1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. This is a 2 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: story about the other one, the prep school kid, the 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: bag man, the Devil's right hand. And it's also a 4 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: story about Satanism, an LSD and the CIA an MK Ultra, 5 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: about ritual sacrifice and the devils and the details of 6 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: the Epstein files. And on the grounds of Bohemian Grove, 7 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: this is a story about The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, 8 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: about a man who made great music, unlike that music 9 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: I played for you at the top of the show. 10 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: That wasn't great music. 11 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: That was a. 12 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: Preset loop for my melotron called boot Scoot and Booty 13 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: MK one. I played you that loop because I can't 14 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: afford the rights to the Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift. 15 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: And why would I play you that specific slice of 16 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: oversaturated Kelsey Cheese. 17 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 2: Could I afford it? 18 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: Because that was the number one song in America on 19 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: January tenth, twenty twenty six, and that was the day 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weird died, promptly sending me down 21 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: the rabbit hole at Bohemian Grove. On this episode, the 22 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: CIA MK Ultra, nearly a million Dead Satanic Sacrifice LSD 23 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's files, Bohemian Grove and Bob Weir. I'm Jake 24 00:01:50,280 --> 00:02:22,679 Speaker 1: Brennan in This This Disgraceland. On January tenth of this year, 25 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, Grateful Dead, rat Dog and Dead and 26 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: Company guitarist, singer and songwriter Bob Weir died. The statement 27 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: from his family says that Bobby, as they call him, quote, 28 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones after courageously beating cancer 29 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung 30 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: issues unquote. 31 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 2: Bob Weir was. 32 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: Beloved by his family and by fans from around the globe. 33 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:57,279 Speaker 2: He not only helped mold. 34 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: The sound of one of the most influential and successful 35 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: rock and roll bands of all time, he also helped 36 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:08,239 Speaker 1: create an institution, a Grateful Dead, an institution that built 37 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: a community that will live on long after the band 38 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: and its members. The Grateful Dead community is famously unique 39 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: to the Grateful Dead, and no other band of music 40 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: history has created or is associated with, anything quite like it. 41 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: The Deadheads. 42 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: Aside from the unique fan behavior that define Deadheads, following 43 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: the band around from town to town tape trading and bootlegging, 44 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: the parking lot commerce, and the superficial characteristics of dead Heads. 45 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: The Tide and nouveau hippie style Deadheads are loyal, carrying, curious, 46 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: and civic minded. They come from all different socioeconomic backgrounds, 47 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: rich kids, poor kids, stoners and jocks and frat boys 48 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: and prep school kids like Bob Weir once was. Deadheads 49 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: are from all over the political spectrum as well, mostly left, 50 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: but some from the right, and of course libertarians and 51 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: gonzo extremists that defy categorization. And now, sixty plus years 52 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: after the group's first show on May fifth, nineteen sixty five, 53 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: at Magoo's Pizza Parlor in Menlo Park, California, under the 54 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: name of the Warlocks, the Grateful Dead's fans span generations 55 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: from great grandparents who saw the band back in the 56 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 1: day to teenage fans of the modern day Dead in Company. 57 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: The single most important element of the Grateful Dead, aside 58 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: from the music, an improvisational form of Americana that owes 59 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: as much to Bill Monroe's mandolin as it does to 60 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: John Coltrane's tenor Sachs. The single most important element besides 61 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: that music is the Dead Community, and the one element 62 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: of that community that has remained consistent from the time 63 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: of the band's first shows as part of Ken Kesey's 64 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: famed sixties acid Tests until the recent run of Day 65 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: the End Company shows that the sphere in Las Vegas. 66 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: The one element of that community that has remained consistent 67 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: is the grateful Dead community's commitment to openness, a sense 68 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: of welcoming born of curiosity and kindness, and compelled by 69 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: willingness to make the world a better place. Every Deadhead 70 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 1: knows that community is the most important thing change if 71 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: that is indeed the goal, no matter one's own personal beliefs, 72 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: starts from within and immediately extends to one's surrounding community. 