By Jay Monaco
Podcast by The Wizard of Monadnock
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
This episode is basically THE MOST EPIC WIZARD RANT OF ALL TIME!! . 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...
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...
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...
Fans of the Grateful Dead, psychedelics, and TRUE CRIME podcasts will have a field day with this special Summer Solstice episode! Unlike any other episode we've done to date, this one is, start to finish, a narrative story, with my...
Never mind the fact that we are four months late - at long last, here is your SPECIAL MAY DAY EPISODE! Today in this extra brief solo journey, we begin and end with the Grateful Dead/Dead and Company (sorry not...
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Nick Sand, 1941-2017. In honor of Bicycle Day 2017, we have the absolute privilege of welcoming Psychedologist Leia Friedman to the show. A clinically-trained therapist, Leia is now on the front lines of...
Happy Good Friday, everyone! This special Holy Week episode is going to be an absolute delight for Christians and non-Christians alike - probably even *more* so for the non-Christian set. Listen to me ramble for a couple minutes about the...
This week, I have the honor and pleasure of being joined by the massively talented artist Tom Jenks! He tells us about his experiences making live electric art with people's heartbeats, putting on live art therapy sessions, the experience of...
He's been called "The closest thing to a superhero Boston has" - and while he may reject the notion, I don't. Today, we get an extended chat with The Weather Man, a weather being sent to this planet to...
Tell me the idea of a love story at the end of the world isn't particularly relevant right now. Seriously. As though we didn't cover the Meaning of Life enough in Episode 3, we now bring you Episode 4, featuring independent...
For our very first guests, we've got two of my favorite people. Johnathan McEachin is a radical community organizer and underground brewmaster, and Derek Pelotte is a physics teacher and founder of Scientific Satanism. Today, we talk about a bad...
What if Mount Monadnock is, in fact, a holy mountain? We may well answer that question in this episode - but first, what the hell does that even mean? We'll take a wild trip around the sun, through the holidays...
Do you need a laugh? Do you ever wonder if the world is much bigger and more mysterious than we see in our daily lives? Does the day-to-day sometimes bore and depress you so much you want to start making...
