Latest / Cosmic Peach / ConspirAsylum 2: Schizopharmiac
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Oh there, m H.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Trigger warn this podcast may include explicit content that will
- 0:37Speaker 2: take you out of your comfort zone and make you
- 0:39Speaker 2: question reality.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Listener's discretion is advised.
- 1:00Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome back to the second installment of the
- 1:06Speaker 4: Conspira Asylum series. This is Schitzopharmiac and I'm really excited
- 1:14Speaker 4: for this one. I have a lot of loose ins
- 1:17Speaker 4: to tie up from the first episode, and of course
- 1:21Speaker 4: we have Colby joining us for the second installment.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Colby, how are you wonderfully insane? In the membrane in
- 1:33Speaker 3: the everywhere?
- 1:36Speaker 4: So something that I wanted to talk about really quick
- 1:41Speaker 4: as we're getting going is something I want I was
- 1:49Speaker 4: gonna include in the first episode, but we ran out
- 1:52Speaker 4: of time because we went almost three hours. Notorious Asylums?
- 1:58Speaker 4: Did you have anything on that just that just I'm
- 2:01Speaker 4: gonna run through it just kind of quick.
- 2:03Speaker 5: But I had some weird insane asylums that were notorious
- 2:08Speaker 5: for reasons. One of them sounded an awful lot like
- 2:12Speaker 5: a Mexican food restaurant. And I don't think I brought
- 2:17Speaker 5: my notes with me from last week, so I don't
- 2:19Speaker 5: even remember what.
- 2:20Speaker 3: It was called.
- 2:21Speaker 4: Was it noteworthy?
- 2:23Speaker 5: It was just where you know, they the evidence left
- 2:26Speaker 5: behind and the stories and the mainstream trying to pull
- 2:32Speaker 5: cover saying that these places were you know, above board
- 2:36Speaker 5: and it was shit going on like in American Horror
- 2:39Speaker 5: Story season two, and you know, we'll get into some
- 2:43Speaker 5: of those today, I imagine, But yeah, I don't remember
- 2:46Speaker 5: what mne were.
- 2:47Speaker 4: Well, I have a couple that you can say if
- 2:50Speaker 4: you've heard of them or not. Had you heard of
- 2:53Speaker 4: the Bedlom Bedlom Royal Hospital in.
- 2:59Speaker 3: London in England sounds vaguely familiar.
- 3:03Speaker 4: It's Europe's oldest insane asylum, founded in twelve forty seven.
- 3:12Speaker 4: So it was one of the places that used that
- 3:16Speaker 4: spinny chair treatment that you showed in the last episode,
- 3:19Speaker 4: where they'd put somebody in the spinny chair and spin
- 3:22Speaker 4: them until they threw up or shit themselves.
- 3:25Speaker 3: Really, that's probably why it sounds familiar.
- 3:27Speaker 4: Yeah, so they did that. Then there's the trans Alleghany
- 3:32Speaker 4: Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. This place is notorious for
- 3:37Speaker 4: ghost hunter groups going because they say with the lobotomies
- 3:42Speaker 4: and the poor care of the patients and all the
- 3:45Speaker 4: deaths and the weird stuff, that it's like super haunted.
- 3:49Speaker 4: And they even offer paranormal tours at this place. But
- 3:55Speaker 4: the one that stuck out to me the most that's
- 3:58Speaker 4: now closed down was Willowbrook State School is what it
- 4:05Speaker 4: was called. And this guy, his name is Geraldo Rivera.
- 4:13Speaker 3: But you know who he is.
- 4:17Speaker 4: He was you know who a journalist.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the guy with the mustache. Yeah, you know
- 4:22Speaker 3: who he is, right right? Oh, I just the way
- 4:24Speaker 3: you said it, I thought you didn't know who he was.
- 4:26Speaker 4: Well, I'm just saying for anybody who doesn't know who
- 4:29Speaker 4: he is.
- 4:30Speaker 5: I mean he's pretty notorious. His takes on a lot
- 4:33Speaker 5: of the big events.
- 4:35Speaker 4: Well, this was back in nineteen seventy two. He looked
- 4:38Speaker 4: like he was just starting.
- 4:40Speaker 5: Out, Yeah, the early seventies. I didn't know he was
- 4:43Speaker 5: around that long.
- 4:44Speaker 4: Yeah. So this was back in nineteen seventy two, and
- 4:47Speaker 4: he actually found the story about the Willow State School
- 4:51Speaker 4: because Robert Kennedy went on the news talking about how
- 4:59Speaker 4: awful it was and how somebody needed to do something
- 5:03Speaker 4: and nobody ever did anything about it. And then Heraldo
- 5:06Speaker 4: Rivera was like, somebody needs to publish a story about
- 5:10Speaker 4: how these people are getting treated.
- 5:12Speaker 5: And I wonder if that was the place that his
- 5:15Speaker 5: sister went to.
- 5:18Speaker 4: Is it?
- 5:18Speaker 3: Where was it?
- 5:20Speaker 6: Uh?
- 5:21Speaker 4: New York?
- 5:22Speaker 3: What's it called?
- 5:24Speaker 4: Willowbrook Asylum, New York?
- 5:27Speaker 3: I think that might be it is?
- 5:28Speaker 4: Do you think that's how that's why he was so
- 5:31Speaker 4: at it.
- 5:32Speaker 5: As soon as you mentioned Robert Kennedy, my Hackles went up,
- 5:35Speaker 5: let me verify where she went?
- 5:39Speaker 4: Well? He went he yeah, he went on the news
- 5:42Speaker 4: and he was like, somebody needs to do something. These
- 5:45Speaker 4: people are getting treated like literal garbage. Yeah, the thing
- 5:51Speaker 4: and I actually somewhere around here want to include a
- 5:57Speaker 4: clip of Heraldo Rivera touring Willowbrooks State School because.
- 6:01Speaker 3: It's everything let's call the State School.
- 6:04Speaker 4: Yeah, it's everything that you would imagine an insane asylum
- 6:09Speaker 4: in a horror.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Movie to be Why did they call it a.
- 6:12Speaker 4: School Because they let people drop their kids off there
- 6:15Speaker 4: and never come back for them. And they said that
- 6:17Speaker 4: they were going to train them like monkeys to.
- 6:21Speaker 7: Do like.
- 6:24Speaker 4: Basic like self care stuff, but they never did what
- 6:29Speaker 4: they like, how to feed themselves, how to like xyz,
- 6:34Speaker 4: but they never did. They basically people would just drop
- 6:38Speaker 4: their family members off and they were.
- 6:40Speaker 3: Naked, dropped off naked, No okay, they.
- 6:45Speaker 4: Would go back to visit them and all the inmates,
- 6:50Speaker 4: patients whatever, anywhere from newborn to old as fuck.
- 6:58Speaker 3: In particular.
- 6:58Speaker 4: Yeah, they would be sitting around in the wards naked,
- 7:04Speaker 4: getting force fed.
- 7:05Speaker 3: So it's like a food in their mouths. It's like
- 7:08Speaker 3: a zoo.
- 7:09Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 7:09Speaker 4: And they were shitting and pissing everywhere, throwing shit and
- 7:14Speaker 4: piss everywhere.
- 7:16Speaker 3: And it sounds like an exhibit right.
- 7:19Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to include a little snippet of when
- 7:21Speaker 4: Heraldo Rivera wentz Ago visit this place.
- 7:40Speaker 9: I visited the state institutions for the mentally retarded, and
- 7:43Speaker 9: I think, particularly at Willowbrook, that we have a situation
- 7:46Speaker 9: that borders on a state pit and that the children
- 7:51Speaker 9: live and built, that many of our fellow citizens are
- 7:55Speaker 9: suffering tremendously because lack of attention, had a lack of imagination,
- 7:59Speaker 9: lack of adequate manpower, a very little future for the
- 8:03Speaker 9: children or for those who are in these institutions. Both
- 8:07Speaker 9: need a tremendous overhauling. I'm not saying that those who
- 8:10Speaker 9: are the attendants there, are the ones that run the institution,
- 8:14Speaker 9: are at fall. I think all of us are at Paul,
- 8:16Speaker 9: and I think it's just it's long overdue that something
- 8:19Speaker 9: be done about it.
- 8:33Speaker 10: It's been more than six years since Robert Kennedy walked
- 8:35Speaker 10: out of one of the wards here at Willowbrook and
- 8:37Speaker 10: told newsmen of the horror he'd seen inside. He pleaded
- 8:41Speaker 10: then for an overhaul of a system that allowed retarded
- 8:43Speaker 10: children to live in a snake pit. But that was
- 8:46Speaker 10: way back in nineteen sixty five, and somehow we'd all forgotten.
- 8:50Speaker 10: I first heard of this big place with the pretty
- 8:52Speaker 10: sounding name because of a call I received from a
- 8:54Speaker 10: member of the Willow Brooks staff, doctor Michael Wilkins. The
- 8:58Speaker 10: doctor told me he'd just been fired because he'd been
- 9:00Speaker 10: urging parents with children in one of the buildings, building
- 9:03Speaker 10: number six, to organize so they could more effectively demand
- 9:07Speaker 10: improve conditions for their children. The doctor invited me to
- 9:11Speaker 10: see the conditions he was talking about, so, unannounced and
- 9:14Speaker 10: unexpected by the school administration, we toured Building number six.
- 9:18Speaker 10: The doctor had warned me that it would be bad.
- 9:21Speaker 7: It was horrible.
- 9:22Speaker 10: There was one attendant for perhaps fifty severely and profoundly
- 9:26Speaker 10: retarded children, and the children lying on the floor naked
- 9:30Speaker 10: and smeared with their own feces. They were making a
- 9:32Speaker 10: pitiful sound, the kind of mournful wail that it's impossible
- 9:36Speaker 10: for me to forget.
- 9:38Speaker 11: This is what it looked like, this is what.
- 9:40Speaker 10: It sounded like. But how can I tell you about
- 9:42Speaker 10: the way it smelled. It smelled of filth, it smelled
- 9:45Speaker 10: of disease, and it smelled of death. We've just seen
- 9:50Speaker 10: something that's probably the most horrible thing I've ever seen
- 9:52Speaker 10: in my life.
- 9:52Speaker 3: It's that typical of ward life.
- 9:56Speaker 12: Yes, there are five thsy three hundred patients at Willowbrook,
- 10:00Speaker 12: which is the largest institution for the mentally retarded in
- 10:03Speaker 12: the world. The ones that we saw were the most
- 10:07Speaker 12: severely and profoundly retarded. There are thousands there like that,
- 10:12Speaker 12: not going to school, sitting on the ward all day,
- 10:15Speaker 12: not being talked to by anyone, Only one or two
- 10:18Speaker 12: or three people to take care of. Seventy people on
- 10:20Speaker 12: the ward sharing the same toilet, contracting the same diseases together.
- 10:26Speaker 12: One hundred percent of patients at Wilillbrook contract hepatitis within
- 10:30Speaker 12: six months of being in the institution. The most patients
- 10:34Speaker 12: at some time in their life have paracized the incidents
- 10:37Speaker 12: of pneumonia's and is greater than any other group of
- 10:41Speaker 12: people that I think exist in this country. Trauma is
- 10:46Speaker 12: severe because these patients are left together on a ward
- 10:50Speaker 12: seventy retarded people, basically unattended, fighting for a small scrap
- 10:56Speaker 12: of paper on the floor to play with, fighting for
- 10:59Speaker 12: the attention of the attendants who are overworked trying to
- 11:02Speaker 12: clean them, feed them, clothe them, and if possible, pay
- 11:06Speaker 12: little attention to them and work with them develop their intelligence.
- 11:09Speaker 12: But what in fact happens is that they go downhill.
- 11:16Speaker 4: If your kid had Down syndrome, if they were just
- 11:20Speaker 4: developmentally disabled, if they were schizophrenic, if they were whatever,
- 11:24Speaker 4: anything outside of just normal, you could take them and
- 11:28Speaker 4: drop them off that willow broke for them to run
- 11:30Speaker 4: around naked, sleeping, piss and shit. And it showed feeding
- 11:36Speaker 4: time with the nurses and they would just be strapped
- 11:40Speaker 4: to a chair with their mouth pried open and they
- 11:42Speaker 4: would just shovel food and they'd be choking and gagging
- 11:45Speaker 4: on it, and it looked like.
- 11:48Speaker 3: No, wonder you didn't just give them like a tube
- 11:51Speaker 3: down the throat.
- 11:52Speaker 4: I mean, they had one nurse for every fifty patients
- 11:56Speaker 4: or something like that, So you can imagine how.
- 11:59Speaker 5: The clean in the Yeah, I'm going to actually talk
- 12:02Speaker 5: about that's how it was really similar still in the nineties.
- 12:06Speaker 4: Even that's not I mean, one nurse for fifty patients,
- 12:13Speaker 4: that's not enough. Yeah, And so this is where we've
- 12:19Speaker 4: come to though, that that's in the seventies. But I mean,
- 12:23Speaker 4: as we talked about in the first episode, like how
- 12:25Speaker 4: did we get here, Well, these people are looked at
- 12:29Speaker 4: as garbage people. These are the trash people. These are
- 12:33Speaker 4: the people you just throw away and you just keep
- 12:36Speaker 4: them alive mechanically. But there is no spiritual there is
- 12:41Speaker 4: no I mean, they're literally treated like garbage people.
- 12:44Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no humanity or compassion. And even when someone
- 12:49Speaker 5: with humanity or compassion gets into the system like that
- 12:53Speaker 5: as a job, a lot of them just burn out
- 12:57Speaker 5: like teachers do and become peace is a shit, or
- 13:00Speaker 5: they struggle with it.
- 13:03Speaker 3: They become you know, nightly drinkers and they don't live
- 13:08Speaker 3: a fulfilled life, yeah, or they quit. You know, there's
- 13:12Speaker 3: no way that you.
- 13:13Speaker 5: Can bring compassionate humanity into a system that's as broken
- 13:16Speaker 5: as this one is without completely overhauling it, which we
- 13:21Speaker 5: don't seem to even have in our list of priorities
- 13:25Speaker 5: as far as politics goes. You know, that's that's where
- 13:30Speaker 5: people look for big change to happen, and it's such
- 13:33Speaker 5: a big industry that to do away with it it
- 13:39Speaker 5: would just affect all the wrong people in the wrong ways.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:45Speaker 4: And the fact that they said, like they use the
- 13:48Speaker 4: word training, like, oh, if you drop your kid off here,
- 13:52Speaker 4: we'll train them how to Yeah.
- 13:55Speaker 5: The language is like how you talk about animals, the
- 13:59Speaker 5: walking around nked, shitting and pissing wherever.
- 14:02Speaker 4: Yeah, literally treated like an I mean they animals are
- 14:07Speaker 4: sometimes treated I was.
- 14:08Speaker 3: Going to say, Yeah. And also prisoners.
- 14:13Speaker 5: You talk to a lot of people who have been
- 14:14Speaker 5: in both, and what we'll talk about next episode. A
- 14:19Speaker 5: lot with the pop culture angle of all of this
- 14:22Speaker 5: is in the movie and book One Flew Over the
- 14:25Speaker 5: Cuckoo's Nest, the protagonist believes that if he feigns insanity
- 14:30Speaker 5: that he'll be able to have a cakewalk in an
- 14:33Speaker 5: institution somewhere, and he finds that it's worse the hard.
- 14:37Speaker 5: Through the hard way of finding out such a thing,
- 14:39Speaker 5: he discovers that a lot of these places are prison
- 14:45Speaker 5: times a thousand and Yeah, we'll talk more about that
- 14:50Speaker 5: angle of it next time.
- 14:53Speaker 4: Well, the last asylum I wanted to talk to you about.
- 14:58Speaker 4: I it came into my memory because of the article
- 15:01Speaker 4: you read in the last episode about the African guy
- 15:05Speaker 4: who came over and he said that the way that
- 15:08Speaker 4: we view mental illness is totally fucked up and wrong,
- 15:11Speaker 4: and that like spirits are trying to channel through these
- 15:15Speaker 4: people because they're healers or something like that, or they
- 15:18Speaker 4: have a message or they have So I wanted to
- 15:21Speaker 4: read you this story really quick. I'll try to sum
- 15:24Speaker 4: it up as quick as I can to just move
- 15:27Speaker 4: on from this part. But it's called the Voltaira asylum
- 15:33Speaker 4: in Tuscany, Italy, and it was built in eighteen eighty eight,
- 15:39Speaker 4: the same year Jack the Ripper was ripped and running
- 15:42Speaker 4: through wherever the fuck he was. That's how old it is,
- 15:46Speaker 4: though he was in London. Well, let me tell you
- 15:48Speaker 4: a little bit about the asylum before I get to
- 15:51Speaker 4: the patient. So this place accommodated six thousand patients at
- 15:55Speaker 4: a time, so it was huge, and it was like
- 15:58Speaker 4: the Willowbrooks School. They only have like one nurse.
- 16:00Speaker 3: For every like one hundred dec They called themselves a school.
- 16:04Speaker 4: No, they they called themselves an asylum.
- 16:07Speaker 5: Yeah, that rebranding seems totally American, right.
- 16:12Speaker 4: So it was built on the ruins of several tombs
- 16:15Speaker 4: and was a known sight of hangings in witchcraft, and
- 16:18Speaker 4: they cleared all that out and then they built this
- 16:20Speaker 4: asylum on top of this site. And the most famous
- 16:26Speaker 4: doctor who practiced there was actually a Nazi concentration camp
- 16:29Speaker 4: doctor who was found guilty of crimes against humanity, uh,
- 16:34Speaker 4: doctor Shilling or something like that. And so you can
- 16:39Speaker 4: imagine with his backstory what kind of experiments were going
- 16:42Speaker 4: on at.
- 16:42Speaker 5: This So was okay, wait a minute, so that would
- 16:48Speaker 5: have been a ways into it, because you said it
- 16:50Speaker 5: was built in eighteen eighty eight. Yeah, so this guy
- 16:52Speaker 5: was this guy this So now we're into like after
- 16:55Speaker 5: World War two. Yeah, okay, doctor Shilling. I want to
- 16:58Speaker 5: keep talking. I want to just kind of look them.
- 16:59Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, go ahead. It's s h I l ll
- 17:03Speaker 4: no C. Yeah. I think his first name was maybe Ralph.
- 17:08Speaker 4: I don't know, but.
- 17:10Speaker 3: Ralph Shilling sounds like a shoe brand.
- 17:14Speaker 4: So there was a patient who they had, because they
- 17:19Speaker 4: had thousands of patients, they stopped calling them by their
- 17:22Speaker 4: name and they gave them numbers.
- 17:25Speaker 5: And so this paper or animalistic treatment, like right tagging
- 17:29Speaker 5: him with fucking you know, in the ear, like their cattle.
- 17:32Speaker 3: So now do you think they tattooed him? Since he
- 17:35Speaker 3: was a Nazi.
- 17:35Speaker 5: Guy, he might have incorporated what's it called, uh, Walnut.
- 17:40Speaker 4: Creek, Voltaire Asylum, Klaus Slause Shilling.
- 17:45Speaker 5: That's fucking that's the fish American dad.
- 17:49Speaker 3: I think it's him.
- 17:50Speaker 4: Yeah, that's him.
- 17:51Speaker 3: No, do you think that's who it's supposed to be
- 17:52Speaker 3: an American dad?
- 17:53Speaker 4: Oh?
- 17:54Speaker 5: I don't know, yeah, because I always got the impression
- 17:56Speaker 5: that that was an operation paper clip thing they transferred
- 17:58Speaker 5: to the Nazi's brain into a goldfish.
- 18:01Speaker 4: So maybe he's got the accent.
- 18:03Speaker 3: Well yeah, anyway, but yeah, that's him.
- 18:08Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 18:08Speaker 5: It says he perpetrated infamous human experiments at Doc Cow.
- 18:15Speaker 3: Yep, it's a dust shower. Doc Cow, I always.
- 18:18Speaker 4: Say Doc Cow. But that's the doc on staff for
- 18:23Speaker 4: the Voltaire Asylum.
- 18:26Speaker 3: And I was wondering if he was a paper clip
- 18:29Speaker 3: guy himself.
- 18:32Speaker 4: Because no, he got tried. Do you think he got death?
- 18:38Speaker 3: So he got tried?
- 18:39Speaker 5: So when did he participate in the stuff at the
- 18:43Speaker 5: asylum after the war?
- 18:46Speaker 4: I think it was right after and then they found
- 18:50Speaker 4: him and then they prosecuted him.
- 18:53Speaker 5: Anyway, I just wanted to do paper clip and see
- 18:55Speaker 5: what comes up, because that would be interesting.
- 18:58Speaker 3: Says he wasn't a member of the Nazi birdy.
- 19:03Speaker 4: He was in the documentary that I watched, said he
- 19:07Speaker 4: got death.
- 19:10Speaker 3: Could it be that he was just working with him?
- 19:13Speaker 3: M m, well, we don't want to go down this
- 19:15Speaker 3: rabbit hole.
- 19:16Speaker 5: Looks like there's a lot on this guy anyway, that's interesting.
- 19:20Speaker 5: So he goes from the war to working here to
- 19:25Speaker 5: getting snagged and tried for war crabs.
- 19:28Speaker 3: Yeah, put to death.
- 19:29Speaker 5: Yeah, fuck man, that's rare to hear if he'd been
- 19:33Speaker 5: working over here.
- 19:35Speaker 4: But the thing he would have lived, he's actually not
- 19:38Speaker 4: even the highlight of this story. He's like a side note,
- 19:41Speaker 4: but I mention it because he was doing experiments there, right.
- 19:46Speaker 4: And so this patient who only went by nof four,
- 19:51Speaker 4: they later found out his real name was Fernando Nanetti.
- 19:56Speaker 3: There was something in the night.
- 19:59Speaker 4: So this guy, it's so sad too, because this Fernando
- 20:03Speaker 4: guy was abandoned by his mother at age seven.
- 20:08Speaker 3: She has dropped him off at the asylum.
- 20:10Speaker 4: Not at this one, just a random one, and he
- 20:14Speaker 4: was institutionalized the rest of his life because he had
- 20:17Speaker 4: nowhere else to go. He had no mental illness to
- 20:20Speaker 4: speak of. And he was transferred to Volterra Asylum in
- 20:26Speaker 4: nineteen fifty eight as an adult, and after he got
- 20:31Speaker 4: transferred to Volterra, his behavior drastically changed into what some
- 20:37Speaker 4: of the nurses referred to as supernatural. He lost his
- 20:42Speaker 4: ability to speak, and he began using his belt to
- 20:47Speaker 4: carve words, symbols, and drawings into the walls of the
- 20:50Speaker 4: asylum courtyard, and over the course of ten years, he
- 20:55Speaker 4: eventually ended up covering the span of two football fields
- 20:59Speaker 4: with these cars. And in these carvings he predicted the
- 21:03Speaker 4: invention of the cell phone as well as the moon landing.
- 21:08Speaker 4: And he also carved intricate details of TVs and complex
- 21:12Speaker 4: electrical systems for like computer software into the walls of
- 21:17Speaker 4: this asylum.
- 21:19Speaker 5: So they were doing something with this kid.
- 21:22Speaker 4: Well, he was an adult when he got trans transfer.