73 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: Bob Weir understood and lived this ethos, just as his 74 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: fellow bandmates Mickey Hart and Bill Kritzman continue to live, 75 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: and just as Bob's past bandmates Jerry Garcia, Phil lesh 76 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: Ron Pigpen mccernin, and lyricist Robert Hunter lived before they passed. 77 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: When Bob Weir died, I thought first of the Dead Community, 78 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: even before I thought of his bab I wondered, how 79 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: will the Deadheads take this, this death from The Grateful 80 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: Dead will most surely spell the end of the band's 81 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: live output. Somehow remarkably, Dead band members found ways to 82 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: keep the community together after Jerry Garcia's death in nineteen 83 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: ninety five, with touring efforts by Weir's rat dog, Phil 84 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: Lesh's fill in friends, and most recently, and most successfully 85 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: with Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kurtzman's Dead and Company, 86 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: a group that's success came in no small part from 87 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: its collaboration with musician John Mayer. It's hard to see 88 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: how Dead and Company survives without Bob Weir, and with that, 89 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: it feels like this may indeed be the end of 90 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: the long, strange trip for Deadheads. My thoughts then turned 91 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: to Bob Weir's place in the band, as quote unquote, 92 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: the other One nestled slyly up Jerry Garcia's sleeve as 93 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: Jerry's ace, Jerry's rhythm guitarist, his figurative kid brother, the 94 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: straight man to Jerry's psychedelic captain trips, Jerry's literal bag man. Bobby, 95 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 1: the dude from The Grateful Dead, who looks so normal 96 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: in his polo shirt and jeans that he was the 97 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: one tasked to carry Jerry's heroin around on tour, And 98 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: then I thought of Bob Weir, the man his background, 99 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: an adopted child who never knew his biological parents growing up, 100 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: who has raised privilege, the son of his adoptive parents 101 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: in Atherton, California, one of the wealthiest suburbs in the 102 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: United States, a prep school kid with easy, bronzed good looks, 103 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: an athletic frame, and old money hair. The polo shirt 104 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: and cut off jeans gave it all away from me 105 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: back in the nineteen eighties. And then I thought of 106 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: Bob's post grateful dead pre dead in company life, in 107 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:54,559 Speaker 1: those rumors and the wild conspiracy theories, rumors that once 108 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: spread quickly became fact. 109 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 2: The fact that Bob Weir in his. 110 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: Later years was part of a different community altogether, a 111 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: community whose members had vastly different ideas about freedom and 112 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: kindness and change than deadheads had much different ideas, a community, 113 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: it can be argued, was responsible for much of the 114 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: world's death and destruction throughout the twentieth and early twenty 115 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: first centuries. A community that bonds over not just communal ritual, but, 116 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: as it's been alleged over communal ritual sacrifice. I'm talking 117 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: about Bob Weir's official membership in the community of Bohemian Grove. 118 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: The Bohemian Club was started back in eighteen seventy two. 119 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: Mark Twain was among the club's earliest members, as were 120 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: Jack London, Ambrose Bierce and other writers, journalists, musicians and artists. 121 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: As the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth, so too 122 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: did the Bohemian Club's membership from the arts world to 123 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: the twin worlds of business and politics. Throughout the twentieth 124 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: and twenty first century, its members have included every Republican president, 125 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: with the exception of Donald Trump, not to mention secretaries 126 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: of State and Defense. You're Henry Kissinger's and Donald Rumsfeld's, 127 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:45,719 Speaker 1: Alexander Haigs. 128 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:46,319 Speaker 2: And James Bakers. 129 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: And then there are the pre Silicon Valley titans of industry, 130 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: your Rockefellers and Forbes. Those with American names that smack 131 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: of birthright power and with pedigrees that reached back into 132 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,199 Speaker 1: the finest preparatory at Ivy League schools this country has 133 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: to offer. Some of them rooted in the secret Skull 134 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: and Bones Society at Yale from the early twentieth century. 