[PREVIEW] Episode 567: Bombs in Papua

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
And Robert Gardner, who's just another great filmmaker, but like a very New England kind of blue blood elite. And they go in and make, Matheson writes a book, and Gardner and Rockefeller create this documentary about the Daini people and tribal warfare. But this is the same time that Freeport are moving in, and American policy is shifting radically towards supporting Succano, which is just a little strange and a little at odds.

**Kristo Langker** (0:41)
I mean, isn't the general theory too with Michael Rockefeller's disappearances, not the general theory, but like the sort of conspiracy theory, I guess, that he like joined the tribesmen and like he went native?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:55)
I mean, I've heard stuff that like, yeah, he was gay, and there's a lot of like certain tribes and stuff that have some homosexual like, you know, I've never heard that.

**Kristo Langker** (1:11)
He was like, he got there, he's like, this is like Provincetown, I love it here.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:17)
That's like the OG going native, though.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:19)
That's what I've heard that from people. I haven't heard that, like I've heard that from people. So I don't know how reliable it is, like just in conversation.

**Kristo Langker** (1:30)
They're like, oh, yeah, he was, he got, he went out with some gay tribe.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:34)
Yeah, he was like gay and was like, this is fucking awesome. Everyone is gay here. This rocks. I'm standing here.

**Kristo Langker** (1:40)
It would be awesome if you were a gay guy in like the 60s and you're like, fuck, I can't do, can't do this back home in Chicago or whatever. And you're like, you get out to some other, some country that you're obsessed with.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:51)
Literally a tropical island.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:53)
You're like, yeah.

**Kristo Langker** (1:53)
You're like, all your Orientalist fantasies just come true.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:58)
Yeah, you're literally a gay art collector and you go and find amazing art and all the artists are gay as well. Like it's fantastic, right?

**SPEAKER_3** (2:06)
Wow.

**Kristo Langker** (2:06)
And they don't even, yeah, that's awesome. But yeah, there's supposed to be like this, it's like Bigfoot style footage of like, look, there's a white man on this raft and it's supposed to be Michael Rockefeller like several years after his disappearance.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:19)
And he's like, you know, it's like a big dance party.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:22)
No one talks about that. Yeah, it's on a, no, no, no.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:24)
Donna Summer is playing for some reason, YMCA, doing the whole thing.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:32)
Yeah.