Today’s guest is train conductor extraordinaire, New Jersey paisan, and pop culture blogger John Palmucci. John and I first connected online more than two years ago as fellow members of the Socialist Party USA. Over time – despite the fact that when we both attended the party convention in NYC in late 2017, he went on disastrous Tinder dates instead of drinking after hours with me – he’s become an extremely close friend. Today, we talk about who killed Tony Soprano, what happens after we die, and how we survive between now and then.

Find John here: https://awinnerisme.com/

The Day Tony Soprano Died: https://awinnerisme.com/2018/08/14/the-day-tony-soprano-died/

Featured Music - "Good Bye" by Dee Yan-Key

To close out the old year and ring in the new, we bring you our second Liturgical Episode. Synthesizing the thought and wrestling and writing of December and indeed the entire fall, this episode is a journey of contemplation, prayer, and meditation. Everyone gets their time - from Christians to Pagans to Waldorfs.

Take a minute to contemplate the nature of this world and your existence. Transition intentionally - join us.

Music Featured: "Alo Alo" by Sri Chimoy; "Cosmic Dream" by Arthada and Friends; and "Sleep Now Gentle Jesus" found on musicforliturgy.org.

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Happy Halloween to everyone and your ancestors!

So, while Episode 19 - our next long-awaited adventure episode - is finishing production, here's the recording from last Saturday's special Wizard of Monadnock performance opening for Winterland NH's Halloween Extravaganza at the Marlborough House in Marlborough, NH. I deliver a rousing, if unusual, semi-motivational cosmic speech backed by the sounds of Pink Floyd's Echoes (musicians noted below).

We'll be back next week with the next full episode - and it's an adventure.

Featured musicians:

-Jonel Reilly, Keys

-Seth MacLean , Bass

-Geoff Williams, Guitar

-Seth Stafford, Drums

Catch the entire Winterland performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqPAVQfo1II&index=2&t=7270s&list=LLSbuCVs8-I1DNAt_2HlCJOw

In honor of the solstice (yes, this is late), we bring you our most experimental episode to date - by far. In an attempt to properly commemorate Midsummer, this episode is constructed as a complete liturgy. You know, like an actual religious service. To listen to this episode is to take a journey through a space very different from the one you think you're in right now. And it can't readily be described in episode notes. You just have to buy the ticket and take the ride.

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Tell your friends!

To commemorate and build upon her appearance almost exactly a year ago, we're joined by the one and only Psychedologist, and my dear friend, Leia Friedman. And this time, we get a little...CONTROVERSIAL...in our discussion of the nature of the Second Psychedelic Renaissance and the different currents of thought within it. Anyone connected with such things might be interested in our explorations here.

Getting the tough stuff out of the way early, we spend the second half of our talk performing a live exercise for all of you in which we visualize our inevitable conversation a year from now, in 2019. This episode is a real treat - there's even a cameo by a baby cow. They're called calves but I prefer the term "cowlet." Anyway.

Stop what you're doing and search for The Psychdedologist in your podcast app and subscribe. It's an even better show than this one.

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Lastly, pop on over to patreon.com/wizardofmonadnock if you wanna catch a little glimpse of what it's like on the inside of the wizard's circle. Then you can even get in on it if you want to.

Are you looking for bad agricultural metaphors and mystical ranting? We've got you covered.

There's even a cute fluffy forest creature thrown in the mix.

This is the episode where I tell you what I was up to all winter, clue you in to the spiritual practice I've been building and trying to follow, and give you the chance to GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR.

It's good to be back.

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After a long absence, we return in DRAMATIC fashion with this EPIC, feature-length narrative. Rejoining our heroes once more, we travel this time to the Boston Garden on November 17 of last year for yet another Dead and Company performance...and so much more.

We've got blood sacrifice, cardigan sweaters, (at least) two extraordinary things, fancy cocktails, brand new archetypes, and direct encounters with the divine (maybe).

Link to the show described in this episode: https://archive.org/details/DeadCo2017-11-17

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This episode is basically THE MOST EPIC WIZARD RANT OF ALL TIME!!

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But it's actually even more than that. Each rant segment is interspersed with LIVE FOOTAGE from a very meaningful journey I took solo up the sacred mountain back in July. Makes things really interesting - and hilarious.

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But really, this is the Halloween/Harvest/All Saints Day/Samahin episode that YOU ALL DESERVE. We talk seasons, we introduce a new CONTROVERSIAL METAPHOR and, wildest of all...for the very first time, we come close to explaining what a wizard of a mountain actually is.

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Music: "Paper Lanterns in the Dusk" by Springtide; "La Tapa del Martes" by Circus Marcus; "You'se a Viper" by the Underscore Orkestra; and of course, "Own World" by Ketsa

In today's episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with one of my favorite podcasters, fellow NH native Joe Moore, co-host of Psychedelics Today. Let's just say...the range of this conversation is something you have to hear to believe. We cover everything from Marx to Pinchbeck to Tolkien to Jung, the costs inherent to trying to make a better world, and the reward - no, the *necessity* - of living the fullest life.

Best of all, Joe tells me it's okay that we've only cranked out 12 episodes in 12 months.

Find Psychedelics Today here: http://www.psychedelicstoday.com/

More Joe Moore: http://jomo5.com/

To enroll in the Psychedelics Today Navigating Psychedelics course, go here: http://psychedelicstoday.teachable.com/p/navigatingpsychedelics

PT on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/psychedelicstoday/posts

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This is the most personal episode of this podcast thus far - and also, by far, the greatest adventure story.

When last we saw our heroes, they were on top of the world, having lived through one of the best, most joyous, life-filled nights in all their collective existence - but when on top of the world, the only direction to go is down, and all stories, followed long enough, end in chaos and death.

But its not all that bad - and if it is, at least this telling of it is hysterical (often at my expense, I'm afraid). Follow me and SB as we experience several consecutive misadventures in the course of attending a Dead & Company show on Midsummer's Eve, the most magical and mischievous night of the year. And boy did we feel that.

Welcome to Season 2 of the Wizard of Monadnock Radio Hour. It's been a long wait, but hopefully this episode will prove it was worth it. Love you all.

For music from the concert in question, go here: https://archive.org/details/deadandco2017-06-20

For a video of The Miracle (you'll have to listen to know what this means), go here: https://youtu.be/Gdf7BNKLKYs

To show how badly you feel for me and do your part to help, go here: https://www.patreon.com/wizardofmonadnock

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