This week, C.J. reads a few first-hand accounts of LSD experiences to better understand some of what Gottleib’s victims experienced.

Join Zak and C.J. as they discuss the early days of LSD research and the beginnings of the Federal Government’s investigation into the offensive application of the drug.

This week C.J. is joined by Zak for an overview of projects BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MK ULTRA, as well as a discussion on the men behind this project.

This week C.J. gives a short profile of Sidney Gottelib, the father of MK ULTRA.

C.J. needed to take a week off, but he’ll be back next week with a new series covering MK ULTRA that will run concurrently with the series covering Hemingway.

This week C.J. keeps it short by talking about the story of the decapitation of the figurehead of Andrew Jackson that was installed on the famed USS Constitution.

This week C.J. talks about Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms and how it relates to his real-life experiences on the Italian Front of the First World War and his grievous wounding.

This week C.J. talks about some of the horrifying weapons of the First World War and their influence on the formation of Modernism.

This week C.J. talks about Hemingway’s enlistment in the Red Cross ambulance corps and his experience traveling to the First World War, as well as the horror that Hemingway is headed toward.

Join C.J. as he talks about Ernest Hemingway’s time as a reporter at the Kansas City Star, where he would learn much of the tools that he would later use as a fiction writer. C.J. also speaks about Hemingway’s possible relationship with Mae Marsh