#2570 - Mystery Boys

“You had an Egypt guy here telling you that. Remember him? Yeah. Okay. It's called atavism. That's the thing that's in the Dune series. The big part of making these creatures is, and also the mind control shit they did was atavism. The stuff from altered states where you go in the isolation chamber and regress to a certain primitive state that's in your genetic memory.”

“I'm lying. Did you ever see the thing that he did about the election? Well, do you ever see the thing that he did about the election when he did fear and loathing on the campaign trail? Yeah, yeah. So he made Ed Muskie go crazy. He made him go crazy. Because he was saying that he was using a Brazilian witch doctor and he was addicted to Ibogaine.”

“But do you know about Christian existentialism? What does that mean? Like Dostoevsky was into this. Like in the brothers, Karamazov, he breaks down the road to Damascus experience and he talks about what happened in that moment. So like what you, the angle you're taking, he takes it like in this hardcore way.”

“Here's what I'm getting to. So do you remember Diana Pasulka? Not Diana Pasulka. The one that wrote the DARPA book. I'm blanking on it. Annie Jacobson. Annie Jacobson. And remember at the time, I thought this story was so stupid that DARPA said it was deformed kids that Russia sent over to freak us out?”

Our IdentificationDescribed, not named. We believe this refers to The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA.

“That one's Vince Foster. That's a fucking weird one, man. The Strange Death of Vince Foster is a great book. What's that? I read that book in like, fuck, it was like the early 2000s. I think that guy was on Jimmy's show just recently, and I wrote it. And he was saying, no, the Clintons didn't do it.”