Speaker 1: This is Jay Dyer. From Jay's analysis, You're listening to
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guy is gay. You're listening to Esoteric Hollywood. I wanted
to do a summary review and analysis of Dave McGowan's
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon Laurel Canyon covert Ops in
the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream. A lot of
people out there liked Dave's book, and I remember coming
in contact with his material about a year and a
half two years ago. Started listening to his interviews and
I thought they were pretty fantastic. So I got his
book some months ago, read it when I was in Florida,
and I thought it was pretty phenomenal. So the reason
we're going to do an analysis of this book in
this episode of Esotery Hollywood is because I think if
I started thinking back to maybe ten years ago when
I started blogging and writing in the subjects that I
write on I would have thought it was insane to
think that the majority of these industries, be the music industry,
Hollywood entertainment, etc. That they were essentially controlled and had
a intimate tie in to the intelligence complex in industry
intelligence so called, of course, and what the intelligence complex
in this regard refers to is really the culture creation complex.
Now we've talked about this many times. I've mentioned the
graduate classes that I did in terms of Marxist critical
theory and the Frankfurt School. And if we recall, the
Frankfurt School was, of course this later incarnation of Marxism
that primarily focused on culture and the culture industry. And
so this would be figures like Theodore Adorno, Matt Max Horkheimer,
and of course the seminal book Dialectic of Enlightenment, where
they chart the progress or process of culture so to speak,
or what they call culture in the twentieth century post
World War two, and how this is really a tool
of the what they call the capitalist powers. But Horkheimer
and Adorno in that work, of course, take a very
mara Nietzschean approach to things. They no longer hold to
the utopian or progressive ideas of the Proletary Revolution. Marxism
by that time had discarded this idea as unrealistic given
the wars and so forth, and the focus shifted towards culture.
And that's essentially what the Frankfurt School did was begin
to look at cultural analysis, culture critique, culture critique, and
the idea that you could change things, so to speak,
by constant and perpetual negation. Right, constant critique, You critique
the guy after you critiques your critique, and then critique
of the critique of the critique, ad infinitum. Now that
is relevant because that's where we start to see, as
we know, the Italian into things like the Central Intelligence
Agency in the forties and fifties being connected to all
of these ADMIN and the AD guys going to work
for the Pentagon vice versa revolving door scenario, and from
there what you have is the control of the culture industry. Now,
I'm not going to take the Marxist view of all
of this, because that is merely one aspect of controlled dialectics,
of course, but there's no doubt that what they're calling,
of course, the capitalist imperialist powers in the Marxist critique,
elements of that are correct. And so far as it
is the corporate big business atmosphere, so to speak, that
dominates in that pyramidal hierarchy, and of course above that
would be the banks and the international crime syndicate families,
the so called illuminati, whatever appellations and terms you'd like
to choose. Now, once you dive deeper and deeper into this,
you begin to see, as I said now ten years later,
having done quite a bit of work in this field,
and even focusing in my graduate work and my master's
work on that very topic, it's all very plain to me.
As I said ten years ago, it sounded crazy. What
CIA in Hollywood? That doesn't make any sense? Oh yeah,
and why would that be? Well, because the CIA and
OSS and so forth were certainly involved in foreign espionage
and covert operations. But here, at least, it's largely about
public opinion, swaying mass opinions, swaying attitudes and so forth.
And it's the same power structure that runs the roundtable
groups and so forth. As we saw in Carol Quigley's
Trgy and Hope, and as we will see in my
coming lectures on the entirety of the book, it is
those power structures that set up the CFR and the
media mogul organizations in the US, and that would even
include people that we think are so called media moguls,
Rupert Murdoch and so forth. They're all part of the
same establishment. They're not operating outside the box. They just
operate within the pyramidal structure, choosing whether it be MSNBC
or Fox or whatever, choosing the faux left right dialectic.
And this is all about manipulation and creation of culture.
And Dave's book is important in this regard because it
fits right into that critique. And it fits into that
critique because he is dealing with the rise of the counterculture.
This is the nineteen sixties free love, counterculture revolution of
hippies and you know, all the things that we all
know in the popular vernacular, and most of that is
traced to the hate Ashbury District of San Francisco in mainstream. However,
McGowan's thesis is that know, we must look a little
bit earlier to the area of Hollywood, la and Laurel Canyon,
and it is there that we will actually find the
beginning of the counterculture movement. And rather than it being counterculture,
in fact, it is establishment counterculture. The establishment was not
unaware of the rise of the counterculture. It was not
a purely organic movement of ideal logs and free love
revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the strictures and taboos of
the prior existing forties and fifties framework of the Protestant
work ethic and the company man, so to speak. It
was rather something foreseeing and steered in a certain direction.
Now that doesn't mean that there weren't artists and musicians
involved in the movements that were not sincere or had
political activism and motivations as part of their their ethos,
but rather that the movement as a whole could be
steered simply by propping up the figures that were there
to be establishment figures, right, the chosen people to who
would be, say the Jim Morrison, or to be the
John Phillips, to be the Frank Zappa. Those are the
people who would receive the establishment support, getting the record
deals and so forth, getting the feature stories and Rolling Stone,
getting a major airtime, getting television time and so forth.
