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I want to set the scene for you. It's 1995. You're flipping through the back pages of Popular Science magazine. you're flipping past, like, the glossy features on flying cars and underwater cities, and you hit that bizarre, bizarre in the back, the black-and-white mail-order ad blocks. Tiny, cramped text just packed with the most impossible promises. It was a very specific era of media. You'd have advertisements for x-ray spectacles sitting literally right next to schematics for building a homemade hovercraft out of a vacuum cleaner motor. And right in the middle of all that chaotic noise, there was...
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This is the ReadMultiplex.com podcast, and this is an examination of something that many folks may think has to be a joke, yet there is research and experience to back it up. You will only find content like this from Brian Rommel. This is supported by you, so if you get value from this or other postings, become a member or buy him a coffee.
So I want to take you back to 1995. Just picture yourself flipping through the back pages of a magazine oh yeah like popular science or Omni magazine exactly Omni we all know that specific section in the back it's this chaotic bizarre of tiny cramped black-and-white mail order ad blocks the absolute bottom-feeding tier of consumer
marketing right exactly you've got schematics for building hovercrafts out of lawnmower parts sitting right next to x-ray specs and nestled right in the middle of this frantic visual noise is a full-page spread for something called the Zygon Supermind Brainwave Synchronizer.
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