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Sep 15, 2019

We enter the humorous, twisted and paranoid world of Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea’s The Illuminatus! Trilogy. It’s an 800 page tome filled with revolutionaries, conspiracies, counter-conspiracies, drugs, sex, rock n’ roll, yellow submarines, talking dolphins, Old Gods, eldritch five-sided sea...


Jul 15, 2019

We talk Christopher Lasch’s 1979 book The Culture of Narcissism and assess how well it characterizes the period, what it means for today’s society, and how technology and advertising have effected personality.


May 3, 2019

This episode explores the outrageous explosion of intentionally offensive underground comics in the early 1970s, including an emphasis on one of the period's primary figures Robert Crumb.


Mar 15, 2019

We explore Julian Jaynes' ideas about the origin of consciousness contained in his influential 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.