- 21:26Speaker 5: I was going to ask if you knew because you
- 21:27Speaker 5: said nineteen fifty eight. I don't know if you said
- 21:29Speaker 5: the year when his mom dropped him off when he
- 21:31Speaker 5: was seven.
- 21:32Speaker 4: He was seven when he got drped.
- 21:35Speaker 5: No, so he's an adult and he's writing it's it's
- 21:39Speaker 5: almost like a but he would you could make like
- 21:41Speaker 5: a series.
- 21:42Speaker 3: About this guy, like stranger things type shit.
- 21:44Speaker 4: Yeah, but the nurses said when he got there he
- 21:46Speaker 4: was completely normal, and then over time like he lost
- 21:50Speaker 4: his ability to speak, and then he started trying to
- 21:54Speaker 4: communicate through these drugs.
- 21:57Speaker 5: Maybe this is just me spit volume here. Maybe they
- 22:00Speaker 5: were testing all these vaccines on him and they made him.
- 22:03Speaker 3: Autistics Nazi doctor working, right, That's why I'm saying that.
- 22:06Speaker 5: And then he becomes like this clairvoyant, fucking autistic guy
- 22:13Speaker 5: making all these note nostrodamis type modern predictions.
- 22:17Speaker 4: So right before he died, NF four said that when
- 22:22Speaker 4: he arrived at the asylum, he was given the ability
- 22:25Speaker 4: to telepathically communicate with an entity that was connected to
- 22:31Speaker 4: the asylum grounds.
- 22:32Speaker 5: All right, I just does a side note. We should
- 22:36Speaker 5: do a whole episode on this guy.
- 22:38Speaker 4: But the article you read in the last episode about
- 22:42Speaker 4: how these entities or whatever trying to channel through these people,
- 22:47Speaker 4: this guy didn't even have mental illness. He got transferred
- 22:50Speaker 4: to this place. They probably started doing experiments and got in.
- 22:53Speaker 5: They then induced some kind of psychosis or autism.
- 22:58Speaker 3: It might sound like he went nonverbal.
- 23:00Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, he got it down four days off from
- 23:05Speaker 4: the moon landing.
- 23:08Speaker 5: The most important question is did he predict that it
- 23:12Speaker 5: was fake?
- 23:13Speaker 4: No, But he also he wrote about cell phones and
- 23:17Speaker 4: stuff too.
- 23:18Speaker 5: But he got nineteen he said, he said we're going
- 23:21Speaker 5: to land on the Moon and such and such in
- 23:23Speaker 5: nineteen sixty nine. Yeah, and then this was in the
- 23:27Speaker 5: late fifties, so he was like a decade. I mean, yeah,
- 23:31Speaker 5: they hadn't even announced politically that they were going to
- 23:35Speaker 5: do a space race and putting him in on I
- 23:38Speaker 5: mean that was so this was nineteen fifty eight that
- 23:41Speaker 5: he did this.
- 23:42Speaker 4: He started in nineteen fifty eight. It took him ten.
- 23:44Speaker 5: Years, okis so then he would so then he would
- 23:47Speaker 5: have been from fifty eight to sixty eight. I wonder
- 23:52Speaker 5: at what point in there he wrote about.
- 23:54Speaker 3: The moon landing.
- 23:56Speaker 4: There is a lot of information you can find about
- 23:58Speaker 4: this guy, because since the asylum closed, they removed large
- 24:06Speaker 4: chunks of the walls where nf were carved these images,
- 24:10Speaker 4: and they're all in a museum somewhere and that's it's
- 24:15Speaker 4: a suseum in Italy.
- 24:18Speaker 3: That's not like Smithsonian, they said.
- 24:21Speaker 4: They so they took these big chunks of the wall out,
- 24:24Speaker 4: they put them in a museum.
- 24:25Speaker 14: They said, this is just artwork, but it happens to
- 24:30Speaker 14: be prophetic, right, so he is like modern hieroglyphs.
- 24:36Speaker 3: Right.
- 24:37Speaker 4: Well, he also spoke about and the nurses would just say, oh,
- 24:41Speaker 4: he's been in here so long, he's crazy now. But
- 24:45Speaker 4: he would say that the asylum was a portal for
- 24:51Speaker 4: shadow people and that they were coming in and out.
- 24:55Speaker 3: So he said that before he went no, no, he.
- 24:58Speaker 4: Would write it and he would try to communicate with
- 25:01Speaker 4: the nurses, and uh, you can find all of this
- 25:05Speaker 4: stuff if you google this guy's name. His name is
- 25:08Speaker 4: again Fernando or sty Nanetti, and so he went by
- 25:15Speaker 4: n o F four. You could probably google it, just
- 25:18Speaker 4: Volterra Asylum n o F four. You'll find pictures of him.
- 25:21Speaker 4: You'll find pictures of the carvings.
- 25:23Speaker 5: You'll find that you need to the guy who made
- 25:26Speaker 5: Archie Archive eighty one.
- 25:28Speaker 3: Uh huh, he needs to.
- 25:29Speaker 5: Make an NF four series and just have it be
- 25:32Speaker 5: about this guy.
- 25:33Speaker 4: I randomly came across this in an episode of a
- 25:37Speaker 4: show I was watching. And when you read that article,
- 25:41Speaker 4: and do you.
- 25:42Speaker 3: Want to admit everybody to everybody what show it was?
- 25:44Speaker 4: It's a spin off of Ghost Adventures.
- 25:47Speaker 5: As if Ghost Adventures needs to spin off, they.
- 25:50Speaker 3: Apparently have one. What's what's the show called.
- 25:53Speaker 4: It's called Destinations of the Damned, and it's about haunted
- 25:58Speaker 4: locations all over the world, not just in the US.
- 26:02Speaker 3: So how is that different than ghost Adventures.
- 26:04Speaker 4: He doesn't actually go to the location. He sends archaeologists
- 26:08Speaker 4: and he sends like.
- 26:09Speaker 3: Oh boy, he's moving on up.
- 26:11Speaker 4: Yeah, so Zach, he sent like people to go and
- 26:15Speaker 4: look at these.
- 26:16Speaker 5: Do you think he's do you think even though he's
- 26:19Speaker 5: coordinating it from afar, he.
- 26:21Speaker 3: Still gets my next burning Probably.
- 26:24Speaker 5: He's zoom calling with the correspondence on your ound.
- 26:27Speaker 4: It's not an interesting story, but yeah, I want to
- 26:29Speaker 4: do a whole episode on it. Yeah, it could have
- 26:32Speaker 4: its own episode. But you read the article at joggby
- 26:35Speaker 4: Memory about this guy being prophetic as fuck. He didn't
- 26:38Speaker 4: have mental illness. They moved into this place.
- 26:42Speaker 3: Where man, you'll come to find many of them.
- 26:46Speaker 4: Do not, right. But so that is my sum up
- 26:49Speaker 4: of the asylent portion of this episode, because I do
- 26:53Speaker 4: want to get into some pharmaceuticals and it's psychiatry and stuff.
- 26:58Speaker 5: I'm glad you're covering the pharmaceuticle angle of it, because
- 27:02Speaker 5: I'm not.
- 27:03Speaker 4: I have quite a few notes on the pharmaceutical aspect.
- 27:06Speaker 3: Good, So where do you want to start?
- 27:08Speaker 4: Do you want me to run through the pharmaceuticals.
- 27:10Speaker 5: First, Well, I think we should, because, for example, maybe
- 27:14Speaker 5: you'll mention this prozac became a big thing.
- 27:20Speaker 3: In what the seventies or eighties? Yeah, so which one
- 27:26Speaker 3: is it?
- 27:27Speaker 4: My eighties?
- 27:28Speaker 3: Eighties?
- 27:29Speaker 5: But I mean, I think the eighties in general were
- 27:32Speaker 5: a huge fucking decade for the pharmaceutical industry.
- 27:36Speaker 4: And it bled over big time into the nineties.
- 27:39Speaker 15: With the.
- 27:42Speaker 3: Commodifying fucking depression.
- 27:44Speaker 4: And yeah, it's started to become like a like a
- 27:47Speaker 4: we can take the pharmaceuticals and mix match them with
- 27:51Speaker 4: the Laurel camps as I like to call them. And
- 28:00Speaker 4: obviously we're going to talk about psychiatry and how it's
- 28:02Speaker 4: escalated from there. But before we do that, I kind
- 28:07Speaker 4: of wanted to just talk about briefly the origins of
- 28:11Speaker 4: some of these big name pharmaceuticals that are still in
- 28:15Speaker 4: use today that I feel like, are it's utterly insane
- 28:18Speaker 4: that anybody puts this shit into their bodies. Utterly insane.
- 28:23Speaker 4: So the first drug specifically targeted for mental illness was lithium, right,
- 28:32Speaker 4: and it was used by psychiatrists in the eighteen seventies lithium.
- 28:40Speaker 4: But you know where they get you is the lithium
- 28:43Speaker 4: that's available for prescription now is not the lithium that
- 28:49Speaker 4: they were using in eighteen seven.
- 28:52Speaker 5: Say your great granddaddy's lithium. So so are you saying
- 28:58Speaker 5: it was better to have the old lithium?
- 29:01Speaker 4: Yeah, because actually, long before modern medicine, Roman physicians recognized
- 29:09Speaker 4: the therapeutic effects of natural spring water that was high
- 29:13Speaker 4: in lithium. Content.
- 29:15Speaker 5: Tell you right now as a side note, I haven't
- 29:18Speaker 5: shown you this, but you know the downtown.
- 29:21Speaker 3: Square of Ashland. Yeah, there's a fucking.
- 29:26Speaker 5: Drinking fountain that comes out of Lithia Creek that runs
- 29:29Speaker 5: through Ashland, and this is like it tastes like bubbly.
- 29:34Speaker 3: Ocean water and people go high in lithium. Yeah, people
- 29:38Speaker 3: go there and drink it.
- 29:39Speaker 4: That's the lithium that they were using to treat people.
- 29:43Speaker 3: So there's just using from natural sources.
- 29:45Speaker 4: Natural spring water that was high in lithium. The lithium
- 29:50Speaker 4: that's prescribed to people today is some kind of petroleum
- 29:53Speaker 4: synthetic grosser.
- 29:55Speaker 3: Yeah, it all is now. Yeah, they synthesized it and
- 29:59Speaker 3: they they.
- 30:00Speaker 4: Turned it into petrochemical. So of course other than lithium,
- 30:08Speaker 4: they would use like thor zine and shit like that,
- 30:11Speaker 4: because you can't be crazy if you just constantly knocked
- 30:13Speaker 4: the fuck out basically. But something that I wanted to
- 30:19Speaker 4: address is that most of the modern day antidepressants that
- 30:24Speaker 4: the doctors will put you on, the active ingredient is fluoride.
- 30:30Speaker 5: Right, especially Prozac, yes, which I don't think they really
- 30:35Speaker 5: use anymore. I think they phased out to these more
- 30:39Speaker 5: modernized SSRIs.
- 30:41Speaker 4: You're still gonna find docs out there who want them.
- 30:44Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I know, I know it's not completely discontinued,
- 30:47Speaker 5: but I think.
- 30:47Speaker 4: It's the My mom took it for years, proses zach.
- 30:53Speaker 4: Do you know what the generic name for prozac is?
- 30:58Speaker 4: Fluoxetine as in fluoride. Fluoride oxcene is the generic name
- 31:10Speaker 4: for prozac. I mean, if you think you're getting away
- 31:14Speaker 4: from fluoride by taking other SSRI's like lexapro, think again,
- 31:20Speaker 4: because one of the number one active ingredients in lexapro
- 31:25Speaker 4: is fluoride.
- 31:28Speaker 5: I was just looking up to see Mother's Little Helper
- 31:32Speaker 5: by the rolling Stones.
- 31:34Speaker 3: I didn't remember what that was about. You know, it's valium.
- 31:39Speaker 5: I think lithium, valium, prozac, lexapro, now a bunch of
- 31:46Speaker 5: just huge offshoots of those latter ones, Like.
- 31:52Speaker 3: Can you think of any.
- 31:55Speaker 4: That are used right now?
- 31:57Speaker 3: I mean, my sister's been on all of them.
- 32:00Speaker 16: My mom, we.
- 32:00Speaker 5: Should have had her, We should have had her as
- 32:03Speaker 5: like a ten minute guest spot zoomer in. No, because
- 32:06Speaker 5: she likes them, so it's okay to get the other side.
- 32:10Speaker 5: I mean, she actually has had really bad experiences with
- 32:14Speaker 5: certain ones.
- 32:15Speaker 6: Well.
- 32:15Speaker 4: The thing about it, though, is they say that they
- 32:19Speaker 4: put that high amount of fluoride in these drugs because
- 32:23Speaker 4: it improves their efficacy, which means it totally shuts your
- 32:27Speaker 4: fucking brain down.
- 32:29Speaker 5: Well, why do they put it in the water because
- 32:31Speaker 5: teeth teeth. Luckily, we live in one of few states
- 32:36Speaker 5: that hasn't fluoridated their water.
- 32:39Speaker 3: In fact, as I.
- 32:41Speaker 5: Know, and you'll come to find out when you have
- 32:45Speaker 5: a kid and you take them to the doctor. They
- 32:47Speaker 5: even specify like, yeah, we don't have florid in the
- 32:49Speaker 5: water here in Oregon. Do you want to put your
- 32:51Speaker 5: kid on fluoride pills?
- 32:53Speaker 12: No?
- 32:53Speaker 3: Fuck you very.
- 32:54Speaker 4: Much, Fuck you very much. Yeah.
- 32:57Speaker 5: I mean, eventually they stop asking because they just know
- 33:01Speaker 5: I mean they.
- 33:01Speaker 3: Have to ask.
- 33:03Speaker 4: I'm sure they have to ask.
- 33:04Speaker 5: On their required questionnaire that every.
- 33:08Speaker 4: Doctor saying, we have to put fluoride in these antidepressants
- 33:13Speaker 4: because it improves the efficacy.
- 33:15Speaker 5: Well, it's like adding shit to fucking tobacco when you make.
- 33:19Speaker 4: Cigarettes, but improves their efficacy because it totally calcifies your
- 33:24Speaker 4: fucking brain hole.
- 33:27Speaker 3: I mean that is generally what they're going for.
- 33:31Speaker 4: So another ingredient that is used in almost every pharmaceutical,
- 33:38Speaker 4: but especially synthetic antidepressants, is petroleum derivatives.
- 33:45Speaker 3: I think that's just in most pharmaceuticals.
- 33:48Speaker 4: In thailan al, advil, they all have petrochemicals. And the
- 33:55Speaker 4: reason that they use petrochemicals is because of So when
- 34:03Speaker 4: we say things like the pharmaceutical industry is an industry
- 34:08Speaker 4: for a reason, it's a money making machine. They don't
- 34:11Speaker 4: care about healing anyone, they don't care about saving anyone.
- 34:15Speaker 4: They're literally synthesizing fluoride and petrochemicals to induce a fucking
- 34:22Speaker 4: lobotomy in a very mild form, right.
- 34:26Speaker 5: And it's it's perpetual. Over time, you're getting the same effect.
- 34:33Speaker 5: It's like I used to say when I was really
- 34:37Speaker 5: big into like all the MDMA research they did in
- 34:39Speaker 5: the eighties. When I was like making this documentary a
- 34:42Speaker 5: long time ago, they talk about how MDMA was being
- 34:50Speaker 5: used in couple's therapy. It was being used for depression,
- 34:54Speaker 5: and the idea was, rather than flood your brain and
- 34:59Speaker 5: fuck your Sara tone and uptake with these modern pills,
- 35:03Speaker 5: you would have three or four sessions with molly, and
- 35:06Speaker 5: that's what MDMA is. And in some of these instances,
- 35:10Speaker 5: like the therapists would take a little and then the
- 35:12Speaker 5: couples would take some and they would just bear their
- 35:14Speaker 5: souls to each other and they was fucking working for
- 35:18Speaker 5: all sorts of shit.
- 35:19Speaker 3: And the pharmaceutical company said, well, that's what ours do.
- 35:22Speaker 5: But it does it over fucking years and years and years,
- 35:25Speaker 5: and it keeps you coming back. So MDMA was just
- 35:29Speaker 5: wiped off the map. Now, I do have a lot
- 35:32Speaker 5: of mixed feelings about what they're doing with some of
- 35:35Speaker 5: these psychedelic studies that are still continuing to day through
- 35:39Speaker 5: places like Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies maps they're doing
- 35:45Speaker 5: like all these but I did see a lot of
- 35:48Speaker 5: value in three therapy sessions for it. The most where
- 35:53Speaker 5: you roll and I have done MDMA a handful of times,
- 35:59Speaker 5: and by God, I think there was something there.
- 36:01Speaker 4: Oh why because it's focusing on spiritual outlets instead of.
- 36:06Speaker 5: No it's I mean, you can look at it, and
- 36:08Speaker 5: it does. If you're spiritually inclined, it will feel that way.
- 36:11Speaker 5: But what it does is it just lets you look
- 36:16Speaker 5: at yourself from an objective, empathetic perspective, which you were
- 36:23Speaker 5: not able to do in our bodies. For some reason,
- 36:27Speaker 5: maybe we can maybe we lost it, but this allows
- 36:32Speaker 5: you to just be.
- 36:34Speaker 3: Completely open and honest. I mean you could like.
- 36:37Speaker 4: Okay, but yeah, that sounds like a spiritual thing.
- 36:39Speaker 3: For sure, it is. There's a spiritual level to it.
- 36:41Speaker 5: But you could take atheists and get the same result
- 36:44Speaker 5: and they would just look at it as better living
- 36:47Speaker 5: through chemistry or whatever. But my whole point was this
- 36:52Speaker 5: Rockefeller model of medicine couldn't survive. If you were letting
- 36:56Speaker 5: things through the cracks into the psychotherapy offices across the country,
- 37:01Speaker 5: you would quickly drive them under, and so of course
- 37:06Speaker 5: they did, or they drove them under so they wouldn't
- 37:10Speaker 5: be driven under. Also, something I wanted to mention because
- 37:13Speaker 5: the Rockefeller thing, I'm assuming that ninety nine point ninety
- 37:17Speaker 5: ninety nine percent of people listening or watching this are
- 37:22Speaker 5: very aware of the Rockefeller system.
- 37:23Speaker 3: But I couldn't help.
- 37:25Speaker 5: But notice I've always been a King of the Hill fan.
- 37:28Speaker 3: Julia's like, yeah, on it.
- 37:30Speaker 5: But I've been watching the new one, and of course
- 37:33Speaker 5: my favorite character is Dale Dale, and in this one,
- 37:38Speaker 5: he's like saying all the shit, but it's just you know,
- 37:40Speaker 5: he's he's mentioned in he always did, but he's mentioned
- 37:43Speaker 5: in like Rockefeller Medicine. And in one of the more
- 37:47Speaker 5: recent episodes I watched, he was talking about the Zepruder
- 37:51Speaker 5: film and he's like, if you zoo him in on
- 37:54Speaker 5: such and such frame, you see this, And he's like,
- 37:56Speaker 5: but it's all fake anyway.
- 37:57Speaker 3: And I was like, oh my god, they're like up.
- 37:59Speaker 5: But then you gotta wonder, like because Mike Judge is
- 38:02Speaker 5: probably very aware of all this shit, but he chooses
- 38:05Speaker 5: like this character that no one takes seriously to be
- 38:09Speaker 5: like the outlet for all those ideas.
- 38:11Speaker 3: And I think that's the problem with a lot.
- 38:13Speaker 5: Of you know, pop culture conspiracy stuff, is it's never
- 38:17Speaker 5: like a credible character. The guy's wife's been fucking the
- 38:20Speaker 5: Indian dude, right, in front of his eyes. He misses
- 38:22Speaker 5: the most obvious shit, but he's in tune with all
- 38:25Speaker 5: these conspiracies.
- 38:26Speaker 3: Anyway, that's a tangent.
- 38:27Speaker 5: But I think we were talking about the petroleum based.
- 38:32Speaker 4: The Rockefeller stuff. I mean, yeah, I think that a
- 38:36Speaker 4: lot of people are aware of it. I don't think
- 38:38Speaker 4: that they're aware that it's in literally everything. It's in Thailand, all,
- 38:42Speaker 4: it's in Advil.
- 38:43Speaker 5: It's it's not even hard information to find. I mean,
- 38:46Speaker 5: you know, people don't give a fuck. But like the
- 38:49Speaker 5: other night, I had a headache and you asked if
- 38:51Speaker 5: I wanted something, and I said no, I.
- 38:52Speaker 4: Was talking about Adville. I said, do you want some
- 38:56Speaker 4: vix on your forehead? I didn't, which actually contains petroleum.
- 39:01Speaker 3: So it all does, babe.
- 39:03Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I guess you're right about that, But
- 39:06Speaker 4: I was gonna.
- 39:06Speaker 5: It's like seed oils and food is the petroleum and
- 39:09Speaker 5: everything else.
- 39:10Speaker 4: Sometimes when I have a bad headache, putting a little
- 39:12Speaker 4: vixa on my forehead helps.
- 39:14Speaker 5: You could also get fucking peppermint essential oils.
- 39:18Speaker 4: We don't have any right now.
- 39:19Speaker 3: Well, I'm just saying it.
- 39:21Speaker 5: You can get that sensation from completely non petroleum products.
- 39:26Speaker 4: Definitely, I would prefer that.
- 39:28Speaker 5: Well, I mean I could get a bottle next time
- 39:29Speaker 5: I go. I mean I can get you a bottle
- 39:31Speaker 5: by three o'clock this afternoon.
- 39:33Speaker 4: I was going to talk a little bit about antipsychotics
- 39:36Speaker 4: as well, because they're in the same loop as the antidepressants,
- 39:41Speaker 4: and it's actually going to be a good segue into psychiatry.
- 39:44Speaker 4: So the main anti psychotics are ziprexa, Wrispitoal, sarraquil, Abilify,
- 39:59Speaker 4: zell docs, and in Vega, and then they have all
- 40:03Speaker 4: the generic names listed here. But Sarahquill was given to
- 40:09Speaker 4: me when I was in tenth grade because I didn't
- 40:15Speaker 4: want to go to school, so I was truant, and
- 40:20Speaker 4: the truant officer ordered that I go to a talk
- 40:24Speaker 4: therapist who was a psychiatrist.
- 40:27Speaker 3: We call them shrinks and kneads, neked the woods.
- 40:29Speaker 4: And she told my mom that my behavioral issues in
- 40:33Speaker 4: not wanting to go to school was because I was psychotic,
- 40:36Speaker 4: and she put me on a super high fucking dose
- 40:39Speaker 4: of sarah quill. I couldn't move, I couldn't talk, I
- 40:43Speaker 4: couldn't fucking eat. I could all I could do is
- 40:46Speaker 4: get in the feetus position and fucking sleep. That's all
- 40:50Speaker 4: I could do. And so in tenth fucking grade, this woman,
- 40:55Speaker 4: who was ordered by the court by the state of Ohio,
- 40:59Speaker 4: put me on an antipsychotic medication, and then she recommended
- 41:04Speaker 4: to my mom that I go to one of these
- 41:05Speaker 4: lora wood encampments and get like talk therapy and stuff
- 41:10Speaker 4: like that and paint pictures of my bee hole, because
- 41:14Speaker 4: that was going to fix the part I didn't want
- 41:15Speaker 4: to go to school.
