Bonus Episode: The Grateful Dead Psyop Theory and the Laurel Canyon Pop Star Military Industrial Complex
DISGRACELAND
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4.6 • 13.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In light of what the Epstein Files taught us about Bob Weir and Bohemian Grove, we ask the question: Is there any merit to the conspiracy theory regarding the Grateful Dead as a CIA psyop? What exactly was the band’s relationship to the MK Ultra program and what’s up with all those hippie pop stars with military and defense contractor parents? Plus, as always, your voicemails, texts, dms, emails and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Discos, need a little more disgrace land in your life? |
| 0:05.0 | Just a touch to get you through? |
| 0:07.3 | Yeah, me too. |
| 0:08.7 | This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to Disgraceland bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party. |
| 0:33.5 | This is the show after the show, the party, after the bridge to get you from one full |
| 0:37.0 | episode of Disgraceland to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt. |
| 0:41.3 | Our mission to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story on this bonus episode, |
| 0:46.3 | we're disrupting the Grateful Dead CIA Sciop Theory, previewing next week's new episode, part two of our in excess tale. |
| 1:00.0 | And in the exclusive section, we dive into Laurel Canyon pop stars and their military industrial complex parents. Plus, we get into your emails, comments, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of Rosie. |
| 1:05.0 | This is the podcast for the musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried. Disgraceland is where I tell the stories they didn't want told, the kind |
| 1:15.0 | you'll end up telling someone else. All right, discos, let's get into it. |
| 1:36.1 | So apparently you can't spell Jerry Garcia without C-I-A. |
| 1:38.3 | G-A-R-C-I-A. |
| 1:45.4 | Now, there are some that will have you believe that Jerry Garcia was a knowing participant in the federal government's covert manipulation of American youth. And that the Grateful Dead's iconic de facto |
| 1:52.2 | leader was a working spy, along with the band Soundman Augustus Stanley Bear Owsley. And the rest of |
| 1:59.8 | the Dead's band members, including Bob Weir, |
| 2:02.7 | they were compromised supposedly as well. And this all proves that Weir's and Mickey |
| 2:08.5 | Hart's membership at Bohemian Grove was nothing but a malevolent extension of the band CIA |
| 2:15.3 | affiliation. |
| 2:18.6 | Wackadoo. |
| 2:21.0 | No shade to anyone who believes this, |
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