That would propel them, right, because it's all about, you know,
becoming big on that level, becoming an icon is not
something that happens organically, it can only in our system.
It can only happen with the support of the system itself.
And that's because of the tremendous amount of money that
it takes to become one of these icons. It's not
organic now. If it ever happens organically, the machines and
methods are in place to make sure that organic rise
is co opted. And that's another aspect of McGowan's thesis
in this book is that whatever artists and musicians of
the sixties that were legitimately counterculture, they were either co
opted eventually or they were just kind of filtered out
and faded into obscurity and oblivion to make way for
the non political, non activist icons of essentially hedonism and
and cultural degeneracy. And that's why they would be promoted.
And that fits perfectly into the Frankfurt School modern abstract art.
All of this is burgeoning at the same time, right,
and then you can see why that fits in. We
would rather have icons of hedonism blowing your brains out
on drugs, dying at twenty seven, right than a person's
who might promote healthy ideas or genuine anti war activists, right,
who weren't just mindlessly anti war like some sort of
occupy movement, but rather have perhaps something more to say
than mindless slogans. And no, none of that is amenable
to the system in which we inhabit now, which is
a culture industry. It's a massive substruct superstructure of interlocking corporations,
banging NGOs and so forth that exists to re engineer humanity.
And as we've said many times and others and other
shows have pointed out, it's a business plan. It's a
business plan that's laid out in stages, and there are actuaries,
and there are prognostications and white papers and plans and strategies.
And this comes in all forms and fashions, be it government,
be it private, for how to get to a desired
place down the road, and what the desired place will
be down the road, and then how to go to
the next stage or phase. Much like we have made
the analogy many times of a supermarket will receive a
facelift and you'll move all of the old advertisements and
end caps out to put in the new right. And
this usually takes a process of several weeks, depending on
what store you work at, and that's because it needs
to constantly be updated. You always need to be ahead
of the game, know the trends and so forth, and
then of course also create the trends. And that's really
getting to the heart of Dave's thesis in his book
is that the icons of the leftist cause were not
sincere genuine icons of the leftist cause, and he provides
a host of examples of how that is, which we're
going to see her nam in as we get into
the meat of Dave's book, which begins in chapter one
with the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and this is where
we have the story of Admiral Morrison, the father of
Jim Morrison, who was in fact directly involved in the
false flag event known as the Gulf of Tonken, which
led to the quagmire of Vietnam. Now I want to
mention before we get to the meat of Dave's book
in chapter one that if you like his material, I
have my own book that is very similar. While Dave
tends to focus on the music industry, my book focuses
on film in Hollywood, and so in many ways it's similar,
although I deal a lot more with symbolism and the
esoteric in regards to various films that most of us
have seen, such as Kubrick Films two thousand and one,
David Lynch movies, Hitchcock seven, all that kind of stuff,
those classics, as well as newer films including some eighties
fantasy kid films that we all grew up with. If
you're around my age, and I really delve deeply into
the meaning and sometimes the subtext and subtle hidden meanings
in those films that you're not going to find elsewhere.
So I would encourage you if you like Dave's book,
you'll also very much like Esoteric Hollywood Sex Cults and
Symbols and Film. And as of now, this is May fifteenth,
twenty sixteen. The book is scheduled to release in one month,
but it can be pre ordered now. You can order
your copy through Trying Day Publishers or on Amazon. And
as I said, the title is Esotery Hollywood Sex Cults
and Symbols and Film. So you know, funny thing happened.
I actually had to go about most of my manuscript
was done in terms of the content about a year ago.
I had to do a lot of rewriting and revisions,
and it was after that that I read Dave's books,
so I actually had to go back and add in
a good bit of material and information that I got
from Dave mcgallan because it was so relevant to what
I had done, particularly in regards to how aspects of
the Lookout Mountain laboratories and so forth tie into Hollywood,
and Dave's book, Laurel Canyon Scene also ties into a
lot of Hollywood figures as well, but as I said,
focuses on the music industry and the music counterculture. So
but I wanted to mention that because you'll like my
book if you like this, it's very much in the
same vein. And in fact, Amazon actually classes them together,
so you know they do that promo of buy this
and you also get this for thirty five dollars or whatever.
I had nothing to do with that. That was all
Amazon's decision. So I'm very honored to be classed with
Dave's book because it was really good. It was a
fun read, and I know that you guys out there
listening will we'll enjoy both of these books. So I
would encourage you to take advantage of that Amazon discount
there and get them both, because both books go well together.
And you know, my book, as I said, is a
kind of a compliment to him, and it wasn't intended
that way. It just kind of happened that way because
I'd only come in contact with his material, as I said,
you know, a year and a half ago, two years ago,
and the majority of my essays had already been written
by them as well. So this is also not intended
to be a replacement for the actual reading of his book.
If you've listened to Jason Aalysis talks over the last
couple of years, as I've really started focusing on doing
these regularly, you'll know that we've done a few book reports,
quite a few, and my book reports are not substitutes
for actual reading of the book, precisely because Dave's book
is three hundred pages. You're not going to be able
to get all the material in a couple audio talks
that you will get if you actually purchase and read
the book. I know that's crazy to talk about, you know,
actually buying a book and reading it. We live in
the age of the YouTube video, but that is a pathetic,
pale replacement for the actual reading of books. So please
do get Dave's book. I recommend it I'm still working
on the Jay's Analysis recommended reading list, but certainly this
will be on there. And if you do a website,
narrowing down the choices for the recommended reading list is actually,
for me at least, very difficult decision. So a lot
of factors come into that, and trying to figure out
like what the top five in different categories are, it's
not easy. But anyway, let's get to Dave's book. Now.
