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Episode 513: Jack Parsons Part II - A Two Edged Sword

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Clifton's Cafeteria - The Greatest Sci-Fi Minds of Their Generation

After Parsons became the star witness that put the car bomber behind bars, he dropped by Clifford Clinton's cafeteria where he found the greatest sci-fi minds of their generation just hanging out. L. Ron Hubbard may have never learned what he needed to learn in order to eventually create Scientology if it weren't for those meetings at Clifton's. Jack Parsons will be emolliated like so much rocket fuel on his way to magical purity. The problem is with every genius is that they're absolved to the Godhead. While the artists who must decipher a genius works. They live on and on and on to smoke parliaments in space.

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