In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel about the themes of his book, Breaking the Alphabet and the tyranny of the written word.

• Breaking the Alphabet

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• Hilaritas Press Podcast 

In this bonus episode, host Mike Gathers chats with RAW-o-phile Bobby Cambell on TSOG, The Thing That Ate the Constitution and RAW Politics.

• Hilaritas release of TSOG: https://www.hilaritaspress.com/portfolio-item/tsog-the-thing-that-ate-the-constitution-and-other-everyday-monsters/

Hilaritas Press Podcast:  http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/

Host/Producer Mike Gathers:  https://linktr.ee/mgathers23

Engineer/Producer for this episode: Richard Rasa

In this episode, we chat with prolific anarchist writer Wayne Price on Peter Kropotkin.

• Kropotkin’s “Anarchist” essay from Britannica: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-anarchism-from-the-encyclopaedia-britannica 

Hilaritas Press Podcast:  http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/

Host/Producer Mike Gathers:  https://linktr.ee/mgathers23

Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves:  https://ryan4reeves.wixsite.com/ryanreeves

In this episode, host Mike Gathers chat's with underground sound engineer Oz Fritz on the deeper influences of Aleister Crowley and James Joyce on Robert Anton Wilson’s fictional prose.

• RAWIllumination.net’s Tom Jackson interviews Oz and includes a detailed bio of Oz’s sound career.

Hilaritas Press Podcast

Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves

In this episode, I chat with biographers Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni about Claude Shannon.

• A Mind at Play: the book

• "11 Life Lessons From History’s Most Underrated Genius"
  

• "One of the fathers of modern computing used this 6-step process to solve any problem"

Hilaritas Press Podcast

Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves

In this episode, I chat with Andrew McLuhan, director of the McLuhan Institute, about his grandfather, Marshall McLuhan.

• Andrew at Gray Area

• Self paced course on Understanding Media, Part 1

• McLuhan, Auden, and Fuller

Hilaritas Press Podcast

Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves

In this episode, we chat with magician, author, and youtuber Lionell Snell, aka Ramsey Dukes, about magical thinking.

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-NwOu0WV5Qd_U4zOP33sw

Hilaritas Press Podcast:  http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/

Host/Producer Mike Gathers:  https://linktr.ee/mgathers23

Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves:  https://ryan4reeves.wixsite.com/ryanreeves

In this episode, we chat with teacher, author, and RAW scholar Eric Wagner on Beetoven and Robert Anton Wilson.

• Eric's book, Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson

Hilaritas Podcast

Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer Ryan Reeves

In this episode, we chat with Meta-Magician Philip Farber on Magick, NLP, Crowley & Robert Anton Wilson.  Phil is the author of several books, including "High Magick, a guide to Cannabis in Ritual and Mysticism.  He’s also a regular speaker at the Starwood Festival and other events.

• Phil's website Meta Magick

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• Hilaritas Press Podcast: 

In this episode, we chat with Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America.

IN AMERICA. He is an editor at Reason magazine, and he lives in Baltimore.

• Jesse on Twitter

Hilaritas Podcast

Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer Ryan Reeves

“In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade). You come out the other side either stone paranoid or an agnostic; there is no third way. I came out agnostic.” -RAW