He begins, as we said, talking about Vietnam and how
that was a scam and what ultimately of course tie
into drug running and all that through back in the
nineteen sixties, through the Gulf of Tonkin false flag incident,
which mobilized the population to support this ridiculous, unpopular war.
And we learned that Frank Zappa's author of all People
was a chemical warfare specialist assigned to the Edgewood Arsenal
near Baltimore, Maryland. He was deeply enmeshed in the program
as well as frequently being cited in MK ULTRA operations. Now,
why would I say that, Well, that's according today, But
that makes sense because mk Ultra was classified under by
a warfare because it was the use of chemical agents right,
So it makes perfect sense why we would see that
Dave moves from there to talk about the characters in
the Phillips family. Now, this is a very complex, confusing genealogy.
This is all new to me. Obviously everybody's heard the
mom is in the papas, but I don't really I
can't keep up with all this family and who's who
and all this because it's just crazy. But basically the
dawn of the family here. Papa John Phillips was a
major figure in the Laurel Canyon scene and the emerging
counter culture across America. Phillips would pin an inspiring, an
insipid song known as San Francisco be Sure to Wear
Flowers in your Hair that quickly rose to the top
of the pop charts. McGowan says, and along with the
Monterey Pop Festival and the sixty seven Hate Ashbury phenomenon,
this is really what got the sixties revolution going in
the pop scene. They're also going to tie into the
nineteen sixty seven Summer of Love, I'm saying. They're also
going to tie into the Manson family, the quote family
who spent time at the log Cabin and the home
of Mama Cass all right, big old Mama Cass. So
not only will that be relevant, but it's also going
to tie into Crosby, Stills and Nash. We mentioned Frank Zappa.
It's going to tie into CIA operations. Actually so, John
Phillips apparently spent time in Havana, Cuba, during the height
of the Cuban Revolution quote, fighting for Castro, according to
his own claims. Now, this does seem a little bit
ridiculous that this very well connected Western establishment family would
would that this guy would go off to fight for Castro.
But then again, when we think about Castro and Cha,
they also were members of the establishment who became icons
and figures of counter culture and counter establishment. I believe
both Chay and Fidel were from prominent, wealthy families of lawyers,
something to that effect. They both, especially Fidel, had a
period where he was an actor. This is you can
see this on his IMDb page, where he had small
roles in films in the nineteen forties. Now, on top
of all that, Stills will pen perhaps the first and
certainly one of the most disturbing anthems of the sixties
generation called Bluebird. And that's interesting because that's also a
title of a project in mk ultra. And so what
we begin to see, and the reason that I think
a lot of what Dave's talking about is legit is
because you know, the majority of the purpose of mkultra
was not the programmed assassin creation of multiples and altars
and dissociative states in some individual spy, but rather to
apply those techniques on a mass scale to the population
as a whole. Why would you do that, well, to
create the brave new world scenario, to create the mass
population of completely controlled, drugged up zombies. And that's really
where we're going and where we're we pretty much are.
And this quote revolution was a big part of that,
the sixties revolution. And again it benefits the establishment, right,
and the establishment doesn't care about counterculture individuals out there
calling for radically new ways of living. All of that
ultimately benefits the designs of the establishment. And so Dave
argues that before John Phillips arrived in Laurel Canyon, Stephen
Stills was another product of a career military family. This
is Crosby Stills in nash In other words, raised in Texas,
Young Steven spent large swaths of his childhood in El Salvador,
Costa Rica and Panama and various parts of Central America,
alongside his father who was helping to quote spread the
democracy and as well as being educated at military bases
and elite military academies exactly, he had an abrasive authoritarian personality. Well,
that's how people in the military usually are. And so
Stills was involved in CIA Special Forces in Noms noms
Nom nominam in Vietnam. He served with uniform ground troops
in Vietnam. But what will be ignored is the undeniable
fact Day rights that the US had thousands of advisors,
that is, CIA Special Forces operatives active as ground troops
in Vietnam exactly. And we will also be talking about
in a future show Apocalypse Now. And this will tie
in again to Day's work with his book Program to Kill,
because Dave argues that the Phoenix program right the mass
murder supposedly of the Vietcong, which was actually mass murder
of women and children in villages as part of a
CIA program special forces program that probably could have led
to the serial killer phenomenon because they have all these
guys who were forced and trained to kill women and children,
not be a Kong and then when they come back,
they're complete psychos and multiple altar possessed wackos who then
become perhaps involved in the serial killer phenomenon, right Henry
Lee Lucas and these kind of characters. Also interesting is
the connections of these people, the Flying Burrito Brothers one
of these more to me at least obscure bands and
Crosby to the Mob. And this is an aspect of
all this that we've been talking about quite a bit
here at Jays Analysis in the last year or two.
