Screaming Reverberations Podcast

Screaming Reverberations Podcast - Episode 01: The Beach Boys, Manson & the Mafia - Part 3b (Pynchon/Watts)

In the latest installment of our on-going examination of Inherent Vice and Vineland, Frankie and Geena read and tackle Thomas Pynchon's illuminating 1966 New York Times article "A Journey into the Mind of Watts"; join us as we constellate Watts, Evelle Younger, and the beginnings of Black radicalism in Los Angeles, and start answering what all of this means for Inherent Vice and Pynchon in general.Texts cited:Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon"A Journey Into the Mind of Watts" - Thomas Pynchon

Screaming Reverberations - Season 01 Episode 01 Part 3a: The Beach Boys, Manson & the Mafia

Join Geena and Frankie for the first part in an examination of a figure long under-examined in the sphere of parapolitics: Evelle Younger. The story of a man who rose from Nebraska farmboy into the FBI, the OSS, before marrying into a California legal dynasty and roaming the halls of California power. With multiple digressions along the way examining: FBI fumbles, Imperial Japan, narcotics, reality TV, Christian Identity theology, and more!
Works cited:Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
"Evelle Younger- A Lifetime in Law Enforcement", part of UCLA's "Governmental History Documentation Project- Ronald Reagan Era"
"Mildred Younger- Inside and Outside Government and Politics, 1929-1980", part of UC Berkeley's "Women In Politics Oral History Project"
The Voice, issue of 9/11/1941, "Bridges Turns Tables; Spies on FBI Wiretappers"
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
"1940 Japan-America Student Conference Diary" by James E Halsema, University of Kansas, Publications for the Center for East Asian Studies
The Independent Press Telegram, issue of 6/6/1954, "The Strange Case of Hazel Younger and Her Campaign That Isn't"
Various other Los Angeles-area newspaper articles regarding Hazel Younger, all from April-June of 1954
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Screaming Reverberations - Season 01 Episode 01 Part 2: The Beach Boys, Manson & the Mafia

In this second installment of our series detailing the connections between Thomas Pynchon's "California Trilogy" and the Manson Family, Frankie and Geena move away from Manson and into the Cielo Drive house, where we sort through Tom O'Neill's criss-crossing stories of Reeve Whitson, Charles Tacot, and Lt. Col. Paul Tate, and try to add more to his checkered telling of these stories. From there, we move into Paul Tate's connections to cutting-edge information technology, Curtis LeMay, John K Singlaub, and the shadowy plots of the American Security Council, and the LAPD's PDID. Join us and find out what all of this and more means in relation to Doc Sportello and Zoyd Wheeler's bad trips.
Trigger warning time stamp: 0:12:53 - 0:14:27 & 0:22:50 - 0:25:30.
Texts discussed:Inherent ViceVinelandTexts cited:Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon, 2009CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, Tom O'Neill, 2019The Family, Ed Sanders, both editionsSharon Tate: A Life, Ed Sanders and Rick Veitch, 2014Manson in His Own Words, Nuel Emmons, 1986Restless Souls: The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice,Alisa Stratman and Brie TateTeam Lotus: The Indianapolis Years, Andrew Ferguson, 1996A Strange and Wild Place, Lady Sandra Macpherson Glentruim, 2004Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party, Russ Bellant, 1991Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, Sara Diamond, 1995A Partial History of "the List", Linecook, (2020? - digital document, publication uncertain)"Fear and Loathing in the American Security Council Parts 1-4", Steven Snyder, Visupview.blogspot.comDeep Politics and the Death of JFK, Peter Dale Scott, 1993The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond, Peter Dale Scott, 1976The Farm podcast's WACL and Albacore series by Steven Snyder, et. al.Dig Infinity: The Life and Art of Lord Buckley, Oliver Trager, 2002Has Corrine Been a Good Girl?, Corrine Calvet, 1983Various articles on Chicago from Andrea Nolen's blog (andreanolen.com)
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Screaming Reverberations - Season 01 Episode 01 Part 1: The Beach Boys, Manson & the Mafia

Our first episode in this examination of Pynchon's "California trilogy" focuses on Inherent Vice's myriad links to the Beach Boys and the Manson murders, with the Mafia lurking dimly in the corners. Frankie and Geena examine Pynchon's connections to the LA rock scene of the 60s, the pervasive and weird influence of surf culture, and the ways the Manson family sneak and creepy-crawl their way into the foreground of our reading of the trilogy.
Texts Cited:Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (2009)Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties - Tom O'Neill (2019)"Dennis Wilson: I Live with 17 Girls" from the RECORD MIRROR - David Griffiths (1968/12/21)The Family: The Life and Crimes of Charles Manson and his Followers - Ed Sanders (2023)The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion - Ed Sanders (1971)Heroes & Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys - Steven Gaines (1986)Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson - Jeff Guinn (2013)Manson: The Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family - John Gilmore (2000)Manson in His Own Words - [as told to] Nuel Emmons (1986)RefleXion - Lynette Fromme (2018)
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Screaming Reverberations - Episode 00

Welcome to the debut of Screaming Reverberations. In our introductory episode, we discuss what the show is not, what it will be, our goals in making this thing, and the novels and themes we will explore in the immediate upcoming episodes. We also go over (hopefully) helpful advice about tackling the work of Pynchon and explain our Doc Sportello-inspired "paranoid" approach to excavating it.
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