Chris Williamson is the host of the “Modern Wisdom” podcast. See him live on select dates throughout the United Kingdom. 

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Mentioned Books

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
“I think they just wanted to get as many people in as possible And now they're trying to mitigate the chaos that it's causing why would they want as many people in as possible It's a bunch of different possibilities for why they want that cheap labor is a one that people believe”
The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman

this is worse than fanfiction. i like it.

“And by giving it to her, I think, is the beginning of him working his way into that camp. And then he goes on to write the book, The Lives of John Lennon, which after he's dead kind of explodes a lot of what was going on. Personally, whether it's true or not, there's a lot of drama and fewer around it.”
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible r…

“This is what's going to happen next. I can't wait. I can't wait for this new business that's going to go up and it never happens. Well, you were around when the secret was a big movie and a bunch of people really believed that they could just sort of manifest their life by thinking about it. Yes. That was a…”
Wired by Bob Woodward

An investigative reporter chronicles the offstage life of John Belushi as he rose to popularity and concurrently developed a drug habit that he could not control.

“Did I ever tell you what Bill Murray said on the podcast? So, Bill Murray was reading Bob Woodward's book, Wired. And he said, he got through like five pages, he said, oh my god, they framed Nixon.”