- 41:17Speaker 5: You know, I always from a young age noticed because
- 41:23Speaker 5: I was a compliance student. At first, I didn't start,
- 41:27Speaker 5: you know, stop giving a fuck about school or start
- 41:29Speaker 5: not giving a fuck about school until like early high school.
- 41:33Speaker 9: I was like.
- 41:35Speaker 3: I was in the.
- 41:36Speaker 5: Talented gifted program. I was fucking always wanting to do
- 41:40Speaker 5: very well. And then I like got interested in women
- 41:43Speaker 5: and everything else that teen boys get interested in. But
- 41:49Speaker 5: I didn't notice early on, like maybe junior high level,
- 41:52Speaker 5: maybe a little bit before then, all the fucking outcast kids,
- 41:57Speaker 5: the kids that they did what they did to you.
- 42:01Speaker 5: They're the smartest fucking kids in school. They're the ones
- 42:04Speaker 5: going the fuck is all this this doesn't feel right.
- 42:08Speaker 5: I should fucking not comply. I didn't, And what do
- 42:12Speaker 5: they do with the non compliant. They start you early
- 42:15Speaker 5: on this fucking treadmill of psychiatry pharmaceutical shit, and they
- 42:21Speaker 5: actually make the smart kids want to do drugs. And
- 42:27Speaker 5: I really did think that there was always like a
- 42:29Speaker 5: double edged.
- 42:31Speaker 3: Mission with like the DARE program.
- 42:34Speaker 5: Because you're telling the compliant kids to not do drugs.
- 42:38Speaker 5: On the other hand, you're telling the non.
- 42:39Speaker 3: Compliant kids that this is their path. What do they
- 42:43Speaker 3: tell you?
- 42:43Speaker 5: Only bad kids do drugs, And these kids have already
- 42:46Speaker 5: been told time and time again that they're bad because
- 42:48Speaker 5: they don't listen and they get it distracted when the
- 42:51Speaker 5: light's flickering and it's fucking fifteen minutes until recess. Those
- 42:55Speaker 5: are the kids that they put on the drugs, and
- 42:57Speaker 5: then the kids that do recreational drugs and the kids
- 43:00Speaker 5: that oftentimes drop out of high school become a lot
- 43:03Speaker 5: of these throwaways in society, but they're very fucking intelligent people.
- 43:08Speaker 4: Well, think about it like this, because I'll just tell
- 43:11Speaker 4: you from my experience, and this is this segue that,
- 43:14Speaker 4: by the way, all of those antipsychotic drugs have petrochemicals,
- 43:17Speaker 4: and floor I.
- 43:18Speaker 5: Could just assume that anything pharmaceutical is going to be
- 43:22Speaker 5: just fucking straight up poison. It is poisonous regardless of
- 43:25Speaker 5: what it does to your brain. It's fucking killing your organs. Oh,
- 43:29Speaker 5: killing your libido most of the fucking time.
- 43:34Speaker 4: Lexipro, by the way, I have I have a friend
- 43:37Speaker 4: who takes it to this day and she's like, well.
- 43:40Speaker 3: What's her name? Where she live?
- 43:42Speaker 16: Just kidding?
- 43:43Speaker 4: So she's taking it forever long.
- 43:46Speaker 3: And has she listened?
- 43:48Speaker 13: No?
- 43:48Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, I just didn't want to make things awkward.
- 43:51Speaker 4: Oh but so she told me one day, she said,
- 43:54Speaker 4: I'd like to take the lexipro because I don't have
- 43:57Speaker 4: to deal with the anxiety or the depress anymore. But
- 44:01Speaker 4: I cannot get any sensation in my vagina whatsoever. So
- 44:07Speaker 4: what is betraying mood? I'm sorry, but that would make
- 44:11Speaker 4: me depressed.
- 44:12Speaker 5: You know, some women get to that point anyway, so
- 44:15Speaker 5: they don't give a fuck with the drugs. I mean,
- 44:17Speaker 5: I'm not to just leave men out of the equation.
- 44:20Speaker 5: Some people get to the like mundane stages of life
- 44:24Speaker 5: and they're sex to have goes.
- 44:25Speaker 3: But then you throw this on top of that.
- 44:28Speaker 4: But that's besides the point. Think of what they do
- 44:30Speaker 4: to Like, some of the most creative kids who are
- 44:33Speaker 4: quote unquote what HyperAct is troubled. So when I was
- 44:38Speaker 4: in like what you were saying, maybe middle school, Uh,
- 44:43Speaker 4: the teachers would tell my mom like she's got kind
- 44:47Speaker 4: of like her head in the clouds all the time,
- 44:50Speaker 4: like she doesn't really want to focus on her assignments
- 44:52Speaker 4: and stuff. She's always like doodling and doing whatever and
- 44:57Speaker 4: talking to her friends and passing notes. And we I
- 45:00Speaker 4: think that she could she might benefit from maybe like
- 45:03Speaker 4: adderall or something that could help with focus. And my
- 45:07Speaker 4: mom was always like no for that stuff because I
- 45:10Speaker 4: was just a normal kid. I just didn't like really.
- 45:13Speaker 3: So what sold her on the antipsychotic.
- 45:17Speaker 4: They put a warrant out for my arrest because I
- 45:21Speaker 4: was not going to school.
- 45:23Speaker 5: I remember you talking about this on an old episode
- 45:25Speaker 5: of Deplorable Nation, shut Out, Janet.
- 45:28Speaker 4: Yeah, they put a warrant out for my arrest because
- 45:30Speaker 4: I stopped going to school altogether because I was like,
- 45:32Speaker 4: fuck all this shit. And when we went to court,
- 45:37Speaker 4: the court ordered me to see this psychiatrist who wanted
- 45:44Speaker 4: to put me on antipsychotic medicine. And she wanted me
- 45:49Speaker 4: to take this antipsychotic medicine and she wanted me to
- 45:55Speaker 4: go to this Laurel Wood Encampment place and paint pictures
- 46:01Speaker 4: or whatever like that's supposed to help. And then after
- 46:07Speaker 4: all that was done, I still ended up having to
- 46:09Speaker 4: go to jail and they didn't even give me my fucking.
- 46:17Speaker 10: What.
- 46:19Speaker 4: They didn't even give me my drugs when I was
- 46:22Speaker 4: in jail. So how was that supposed to help?
- 46:25Speaker 5: You know, they say jail's one of the easiest places
- 46:29Speaker 5: to get drugs if.
- 46:29Speaker 4: You want them, not Sarah quill, what was the point
- 46:33Speaker 4: of do you want no? But I'm just saying, what
- 46:36Speaker 4: was the point of going through with all that and
- 46:38Speaker 4: just to end up still having to go to jail
- 46:40Speaker 4: sitting there eating fucking fruit cups.
- 46:42Speaker 5: And it's kind of like what we were talking about
- 46:44Speaker 5: yesterday with where you were at that job where they
- 46:47Speaker 5: wanted you to get the COVID shot and they just
- 46:50Speaker 5: dangled all this stuff in front of you, small threats.
- 46:54Speaker 5: None of it stuck with you, and then they're just
- 46:56Speaker 5: like fuck it, let it slide. Yeah, but you and
- 47:00Speaker 5: your mom, it sounds like there you know, you would
- 47:03Speaker 5: hit a point where something needed to change. I mean,
- 47:07Speaker 5: I just as a parent, even if I didn't know,
- 47:12Speaker 5: I mean who the fuck knows. I can't imagine not
- 47:14Speaker 5: knowing all this stuff that we've learned through all this
- 47:17Speaker 5: conspiracy research. But to put a fucking kid on a
- 47:22Speaker 5: drug that forever changes their personality, whether they stay on
- 47:26Speaker 5: it or not.
- 47:28Speaker 3: What just seems like such a very long You know
- 47:31Speaker 3: a lot of them, you're good.
- 47:34Speaker 5: But some of these ones they put like suicidal depressed
- 47:38Speaker 5: people on, there's no turning back. It's like ozimpic for
- 47:43Speaker 5: the mind.
- 47:46Speaker 4: I mean, that's a good way to put it. But anyways,
- 47:48Speaker 4: that's my segue.
- 47:49Speaker 5: Into ozimpic frontal cortex instead of ozimpic volva.
- 47:53Speaker 4: I think they all give you ozimpic frontal cortex. I mean,
- 47:58Speaker 4: I don't know why I said, you're fucking pharmaceutical level.
- 48:01Speaker 3: Well here's the other thing.
- 48:02Speaker 5: We're not gonna go a deep dive into these SSRIs,
- 48:06Speaker 5: but anybody who wants to, and there's a lot of
- 48:08Speaker 5: great podcasters out there who have done that. When you
- 48:12Speaker 5: look at like what they know about serotonin and what
- 48:18Speaker 5: they know about what causes depression, these fucking SSRIs are
- 48:22Speaker 5: a shot in the dark.
- 48:23Speaker 3: They rarely work on people. I think it's like just
- 48:26Speaker 3: going on memory.
- 48:27Speaker 5: I think it's around like twenty percent of people report
- 48:30Speaker 5: like positive changes. Other people say like, yeah, it just
- 48:35Speaker 5: helps keep.
- 48:35Speaker 3: Them baseline and afloat.
- 48:37Speaker 5: And then there's the fucking other outliers, which it's a
- 48:40Speaker 5: huge it's not even an outlier. I shouldn't even say
- 48:42Speaker 5: that word. It's more like casualties. People who fucking do
- 48:47Speaker 5: kill themselves because these things take the edge off, or
- 48:51Speaker 5: they go on them and then they don't like what
- 48:53Speaker 5: they do, then they stop taking them, and then they
- 48:55Speaker 5: kill themselves. I mean, there's all sorts of ways this goes,
- 48:57Speaker 5: but the success rate is dog shit and it's amazing
- 49:01Speaker 5: to me that they keep fucking cranking them out there
- 49:04Speaker 5: because people want to look at like the opioid pandemic
- 49:07Speaker 5: or pandemic the opioid epidemic, and they want to look
- 49:10Speaker 5: at other things, but the SSR eyes. I think in
- 49:13Speaker 5: like one hundred years, we're gonna look back and go,
- 49:16Speaker 5: what the fuck were we doing.
- 49:18Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be like the lobotomy.
- 49:20Speaker 4: Yes, I know, you know what I think is working
- 49:23Speaker 4: for some people and they don't even realize it. I
- 49:25Speaker 4: don't think it's got anything to do with the serotonin uptake. Whatever.
- 49:30Speaker 4: I think it's florid because it's the fluoride.
- 49:33Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's not even like they've found things now
- 49:36Speaker 5: they're putting in these things that are better than florid
- 49:39Speaker 5: at numbing you. Like florid was the bit like where
- 49:42Speaker 5: they started doing this, And now they've found all sorts
- 49:45Speaker 5: of new chemicals that I wouldn't want to think they'd
- 49:49Speaker 5: ever put in the drinking water, but I wouldn't put
- 49:51Speaker 5: it past them either. I mean, if you're gonna put
- 49:54Speaker 5: florid in the drinking water, what wouldn't you do?
- 49:58Speaker 4: Yeah, poison the town waters. Apply that's all you have.
- 50:01Speaker 4: Buy a warfare man, that's what it is.
- 50:03Speaker 5: Well, yeah, and they've been doing it in smaller ways
- 50:06Speaker 5: to all of us, to the people who don't get
- 50:08Speaker 5: institutionalized or go through the mental health system. Is frequencies
- 50:14Speaker 5: and all sorts of shit that we all are.
- 50:16Speaker 3: A subject to.
- 50:17Speaker 4: Like we don't take any pharmaceuticals, right and uh recreationally
- 50:24Speaker 4: occasionally but not for the most part. But no, like
- 50:28Speaker 4: organ doesn't fluorinate their water, and we're not taking serotonin
- 50:32Speaker 4: uptake inhibitors or whatever the fuck. But imagine being in
- 50:35Speaker 4: a state that already fluorinates the water chlorinates.
- 50:40Speaker 3: What that's what we're gonna call it?
- 50:44Speaker 4: What is it called? Just keep going, I'm sorry, is
- 50:46Speaker 4: that not what it's called.
- 50:49Speaker 3: I think it's floridata.
- 50:51Speaker 4: They put fluoride in the water. They're on prozac, and
- 50:57Speaker 4: you know they're getting blasted with fucking for a date,
- 51:02Speaker 4: fluorinates whatever, Babe. I'm just saying people are getting fucked up.
- 51:11Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're gonna segue into some of the darker
- 51:15Speaker 5: stuff at some point.
- 51:16Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 51:16Speaker 5: I would say that the pharmaceutical angle of it, as
- 51:19Speaker 5: dark as it is, it's like, uh seven or a
- 51:26Speaker 5: six on the scale that they have created on what
- 51:29Speaker 5: they're willing to do to mentally ill people who a
- 51:33Speaker 5: lot of the times are not even mentally ill.
- 51:36Speaker 3: And don't even get me or any of them really well.
- 51:39Speaker 4: I was gonna say, don't, and don't even get me
- 51:41Speaker 4: started on like how it's targeted towards women too. Yeah.
- 51:45Speaker 5: I actually have come across that stat quite a few times.
- 51:49Speaker 4: It's just like the lobotomies.
- 51:52Speaker 5: Well, you know, we're just making up for the other
- 51:54Speaker 5: ways that you guys aren't always getting attentioned.
- 51:57Speaker 4: Well, imagine like your prescribed birth control pills, prozac, you
- 52:03Speaker 4: have zimpic.
- 52:04Speaker 5: You have to walk around the street knowing that every
- 52:06Speaker 5: guy that looks at you is thinking about your a JJ.
- 52:10Speaker 4: They think about how this is targeted towards women though.
- 52:13Speaker 5: It's like, especially like when it first came onto the
- 52:15Speaker 5: scene in modern day culture, it was basically only women.
- 52:19Speaker 5: Hysteria was not something that you would say a man was,
- 52:23Speaker 5: you know, suffering from.
- 52:25Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's like, oh, women are crazy women this
- 52:28Speaker 4: women that it's like we've been literally driven to the
- 52:31Speaker 4: point of like a pharmaceutical fucking lobotomy. And then people
- 52:35Speaker 4: wonders why women is all emotionally.
- 52:38Speaker 5: Ye broad and not even to leave out that the
- 52:42Speaker 5: damage that they do mentally to females in this society. Reproductively,
- 52:47Speaker 5: they fuck you too because a lot of this.
- 52:49Speaker 3: Shit and you are one who can speak to this.
- 52:53Speaker 5: A lot of the stuff that they intervene with for
- 52:56Speaker 5: other things they want to fix, it just fucks up
- 52:58Speaker 5: your reproductive system and ways that you'll never recover from.
- 53:03Speaker 4: Yeah, your avocable damage, irreversible.
- 53:07Speaker 5: And we've talked this is a little personal, but we've
- 53:10Speaker 5: talked about your mom with her cancer, Yeah, breast cancer,
- 53:13Speaker 5: and she had taken a some kind of hormone, I assume,
- 53:17Speaker 5: but she had taken some kind of mistigical intervention for breastfeeding.
- 53:21Speaker 5: She didn't want to lac date and you got to wonder,
- 53:23Speaker 5: like I wonder if that causes cancer?
- 53:25Speaker 4: Three times she did it. Yeah, But so this is
- 53:29Speaker 4: this is why I say it leads into the psychiatry aspect,
- 53:32Speaker 4: which we both have a lot of notes on this
- 53:35Speaker 4: documentary we watched. But so I went to one of
- 53:39Speaker 4: these places. It was literally called Laurel Wood, and it
- 53:43Speaker 4: was like for for addition, so you were teenagers.
- 53:46Speaker 5: Destined from day whatever to have a wood for Laurel Canyon.
- 53:54Speaker 4: I didn't even think about it day.
- 53:56Speaker 3: I've thought about it the first time I heard you
- 53:58Speaker 3: say it.
- 53:58Speaker 4: Yeah, it was called Laurel Wood.
- 54:00Speaker 3: We both have Laurel Woods.
- 54:03Speaker 4: But yeah, No, this place was for distraught teenagers who
- 54:06Speaker 4: were and they were all they basically it was a
- 54:09Speaker 4: bunch of teenagers who were all doped up on whatever
- 54:13Speaker 4: antipsychotic of the month that they were prescribing, and they
- 54:20Speaker 4: would they would make you sit in a circle and
- 54:23Speaker 4: talk about nothing literally. And you know, I had a
- 54:31Speaker 4: roommates or whatever that I still have on Facebook, and
- 54:34Speaker 4: every now and again, she'll send me a message and
- 54:36Speaker 4: be like, you know, I see you're doing good in life.
- 54:39Speaker 4: I'm glad things worked out for you if she's doing
- 54:42Speaker 4: good too. But it's like, I don't know, you just
- 54:45Speaker 4: kind of bond over that because you both kind of
- 54:47Speaker 4: look at each other and think to yourself, how the
- 54:49Speaker 4: fuck did we get here?
- 54:50Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like soldiers coming home for more. And I
- 54:57Speaker 3: will say that the thing they did to men in.
- 55:02Speaker 5: These early eras drafting, sending to kill people overseas, that
- 55:10Speaker 5: was like our big fucking depression. And you women have
- 55:17Speaker 5: the mental health industry popping.
- 55:19Speaker 3: Up similar times.
- 55:22Speaker 5: Like men had to on a queue if their number
- 55:26Speaker 5: was called, go fight people for whatever. And you guys
- 55:31Speaker 5: were not allowed to show emotion. I keep saying you guys,
- 55:35Speaker 5: you gals were not allowed to show emotion, not allowed
- 55:38Speaker 5: to disobey your husband under most any circumstance, because otherwise
- 55:43Speaker 5: you could be declared hysterical or insane.
- 55:47Speaker 4: I mean, think about I mean.
- 55:49Speaker 5: Just look at that era of what it did to
- 55:50Speaker 5: both genders and now they don't even have any.
- 55:55Speaker 4: No shit. But I mean, in these places, it to me,
- 56:02Speaker 4: I have like a PTSD thing about it because it
- 56:07Speaker 4: felt like it felt like you were literally scum. They
- 56:13Speaker 4: would watch you shower, watch you undress and dress, they
- 56:18Speaker 4: would pat you down and rub your crotch and do
- 56:21Speaker 4: all kinds of stuff to make sure you weren't smuggling
- 56:24Speaker 4: a blade to try to kill yourself. And the food the.
- 56:28Speaker 3: True to deter people from suicide.
- 56:33Speaker 4: I'm just saying I was. I was in tenth grade, babe,
- 56:37Speaker 4: tenth grade, and then I went to jail on top
- 56:40Speaker 4: of that, and sometimes, you know, with all the story,
- 56:43Speaker 4: my dad was a psychopath and he would always get
- 56:45Speaker 4: admitted into these places and we'd have to go visit him.
- 56:49Speaker 4: And when I see it in a movie even I
- 56:52Speaker 4: get like triggered, like my god, because once you've been
- 56:56Speaker 4: in there and they don't let you out.
- 56:59Speaker 5: So next week to be a fun episode, right, all
- 57:02Speaker 5: the triggering fucking pop culture.
- 57:04Speaker 4: But I've tried to explain it to you. I know,
- 57:06Speaker 4: I don't let you out until they're ready to let
- 57:09Speaker 4: you out. You can beg cry, scream for your.
- 57:12Speaker 5: Mom, and that actually, in their minds makes them think
- 57:16Speaker 5: you need to be in there longer if you act
- 57:18Speaker 5: out because you don't want to be a fucking prisoner,
- 57:21Speaker 5: which same people do not enjoy being fucking locked away.
- 57:26Speaker 4: No, they would let you. They would let me call
- 57:28Speaker 4: my mom like once a week. It was horrible. But anyways,
- 57:33Speaker 4: this is what's gonna seguees into the psychiatry aspect. I
- 57:37Speaker 4: sent you a documentary to watch. It popped up randomly
- 57:41Speaker 4: on my YouTube because I was looking for other things
- 57:44Speaker 4: about the Willows Brooks State School, and it said, Uh,
- 57:49Speaker 4: what was the title, like, craziest Psychiatry? Uh, something.
- 57:58Speaker 5: Corrupt psychiatric spittles in the US from the nineteen nineties.
- 58:03Speaker 4: Our life is it BBC, isn't it?
- 58:07Speaker 5: Or I don't know what it is, something like that,
- 58:10Speaker 5: some kind.
- 58:10Speaker 4: Of sometimes with the accent is naring.
- 58:14Speaker 3: Yeah, and I will when it comes around to me
- 58:16Speaker 3: on this.
- 58:16Speaker 5: I do have a few clips that I have pulled
- 58:19Speaker 5: from here just because they speak better than we could
- 58:23Speaker 5: describe what they're saying.
- 58:25Speaker 4: And you know, anyway, So what was your thoughts about
- 58:31Speaker 4: the documentary? Overview?
- 58:35Speaker 15: Uh?
- 58:37Speaker 5: To give people just a little background on it. It's
- 58:40Speaker 5: a documentary looks like it was made in the nineties,
- 58:44Speaker 5: and the thing that was going on was the focus
- 58:47Speaker 5: of the documentary was happening in Houston. It seemed to
- 58:50Speaker 5: be a modern situation where this guy who went by
- 58:56Speaker 5: doctor Mark Bolin, he had falsified his creditdentials and he
- 59:02Speaker 5: came up with.
- 59:02Speaker 3: This scheme.
- 59:06Speaker 5: Where it was basically a privatized kidnapping situation where they
- 59:13Speaker 5: would funnel in people into an institution through therapists, doctors.
- 59:19Speaker 5: There was even some ties to suicide hotline, and every
- 59:24Speaker 5: step of the way, they mainly took people who were
- 59:30Speaker 5: insured privately, so they knew they could bleed money.
- 59:34Speaker 3: And it's funny too.
- 59:35Speaker 5: A lot of these people got out of it by
- 59:37Speaker 5: saying that my insurance isn't any good anymore, or they
- 59:41Speaker 5: noticed the coverage was gone. But anyway, every step of
- 59:45Speaker 5: the way, they're just bleeding dollars and dollars and dollars.
- 59:47Speaker 5: And there is places where, like what Juliet was talking
- 59:52Speaker 5: about earlier, they had one physician on staff for thirty
- 59:56Speaker 5: to thirty five people, and they would call in doctor
- 1:00:00Speaker 5: to make rounds, ask how are you feeling today? And
- 1:00:03Speaker 5: every patient was like one hundred bucks, and this doctor
- 1:00:07Speaker 5: would just go around to like thirty people. Now we'll
- 1:00:10Speaker 5: get into how they were getting these people in there,
- 1:00:13Speaker 5: but my overall thoughts on it was I was a
- 1:00:16Speaker 5: little shocked that this was going on this late. I'm
- 1:00:21Speaker 5: sure it still is on smaller levels, but this was
- 1:00:24Speaker 5: just an out in the open scheme. And they even
- 1:00:28Speaker 5: have this marketing real and they market for it. They have,
- 1:00:34Speaker 5: like I imagine during soap operas during the day or
- 1:00:38Speaker 5: like late night TV, these infomercials with one eight hundred
- 1:00:42Speaker 5: numbers for these places, trying to get your kids, trying
- 1:00:45Speaker 5: to get anybody who felt a little emotionally unstable. But yeah,
- 1:00:49Speaker 5: why don't you go over your thoughts on it first,
- 1:00:51Speaker 5: and then I have some some of the situations I
- 1:00:54Speaker 5: want to talk about what you might cover on your own,
- 1:00:56Speaker 5: and then I won't have to. But I also had
- 1:00:58Speaker 5: like two or three shortish clips from it that I
- 1:01:03Speaker 5: thought would be cool to share.