135 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: The same men who made up the OSS, the Office 136 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: of Strategic Services, the United States' first centralized intelligence agency, 137 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 1: tasked with gathering and analyzing foreign intelligence on America's behalf. 138 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 2: During World War Two. 139 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,319 Speaker 1: After the war, the OSS became the CIA, the Central 140 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: Intelligence Agency. CIA directors William Casey, John McCone, and George H. W. 141 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: Bush were all Bohemian Grove members. George H. W. Bush 142 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: as well as his son w and Rumsfeld and Cheney 143 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: and Reagan and Casey and kissing Her and Nixon, Nixon 144 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: and Bob Weird, and they were all part. 145 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: Of the community at Bohemian Grove. 146 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: The men who brought you weapons of mass destruction, en 147 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: ron I Ran Contra, the Crack epidemic, the secret bombing 148 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: of Cambodia, Watergame Operation Mockingbird MK Ultra, the Gulf of Tonkan, 149 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: and the assassination of John F. 150 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 2: Kennedy. 151 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: All those dudes, and the dude who brought you Sugar Magnolia, 152 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. Bohemian Grove is a twenty 153 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: seven hundred acre private campground canopied under the giant redwoods 154 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: of Monte Rio in northern California. The grove is owned 155 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: by the all male Bohemian Club from nearby San Francisco. 156 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,359 Speaker 1: Every year at the Bohemian Grove, under tight knit security 157 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: and in total secrecy, the Bohemian Club hosts a two 158 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: week camp attended by two thousand of the country's richest, whitest, 159 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: most powerful men. What these men do each year at 160 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: this camp has long been the subject of debate among 161 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: journalists and conspiracy theorists alike, everything from innocent old school 162 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: fratboy antics to child's sacrifice. 163 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 2: At least that's what's alleged, and. 164 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: The community at the camp is instructed to follow a 165 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: rule insisting that business talk is strictly prohibited. It's a 166 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 1: rule that we know is duly ignored, however, for it 167 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: was here at Bohemian Grove that the critical planning for 168 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: the Manhattan Project took place on September fourteenth, nineteen forty two, 169 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:30,079 Speaker 1: when physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Ernest Lawrence met with Brigadier 170 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: General Leslie Groves and Colonel Kenneth Cole to iron out 171 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: the crucial technical aspects of the development for the atomic bomb. 172 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: Three years after that meeting at Bohemian Grove, the world's 173 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: first nuclear weapons were dropped onto Hiroshima and Nagasaki, over 174 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand people died, and keeping up with the 175 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: tradition of ignoring the gross community rule prohibiting business talk, 176 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: it was here at Bohemian Grove in July nineteen sixty 177 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: seven that Richard Nixon kicked off his success uipull nineteen 178 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: sixty eight campaign for president with a lakeside chat to 179 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: potential donors and supporters, one of them another Grove member, 180 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 1: the popular California governor at the time, Ronald Reagan, had 181 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: pledged to Nixon after hearing his Grove talk to not 182 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: challenge Nixon's presidential run, and by nineteen seventy three, over 183 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand innocent Cambodians would be dead due to 184 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:30,559 Speaker 1: President Nixon's secret bombing campaign, and by seventy four, Nixon 185 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: would resign in disgrace over the federal government's intelligence agency 186 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 1: designed Watergate coup d'eta, an historical event of epic proportions, 187 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: one that would forever destroy the American public's trust in 188 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 1: its government. It's easy to imagine a much different world 189 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: were it not for the decisions made at Bohemian Grove. 190 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: If only the community followed its number one rule prohibiting 191 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: business talk, and the rule is there for a reason. 