Best Solar Driftwood Podcasts (2024)

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S4Ep10 | Hollywood Video® Loses a Legend 33:08

3+ y ago33:08

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In the Season 4 finale, co-hosts Lydia CoffeeMaté and Jeffrey Dalmer discuss what we've learned after a deep dive into the story behind the 1989 Judd Nelson serial killer film, "Relentless." In airing his theory about "Relentless" director William Lustig's connection to mind control program MK-Ultra, Dalmer puts himself in the CIA's crosshairs, wit…

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S4Ep9 | The Snack Aisle Strangler 31:49

3+ y ago31:49

31:49

With O'Boisies, Pizzarias, and Tato Skins, flavor architect Rosemary Caraway was winning awards in the 1980s for her work on the Keebler Company’s savory line of snacks. But when the company began favoring its sweet line instead, the “Relentless”-inspired Snack Aisle Strangler struck. *** Credits: Erica Johnson played Rosemary Caraway. Erica perfor…

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S4Ep8 | The Thong Song, SisQó and We 31:57

3+ y ago31:57

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Some "Relentless"-inspired would-be serial killers have been celebrities. When Marrissa Horn, a tea shop owner from L.A. began dating SisQó, she had no idea that a visit to Victoria's Secret together would inspire the R&B legend's greatest hit, nor that he might try to use the song as a murder weapon. *** Credits: Andrea Quach played Marrissa Horn.…

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S4Ep7 | With the Intent to Cause Mischief 32:18

3+ y ago32:18

32:18

Growing up on the road alongside her saleswoman mom, Jeri Jones believed she had a serene, peace-loving nature. But then, at 15, she watched "Relentless" and a something savage began stirring inside her. Armed with common household implements as agents of mischief and with a Rolodex she found while Dumpster diving as a guide, her rampage began. ***…

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S4Ep6 | Little Bulbs, Big Dreams 32:21

3+ y ago32:21

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Around the time Darrell Klep first saw "Relentless" in the late 1980s, he also began his career as a farmer. Eventually, he started working weekend farmer's markets, following his customers and sitting in his car outside their homes. Creepy? Yes. Coincidence? Probably not. *** Credits: Sean Paul Ellis played Darrell Klep. Sean performs with Washing…

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S4Ep5 | 31 Flavors and a Kick in the Crotch 31:44

3+ y ago31:44

31:44

Baskin-Robbins greeter Alicia Nicely was just minding her own business, trying on a fitted purple sweatshirt at Gap, when she was attacked by a "Relentless"-inspired wanna-be serial killer. As happens in these situations, the attacker — Sarah Pinch — couldn't close the deal. But might there be an army of Sarah Pinches out there, stalking America's …

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S4Ep4 | Deadlike Rasta 33:34

3+ y ago33:34

33:34

Buffalo, NY musician Brad Meglin was playing Black Sabbath covers with his band The Buffalo Soldiers in 1988, when William Lustig inexplicably got up on stage, mid-song, and asked Brad to compose music “that would make people want to kill” for his coming movie, “Relentless.” *** Credits: Bryan Jackson played Brad Meglin. Bryan produces “Pod Chef,” …

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S4Ep3 | Never Time the Markets 29:30

3+ y ago29:30

29:30

Lance Bloomberg's father was a big influence on his son. There was the fascination with money and finance that Lance inherited, and there was also the violence. Beaten regularly as a child with an abacus, Lance would eventually teeter between a career in financial analysis and serial murder. Seeing "Relentless" nearly sealed the deal. *** Credits: …

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S4Ep2 | MISSING: Tracy + Judds Nelson, Apatow and Judy (R.I.P.) 35:15

3+ y ago35:15

35:15

Dan Hammer, a community theater actor from upstate New York who told the harrowing tale of his fiancee Tracy's mysterious disappearance in Season 1, has decided to try and remake "Relentless" in a way that "feels more real" by filming it entirely in his mother's house, basement and backyard. *** Credits: Reaves McElveen played Dan Hammer. Reaves pe…

