The No Deo Hero is hosted, filmed, written, edited and operated by
PRIMAL INSTINKS
"Our Unwashed Founder"
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"Refuse to Use!" (deodorant)
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Primal's punk rat mascot Cheesus Brodent
This free-thinking free spirit lives naturally outside of society's conditioned standards!
"The Unwashed Rat"
"The Breathless Beast"
"The Rasslin' Rascal"
"The Skunky Punk"
Hey there! I'm Primal Instinks, and I'm the "Wonka" of The No Deo Hero show, as well as the video editor and operator of its YouTube channel, Patreon page, and official website. My punk-inspired mascot is satirically animated as a skinny, stinking rat named Cheesus Brodent who refuses to bathe and has green fur as a result.
I'm known on YouTube for my body odor-themed humor, my dramatized stompdown videos, my lean physique, and my athletic ability to hold my breath for impressively long periods of time. I'm also humbled to say I'm appreciated by fans of all ages from around the world who look up to me because of my openness and pride in being the alternative individual I am, which helps other people understand themselves better and encourages them to love and accept what they're into instead of feeling ashamed of who they are. Individually we're misfits, but together we're a tribe!
I'm known on YouTube for my body odor-themed humor, my dramatized stompdown videos, my lean physique, and my athletic ability to hold my breath for impressively long periods of time. I'm also humbled to say I'm appreciated by fans of all ages from around the world who look up to me because of my openness and pride in being the alternative individual I am, which helps other people understand themselves better and encourages them to love and accept what they're into instead of feeling ashamed of who they are. Individually we're misfits, but together we're a tribe!
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I created "The No Deo Hero" to be an artistic outlet and a fun hobby for my free time, and also to share the good times I had together with friends I filmed with in the beginning. My channel is basically a virtual playground for me, and I'm very passionate about being a positive influence to my fans. I'm also proud to say that I've never used any artificial methods or third-party companies to help grow my channel; its all been organic and as a result of my dedication and effort. I'm an independent creator who now films full-time for a living.
My goal for the show is to entertain people with my eccentric antics and unique creativity, encourage everyone to stand out and embrace who they are by being open about who I am, continue to share the good times the founding friends and I had together on camera, and to have fun and enjoy life as a whole. I believe everyone has an opportunity to leave their mark on the world and I hope "The No Deo Hero" will be my way of doing so. The primary focus of my show has always been to just be myself on camera. In my mind, any two people can play video games or sports together, but getting to actually know someone, appreciating who they individually are, and doing the things they like to do the most is what true friendship is about, and this is evident in the earlier videos on my channel I filmed with friends I hung out with before they moved on in life. |
The pride of bearing your natural smells!
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I like to encourage everyone to be themselves instead of follow trends, and I lead by being open about what makes me stand out from other people. On account of my natural outlook, I stopped using deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste, and body soap in 2013. I wash my hands with antibacterial soap on a regular basis, I brush and floss my teeth every day without using toothpaste or mouthwash, and I bathe naturally by rinsing my body with water in the shower every other day.
Contrary to my show's humor, I don't do this to gross people out; I do it because it's the natural way I comfortably like to live, hence my nickname Primal. My parents taught me at an early age to use hygiene products, but I realized the dry and itchy skin I was experiencing during my teen years was the result of it, so one by one I eventually gave them up. I wasn't raised by wolves, I grew up to become one!
In self-deprecating satire, I created an unwashed rat mascot for my show based off me because I'm proud of who I am and I don't take myself too seriously, and while I hope humanity as a whole will learn to respect everyone for their individuality in life, I'm aware that some people will see me as weird for how unconventional my hygiene is to modern society, hence the punk-inspired "rat" label. Punk also happens to be my favorite subculture, and my hairstyle is a mohawk that I shave and cut myself.
Contrary to my show's humor, I don't do this to gross people out; I do it because it's the natural way I comfortably like to live, hence my nickname Primal. My parents taught me at an early age to use hygiene products, but I realized the dry and itchy skin I was experiencing during my teen years was the result of it, so one by one I eventually gave them up. I wasn't raised by wolves, I grew up to become one!
In self-deprecating satire, I created an unwashed rat mascot for my show based off me because I'm proud of who I am and I don't take myself too seriously, and while I hope humanity as a whole will learn to respect everyone for their individuality in life, I'm aware that some people will see me as weird for how unconventional my hygiene is to modern society, hence the punk-inspired "rat" label. Punk also happens to be my favorite subculture, and my hairstyle is a mohawk that I shave and cut myself.