- 1:01:04Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad you did that too, because I didn't
- 1:01:07Speaker 4: have any clips queued up. But I think it's important
- 1:01:10Speaker 4: for people, if they don't want to watch the entire documentary,
- 1:01:13Speaker 4: to see at least some parts of it. Because I
- 1:01:19Speaker 4: saw the title, I.
- 1:01:20Speaker 3: Mean it could even put in the show notes the
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: link to it.
- 1:01:23Speaker 4: Yeah, I will.
- 1:01:24Speaker 17: So.
- 1:01:25Speaker 4: I was watching the Willow Brooks State School with Heraldo Rivera.
- 1:01:30Speaker 4: This was in the side panel for like the recommended say,
- 1:01:33Speaker 4: corrupt psychiatric hospitals in the US from the nineteen nineties,
- 1:01:37Speaker 4: and I did that nineties mini series and I was like, Oh,
- 1:01:41Speaker 4: that's so interesting that it was some type of corrupt
- 1:01:46Speaker 4: hospitals in the nineties. I wonder what they were doing.
- 1:01:49Speaker 4: And I clicked on it and I was just, you know,
- 1:01:53Speaker 4: working on my notes. I think I maybe did some dishes,
- 1:01:58Speaker 4: jumped in the shower, and I was listening to it
- 1:02:01Speaker 4: in the background, and there were parts that came up
- 1:02:05Speaker 4: in the documentary where I literally just stopped and I
- 1:02:07Speaker 4: was like, what the fuck, what the actual fuck? I mean,
- 1:02:13Speaker 4: these people were getting kidnapped, they were getting and some
- 1:02:18Speaker 4: of their lives were absolutely ruined by this.
- 1:02:21Speaker 5: Normal everyday people living normal everyday lives, having normal everyday
- 1:02:27Speaker 5: problems became victims of this thing.
- 1:02:29Speaker 4: Yeah, and some of them got their kids taken away,
- 1:02:33Speaker 4: some of them.
- 1:02:34Speaker 5: Yeah, We've got some examples that will show clips of,
- 1:02:36Speaker 5: but one of them is I think it's one of
- 1:02:39Speaker 5: the first ones they talk about, and Julia and I
- 1:02:42Speaker 5: both remembered it because it's crazy. This married couple had
- 1:02:49Speaker 5: an eighteen month old child and they were trying to
- 1:02:51Speaker 5: save their marriage and the husband was even quoted in
- 1:02:54Speaker 5: the documentary as saying, I wasn't trying to save it
- 1:02:57Speaker 5: for sheer. I I was mainly focused on saving it
- 1:02:59Speaker 5: for child, which say what you want about that, I
- 1:03:02Speaker 5: don't agree with it. Some people want to avoid divorce altogether.
- 1:03:05Speaker 5: But if you can't get your shit together, get out
- 1:03:08Speaker 5: for the sake of the kid. Don't stay for the
- 1:03:10Speaker 5: sake of the kid. But his head was in the
- 1:03:11Speaker 5: right place. He wanted to save it. So they were
- 1:03:13Speaker 5: in couple's therapy and one day he didn't hear back
- 1:03:18Speaker 5: from her after their session, and he called around and finally,
- 1:03:23Speaker 5: like at eleven o'clock at night, he got a call
- 1:03:25Speaker 5: back from a doctor said she.
- 1:03:26Speaker 4: Had been his wife.
- 1:03:28Speaker 5: Yeah, had been held at a facility, and he ended
- 1:03:34Speaker 5: up finding where it was and going there, and it
- 1:03:36Speaker 5: took him some trouble to get in, and once he
- 1:03:38Speaker 5: got in, he got surrounded. He never saw his wife,
- 1:03:41Speaker 5: and then they committed him and they and what they
- 1:03:45Speaker 5: do is they have this twenty eight day program where
- 1:03:50Speaker 5: you are a prisoner. Sometimes some of these examples that
- 1:03:55Speaker 5: were brought up in the documentary, people were lucky enough
- 1:03:58Speaker 5: to get a hold of law enforcement and get some
- 1:04:01Speaker 5: like good people working on that indto things to like
- 1:04:06Speaker 5: intervene and get you the fuck out of there, But
- 1:04:07Speaker 5: most of these people didn't.
- 1:04:09Speaker 3: And this went on for years. I mean the attorney
- 1:04:11Speaker 3: general of texts.
- 1:04:12Speaker 5: Of so this was in Houston, yeah, Texas, and I
- 1:04:15Speaker 5: don't know if it was the local attorney general or
- 1:04:18Speaker 5: the state, but they stepped in and caught this guy,
- 1:04:21Speaker 5: found out that his credentials were fucking forged, and he
- 1:04:26Speaker 5: would get these doctors to like play along and get
- 1:04:30Speaker 5: rich with him in the process. And a lot of
- 1:04:32Speaker 5: these people they interview in the documentary or doctors that
- 1:04:35Speaker 5: said fuck you know, but how many said yes enough
- 1:04:38Speaker 5: to get And they also emphasize in the documentary that
- 1:04:42Speaker 5: this is not an isolated event.
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: This happens a lot everywhere. And this was in the nineties.
- 1:04:47Speaker 5: And I'm not to just assume that it's gone away altogether.
- 1:04:50Speaker 4: No, I would say, if anything, they've just gotten more
- 1:04:54Speaker 4: slick about how they run it. Yeah, you want to
- 1:04:58Speaker 4: play your clip.
- 1:04:59Speaker 5: Yeah, So so we talked about one instance with the
- 1:05:02Speaker 5: married couple. Okay, so this guy and I think they
- 1:05:06Speaker 5: do set it up.
- 1:05:07Speaker 3: A little bit.
- 1:05:07Speaker 5: I don't remember how much they say, but basically just
- 1:05:10Speaker 5: a normal guy with the health ailment gets a surgery
- 1:05:14Speaker 5: that ended up being pretty serious, and he gets thrown
- 1:05:17Speaker 5: into this fucking weird system.
- 1:05:21Speaker 18: I've had eighteen major surgeries in almost forty five hours
- 1:05:25Speaker 18: under the knife in the last three years.
- 1:05:29Speaker 11: A surgeon's knife had left Roy Shannon with no spleen
- 1:05:33Speaker 11: and most of his intestines and bowels removed. He was
- 1:05:37Speaker 11: in intense pain. In the process, he'd becomes seriously addicted
- 1:05:41Speaker 11: to painkillers and heavy drugs. To counter his pain and addiction.
- 1:05:46Speaker 11: He was referred to a PIA hospital in Dallas.
- 1:05:50Speaker 18: The telephone conversation that I had with doctor Leon to
- 1:05:54Speaker 18: Brookhaven Psychiatric Hospital had assured me that he could get
- 1:05:57Speaker 18: me on the road recovery.
- 1:06:00Speaker 3: Very nice picture, but that's not what happened.
- 1:06:04Speaker 18: He diagnosed me on the phone as being a manic depressive.
- 1:06:09Speaker 19: We found that UH Brooke caven Is is probably one
- 1:06:13Speaker 19: of the uh UH worst actors UH in, at least
- 1:06:16Speaker 19: in the state. We think primarily because of the clientele
- 1:06:20Speaker 19: that they are usually able to attract UH out there,
- 1:06:23Speaker 19: but also because they employ some unusual forms of psychological
- 1:06:29Speaker 19: therapy that UH are still in testing stages of. For
- 1:06:32Speaker 19: for most uh reasonable practitioners.
- 1:06:35Speaker 18: Their plan for detoxification is, uh they strap you to
- 1:06:39Speaker 18: a bed in uh leather restraints and what hadn't.
- 1:06:47Speaker 3: Uh you're left there.
- 1:06:52Speaker 18: I was left that way through the night, and they
- 1:06:54Speaker 18: had strapped me during the During that time, my legs
- 1:06:57Speaker 18: were spread, my arms were down to the side of
- 1:06:59Speaker 18: the bed, and they were distrapped with a kind of
- 1:07:02Speaker 18: like a leather bands to the bed rails. You're left
- 1:07:05Speaker 18: with a boalbum that has no control as a baby has.
- 1:07:10Speaker 18: And it's like staying in dirty diapers, you know, for
- 1:07:13Speaker 18: through the evening into the night, all night into the
- 1:07:16Speaker 18: next day. And then you're someone comes in and unstraps
- 1:07:19Speaker 18: you and tells you to get up and clean yourself
- 1:07:22Speaker 18: up and let's go to a meeting.
- 1:07:25Speaker 15: How is that supposed to tut you off drugs?
- 1:07:30Speaker 18: I have no idea how that cuts you from drugs?
- 1:07:32Speaker 17: Uh.
- 1:07:34Speaker 18: I mean they restrain you and restrict yous. There's it's
- 1:07:37Speaker 18: like a cold turkey type thing. I felt dejected and rejected.
- 1:07:42Speaker 18: I felt hurt abused.
- 1:07:46Speaker 5: So that's one instance, and I do think it's a
- 1:07:48Speaker 5: little more mild than some of them. But this just
- 1:07:51Speaker 5: to emphasize that this was a guy, through no fault
- 1:07:55Speaker 5: of his own, had a health problem, some serious surgeries
- 1:08:03Speaker 5: that would change the rest of his physical life anyway,
- 1:08:06Speaker 5: and then he gets addicted to painkillers.
- 1:08:08Speaker 4: Imagine, no, hun, they took most of his bows, his spleen,
- 1:08:17Speaker 4: he's got just shits on himself like a baby, and
- 1:08:22Speaker 4: they strap him down to shit on himself throughout the night.
- 1:08:27Speaker 4: And this was supposed to be good for his mental
- 1:08:29Speaker 4: health situation. Yes, just I mean, think of this. Did
- 1:08:40Speaker 4: you see the look on that poor man's face.
- 1:08:44Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you gotta wonder painiful.
- 1:08:47Speaker 5: They don't really talk about, you know, how long he
- 1:08:49Speaker 5: was in there. I assumed he stayed the full twenty
- 1:08:51Speaker 5: eight days, but they did make him go cold turkey
- 1:08:56Speaker 5: and say what you want about that, just.
- 1:08:59Speaker 4: The him down and make him shit on it.
- 1:09:03Speaker 5: Just the whole inhumane treatment of a guy who, yeah,
- 1:09:08Speaker 5: through no fault of his own, you're depressed. Well, yeah,
- 1:09:13Speaker 5: I just had half of my innards removed, fucking red.
- 1:09:17Speaker 4: But think about this, it's the nineties, right, dope sick.
- 1:09:20Speaker 4: They probably put him on fire, oh he was. They
- 1:09:23Speaker 4: probably put.
- 1:09:24Speaker 5: Him before he was out the door of the hospital.
- 1:09:28Speaker 5: He's popping those things like smarties, garing fucking teed.
- 1:09:31Speaker 4: So they get him addicted first off to the pain medication.
- 1:09:35Speaker 3: And then they wonder why he's depressed.
- 1:09:36Speaker 4: And then they wonder why he's depressed.
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: Have you ever met an up aty junkie?
- 1:09:41Speaker 4: But maybe they get you addicted this stuff and then
- 1:09:44Speaker 4: they're like, you're depressed, and then they they.
- 1:09:46Speaker 5: Just then he gets and he doesn't even get into
- 1:09:49Speaker 5: a good just say what you want about this overall
- 1:09:52Speaker 5: state of the above board psychiatric care facilities. He gets
- 1:09:57Speaker 5: roped into this fake one that just bleeds them with
- 1:09:59Speaker 5: money and treats them a piece of meat.
- 1:10:02Speaker 4: I mean.
- 1:10:05Speaker 5: But the other aspect of this was, as always with
- 1:10:10Speaker 5: any fucking dark scheme, the biggest victims end up being children.
- 1:10:18Speaker 5: And I've got a couple more clips to demonstrate that,
- 1:10:22Speaker 5: but I do want to show you first before we
- 1:10:24Speaker 5: move into that angle of it. And actually it's just
- 1:10:26Speaker 5: going to show one of their basic ass infomercial things
- 1:10:30Speaker 5: and then it moves into like targeting kids.
- 1:10:35Speaker 6: I still can't believe what our son's problems did to
- 1:10:38Speaker 6: our family. The screaming, the fights, and everything to do
- 1:10:45Speaker 6: with school was just a nightmare.
- 1:10:49Speaker 13: I finally realized we had to find some help.
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: Everything okay, it.
- 1:10:55Speaker 12: Sure is if you are trying to deal with a
- 1:10:57Speaker 12: troubled teenager called they would hospital now at seven one, three, three, three,
- 1:11:01Speaker 12: two nine five zero.
- 1:11:04Speaker 17: A lot of parents don't know their teenager is headed
- 1:11:06Speaker 17: for trouble until the school tells them. They have no
- 1:11:09Speaker 17: idea how much trouble he's really in until school gets out.
- 1:11:13Speaker 17: They hope the problem will get better over the summer,
- 1:11:16Speaker 17: until it gets worse. The truth is, some parents don't
- 1:11:19Speaker 17: want to believe there's a problem at all until there's
- 1:11:23Speaker 17: no solution. Don't let your teenager waste another school year.
- 1:11:27Speaker 17: Specialized care just for kids.
- 1:11:31Speaker 19: Clearly, the thing that's affected me the most is the
- 1:11:33Speaker 19: way that this industry has insidiously gotten itself involved with
- 1:11:38Speaker 19: the children, and they do so in a variety in
- 1:11:42Speaker 19: a variety of ways. The most blatant example is the
- 1:11:47Speaker 19: way that psychiatric facilities in Texas have obtained a presence
- 1:11:53Speaker 19: in school counseling facilities in independent school districts throughout the state.
- 1:11:58Speaker 19: And it's such an incitia way for them to get business,
- 1:12:03Speaker 19: that is, through the school districts and by way of
- 1:12:06Speaker 19: praying on minors. That's the thing that really troubles me.
- 1:12:09Speaker 11: The most psychiatric hospitals placed their own counselors in American schools.
- 1:12:18Speaker 11: In Texas, investigations and now underway in twenty four school
- 1:12:22Speaker 11: districts for illegal referrals to their hospitals.
- 1:12:28Speaker 20: When we started admitting children as young as two and
- 1:12:31Speaker 20: three years of age, that gets you a little bit.
- 1:12:34Speaker 20: And then the adolescent program, it was easy to admit
- 1:12:37Speaker 20: those patients and we knew they were going to stay
- 1:12:39Speaker 20: for a long time and they had no say in
- 1:12:42Speaker 20: the admission, so they'd be there for sixty to ninety days.
- 1:12:52Speaker 21: We've seen the referrals being made by school counselors, people
- 1:12:58Speaker 21: that as we grow up in life, we've we've been
- 1:13:01Speaker 21: taught to put our trust in and instead, many many
- 1:13:05Speaker 21: times our schools become pipelines for our students into these
- 1:13:09Speaker 21: private hospitals and sometimes if possible, in many cases we
- 1:13:13Speaker 21: heard where that was used to pull not just the
- 1:13:18Speaker 21: child in, but the parents as well.
- 1:13:24Speaker 15: And al.
- 1:13:28Speaker 22: Be careful now.
- 1:13:30Speaker 11: Corticia Dupre had just had her fourth birthday when she
- 1:13:34Speaker 11: was referred for a consultation at Laurel Wood, a p
- 1:13:37Speaker 11: I a hospital in Houston.
- 1:13:39Speaker 23: There Burwood, you can't do it, You did it?
- 1:13:45Speaker 4: Okay, you wanna come down?
- 1:13:47Speaker 11: Her mother, Laisha, suspected the child that had been sexually abused, not.
- 1:13:52Speaker 4: From up there.
- 1:13:54Speaker 11: P i A persuaded her that Quarticia needed immediate hospitalization.
- 1:13:58Speaker 11: They suggested she stay with a child for four days
- 1:14:01Speaker 11: to keep her company.
- 1:14:08Speaker 23: After the four days were up, I was ready to go,
- 1:14:11Speaker 23: and they were trying to keep me there. I kept saying, hey,
- 1:14:14Speaker 23: I want to get out of here. You know, my
- 1:14:16Speaker 23: time is up, and she kept saying that, no, I
- 1:14:18Speaker 23: really think it's something inside you that's wanting to come
- 1:14:21Speaker 23: out and will come out, and it's going to be
- 1:14:23Speaker 23: a nasty sight, you know. And I'm like, I don't care,
- 1:14:26Speaker 23: you know, even if so, I'm ready to go, and
- 1:14:29Speaker 23: you know, they just refuse and refuse and refused. So
- 1:14:32Speaker 23: at that time I decided to start saying, hey, I'm
- 1:14:35Speaker 23: not gonna pay insurance.
- 1:14:38Speaker 11: The hospital's attitude towards Leisha changed. They separated her from
- 1:14:43Speaker 11: her child until one evening she was summons to the
- 1:14:46Speaker 11: children's units.
- 1:14:48Speaker 23: Next thing I know, she said, grab her and this
- 1:14:50Speaker 23: guy before I can even turn my head, he grabbed me.
- 1:14:53Speaker 23: And then the guy that called me to have me
- 1:14:56Speaker 23: to come over there from the beginning. He comes out,
- 1:14:59Speaker 23: you know, finally and he say strap and it's like
- 1:15:02Speaker 23: they went around the corner to get to s you know,
- 1:15:05Speaker 23: the strap, and it it was like everything was just
- 1:15:06Speaker 23: set up because it took them less than a you
- 1:15:09Speaker 23: know second to grab me and less than you know,
- 1:15:12Speaker 23: maybe two or three seconds to get the strap. And
- 1:15:15Speaker 23: he took his knees, the guy that was holding he
- 1:15:17Speaker 23: took his knees and bitten my knees in and brought
- 1:15:20Speaker 23: me down to the floor and uh, he like stumbled,
- 1:15:23Speaker 23: you know, t f fell on top of me. When
- 1:15:25Speaker 23: I kind of started going off. Then I was like,
- 1:15:27Speaker 23: what are you doing to me? You know, let me go,
- 1:15:28Speaker 23: Let me go, And uh my daughter was standing there
- 1:15:33Speaker 23: the whole time, watching everything, and that's when I said
- 1:15:35Speaker 23: to them, just please get her out of here. Don't
- 1:15:37Speaker 23: let her see this, you know, and she was just
- 1:15:39Speaker 23: up there crying and hurt me for her to have
- 1:15:44Speaker 23: to see me being treated that way.
- 1:15:50Speaker 11: Hospital records show that Pia asked four year old Cortitia
- 1:15:54Speaker 11: whether she'd ever thought of suicide.
- 1:16:00Speaker 23: I was so desperate I called the police department and
- 1:16:03Speaker 23: that's when I got a hold of the chief.
- 1:16:04Speaker 16: Canto well, it was a Saturday and I had come
- 1:16:10Speaker 16: in to do some extra work and the phone rang
- 1:16:13Speaker 16: and I answered it, and it was a UH woman
- 1:16:17Speaker 16: requesting assistance that uh, she was being detained against her
- 1:16:21Speaker 16: will in a hospital and that she was not a
- 1:16:24Speaker 16: patient there.
- 1:16:27Speaker 23: I guess when you were in a mental hospital or
- 1:16:29Speaker 23: whatever the hospital it was, people aren't gonna listen to
- 1:16:32Speaker 23: you cause they gonna think you crazy. But you know
- 1:16:34Speaker 23: that's not really the case.
- 1:16:39Speaker 16: I went in there with the intention of trying to
- 1:16:41Speaker 16: do a constructive investigation. I felt that Leisha was telling
- 1:16:45Speaker 16: me the truth. This other gentleman, I felt that, uh,
- 1:16:48Speaker 16: he was holding back, he wasn't being cooperative. Uh, he
- 1:16:52Speaker 16: wasn't giving me the information I needed, uh, evasive, and
- 1:16:56Speaker 16: finally I felt that he was playing games with me,
- 1:16:58Speaker 16: and I wasn't gonna put up with it. She told
- 1:17:01Speaker 16: me right there in front of him she wanted to
- 1:17:03Speaker 16: be let out. And I asked him, I said, are
- 1:17:05Speaker 16: you going to let her out?
- 1:17:06Speaker 3: And he said no.
- 1:17:07Speaker 16: I said, well, we'll see about that. I came back
- 1:17:12Speaker 16: to my office, I started making some phone calls to
- 1:17:14Speaker 16: some judges and state representatives, and I got a phone
- 1:17:19Speaker 16: call within about two hours that they had decided to
- 1:17:23Speaker 16: let her go, So.
- 1:17:29Speaker 3: Is somewhat happy ending there.
- 1:17:33Speaker 4: Dude, that is literally kidnapping.
- 1:17:40Speaker 5: Yeah, And I also I didn't clip this one, but
- 1:17:44Speaker 5: it's noteworthy, and I would recommend anybody who's intrigued by
- 1:17:47Speaker 5: these clips that we've shown and the stuff we've talked
- 1:17:49Speaker 5: about with it to watch the whole thing. It's like
- 1:17:51Speaker 5: forty eight minutes long. Yeah, it's a quick watch. And
- 1:17:56Speaker 5: another instance was this fourteen year old kid named I
- 1:18:00Speaker 5: think Jeremy, was living with what appeared to be.
- 1:18:03Speaker 3: A grandmother and a grandfather.
- 1:18:06Speaker 5: And somebody from the school sent over somebody to snag
- 1:18:10Speaker 5: him and take him to this place, and she wouldn't
- 1:18:13Speaker 5: let him go, and they ended up saying to her,
- 1:18:20Speaker 5: and this is something fucking cops always do, Well, you
- 1:18:23Speaker 5: can make it easy.
- 1:18:25Speaker 3: You can let him come with us right.
- 1:18:26Speaker 5: Now and we'll hold him for twenty four hours, or
- 1:18:29Speaker 5: you can fight this and we'll come back with a
- 1:18:31Speaker 5: court order and hold him for the full.
- 1:18:33Speaker 3: Twenty eight days.
- 1:18:34Speaker 5: And she fought it tooth and now she called a lawyer,
- 1:18:38Speaker 5: she called the cops, and they ended up being able
- 1:18:40Speaker 5: to take him anyway despite her best efforts. And then
- 1:18:44Speaker 5: they couldn't even figure out where he was. And they
- 1:18:48Speaker 5: finally got in there, they weren't allowed to see him.
- 1:18:51Speaker 5: He had to do the full twenty eight days. And
- 1:18:53Speaker 5: like Julia just said, this is literally kidnapping kid was
- 1:18:57Speaker 5: a minor.
- 1:19:00Speaker 3: His guardians would not.
- 1:19:04Speaker 5: Comply with the orders of you know, he needs to
- 1:19:07Speaker 5: be incarcerated, and they did it anyway. Like we said
- 1:19:11Speaker 5: when we introduced this, they did end up becoming the
- 1:19:16Speaker 5: subject of a heavy investigation, and I do believe it
- 1:19:19Speaker 5: all got shut down. But they also emphasized that this
- 1:19:23Speaker 5: is just one of many and this guy was playing
- 1:19:26Speaker 5: fast and loose, And I'm starting to wonder the counselors.