192 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: Grove members attend their yearly retreat in part to shed 193 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: the stress that accompanies their high power positions as masters 194 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: of the universe. The Grove community is serious about the 195 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: concept of care and bose a motto nicked from William 196 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream that says weaving spiders come 197 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: not here, which is loosely translated to mean leave all 198 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: your scheming and power brokering and bullshit networking at the 199 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: gate so we can blow off steam and escape the 200 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: pressures of running the world for a couple of weeks 201 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: to signal the community's seriousness about this concept of quote 202 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: unquote care, i e. Giving too much of a fuck 203 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: about your job when it isn't your time to give 204 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: a fuck. The opening ceremony for every Bohemian Grove yearly 205 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: retreat is the signature cremation of Care, an event where 206 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: masked robed members emerge from the woods looking every bit 207 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: the part of eyes wide shut extras to promptly take 208 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: part in the burning of a massive human effigy under 209 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: the intense watchful eyes of a thirty foot concrete statue. 210 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 2: Of an owl. 211 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: The human effigy is named Dull Care, and its theatrical 212 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: burning is meant to represent the unburdening of community members's 213 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: everyday pressures and professional burdens. Now, I like to imagine 214 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: Bob Weir at opening night of the Bohemian Grove re Tree, 215 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: glancing upon the burning embers of Dull Care and relinquishing 216 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: all his past frustrations with Jerry Garcia being forced to 217 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: carry Jerry's heroin to manage his early nineties decline, the 218 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: parking lot violence, dead and gone deadheads. Jerry's refusal to 219 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: take any responsibility for any of it is clinging to 220 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: a juvenile definition of adolescent freedom, one that resulted in 221 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: unnecessary deadhead mayhem, Jerry's own version of impowered obstinates that 222 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: was ironically much like that of a man Bob Weir 223 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: was now sharing a cabin with Donald Rumsfeld. That's right, 224 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: Bob Weir and Donald Rumsfeld not only were at Bohemian 225 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: Grove at the same time, but were part of the 226 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: same camp, eating, sleeping, and socializing together as members of 227 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: the quote unquote Hillbillies camp. What exactly did the Grateful 228 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: Dead's Bob Weir and the architect of the Iraq War, 229 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: George W. Bush's Donald Rumsfeld get up to together at 230 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: Bohemian Grove. Was it simple fraternizing or was it something 231 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: much darker? 232 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this. We're We're, We're. 233 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: Said to happen at Bohemian Grove, But the straightest explanation 234 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 1: depicts Grove activities as basically a much larger, more posh 235 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: ivy league frat party from a bygone era, less animal 236 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 1: house and more skull and bones. Grove members group themselves 237 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: together into camps. There's the aforementioned Hillbillies, whose members not 238 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: only include Bob Weir and Donald Rumsfeld, but George H. W. 239 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: Bush and Walter Cronkite. Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart, like 240 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: Bob Weir, was said to also be a Grove member 241 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: and a member of the Hillbillies, though I found conflicting 242 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: information listing Mickey as being part of the Rattlers. There's 243 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: also Camp Mandalay, known as the pre Eminent Camp. Some 244 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: of Mandalay's famous past members include Kissinger and Reagan's Secretary 245 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: of State George Schultz. And there's the Caveman Camp. I guess, 246 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: unsurprisingly this is the camp that housed Nixon, and the 247 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: Nest camp was populated by Reagan and fellow actor Eddie 248 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: Albert from Green Acres. Clint Eastwood from neighboring Carmel took 249 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: a bunk in the Roaring Camp, while industry titans like 250 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: the Rockefellers and Morgan's betted down in the stowaway camp. 251 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: These camps the Hillbillies, the Rattlers, etc. They're also the entertainment. 252 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: In addition to the cremation of care and the lakeside talks, 253 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 1: Bohemian Grove programming includes plays and performances staged by different 254 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: camp members, often in drag, a tradition dating back to 255 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: early Ivy League fraternizing and one that prompted President Richard 256 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: Nixon to say about Bohemian Grove that it's quote the 257 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: most faggy, goddamn thing you could ever imagine unquote. However, 258 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: some claim that there's more than frat party antics at 259 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: the core of Bohemian Grove traditions, and that the drag 260 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: performances are part of an overall luciferian subversion of American morals, 261 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: one that is best represented by the massive thirty foot 262 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: owl statue that presides