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As a result of childhood imprinting, I've always liked how peoples' feet smell bad from wearing shoes for too long or not changing their socks regularly, and I would habitually smell my friends' shoes and feet as a kid. I continued this quirky behavior during my teen years, a period when I began wearing the same pair of socks for days without changing them so my own shoes and feet would always stink in order to be one of the "cool" kids, a habit I never grew out of. I'd try to get my friends to smell my shoes and then laugh at their reaction to how bad they were, and I'd also rate the smell of their shoes on a pungency scale of 1 to 5 for fun.
This shoe-smelling habit carried over into my adulthood, and I still perceive stinky feet to be a rewarding, albeit gross smell as a result of me finding it entertaining to encounter during my youth. By extension, my brain is also wired to find body odor to be gross in a rewarding way, while I happen to find artificial fragrances like deodorant, scented candles, and most detergents and colognes to be offensive. I revealed this imprinted interest in a satirical "My Strange Addiction: Smelling Shoes" mini-series on YouTube where I asked several of my male friends and co-workers to loan me their shoes so I could soapbox about smelling them on camera as a parody of "sneakerheads" who collect new shoes and enjoy the new shoe smell -- but in my version, it's old shoes and the stinky shoe smell instead! In the third episode of the series I explained the psychology behind the interest in detail and included an inspiring core message about not being ashamed of who you are and what you like as long as it's harmless. It's not like we can help that something was accidentally imprinted on us as kids, seeing as we were so young when it happened! |
This shoe stinks... but that rocks!
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The punny nickname "Primal Instinks" was gifted to me by T-Wrex, a founding friend of my channel who filmed me with for five and a half years until he married his school-years sweetheart and left the show. We were best friends at the time and roommates for a few years, and he gave me this name on account of my natural outlook and the fact that I don't use deodorant or other hygiene products, and also because I prefer to comfortably be shirtless and barefoot as often as possible like a primitive person. I got a kick out of this fitting name and embraced it as my own. I came up with the slogans "refuse to use" for my stance against using deodorant and "dare to wear (the same pair)" for my habit of wearing the same socks for days before changing them.
Due to digestive issues which suddenly began coming about from eating meat, I made the decision to become a vegetarian in March of 2018. I'm honestly happy this happened because I respect other animals on the planet we share and I prefer to eat healthy. While not completely vegan, I do prefer vegan options when available. I don't like fast food, fried food, or anything with a lot of added sugar in it. I don't smoke or vape, I don't take any medication or use illegal drugs, and alcohol is like poison to my body so I rarely drink it. I enjoy natural plant caffeine (guayusa) and edible delta-9 THC in low-dose moderation.
Due to digestive issues which suddenly began coming about from eating meat, I made the decision to become a vegetarian in March of 2018. I'm honestly happy this happened because I respect other animals on the planet we share and I prefer to eat healthy. While not completely vegan, I do prefer vegan options when available. I don't like fast food, fried food, or anything with a lot of added sugar in it. I don't smoke or vape, I don't take any medication or use illegal drugs, and alcohol is like poison to my body so I rarely drink it. I enjoy natural plant caffeine (guayusa) and edible delta-9 THC in low-dose moderation.
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I'm a Millennial, which means I got to be a 90's kid. Video games, especially the Super Mario series, captivated my imagination during my childhood, and for Halloween I would dress up as villains from some of my favorite games, including King Koopa (aka Bowser from the Super Mario Show), Shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and James from Team Rocket.
I'm five feet and eleven inches tall and I weigh about 145 pounds. I have brown hair and blue eyes, and I'm an American "Euromutt" of mixed heritage, mainly originating from the UK, including Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and Italian ancestry. I was born near-sighted and wore contact lenses and glasses for many years, but I had LASIK eye surgery in February of 2021 to correct it. Aside from filming and editing videos, I also enjoy singing and photography for fun. I like many different genres of music, with rock, metal, punk, alternative, grunge, and rap being my favorites. My favorite video games are Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Earthbound, Mother 3, Wonder Boy in Monster World, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Pokémon, Spyro The Dragon 1 and 2, Skyrim, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, and Super Smash Bros. For athletics, I enjoy lifting weights and exercising regularly, which I do five days a week at my home gym in order to stay lean and fit, and for sports I enjoy wrestling and playing basketball. On account of a lifetime of practice, I also like to hold my breath for fun and have the self-taught ability to resist the urge to breathe for more than twice as long as most people, with an average best time of four minutes, and a longest personal record of five minutes and thirty-six seconds. During some of my earlier record attempts, I accidentally passed out from holding my breath for so long which is physically impossible for most anyone to voluntarily do! I began practicing holding my breath as a kid underwater in the tub where I would spend bath time honing my skill instead of washing my body. This is the earliest childhood memory I have of it, which took place at age 4 or 5. When my mom got scared because she found me face-down in the tub one day and thought I had drowned, she forbade me from doing it underwater anymore, so I began practicing above water in my bedroom and during classes at school instead. I continued training myself during my teenage years, where I managed a record of three and a half minutes, and further conditioned my body to survive prolonged periods without oxygen into my adulthood, where I've now successfully gone over five minutes without breathing on plenty of occasions. I revel in the scary excitement of pushing my body's limits as a form of "benign masochism" in the same sense that people participate in hot pepper-eating contests knowing that they'll have to persevere against pain and misery in order to achieve victory. Holding my breath is my version of riding a rollercoaster because I refuse to ride them! From a biological standpoint, I've always been fascinated by my brain's tolerance to oxygen deprivation and how far I can safely push it, and I also love to impress others with this talent by having them watch my videos or letting them spot me by using their hands to cover my nose and mouth, knowing they're experiencing a mixture of fun, excitement, anxiety, and fear along with me as each minute passes. |
Breath holding: It's a childhood thing... without the tantrum part!
