a crashed flying saucer.

- Holy (bleep).

(theme music)

- Good day to you, my friends.

My name is Duncan Trussell

and today, we're gonna talk about Timothy Leary.

- I have a quick question I wanna ask you.

How much is acid?

Okay.

There's my answer.

- Well, it should be free.

(Derek laughs)

- So, Timothy Leary was a professor at Harvard

and he starts doing these amazing experiments with LSD.

So, Timothy Leary

starts announcing to the world,

"There's no reason that you have to go to war

"and kill people you don't know.

"We're all one thing, man.

"I've learned this from this chemical.

"Tune in, turn on, drop out."

Nixon was president.

So Richard Nixon said,

"Timothy Leary must be stopped."

Like, they wanted him in jail.

They're psychopaths!

You're dealing with a psych--

You're dealing with like lunatics.

Okay, so Timothy Leary is in Laguna Beach,

gets pulled over by a cop, they plant joints on him.

The cop is like,

"Oh yeah, we found two roaches in your (bleep) car."

So Leary's like,

"Really?

"You're gonna arrest me for this?

"That's who you are?

"You asshole!"

So he got put in jail

and the sentence is 30 years.

He goes to prison in San Luis Obisbal...

Obispo.

San Luis Obisbal.

(laughs)

I can't sit up.

So Leary is in prison, sitting in his bunk

thinking to himself,

"Why am I in prison?

"I'm in prison 'cause of some backwards bullshit,

"narcicisstic (bleep) government

"that we're supposed to act like is the way things work

"in this shit game we call the United States."

So he starts planning an escape.

So like, he made friends with the people

who've been in prison the longest.

They tell him like,

"Well, there's a cable that runs over the prison.

"That, if someone had the guts, they could crawl across

"that wire and probably get free

"and that's how you get out of here, baby."

- Calling him baby?

- Yeah.

Okay, so he meets every Sunday with his wife, Rosemary,

and he's like,

"I love you.

"You're amazing, you're beautiful,

"I want to get out of prison so let's raise some money

"and figure out a way for someone to get me

"the (bleep) out of this shit hole."

Rosemary raised $23,000, gave it to the Weather Underground.

So the Weather Underground is a group of activist students.

They were like,

"Listen, if you really want to get out of this prison,

"do it in late September

"because that's when the fogs come."

And so he waits.

And he starts working out.

So Timothy Leary was like, playing handball,

sit ups, working out in the day.

Timothy Leary's playing handball,

doing (bleep) bench presses, sit ups, getting ripped.

So on September 12th, 1970,

it's foggy, it's the perfect time to escape.

So Dr. Timothy Leary decided,

"All right, I'm going to get the (bleep)

'out of this stupid shit hole."

(dramatic music)

So he creeps out of his cell.

He gets out of there, goes out into the hallway,

and he looks around the hall.

So he sneaks around into a doorway

that opens up to the prison yard.

He runs across the prison yard in the dead of the night,

he avoids the lights, and climbs up a tree.

He climbs up a tree.

And he's like on the rooftop, like a squirrel.

Runs over the roof.

And there's a wire.

So he gets to the cable, he begins to climb

across the cable.

So he's hanging--

really think about this, man!

This is Galileo!

This is one of the smartest people that ever lived.

This is one of the smartest of us.

- I'm with you.

- All right.

So, halfway through the cable, he thinks to himself,

"I'm out of energy.

"They're gonna poke me out here like a (bleep)

"sloth in a tree with a stick.

"I'm gonna die."

And then he found something deep inside.

Some reservoir of energy and he's like,

"No, I'm gonna keep moving and I'm gonna climb

"across this (bleep) cable."

And that's what he did.

Climbed across the cable, dropped down.

So Leary's running down the (bleep) road.

Half mile, he's been training for this.

Rocky Balbo--

(stutters)

(stammers) (laughter)

- [Derek] Now you have to say it.

- He's Rocky Balboa.

He's running down the street.

Van pulls up,

it's the Weather Underground and they're like,

(laughs)

"Let's go to Algeria, you idiot."

(laughs)

So, they capture him again.

He gets sentenced to Folsom.

And then Governor Jerry Brown gets him a pardon.

He leaves a free man.

He went to jail for nothing.

He was in prison 'cause he was too smart.

