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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: George nor with you, calling Dickey with Us. His book

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Speaker 2: is called Under the Eye of Power. His website is

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Speaker 2: linked up at Coast tocoastam dot com. Colin, you were

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Speaker 2: talking about Abraham Lincoln's best friend. Why would he? Why

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Speaker 2: would that doctor do that?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 3: This guy, this guy Sho who claimed that he was

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Speaker 3: a Lincoln's best friend. And this looks like a huge bestseller.

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Speaker 3: Everybody bought this story even though it was based on nothing.

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Speaker 3: He just told us whole He wrote this whole memoir

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Speaker 3: about they were best friends. Why did he do it? He?

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Speaker 3: I think what he he was in a real be

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Speaker 3: in his bonnet about Catholicism, and he really thought that

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Speaker 3: the Catholics were out to just undermine everything that's great

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Speaker 3: about America, which I think is pretty nonsensical, but it

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Speaker 3: was a pretty popular belief at the time, and I

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Speaker 3: think it was a way for people to sort of like,

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Speaker 3: you know, they had been through the Civil War. It

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Speaker 3: it really messed people up, and they were looking for

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Speaker 3: some kind of narrative and for some reason, this one

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Speaker 3: really just kind of, you know, grabbed people's attention, and

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Speaker 3: they sort of allowed them to kind of kind of

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Speaker 3: forget maybe what had happened and why it had happened.

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Speaker 2: I guess tell us about William Morgan and what happened

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Speaker 2: to him.

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Speaker 3: So this was fascinating, you know. I mean, for all

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Speaker 3: the all of the conspiracy theories around the Freemasons and

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Speaker 3: all the kind of terrible things they've done, the one

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Speaker 3: thing that they really did that's on record, that that

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Speaker 3: is actually absolutely provable happened in upstate New York in

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Speaker 3: eighteen twenty six. This guy, William Morgan, was a Freemason.

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Speaker 3: He got tired of the organization. He decided to leave.

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Speaker 3: He was going to publish a book with the secret

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Speaker 3: rights of the Freemasons, and he was going to make

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Speaker 3: it make it public. And this annoyed his brothers and

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Speaker 3: they decided to harass him. They threw him in jail

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Speaker 3: get him to you know, racan't and he refused. To

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Speaker 3: the guy who was going to publish it, they burned

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Speaker 3: down his printing press. Finally, in August eighteen twenty six,

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Speaker 3: they they threw William Morgan and jail again and then

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Speaker 3: this sort of mysterious figures shows up to bail him out,

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Speaker 3: and at first Morgan is pretty pretty happy to be

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Speaker 3: released from prison. They realized that he doesn't know this

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Speaker 3: guy and he's being hustled into a waiting carriage. Morgan

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Speaker 3: shouts to the onlookers on the street, you know, help,

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Speaker 3: I'm being murdered. Oh yes, that's the last anybody ever

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Speaker 3: saw William Morgan. And you know, nobody, nobody knows for

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Speaker 3: sure what happened to him, but it seems like these

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Speaker 3: guys in upstate New York, you know, disappeared him, so

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Speaker 3: to speak. And that you know, as I said, for

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Speaker 3: all of the conspiracy theories around the Freemasons, that's the

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Speaker 3: one act of violence that can you know, actually be

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Speaker 3: attributed to any American Masons.

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Speaker 2: There was strange violence in this country during these days,

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Speaker 2: wasn't there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, yeah, it was. It's fascinating that there

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Speaker 3: there was a lot of kind of you know, riots

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Speaker 3: seems like we had like riots pretty regularly, and they

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Speaker 3: were used by different people to kind of you know,

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Speaker 3: by Americans generally. We just seem to like to have

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Speaker 2: I guess, which is amazing. How did you come upon

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Speaker 3: Calling it was? It's fascinating.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I set out I you know, as I said, I

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Speaker 3: This convent in outside of Boston in eighteen thirty four,

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of people there. Nobody I know it,

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Speaker 3: ransacked and destroyed this this Catholic convent out, you know,

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Speaker 2: I go to Denver once a month to tape some

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Speaker 3: I mean, you gotta right, like, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: It's huge, it's huge, right.

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Speaker 3: And then there's the the that that blue or horse

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Speaker 2: You heard the story of that horse. It fell on

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Speaker 2: the architect and killed him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the guy who designed it, Yeah, like it killed

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Speaker 3: and it's it's horrifying. I mean, like you know that

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Speaker 3: and his work is all over El Paso. I think

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Speaker 3: and most of it's fine, normal, and that one, for

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Speaker 2: They say the Denver Airport has been constructed for any

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Speaker 2: the government leaders underground. You think it's out there?

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Speaker 3: I sure, why not? I mean, you know, like that

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're a source of power, you would think.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, it is huge. It does like ask a

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Speaker 2: We had a congressional hearing today on UAP's I call

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Speaker 2: him UFOs now, of course, and a lot of people

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Speaker 2: What do you think of that?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting. I listen to a lot of that.

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Speaker 3: I've been following that story that guy, you know, he's

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Speaker 3: he keeps saying, you know, I can't say anything publicly

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Speaker 3: made me say, think of this book Donald Keijo's UFOs

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Speaker 3: been seeing it for for decades. You know this a

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Speaker 3: we've we've got these guys, We've had these guys on

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Speaker 2: Why is there so much distrust and it goes all

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Speaker 2: the way back to the beginning of government.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird. You know, in the beginning, when when

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Speaker 3: the government who's had to get us to, you know,

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Speaker 2: What is a secret society to you?

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Speaker 3: To me, I think of a secret society, and in

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Speaker 3: two ways I think of I think there's a there

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Speaker 3: there are literal groups like you know, the Freemasons. I

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Speaker 3: I think almost I think of like Nixon's cronies as

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Speaker 3: you know, conspiratorially to break laws. There's this other kind

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Speaker 3: like a much more kind of kind of nebulous and

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Speaker 3: they're capable of doing anything, They're everywhere in anywhere. They're

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Speaker 3: And I think we have these kind of two parallel

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Speaker 2: I think you investigated the CIA, what did you uncover?

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Speaker 3: So? Yeah, one of my favorite stories in the book

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Speaker 3: is this, this crazy story, and this is absolutely true.

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Speaker 3: The CIA got involved in trying to find drugs, like

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Speaker 3: all these different experiments to see if they could get

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Speaker 3: this pad. They called it the Pad, and it was

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Speaker 3: so all these CIA agents could basically watch these people

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Speaker 3: take notes. And this this was called Operation Midnight. Climax

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Speaker 3: was the code name for it. And this went on.

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Speaker 2: Did they what did they expect to learn?

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Speaker 3: I mean they I don't know that they really. I

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Speaker 3: I mean yeah, like I don't know that they ever

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Speaker 3: You know, being taking LSD without your knowledge or consent

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Speaker 3: probably messes you up something because you don't really know

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Speaker 3: they they thought maybe it would lead to some kind

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Speaker 3: I don't think it. I don't think they ever got

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Speaker 2: four outside of Boston where mobs burned down a convent.

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Speaker 2: What did they do?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, so yeah, so again you know these kind

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Speaker 3: didn't want to be livery. They were fine, you know,

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Speaker 3: these guys didn't find anything, they didn't find any evidence

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Speaker 3: you know, luckily they didn't kill anybody. But this was

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Speaker 3: this was again one of one of Boston's sort of

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Speaker 3: notable riots, but one that maybe was a little bit

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Speaker 3: more infamous than the Boston Tea Party. So it doesn't

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