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 Bob was on his way, which was weird.

Yep.

So that's the Bob story, and that's the Phil story, because as I often say, what pushed me onto that trip, that weird trip, was Philip K. Dick and Valis, which was started by Bob, his book.

Like, and I don't know why that stuck.

It's like Valis.

I didn't, I knew nothing about it, what it was about nothing other than Bob said it was weird and it must really be weird.

Cause I'm reading this book and it's really weird, you know?

So I wanted to, I really wanted to know what that was about.

And, um, it was a virus.

It really was.

I read that.

I read Valis and it just absolutely threw me for a loop, but I don't mean in a bad way.

I mean,

I tell people this a lot of times, and some people understand it, some don't.

But a breakthrough is necessarily preceded by a breakdown.

You have to break down before you can break through.

Sure.

Right?

And I needed a breakdown at the time.

Like I was a little too rigid in some things.

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