Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 616: The Montauk Project Part II - Livin' in the Future
Fri, 18 Apr 2025
We have to go back… Strap in because this week the boys are heading back into the ole’ time tunnel for the mind-bending story of a body-swapping time-traveling psychic named Duncan Cameron, we learn the story behind The Beast of Montauk, and the grand conclusion to The Montauk Project. For Live Shows, Merch, and More Visit: www.LastPodcastOnTheLeft.comKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Last Podcast on the Left ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.
Chapter 1: What is the Montauk Project and its connection to the Philadelphia Experiment?
I'll take your little boy from Montauk.
That's it. We're here. We're here for the conclusion. The Montauk Project. So when we last left the grand epic that is the Montauk Project, electrical engineer Preston Nichols, ostensibly the most interesting person in history if you believe his stories, Preston had just helped with the construction of a psychic amplification device called the Montauk Chair.
Built using reverse-engineered alien technology, the Montauk chair was used in its infancy to manipulate the emotions of various kids kidnapped from around Long Island by the regalian gray aliens for use and experience. Those are the Montauk boys. Yes. And they would be experimented upon by being bombarded with radio waves, UHF waves, and microwaves.
It's always important to reheat your boy before getting around messing with him.
The Montauk chair, also known as the crazy boy.
Funny enough. Funny enough.
Thank you.
That is my whole thing.
But as it went with many experiments in the Montauk project, the scientists working on the Montauk chair continually failed upward. And they began to realize that the Montauk chair could be used for far more incredible purpose than just torturing kidnapped boys.
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Chapter 2: Who are Duncan Cameron and Ed Cameron in the Montauk Project story?
Problem was, though, couldn't just use any old Montauk boy for such an incredible task. To truly unlock the potential of the Montauk chair, the Montauk Project needed a powerful psychic. Someone whose abilities went far beyond that of your average Long Island boy.
The psychic they found, who eventually became one of the other Montauk Project whistleblowers right alongside scientist Preston Nichols, he was also the man who supposedly helped unlock the time travel possibilities of the Montauk chair. This incredibly unique creature was named Duncan Cameron.
Yes, I've watched several long talks of Al Bialik, Preston Nichols, and Duncan Cameron talking. And you know what I have now discovered? You know what I've realized who Duncan Cameron is to all of them? Who? He's their French steward. He is a man that doesn't know that he is... You know how goofy neighbors nowadays, they'd all be diagnosed with various syndromes? Yes. He's one of those. Gotcha.
You know, I don't get all the hate for French Stewart. I thought he was delightful. This is wonderful.
This is just a neutral comparison. Do people have hate for French Stewart?
Yes. Really?
Yes. He's great. Yeah, very kind. People have an outdated understanding of the wacky best friend, and they don't understand that that used to be a super important part of all comedy. And French Stewart was great at that, but also that was the only thing he could do. This is a bazinga-based economy. And that is what he was pinning him on. I like the guy from the Drew Carey show. We all do.
Yeah, he's got Ryan Stiles. No, no, no, he was the normal one, the idiot. We're lost here now. We are absolutely fucked.
This is the most confused that we have been in the episode we're about to try to figure out. Use the goofy name. We're going to be talking about adults turning into babies. We can't do this here.
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Chapter 3: How did time travel and body swapping play a role in the Montauk Project?
The Philadelphia Experiment occurred in the year 1943, which placed Duncan's birth date somewhere in the 1910s, although that, like many things in Duncan's story, is vague.
Duncan Cameron also likes to dress like a small-town choreographer. He dresses the most turtlenecks I've ever seen in Long Island. And he wears a beret.
He is, like I said, a very unique character.
He really is. I think in the future, we're going to see a lot of turtlenecks because so many people are getting neck tattoos. Yes, and they're really upset. And they're getting a little loosey-goosey with these neck tattoos. And I think we're going to see an influx in turtlenecks, so invest now.
Hey, or, totally opposite, neck removal surgery. Whoa!
Chin to shoulders. Could be.
Boulderhead could be the new sign of wealth.
Now, Duncan was not the only member of his family involved in the Philadelphia Experiment or the Montauk Project. But Duncan did not begin his career in the world of high strangeness as a psychic. Psychic, of course, is the role that he played in the Montauk Project. Duncan Cameron actually began in the world of science with his brother, Ed Cameron.
Ed was also supposedly born in the early 20th century. Ed was also apparently the brains of the family, having supposedly earned his undergrad degree at Princeton and a PhD from Harvard.
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Chapter 4: What is the Montauk Chair and its psychic amplification abilities?
This is where the Tesla coils that created the electromagnetic fields that were supposed to make the USS Alger's radar invisible were kept. But, as we know, the experiment went terribly awry. Because Nikola Tesla purposely changed the shape of the coil so that they'd go the wrong way.
Well, and that's the other thing, too, is that Nikola Tesla was also dead for about eight months when the Philadelphia experiment occurred.