If being smart was illegal, we would be in the best

planet on earth.

Being smart is not illegal.

Being dumb

is legal.

- What are your dogs' names?

- This is Fox and that's Gatsby.

It's ruining everything.

I knew they would.

- I thought they were being locked away in the basement?

- Well they got out.

They escaped.

My (bleep) dogs escaped!

- Hello.

Today we're gonna be talking about

the Roswell UFO crash of 1947.

(laughs)

So Mac Brazel, a foreman for a sheep rancher,

he sees some metallic

pieces laying upon his acreage.

He's like,

"Well this is very interesting.

"I mean, what the ding dong could this really be?

"There are some things going on on this ranch

"that defy human explanation."

So immediately, he contacts a local Army Air Force base,

they sent out a guy named Major Jesse Marcel.

A very decorated, very smart individual.

The Major Jesse Marcel's like,

"Well this is not from us.

"This is not from the Air Force.

"This is not from

"a crashed airplane.

"This is not crash from satellites.

"This must be alien."

So Major Jesse Marcel contacts the local paper and says,

"We have discovered

"a crashed flying saucer."

Holy (bleep).

In the newspaper, they actually put

the military has recovered alien space crass--

spacecraft that has crashed with wreckage.

The Pentagon is freaking out.

So they're basically saying,

"Oh, Jesus Christ.

"Project Mogul, you know that thing we're doing?

"The

"balloon that we're testing with microphones,

"trying to detect

"Russian nuclear activity?

"Our top secret project has crashed on a sheep rancher's

"property, man."

This was the most

top secret

project going on at the time.

And Project Mogul was

a weather balloon, atmospheric craft

that was going to detect sound of a nuclear

test going on

with nuclear weapons.

All of a sudden, the Pentagon,

they are swarming the area.

They're cornering off the whole area,

they're picking up debris.

The Pentagon kept the Air Force in the dark

about this whole thing.

So Major Jesse Marcel said,

"We are in the midst of a huge coverup.

"Holy (bleep), this is crazy."

Which, for the Pentagon, is exactly what they wanted.

Secret military, alien.

The perfect smokescreen.

Years go on and on and

no one gave a (bleep).

The local town people sort of forgot about it

and it wasn't a big deal.

They're like,

"Oh yeah, well we're not really sure what happened,"

blah, blah, blah, everyone forgot about it.

Until 1978.

Jesse Marcel, now a very aging man calls up

famed UFOlogist, Stanton T. Friedman.

I need to tell you a bit of a story.

It's the story of the Roswell UFO crash.

Stanton Friedman's like,

"I'm all ears.

"Give me the juice.

"Give me the juice that I so desire."

Sorry, I'm lost.

- We were talking about Roswell.

(laughs)

- And yeah.

(laughs)

So Stanton Friedman flies down there

from northern California and is just like,

"I'm loving this, this is a great situation."

Marcel, he gives him the whole Roswell spiel.

Stanton Friedman hears all about this and so he's like,

"Paydirt.

"Eureka, I am going to write

"a book."

And write a book, he does.

He writes a best seller.

Roswell, now, which had been forgotten about

for 30 years, becomes a huge deal.

And thus is born a whole new generation of UFOlogists.

It must be an alien spacecraft

from another planet.

Capiche?

- [Derek] Capiche.

- In 1995, citizens kept on writing in saying,

"Can you please tell us what happened with Roswell?"

So the Pentagon says,

"All right, you deserve to know.

"We will release all the Freedom of Information Act,"

FOIA documents, they do so,

and the whole story about Project Mogul comes out.

The reality of the situation is is that

extraterrestrial beings from another planet

did not crash in the desert of Roswell, New Mexico.

And you know, now today, Roswell the town

refuses to acknowledge Project Mogul.

So they are the ones projecting the UFO angle

with all this stuff.

Well this is

kind of a rendition of the typical pleiadians gray alien.

He's got the teardrop, almond eyes,

the nose with the limited slits, and then the mouth.

- How much did you pay for this thing?

- $450.

- [Derek] Jesus. - I got a good deal.

- They saw you coming.

They didn't show you the back part until you left?

- I didn't see that until I got home

and yeah, I did feel like quite a heel for that.

- Hey, now.

My name is Lucius Dillon and today,