Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

a little bit of light reading called, I'm not a French speaker, do my best, Destins de la main by Aucinie Hussay.

This particular edition, however, happens to be bound in human flesh.

a tale of the destiny of the human soul, or a study of the destiny of the human soul.

This was a woman. Now the officials at the university say this portion of the volume has been taken and placed into what they refer to as respectful temporary storage until they decide how to dispose of it in a dignified manner.

There is and there is an alternate universe where this occurs some other dimension.

And if you believe in the multi-dimensional stuff and thank you for the setup map because it is true that Souter by the way also claims in his book Underground Bases and Tunnels that the base Pine Gap or rainfall operates in alternate dimensions.

So exist on multiple planes of reality at once.

I think what he means there is that it operates on like to pull there's a intersection you can reach through and you can, you know, pick up your screwdriver from this other dimension, bring it back over to this dimension or step through.

So you know what I mean? Yeah. So again, that's underground bases and tunnels book that you can find somewhere at some time in some dimension, this dimension, maybe.

This is sort of a this is some Anne Rice level ritualistic behavior, I would say.

Lolita in 1962, which I do have to say, despite the premise, is a fantastic book by Nabokov.

It has one of my favorite depictions of a death scene, at least the novel.

And the first page, and there's a little bit of a spoiler, the narrator is super unreliable and a terrible person is talking about how his mother passed away. And all you learn is there's this parenthetical where it's just like picnic, comma, lightning. And then it moves on. It's one of my favorite death scenes.

He also has one of the best and most redundant names in literature, Humbert Humbert, which I enjoy quite a lot.

And this aside, like Lolita is a very controversial story. Yeah. And it's got some hugely problematic things, but Kubrick never, never hesitated, I guess, to address controversial themes like Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, which made 1964.

In a book called Mindhunter, inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit, authors John Douglas and Mark Olshaker note that a former senior investigator for the FBI said psychics may be used as, quote, a last resort, as an investigative tool with caution for providing clues not directly admissible in the court of law, such as comments on the criminal's character or the location of dead bodies.

check out the Seven Story Mountain. That's I think his autobiography? Maybe not.

He was reading a book, uh, The Teachings of Don Juan...

But I just I know I see that a lot and another example historically speaking is of course Moses from the Bible from the book of Exodus who was, you know found as a babe in the rushes or whatever and adopted by a powerful family and then ultimately became a pretty important powerful political figure.

It's sort of like if one do a pop culture comparison and take out the egregious sexual assault involved in the film. It's sort of like Todd McFarlane's Spawn.

In Spawn, the protagonist is not a very good person. They're special forces soldier kind of guy. They die. They go to hell. They make a deal with an infernal creature because they want to go back and win the love of their life and be a better person.

I think the guy's name was Al Simmons. So he gets the deal from the devil and then he comes back to the world but he comes back as like a servant of evil. And he still tries to get back with his wife.

You wondered what if absolutely everyone had all their passwords stolen at once? I couldn't resist emailing you to tell you that's the exact setup of my novel, The Nihilistic Cats, which is a really clever name. The characters also investigate other conspiracies such as whether Wyoming exists and the suspiciously sequential numbering of city streets.

Web world has been hacked. The private information of every American posted to servers, foreign and domestic. So the government makes a special one time offer. Start over with the identity of your choosing and get a spiffy new Ameriphone and clean SSN in return.

The indie reader called this novel over the top fun, the best pop culture novel of 2024.

You guys know longtime listeners, we love books about cartoonishly specific things, you know.

You guys know longtime listeners, we love books about cartoonishly specific things, you know, yeah, and if you're interested

We were trying to get to a Cynthia Barnett, *Rain: A Natural and Cultural History*

He's been on daily Zeitgeist before but he came on and just really quickly in this short video said it's really important during times like this to remember that when something like this happens 90% of the information that you read out there will be not right because in this day of Internet immediacy.

The real reporting comes from actual verification of the facts and because of the nature of the internet and how what people have come to expect that just doesn't happen and it all blasts at you leaving you to sift through the wreckage of it and figure out what's true and then the real reporting comes much later.

So he just urged people to be patient and like truly like wait for what the real facts have to say.

But what also came up in that discussion, you know, around Matt's story was an interview we did with Russell Targ years ago who has a book called Third Eye Spies.

Yeah. About a literal program the CIA had that this guy helped design.

Very smart dude from MIT to supposedly help train psychic spies, you know, to be able to actually project to locations where victims are being held or kidnapping or murder.

Evidence or bodies or whatever, what have you.

There's this historian I've been reading, Roger E. Jeffrey Jones, Jeffrey's Jones who wrote a book called The FBI, A History and several other articles.

He wrote another book and I haven't read this one. It's called Where My Shadow Falls in 1949.

If you want to learn more about Leonard Peltier in exam in advance of our episode entirely about this story, check out his memoir from 1999 Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance.

In a book called The Family, the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power. Jeff Charlotte really digs deep into this secret and puts it as such.

Quote, they believe they are most effective if they don't seek publicity and they minister to those who they consider what they call the up and up or key men in positions of influence. If they minister to them privately beyond the public eye.

Do you guys remember that book Guns, Germs and Steel?

Guys, I watched a movie called The Snowman the other day. Just isn't hilariously bad.

It was pounded in the press. The main character is Harry Hole.

Yeah, it's a series of books.

But it's just no. God said over and over and with zero like recognition that the guy's name is Harry Hole. Come on.