1:44:01 And finally, it took six months and just unbelievable things I learned. I studied everything I could about this cult trying to find out if Westerners were involved for instance, I heard about some Italians, I flew over to Italy and I found them physically met them and went to one of their homes and that sort of thing. I infiltrated one of the cults in California there was some in California had lived with him but Before all that I tracked the first one, the first American down in Texas. He's from Texas he was from Houston his dad was an army officer in World War II and Papua New Guinea And anyway actually his super great grandfather was the one who brought Methodism to Texas
1:44:41 in the early 1800s. Wow! Anyway, so he read a book his name was Gary Stevenson The American Cannibal He read a book when he was 15 years old and had polio on hi left leg and it shriveled his leg right? He got that in 1952 in June there was a major outbreak of polio that year and the two worst places were Houston and Los Angeles, he was in Houston. And he got polio it came from a nice family most of the polio victims actually came from nice families they weren't the poor Irish kids that sort of thing they were actually people like Gary who came from very wealthy family So Gary Stevenson tried to heal his leg and he started reading all sorts of books on diet. He read a book called Autobiography of A Yogi, which was the same book that Steve Jobs
1:45:28 said that he read every year of his life since he was 19 years old and gave away hundreds at his funeral, right? And they ended up going to the same—they ended up in the same Hare Krishna temple in San Francisco. Weirdly you can see Steve Jobs talking about this and I've got Gary. I don't think that they ever knew each other or met each other but they happened across this same circles and that sort of thing. And so anyway, Gary Stevenson became a Hare Krishna and then he finally left that—Hare Krishna are not cannibals by the way—and then he ended up moving to Hawaii, Gary Stevenson did, and then finally moved to India and joined this cult called Aghor. That's where I got on his trail, tracked him down, he was drinking out of human skulls
1:46:11 And he'd tell me things like, Michael don't drink out of a woman's skull because it leaks. He would tell me little bits of cannibal wisdom like that. They always drink out of the skull out of their left hand and they will drink actually their own urine, they drink blood, they make horns out of human femur that they actually blow, they make Damaru drums from baby skulls and baby skin. And he had joined this cult, there's other Americans that have joined it anyway I ended up going up to Tibet at one point and i was in Tibet in a market and I saw that they're selling the same sort of implements near Potala Palace which is that big palace in Lhasa right? Yeah folks don't know Tibet has cannibalism
1:46:52 Yeah, I didn't know that until I went up there and I saw these implements and I was like hmm You know These aren't Hindus and I started talking with some of the Tibetans about it. They're like yeah It's an old form of Buddhism and this sort of thing. Anyway, I tracked him down six times around the world. I tracked down many of these cannibals. Many Americans have joined Italians and others It's fascinating with Gary Stevenson at one point The first time I found him I interviewed for 18 days right? And at one point borrowed his passport, let's say. And I photographed it and made a spreadsheet of all of his travels and he had gone in... He had about 70 or 80 entries and exits from countries Sri Lanka... How is he paying for all this?
1:47:37 He got an insurance settlement. He got hit by a Chinese guy, he said in Hawaii on a bicycle, Gary with his leg despite his leg so that he could ride a bicycle and in fact I flew to Hawaii at one point, got his name changed records found people that were on his phone. So what ended up happening to him? He's dead. And I think he was poisoned, it's unclear at this point and I have his autopsy in fact i sent a spy back over to check some things out and uh but I think he was poisoned but I'm unclear on that How the hell do people get involved in a cannibalism cult? Well he was trying to
1:48:14 heal his leg and find supernatural powers. He went through this, Steve Jobs went through a lot of let's say experimental dietary habits right? A lot of people do you know protein powder to work out in the gym or whatever most of us have done something like that right but not cannibalism so Gary the can I called him GTC Gary The Cannibal and he'd say actually that's an Agori actually that's Aslan That guy's a fake Aghori, but that's actually at Varanasi. That's near where I first met Gary the Cannibal GTC. That's on the other side of the river from Varanasi right? I call that the dog side of the Ganja. How do you choose what you're gonna cover because you've done so many things! I'm free