Is the mob tie into this stuff, because that's also
very real now, the theater of the FBI versus the
mob and the CIA and the government and the corporate
agents and the mob, and you know, everybody warring. We
teach it that's not really right, right, So the way
that you see it in the movies of everybody kind
of warring at each other's, you know, by battling each
that's not really the case. Perhaps at certain times, in
different degrees that happens. The FBI might bust mobsters somewhere,
but this is generally or the CIA might have some
kind of covert operation where they take out some quote
drug lord. As if you watch the movie Cecario that
kind of hinted at this, but that's also kind of
theatrics because we know that the CIA basically teamed up
with the mob, and that's how the drug running happened
right throughout sixties, seventies and eighties and so forth, you know,
with Unholy Alliance, right and Dave or Webb, Gary Webb's book, right,
So that also tied into the mob, and it's always
been that way. And I like that McGowan talks about
a lot of the mob connections, particularly in relation to
Mickey Dolans, not that Mickey Dolan's was a mobster, but
that Monkey Mickey Dolans et eccentric prodigy. Van Dyke parks
that these people were connected to James Taylor and all
spent time in the Laurel Canyon scene around Larry Wildman Fisher,
who was institutionalized repeatedly during his teens for attacking his
mother with a knife. And finally you meet the offspring
of an organized crime figure, Warren Zevon, the son of
William Stumpy Zevon, the infamous lieutenant for Mickey Cohen, so
number two under Mickey Cohen, I guess, or something to
that effect. And so you've got this this fascinating nexus
of criminal syndicates, be it drugs, be it cia, culture creation,
be it corporate interests, military interests, so forth, mobsters that
all will benefit from the promotion of this counterculture. Right now,
think about in terms of say drugs, what does the
counterculture do for Well, it makes drugs very popular, very sexy.
Right now, So if you could purchase cocaine one hundred
years ago at your local apothecary then, you know, or
opium or something derivative to that effect, Well, it's not
very sexy. It's not that big of a deal, is it, right.
I mean, you might have some old guy who you know,
is sixty years old and he's the town opium attic
or something like you know, Belle Dagosi or Charlock Holmes
dye character or something like. You mean, I have some
image of a guy like that, but it didn't appear
to be rampant. Now. I'm sure that housewives, as I understand,
were at different times in the forties and fifties taking
quite a few pills and narcotics and so forth. And
that's but that's because that was of course marketed as
solutions to the morose grind of the daily housewife lifestyle. Right,
and so you needed some some picker upper or something,
or some stimulant some or conversely some calming effect. And
so their work. As I understand, quite a few pill
popping mommies in the forties and fifties, but that still
was marketed as something medicinal. And so what happens in
the sixties is that kind of like the temperance movement
and you know, alcohol, the speakeasies and all this kind
of stuff, is that it makes it underground, it makes
it sexy, it makes it popular, and it makes it
a valuable hidden commodity. Right. It's it's it's esoteric right
to get a hold of drugs and to know you're dealer,
and who where do you get it? Oh? You get
it here? And oh right, and it's it's it becomes
an aspect of the counterculture, which ultimately benefits the market
that surrounds the drugs. Right. So it's tremendously profitable for
certain families and interests to have it illegal and thereby
maintain a monopoly on the drug trade. Right. This is
a whole incident that we see what we learned through
freeway Ricky Ross and all those situations in the eighties
and nineties with the crack epidemic, right, and so it's
it's the same with what's going on here in the sixties,
that the drug epidemic that begins to flower or is
intentionally promoted by the establishment. And this is why I
talk a lot about hallucinogens that you see all these
alternative media counterculture figures promoting hallucinogens like this is some
sort of new salvation or something, and it's all spiritual
in all this crowd. No, it's directly out of Brave
New World. That's what Alto sexually said, and that is
the beginnings of the mk ulture program, at least it's
British equivalent through Tavistock and so forth. And that was written,
as we said many times in nineteen thirty two, predicting
where we would be nowadays. But to get to where
we are nowadays from nineteen thirty two, Brave New World,
what we need things like sixties revolution, you see, that's
the bridge to today now. Of course, there's a lot
of other things that are bridges as well. Unpopular wars
and so forth can actually be bridges, believe it or not. Yes,
an unpopular war can be useful for the shaping of
new opinions, right for the shaping of making America intentionally unpopular.
Right now, that sounds a little outlandish, but no, that's
because America is ultimately intended to be dismantled. And is
why Well, because it's the beta version of the New
World Order right now. We have other figures that come
into play here, Abby Hoffman, And as I said, the
promotion of LSD, this is all at the behest of
the CIA. Now I'm not just getting this from Dave's book,
but this is well known. Everybody knows Tim Larry worked
for the CIA. You know, Princeton and Yale are promoting this. Harvard,
they're promoting CIA. M culture experiments were done there. The
unibomber was, according to his obituary, involved in the M
culture program. Look that up. That's in either LA Times
or New York Times in his obituary. So Peter Coyote,
who is the key master in ET if you've seen ET,
the Guy with the Keys, narrates a documentary on hippies
the History Channel, pointing out that some on the left
even theorized that hippies were the end result of a
plot by the CIA to neutralize anti war movements with
lsd AT turning protesters and these self absorbed naval gazers. Yes, actually,
Peter Coyote is correct. Now, Peter Coyote is that Marxist
as I understand, and I point this out in my
et analysis, But curious that he kind of figured out
what was going on here. This hippie movement didn't actually
change anything for the good. It did change things for
the bad and neutralized all of the perhaps legitimate anti
war sentiment. Well that's at least Dave's thesis, and I
think the or something to that, and you may it
makes perfect sense, right, because again it's brave New World.