- 1:19:31Speaker 5: So yeah, this guy recruited counselors. This guy recruited doctors,
- 1:19:34Speaker 5: talk therapists. They're even doing some shit through the suicide hotlines.
- 1:19:39Speaker 5: Like I said earlier, but I'm starting to wonder if
- 1:19:41Speaker 5: this Mark Bolling guy. To tie it into stuff we
- 1:19:45Speaker 5: always talk about, it could be a pretty good segue
- 1:19:48Speaker 5: into our travel back in time to mk ULTR. But
- 1:19:51Speaker 5: if Mark Bollan wasn't under the employ of some nefarious
- 1:19:55Speaker 5: triple letter whatever.
- 1:19:58Speaker 4: Have you, absolutely did you look to see if he
- 1:20:02Speaker 4: ever got incarcerated for this.
- 1:20:04Speaker 5: No, and in fact, I think maybe we should before
- 1:20:07Speaker 5: we in the episode tonight at the end of it,
- 1:20:09Speaker 5: because I was kind of rushed and researching this documentary
- 1:20:13Speaker 5: and I.
- 1:20:13Speaker 3: Ended up getting a lot of nuggets out of it.
- 1:20:15Speaker 5: I'm glad you sent it to me, but a follow
- 1:20:18Speaker 5: up on mister fake doctor Mark Bollen it would be
- 1:20:22Speaker 5: worth it.
- 1:20:23Speaker 3: Also looking into old Klaus.
- 1:20:26Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know that's one of the things I
- 1:20:29Speaker 4: love the most about you. Because I watched it, I
- 1:20:33Speaker 4: thought you would find it interesting. I sent it to you.
- 1:20:36Speaker 4: You watched it. You was also shook by some of
- 1:20:41Speaker 4: the stories in there, and it's like this was the nineties.
- 1:20:48Speaker 3: I was alive and a little kid when this stuff.
- 1:20:52Speaker 5: Was going on.
- 1:20:54Speaker 3: But I'm just saying, think of how this is our lifetime.
- 1:20:56Speaker 4: Escalated, think about how things can.
- 1:20:59Speaker 5: Well I'm to cap this episode off with that in mind,
- 1:21:03Speaker 5: because you don't pay attention much to modern day politics
- 1:21:10Speaker 5: or moves made in that area.
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: But we will close off with where it might be going,
- 1:21:16Speaker 3: and we might be going fucking backwards.
- 1:21:19Speaker 4: Who well, do you have anything else about this psychiatry
- 1:21:24Speaker 4: thing before we kind of touch on mk Ultra.
- 1:21:28Speaker 5: Oh, yes, some of the finer points that I felt
- 1:21:31Speaker 5: were worth writing down from this documentary. Where as we've
- 1:21:36Speaker 5: tracked in the movement and growth of this industry. We'll
- 1:21:42Speaker 5: call it psychiatric care to you know, sugarcoat it like
- 1:21:46Speaker 5: they would. It's basically state sand kitchen fucking imprisonment. Yeah,
- 1:21:52Speaker 5: under the guise of mental health care. But this industry
- 1:21:56Speaker 5: doubled in the eighties, and we did in last episode
- 1:21:59Speaker 5: kind of track the girl both of it from last
- 1:22:01Speaker 5: centuries spilling over or the nineteenth centuries spilling over into
- 1:22:05Speaker 5: the twentieth century.
- 1:22:06Speaker 3: And now we're talking about right here.
- 1:22:08Speaker 5: So this shit doubled in the eighties, and it was
- 1:22:11Speaker 5: the biggest in Texas. As this documentary the focus point
- 1:22:15Speaker 5: was Houston, Texas, but apparently that was big in that state.
- 1:22:18Speaker 5: But by the nineties, when they were making this documentary,
- 1:22:22Speaker 5: it was a fifty billion.
- 1:22:24Speaker 3: Dollar a year industry.
- 1:22:25Speaker 5: And one can only imagine where it's at today.
- 1:22:30Speaker 4: In the nineties, if it was a fifty billion dollar
- 1:22:34Speaker 4: a year industry, you can just quadruple that number probably,
- 1:22:39Speaker 4: and that's where we're at now, I would assume. But
- 1:22:44Speaker 4: does that number include the pharmaceuticals.
- 1:22:47Speaker 5: No, this is just this is just the scheme of
- 1:22:51Speaker 5: filtering people through all these different avenues into the psychiatric
- 1:22:55Speaker 5: imprisonment that itself through. As it was demonstrated in this documentary.
- 1:23:01Speaker 5: All that money is basically coming from privatized insurance and
- 1:23:04Speaker 5: this is privatized psychiatric care. So I am a capitalist
- 1:23:09Speaker 5: over a socialist at the end of the day. But
- 1:23:13Speaker 5: unregulated capitalism and regulation isn't even the fucking answer because
- 1:23:19Speaker 5: that oftentimes it's just one hand washing the other as well.
- 1:23:22Speaker 5: But with this, you have privatized insurance with meats, privatized
- 1:23:28Speaker 5: psychiatric care, and you can just get this big loop
- 1:23:31Speaker 5: of money exchange. And when you throw the pharmaceuticals into it,
- 1:23:36Speaker 5: we could look and see what the number is.
- 1:23:38Speaker 3: I'm imagining it's much more than fifty billion a year.
- 1:23:42Speaker 5: In the nineties, it was kind of really taking off
- 1:23:45Speaker 5: heading towards its peak.
- 1:23:48Speaker 3: So yeah, it'd be interesting to see what that market
- 1:23:51Speaker 3: was as well.
- 1:23:52Speaker 5: But just from the psychiatric care alone, you're talking fifty
- 1:23:55Speaker 5: billion a year in the nineties.
- 1:23:57Speaker 4: So would you agree with me when I say stuff
- 1:23:59Speaker 4: like the reason that there's no cure for cancer is
- 1:24:02Speaker 4: because the treatments are worth billions and there's there's no
- 1:24:10Speaker 4: cure for schizophrenia or mental illnesses like this, because the
- 1:24:15Speaker 4: treatments are worth billions. I mean, they don't want people
- 1:24:20Speaker 4: to get well, they don't want people to get better.
- 1:24:23Speaker 4: They don't want somebody to find out that acupuncture can
- 1:24:26Speaker 4: take away the fucking shadow people at night.
- 1:24:29Speaker 5: Well, and I would argue that the cure for cancer
- 1:24:32Speaker 5: is one hund preventative. Preventative care.
- 1:24:38Speaker 4: Say you get cancer, right.
- 1:24:40Speaker 5: And then you revert back to what you would have
- 1:24:42Speaker 5: done to not get cancer in the first place, to
- 1:24:44Speaker 5: hope your body rights itself.
- 1:24:46Speaker 3: You know, sometimes people.
- 1:24:48Speaker 5: Do go through these radiation slash chemo treatments and they're younger,
- 1:24:52Speaker 5: healthier people, and they do bounce back. I have a
- 1:24:55Speaker 5: fucking family member. He's married to my grandmother. He's basically
- 1:24:58Speaker 5: my grandpa.
- 1:24:59Speaker 3: They married.
- 1:24:59Speaker 5: I as like sixteen, but he goes in and out
- 1:25:03Speaker 5: of cancer treatment every few years. It just keeps popping
- 1:25:06Speaker 5: up and he keeps killing it, but it keeps coming back.
- 1:25:08Speaker 5: And then you got to wonder is the treatment causing
- 1:25:12Speaker 5: the cancer to come back and killing it?
- 1:25:14Speaker 3: But anyway, there are outliers that do get better.
- 1:25:16Speaker 5: But for the most part, I mean, there was a
- 1:25:19Speaker 5: guy in like the mid fuck where was he.
- 1:25:22Speaker 3: I want to give a time frame here.
- 1:25:24Speaker 5: I would say it was in the fifties or sooner.
- 1:25:26Speaker 5: He was doing intervenious vitamin C treatments for cancer patients,
- 1:25:31Speaker 5: and they completely buried this guy. I'm not saying that
- 1:25:36Speaker 5: I think that's the overall answer to cancer, but it's
- 1:25:39Speaker 5: funny that they also suppressed vitamin treatments.
- 1:25:44Speaker 3: That were popping up during COVID.
- 1:25:46Speaker 4: Funny because when my mom had cancer, I found that
- 1:25:50Speaker 4: guy and I told my mom about the vitamin C
- 1:25:54Speaker 4: and I was like, would you because there are these
- 1:25:56Speaker 4: little places that have popped up recently where you can
- 1:25:59Speaker 4: just go get in few with whatever vitamins and stuff.
- 1:26:02Speaker 4: And I asked her if she would do it, but
- 1:26:05Speaker 4: at that point she had kind of succumbed to I'd
- 1:26:09Speaker 4: just done trying, and I don't want.
- 1:26:11Speaker 5: To do any of I'm gonna do what the doctors recommend.
- 1:26:17Speaker 5: But yeah, so, yeah, they don't want a cure. They
- 1:26:20Speaker 5: want a slow drip treatment system that doesn't aim towards betterment.
- 1:26:28Speaker 4: So I think it's the same with mental illness. I
- 1:26:31Speaker 4: think throwing pills in psychiatry at this stuff is not
- 1:26:34Speaker 4: the solution. I think that the guy from the first episode.
- 1:26:38Speaker 4: The African guy had a lot of great points made
- 1:26:42Speaker 4: about how we do it completely asked backwards.
- 1:26:46Speaker 5: Well, imagine if he would have seen this shit. He
- 1:26:48Speaker 5: was over here when this shit was taken off and
- 1:26:50Speaker 5: doubled in the eighties. But imagine if that guy had
- 1:26:53Speaker 5: walked into this place.
- 1:26:55Speaker 4: Imagine if he would have walked into the Willowbrooks State
- 1:26:57Speaker 4: School with naked kids throwing shit, and.
- 1:27:00Speaker 3: And maybe he saw stuff like that.
- 1:27:02Speaker 4: I mean, it just I don't know Han's it's a mess.
- 1:27:07Speaker 4: What do you got on himk.
- 1:27:08Speaker 5: Ultra, Well, this is a topic that is near and
- 1:27:12Speaker 5: dear to me in my other show, I guess I'm
- 1:27:17Speaker 5: saying other show. I consider myself a permanent co host
- 1:27:20Speaker 5: on yours.
- 1:27:22Speaker 3: Yeah, but on my other show.
- 1:27:25Speaker 5: And don't worry, there will be things I don't do
- 1:27:27Speaker 5: with her for those people who like her alone better,
- 1:27:29Speaker 5: I understand I do too. So what anyway, I have
- 1:27:36Speaker 5: done a pretty good amount of research, and damn k Ultra,
- 1:27:41Speaker 5: and I came into it through my.
- 1:27:42Speaker 3: Interest in how they weaponized LSD. But that really isn't
- 1:27:48Speaker 3: in all of this.
- 1:27:49Speaker 5: It is going to be in some of the stuff
- 1:27:50Speaker 5: I bring up because it was prevalently a part of it.
- 1:27:54Speaker 5: But basically what you'll come to find was in the
- 1:27:59Speaker 5: fifth these spilling over into the sixties kind of getting
- 1:28:05Speaker 5: tossed around some congressional regulation attempts where they mainly drove
- 1:28:11Speaker 5: this shit underground. It still happens, of course, we all
- 1:28:13Speaker 5: know that. But they were doing a knee open with
- 1:28:17Speaker 5: Sydney Gottlieb, not Frank Olson, Sydney Gottlieb's mk Ultra program.
- 1:28:23Speaker 5: And I had come across a doctor named You and Cameron,
- 1:28:29Speaker 5: and he was operating out of Montreal, Canada, and he's
- 1:28:32Speaker 5: a very interesting character. And I have a couple articles
- 1:28:36Speaker 5: that talk about the Montreal hospital. But keep in mind
- 1:28:40Speaker 5: that this shit was going on very prevalently in the
- 1:28:45Speaker 5: mental health industry, in schools for gifted kids or special
- 1:28:54Speaker 5: needs kids, more often prisons.
- 1:28:58Speaker 3: So they would get these.
- 1:28:59Speaker 5: People on board that we're working directly with the CIA,
- 1:29:03Speaker 5: and they were doing all sorts of mind control experiments,
- 1:29:07Speaker 5: and in You and Cameron's case, he was focused on
- 1:29:11Speaker 5: the surface level of curing things such as schizophrenia.
- 1:29:17Speaker 3: And I have a few articles, but we're also going.
- 1:29:20Speaker 5: To watch some clips where you'll see how dark some
- 1:29:25Speaker 5: of this stuff got and how it spills over into
- 1:29:29Speaker 5: all of our favorite conspiratorial topics with brainwashing.
- 1:29:36Speaker 3: Project Monarch and the likes.
- 1:29:39Speaker 5: But we'll start with me reading off my cracked screen.
- 1:29:46Speaker 5: It's an article from the Canadian Encyclopedia written by Taylor C.
- 1:29:52Speaker 5: Noakes between nineteen fifty seven and nineteen sixty four, though
- 1:29:57Speaker 5: possibly beginning as early as nineteen forty eight. Psychiatric experiments
- 1:30:02Speaker 5: were conducted at the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, a
- 1:30:06Speaker 5: psychiatric teaching hospital affiliated with McGill University. Scottish American psychiatrist
- 1:30:12Speaker 5: doctor Donald Ewen Cameron led and conducted these experiments. The
- 1:30:16Speaker 5: program is widely believed to have been partly funded by
- 1:30:19Speaker 5: the US Central Intelligence Agency as part of their top
- 1:30:22Speaker 5: secret mk ULTR program. The Canadian government also funded the project.
- 1:30:27Speaker 5: The experiment's purpose was originally and officially listed as an
- 1:30:31Speaker 5: effort to find a cure for schizophrenia. However, in reality,
- 1:30:34Speaker 5: the project conducted illegal human experimentation to determine whether drugs
- 1:30:38Speaker 5: and psychological techniques could be used for the purposes.
- 1:30:42Speaker 3: Of mind control.
- 1:30:43Speaker 5: Officially, neither the United States nor Canada has admitted to
- 1:30:47Speaker 5: being responsible for the experiments. Wow Wow survivors have attempted
- 1:30:52Speaker 5: to receive compensation with some success.
- 1:30:55Speaker 4: Wait, so they won't admit that they did it.
- 1:30:58Speaker 3: Well, there are instances such as with the Church.
- 1:31:04Speaker 5: Committee and I thank seventy five where this congressman from
- 1:31:09Speaker 5: Idaho brought all of this stuff MK Ultra Project Mockingbird,
- 1:31:14Speaker 5: among other things into the spotlight and they were said
- 1:31:18Speaker 5: to have ended all of it after that. But other
- 1:31:22Speaker 5: than that, I mean, the things that they were willing
- 1:31:25Speaker 5: to admit to were very minimal. And what they did
- 1:31:29Speaker 5: admit to they said, it's long stopped and.
- 1:31:32Speaker 3: We're not doing any of that anymore. Oh Fox, So yeah,
- 1:31:35Speaker 3: I mean, oh yeah. As far as accountability goes, I
- 1:31:39Speaker 3: can't tell.
- 1:31:39Speaker 4: You accountability zero.
- 1:31:41Speaker 5: I can't tell you the political process history.
- 1:31:45Speaker 4: That's how it's like. They're survivors who can say, yeah,
- 1:31:50Speaker 4: they did this stuff to me, and they're like, no,
- 1:31:52Speaker 4: we didn't.
- 1:31:54Speaker 5: So some background on this. The United States became interested
- 1:31:57Speaker 5: in mind control in the fifties after the war. It
- 1:32:01Speaker 5: was believed that North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union
- 1:32:04Speaker 5: had employed mind control techniques during the conflict, particularly on
- 1:32:08Speaker 5: American prisoners of war. Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan also
- 1:32:13Speaker 5: conducted unethical human experimentation during the Second World War, some
- 1:32:17Speaker 5: of which are believed to involve the use of drugs
- 1:32:20Speaker 5: for a mind control purposes. As a result, the US
- 1:32:24Speaker 5: felt it was behind in this respect. And this is
- 1:32:26Speaker 5: what you see with everything, whether it's the arms race,
- 1:32:32Speaker 5: who can build a nuke first, whether it's who can
- 1:32:34Speaker 5: get to the moon first, or oh my god, they're doing.
- 1:32:38Speaker 3: Fucking mind control experiments in China, Russia and North Korea.
- 1:32:43Speaker 3: So now we got to do it. And that is.
- 1:32:46Speaker 5: Always what we are led to believe is the premise
- 1:32:49Speaker 5: of it. But when you get as deep as some
- 1:32:52Speaker 5: people have, one might start to think that these fucking
- 1:32:57Speaker 5: countries are working together as per trade.
- 1:33:00Speaker 3: In George Orwell's nineteen eighty.
- 1:33:02Speaker 5: Four, we staged these wars sacrifice, you know, hundreds of thousands,
- 1:33:08Speaker 5: millions of people in the process, while we get enriched
- 1:33:14Speaker 5: building weapons, building fucking mind control techniques, faking space races
- 1:33:21Speaker 5: to build more weapons and whatever it is. But that
- 1:33:25Speaker 5: is what m k LTRA always when you read into it,
- 1:33:28Speaker 5: that's always the reason why they were doing it, and
- 1:33:30Speaker 5: we had to catch up and pass them. So to
- 1:33:33Speaker 5: get into doctor Cameron, if you didn't have anything to say,
- 1:33:37Speaker 5: go ahead, So Cameron. In nineteen forty three, he was
- 1:33:41Speaker 5: already a well known psychiatrist. He was invited to lead
- 1:33:44Speaker 5: the new Allen Memorial Institute by famed Canadian neurologist. While
- 1:33:49Speaker 5: they're at Penfield, doctor Donald youw and Cameron, we're just
- 1:33:53Speaker 5: gonna call him Ewan I don't want to say his
- 1:33:54Speaker 5: full name every fucking time, would become the hospital's first director.
- 1:33:59Speaker 5: Cameron would also become the first chairman of McGill University's
- 1:34:02Speaker 5: psychiatry department. Well respected in his field, all right, Cameron
- 1:34:11Speaker 5: was Cameron. I don't we don't really need to get
- 1:34:13Speaker 5: into him. But this is just laying a foundation to
- 1:34:17Speaker 5: this next article I want to read, which is an
- 1:34:20Speaker 5: account that I think is going to be more in
- 1:34:23Speaker 5: depth than anything the Candian Encyclopedia could offer us. So
- 1:34:30Speaker 5: this is from a book and this is the afterword.
- 1:34:36Speaker 5: But I just found this when I was coming through
- 1:34:39Speaker 5: some files.
- 1:34:41Speaker 3: I've got the documents.
- 1:34:45Speaker 5: This is written by a Professor David Harper of University
- 1:34:50Speaker 5: of East London and in the show notes, maybe Julia
- 1:34:55Speaker 5: will tell you what book this came from.
- 1:34:57Speaker 3: I don't want to go back because I had the
- 1:34:59Speaker 3: like pdf.
- 1:34:59Speaker 5: This the experiments at the heart of page Cooper's story
- 1:35:04Speaker 5: sounds as if they are straight out of a dystopian
- 1:35:07Speaker 5: conspiracy thriller. But they really happened already. I like the
- 1:35:10Speaker 5: direction of this article.
- 1:35:11Speaker 3: Munch me too.
- 1:35:13Speaker 5: They were conducted in the nineteen fifties and early nineteen
- 1:35:16Speaker 5: sixty sixties by doctor Ewan Cameron, and they even fucking
- 1:35:20Speaker 5: shortened his name for us. A British born psychiatrist and
- 1:35:23Speaker 5: director of the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, Cameron sought
- 1:35:28Speaker 5: to develop what he saw as a revolutionary new psychiatric treatment,
- 1:35:32Speaker 5: but his experiments were secretly funded by the CIA as
- 1:35:35Speaker 5: part of what historian Alfred McCoy refers to as a
- 1:35:41Speaker 5: veritable Manhattan Project of the mind. Funny we just mentioned
- 1:35:44Speaker 5: that Cameron gave his procedures pseudoscientific names like depatterning and
- 1:35:51Speaker 5: psychic driving.
- 1:35:53Speaker 3: You will both be I mean both of us.
- 1:35:56Speaker 5: And our listeners will be familiar with at least the
- 1:35:58Speaker 5: latter deep.
- 1:36:00Speaker 4: Patterning, WEP with psychic driving.
- 1:36:03Speaker 3: He's the one who for the CIA was I mean, We're.
- 1:36:06Speaker 5: Gonna watch a video after I read this article of
- 1:36:08Speaker 5: a guy it's more sad than anything that was shown
- 1:36:12Speaker 5: in the the UH Houston, Texas Kidnapping scheme documentary. It's
- 1:36:18Speaker 5: we're gonna show a few clips from it, but anyway, Yeah,
- 1:36:22Speaker 5: Cameron gave his procedures to He varied them over time
- 1:36:26Speaker 5: and from patient to patient, but they typically involved the
- 1:36:29Speaker 5: mix of the following number one drug induced coma. Each
- 1:36:34Speaker 5: experimental treatment for Cameron's patients, two thirds of who were women,
- 1:36:38Speaker 5: which we did say earlier, two thirds, that's a big
- 1:36:41Speaker 5: fucking number, would usually begin and conclude with quote sleep
- 1:36:45Speaker 5: therapy end quote, i e. A coma induced by administering
- 1:36:49Speaker 5: barbiturates number two deep patterning. During the drug induced sleep,
- 1:36:55Speaker 5: patients would be woken up for feeding the toilet and
- 1:36:58Speaker 5: to be given regular electroc which would start after about
- 1:37:02Speaker 5: three days of sleep. The combined sleep electric shock quote
- 1:37:06Speaker 5: treatment in quote lasted between fifteen to thirty days, sometimes
- 1:37:09Speaker 5: up to sixty five days. So that patients did not
- 1:37:12Speaker 5: harm themselves as a result of the epileptic seizures caused
- 1:37:15Speaker 5: by the electroshock, they were immobilized with muscle relaxant drugs
- 1:37:20Speaker 5: like carreer. In the standard electroshock therapy of the times,
- 1:37:24Speaker 5: doctors would give patients a single dose of one hundred
- 1:37:27Speaker 5: and ten volts, lasting a fraction of a second every
- 1:37:30Speaker 5: one or two days. However, by contrast, according to John Marx,
- 1:37:34Speaker 5: quote Cameron used to form twenty to forty times more intense,
- 1:37:39Speaker 5: two or three times daily with the power turned up
- 1:37:42Speaker 5: to one hundred and fifty volts into quote. So he
- 1:37:45Speaker 5: up to forty and did it longer. Cameron's aim, as
- 1:37:49Speaker 5: stated in his journal article and Comprehensive Psychiatry in nineteen
- 1:37:54Speaker 5: sixty two, was to cause disorientation and confusion via quote
- 1:37:59Speaker 5: massive end quote and quote pervasive end quote, memory disturbance.