Not according to my research. Time travel.
He was doubled.
He was doubled. Eight months?
Yeah, that's it. That's all you need. All right. I don't know why there's a, like, I think it has to be like 16 years. I guess you could technically travel, time travel two weeks. October. It is cold in October.
Now because the Camerons were down in the bowels behind all those layers of steel and iron, they were supposedly protected from the horrible side effects that occurred when the USS Eldridge jumped through time and space. Side effects like finding your body fused to the ship's hull, or going insane from being exposed to the energies of another universe.
But as we said on the first episode, the Philadelphia experiment didn't end even after the disasters of the initial test, because after all, they hadn't reached their actual goal of radar invisibility. So when the second test was conducted to give it another shot, Duncan and Ed Cameron were once again on board.
We just figured we were there for the first trip. We might as well be there for the second. Is that right, brother? Yeah, it's not like we'll get fused to the ship. But hopefully, brother, maybe we can be fused. Penis to butt. And finally, I can forever be inside of you. I mean, if we're not fused together, we could do it over and over again. No, that makes it gay.
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Chapter 5: How did Duncan Cameron's psychic powers influence the Montauk Project experiments?
Thank you, Mr. Von Neumann. I mean, Dr. Van Neumann, because you didn't go to nine years of Neumann school to be Mr. Van Neumann.
Teach me how to soak my brother.
I'll fuck you inside your belly.
Supposedly, on this second test, everything was going just fine for the first five minutes. But when the ship vanished from sight once again, the Cameron brothers could tell that something wasn't right going off how the other crew members were being affected by the electromagnetic energies.
Very good.
Is there a problem? I talked to Ryan Coogler this week.
Did you tell him that you come with shit? Off mic.
In an attempt to reverse the damage, the Cameron brothers tried shutting down the generators and the transmitters, but the effects weren't slowing down. Faced with seemingly no other choice, the Cameron brothers finally decided to abandon ship to save themselves. Come, brother. Jump out of my lap.
I'm already there.
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Chapter 6: What are the consequences Duncan Cameron faced from using the Montauk Chair?
Unfortunately, we're going to have to do your space colonoscopy because you've actually passed the age for it. We're going to have to do it.
According to what Ed and Duncan Cameron learned, the United States had been utterly changed by rising sea levels by the year 2137, and California in particular had been almost entirely swallowed by the sea. The Cameron brothers also had no idea of how they could return to the year 1943.
But after four weeks of recovery, Ed and Duncan were wandering the hospital grounds when Ed suddenly disappeared. He had no idea how or why, but he soon found himself even further in the future when he landed in the year 2749!
And there's still TV! What the fuck?
Huh? Well, Ed decided he might as well make the most of it. So he made a life in the year 2749 as a tour guide in, I assume, a museum of some sort, where he likely told his personal experiences of mid-20th century America throughout his two years living in the 28th century. Oh my God, you're so fucking cute. Can you explain to me how refrigerators work?
I only know chairs. Oh my God. Your ignorance is so fucking hot. He's so from the year 1943. I'm going to fucking, my fake two pussies are starting to kiss. This is an air on chair. That's a chair, a wooden chair. Excuse me. I have to put on my pleasure butthole.
All right. Well, make sure that you get it on the chair. It's a screw up. That's a bed. I don't know anything about that.
Now, according to Ed, the America of 2749 was a society of floating cities built with anti-gravity technology. I guess because all the water everywhere. Yeah. And civilization was run by computers called wing makers.
Good fake name.
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Chapter 7: How did the Montauk Project allegedly influence paranormal events like the Amityville Horror?
Chapter 8: What was the role of Al Bielek and the continuation of the Montauk Project timeline?
He was a Ralph Lauren fan? Yes, if he could have gotten the jackets and the cool hat.
Or Hugo Boss. It's all the same. No, it's not.
Now, after Ed Cameron earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1939, he was supposedly recruited by the Navy along with his brother, Duncan. Although the reasons behind Duncan Cameron's recruitment are, again, very vague.
It's because wherever he goes, I go. I'm his shadow. And you follow me and I follow you, my sweet, sweet, smart, smart brother.
I'm the dramatic one.
But before long, Dr. Von Neumann recruited both Ed and Duncan Cameron into Project Rainbow, which meant that the Cameron brothers were soon on assignment working in the bowels of the USS Eldridge as a part of the Philadelphia Experiment. So we're in 1943 right now. Okay. Working deep inside the ship, the Cameron brothers were assigned to the control room.
This is where the Tesla coils that created the electromagnetic fields that were supposed to make the USS Alger's radar invisible were kept. But, as we know, the experiment went terribly awry. Because Nikola Tesla purposely changed the shape of the coil so that they'd go the wrong way.
Well, and that's the other thing, too, is that Nikola Tesla was also dead for about eight months when the Philadelphia experiment occurred.
Not according to my research. Time travel.
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