A bodyworker and comedian hybrid, Robo seeks to heal with elbows and punchlines. His expertise spans wellness practices from fitness and nutrition, to psychedelics and transformational coaching. He has led an interesting existence trying to start a revolution in college, working in the cannabis industry, and making news for his activism and comedy.
Robo’s bodywork skills have alleviated chronic pain, restored senses of smell and feeling, and purged trauma, among other epic healings. He travels regularly offering his gifts at conscious festivals. Robo shares his wisdom with workshops such as The Revolution will be Amplified, Self-Reflexology 101: DIY Healing, Health is Freedom: Sickness is Slavery and Don’t Be Trashy: Get Zero Wasted
Laughter is medicine, so he pivoted from a tumultuous attempt at college activism to humor to plant seeds for change. Having a way with words, his informative rants regularly illicited bursts of laughter as a student at Humboldt State University. He was regularly in the news for his antics in student government, HSU 911 Truth and HSU-NORML. With 25k YT subscribers his comedy mixes from his time as a KMUD radio DJ have over twelve million views. A George Carlin tribune has over six million alone. Robo’s humor has been featured at various festivals and conferences and aims to get millions of views for his stand-up material.
While studying politics and economics at HSU he was removed like a cancer from campus politics by a corrupt administration and complicit sellout students in spring 2008. A bogus impeachment proceeding and removal amidst an election for student body president fulfilled his prophetic words from an interview at the start of his activism, “You go against certain ideology and you’re going to get fired or stopped.” The character assassination he endured also disenfranchised his constituents. It could have been worse, his Italian immigrant great grandfather was murdered when running for mayor in Trinidad, Colorado. Robo also took his narrative challenging college radio show, Unstacking the Deck, into video format after college with his colleague, Kyle Beattie. UTD sought to better inform people about current events and give them a fair play, instead of a rigged game.
A yellow journalist plagued him during college, later kicking Robo when he was down, defaming him after a bogus concealed weapon arrest in 2010. This charge was also dismissed, including refusal to submit a DNA sample, a practice later deemed unconstitutional.
Pivoting from politics to comedy, Robo worked in the cannabis industry as a “not-so-starving” artist, trimming primarily. He multi-tasked listening to audiobooks, seminars, lectures, and earning wellness certificates. When the cannabis market got bad enough in 2023 he transitioned fully into wellness.
Robo went from making headlines locally to globally in August 2008 when his handwritten stickers against the 9/11 narrative provoked disorderly conduct charges. Despite the twisted news coverage stating it was a “joke,” among other lies, the case was dismissed. Alex Jones had Robo as a guest to tell his side of the story. Donations from listeners subsidized his flights to fight the charges.
After a break from media coverage, Robo invoked cancel culture in 2021 for opposing COVID-19 mandates. Robo’s UTD co-host Kyle Beattie was also “fact-checked” for research disproving the COVID-19 narratives with the governments own data. Amidst national news hit pieces and death threats Robo’s KMUD radio show Comedy for a Change was unceremoniously cancelled. He was subsequently rejected by San Diego Laugh Factory’s quality control, and deemed too “crazy” for San Diego’s Mad House comedy club.
In childhood Robo weathered the colonization of human emotion that is the psychiatric industry. As an understimulated gifted student, he amused himself as a class clown. Detentions, suspensions, and expulsions were common. In efforts to make him “better” drugs were prescribed with side effects such as organ failure. Saturday mornings instead of watching cartoons with his younger brothers, the sketchy prescriptions required regular blood tests. A twisted version of this history was used to attack him during his cancelling.
Lyrical skills are also included in Robo’s repetoire, sometimes imposing informative original lyrics on classic hip-hop tracks. He also performs a unique style of firespinning with 10-25-lb steel maces, including a custom dragonstaff hybrid. His Service dog, Yarnbi, was featured in ABC and Yahoo!, has performed for kids, and brings smiles to many when he rides in a backpack on a motorcycle with his “doggles.” Robo also dabbles in nature photography. He has also been vegan since 2012 and resonates best with Dr. Will Tuttle’s book “World Peace Diet,” which argues the exploitation of animal is the foundation for the insanity of the world we live in.