Good Now! My name is Paul McNelis, and I am a Dad, Husband, Multipotentialite, Artist, Performance Artist / Actor, Naturalist, Humorist / Comedian, Soon-to-be Published Author, Dadaist, Surrealist, Satirist, Poet, Lyricist, Nature & Macro Photographer, Foodie, Videographer, Sound Designer, World & Universe Builder, Costume Designer, Prop Designer, Former-Roman-Catholic-Turned-Non-Believer / Antitheist / Agnostic-Atheist / Godless Animal, Anarchist-Primitivist (in philosophy mostly, obviously), Freethinker, Critical Thinker, Philosopher, Cynical Optimist, Skeptic, Nihilist, Misanthrope, Humanist, Former Moderate Tobacco Smoker (quit ~2005), Former Moderate Drinker (quit for good January 2022), Former Infrequent Cannabis User (haven’t smoked since ~2005), Mistake Maker, Doesn’t Know It All, Getting Older, and 99.99% Right About Everything.

Welcome to my 3rd home, the 2nd being my YouTube channel (where I dump the majority of my creative energy), and the 1st being the actual house where I live with my wife and son in Southeastern Pennsylvania where we were all born, raised, and still reside.

After spending most of my 20’s, 30’s and 40’s trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life creatively, beyond simply being a husband and father, I stumbled onto the ASMR niche on YouTube in the spring of 2012. That’s when I realized the thing I experienced all my life had a name, and the rest is history. My YouTube channel and channel name were created in September 2011 prior to the whole ASMR thing.

I enjoy creating a wide variety of videos ranging from quiet, calm and relaxing, to loud, provocative and unsettling.

Oh, and I was diagnosed in 2010 with having an Acoustic Neuroma in my left ear which led to permanent hearing loss and tinnitus in that ear by around 2014 or so, leading to permanent hearing loss in that ear. So I’m like a modern-day Beethoven, except I suck at composing music.