I was introduced to Vincent Rado’s AMAZING work through our mutual friend, Robert Forte. Emily and I immediately booked him on our Words podcast, and have since started a Vince-specific sub-series, “Psychedelic Fascism,” AND been going back and forth about sharing him on our individual podcasts, and which topics we want to tackle with him. In this interview, Vince slowly walks us through the creepy and complicated relationship between the military industrial complex and psychedelics, filling in oodles of blanks with ancient philosophy, and oodles of previously disconnected dots. Part 2 is available for my donating supporters here:danikatz.locals.comwww.patreon.com/danikatz Find Vince at: https://twitter.com/vincent_radohttps://vincentrado.substack.com/ Show notes:

• A devotion to drugs~ Vincent’s background & journey into deep-diving

• Vincent's red flags~ cluing into the counter-culture propaganda around psychedelics

• Acid Dreams~ a must-read book for connecting dots

• “Drugism” & “High and Mighty”~ Vincent’s new books exposing the psychedelic psy-ops

• A salty past~ how the military is historically entwined with drugs

• Timothy Leary & MK Ultra: digging into the roots of psychedelic propaganda

• A parallel to Plato: is the modern-day psy(chedelic)-ops a distraction that fosters apolitical apathy?

• The myth of Micro-dosing~ is it simply a palatable control mechanism to maintain status-quo?

• Peter Thiel & Leafly~ as always, follow the money….

• High THC levels & the Vietnam War: a history of government modification and manipulation

• “Halluncinations” by Dr. West~ a book dissuading youth from engaging with the system

• A spectrum of responses~ how Vincent’s ideas are received by the world around him