over the creation of care effigy burning, 263 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 1: which it's alleged, isn't about cleansing one's connection to the 264 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: pressures of the real world, but is instead a sacrifice 265 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: offered to the Babylonian deity Molick, who watches over the 266 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: evil deeds of Bohemian Grove attendees. Conspiracy theorists claim that 267 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: Bohemian Grove isn't a community, but is instead a secret 268 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: religion in disguise, one that planned the new world order 269 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: as we've experienced it over the past century plus through 270 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: a series of malevolent deeds executed by compromised world leaders, 271 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: honeytrapped through local prostitution rings and massive orgies into pulling 272 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: off some of the most dastardly murderous shit in global history, 273 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: all because well. 274 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 2: You know, Satan. I guess. 275 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: It's February twenty twenty and the world is freaking out 276 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: right now over the redacted release of a trove of 277 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 1: government files related to a more recent power player, the 278 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The files paint a picture of 279 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 1: a modern day master of the Universe up to all 280 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 1: kinds of secret evil behavior. It appears, And I say 281 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: this in all seriousness. It appears in an almost indisputable 282 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: way that Jeffrey Epstein was speaking in code about what 283 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,959 Speaker 1: is presumed to be sex with prostitutes and underage girls 284 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: and getting chummy with some of the most powerful men 285 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: and women in the world after I repeat, after he 286 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: was convicted in two thousand and eight of procuring a 287 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 1: child for prostitution and for soliciting prostitution. Epstein's post conviction 288 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: conversations with other Masters of the Universe include an exchange 289 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: with President Barack Obama's former Treasury secretary and president of 290 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 1: Harvard Universe City, Larry Summers, where to discuss one of 291 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: summers is Epstein related female relationships. There are conversations with 292 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 1: the New York Giants co owner Steve Tish referencing a 293 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: quote unquote Ukrainian girl of an unknown age, and another 294 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: email with a Dubai sultan. 295 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 2: A literal torture video is discussed. 296 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: Barclay's CEO Jess Staley speaks with Epstein about quote unquote 297 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: Disney princesses alleged code for young women, and former Obama 298 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: General consul and Goldman Sachs attorney Katherine Rumler is in 299 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: numerous emails with Epstein, seeking career advice and flirting with 300 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: the convicted sex offender while thanking him for numerous luxury 301 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: gifts that he showered upon her. The files also proved 302 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: that the current US Commerce Secretary under President Donald Trump, 303 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: Howard Lutnik, maintained a long standing relationship with his neighbor 304 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, one that he lied to the public about 305 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 1: just a few months ago, a relationship that included a 306 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: trip to Epstein Island with his wife and children, again 307 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: after Epstein was proven to be a convicted child sex offender. Now, 308 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: these are the verifiable, indisputable facts from the Epstein files, 309 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: not the conjecture. The conjecture is nuts, like the coded 310 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: conversations about pizza and grape soda and jerky, whatever the 311 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: hell those are in reference to, or the fact that 312 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 1: on December sixth, twenty eighteen, the same day that Epstein 313 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: found out that the Southern District of New York was 314 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: renewing its federal investigation into his behavior, Epstein himself ordered 315 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty gallons of sulfuric acid, a powerful 316 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 1: dehydrating agent known for breaking down organic materials like human. 317 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 2: Skin and bone. 318 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 1: What was up with that or the claim in the 319 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: files by one alleged victim, who states that at the 320 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: age of sixteen, she was used as a human incubator 321 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: and impregnated by someone from Epstein's inner circle in an 322 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 1: attempt to create a superior being, and that upon giving 323 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 1: birth to that child, the baby was allegedly immediately taken 324 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: from her by epstein partner in crime, Gallaine Maxwell, and 325 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 1: then the baby was never seen or heard from again. 