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Today's the first of four horror (or quasi-horror) films for CrackpotoberFest 2022 - Girl, Interrupted, both the memoir and the film. I discuss Susanna Kaysen and her father, a very interesting figure. I talk about McLean Hospital, Jim Watson, spies at McLean, and Kaysen's later career. 

Then, I go over some interesting themes that Girl, Interrupted the film injects into the narrative - some potentially spurious, some maybe not. To wrap up, I discuss the history of MKULTRA projects at McLean and the general area. CrackpotoberFest only gets weirder from here.

Songs:

Knockin’ Round the Zoo by James Taylor

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane

Downtown by Petula Clark

Angel Baby by Rosie & the Originals

Merch:

https://programmed-to-chill.myshopify.com/

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D.K. Wilson

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - acclaimed, famed (infamous??) Beat poet. Even more socio-culturally important he was co-founder of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco (used to play at an famous (infamous? lol) blues club about 3 blocks away called The Saloon). City Lights was THE West Coast spot for all the famous beat poets. It was also known because of its locale which was in the prostitution district of SF. Behind the scenes, it was used by the CIA to watch the burgeoning dissident and then hippie movements. CL also was a people theft for use in drug experiments as well as for use for finding “assets.”

Anonymous

Hey Jimmy, have you ever come across Dr Carl Pfeiffer in your research on MK Ultra? He is one of my favorite authors on nutrition and mental health, specifically schizophrenia. I’m very curious about his CIA work. He administered LSD to prisoners in Atlanta and Jersey. I would be SO pumped for a PTC deep dive into this

ProgrammedToChill

oh yeah, he was one of the guys getting funding through the Scottish Rite Committee for Research On Schizophrenia; also did MKULTRA/MKSEARCH work. that'd be pretty interesting to do, I agree