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S4Ep1 | Some Dreamers of the Bloody Dream 32:12

3+ y ago32:12

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Meet our Season 4 cohosts: Lydia Coffeematé worked on the "Relentless" set as a personal assistant to one of its producers. Jeffrey Dalmer works at the last Hollywood Video where he slips "Relentless" DVDs into the bags of unsuspecting customers...at the behest of a mysterious "they." *** Credits: Erin Murray played Lydia CoffeeMaté. Erin performs …

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Season 4: "Relentless" | Trailer 2:43

3+ y ago2:43

2:43

The 1989 Judd Nelson movie “Relentless” seemed like just another bad slasher flick. But director William Lustig included subliminal messages intended to inspire real life, would-be serial killers to begin their sprees. *** Credits: Produced by Tim Townsend. Theme music by Bart Warshaw. Cover art by Claire Smalley. Website by Chance Griffin.…

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S3Ep8 | Homo Invisibilien 28:34

4y ago28:34

28:34

Gilda Graylore runs the Mystic Horse B&B in Corolla, NC. She's also pretty sure an unseen species, Homo inivisibilien, unleashed Covfefe-19 to rid the planet of its destructive human cousin, Homo sapiens. *** Credits: Kelsey Peters played Gilda Graylore. Kelsey performs with Washington Improv Theater teams Uncle Gorgeous and The Broken Bones, and D…

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S3Ep7 | Nuclear Desert Sun Dune 29:41

4y ago29:41

29:41

In his work as a missile engineering studying manager, Master Carmichael Carmichaels made a startling discovery. The liquid that Mars is so famous for is actually a "nuclear desert sun dune," which NASA brought back to Earth in gas form and which has now leaked into the population, causing Covfefe-19. *** Credits: Darnell Eaton played Master Carmic…

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S3Ep6 | No Footmask, No Service 31:13

4y ago31:13

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Al Windjammer, owner of Windjammer Shoes, has a message that seems to contradict the family business: Don't wear shoes. While Windjammer shoes are made of animal byproducts from the family farm, most shoes are made from untraceable, mysterious chemicals that are harbingers for germs and viruses. And because most viruses enter the body through your …

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S3Ep5 | Defund Big Blueberry 30:11

4y ago30:11

30:11

People are easier to control when they believe their group’s interests are at odds with another group’s. Suzy Johnson, professor of sociocultural anthropology at U.C. Berkeley, believes the U.S. government — nervous that Americans of all kinds have come together to speak as one against racism and racial injustice — is using Covfefe-19 to re-segrega…

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S3Ep4 | They're Bricking the Replicants 32:04

4y ago32:04

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Exterminator and Little League soccer ref Jammy Bristol has known hard times. As a young exterminator he lived among a community of mice he'd been hired to slaughter, and watched alongside the rest of the mouse family as the materfamilias was devoured by a red-tailed hawk. But nothing could prepare Bristol for the realization that Covfefe-19 was si…

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S3Ep3 | Bedknobs, Broomsticks and Gun Jugglers 29:20

4y ago29:20

29:20

Famed sharpshooter Nate Drysdale was shopping for ammo at Walmart and summoning to mind scenes of Angela Lansbury fighting Nazis when it hit him: Disney had developed Covfefe-19 as a way to thin out brick-and-mortar retailers to give the company better access to our brainwaves...and our wallets. *** Credits: Alex Kazanas played Nate Drysdale. Alex …

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S3Ep2 | The Vampire Bees of Slickpoo 31:34

4y ago31:34

31:34

Idaho floral artist Phoebe Shoemaker has seen super spreaders close up. Bees buzz around her store all day, drawing color, vibrancy — LIFE — from her flowers. The danger doesn't come from the bees' sting, but from their honey. Or more precisely, Big Honey executives who have infected the world with Covfefe-19 via their sweet, sticky product. *** Cr…

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S3Ep1 | Ramona, Queen of Sexla 29:35