I don't know, it's not hard to figure this out.
This brave New World is about, you know, turning everybody
into drug down zombies. And yeah, I mean, there's just
so many connections that it is going to be difficult
to point them out. But one of the important ones
I think we should mention here is Phil Spector, the
legendary music producer and I believe convicted murderer. If I
recall from the nineties, whose crack team of studio musicians,
the Wrecking Crew are the actual musicians who play the recordings,
the LPs when you hear the Monkeys, the Birds, the
Beach Boys, the Mamas, and the Papas right now, not
necessarily every song, but the Wrecking Crew is the actual
music behind these so called bands, while the bands function
as kind of advertising fronts. That's interesting. Now. Another interesting
connection is that we have Marie. The next day's next
chapter was going to deal with the Laurel Canyon death list,
and this is the prominent people who spent time in
this region who did not live too long, and they
didn't live too long because they're living this not just
this wild lifestyle, but also because there could be other
things involved. Right, They could have known where all the
bodies are, They could have this death, could have been
staged to create icons and martyrs. I mean, who knows, right,
But he mentions Marina Elizabeth Habe, whose body was carved
up and tossed in the heavy brush along Mulholland Drive,
think of David Lynch's film Muholland Drive just west of
Beaumont Drive in nineteen sixty eight. Habe, seventeen at the
time or death, was the daughter of Hans Hobb Hans
Hobb was in the OSS. So here we are right
back to intelligence connections here, and he goes through and
mentions several weird the unexpected connections to Laurel Canyon, Jimmy
Hendrix being one who served a stint in the Army
in the Hunter first Airn Airborne Division at Fort Campbell.
That's actually not too far from where I am, and
so I can understand that. But Hendricks was managed by
a guy who was in the mob. Apparently, Michael Jeffrey
was known to openly boast of having organized crime connections
and working also for the CIA. What mob and c
How could that be? Well, it makes sense if you
understand what I've been telling you. After Jimmy's death, it
was discovered that Jeffrey had been funneling most of Hendricks's
money to all short accounts in the Bahamas for drug trafficking.
So there you go. Jim Morrison, his father, as we said,
help choreograph the Gulf of ton Keen incident. A few
years after Jim's death, his common law wife, Pamela Corson
dropped dead as well of a heroin overdose. Like Hendrix,
Morrison had been an avid student of the occult, in
particular fondness for the work of Crowley. So we're going
to see Crowley popping up in the underground here pretty
consistently throughout McGowan's book. And that's well everybody knows. I
think that Frank Sinatra had MOB connections, but perhaps not that. Also,
I don't know if Dave talks about it, but I
don't recall. But Frank was also apparently an informant for
the FBI on the Mob, So they're kind of everybody's
watching everyone else and keeping tabs on everybody. And now
Mama cass of this. And the reason a lot of
these people are listed here is that they are members
of the twenty seven Club, and the twenty seven Club
includes people like Jennis Joplin. I believe Kirk Cobain is
in that club, and he doesn't relate to Laurel Canyon
per se, but Amy Winehouse is in the twenty seven Club.
These are performers who died or died under mysterious circumstances
or so called quote died at the age of twenty seven,
which is bizarre, isn't it. And I'm not going to
list everybody in here. You're going to have to go
read the book. But there's plenty of people that have
strange deaths. Graham Parsons connections these kinds of people, connections
to Paul McCartney, who spent a significant amount of time
in the Laurel Canyon scene. So quick way to end
up dead, spend time in the Laurel Canyon scene. Phil
Oakes is the next character who comes to the forefront
as this I believe this is the guy who's this
musical prodigy if I remember correctly, and he ends up
more or less insane if I'm thinking of the right guy. Yeah,
And so he ends up undergoing electro shock, and it
appears that he's the programs that they put this music guy,
the psychedelic rock guy. He's a pioneer of psychedelic rock,
right phil Oaks and Ohs. And he ends up being
shocked in electroshock and undergoing basically what looks like MK
ultra style treatments so to speak, so called quote treatments
that basically drive him insane. And he heard voices all
of his life, which reminds me if you listen to
that Goofy documentary what is it? The name escapes me,
but it's the one that everybody's heard of. It's on
you know, it's been on YouTube for years of Satanism
and rock and roll. It's not Hell's Bells, it's something
else that was from the nineties. But it's the guy
who has a really annoying voice.
Speaker 2: Pastor Jill Shima. This is Pastor Joel Shimmel. Did you
know that Manon Madson is an eagle guy and he
worships the devil? Here you can see in whose rock
videos he shows the son of the Devil.
Speaker 1: That's exactly how he talks. I can't remember the name
of that video set. But there are interviews in that
documentary with Brian Wilson in different beach Boy characters where
they describe also hearing voices. Now that does that mean
that this is all true? You know, who knows. But
I think that a lot of these musicians who are
all tripped out on acid do they do experience these
kinds of things. I have seen crazy stuff in my
younger days when I unfortunately did LSD, So I can
believe it, and I could believe that a lot of
these people are just basically mentally ill and that they
could be part of you know, government social engineering knowingly
or unknowingly. Now we come next to the character of
Chuck Heath, who was born in nineteen thirty eight and
his family lived on Farmdale Avenue near the base at
Laurel Canyon. There's military base there close to where Lookout
Mountain Studios is located. And guess who Chuck Heath is
one of these prominent families in the Laurel Canyon scene.