- 1:38:04Speaker 5: After this, According to his article, a patient might be
- 1:38:07Speaker 5: quote unable to walk without support to feed himself, and
- 1:38:10Speaker 5: he may show double incontinence in quote he shitt himself
- 1:38:14Speaker 5: double time. WHOA number three psychic driving patients were next
- 1:38:21Speaker 5: subjected to negative taped messages e g. Mother hates me.
- 1:38:26Speaker 5: The aim was to quote get rid of unwanted behavior
- 1:38:28Speaker 5: in quote, and then this would be followed by positive
- 1:38:31Speaker 5: messages quote to condition in desired personality traits end quote.
- 1:38:37Speaker 5: The messages taken from recordings of Cameron's interview with patients.
- 1:38:40Speaker 3: Were played repetitively on a tape loop system via loud
- 1:38:44Speaker 3: speakers or a football helmet contraption for sixteen hours a
- 1:38:48Speaker 3: day for several weeks.
- 1:38:50Speaker 5: And we're going to show a clip of a very
- 1:38:52Speaker 5: unfortunate example of this. Cameron sought to intensify the effect
- 1:38:57Speaker 5: by placing his patients in a sensory depor vision quote
- 1:39:01Speaker 5: box end quote. We're talking Joe Rogan and stranger things
- 1:39:05Speaker 5: in the stables of the hospital and giving them cocktails
- 1:39:08Speaker 5: of drugs which would immobilize them but keep them awake
- 1:39:11Speaker 5: whilst they experienced hallucinations induced by psychedelic drugs val or
- 1:39:16Speaker 5: lick cow something like that. Described her experience as quote
- 1:39:21Speaker 5: terrifying end quote. She received LSD one to four times
- 1:39:25Speaker 5: a week, goddamn together with either a stimulant or this
- 1:39:29Speaker 5: is like manson shit with either a stimulant or depressant,
- 1:39:33Speaker 5: and then was left on her own to listen to
- 1:39:35Speaker 5: tape playing excerpts for last session of her last session
- 1:39:38Speaker 5: with Cameron. This is carrying insanity, everybody not inducing it.
- 1:39:46Speaker 5: Jesus Christ, someone needs some help.
- 1:39:49Speaker 4: And this I'm flabbergett. I'm speechless.
- 1:39:53Speaker 5: Oh, as far as mk Ulter goes, this is like
- 1:39:55Speaker 5: one of several fucking ways they were doing this weird.
- 1:40:01Speaker 5: He makes all the shit that we're led to believe
- 1:40:04Speaker 5: was the worst thing that ever happened in Nazi Germany
- 1:40:07Speaker 5: makes it. I mean, then it was a spillover effect
- 1:40:09Speaker 5: because a lot of these fuckers that came over via
- 1:40:13Speaker 5: via paper clip were the ones doing this stuff.
- 1:40:16Speaker 4: Starting to wonder if they didn't do this to you know,
- 1:40:19Speaker 4: Q four what.
- 1:40:21Speaker 5: That quation when you told me the story of that guy,
- 1:40:24Speaker 5: It just reminded me of like if I don't know
- 1:40:30Speaker 5: name your favorite filmmaker made stranger things and you would
- 1:40:35Speaker 5: have that guy like.
- 1:40:37Speaker 3: It's just a crazy story.
- 1:40:39Speaker 5: They drove him to non anyway, Yeah, I agree. Oh
- 1:40:44Speaker 5: they're giving patients names here too. Anyway, val or lecow.
- 1:40:52Speaker 13: She was.
- 1:40:53Speaker 5: Yes, she was given LSD and stimulants and then made
- 1:40:56Speaker 5: to listen to her last tape sessions. In the case
- 1:40:58Speaker 5: of a patient named Mary, Cameron kept her in his
- 1:41:02Speaker 5: sensory deprivation box for thirty five days. I mean, this
- 1:41:07Speaker 5: is what they do to punish people in prison, is
- 1:41:09Speaker 5: solitary confinement. Let alone sensory.
- 1:41:11Speaker 4: Her in a sensory deprivation box for thirty five days.
- 1:41:15Speaker 4: Let's saying here gave her repeated electro shocks and drug Sorry,
- 1:41:21Speaker 4: go ahead.
- 1:41:23Speaker 5: If you want to turn No, I'm just the torture
- 1:41:26Speaker 5: thirty five days comma gave her repeated electro shocks whilst
- 1:41:30Speaker 5: she was in drug induced comma, after which she endured
- 1:41:33Speaker 5: one hundred and one days of quote psychic driving in
- 1:41:36Speaker 5: quote at the end of her quote treatment end quote.
- 1:41:39Speaker 5: According to Cameron, quote, no favorable results were obtained in.
- 1:41:42Speaker 4: Quote oh weird, my God, a.
- 1:41:45Speaker 5: Result that comes as little surprise with the link with
- 1:41:48Speaker 5: the CIA emerged only after years of dogged investigation. In
- 1:41:53Speaker 5: nineteen seventy four of The New York Times published an
- 1:41:56Speaker 5: article by Seymour Hirsh about unconstitutional CIA activities, based in
- 1:42:01Speaker 5: part on an internal report. Yeah, this is what I
- 1:42:04Speaker 5: was talking about earlier. The CIA called the family Jewels.
- 1:42:07Speaker 5: That was the Church Committee. Hersh's article sparked investigations by
- 1:42:11Speaker 5: President Ford's Rockefeller Commission. Ah, they're back in the US
- 1:42:15Speaker 5: Senate's Church Committee. It was revealed that the CIA had
- 1:42:19Speaker 5: used LSD on the unsuspected members of the public in
- 1:42:21Speaker 5: the US, and then nineteen fifty three, Frank Wolson, a
- 1:42:24Speaker 5: US Army biological warfare specialist had fallen to his death
- 1:42:28Speaker 5: from the tenth floor went to see.
- 1:42:29Speaker 3: What I'm telling I knew he was not running this shit.
- 1:42:31Speaker 3: He was an innocent contractor.
- 1:42:34Speaker 4: Well he got fucked, is what he got. But he what.
- 1:42:40Speaker 3: To get.
- 1:42:41Speaker 5: Well, yeah, we could get into Frank Olson. Julie and
- 1:42:43Speaker 5: I have both gone into him on other episodes about
- 1:42:46Speaker 5: how he got dosed at this like outing in the
- 1:42:50Speaker 5: woods and then he started fucking freaking out about what
- 1:42:53Speaker 5: he was a part of, and he was wanting to
- 1:42:54Speaker 5: talk and then they threw him from it. I know
- 1:42:57Speaker 5: a lot of people think that he was on acid
- 1:43:01Speaker 5: and he jumped to his death, but those are just
- 1:43:03Speaker 5: regards that think that closed window. Only the truest of
- 1:43:11Speaker 5: you will get that reference, all right. Frank Wilson had
- 1:43:14Speaker 5: fallen to his death from a tenth floor window, silled
- 1:43:18Speaker 5: after days after being given LSD without his knowledge or permission. However,
- 1:43:21Speaker 5: the investigations were hampered by the fact that CIA director
- 1:43:25Speaker 5: Richard Holmes had ordered all records be destroyed by seventy three,
- 1:43:29Speaker 5: but in seventy seven, sixteen thousand pages of documents relating
- 1:43:33Speaker 5: to the CIA's financial history were found following a foyer
- 1:43:37Speaker 5: by John Marx, a former State Department employee turned art
- 1:43:41Speaker 5: turned author. Marx and his research team managed to identify
- 1:43:45Speaker 5: and interview some of those involved in In nineteen seventy nine,
- 1:43:48Speaker 5: he published that such for the Mancherian Candidate, the CIA
- 1:43:51Speaker 5: and Mind Control. This revealed that Cameron had begun to
- 1:43:55Speaker 5: receive money for his research from the CIA in nineteen
- 1:43:58Speaker 5: fifty seven. And then it's funny too, because in nineteen
- 1:44:02Speaker 5: fifty eight what's his name.
- 1:44:03Speaker 3: Moved into the other place. This is all that going on. Oh,
- 1:44:06Speaker 3: at the same time, this is like a movie.
- 1:44:08Speaker 5: You could just do a movie like from fifty five
- 1:44:10Speaker 5: to the early sixties.
- 1:44:11Speaker 3: And anyway, okay.
- 1:44:15Speaker 5: Cameron had begun to receive money for his research from
- 1:44:17Speaker 5: the CIA in fifty seven via front organization called the
- 1:44:21Speaker 5: the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology Good name.
- 1:44:26Speaker 5: Mark showed that Cameron's research was Subproject sixty eight of
- 1:44:30Speaker 5: an extensive CIA. So you guys even wonder they kind
- 1:44:34Speaker 5: of in the other article glossed over that it's rumored,
- 1:44:38Speaker 5: And now we have documents proving that this guy was
- 1:44:41Speaker 5: directly funded as a Subproject sixty eight them an extensive
- 1:44:45Speaker 5: CIA funded program of research into brainwashing and quote mind
- 1:44:48Speaker 5: control in quote run by doctor Sidney Gottlieb. That's the
- 1:44:52Speaker 5: head daddy of fucking mk LT poisoner in chief, a
- 1:44:55Speaker 5: chemist who was the head of the CIA's Technical Service
- 1:44:59Speaker 5: Division TA. The overall research program involved many leading psychologists, psychiatrists,
- 1:45:05Speaker 5: and social scientists, some who were aware of the CIA's
- 1:45:08Speaker 5: role and some who were not. It was called k
- 1:45:12Speaker 5: MK meant it was a TSD project. And also that's
- 1:45:15Speaker 5: a German thing, the MK part. They left that out,
- 1:45:19Speaker 5: and Ultra was a code name. According to Marx, CIA
- 1:45:22Speaker 5: officials would travel periodically to observe Cameron's work, something Page
- 1:45:27Speaker 5: Cooper alludes to in her.
- 1:45:28Speaker 3: Story Big Circle, of course.
- 1:45:33Speaker 5: So we're gonna watch clips from this what they're talking
- 1:45:36Speaker 5: about after I get done read in the article from this.
- 1:45:40Speaker 5: Nineteen eighty the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the CBC fifth the
- 1:45:46Speaker 5: State program broadcasting investigation Cameron's experiments, including interviews with several
- 1:45:51Speaker 5: of Cameron's former patients. In the subsequent decade, three books
- 1:45:56Speaker 5: on the studies were published, including Ann Collins in the
- 1:45:59Speaker 5: sleep Room and We're going to watch a video about
- 1:46:01Speaker 5: the sleep Room, based on interviews with former patients In
- 1:46:04Speaker 5: nineteen eighty eight, the CIA finally agreed to an out
- 1:46:07Speaker 5: of court settlement with nine nine of Cameron's former patients,
- 1:46:13Speaker 5: and there were hundreds, including Mary Morrow, who inspired the
- 1:46:18Speaker 5: character of Joy's stepmother de Rota in Page Cooper's story.
- 1:46:22Speaker 5: I'm sorry that there's no context for who Page Cooper is,
- 1:46:25Speaker 5: but she's somebody who they were talking to before they
- 1:46:28Speaker 5: wrote this book.
- 1:46:29Speaker 3: But anyway, it led them to dig into this more.
- 1:46:32Speaker 5: Morrow, a doctor, had approached Cameron for a fellowship in psychiatry,
- 1:46:36Speaker 5: but he decided to admit her as a patient, claiming
- 1:46:39Speaker 5: she appeared quote nervous end quote she underwent Cameron's quote
- 1:46:44Speaker 5: deep patterning end quote regime of electro shock and barbituates
- 1:46:48Speaker 5: for eleven days. In nineteen ninety two, the Canadian government
- 1:46:52Speaker 5: agreed to pay compensation to seventy seven former patients on
- 1:46:57Speaker 5: condition that they agreed not to sue the government or
- 1:47:00Speaker 5: the hospital, but hundreds of other former patients were left
- 1:47:04Speaker 5: without shit. They said, compensation, but it's shit. The story
- 1:47:10Speaker 5: of Cameron's experiments is a long and complicated one, but
- 1:47:13Speaker 5: he should not be regarded as a rogue. As a
- 1:47:16Speaker 5: rogue Maverick during his time as director of the Allen
- 1:47:20Speaker 5: Memorial Institute. He was president in turn of the American
- 1:47:23Speaker 5: Psychiatric Association, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and the World Psychiatric
- 1:47:32Speaker 5: Psychiatric Association, the World and American and Canadian. In the
- 1:47:38Speaker 5: nineteen fifties, the numbers of people in psychiatric hospitals were
- 1:47:41Speaker 5: at their peak and provided a captive population on which
- 1:47:45Speaker 5: overly optimistic psychiatrists could try out experimental methods with few safeguards.
- 1:47:52Speaker 5: These were the days, for example, when lobotomies were routinely practiced.
- 1:47:56Speaker 5: As we've covered, poorly designed studies such as Camemans were
- 1:48:00Speaker 5: published openly in mainstream psychiatric journals all the fucking time.
- 1:48:05Speaker 5: In nineteen fifty five, Canadads Weekend magazine even included an
- 1:48:09Speaker 5: article on Cameron's work entitled quote Canadian psychiatrist developed beneficial
- 1:48:14Speaker 5: brainwashing clever beneficial brainwashing. I think we're going to watch
- 1:48:19Speaker 5: a clip that calls that a rather blatant oxymoron. Patients
- 1:48:23Speaker 5: and families deferred to the authority of psychiatrists. I thought
- 1:48:28Speaker 5: he was God, val Or Lecou said of Cameron, we
- 1:48:32Speaker 5: talked about her earlier. I think she was the one
- 1:48:35Speaker 5: that was like in a fucking tank for thirty five
- 1:48:38Speaker 5: days or whatever, and the CIA's research program began in
- 1:48:41Speaker 5: the midst of paranoia and suspicion about quote communist brainwashing
- 1:48:45Speaker 5: in quote following show trials in Moscow and Eastern Europe
- 1:48:48Speaker 5: and the coerced quote confessions end quote of captured US
- 1:48:52Speaker 5: servicemen in Korea in the early fifties. But this initially
- 1:48:55Speaker 5: defensive purpose was transformed and the program's results into manuals
- 1:49:01Speaker 5: the CIA used themselves and in the training of interrogators
- 1:49:05Speaker 5: in countries allied with the US or and the Cold War.
- 1:49:08Speaker 5: An important lesson is that such paranoia, combined with secrecy
- 1:49:13Speaker 5: and a lack of oversight and accountability, can eat it
- 1:49:15Speaker 5: only lead to abuses, something also seeing in the UK's
- 1:49:19Speaker 5: use of interrogation techniques in Kenya's in the fifties and
- 1:49:23Speaker 5: Northern Ireland in the seventies. Following the attacks in New
- 1:49:28Speaker 5: York on eleven September two thousand and one, the Bush
- 1:49:32Speaker 5: administration embraced quote enhanced interrogation in quotes methods like waterboarding
- 1:49:38Speaker 5: water boarding, abandoning well established legal norms. Once again, some
- 1:49:43Speaker 5: psychologists proved willing to help design psychological interrogation techniques we
- 1:49:49Speaker 5: forgot the lessons of history then, and unless we keep
- 1:49:53Speaker 5: retelling the stories of the past, it is likely we
- 1:49:56Speaker 5: will forget them again in the future, and goddamn it,
- 1:49:59Speaker 5: we have. I would say that guy Ewan, Yeah, he's
- 1:50:07Speaker 5: a rogue maverick.
- 1:50:08Speaker 3: No fucking I mean, I would call him a rogue maverick.
- 1:50:11Speaker 3: It doesn't mean he was good.
- 1:50:13Speaker 5: He had he had some key backing, of course, as
- 1:50:16Speaker 5: they always do. I would say him and doctor Sidney
- 1:50:21Speaker 5: Cohen are two people that you would want to look
- 1:50:24Speaker 5: into when you want to see Gottlieb is the head
- 1:50:28Speaker 5: of him.
- 1:50:29Speaker 4: K Ultra Fuck that guy.
- 1:50:30Speaker 5: It was like fucking Operation Artichoke or some ship first,
- 1:50:34Speaker 5: and then.
- 1:50:36Speaker 4: That's what Frank Olsen was involved with.
- 1:50:38Speaker 5: Yeah, Frank Olsen was this guy contracting them. He was
- 1:50:40Speaker 5: a fucking government scientist and he got entangled in this
- 1:50:44Speaker 5: and took the dive. But yeah, anyway, I would say
- 1:50:48Speaker 5: Sidney Cohen looking to him, he's the guy who gave LSD.
- 1:50:51Speaker 3: If you listen to a COULD series, he gave LSD
- 1:50:54Speaker 3: to What the fuck was the guy's name? Who did Sinnanan?
- 1:50:58Speaker 4: Chuck?
- 1:50:59Speaker 10: Chuck?
- 1:51:00Speaker 3: Didrich? Yes, Didric and many others. I think he gave
- 1:51:05Speaker 3: it to.
- 1:51:07Speaker 5: Carry Grant other notable people probably intermingled with the rat
- 1:51:12Speaker 5: Pack and the Laurel Canyon fucks.
- 1:51:14Speaker 4: Say, you have pointed out to me that I have
- 1:51:18Speaker 4: remembered wrong some stuff about Frank Olsen in past episodes.
- 1:51:23Speaker 3: Are we gonna rehash this year?
- 1:51:25Speaker 4: No, I'm not rehashed and shit, I'm just saying I
- 1:51:27Speaker 4: go off my memory and sometimes I get like dates
- 1:51:31Speaker 4: and certain thing.
- 1:51:32Speaker 5: Yeah, you focused on the Frank Olsen story after reading
- 1:51:37Speaker 5: that book by what's his name, the Richeald Belzer.
- 1:51:40Speaker 3: The stand up comedian.
- 1:51:41Speaker 4: Yeah, Robert Belzer.
- 1:51:43Speaker 3: I think it's Richard Richard Belzer.
- 1:51:45Speaker 5: But yeah, Frank Olsen was not in charge of him Kilter,
- 1:51:48Speaker 5: but he was one of the first casualty fuck ups internally.
- 1:51:51Speaker 5: I mean, these fuckers were dosing each other at parties,
- 1:51:54Speaker 5: they were doing. Operation Climax is probably one a lot
- 1:51:57Speaker 5: of people have looked into, if not look into, that
- 1:51:59Speaker 5: they were getting hookers to bring John's back to places
- 1:52:03Speaker 5: with two way mirrors. However, this is not an MK
- 1:52:07Speaker 5: ultracentric episode, but it's worth looking into. But the spillover
- 1:52:12Speaker 5: into the asylums and the experiments that went on there,
- 1:52:17Speaker 5: So we did get a good taste of that. But
- 1:52:19Speaker 5: I do want to show some clips from a documentary
- 1:52:23Speaker 5: that is seeming to be covering a movie that they're
- 1:52:26Speaker 5: making about these events, but they actually like interlace real
- 1:52:31Speaker 5: documentary footage. So I clipped some stuff where it just
- 1:52:35Speaker 5: shows the real shit. And did you have anything you
- 1:52:39Speaker 5: wanted to say?
- 1:52:40Speaker 4: No, I'm curious to see what these clips are.
- 1:52:43Speaker 3: Oh, it looks like it's just one big long one.
- 1:52:45Speaker 5: It's about six minutes, So pause for a pee break
- 1:52:50Speaker 5: and get your little ones out of the room, you crazy.
- 1:52:52Speaker 3: Fox if you've got them in there. Anyway, it's a
- 1:52:54Speaker 3: cosmic peach. I hope not.
- 1:52:57Speaker 4: Some people is down with the peach in front of
- 1:53:00Speaker 4: their kids.
- 1:53:01Speaker 5: I am, but this instance, keep the little ones away.
- 1:53:08Speaker 5: So this is going to be going into doctor Ewan Cameron,
- 1:53:13Speaker 5: who we've been talking about, speaking and then some tragic stories.
- 1:53:16Speaker 5: We've got about a six minute clip, and then we'll
- 1:53:18Speaker 5: give our closing arguments and maybe lick our middle fingers
- 1:53:22Speaker 5: and tease for next week or week or whatever.
- 1:53:25Speaker 3: It's going to fucking be I don't.
- 1:53:27Speaker 9: Know, to the point where he is destroying the minds
- 1:53:30Speaker 9: of hundreds of people.
- 1:53:32Speaker 1: These are the days and hours.
- 1:53:34Speaker 9: Of the occasion.
- 1:53:35Speaker 8: Inspired by the exuberant post war optimism in technology, Cameron
- 1:53:40Speaker 8: thought he'd achieved a major scientific breakthrough how to repair
- 1:53:44Speaker 8: a damaged human mind. The media rejoiced, even coined a
- 1:53:49Speaker 8: phrase which would become a tragically silly oxymoron, beneficial brainwashing.
- 1:53:56Speaker 8: Linda McDonald was a young mother with five children the
- 1:54:00Speaker 8: age of five when she started feeling low. Her family
- 1:54:04Speaker 8: doctor knew just the man to make her better.
- 1:54:06Speaker 24: I was tired, I was depressed. My back was hurting,
- 1:54:10Speaker 24: and so he said to the children's father, why don't
- 1:54:14Speaker 24: you go to Montreal and visit this doctor Ewan Camera,
- 1:54:17Speaker 24: this famous man who has all of these accolades, and
- 1:54:22Speaker 24: have an assessment.
- 1:54:25Speaker 7: So we went.
- 1:54:27Speaker 24: My medical file even says that I took my guitar.
- 1:54:31Speaker 17: With me.
- 1:54:33Speaker 24: And that was the end of my life. Within three weeks,
- 1:54:38Speaker 24: doctor Cameron decided to call me in acute schizophrenic and
- 1:54:43Speaker 24: ship me up to the sleep room.
- 1:54:44Speaker 25: How long did they put you to sleep?
- 1:54:47Speaker 6: For?
- 1:54:48Speaker 24: I was in a coma for eighty six days, eighty
- 1:54:52Speaker 24: sixties unbroken sleep, total comatose state.
- 1:54:58Speaker 8: The theory was simple, her a disturbed mind and start
- 1:55:02Speaker 8: all over again. One of doctor Cameron's colleagues at the
- 1:55:05Speaker 8: time was doctor Peter Roper.
- 1:55:07Speaker 15: The aim, I think really was to wipe out the
- 1:55:11Speaker 15: patents of thought and behavior which were detrimental to the
- 1:55:16Speaker 15: patient which was sick, and replaced them with healthy patents
- 1:55:21Speaker 15: of thought and behavior. I think this may have been
- 1:55:26Speaker 15: stimulated by the effects of the American prisoners of war
- 1:55:32Speaker 15: and career, how they seemed to have been brainwashed.
- 1:55:37Speaker 8: The movie called The Sleep Room dramatizes one technique for brainwashing,
- 1:55:42Speaker 8: extreme sessions of electroshock therapy massive jolts of electricity, three
- 1:55:48Speaker 8: or four times a day for weeks. According to her
- 1:55:52Speaker 8: hospital records, Linda MacDonald had one hundred of these treatments.
- 1:55:58Speaker 8: She entered hospital for treatment of what we can now
- 1:56:00Speaker 8: guess was postpartum depression. Her records show the results of
- 1:56:04Speaker 8: shock and radical drug therapy. May fifteenth shows some confusion.
- 1:56:10Speaker 8: June third knows her name, but that's about all. June
- 1:56:14Speaker 8: eleventh doesn't know her name.
