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Summer Book Club: The Tunnel

November 07, 2020 12:00 - 28.6 MB

42 Minutes 351: Summer Book Club - The Tunnel - 09.26.2020 Tonight, for the summer installment of the seasonal book club, the program considers The Tunnel, William Gass's second novel which first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, and at which time was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. It's the story of a middle aged professor who, upon the completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, finds himself writing a novel about his own life ...

Spring Book Club: Don Quixote

June 06, 2019 06:45 - 81.1 MB

42 Minutes 336: Spring Book Club - Don Quixote - 05.24.2019 Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago. Thus, the book club follows the adventures of this noble Hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant, reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire. Topics Include: Cervan...

Alan Green: Creatures Of Habit

May 28, 2019 12:31 - 97.2 MB

42 Minutes 335: Alan Green - Creatures Of Habit - 05.20.2019 Upon the first anniversary of Alan Green's magnum opus sync film, Vision & The Voice, he and Doug do a little on air shadow work. Topics Include: Vision & The Voice, Time, Past, Artifact, Prescient, Psychedelic Roller Coaster, Sync Book Radio, Art, Sync Community, Sync Quick News, Easter, Broken Shoe, Fractal Mapping, New Cycle, Balance, Sync Book Radio Movie Labs, McLuhan, Sync Pimp, Sync Storm, Swampy, Shadow Work.  https://vim...

Danny Colombo: Dream Worlds

May 27, 2019 12:45 - 75.9 MB

42 Minutes 334: Danny Colombo - Dream Worlds - 04.16.2019 With another Treefort Music Fest in the bank, the program wraps up the 2019 festival as well as looking back at the 2016 Boise Spring Sync (and other Dream Worlds) with musician and artist, Danny Colombo. Topics Include: Treefort, Boise Spring Sync, Sync Summit, Tinfoil, James Evan Pilato, #PumpUpThaVolume, Olympia, Broken Limb, Chai, Rubble Bucket, Toro Y Moi, Zipline, Corporate Festivals, Festival Magic, Nice, Travel Magic, Synchro...

Jake Kotze: The Sync Whole

May 26, 2019 13:00 - 107 MB

42 Minutes 333: Jake Kotze - The Sync Whole - 04.19.2019 Upon the 10th anniversary of the group sync blog, The Sync Whole, the program shares 42 minutes with its founder, Jake Kotze. Topics Include: Synchromysticism, 10th Anniversary, 2012, Canadian Museum For Human Rights, Jim Sanders, Juan Flores, Tonkiri, Ayahuasca, Time Loops, Nonlocal, Ripples, 911, Practice, Insanity, New Normal, Social Media, Way Back Machine, Censorship, Love, Super Heroes, Phoenix, Blackhole, Syncjack, Event Horizo...

Douglas Rushkoff: Team Human

May 25, 2019 13:10 - 75.8 MB

42 Minutes 332: Douglas Rushkoff - Team Human - 02.05.2019 Today for 42 minutes we consider Douglas Rushkoff's latest book, Team Human, which is the hopeful "state of the union" that we all need. Topics Include: Neoliberalism, Clinton Foundation, Climate Change, Participation, Community Organizing, Reality TV, Tabloids, Digital Media, Bias, Binary, Extreme, Good Old Days, Socialist America, Capitalism, Industrialism, Political Economy Of Media, Ideology, Fascism, Smart Phone, Dumb Human, Di...

Marshall Poole: Pasadena

May 24, 2019 13:19 - 69.9 MB

42 Minutes 331: Marshall Poole - Pasadena - 03.04.2019 Treefort is here, folks! Get out there and see it all. Catch Marshall Poole on Friday, and be sure to check out all their other acts: Blood Lemon, Built To Spill, Gipsy Moonrise. Topics Include: Treefort, Main Stage, Purring Mantis, Blood Lemon, 2C, 1A, Totems, Jack Parsons, Band & Orchestra Dorks, C of I, Randy Rhodes, Michael McDonald, Herbbie Hancock, Etude, Tango Alpha Tango, Heavy Instruments, Gipsy Moonrise, Blood Lemon, Built To ...

Jonathan Evison: Lawn Boy

May 23, 2019 13:28 - 69.1 MB

42 Minutes 330: Jonathan Evison - Lawn Boy - 02.26.2019 Today Lawn Boy, the great American landscaping novel by Jonathan Evison arrives in paperback. On Thursday, Jonathan arrives in Boise for Treefort. Catch him then at 2:30 pm at The Owyhee first floor cafe and on Saturday at noon at the same location. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, Happiest Place On Earth, El Kora Shrine, Seattle, Fanzine, 1982, March Of Crimes, Iggy Pop, Prince, Food & Beer, Cabin Fever, Legends Of The North Casca...

Sarah Manguso: 300 Arguments

May 22, 2019 13:35 - 68.5 MB

42 Minutes 329: Sarah Manguso - 300 Arguments - 03.05.2019 Today for 42 minutes, the program considers life writing with author, Sarah Manguso. Her most recent book, 300 arguments was published by Graywolf in 2017. Sarah appears at Treefort Saturday, March 23rd from 2 to 3 pm at The Owyhee and on Sunday, March 24th from noon to 2 at The Owyhee first floor cafe space. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, The Cabin, Mary Oliver, Patter, Poets, Prose, Boston, 17th C.,Outsider, America In A Nut...

