OG Rebel, Visionary & Maverick In The Matrix With Jeff Berwick And Drew Treglia

Aug 26, 2025

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From the very beginning, I never fit neatly into the machine.

Like most kids in the 80s, I was shoved into the Canadian government indoctrination camp they call “public school.” The teachers had one job: break you in, grind you down, and slap a gold star on your forehead for compliance. Then, after I got my 12-year badge of obedience, the piece of paper they tell you means you’re now “educated”, I did a stint in the military for a few months until they basically kicked me out for not enthusiastically joining the uniformed Controllers.

The system wanted me stamped, numbered, and filed. But I kept slipping through the cracks, dodging their attempts to cage me in.

This week I sat down with Drew Treglia, filmmaker, creative renegade, and fellow outlaw mind behind The Jones Plantation, Barnum World, and his next film, Crazy Eddie. These aren’t just films – they’re acts of war against the illusion. Because art can slip through the cracks of censorship, planting seeds in minds that don’t even know they’re hungry for truth. And, when rebels become conscious creators, there’s no stopping what’s coming.

We talk about going from being a rebel and living life spontaneously to the lifting of the veil and finding the truth about living outside your earthly consciousness.

There’s a transformation that happens when you’ve been through the fires of rebellion. At first, it’s about rage – rage at the lies, the wars, the scams. Rage at the politicians who stuff their pockets while families starve. Rage at the bankers who print your life away on their fiat presses.

But you can’t live forever in that rage. It has different effects on different people; it turned me into an angry, self-destructive hard drinker. And, eventually, you either burn out or burn through to the other side.

I had amazing friends and people who helped me get to the other side intact. And that’s where I am today: moving from being a rebel with a cause to living consciously, rooted in source. It’s less about fighting the system and more about building a new one inside ourselves.

When you stop feeding the beast, whatever it is, it starves. When you align with source, you can’t be controlled. And when enough of us live that way—authentically, fearlessly, joyfully—the old system crumbles under its own lies.

We’re here to hack the system from the inside. The machine runs on fear, on submission, on convincing you that you’re powerless. And, the moment you say, “No thanks, I’ll create my own reality,” the gears start to grind and sparks fly.

That’s where the real fun begins. I can’t wait to see how this movie ends.