4y ago29:35

29:35

He may have been fired as a top sales associate at Tesla, but Casper Geronimo didn't let that stop his adult film career. In fact, it only enhanced his popularity and gave him a deeper understanding of Elon Musk, who has unleashed Covfefe-19 on this planet as part of a plan to return to his own. *** Credits: Patrick Slevin played Casper Geronimo. P…

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S2Ep12 | Here Catfishy, Fishy, Fishy 30:47

4+ y ago30:47

30:47

In the season finale, Dylan Marshall tells co-hosts Muriel Woland and Clifford Hanger how "Optophobia" producers have been duped by listener Todd Snosh. *** Credits: Liz Sanders played Muriel Woland. Liz performs with Madeline, a Washington Improv Theater house ensemble. Jamal Newman played Clifford Hanger. Jamal performs with Lena Dunham and NIXON…

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S2Ep11 | Ballad of The Thin Guy 35:22

4+ y ago35:22

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When Erica Knudsen inherited a massive thrift store off Highway 11 near Henderson, Nev., she had no idea she’d be immersed in a culture of cryptids, tulpas and creepypastas. But then The Thin Guy, one of her own online creations, came to life and with the help of Deep State legal representation, pursued her for copyright and trademark infringement.…

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S2Ep10 | My Chicken, My Friend 34:09

4+ y ago34:09

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When you grow up on a farm in the Blue Ridge mountains, two things are assured. 1) You’ll become a great swimmer, and 2) You’ll be best friends with a chicken you’ve named after yourself. Charlie (Donna Steele) was no exception, and when she grew up, she took her athletic expertise to the Deep State to train elite American athletes using medieval t…

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S2Ep9 | Mattress King of the Dells 27:12

4+ y ago27:12

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Mike Hightower knows a thing or two about being the best at something. The king of mattress sales in the Wisconsin Dells knows more than just antimicrobial treatments, memory foam gel and edge guards. Hightower knows all about the Deep State's anti-aging technology, developed to train — and keep — experts in various functions within the Constitutio…

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S2Ep8 | Those People...Sure Are Nostalgic 33:37

4+ y ago33:37

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Misa Rose, hand model and owner of West Virginia photography studio Brighter Days, made a startling discovery as she began delivering negatives of her old-timey shoots to the Deep State. Its citizens are psychologically mired in the 19th century, and — seized by nostalgia — long for the days of petticoats, ruffles, flounces, top hats, waistcoats an…

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S2Ep7 | Mary Todd Lincoln's Hands Were Enormous 33:23

4+ y ago33:23

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In 1943, Colonel Leslie R. Groves recruited 2-year-old math whiz kid Henry "Count 'Em Up" Kelly to be part of the Manhattan Project. After going on to help with the reconstruction of Europe at age 5, Kelly found himself in the Deep State (District Mary Todd), where he would eventually become CFO. But a whistleblowing episode got him banished in the…

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S2Ep6 | Don't Forget to Smell the Sexy, Sexy Roses 33:08

4+ y ago33:08

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One of America's pre-eminent asexual philosopher-OB/GYNs, Dr. Bert Flapp fled the life of a Manhattan One Percenter to join Doctors Without Borders. A logistics mixup sent him instead to the Deep State where he spent six years delivering the babies of those who control the U.S. federal government. His agreement to leave included a clause in which h…

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S2Ep5 | Doggie Shitnose 2020 33:13

4+ y ago33:13

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Even Deep State bureaucrats need the occasional morale boost. But after an hour-long, Propofol-nourished elevator ride, employee engagement consultant Vikki Ganders was as surprised as anyone to find herself leading trust fall, rope course and rap circle exercises in the 51st state. *** Credits: Clare Mulligan played Vikki Ganders. Clare performs w…

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S2Ep4 | The Dead Are The Message From Below 30:16

