Well, hey there, true weirdos. How you doing? We got something a little different for you today.

We've been spending a lot of time with the CIA looking at an MK Ultra incident that happened in the 50s when one of their own scientists went through a window after being dosed with LSD.

And that led us to a story of a little city and little town, really, in France,

that many people believe the CIA did this whole crazy LSD crop dusting experiment on.

And early, early in True Weird Stuff's history, we did an M.K. Ultra episode called Tripping Johns,

and we refer to it a lot in our episode postmortems

because it's a great example of what a cowboy cluster the CIA was during the cold war like

they just did as they pleased and no rules right max and this story particular, since this was the first one we did, you've got a guy who's

sitting behind a one-way mirror in a brothel that the government is, it's a government

institution.

They are dosing the Johns with the hookers and this guy behind the one-way glass is getting drunk while he's observing this for

what purpose exactly?

I'm not sure.

I can't quite.

One of the things it's true about all this MK Ultra stuff is there's nothing that's truly scientific about their approach to whatever they're doing.

It feels so haphazard. It feels like, hey, what do you think would happen if? And then they do

the thing. And then they see what happens, right? So when we released Tripping Johns, it was early in

True Weird stuff. And we were just putting putting out stories and we weren't following them up

with our postmortems where we go deeper into the story and we we just kind of you know talk it

through and we were amazed at how many people were like can you guys stick around after the story

and talk we're okay and so that changed the format of the podcast.

Tripp and Johns is one of those episodes that doesn't have that.

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