Shadoe Stevens
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98 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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When I was 10, I built a radio station in my house. And when I was 11, I was discovered by a local radio station. And they put me on the air as the world's youngest disc jockey. And my parents didn't drink or smoke or use drugs or curse or fight in front of the kids. Didn't want to drink. Drank once. Projectile vomited. My fourth year of college, I discovered doctor-prescribed prescription.
And I had my own company called Shadow Vision. And we were doing things like the Blues Brothers. and fast times at Ridgemont High and 48 hours. You did those? Countless convulsions later, I had an overdose in my studio. I was walking my first daughter down the aisle, kind of tremble a little bit. I see myself in convulsions on the bathroom floor and I thought, I almost missed this.
find these things that you believe in, the greater your ability to turn your will and your life over to the care of this something that you can't begin to comprehend.
Well, this is a long story. I don't know how much you want to hear of it. All of it. I'll tell you in a nutshell. I grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota. I'm the oldest of five children. And my parents didn't drink or smoke or use drugs or curse or fight in front of the kids. My dad was very entrepreneurial.
He owned clothing stores and toy stores and go-kart tracks and firework stands on the 4th of July. And all of the kids would run a different firework stand. When we had fireworks displays, they were at our house. It was Norman Rockwell, and I had go-karts, I had motorcycles, I worked early, I was very aggressively enthusiastic, and I built a radio station from a kit in my house when I was 10.
And when I was 11, I was discovered by by a local radio station and they put me on the air as the world's youngest disc jockey and I did rock and roll on Saturday morning on KEYJ and then I stayed doing radio most of my high school part-time you know in the summers and went through five years of college didn't didn't want to drink
Drank once, projectile vomited, thought this is like my dad says, why do you want to drink? Makes you loud and stupid. So I didn't until my fourth year of college. I discovered doctor prescribed prescription of Desbutol. Desbutol was a brilliantly subtle combination of a wide variety of intoxicants, mainly alcohol. meth and a barbiturate.
So it gave you the energy and it allowed you to stay thin and get a lot done while taking the edge off at the same time. It was widely abused and is no longer available. But that was the gateway. So now I have an acceleration that made me, because I was always busy. I worked full-time in radio and I went to school full-time.
And by the time I got to the University of Arizona, I was working full-time at the radio station and doing school and doing plays and getting a lot done. Guy says, you want to try some weed? I said, you should try it. I mean, it's a plant. It's not like it's heroin.
So they had it all set up and it was a great big hookah and the hookah had these tubes and there was black light posters and they dimmed the lights and they turned up the sound system and it was a great sound system. I remember the music when I first got high, it was Minnie Riperton. Suddenly I was elevated into the ceiling and
and I was moving at one with the universe, and I saw it in colors on the left and on the right, and I understood, oh, no wonder you can't explain this. It's like trying to explain the color blue to a blind man. It's experiential. And I was really thirsty. And that night, I bought my first ounce. And within a month, I bought my first pound. Then I moved to Boston.
And in Boston, we were smoking every day and we shared our vibrations. We laughed for no reason at things that weren't funny. And the guy said, you want to try some acid? What's acid? It's like grass, more intense. So I try it. I have a terrifying experience. I could go into this in great detail because it's wildly funny. But horrifying. Let's not do that. But funny and horrifying.
Funny, the funny. Horrifying. Don't do the funny. Please don't do it. Well, you know, in retrospect, it is actually kind of funny. So then I get a prescription doctor in Los Angeles because I had a lot of responsibilities, you know, a lot of people I'm responsible for and I had to keep going. And I saw him for many years, but it was elevated little by little. And I always wanted to be up.
I wanted to be working. I want to be trying things. I want to be doing art. I want to be writing. I want to be productive all night into the next day, you know, five day runs. And along the way, I had an LSD experience that was out of the body. And I thought, I've got to find a way here without drugs. And so I started studying drugs.
comparative religion and quantum physics and out-of-body experiences and the occult and meditation. And I learned to meditate and I started and I gave up drugs and alcohol. And for a year, things got better. And then a guy came in and I had left radio and went into production and I had my own company called Shadow Vision and it was a production company and we were doing things like
the blues brothers, um, movie and fast times at Ridgemont high and 48 hours. You did those. I did all that. Those are fantastic movies. Yeah. They're great movies. And we were really on a roll. And, and then I started doing, uh, television commercials. Um, But about that time, about the time of the Blues Brothers, a guy came in and he laid down an ounce of Peruvian flake.
And it was crystal pure, and it was pretty. And he said, have as much as you want. And I thought, I have really been good. Clearly, I can pick it up or put it down, stop anytime I want. What would a little needle line hurt? Well, I did two because you have two nostrils. And then I do two more to balance the hemispheres of my brain. And pretty soon I'm arcing and we're getting a lot done.
And we worked through the night and through the next day and through the next night. And we worked and worked and got a lot done. I think we did 50 commercials. And then I bought my own ounces, and that opened up the door. And now I'm back 100%. And it was me and the team, because I had this great team. I was doing television commercials, the Federated commercials. I love those.
I forgot about those. Those were the best. Yeah, there's a video on YouTube called Bludgeon Advertising that we did years ago. And it's the whole story of Federated and me. And in this campaign that I created, and we did 1,100 commercials. This was going really well, and they were getting really fun, but I was losing it. As it was growing, I gained a lot of weight.
I gained actually 50 pounds, but... Because they didn't stop eating either.
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