Episode Details

Matthew Thomas Meade joins us to chat about publishing books, book banning and the Literary Industrial Complex. He has uncovered some interesting threads on CIA involvement in the literary world, culture conditioning, and the media empire.

There is a lot of evidence that the CIA has funded creative writing programs and the distribution of creative works for almost 100 years

We chat about ghost writing, 2016 and the weird time that was, Trump - useful idiot? enabling Q and J6, the control mechanism, propaganda, Epstein, the fake left and right, the twitter files, MK Ultra, Ken Kesey Acid Tests, more conspiracy theories and the fake pandemic. What about manufacturing consent and Chomsky?

In the second half we get into more CIA op's like Mockingbird, the overlap between journalists and writers, the crook factory, a deep dive on Hemmingway and his NKVD and CIA influence, warrior poets, the FBI/Hoover taking a turn at banning a book, fronts like Congress For Cultural Freedom, commies vs fascists, UFO's and Disclosure, Fleishman and the blood scandal start up, the Dr. Zhivago happenings, scrubbing knowledge from old books, the new book banning by ai, Spartacus, bye bye Good reads, and House Bezos and Amazon.