359: Operation Midnight Climax and the CIA's secret brothel on DIYS

Dam Internet, You Scary!

Patrick Cloud, Tahir Moore

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, True Crime

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Dam Internet, You Scary! hosts Patrick Cloud and Tahir Moore break down the disturbing but interesting stories on the internet!

What would you rather deal with: 638 assassination attempts... or an island full of virus-carrying monkeys? 🤯

This week on Dam Internet, You Scary!, Tahir Moore and Patrick Cloud dive into some of the internet's strangest true stories, including the CIA's unbelievable attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, the mysterious monkey island used for government research, bizarre WWII propaganda plans, Operation Midnight Climax, and a story about a mother who was run over after letting her 13-year-old son drive.

Stories discussed in this episode include:

• Why the CIA reportedly tried to assassinate Fidel Castro 638 times
• Exploding cigars, poisoned wetsuits, and other unbelievable assassination plots
• Why the U.S. has an island full of monkeys used for medical research
• Hantavirus and why humans aren't allowed on the island
• The WWII propaganda campaign involving oversized condoms
• Operation Midnight Climax and one of the CIA's strangest experiments
• MKUltra and government mind control research
• A mother who let her 13-year-old drive... and ended up getting run over
• Whether she should have been criminally charged
• Plus plenty of laughs, side conversations, and internet rabbit holes

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00:00 Cold Open: Why Scammers Can't Trust Each Other
00:00:40 Welcome Back + Studio Intro
01:31 Working Out to Relaxing Music
04:09 Would You Trust an Uber Driver With No License?
12:59 Sponsor: Cash App
15:59 Why the U.S. Has an Island Full of Research Monkeys
16:24 The Truth About Hantavirus and Monkey Island
21:17 The WWII Plan to Fool Germany With Giant Condoms
21:58 The CIA's 638 Failed Attempts to Kill Fidel Castro
23:45 Exploding Cigars, Poisoned Wetsuits & Other Real Castro Assassination Plots
26:22 Sponsor: Mint Mobile
28:13 The CIA's Secret Brothel Experiment
29:07 Operation Midnight Climax Explained
31:24 MKUltra and Government Mind Control Experiments
34:00 The Squatter Removal Strategy That Doesn't Break the Law
39:10 Would This Actually Make a Squatter Leave?
44:45 Mom Lets 13-Year-Old Drive... Then Gets Run Over
46:05 Christmas Conversation & Holiday Irony
47:45 Should the Mother Be Criminally Charged?
52:00 Electric Chair Debate
56:48 Final Thoughts

Transcript

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0:00.0	Keep that far away.
0:00.6	You didn't want crackheads around you unless you was buying something from them. Scammers are like crackheads in the sense that there's no loyalty amongst thieves. I don't think there's loyalty amongst crackheads. That's what I said. They're like scammers with it. Oh. So it's like if a crackhead was steal from you, a scammer will too. So like I just I always wondered that. How does like scammer or thief friendships even work?
0:21.5	I mean, I wouldn't trust a scammer, a thief, a crackhead, or a drug dealer.
0:27.2	It's like every time you turn around, you're like, I almost drugs.
0:30.7	I don't mind you.
0:31.7	I almost got your credit card information.
0:33.2	That's a nice wallet.
0:34.1	I'll get it.
0:37.4	Damn in the net, you scary. What's up, everybody? We back. Nice wall. I'll get it.
0:39.8	Damn internet, you scary.
0:40.8	What's up, everybody?
0:41.6	We back.
0:42.5	I'm to hear more.
0:43.2	I'm Patrick Cloud.
0:45.2	And this is another episode of Damn Internet.
0:46.3	You scary. We're in the studio.
0:47.3	We're in the studio.
0:49.4	We used to do that.
0:50.9	Brandon, Brandon Lewis.
0:52.0	We're in our studio.
0:53.0	We're in the studio.
0:56.3	And we're in the studio. We're in the studio. We're in the studio. We in the studio. We haven't done, um, we haven't done an intro song in a while. A whole session.
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