After five minutes without breathing, you tend to get a little blue in the face! Having a friend spot me like this makes it more fun
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From a romantic standpoint, I'm bisexual and have known this since my teenage years, but I've never been into sex. Asexual is the best term I can use to describe my sexual identity, though it sometimes confuses people since I do have somewhat of a sexual side to me; I simply don't enjoy conventional intercourse or vanilla romance on its own, nor do I have an interest in dating.
I enjoy casual fun with other people I get to know and connect with who are willing to entertain my aforementioned imprinted interests with me, but sex, dating, marriage, or having kids is not for me; instead I focus on friendships and bonding with others I feel a relativity and connection toward. I find strength in independence and take pride in caring for myself without the need of physical or mental dependency on others, and I'm happy living on my own, though the door is open for the right kind of person.
In my enjoyment of being minimalist and as natural as comfortably possible, I live shirtless and barefoot as often as I can. The only time I wear socks or shoes is when its required. I enjoy walking through trails in the woods and on grass barefoot and find it therapeutic to connect with nature and the earth this way. Though I'm aware that humans are the dominant species of this planet, I try to be kind and respectful to all living things and treat our planet right. I'm apolitical and not religious, though I do have a spiritual side and try my best to live in harmony with fate.
My three favorite quotes are (1) "find your lane and stay in it," (2) "you get in where you fit in," and (3) "the world is round for a reason," the last of which is another way of saying "what goes around, comes around." I believe that the energy you put out in the world comes back to you, and while we'll never control fate, we can use our free will to be better people in order to have it be more favorable to us. I also like the quote "if you ski out of your league, you're gonna have a bad time" from South Park because it's true in more than just a literal sense.
My core message is to be yourself, have fun, enjoy life, respect others, and never be ashamed of who you individually are as long as it's harmless. I aim to use my platform as an online force to try to keep the world positive, open-minded, and happy, and I strive to repel any negativity with the power of acceptance, laughter and love.
I enjoy casual fun with other people I get to know and connect with who are willing to entertain my aforementioned imprinted interests with me, but sex, dating, marriage, or having kids is not for me; instead I focus on friendships and bonding with others I feel a relativity and connection toward. I find strength in independence and take pride in caring for myself without the need of physical or mental dependency on others, and I'm happy living on my own, though the door is open for the right kind of person.
In my enjoyment of being minimalist and as natural as comfortably possible, I live shirtless and barefoot as often as I can. The only time I wear socks or shoes is when its required. I enjoy walking through trails in the woods and on grass barefoot and find it therapeutic to connect with nature and the earth this way. Though I'm aware that humans are the dominant species of this planet, I try to be kind and respectful to all living things and treat our planet right. I'm apolitical and not religious, though I do have a spiritual side and try my best to live in harmony with fate.
My three favorite quotes are (1) "find your lane and stay in it," (2) "you get in where you fit in," and (3) "the world is round for a reason," the last of which is another way of saying "what goes around, comes around." I believe that the energy you put out in the world comes back to you, and while we'll never control fate, we can use our free will to be better people in order to have it be more favorable to us. I also like the quote "if you ski out of your league, you're gonna have a bad time" from South Park because it's true in more than just a literal sense.
My core message is to be yourself, have fun, enjoy life, respect others, and never be ashamed of who you individually are as long as it's harmless. I aim to use my platform as an online force to try to keep the world positive, open-minded, and happy, and I strive to repel any negativity with the power of acceptance, laughter and love.
Happy rat is happy being himself