Can you guess who Chuck Heath is? The father of
Sarah Palin? Can't make this stuff up. This is just wacky,
I know. But yeah, now Lookout Mountain area. And by
the way, listeners, we will probably be Jason Elysis will
be doing on the scene reporting soon. I believe we're
going to check out Laurel Canyon and Mulholland Drive in
la very soon and we will be trying to get
pictures of all this and check it out firsthand. So yes,
I'm actually going to take a trip there soon. And
the Lookout in Wonderland Park, Bungalow Land, the log Cabin.
These are all bizarre sites and scenes and locales for
everything from ritual magic and occultism to murders and perhaps
ritual murders, right, all kinds of just insane craziness in
that and in the Lookout Mountain area. So we will
be I will be going there and checking it out,
doing a little firsthand journalistic reporting, and I'll let you
know what I see. Yes, Harry Houdini was a resident
in Laurel Canyon. And if you didn't know it, the
tie into intelligence in Hollywood, well, guess what. Harry Houdini
was a spy for Scotland Yard. What do you know? Now.
One of the things that I had to go back
and redo in terms of my book was the Lookout
Mountain Laboratory, which I mentioned in a few articles now,
And this is relevant because you need to understand that
the Lookout Mountain Laboratory was I'm going to quote Dave here,
originally envisioned as a fortified air defense center, built in
nineteen forty one and nestled in two and a half
secluded acres off of what is now Wonderland Park Avenue.
Curious title. The installation was hidden from you and surrounded
by an electric fence. By nineteen forty seven, the facility
featured a fully operational movie studio. In fact, it is
claimed that the world's only completely self contained movie studio
is located here. With one hundred thousand square feet of
floor space. The covert studio included sound stages, screening rooms,
film processing labs, editing facilities and animation department, and seventeen
climate controlled film vaults. It also hosts a helicopter pad
and a bomb shelter. Over its lifetime, the studio produced
some nineteen thousand classified motion pictures, bizarre more than all
of the Hollywood studio systems combined. This makes Lower Canyon
the actual motion picture capital of the world. Officially, the
facility was run by the US Air Force. Interesting in
what does the US Air Force also have purview and
aegis over NASA and it did nothing more nefarious than
process the Atomic Energy Commissions footage of the atomic nuclear
bomb tests, which do look to be manufactured and manipulated images.
The studio was clearly equipped to do far more than
just process film. Lookout Mountain Laboratory head advanced research and
development department that was on the cutting edge of new
film technology. Such technological advances as three DFX come out
of Laurel Canyon. Hollywood luminaries like John Ford, Jimmy Stewart,
Howard Hawk's, Ronald Reagan being Crosby, Walt Disney had a Hopper,
Marilyn Monroe. Were all given clearance to work at the
facility on undisclosed projects. There is no indication that any
of them ever spoke of their work at the clandestine studio.
The facility retained as many as two hundred and fifty producers, directors, technicians, editors, animators,
et cetera, civilian and military, all with top security clearances.
Notice Disney connection there, See it's coming together. You're starting
to see that these things are all linked. Disney is
a massive Pentagon mind control operation. They all report work
to work in a scheduled corner of Laurel Canyon. It
had secret bunkers underground facility. The existence of this facility
remained unknown to the general public until the nineties, though
it had been rumored that the CIA operated secret movie studios.
Well you go rumbored, sometimes remembers are true. Filmmaker Peter
Kurran is the first to learn of its existence through
classified documents he had attained while researching for his nineteen
ninety five documentary Trinity and Beyond and Day points out
that nobody has included this in their conspiracy literature. Yes,
thank you, Dave. Awesome. Now let's look at some connections
with CIA studios that relate to James Dean and Dennis Hopper.
The nineteen fifties, as Barney Hoskins wrote in Hotel California,
Laurel Canyon was home to the hippiest young actors Hoskins,
Marlon Brando, James Dean, James Coburn, Dennis Hopper, Natalie Wood, etc.
Speaker 2: Et cetera.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is curious. Now a lot of suicides he
brings up are connected to this. The Sunset Strip clubs
where not strip clubs, but the Sunset strip Clubs, which
I guess might as well have been strip club as
host of the doors, the birds, the mothers, Peter Fonda,
Dennis Hopper hunging out consistently in these circles. We have connections,
interestingly to Robert Heinlein, a resident of the Laurel Canyon scene.
And Robert Heinleine was, to my knowledge at least Crowley
in in his science fiction philosophy. I don't know for
sure if he was in any kind of cult, but
I know that the presentation of his thought in his
books is that you know you have with the moon
is a harsh mistress. We have the libertarians working with
the advanced AI to basically transcend global government. It's very bizarre.
Everybody knows about Childhood's End, which is about the overlords
quote unquote the gods, he the elite, so forth, being
basically demonic. Heindlein was a graduate of the US Naval Academy,
naval officer. He was a quote rabbit right winger, which
of course that's not real right wing, that's libertarian system
right wing, which is Krollian, isn't right. He was a
good friend of Hubbard, who was also Krollian in his views.
