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

All this stuff, like I started seeing signs, you know, like Bob Wilson said in Cosmic Trigger, he said he was playing Bavarian TV where he would flip the channels and then he would get sentences.

Yes.

He's like, I'm like Phil K. Dick, the fucking TV's talking to me.

So, you know, like he would do that.

Yeah, yeah.

And so I started having these experiences that I couldn't turn off.

And I was like, what's going on?

And so I started getting – I was buying weird pamphlets, any weird pamphlet I could get my hands on.

And so I got this weird magazine that was being published out of Berkeley called Mondo – or at the time it was called High Frontiers.

It was a Xerox art.

And I found out about them through Xerox art stuff.

And I sent away and I got the pamphlet.

And it was all this stuff about Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson.

I was like, what is this?

It was like it became onto 2000.

It was this whole culture that eventually became the internet.

I mean, they really did.

They were wired before wired.

And they knew the Wired people, actually.

So I'm having all these things pop up, like Berkeley, California, North East Bay, Bay Area, California, in my face.

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