Episodes
![Episode 18: Sascha Engel on “Breaking the Alphabet”](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Episode 18: Sascha Engel on “Breaking the Alphabet”
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
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
- Keep an eye out for a forthcoming release from Little Black Cart
- Sascha’s website
- To contact Sascha directly: uncivletters@gmail.com
- Sign up for Sascha’s newsletter
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![Bonus Episode: RAW Politics with Bobby Campbell](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Bonus Episode: RAW Politics with Bobby Campbell
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
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/
- The TSOG Interviews with Lance Baushcer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5D4C1005DFFCE7DA
- A discussion on the title TSOG and links to “the Twitter thread”: http://www.rawillumination.net/2021/05/is-tsog-bad-title.html?m=1
- “Left and Right: A Non-Euclidean Perspective” https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/robert-anton-wilson-left-and-right-a-non-euclidean-perspective
Hilaritas Press Podcast: http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/
Host/Producer Mike Gathers: https://linktr.ee/mgathers23
Engineer/Producer for this episode: Richard Rasa
![Episode 17: Wayne Price on Petr Kropotkin](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Episode 17: Wayne Price on Petr Kropotkin
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
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
- Wayne Price at the Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/wayne-price
- Wayne at Anarkismo: https://www.anarkismo.net/newswire?author_name=Wayne%20Price
- “Kropotkin and War - Today”: https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32683
- “Illuminating Discord: An interview with Robert Anton Wilson” http://clevelandokie.blogspot.com/2011/04/editors-note-this-interview-with-robert.html
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
![Episode 16: Oz Fritz on the intersection of Crowley and Joyce in RAW’s fiction](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
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.
- Oz’s blog and his essay Robert Anton Wilson: Transmission of Baraka -
- Oz’s album of recordings from around the world. Liner notes.
- Oz’s plays himself in a brief cameo in Les Claypool’s Jam Band mockumentary Electric Apricot. (movie trailer)
![Episode 15: Jimmy and Rob on Claude Shannon](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Episode 15: Jimmy and Rob on Claude Shannon
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
In this episode, I chat with biographers Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni about Claude Shannon.
![Episode 14: Andrew McLuhan on Marshall McLuhan](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Episode 14: Andrew McLuhan on Marshall McLuhan
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
In this episode, I chat with Andrew McLuhan, director of the McLuhan Institute, about his grandfather, Marshall McLuhan.
- Andrew at Gray Area
- The McLuhan Institute Youtube Channel
- The Playboy Interview with Marshall McLuhan, 1969
- “Notes on Burroughs” by Marshall McLuhan
![Episode 13: Lionell Snell on Magical Thinking](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Episode 13: Lionell Snell on Magical Thinking
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
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
- https://www.amazon.com/Ramsey-Dukes/e/B001JP7UKI
- http://ramseydukes.co.uk/
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
![Episode 12: Eric Wagner on Beethoven and RAW](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Episode 12: Eric Wagner on Beethoven and RAW
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
In this episode, we chat with teacher, author, and RAW scholar Eric Wagner on Beetoven and Robert Anton Wilson.
![Episode 11: Phil Farber on Magick, NLP, Crowley & RAW](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Episode 11: Phil Farber on Magick, NLP, Crowley & RAW
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
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.
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![Episode 10: Jesse Walker on Chapel Perilous](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12765457/hilaritas_logo_n4xqi8_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Episode 10: Jesse Walker on Chapel Perilous
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
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.
“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