So Hindleine influenced Hubbard, you know, maybe without it's not
an accident that both of them are writing these just
infinite sci fi novels. I mean, come on, if you
go and look at how and you know, probably some
of these are ghost and I don't know, but I
find it hard to believe, you know, as somebody who
writes a lot that l Ron Hubbard was actually writing
all of that. It's just insane. I mean, there's like
thousands and thousands of thousands of pages. But who knows.
But I do know that ghost writing is a much
more prevalent than you think, as well as people stealing stuff.
So now Frank Zappa again comes back because he's a
massive member of the Robert Heinlein fan club. Barry Miles
notes in Zappa's biography that Les Petite Prince, the Little Prince,
this famous kids novel that's now a kid's book or
a movie including Robert heinlein classic sci fi Stranger in
a Strange Land, is where Zappa would get a lot
of the inspiration for his music. So it's interesting that
these are the people who are promoted, right, In other words,
you're in these certain circles. These circles are all connected
to MOB and CIA and government and military intelligence. And
these are the kids, the kids of these people are
who are promoted into the One Light. Now Vito and
the Freaks. This was a fascinating chapter because if you
ever wondered how the idea or how the trend arose
of groupies, all right, where did that come from? And
that was part of this of social engineering marketing. This
ties into to all this scene because Vito was this
kind of weird guy who wandered around and basically just
dallianced and engaged in orgies and so forth, and was
I guess some kind of artist or film producer, a
bunch of weirdos, and so you know, I masked this
following of Bay babes, who I guess were more like
kind of vagrant to runaways who ended up around the
sky and Veto. The reason Vito's relevant is because both
Mondo Hollywood Mondo style stuff, right, this arises out of
the circles of Vito and these these weirdo films, and
that Vito apparently had little concern over the death of
his son, which was in bizarre circumstances. Vito was connected
to mobsters Elmer Valentine who owned the club and the
organizer of the Monterey Pop Festival, and Jay c. Bring,
another mobster connected business guy. And Vito is the model
for Manson and his family. That's why it's interesting. So
these new alternative ways of living, excuse me, living in
revolutionary alternate communities. This is pioneered by Veto in his
quote freaks. And what they would do is because they
were a spectacle, you know, decked out and all their weirdness,
they would kind of go around to the different clubs
where the doors of the birds were playing, and they
would become the focus and they would bring people in.
And Vito's chicks, I guess, would you know, kind of
go around topless and kind of a forerunner perhaps to
the feminist kind of slut walking type stuff. He was
creating spectacle for the sake of spectacle. It has no meaning.
But this is where Tim Leary comes in, because you
know Leary was in for a time in the same
circles and promoting these different kind of student magazines that
it was all about alternative ways of living. Right, you
don't have to go by all these strictures of nine
to five's and you know what you got to do, man,
is just you know, live day to day. And similar
to the Jesus People movement where it evolves into weird
pre millennial how Lindsay cults, and yes, how Lendsay's late
Great Planet Earth, which is a pre millennial evangelical propaganda
was very popular amongst the Jesus People movement. So that
also is connected to these kinds of social engineering strategies
and tools. Because moses Burg, I think it is moses
Burg David Burd, one of the two, is the establishment
connected founder of that cult. Who was also a pedophile.
The Family of God cult, I'm talking about Children of God.
This is different from the Manson family, but in that cult,
which is a sex based cult, this is where you
have the Phoenix family at River Phoenix, as well as
Rose McGowan coming out of that cult. And so that's
why and Rose mcgawan when she talks openly about this
in plenty of interviews. But what's interesting is that that
cult wasn't just a cult, but as usual, had establishment connections.
Now I won't go too far into all the Manson stuff,
but suffice to say that Dave's thesis is very, very
provocative and very convincing that veto'sm O was the plan
for a model for the kind of scenario that Manson
was set up at the Spawn Ranch. And he's gonna
list things like Vito considered himself an artist, a poet,
just like Manson. Veto was a guru. Vito surrounded himself
by a flock of young runaway Vito was considerably older
than the followers. Veto addressed his flock as God. Veto
called himself Captain Fuck while marylyn by it, while Manson
called himself God a fuck. Veto is said to have
an a virtually insatiable libido as Manson did. Vito adopted
nicknames and depersonalized his called followers as Manson did. Vito's
troop included Beverly Hills hairstylist Sheldon Jamon, while Manson's cult
included hairstylist Charles Watson. Right, and so Watson texts Watson
and Bobby boss Oleel is where we get into the
associations with Kenneth Anger and Lucifer Rising and all that.
The Robert de Grimston in the Processed Church. So I
won't go into all that. Everybody can read on that
on their own. That's been dealt with many times in
different books. So next we come to LSD and the
actors who like to trip, right, and who do we
have here, Well, we have the sunset strip scene, and
this makes up this is made up of people like
Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty,
Jane Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Sharon Tate. So this is the
drug scene, connection to the LA to the Hollywood acting
acting scene, whereas we were just dealing with the musician scene. Interesting,
Bruce Dern is I believe was. He was something like
a high level State department guy. And Bruce Dern is
Laura Durn's dad, And if you've watched David Lynch movies,
then you've seen quite a bit of Laura Dern, But
most of us probably didn't know that Laura Durn's dad.
