arizona off a Navajo reservation for two days.Warning! Contains graphic depictions of satan, demons and altered reality!Buy the entire podcast archive, over 250 episodes for less than the price of a decent pizza at awesound.com/dumbwhiteguy/podcast/more info at brendonburns.nettwitter.com/brendonburnsfacebook.com/brendonburnscomedianyoutube.com/brendonburnscomedyClick to view: show page on Awesound