Joseph Matheny

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The Why Files: Operation Podcast · The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

And then, you know, and I would get money to go to garage sales and,

and just pick up whatever and so in my age i'm old i'm 64 years old so like in the 60s and 70s when i was growing up horror and the occult was very popular and so um i was big on the universal monsters the hammer films like all that kind of stuff anything to do with that i was reading

So this is a funny segue.

I'm at a garage sale and I'm like, the guy says, you can have all the books on the table for a dollar, but you got to pack them up and get out of here because I'm done.

I'm like grabbing everything I thought was worth it.

And one of the books was like, oh, that's about astrology.

And I just threw it in the bag.

I get home, I start reading, and I'm like, this is not astrology at all, but it was Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.

Oh.

That's how I get introduced to Henry Miller.

Wow, okay.

By thinking it was astrology.

Oops.

How old were you?

Oh, God.

12?

I'm like, God, I want to do this, like, the way this guy writes, you know?

And so, like, that was my gateway drug.

From there, I segued into Kerouac and, you know, everything from there.

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