- 1:56:16Speaker 24: I had to be toilet trained. I was a vegetable.
- 1:56:21Speaker 24: I had no identity, I had no memory. I'd never
- 1:56:23Speaker 24: existed in the world before, like a baby, Just like
- 1:56:27Speaker 24: a baby that has to be toilet trained.
- 1:56:30Speaker 8: She eventually went home, her depression gone and her entire
- 1:56:34Speaker 8: previous life gone with it.
- 1:56:36Speaker 24: This is one of the twins.
- 1:56:39Speaker 26: It was in sixty two before I went to the
- 1:56:41Speaker 26: alum and this is the same one.
- 1:56:43Speaker 3: I think.
- 1:56:44Speaker 26: I just look at the pictures and I know who
- 1:56:47Speaker 26: that is, who they are, but I don't remember them
- 1:56:52Speaker 26: as my children at all. I mean, I know that
- 1:56:55Speaker 26: they came from my body, but there's no so that's
- 1:57:01Speaker 26: all I don't know. And that's because I was told that,
- 1:57:05Speaker 26: so these are my children.
- 1:57:10Speaker 8: Robert Logi was little more than a child himself when
- 1:57:12Speaker 8: he was referred to doctor Cameron. He was eighteen. He
- 1:57:16Speaker 8: had a sore leg. His doctor thought it was all
- 1:57:19Speaker 8: in his head and sent him to the Allen. Like
- 1:57:21Speaker 8: Lynda McDonald, he went through a nightmare of shock therapy
- 1:57:25Speaker 8: and drugs including lsd.
- 1:57:28Speaker 2: Well I was given els to you about every second
- 1:57:30Speaker 2: day and injected and sometimes it was mixed with sody
- 1:57:37Speaker 2: mamatal and other drugs.
- 1:57:39Speaker 13: Idiot Park one on one tape two.
- 1:57:42Speaker 8: Most of the drugs were experimental but seemed suitable for brainwashing,
- 1:57:46Speaker 8: or as Cameron preferred to call it, deep hatterning. Then
- 1:57:50Speaker 8: during the long sleep, the patient would be forced to
- 1:57:53Speaker 8: listen to subliminal messages that were supposed to print new,
- 1:57:57Speaker 8: sometimes bizarre thoughts on his blank mind.
- 1:58:01Speaker 2: I was aware of the speaker under my pillow. I
- 1:58:05Speaker 2: was aware of the words, which where you killed your mother,
- 1:58:09Speaker 2: you kill your mother? Yeah, who was alive? And well,
- 1:58:13Speaker 2: who was alive? Amount and.
- 1:58:17Speaker 8: Over and over again.
- 1:58:18Speaker 2: This voice is well, like I say, it takes about
- 1:58:21Speaker 2: two seconds to say that message. And this was going
- 1:58:25Speaker 2: on for twenty three days. And when I went home
- 1:58:30Speaker 2: after being there, and when I went home, my mother
- 1:58:33Speaker 2: was there and why was she there? And didn't make
- 1:58:38Speaker 2: any sense?
- 1:58:39Speaker 8: So what was going on here? Doctor Ewan Cameron was
- 1:58:43Speaker 8: at one point head of the World Psychiatric Association and
- 1:58:47Speaker 8: is still admired by some of his former colleagues. Doctor
- 1:58:50Speaker 8: Peter Roper, what is.
- 1:58:52Speaker 25: The possibility that we had a good, well motivated man
- 1:58:57Speaker 25: whose ego and ambition took charge of his professionalism and
- 1:59:02Speaker 25: led him into some very direct places.
- 1:59:09Speaker 15: Well, I would put that chances pretty slight. I think
- 1:59:13Speaker 15: it's more likely that if he'd been around to defend
- 1:59:19Speaker 15: himself when this story came out, we would have a
- 1:59:23Speaker 15: totally different picture of it.
- 1:59:26Speaker 25: What would he say, put yourself in hissue. What would
- 1:59:28Speaker 25: he say.
- 1:59:30Speaker 15: I think it'd say, Look, I treated these patients to
- 1:59:35Speaker 15: the best of my ability. I didn't get all of
- 1:59:40Speaker 15: them well, but most of them I got better than
- 1:59:43Speaker 15: they were.
- 1:59:46Speaker 5: So once again, that's it. That's the fifth estate. And
- 1:59:51Speaker 5: I will give Julia the links for these all the
- 1:59:54Speaker 5: clips that we've showed, and she'll put them in the
- 1:59:56Speaker 5: show notes for you. I'd recommend watching all of it,
- 1:59:59Speaker 5: but as you can see, zero accountability from a close
- 2:00:02Speaker 5: colleague still alive, wearing a lap coat.
- 2:00:05Speaker 3: In the interview.
- 2:00:05Speaker 5: I don't know if they're trying to imply he's still practicing.
- 2:00:08Speaker 5: I fucking hope not. But uh yeah, some of it
- 2:00:13Speaker 5: was a success, like, for example, that first woman who
- 2:00:17Speaker 5: went home not depressed, but you know what, she had.
- 2:00:20Speaker 3: No memory of any of her life. It's like that
- 2:00:23Speaker 3: movie The Long Kiss Good Night with Geena Davis and
- 2:00:26Speaker 3: Samuel L. Jackson.
- 2:00:28Speaker 5: But anyway, when you start thinking about MK ultra.
- 2:00:35Speaker 3: Offshoots that still are not.
- 2:00:39Speaker 5: You know, technically acknowledged, such as Monarch, and you look
- 2:00:42Speaker 5: at what they were doing to these people. This is
- 2:00:45Speaker 5: the nineteen fifties, and then you start to see oddities
- 2:00:51Speaker 5: with pop culture. The Laurel Canyon scene.
- 2:00:55Speaker 3: Manchuran candidate type shit, and a lot of people were willing.
- 2:00:57Speaker 5: To just wash this stuff out, throw the baby out
- 2:01:01Speaker 5: with the bathtub, as JJ would say, and just assume
- 2:01:06Speaker 5: that it's all an exaggeration. But they were putting an
- 2:01:11Speaker 5: infinite amount of resources into this stuff. We see the
- 2:01:15Speaker 5: aftermath of it today, and even though this is a
- 2:01:19Speaker 5: mental health slash insanity centric episode, you do have to
- 2:01:25Speaker 5: start wondering, like you're seeing the techniques developed. Yes, they
- 2:01:29Speaker 5: were using these people, these throwaways as guinea pigs, but
- 2:01:34Speaker 5: what did they do after this anyway?
- 2:01:36Speaker 3: Closing arguments, of course not there's no way.
- 2:01:42Speaker 5: It's spilled over into the entertainment industry, politics, every facet
- 2:01:49Speaker 5: of your life. They where you want to think this
- 2:01:51Speaker 5: stuff doesn't exist. But yeah, the mentally ill are a
- 2:01:57Speaker 5: large part of the research that led to this furthering
- 2:02:04Speaker 5: of this kind of shit.
- 2:02:07Speaker 3: It's the psychic driving the deep patterning.
- 2:02:10Speaker 5: These are fucking terms that are acknowledged in the mainstream
- 2:02:14Speaker 5: that this guy was developing in this place and he
- 2:02:18Speaker 5: never lived to see his day in court, and he's
- 2:02:21Speaker 5: got a colleague willing to defend him right now, Well,
- 2:02:24Speaker 5: I don't know what this was made, but it was
- 2:02:27Speaker 5: more recent, of course than that first documentary.
- 2:02:30Speaker 4: They put that woman asleep for eighty six.
- 2:02:34Speaker 5: Days, and then how about that poor kid in with
- 2:02:42Speaker 5: acid every other day. It almost seems like this was
- 2:02:45Speaker 5: kind of like.
- 2:02:46Speaker 3: That thing going on in Houston.
- 2:02:48Speaker 5: If you can get end up in this program from
- 2:02:50Speaker 5: having a sore leg, shit.
- 2:02:54Speaker 4: Oh my god, Hey, my leg kind of hurts this
- 2:02:58Speaker 4: this is her venous ass.
- 2:03:00Speaker 3: This is Canada.
- 2:03:01Speaker 5: They will officially recommend suicide if you ask for a
- 2:03:06Speaker 5: fucking chairlift on your stairway. If you're a veteran, that's real.
- 2:03:10Speaker 5: Or you have an earache, you're a tarded guy with
- 2:03:13Speaker 5: an earache, the Canadian government will put you out of
- 2:03:15Speaker 5: your misery. So you think it's crazy here, it is.
- 2:03:18Speaker 5: We're living in crazy times. But a lot of this
- 2:03:21Speaker 5: stuff was going on north of the border. Hey, shout
- 2:03:25Speaker 5: out Davy Wavi, but we know you're not part of this.
- 2:03:28Speaker 5: Well fuck, I mean, there's a reason the CIA doesn't
- 2:03:35Speaker 5: recognize borders.
- 2:03:36Speaker 4: Okay, but okay, but do you think the CIA is
- 2:03:41Speaker 4: just running this all of it psychiatry, these Laurel encampments, pharmaceuticals,
- 2:03:50Speaker 4: this is all like a big experiment.
- 2:03:53Speaker 5: Yes, this is the legs of what is the top
- 2:03:57Speaker 5: of the table today, Like you can look back and
- 2:04:00Speaker 5: see this isn't a fucking conspiracy theory. These are fucking
- 2:04:05Speaker 5: legitimized accounts of what they were doing, what they were developing,
- 2:04:10Speaker 5: using the dregs of society as guinea pigs. It wasn't
- 2:04:14Speaker 5: just the mentally ill people labeled mentally ill. It was prisoners,
- 2:04:20Speaker 5: it was everybody. You go, you get a hooker in
- 2:04:23Speaker 5: the fucking late sixties and San Francisco, you could have
- 2:04:26Speaker 5: stumbled into fucking Operation Climax.
- 2:04:29Speaker 4: Okay, but that woman had postpartum.
- 2:04:32Speaker 3: She felt what did they say? She felt a little
- 2:04:35Speaker 3: low a moment with five children, felt a little low.
- 2:04:38Speaker 3: She felt low whatever that means. Whatever that means. I
- 2:04:44Speaker 3: have one kid and I feel loll sometimes. This bitch
- 2:04:48Speaker 3: has got five.
- 2:04:51Speaker 5: They erased any memory of her lowliness, and she's no
- 2:04:54Speaker 5: longer depressed.
- 2:04:55Speaker 3: I wonder, I just have.
- 2:04:56Speaker 4: A feminine moment right now?
- 2:04:59Speaker 3: Please need more of that?
- 2:05:02Speaker 4: Doesn't it just speak to the incredible nature of God's
- 2:05:06Speaker 4: design of our bodies that you could go through something
- 2:05:10Speaker 4: like that and still manage to be okay, Like your
- 2:05:15Speaker 4: body tries to heal itself.
- 2:05:18Speaker 3: Well, I would.
- 2:05:18Speaker 4: Resume some type of normal life.
- 2:05:21Speaker 5: I would argue that this woke territory that you're treading
- 2:05:25Speaker 5: lightly and trying to avoid exists because the foundation.
- 2:05:29Speaker 3: Of it is absolutely true.
- 2:05:31Speaker 5: I'm fucking woke to a degree when it comes to
- 2:05:34Speaker 5: you know, the what do.
- 2:05:36Speaker 3: They call him?
- 2:05:37Speaker 5: Marginalized women being one and this is fucking recent And
- 2:05:45Speaker 5: she fell into this lady that got her mind raised,
- 2:05:49Speaker 5: fell into that two thirds category, felt a little lull.
- 2:05:53Speaker 5: Let's erase your entire fucking life as.
- 2:05:56Speaker 4: A result, men and women, Sure, the ability to recuperate
- 2:06:01Speaker 4: after something like that with your spiriting, Well.
- 2:06:03Speaker 5: The old guy, eighteen year old, given acid every other day,
- 2:06:08Speaker 5: being psychically driven to believe that he killed his mother,
- 2:06:11Speaker 5: goes home, his mom's alive.
- 2:06:14Speaker 3: What were they doing with him?
- 2:06:15Speaker 5: Was he like a guy they never activated to pull off.
- 2:06:18Speaker 3: Some kind of assassination?
- 2:06:20Speaker 5: Because the I mean, the icing's on the cake already.
- 2:06:24Speaker 5: You know that hospital and they took this eighteen year
- 2:06:27Speaker 5: old kid in and they basically did what they did
- 2:06:30Speaker 5: to Ted Kaczynski at Harvard in this big timeframe we're
- 2:06:35Speaker 5: talking about here.
- 2:06:36Speaker 4: But the ability to recuperate from that, it's amazing still
- 2:06:41Speaker 4: go on with your life.
- 2:06:42Speaker 5: The human spirit is if nothing else resilient, there'd be
- 2:06:46Speaker 5: a lot of folks who would go through something similar
- 2:06:49Speaker 5: to what that man and woman in that clip went
- 2:06:52Speaker 5: through and they would not recover.
- 2:06:55Speaker 4: Well, somebody that you and I have taught, and then
- 2:06:58Speaker 4: we'll do it like a closing statement. But somebody that
- 2:07:05Speaker 4: you and I both have talked about at nauseum is
- 2:07:09Speaker 4: Paul Banasi. How is he able to go like? He
- 2:07:14Speaker 4: has a family somewhere, he got married, he has kids.
- 2:07:19Speaker 4: How do you go high?
- 2:07:20Speaker 5: If Paul Banasi is in fact not part of the syop,
- 2:07:24Speaker 5: and I do wonder about him, just because he is
- 2:07:28Speaker 5: so heavily entrenched in the John DeCamp Is it John?
- 2:07:34Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 2:07:34Speaker 3: And my cousin Bill Colby.
- 2:07:38Speaker 5: He is part of that narrative, and he's so sensationalized
- 2:07:43Speaker 5: that he just might be the West Memphis three of
- 2:07:45Speaker 5: the Franklin Scandal, the fucking red Herring.
- 2:07:47Speaker 4: Let's just say for argument sake that he's.
- 2:07:50Speaker 5: Not okay if he's real, and I'm willing to entertain
- 2:07:53Speaker 5: that for sure, because I'm not willing to he is
- 2:07:56Speaker 5: part of the Big three witnesses that is on document
- 2:08:01Speaker 5: that you could prove that's real. He's a real person now,
- 2:08:05Speaker 5: whether he was snagged into this sy up or not.
- 2:08:07Speaker 5: If he's a real person, I can't imagine the stuff
- 2:08:11Speaker 5: he's claimed, he's witnessed. He claims he's fractured into the
- 2:08:14Speaker 5: multitude of different people, and he's having a family somewhere.
- 2:08:18Speaker 4: He's married, and he has kids, and he works the
- 2:08:21Speaker 4: jobs that's doing such.
- 2:08:23Speaker 5: I mean, and not only was he fucking ritualistically abused
- 2:08:26Speaker 5: and passed around, he was part of the recruiting, picking
- 2:08:32Speaker 5: kids off the street, watching snuff films of people.
- 2:08:35Speaker 4: He picked up street kid's in front of him.
- 2:08:39Speaker 5: I mean, the fact that you could ever bounce back
- 2:08:41Speaker 5: from that is astounding to me and be a father.
- 2:08:45Speaker 3: I mean, I run over a squirrel and I have
- 2:08:47Speaker 3: a bad day. Same, So fuck that. Sorry, Paul, that
- 2:08:51Speaker 3: really sucks.
- 2:08:52Speaker 4: Let's just say all of that is real, the real shit,
- 2:08:55Speaker 4: and it might be. The resiliency of this spirit of
- 2:08:59Speaker 4: the human being is just remarkable to me sometimes that
- 2:09:04Speaker 4: you could go through a sleep room CIA experiment or
- 2:09:09Speaker 4: SRA or something like that and still somehow end up
- 2:09:13Speaker 4: being able to function.
- 2:09:14Speaker 14: Later in life and raise kids and raise kids, not
- 2:09:18Speaker 14: pass your trauma in some fucking miraculous way, because we
- 2:09:21Speaker 14: all do.
- 2:09:22Speaker 5: And if your trauma's deep, hopefully he's done the work.
- 2:09:27Speaker 4: But think about his kids, right.
- 2:09:31Speaker 3: I'm sure there is no model.
- 2:09:33Speaker 4: In my opinion of pharmaceuticals or psychiatry that can heal
- 2:09:39Speaker 4: passed down trauma like that.
- 2:09:41Speaker 3: Well, you know what you could do?
- 2:09:44Speaker 5: You and Cameron is dead, of course, but I'm sure
- 2:09:46Speaker 5: he has proteges floating around out there. I wonder if
- 2:09:49Speaker 5: that alcoholic doctor that venerated his name, you could erase
- 2:09:53Speaker 5: Paulvanacci's memory.
- 2:09:55Speaker 3: They proved you could do that.
- 2:09:56Speaker 4: Passed down trauma in his kids, because you know that
- 2:09:59Speaker 4: the a thing.
- 2:10:01Speaker 5: Yeah, And I'm not saying like heel that he shouldn't.
- 2:10:04Speaker 5: I not would never state that he shouldn't be allowed
- 2:10:06Speaker 5: to have kids. But we all do it. Anybody with
- 2:10:12Speaker 5: kids out there knows that you try your best not to.
- 2:10:16Speaker 5: It could be little things, it can be big things.
- 2:10:18Speaker 4: Even if it's just spiritual what he's went through.
- 2:10:21Speaker 5: Well, they talk about the epigenetics of trauma, study of
- 2:10:25Speaker 5: all that, and there's some interesting breadcrumbs to go off
- 2:10:29Speaker 5: and all that, and I believe it. I have shit
- 2:10:32Speaker 5: going on in my own family. That makes me think
- 2:10:34Speaker 5: there's generational fucking things that you can never escape.
- 2:10:38Speaker 3: Like it's just a.
- 2:10:39Speaker 4: Reality that Paulasi has your daddy right, Hopefully he's not
- 2:10:44Speaker 4: still fractured.
- 2:10:45Speaker 5: Well, I'm like, what if one of his personalities is
- 2:10:48Speaker 5: that guy that fucking snagged Johnny Gosh off the street
- 2:10:52Speaker 5: or the guy that watched Hunter S.
- 2:10:53Speaker 3: Thompson make snuff films.
- 2:10:55Speaker 5: If that guy comes out during the diaper change or
- 2:10:57Speaker 5: bedtime story, those kids are fucking And that's why I was, Yeah,
- 2:11:01Speaker 5: I was like not trying to like make it not
- 2:11:04Speaker 5: serious when I said.
- 2:11:05Speaker 3: Hopefully he's done the work, because you can't.
- 2:11:09Speaker 5: I mean, you can escape it to a level neither
- 2:11:12Speaker 5: one of us knows the level of trauma compared to
- 2:11:15Speaker 5: that guy. No, and you've had a rough life. I've
- 2:11:21Speaker 5: had a semi cush life, and you know, nobody's gotten
- 2:11:24Speaker 5: out scott free.
- 2:11:25Speaker 3: But fuck.
- 2:11:29Speaker 4: The The problem to me is the work that's available
- 2:11:32Speaker 4: for him to do. I don't think works. I think
- 2:11:37Speaker 4: it's all part of this fucking broken psychiatry system that
- 2:11:41Speaker 4: keeps people on a treadmill. I mean, you'd have to
- 2:11:46Speaker 4: go to that guy in fucking Africa, the shaman guy,
- 2:11:51Speaker 4: and fucking do some serious spirit. I feel like you'd
- 2:11:54Speaker 4: have to heal your spirit before I don't know, before
- 2:11:59Speaker 4: you would think about wanting to have kids.
- 2:12:01Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a heavy closing.
- 2:12:04Speaker 4: What's this shit you got about Trump?
- 2:12:07Speaker 3: All right?
- 2:12:07Speaker 5: I forgot about this. I'm glad you reminded me so
- 2:12:10Speaker 5: to wrap this all up. And as Julia teased with
- 2:12:13Speaker 5: a question earlier, is where are we heading now? I
- 2:12:18Speaker 5: do want to give a caveat because you can always
- 2:12:22Speaker 5: spot opportunity to make Trump look bad. In my opinion,
- 2:12:29Speaker 5: the left and the liberal media always focus on the
- 2:12:32Speaker 5: stupid shit. They don't hardly ever show the stuff that
- 2:12:37Speaker 5: you actually should be afraid of because both sides are
- 2:12:39Speaker 5: doing it.
- 2:12:40Speaker 3: But this.
- 2:12:43Speaker 5: Clashing of mental illness and the homeless epidemic that not
- 2:12:50Speaker 5: only a few major cities are suffering from, like you
- 2:12:53Speaker 5: could say decades ago.
- 2:12:56Speaker 3: It's everywhere now. We have it skirt into our neighborhood
- 2:13:01Speaker 3: on a regular occasion.
- 2:13:02Speaker 4: I feel like our area is on the up fucking tick.
- 2:13:06Speaker 4: And just just.
- 2:13:07Speaker 5: To give a little tease, I would say Julia is
- 2:13:10Speaker 5: wrong only because I've lived here in this house for
- 2:13:12Speaker 5: five years and she didn't see it three years ago.
- 2:13:16Speaker 5: When I couldn't walk to the downtown area without walking
- 2:13:19Speaker 5: through encampments.
- 2:13:21Speaker 4: Guys, it's better than that.
- 2:13:23Speaker 5: Well, what they did was and I don't know what
- 2:13:25Speaker 5: they did, but what on the outside looking in, what
- 2:13:28Speaker 5: they did was they got rid.
- 2:13:29Speaker 3: Of all of it. I don't know how they did it.
- 2:13:31Speaker 5: I know there was a big crackdown. So we're gonna
- 2:13:34Speaker 5: look at this on a national level. This is something
- 2:13:36Speaker 5: that I had seen in the headlines and I didn't
- 2:13:39Speaker 5: look into it more until Julia brought this topic to
- 2:13:43Speaker 5: me to do a series on because I remember hearing
- 2:13:46Speaker 5: that there was a big foot push in a bill
- 2:13:48Speaker 5: that Trump passed for normalizing mental institutions and the way
- 2:13:54Speaker 5: they were used previously in the stuff we've been covering
- 2:13:58Speaker 5: in this series so far. But I'll just close this
- 2:14:02Speaker 5: episode and then we can give our real closing arguments.
- 2:14:05Speaker 5: But this is it looks like it's PBS interviewing an
- 2:14:11Speaker 5: MS or a Washington Post journalist, which you know, we
- 2:14:16Speaker 5: all anybody paying attention to the political sphere knows PBS
- 2:14:20Speaker 5: Washington Post has kind of made a swing back to moderate.
- 2:14:24Speaker 5: But I do believe that they're covering something real here
- 2:14:28Speaker 5: and they're not like just going for the low hanging
- 2:14:31Speaker 5: fruit with Trump likely is often the case ninety nine
- 2:14:34Speaker 5: percent of the time, So keep that in mind.
- 2:14:36Speaker 3: We are watching.
- 2:14:37Speaker 5: An perspective from an angle against Trump anyway, But I
- 2:14:43Speaker 5: do believe and even in my own case, this is
- 2:14:46Speaker 5: a reason to be concerned. I do want to preface
- 2:14:50Speaker 5: this by saying this was January of twenty twenty five,
- 2:14:54Speaker 5: so this year, roughly what seven ish months ago.