326 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: In fact, the baby was referred to in the past tense, 327 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: and the alleged implication, if we're to believe the victim, 328 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: is that the baby was sacrificed, and the teen accuser 329 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: states that hours after she gave birth, she heard Maxwell 330 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:34,479 Speaker 1: say that the baby was beautiful. Was now. Perhaps there 331 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: are legitimate explanations for all of this. Perhaps the conspiracy 332 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: theorists are doing what conspiracy theorists do best, taking bits 333 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 1: of information and well theorizing. 334 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 2: I sincerely hope so. 335 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: Or perhaps comedian Tim Dillon put it best when he said, 336 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: and I'm paraphrasing here, maybe the Bohemian girl rituals were innocent, 337 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: but maybe one dude watching the cremation of care was 338 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 1: likeal this figurative sacrificial bullshit. Let's sacrifice some real babies, 339 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: and maybe that dude ended up in Epstein's circle, and 340 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: maybe the human effigy wasn't enough for the likes of 341 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's Masters of the Universe. Maybe the worst behavior 342 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: from the Epstein Files is just the natural outgrowth of 343 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 1: Bohemian growth. 344 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 2: I hope not. I do not want to believe that. 345 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: In fact, as of right now, I don't believe it 346 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: to date, as I write this on February seventeenth, twenty 347 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: twenty six, there's nothing in the Epstein files that proves 348 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: child's sacrifice. All that's been proven so far is the 349 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: criminal and questionable behavior of a few women and a 350 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 1: lot of rich and powerful men, many of them nerds 351 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: like Bill Gates, who I'm guessing never got laid in 352 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 1: high school or college. And these nerds who found themselves 353 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 1: with loads of power as adults and the means to 354 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: behave in truly disgusting ways. Yes, and there's a corollarya 355 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: with Bohemian grove, but it's less disgraceful and I believe 356 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: more innocent. Despite claims of child sacrifice and Satanic rituals, 357 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: Bohemian Grove was, I believe, just a bunch of former 358 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: Ivy League tryhards who chose hard work overplay as adolescents 359 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: and responded as adults by going into the woods for 360 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks out of the year so that 361 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: they could behave like the irresponsible kids that they were 362 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: never allowed to be. But it still begs the question 363 00:25:34,920 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: what the hell was Bob Weird doing there. Unlike his 364 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: Grateful Dead band members, and much like most of his 365 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: Bohemian Grove community members, Bob Weir was a prep school kid, 366 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 1: and similar to most dead Heads, Bob Weir was a 367 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: curious and open minded individual. Bob were centered his life 368 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: around the concept of community. There was the Grateful Dead community, 369 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: and there was the community he lived in in northern California, 370 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: a community with political, social, and environmental causes Bob We're 371 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 1: supported throughout his life. In a mid AUT's interview with 372 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: the local paper, Weir said quote, I believe in community everything. 373 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: I practiced that in my life. In a given year, 374 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: probably twenty percent of the gigs I play are benefits. 375 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 2: I walk the talk. I work for the community, and 376 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 2: the community works for me. 377 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: It's been that way for forty some years now and 378 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 1: it hasn't let me down. I think that what we 379 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: discovered in the sixties is that unity culture is a 380 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:07,479 Speaker 1: really good paradigm unquote. With that community focused thinking at 381 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,360 Speaker 1: the center of his life, alongside the obvious principles of 382 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: openness and curiosity, it's very easy for me to understand 383 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: why Bob Weir was a member of not just the 384 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 1: Deadhead community, but of the local Bohemian Grove community as well. 385 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: Bob Weir's comments about his affiliation with Bohemian Grove, however, 386 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,199 Speaker 1: were vague, and I believe intentionally so, in keeping with 387 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: the secretive wishes of the community. But that doesn't mean 388 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: that his intentions were nefarious, despite some of the malevolent 389 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: outcomes spawning from the retreat. There are a couple of 390 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: reasons I believe Bob Weir became a member of Bohemian Grove, 391 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: one obvious and one not so much. The obvious reason 392 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: is that, given Weir's background of privilege, he was experienced 