Bugbee turned his attention to environmental and political concerns with the Angry White Male tour. Bugbee was a winner in the Willie Nelson peaceful solution video contest. From Nov. 4 2007 until Nov. 5, 2008 Bugbee embarked on a year long road trip called A Year At The Wheel covering art, politics, religion and revolution which culminated into a book and documentary release. Bugbee talked to many along the way from small town workers to Timothy Wyllie of the
Process Church of the Final Judgement settled in a small beach town in 2008 in the southeast corner of
Washington state after the road trip. Shortly after arriving he began using sculpture as a medium of expression, producing dozens of works which have been exhibited in various shows. He was interviewed about his art in
ArtSync magazine in 2011. He interviewed Dagon from the
black metal band
Inquisition. and Nergal from
Behemoth on the nature of Christianity and Catholicism in Poland. he also interviewed Portland Artist Jesse Reno on art, dangerous art, censorship, and how one would define art. Starting in 2011, Bugbee was a member of the Center for Healing Spiritual and Cultic Abuse, an anti-cult lobbying group and served as an advisor for Satanic cults. The advisory board featured
Doug Mesner and
Michael Shermer of
Skeptic magazine. Starting in 2012, he organized as festival called WTF Fest, the tour, which appeared in 5 cities included poet and revolutionary
John Sinclair, Star Trek artist Dave Archer, known for painting with a million volt
Tesla Coil, scream queen Ruby LaRocca, and Dave Densmore a poet and commercial fisherman. The show included additional musical guests. it received mixed reviews. Additionally in 2014, he and a partner developed a concept for an underground news show called "Counterculture" with Natalia Garcia that was pitched to Showtime and other networks although the project was not picked up. Natalia Garcia later left to continue working on her series
Polyamory. The pilot included a tour of the
Ku Klux Klan Museum, interviews with
Charles Manson's wife 'Star' as she planted trees for
ATWA, and
Frank Kozik, as well as an interview with
Karla LaVey. The pitch was to follow three topics and show both left and right, along with the decay of American culture including interviews with Chicago
Occupy Wallstreet protestors. In October 2015, Bugbee with fellow artist and friend Dave Archer, did a show at AFRU Gallery in Portland, the exhibit titled "Black Magic House Blessings and Fukushima Death Curses" featuring his sculptures and Dave Archer's wood burnings. It received favorable reviews in local press. In 2018, he started the podcast
Love, Loss, and Despair, addressing among other things his recent divorce, the publishing of
Might is Right, his first encounters and meeting with Katja Lane wife of White Nationalist
David Lane, the failure of "A Year at The Wheel" to lock-in a final edit, his rivalry with artist
Steven Johnson Leyba, and his admission into the
Church of Satan. ==Media appearances==