- 2:14:58Speaker 27: President Trump signed an executive or that makes it easier
- 2:15:01Speaker 27: for states to remove homeless encampments and force homeless people
- 2:15:04Speaker 27: into mental health or addiction treatment programs at least a
- 2:15:08Speaker 27: dayjour Dan explains.
- 2:15:10Speaker 7: President Trump's order lays out his goal clearly.
- 2:15:13Speaker 28: He wants to move more people who are homeless into
- 2:15:15Speaker 28: long term institutions and hospitals, including involuntarily. He also plans
- 2:15:21Speaker 28: a dramatic shift in federal funds away from programs that
- 2:15:24Speaker 28: place people into housing first and instead pushing for tougher
- 2:15:28Speaker 28: immediate requirements for treatment. Homeless rates have been steadily rising
- 2:15:33Speaker 28: since twenty seventeen. A federal count found that more than
- 2:15:36Speaker 28: seven hundred and seventy thousand people were living in shelters
- 2:15:40Speaker 28: or outside on a single night last year. For more
- 2:15:43Speaker 28: on this latest executive action and what it may mean,
- 2:15:46Speaker 28: I'm joined by David ob a national reporter focusing on
- 2:15:49Speaker 28: opioids and addictions for the Washington Post.
- 2:15:52Speaker 7: There is a great deal in this order, David.
- 2:15:55Speaker 28: First, does President Trump have the power to either encourage
- 2:15:59Speaker 28: or tell states that they need to put more people
- 2:16:03Speaker 28: in institutions, even involuntarily.
- 2:16:06Speaker 13: Well, no, not not specifically. And that's one of the
- 2:16:09Speaker 13: interesting things about this order is that he's really they're
- 2:16:13Speaker 13: really trying to incentivize and push states into doing this. Remember,
- 2:16:16Speaker 13: states set the their particular laws, they set their criteria
- 2:16:22Speaker 13: for how they handle involuntary commitments. So really this is
- 2:16:26Speaker 13: a state issue. But the federal government certainly has a
- 2:16:29Speaker 13: lot of sway, and they can for example, in the
- 2:16:32Speaker 13: executive order, they talk about prioritizing grants for states that
- 2:16:39Speaker 13: are jurisdictions that comply with this order and crack down
- 2:16:43Speaker 13: on open air drug use and you know other other
- 2:16:47Speaker 13: things to combat quote unquote vagrancy on the streets. So
- 2:16:51Speaker 13: certainly there are sort of incentives they can do to
- 2:16:54Speaker 13: kind of push states to doing this, and certainly Trump
- 2:16:57Speaker 13: has a lot of has a lot of sway. Nearly
- 2:17:00Speaker 13: among red states. So if states feel like they're going
- 2:17:02Speaker 13: to benefit by implementing a more robust involuntary commitment program,
- 2:17:08Speaker 13: then you know.
- 2:17:09Speaker 28: Then they just might What does President Trump say he
- 2:17:12Speaker 28: is trying to do here, and how does that mesh
- 2:17:14Speaker 28: with what we know about substance abuse and mental illness
- 2:17:18Speaker 28: in this population in particular.
- 2:17:20Speaker 13: Well, I think Trump's message is something that does resonate
- 2:17:24Speaker 13: with a lot of people, particularly as we've seen in
- 2:17:27Speaker 13: cities where there are people camped out on sidewalks, where
- 2:17:30Speaker 13: there are people who are clearly grappling with mental illness
- 2:17:33Speaker 13: in a very visible public way. And so you know,
- 2:17:37Speaker 13: whether you're seeing it firsthand or you're watching it on TV,
- 2:17:40Speaker 13: certainly this is something that concerns people, right, but of
- 2:17:45Speaker 13: course in a very Trump way. It's also sort of
- 2:17:48Speaker 13: loaded with very fear inducing language. Right. It's you know, vagrancy,
- 2:17:54Speaker 13: it's people are you know, having violent confrontations on the street.
- 2:17:58Speaker 13: And when you talk to advocates for the homeless, advocates
- 2:18:02Speaker 13: for people with mental whoor dealing with mental illness, you know,
- 2:18:06Speaker 13: they they point out that most people that are dealing
- 2:18:08Speaker 13: with mental illness are not you know, getting arrested, They're
- 2:18:12Speaker 13: not you know, violently lashing out at people. But it's
- 2:18:14Speaker 13: when these things happen in a very high profile way,
- 2:18:18Speaker 13: like we've seen happen in New York City for example,
- 2:18:21Speaker 13: you know, they they you know, tend to grab a
- 2:18:23Speaker 13: lot of headlines. So these are real fears that that
- 2:18:26Speaker 13: that manifest themselves in our cities. But it kind of
- 2:18:30Speaker 13: gets you know, really amped up by some of the rhetoric.
- 2:18:33Speaker 28: Where are the advocates on the tension here. Obviously there's
- 2:18:36Speaker 28: a public concern you talked about that, but what are
- 2:18:39Speaker 28: their concerns about this idea of stepped up involuntarily moving
- 2:18:43Speaker 28: people into hospitals.
- 2:18:45Speaker 13: Well, I think the the overarching fears that we might
- 2:18:49Speaker 13: return to, you know, decades to policies at decades past
- 2:18:53Speaker 13: where people were unjustly uh and unfairly being held in
- 2:18:57Speaker 13: asylums for you know, months and years, against against their
- 2:19:00Speaker 13: will and not really getting the right kind of treatment
- 2:19:03Speaker 13: or maybe they weren't supposed to be there in the
- 2:19:05Speaker 13: first place. So that's sort of the overarching fear. But
- 2:19:08Speaker 13: I think I think the fact that you know, there's
- 2:19:12Speaker 13: there's a lot of public health dollars that are being
- 2:19:16Speaker 13: cut right now, and so some of that money, they say,
- 2:19:19Speaker 13: should be better spent on helping people in treatment and
- 2:19:22Speaker 13: not just locking them away, you know, sort of indefinitely.
- 2:19:27Speaker 28: You know, I spoke to a man who's almost eighty
- 2:19:30Speaker 28: who's experiencing homeless is now, has for a long time.
- 2:19:34Speaker 28: He is one of those roughly one third in that
- 2:19:36Speaker 28: population who's also dealt with serious mental illness as we're
- 2:19:39Speaker 28: talking about, and he said he just does not think
- 2:19:42Speaker 28: there's room in the system, in the hospitals, in shelters
- 2:19:46Speaker 28: for these kinds of populations.
- 2:19:47Speaker 7: What do we know about that?
- 2:19:49Speaker 13: Right, Well, there is limited bedspace, and you know, you know,
- 2:19:53Speaker 13: in Florida, where I'm normally based, you see, you know,
- 2:19:56Speaker 13: there's been a lot of forensic hospitals that have closed
- 2:19:58Speaker 13: because there has been this push in recent decades to
- 2:20:01Speaker 13: get people out into the community and to get them
- 2:20:04Speaker 13: getting treatment out in the community and not in a
- 2:20:08Speaker 13: locked up facility. So there really is not a lot
- 2:20:10Speaker 13: of bedspace. And with budgets being strapped the way that
- 2:20:13Speaker 13: they are these days, particularly with cuts coming from DC,
- 2:20:17Speaker 13: you know, it's going to you know, states and community
- 2:20:19Speaker 13: is going to be hard pressed to really build those
- 2:20:21Speaker 13: facilities and be able to meet the needs of the
- 2:20:25Speaker 13: people that are looking to be that people want to
- 2:20:29Speaker 13: put away.
- 2:20:31Speaker 28: David Avaya, thank you for your reporting on complex issues.
- 2:20:35Speaker 7: We really appreciate talking with us today.
- 2:20:37Speaker 13: Thank you.
- 2:20:42Speaker 5: Well, I'll just say that that issue in itself is
- 2:20:48Speaker 5: a whole episode, and.
- 2:20:50Speaker 3: There's some extreme views on it.
- 2:20:52Speaker 5: I find myself in the large gray area on the
- 2:20:56Speaker 5: mental illness slash homelessness slash addiction thing that it's interesting
- 2:21:04Speaker 5: to me January would have been Trump just worn in,
- 2:21:09Speaker 5: so this was one of the first things he prioritized.
- 2:21:13Speaker 5: And I don't hear a lot of talk, but I
- 2:21:16Speaker 5: do hear some conspiratorial shit about truck drivers going to
- 2:21:22Speaker 5: these treatment centers and driving away with sealed meat containers.
- 2:21:27Speaker 5: Oh god, this is a ground zero. With Clyde Lewis
- 2:21:30Speaker 5: I listened to quite often, and he's had these truck
- 2:21:33Speaker 5: drivers calling in the last few months, probably since the
- 2:21:37Speaker 5: beginning of the year, where they're going to these addictions
- 2:21:41Speaker 5: slash mental health places and they have sealed containers and
- 2:21:45Speaker 5: it's labeled meat, and they drive them to ports and
- 2:21:48Speaker 5: they have to drop them off and drive away.
- 2:21:50Speaker 3: If you want to get conspiratorial about what's going.
- 2:21:53Speaker 4: On McDonald's, I don't even know we're eating homeless people.
- 2:21:57Speaker 5: Well at least they're shipping it away, So don't eat
- 2:21:59Speaker 5: mc donald's overseas.
- 2:22:00Speaker 4: Everybody, they're shipping it away.
- 2:22:06Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my thoughts on the nuances of that.
- 2:22:08Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, there's there's so much you could say
- 2:22:11Speaker 5: about it. But it does look like like this guy
- 2:22:13Speaker 5: wasn't plane. It's a slippery slope in ways back to.
- 2:22:18Speaker 3: Medieval times is old. I just got the like a
- 2:22:21Speaker 3: motherfucker really still going on.
- 2:22:25Speaker 4: Well, I'm somewhere in it, like I'm somewhere in the
- 2:22:28Speaker 4: middle between these no human being. It's just a trash
- 2:22:33Speaker 4: person that you can just throw away.
- 2:22:37Speaker 5: Especially people that are in need of some kind of help.
- 2:22:40Speaker 5: Oftentimes they're not, but even the ones that are, Yeah.
- 2:22:44Speaker 4: To me, it's like, I'm not, I'm not. I can't
- 2:22:47Speaker 4: get on board. We just like to throw a human
- 2:22:50Speaker 4: being away somewhere, even just because they're homeless.
- 2:22:53Speaker 5: So what well, if you can can't, if you can
- 2:22:56Speaker 5: throw a human being away for any.
- 2:22:58Speaker 3: Reason, then you can, and all sorts of reasons too.
- 2:23:01Speaker 3: And that's where we are.
- 2:23:02Speaker 4: Like if you took somebody that had never like you
- 2:23:06Speaker 4: took somebody from like another fucking planet or something, and
- 2:23:10Speaker 4: you brought them to Earth and they were like, what
- 2:23:13Speaker 4: are these people that are like intense all over the place?
- 2:23:17Speaker 4: Those are the garbage people. Well, they're the fucking trash people.
- 2:23:21Speaker 3: At least they're recycling.
- 2:23:23Speaker 23: You know.
- 2:23:23Speaker 4: What I'm saying is like, we don't take care of.
- 2:23:27Speaker 5: Our yeah, And I think that's one of the overlying
- 2:23:31Speaker 5: points of this whole series. Really is this condition that
- 2:23:37Speaker 5: humanity finds itself in. And it's been an issue since
- 2:23:41Speaker 5: we went back in episode one of it for what
- 2:23:45Speaker 5: centuries like documented, but we can imagine that it's always
- 2:23:50Speaker 5: been here, and the way we've dealt with it has
- 2:23:54Speaker 5: gone into some dark fucking places, and we're still in
- 2:23:57Speaker 5: the middle of that.
- 2:23:58Speaker 4: I feel unsafe and I get out at the gas
- 2:24:01Speaker 4: station at night and there's like a homeless dude with
- 2:24:04Speaker 4: one shoe on, just babbling away at himself. I don't
- 2:24:07Speaker 4: feel like I want to get out of the car.
- 2:24:08Speaker 4: I especially feel uncomfortable when they come up and ask
- 2:24:11Speaker 4: you for stuff. But the next time that happens to you,
- 2:24:14Speaker 4: you got to stop and think, if we had a
- 2:24:17Speaker 4: system that took care of people like this, there wouldn't
- 2:24:23Speaker 4: be homeless guys on meth with one shoe at the
- 2:24:26Speaker 4: gas station. You're begging you for me. We don't take
- 2:24:29Speaker 4: care of our omanies.
- 2:24:30Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a whole spectrum. Like just a little anecdote.
- 2:24:34Speaker 5: I had stopped for I don't remember what.
- 2:24:40Speaker 9: I think.
- 2:24:40Speaker 5: I was getting a beer and some pouches, and this
- 2:24:44Speaker 5: guy's like, are you getting some food in there?
- 2:24:46Speaker 3: Men?
- 2:24:47Speaker 5: And he looked like he'd been hiking in the woods
- 2:24:49Speaker 5: and not showered in a while.
- 2:24:51Speaker 3: He was totally coherent.
- 2:24:53Speaker 5: He fucking told me, well, why don't you if you're
- 2:24:58Speaker 5: getting some food stuff, you could give me some money
- 2:25:02Speaker 5: and then you can use my food card. So the
- 2:25:05Speaker 5: guy was wanting to buy booze or something apparently. Yeah,
- 2:25:07Speaker 5: and you know that kind of shit. That's not a
- 2:25:09Speaker 5: homeless guy that's been only ill and there there's the
- 2:25:12Speaker 5: people that nine times out of ten don't even know
- 2:25:14Speaker 5: you're there and they don't interact with you. But I
- 2:25:18Speaker 5: guess the conversation we had this sparked your desire to
- 2:25:22Speaker 5: do this entire series. That guy is a fucking local
- 2:25:27Speaker 5: legend in Ashland, Oregon. I mean, he was a homeless
- 2:25:32Speaker 5: person who did interact with the community in big ways
- 2:25:35Speaker 5: throughout the years.
- 2:25:36Speaker 3: And what do you do?
- 2:25:38Speaker 4: He might have killed somebody.
- 2:25:40Speaker 5: He might have killed somebody he tried to get He
- 2:25:43Speaker 5: was institutionalized to the point where he preferred to be
- 2:25:46Speaker 5: locked up, so they let him out one time, and
- 2:25:48Speaker 5: he went to the overpass and started throwing shit into
- 2:25:51Speaker 5: the freeway into traffic so he could go back to
- 2:25:53Speaker 5: jail and get three squares in a cot.
- 2:25:57Speaker 4: But he might have misheddied some guys.
- 2:25:59Speaker 3: Well that was Yeah.
- 2:26:00Speaker 5: There was a local you know, I've not been living
- 2:26:03Speaker 5: here too long, a few couple of years maybe, And
- 2:26:06Speaker 5: a guy got his head damn near cut off on
- 2:26:09Speaker 5: this local bike path that runs through the entire series
- 2:26:12Speaker 5: of towns and cities here in southern Oregon. And some
- 2:26:17Speaker 5: people thought this homeless guy did it. It's never been solved.
- 2:26:21Speaker 5: But that's a whole other conversation.
- 2:26:23Speaker 4: So that's where I'm at. It's like, are certain homeless
- 2:26:27Speaker 4: situations dangerous?
- 2:26:28Speaker 3: First?
- 2:26:29Speaker 4: Yes they are, and there are crazy.
- 2:26:33Speaker 5: Is it the majority? It's dangerous some places? I think
- 2:26:38Speaker 5: so I don't.
- 2:26:40Speaker 3: Feel relatively night on skid row. I'm not spending the
- 2:26:44Speaker 3: night two blocks that way.
- 2:26:48Speaker 4: But you know what I'm saying, though, is like I
- 2:26:50Speaker 4: don't think these people should be thrown away.
- 2:26:53Speaker 14: Yeah, and we have nothing for them.
- 2:26:56Speaker 3: Not anything.
- 2:26:58Speaker 5: Objectively beneficial. And you know, it's a common problem here.
- 2:27:04Speaker 5: Like I said, in this area, there was a sweep.
- 2:27:08Speaker 5: But we're in a city that's, you know, roughly thirty
- 2:27:12Speaker 5: miles from the California border and then you go forty
- 2:27:16Speaker 5: five minutes north of US and they're just letting these
- 2:27:18Speaker 5: fuckers take over the city parks. Families don't frequent the
- 2:27:22Speaker 5: parks at all anymore. You're if you're lucky enough to
- 2:27:26Speaker 5: find a swing set away from the encampments, it's probably
- 2:27:30Speaker 5: got fucking syringes that you might step on, Oh my god.
- 2:27:33Speaker 5: And the people are sick of it. And it's a
- 2:27:37Speaker 5: fairly conservative town. I'll say it's Grant's Pass, Oregon. And
- 2:27:40Speaker 5: every fucking morning, if I'm skimming through the radio and
- 2:27:43Speaker 5: talk radio, it's likely a topic that comes up and
- 2:27:47Speaker 5: there is no answer that a liberal state is offering.
- 2:27:51Speaker 5: And then the conservative states and people like Trump go
- 2:27:54Speaker 5: so far the other way. And yeah, there's not a
- 2:27:57Speaker 5: lot of fucking nuance when you look to the problem
- 2:27:59Speaker 5: solve that do have influence over society. So it's a
- 2:28:03Speaker 5: it's an issue that's not going away, and in our
- 2:28:06Speaker 5: society that seems to drive people close to insanity over
- 2:28:10Speaker 5: the edge. I would argue, with all the noise of
- 2:28:13Speaker 5: modern day society, we are breaking people left and right.
- 2:28:17Speaker 4: And nobody can afford to live.
- 2:28:21Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just a whole fucking cluster fuck conglamoration of
- 2:28:25Speaker 5: a whole lot of issues in Minilinness is right in
- 2:28:27Speaker 5: the middle of all.
- 2:28:28Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
- 2:28:30Speaker 3: But anyway, enjoy your evening everybody.
- 2:28:34Speaker 4: I think, you know, it would be nice to see it,
- 2:28:36Speaker 4: you know, put just post in the comments section, like
- 2:28:39Speaker 4: what your thoughts on all this are. I mean, I
- 2:28:43Speaker 4: know Colby reads the comments all the time.
- 2:28:46Speaker 5: Right If I go on Spotify and go to the thing,
- 2:28:50Speaker 5: if I'm re listening to anything you've posted else comments,
- 2:28:52Speaker 5: But I.
- 2:28:53Speaker 3: Don't know, there's not a lot.
- 2:28:55Speaker 5: Well I'm just saying that I could. I could check
- 2:28:57Speaker 5: there is wherever you listen. I don't know you could
- 2:29:01Speaker 5: comment on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or Patreon. Yeah, this
- 2:29:04Speaker 5: is an issue that has probably affected everybody. If not
- 2:29:07Speaker 5: familiar familially, whatever that word was supposed to be, it's
- 2:29:13Speaker 5: probably at least on the outskirts of your life. Whether
- 2:29:17Speaker 5: we're talking mental illness, homelessness, addiction, and the various mistreatments
- 2:29:22Speaker 5: of all of the above. I mean, yeah, sure, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals,
- 2:29:29Speaker 5: But yeah, I.
- 2:29:30Speaker 4: Think this is a killer episode. I had a lot
- 2:29:33Speaker 4: of fun putting my stuff together and watching that documentary
- 2:29:37Speaker 4: I sent you because I was like, what the fuck
- 2:29:40Speaker 4: is it?
- 2:29:41Speaker 5: Yeah, And I mean, at the rate we're going, we
- 2:29:43Speaker 5: could probably do a ten part episode on this topic
- 2:29:46Speaker 5: and just dive into the weeds. But I think we're
- 2:29:48Speaker 5: bringing a lot of the like, you know, somewhat known stuff,
- 2:29:52Speaker 5: but looking a little deeper into it.
- 2:29:53Speaker 3: Like even someone like me.
- 2:29:56Speaker 5: Who has researched this for years, I've come across a
- 2:30:00Speaker 5: lot of new stuff to looking into it from this angle.
- 2:30:03Speaker 5: And like you, sharing that documentary, you know, that brought
- 2:30:06Speaker 5: a lot of stuff to light that I assumed wasn't
- 2:30:11Speaker 5: that prevalent in that time period in the nineteen nineties.
- 2:30:16Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think we're gonna have even more fun
- 2:30:20Speaker 4: in the next episode.
- 2:30:21Speaker 5: Well, this next episode will be the funnest one. Yeah,
- 2:30:24Speaker 5: even though it's going to be all about the same topic,
- 2:30:27Speaker 5: it's it's going to be you know, think of all
- 2:30:30Speaker 5: your favorite movies that are at least somewhat focused around
- 2:30:35Speaker 5: these issues we've been talking about, and I'm sure you
- 2:30:37Speaker 5: can think.
- 2:30:38Speaker 4: Of plenty or shows or like whatever you know for movies.
- 2:30:42Speaker 5: And you know, I also want to at some point,
- 2:30:44Speaker 5: and it'll probably be in next episode, talk about almost
- 2:30:48Speaker 5: the fetishization.
- 2:30:50Speaker 3: Of mental illness that I see.
- 2:30:53Speaker 5: Especially in younger women, and it's almost like part of
- 2:30:58Speaker 5: your he her, You're neurodivergent, You're on the spectrum. And
- 2:31:07Speaker 5: people definitely are quick these days because of the programming
- 2:31:11Speaker 5: coming from all angles to categorize themselves in these places.
- 2:31:15Speaker 5: Just self diagnose. And of course anxiety is common and
- 2:31:19Speaker 5: we all have it at times, and some of us
- 2:31:20Speaker 5: have it more than others, But just to label yourself
- 2:31:23Speaker 5: as neurodivergent somewhere on the spectrum, I'm asked for agree
- 2:31:30Speaker 5: on Tuesdays Thursdays, I'm a little you know, and it's
- 2:31:35Speaker 5: I'm not It's it's something you can make light of,
- 2:31:38Speaker 5: but it's all it's also a social contagion. So you know,
- 2:31:44Speaker 5: if we have time to dig in through all the
- 2:31:46Speaker 5: fun pop culture references of insanity, maybe we'll cover like
- 2:31:50Speaker 5: a little bit of like what we just see in
- 2:31:53Speaker 5: our day.
- 2:31:54Speaker 3: To day lives.
- 2:31:55Speaker 5: Yeah, and quote unquote normal people, normal people, which is.
- 2:32:00Speaker 3: Your everyday people.
- 2:32:01Speaker 5: Yeah, your cousins, your daughters, your sons, your uncles, your bosses.
- 2:32:07Speaker 3: You can see it anywhere. Yeah. Yeah, people still wearing masks.
- 2:32:11Speaker 4: Maybe I have a couple movies in a show that
- 2:32:15Speaker 4: I want to talk about. You got a couple movies
- 2:32:18Speaker 4: and stuff. And it's like you said, we'll kind of
- 2:32:20Speaker 4: dive all over the place. But I hope everyone out
- 2:32:23Speaker 4: there is enjoying this series so far. Leave comments, uh,
- 2:32:27Speaker 4: you know, share whatever. And with that being said, there
- 2:32:33Speaker 4: is one very important, vital piece of information I need
- 2:32:38Speaker 4: you to learn just as soon as humanly possible.
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