Programmed to Chill

(1 of 11)

Unlocked from Patreon: Today's the first episode in conversation with Wendy Painting, author of Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh. In this episode, we discuss Wendy's narrative archetypes to organize the flood of contradictory stories about Timothy McVeigh. This is necessary groundwork for understanding everything that follows.

Note: if you want to hear the next four episodes without waiting, go subscribe on Patreon. 

Wendy Painting's Kofi:

https://ko-fi.com/wendyspainting

series art by @r.voy_ (building upon the original illustration by Bobby Joe Crouch

Bonus Episode 31 songs:

X-Ray Visions by Clutch

A Shotgun Named Marcus by Clutch

Other Links:

https://www.patreon.com/ProgrammedToChill

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

(1 of 11)

Unlocked from Patreon: Today's the first episode in conversation with Wendy Painting, author of Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh. In this episode, we discuss Wendy's narrative archetypes to organize the flood of contradictory stories about Timothy McVeigh. This is necessary groundwork for understanding everything that follows.

Note: if you want to hear the next four episodes without waiting, go subscribe on Patreon. 

Wendy Painting's Kofi:

https://ko-fi.com/wendyspainting

series art by @r.voy_ (building upon the original illustration by Bobby Joe Crouch

Bonus Episode 31 songs:

X-Ray Visions by Clutch

A Shotgun Named Marcus by Clutch

Other Links:

https://www.patreon.com/ProgrammedToChill

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

(Part 3 of 3)

Today I'm joined by Marcus from 'the Return of the Repressed' podcast to discuss Jim Jones and Jonestown. We discuss further the People's Temple connections to Synanon and related groups, sus Indiana, the Jonestown Red Brigades, Jim Jones' schizophrenic positions on geopolitics, Guyanese politics, normie ass takes on cults, and a few interesting tangents. To finish, we discuss alternate theories to the Jonestown mass casualty event, the ever-important question, "where did the money go?", and our lack of clear conclusions.

Check out Marcus's podcast, the Return of the Repressed!

Links:

https://anchor.fm/thereturnoftherepressed

https://www.patreon.com/TheReturnOfTheRepressed/posts

Songs:

Reverberation (Doubt) by the 13th Floor Elevators

Monkey Island by the 13th Floor Elevators

Run Through the Jungle by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Merch:

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

(Part 2 of 3)

Today I'm joined by Marcus from 'the Return of the Repressed' podcast to discuss Jim Jones and Jonestown. Marcus walks us through Jim Jones's early career, his psychiatric history, Guyanese history and anthropology, the Ukiah era, welfare scams, drug rehabs, several more interesting topics, and my personal favorite: the very curious crossover between Jones's ministry, the Mendocino State Hospital, Emmanuel Swedenborg, and Herb Mullin. Oh, and the first school shooter in the US.

Links:

https://anchor.fm/thereturnoftherepressed

https://www.patreon.com/TheReturnOfTheRepressed/posts

Songs:

Kingdom of Heaven by the 13th Floor Elevators

You Don’t Know by the 13th Floor Elevators

Don’t Fall Down by the 13th Floor Elevators

Merch:

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

(Part 1 of 3)

Today I'm joined by Marcus from 'the Return of the Repressed' podcast to discuss Jim Jones and Jonestown. We discuss the 'known unknowns' with regards to Jonestown. Marcus walks us through the many early reactions to Jonestown which seem to nail it on the head, including those near to Representative Leo Ryan. We talk about the 'mystery tape'. Then, we lay the groundwork for understanding Jonestown by delving into the religious background of the Jones church including the Branhamites, the Latter Rain movement, and the curious crossover between these religious groups and cults across the world, especially in Africa. 

Links:

https://anchor.fm/thereturnoftherepressed

https://www.patreon.com/TheReturnOfTheRepressed/posts

Songs:

You’re Gonna Miss Me by the 13th Floor Elevators

Tried to Hide by the 13th Floor Elevators

Merch:

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

Unlocked from Patreon: Today's the last of the horror movies for CrackpotoberFest 2022 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995) aka Texas Chainsaw Massacre IV. I'm joined by the unrivaled Dakota (@Dakota045143812) to discuss the film. We go through the weird vibes and the increasingly paranoid themes. Then, we cover the existence of comparable blackmail and murder rings that have been exposed in the past.

Links:

https://twitter.com/Dakota045143812

Songs:

Blood in the Streets by the Jasons

Longhaired Redneck by David Allan Coe

I’ve Seen Footage by Death Grips

Merch:

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

Unlocked from the Patreon: 

Today's the third of four horror movies for CrackpotoberFest 2022 - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) aka Halloween 6. I'm joined by Blauer (@blauer_geist) to discuss the film. Blauer helps me walk us through the plot to Halloween 6, the cult of Thorn, and especially contextualizes the film within the Halloween franchise as a whole. Then, I discuss the Matamoros cult in relation to the film, and hopefully point out some things which go under-discussed when Matamoros comes up.

Links:

https://twitter.com/blauer_geist

https://apocalypse-confidential.com/

Songs:

Halloween Theme

Brujerizmo by Brujeria

el Padrino by Church of Misery

Merch:

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

Today's the second of four horror movies for CrackpotoberFest 2022 - Ghostwatch (1992), and I'm joined by Fortean expert Tanner Boyle (@TannerFBoyle1) to discuss the film. Tanner walks us through the plot and we discuss the film and its themes, which include spiritualism, baby farming, psychological operations, Jimmy Savile, the Society for Psychical Research, and even, yet again, a Jonestown connection.

Links:

https://twitter.com/TannerFBoyle1

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-fortean-influence-on-science-fiction/

Songs:

Con Clave Con Dio by Ghost

Satan Prayer by Ghost

Ghost Song by the Doors

Merch:

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

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.

Note: I make two mistakes in this episode. I think I conflate bipolar disorder and BPD which is not the fault of the film or memoir, and I also say that one of the characters kills herself to Downtown when it's a different song. My bad.

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/

Unlocked because I discuss Jeffrey Dahmer in the episode. 

Yes, Ira Levin and William Peter Blatty were both spies, but What Does It Mean? I go through the careers of both authors and flag the times they worked for US intelligence, then how perhaps their writing was affected by that fact, and then the reverberations their work has had on society. With Levin, we meet the Ayn Rand circle, Malachi Martin, the weirdness of Rosemary's Baby, the Stepford Wives, the Boys From Brazil, Son of Rosemary, and so on.

With Blatty, we discuss USIA, the Groucho Marx connection, the Ninth Configuration, the Exorcist, Mark David Chapman, the Zodiac, the Exorcist III, Dahmer, and I cite the great pd187 and Christopher Knowles on the Exorcist film.  To wrap it up, I discuss the "less well-known" David St. John, who weirdly corresponds with Candy Jones, and how the saga of Tom Dooley III shows that religious psyops are not exactly new. And the songs are pretty great this episode too, lol.

Songs:

Black Sabbath by Coven

Pact with Lucifer by Coven

Wicked Woman by Coven

excerpts from the Exorcist soundtrack

Room 213 by Church of Misery