Camille Acker: Training School For Negro Girls

May 21, 2019 13:42 - 70.5 MB

42 Minutes 328: Camille Acker - Training School For Negro Girls - 03.04.2019 In anticipation of Storyfort 2019, the program connects with writer, Camille Acker to discuss her 2018 work, Training School For Negro Girls. In this, her debut short story collection, Camille unleashes the irony and tragic comedy of respectability onto a wide-ranging cast of characters, all of whom call Washington, DC, home. She appears at Treefort Friday, March 22nd at Woodland Empire from 4 to 6 pm and on Sunday,...

Mostly Muff: Swan Song

May 20, 2019 13:47 - 75.6 MB

42 Minutes 327: Mostly Muff - Swan Song - 02.28.2019 As a way of exploring Treefort 2019, the program spends 42 Minutes with Lisa, Ivy, & Gia on 10 years of Mostly Muff. They perform Thursday, March 21st at 10:20 pm at The Linen Building. Topics Include: Treefort, Boise Famous Dot Com, Dirty Moogs, Led Zeppelin, Is This Love? Purring Mantis, Hannahs, Thunderpussy, Rocci Johnson, Don't Stop Believing, YMCA Rock & Swim, Grunge, Cherry Bomb, Ladies Of The 80s, Pollyanna, Blood Lemon, Get Wet +...

Winter Book Club: Collected Fictions

May 19, 2019 13:52 - 67.8 MB

 42 Minutes 326: Winter Book Club - Collected Fictions - 02.02.2019 Ficciones, the most popular collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, was the jumping off point for the book club gang on this Groundhog Day to walk the forking paths. Topics Include: Fictions, Particular, Eternal, Dreams, Borges and I, PKD, Compression, What Is Real? Tulan, Nabokov, Arabian Nights, JW Dunne, Secret Societies, Infinity, Lovecraft, Blindness, Chess, Garden Of Forking Paths, ...

Jessica Graham: More Good Sex

May 18, 2019 13:58 - 67 MB

42 Minutes 325: Jessica Graham - More Good Sex - 12.18.2019 Prior to year's end, the program reconnected with sexual activist Jessica Graham to look back at 2018. Topics Include: Meditation, Winter, Horror & Joy, Health, Sexual Activism, Spirituality, Sexual Misconduct, Sexy Consent, Kavanaugh, 1991, Cultural Shift, Trump, Sex Ed, Rape, Lolita, Shadow, David Lynch, Online, Sex Positive, Practice, Annihilation, The Tangle, No Exit. https://yourwildawakening.com

Rob Shapiro: Lumiere

May 17, 2019 14:06 - 113 MB

324: Rob Shapiro - Lumiere - 12.17.2018 Today for 42 minutes we get the information direct from Rob Shapiro's mouth. Voice actor, narrator, and songwriter, Shapiro is known for performing the audiobook versions of many of James Gleick's popular works as well as fronting the LA band Populuxe. Topics Include: Audiobooks, Jaron Lanier, James Gleick, Max Tegmark, Physics, Quantum Theory, The Information, Meaning, Voice, Time Travel, Reading, Acting, Instrument, Radio, Mel Blanc, June Foray, Rhy...

Peter Bebergal: Strange Frequencies

January 21, 2019 16:30 - 25.6 MB

42 Minutes 323: Peter Bebergal - Strange Frequencies - 12.10.2018 Today for 42 minutes we are going on an extraordinary technological quest for the supernatural with writer Peter Bebergal, author most recently of Strange Frequencies, published this past October by TarcherPerigee. Topics Include: Spiritual Technology, Moog, Science, Whole Earth, Consciousness Expansion, Amazon, Radionics, Meaning, Astounding Science Fiction, Magic, Crowley, Stage Magic, Rock and Roll, Ricky Jay, House Of Gam...

Chelsea Bieker: Keep Her Down

January 01, 2019 16:00 - 26.9 MB

42 Minutes 322: Chelsea Bieker - Keep Her Down - 12.03.2018 Today we consider what's keeping her down with writer Chelsea Bieker, recipient of a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Topics Include: Bookclub, Nabokov, Art, Lolita, Sally Horner, Voice, Christine Blasey Ford, Consent, Rape, Scary Time For Boys, Central Valley, CA, Fresno, Reading, Children, Religion, Water, Cults, Fire. 42minutes.com

Katherine Jegede: Infinite Possibility

December 25, 2018 16:00 - 25.2 MB

42 Minutes 321: Katherine Jegede - Infinite Possibility - 11.26.2018 Today for 42 minutes we explore our Infinite Possibility with the help of Katernine Jegede, author of the 2018 book by that same name published this past June by Tarcher Perigee. Topics Include: Neville Goddard, Belief, Science, Philosophy, Method, New Thought, Consciousness, Material, Spirituality, God, Simulation, Perception, Causation, Trauma, Imagination, Certainty, Chaos Magic, Cosmic Philosopher, Fear, Crowley. 42mi...

Fall Book Club: Ada, Or Ardor

December 11, 2018 16:00 - 60.9 MB

42 Minutes 320: Fall Book Club - Ada, Or Ardor - 11.09.2018  Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But, is much more, and thus the book club regulars explore this work for an Antiterran 42 minutes. