A tarot reader in New Orleans told Dean Stansfield he would survive five major brushes with death. He believed three had already happened. Not long afterward, a catastrophic truck accident broke three vertebrae and gave the prediction a fourth chapter.
Dean’s first visit to Splitting Hairs centered on comedy, cancel culture, and the difference between a joke and a confession. On his second, the conversation moves toward experiences he still cannot explain.
There were strange lights on the road, a fiddle-like sound through an oven vent, an unsettling morning in a deer blind, and a house connected to stories of alien abduction.
The stranger the story becomes, the more important it is to know who is telling it.
Dean also talks about leaving engineering for stand-up, learning to stop performing the person others expected, and building comedy around who he actually is.
Can a person remain skeptical and still admit that some experiences resist an ordinary explanation?
Dean does not claim to have solved the experiences he cannot explain. He carries them alongside his skepticism, allowing the unanswered parts to remain part of the story.