I think dad or grandad was high level, high level
spook State department type guy. So in regard to Michelle Phillips,
John Phillips's early wife, just about everyone in the canyon
had their way with her. So Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper,
Warren Bady, Roman Polanski, Jean Clark of the Birds. Right,
this is all right next to the Holland Drive. So
I think that's interesting because if you read or if
you watch David Lynch's Mall and Drive, you'll see that
it's all about this kind of stuff, and there's a
cult in the background, and that's more or less what
Dave kind of you know, Dave's not really focusing on cults,
but that's more or less the kind of atmosphere he's describing,
and he does touch on the cults here and there,
and we will see we'll see that this movie Easy
Rider is a good iconic image of what's going on
in this time period. The scene nineteen sixty nine film,
and it's connected to the Solar Lodge. The oto Kenneth
Ingers circles Satan's Children one of his films. Excuse me,
one of the guys who was the art director on
Easy Rider would direct Satan's children. This would be connected
to the Manson group, and Bruce Dern is here. It
is so Darn's parents had rather impressive political connections, given
that the baby Bruce's godparents were Eleanor Roosevelt. Interesting. So
Laura Darn's family are scolling bat and that's what's interesting.
Now I'm not saying all of them. I'm saying that
Archibald McLeish was essentially America's first Minister of war propaganda.
He served at various times Assistant Secretary of State and
the Library, Library or Congress. He was skulling bones and yeah,
so just again, if you're if you're a David Lynch fan,
that's that's pretty fascinating. But Dennis Hopper, we learn was
apparently interested in the otos for some period of time.
I don't know if he was actually a member. I
don't it doesn't say, but the families are all into
the occult is what we kind of get out of
that chapter. And that's relevant because well, that's what I
talk about in Esseltaire Hollywood in some degree, not focusing
on the families, but on the messages and mythologies that
are presented in the films. So I do do deal
with muholland Drive in my book and what revelations might
be shown in that film. And you know, what's shown
in the film, I argue, is pretty much what Dave
is talking about here, right, So you definitely want to
check that out. The Rand Corporation comes into this because
you know, he mentions alex Obaya's book, because the Rand Corporation,
of course, is located out there in California. Jerry Brown
is connected to these circles. He's the you know, moonbeam
or whatever they call him, the hippie governor of La
quote unquote hippie, you're right, just an establishment figure. And yeah,
the Billy Briars is part of this scene because he's
the most infamous male madam, the wealthy son of an
oil magnate and part time producer of gay porn. So
Byers was said to have a stellar group of customers
at his brothel at the summit of Laurel Canyon. So
if you wonder why people call it Hollywood Babylon, well
there you go. Now the father of LSD. Everybody would
probably think Tim Leary, although you know tim Leary popularized it.
But the guy who was cooking it up is a
guy in the name of Augustus Owsley Stanley Owsley. So
Owsley cooked up four million tabs throughout this period of LSD,
which was that's where everybody was getting it. And the
grateful Dead in their quote acid tests were the promoters
of it. So Alsley bff with the dead. It was
both a financial backer and a sound engineer for the dead,
and he was the one making all the LSD. Owsley
unleashed on the hate Ashbury district. A particularly nawe hallucinogen
also known as STP, developed by the folks at dow Chemical.
STP had tested extensively at been tested extensively at Zappa's
home the Edgewood Arsenal as a possible former home Edgewood
Arsenal as a as a possible bio warfare agent. Then
it was distributed as a recreational drug well, there you go.
You think that you are ruled by people who love you,
or you think that things just happen organically. No, No,
Dow Chemical did not develop a bio warfare agent that
accidentally got out as a recreational drug that was let
out to test what would happen to the masses of
populations who basically became mind blown zombies. Now McGowan continues
and he gets into the question of other older characters
who spent time in these circles. Errol Flynn. Now, interestingly,
Errol Flynn apparently was a Nazi sympathizer. I don't think
Dave talks about that, but I've read that and talked
about that in my book. And these circles by the
seventies would be connected to Werner Erhard, the creator of
the cult s to training cult which is so popular
or was so popular at least at this time amongst
corporate types. And that is what you see at the
end of Madmen, where Don Draper joins a cult and
he's joining st. Bill Hartman. Oddly enough, the Center Night
Live comedian who had a strange death, was a album designer.
Believe it or not, he designed album covers back in
the day and he designed albums for Crosby Stills in
nash So, believe it or not, Phil Hartman was in
the Laurel Canyon circles, interesting because he met an untimely death.
Roman Polanski Rosemary's Baby. These are all films, are Rosemary's Baby.
I guess you could you could say that's a film
that comes out of the spirit right of the Laurel
Canyon scene, even though it's set you know at the
what is it the Chelsea Hotel, No, whatever, that Dakota Building.
Excuse me, the Dakota Building where where supposedly John Lennon
was assassinated. Yeah, that that now. The Chelsea Hotel is
where Nico Nico of Velvet Underground. Her debut album, Chelsea Girl,
was derived from the Chelsea Hotel where Devin Wilson took
a drive where the persona of John Train murdered the
persona of Phil Oakes so interesting. Interesting. Now, if you've
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