4+ y ago30:16

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Bodies are washing ashore along the banks of the Potomac, each with a mysterious "SUFTDS" painted in red across their chests. Washington News Paper reporter Sacha Miller has a theory: some Deep State residents are sending their children to the surface to save them. But there are others in the Deep State who would do anything to keep those children …

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S2Ep3 | Will Trade Custodian Duties For Ayahuasca 24:41

4+ y ago24:41

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What WOULDN'T you do for family? Like, for instance, your beloved aunt who moved "out west" to live on the land and participate in ayahuasca ceremonies until she ran out of money so had to take a job as a cleaning lady in a vast underground bunker somewhere in maybe southern Wyoming, and some vapors or fumes or just plain soot got in her lungs and …

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S2Ep2 | The Mole People Elite Are the 1% (for mole people) 32:35

4+ y ago32:35

32:35

Martina Kratchlekov has worked in the New York City subway system since she was 16, and along the way she picked up information about its permanent residents: the Mole People. In the 20th century, the elite class of this underground society used parliamentary procedure and ranked-choice voting, according to Kratchlekov. Its leaders have since tunne…

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S2Ep1 | Gisele Bündchen Speaks the Latin of the Pigs 29:52

4+ y ago29:52

29:52

In our Season 2 opener, we meet co-hosts and deep state experts Muriel Woland and Clifford Hanger. Muriel discusses how she came to write the Deep State anthem in exchange for a couple of the Shovelmen's first-born. And Ford remembers an event from his childhood in which Gisele Bündchen saved his parents' marriage. And his foreskin. *** Credits: Li…

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Season 2: "Deep State" | Trailer 3:12

4+ y ago3:12

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The deep state is real. And it’s just that — a 51st state, hidden from the American people and unacknowledged by the federal government, even as it pulls Washington's most important levers. How do you hide an entire state? You bury it. Deep. *** Credits: Produced by Tim Townsend. Theme music by Bart Warshaw. Cover art by Claire Smalley. Website by …

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S1Ep13 | Stonehouse Is Stonestraw? Zero Stars! 37:21

4+ y ago37:21

37:21

In the season finale, we learn the truth about what was really going on at Kagnew Station, and what STONEHOUSE was for. Debra and Hassan have a hard time coming to terms with the hard evidence as it’s presented to them by Victor Sifuentes. *** Credits: Liz Sanders played Debra. Liz performs with Madeline, a Washington Improv Theater house ensemble.…

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S1Ep12 | Olga Shimmers On the Sea 31:34

5y ago31:34

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Terry Timmons was cruise director aboard Shimmer of the Seas, Royal Caribbean's Indian Ocean flagship, in the early 1980s. Each time Timmons and his crewmates began responding to mysterious Russian transmissions — likely from the STONEHOUSE project antennas — they lost consciousness and woke up unharmed in their bunks. *** Credits: Denny Johnson pl…

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S1Ep11 | Bobert's Babylon by Bus 28:40

5y ago28:40

28:40

In 1979 Convoy Jack Lafarge, legendary roadie for psychedelic San Francisco bands of the 1960s, found himself driving the bus for Bob Marley's 1979 tour of Africa. After the Wailers' final show in Addis Ababa, Marley insisted on recording an all-star synth-pop album in a mysterious studio he'd heard about: Kagnew Station. *** Credits: Luke Hennig p…

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S1Ep10 | From Cupcakes to Landscapes to Kagnew 31:12

5y ago31:12

31:12

Cupcake designer Nancy Schwan was playing Scrabble with her boyfriend one romantic evening, when her tiles came up "Kagnew." It happened again the following night, and soon the owner of Nancy's Fancies was obsessed with painting watercolors of beautiful African desert landscapes she'd never seen before. *** Credits: Jenny Koch played Nancy Schwan. …

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S1Ep9 | East is West. Up is Down. Grief is Love. 29:09

5y ago29:09

29:09

What if everything you thought you knew about your orientation on this planet was wrong? Not just wrong, but exactly 180 degrees wrong. Kim Ingram, a talent scout from Mustardton, SC, believes the STONEHOUSE antennas are actually powerful magnets designed by the government to disrupt the way we think about directions, injecting chaos and confusion …

