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Part One: John McAfee Is Not Funny Anymore

Behind the Bastards

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Is There a Good Place in Denton?

McAfee started doing cocaine every morning, drinking a bottle of hard liquor every day. By 1983, he was director of engineering at a company called Omex and selling cocaine to his employees. In Santa Clara in 1983, this might have made him one of the less wild middle managers in the country. "Would I have loved to just have one day at a job where everybody was just doing cocaine," McAfee says.

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