393 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: enough to know that change can sometimes only happen from 394 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 1: within existing power structures, and given the societal change for 395 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: the better for Bob Weir was part of his principled 396 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: outlook on life. Weir understood that he was in a 397 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: unique position to make a difference. All he had to 398 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: do was Donna robe and duck into the woods and 399 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: pound biers with Don Rumsfeld and others once a year 400 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: to make his case. And what's better bitching about the 401 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,199 Speaker 1: Iraq War to your friends you can't do anything about it, 402 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: or making your case directly to the Secretary of Defense. 403 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:36,439 Speaker 1: The other reason I believe is LSD, more specifically the 404 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: origins of LSD. If you've listened to the first Disgrace 405 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: Land episode on The Grateful Dead, you'll hear all about 406 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: how the band was unwittingly used by the CIA to 407 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: indirectly spread the use of LSD throughout American culture in 408 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: the late sixties. This was in part the result of 409 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: the CIA's MK Ultra program. Bob Weir was well aware 410 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: that this program was designed by many of the men 411 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: who were part of the Bohemian Grove community. In twenty nineteen, 412 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: I released My Grateful Dead episode of Disgrace Slam, and 413 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: a few days later was contacted by Grateful Dead publicist 414 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: and biographer Dennis McNally, author of the definitive biography of 415 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: the band. A long strange trip. Dennis explained to me 416 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: that he and grateful dead lyricist Robert Hunter had some 417 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: questions for me based on what I'd researched and wrote 418 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: part of my thesis in that episode. Was a grateful 419 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: dead manager and soundman. Augustus Olesley Stanley IID aka Bear 420 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: aka Bear Owsley, himself an LSD chemist and distributor, was 421 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: an actual CIA operative. Owsley was the son of an 422 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: FTC attorney and grandson of a US senator, the exact 423 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: type of young man the. 424 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 2: CIA would choose to turn. 425 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: I didn't prove my thesis, but I think I came 426 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: pretty close based on what McNally told me Hunter believed 427 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: before he died later that year. Robert Hunter, the grateful 428 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: dead lyricist, never believed Bear Owsley's claimed that Bear learned 429 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: everything he needed to know about the recipe for processing 430 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: LSD from what Bear pulled from the books he found 431 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: in the UC Berkeley Library, because Robert Hunter apparently dove 432 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: into the stacks at the UC Berkeley Library himself, and 433 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: what he found out was that the scientific information on 434 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: LSD processing that the UC Berkeley Library held was not 435 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 1: part of the library until after Bear Osley made his 436 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: first batch in nineteen sixty five. So where did Bear 437 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,479 Speaker 1: get the recipe? And what I'm saying is the LSD 438 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: processing information wasn't there. I mean it was, but it 439 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: wasn't there until after Osley made his first batch. Therefore, 440 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: it was theorized that perhaps Osley received his recipe from 441 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: the CIA, and perhaps Bear Osley had a deeper relationship 442 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: with the secret organization, whose members, including many of its directors, 443 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: were frequent attendees of Bohemian Grove, the same Bohemian Grove 444 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: Bob Weir was inexplicably a member of. Perhaps part of 445 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: the reason Bob was a Bohemian Grove member was to 446 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: uncover the truth about his former manager's relationship, if any, 447 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 1: to the CIA, from actual members of the CIA who 448 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: he attended Bohemian Grove with. Or perhaps Bob Weir was 449 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: just living in accordance with his principles to affect change 450 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: in the community as best he could, in this case 451 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: from the inside among power players, he found himself in 452 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: the unique position to not just entertain, but to himself influence. 453 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: Either way, neither reason is a disgrace. I'm Jake Brennan, 454 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: and this. 455 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 2: Is disgrace Land. 456 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: All right, thanks for hanging with me on another episode 457 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: of Disgraceland. Appreciate you guys. 458 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 2: Listen, what do you think about all this? 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