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When Frank Zappa released his debut album freak out in 1966.

Zappa released his debut album, Freak Out in 1966. He correctly predicted an authoritarian backlash against the emerging counterculture.

Non-conforming Americans everywhere found to their horror that in practice they didn't have nearly as much freedom as decades of constant anti-communist propaganda had led them to believe.

Was it really happening here?

We let you go. Was it really happening here? Were the FBI and the CIA turning America into the big brother dictatorship of George Orwell's worst dream mares?

The little riot heap shout out there. of George Orwell's worst dream mares?

The little riot heap shout out there.

Who are the brain police?

Well, it turned out much later that the NSA was the brain police.

But before Edward Snowden revealed that there was a moment

in time, a couple decades before it actually happened, when we all got real nervous that it was happening.

Then, and that was the period leading up to the arbitrarily chosen title year of Orwell's novel 1984.

Today, we're going to turn back the doomsday clock to a time when Ronald Reagan was bringing the heat to the

cold war and Pablo Escobar was bringing tons of cocaine into the US with a genre I like

to call George Or Wave.

Welcome to the Beyond Yacht Rock Podcast.

Hi. My name is J. R.

J. Riznar.

There's Hollywood Steve.

Hey, I'm Hollywood Steve. I'm in the Captain's chair this week and I can't believe I'm the only one wearing purple in here.

R. I'm a p. Prince.

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