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Coast to Coast - November 17 2017 - Sixties Cultural Revolution
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DATE: Friday - November 17, 2017
HOST: George Noory
GUESTS: Howard Bloom, Open Lines
Author and researcher Howard Bloom (photos) joined George Noory to discuss his
book, How I Accidentally Started the Sixties, which chronicles Bloom's memorable
experiences with personalities of the era, and his integral involvement in many
of the cultural changes that happened during that period. Bloom revealed the
book was written during a period of his life when he suffered from chronic
fatigue syndrome and was bedridden for 15 years. "For five of those years I was
too weak to talk and too weak to have another person in the room with me... it
was sheer hell," he said, noting it destroyed his 34-year marriage.
Bloom explained he was on a spiritual journey in the early 1960s, traveling
(barefoot) to San Francisco to find his heroes, the beatniks, in the City Lights
Bookstore. When they were nowhere to be found, Bloom embarked on a series of
adventures involving drug experimentation and questing for Zen Buddhist satori,
and eventually a group of like-minded individuals sprung up around him.
According to Bloom, TIME Magazine dubbed his group the hippie movement. "I
"I think there is a spiritual dimension to the Sixties that the other decades
simply didn't have," Bloom continued. He spoke about his creation of a field of
study called Omnology, which teaches people to give themselves permission to be
promiscuously curious. Bloom encouraged listeners to experience the extremes of
human emotion, begin adventures now without delay, and follow their curiosities.
"They are a gift not just to you but to the human race," he said.
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At the beginning of the third hour, George had an exclusive interview with the
former casino host for Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock. Identified only as
John, he described his job as a handler for high rollers. "We basically make
anything within reason... happen for them that will entice them to keep coming
in," he said. John described Paddock as astute, intelligent, quiet, and
antisocial, and revealed he played 700 to 1000 hands of electronic poker per
hour with high-denomination bets.
According to John, he provided VIP services for Paddock for a few years and
never saw anything that would lead him to believe he could commit such an
atrocity, though he noted how horribly he treated people. "He [treated] me like
I'm worthless... these people to him were, they weren't even worth throw away
cards to him," he said. Shooting these people may have provided a rush he
couldn't find in gambling, John suggested.
The final 90 minutes of the program featured Open Lines.
News segment guests: Jerome Corsi / Dr. John Curtis / Peter Davenport
WEBSITE(S):
HowardBloom.net
BOOK(S):
How I Accidentally Started the Sixties
The God Problem
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