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S1Ep8 | Father's Father Devoured by the Father of Lies 27:51

5y ago27:51

27:51

When Father Richard Thomas’s dad was stationed at Kagnew, he found that STONEHOUSE was concealing a supernatural government discovery: the Gates of Hell. And he succumbed to the Prince of Darkness. When the U.S. Navy officer finally returned to San Diego, his own son was forced to perform a secret exorcism. *** Credits: Mikey Blunschi played Father…

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S1Ep7 | The Danny Boy Killer 33:54

5y ago33:54

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After a traumatic childhood audition for "Oliver!" that blacked out his community theater, Dan Hammer had a feeling someone, or some thing, was controlling the world's electronic grid. Despite his conviction that STONEHOUSE was the cause of every bad thing that happened in his life, Dan persevered with his acting career. And he found love. Tragical…

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S1Ep6 | The Farmer's Almanac Connection 29:34

5y ago29:34

29:34

In 1975, Gary Belt and his brother were stationed at Kagnew when Gary’s brother was beamed in the face with a space laser from the STONEHOUSE antennas. Gary, now a ghost writer at the Farmer’s Almanac, believes the content of his brother’s brain was the first of thousands that STONEHOUSE sucked into a mysterious black box, a massive database we now…

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S1Ep5 | The Groundhogs Are Coming For Our Teeth 30:55

5y ago30:55

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Before Tabitha Walton worked in Warren, Connecticut’s only occult museum, she spent years as a dental hygienist in Washington, DC. It was in the office of Dr. Stephen C. Hopkins, DMD that she discovered a horrifying coincidence: Many of Hopkins’s patients had worked on Kagnew’s STONEHOUSE project. And they were hearing voices. And then their teeth …

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S1Ep4 | The Earthquake That Released the Voice of God 34:12

5y ago34:12

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Librarian Sylvia Brown discusses her research into a mid-1970s north Africa earthquake that unleashed what many have since called "the voice of God." The quake triggered a mass, 48-hour bout of glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, across much of Eritrea. The U.S. government harnessed that energy and still deploys it on Americans today when, for ins…

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S1Ep3 | Cleopatra 2: The Mind Hug 25:11

5y ago25:11

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After starring as Girl With Beach Ball in 1965's "Beach Blanket Bingo" and Girl Near Jukebox in 1973's "American Graffiti," Meredith Crossings found herself on the set of "Cleopatra 2" filming near Kagnew Station. During a night spent under the stars with a herd of goats, Crossings received a mysterious message that ultimately forced her to leave h…

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S1Ep1 | Meet Season One's Co-hosts 31:14

5y ago31:14

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We introduce the show's Season One co-hosts: Hassan Gray, a Verizon Fios sales analyst and host of the "Not My Problem" podcast & Debra, former host of the syndicated radio program "Debra," and author of "I Can't Go for Mind Control (No Can Do): Hall, Oates and the Soviet Roots of Blue-Eyed Soul" available in free-thinking bookstores everywhere. --…

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S1Ep2 | Virginity Lost-and-Found in the Danakil Depression 33:11

5y ago33:11

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Our guest this week, Theodore Kettle, grew up in the privileged world of 1980s international diplomacy. As the son of the UK ambassador in Addis Ababa, Kettle stumbled upon a hard-partying music scene in east Africa's Great Rift Valley, considered the "cradle of humankind," where he lost his virginity to a Russian-speaking beauty named Olga. Or did…

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Introducing: Optophobia 2:43

5y ago2:43

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In 1965, the U.S. Army Security Agency began a secret U.S. intelligence project on a shuttered military base in the Horn of Africa called Kagnew Station. The project — codenamed STONEHOUSE — included two 15-story parabolic antennas that made for optimal for stable military radio communications during the Cold War. Declassified Defense Department do…

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