In which we embark on the longest, strangest trip (episode) in PPM's nascent history thus far. Sub to the PPM Patreon to access all FIVE WHOPPING HOURS of this first installment in the companion miniseries to the Potash interview & the thorough index:

Inside, you'll find a mammoth primary & secondary source assemblage which begins our construction of a deep history of the Columbia Uprising in '68, Students for a Democratic Society, the anti-war movement, the NYC activist milieu, Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the Watts Rebellion & black urban insurgents in LA, various Black Panther & Black Panther in Exile party members, and the eventual militant SDS splinter group known as the Weather Underground...

Zeroing in on all of said groups’ targeting by American intel, COINTELPRO FBI informants, Johnny Acid-seeds, & MHChaos Agents... Not to mention the Grateful Dead's sound warlock & psych alchemist Owsley, who was perhaps responsible for more lasting brain damage among the '60s counterculture than any other singular person. He's closely tailed in the record books by Sasha Shulgin, that is, the Father of MDMA & a fellow synthetic drugs proselytizer, whose relationship w/ Owsley we'll peel back in some detail.

(Full notes & index on Patreon).

This first, "MHCHAOS Agents..." heroic dose and the following are built upon a lattice of excerpts from:

John Potash - Drugs As Weapons Against Us
David McGowan - Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon
Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain - Acid Dreams
Mark Rudd - Underground: My Life with SDS & Weatherman
Tom O'Neill - CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, & the Secret History of the ‘60s
Peter Richardson - No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
Ron Hahne, Ben Morea - Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker
and more, including a proverbial bibliotheca of pharmacological research papers, Rolling Stone profiles, STP Family forum postings, New Yorker articles, and a shit ton besides.

Tracks & Clips:

| The Monks - "Monks Chant" |

| The Youngbloods - "Get Together" |

| Audio from Merry Prankster Further Bus Tour |

| Jerry Garcia Interview ('80s) |

| Owsley talks about the Watts Acid Test & Synesthesia |

| Malcolm X on the Harlem "Riots" & Police Brutality |

| Watts Rebellion Newscast - Today in History |

| Watts Rebellion, "Los Angeles After the Rioting" |

| Columbia Revolt - Reel America |

| Bernadine Dohrn on the Fred Hampton Assassination |

| Richard Peel and the Lower East Side - "Up Against the Wall |

| "Crisis in the Crowd" documentary program on the Haigh-Ashbury Free Clinic |

| 1968 HAFMC news program including interview w/ Dr. David Smith |

| Altamont Free Concert - Death of Meredith Hunter scenes from "Gimme Shelter" |

| The Flying Burrito Bros. - "Six Days on the Road" (Live at Altamont) |

| "Anti-war Demonstrators Storm Pentagon" Broadcast |

| Los Barbudos - "The Bearded Men" (Cuban Communist Banger) |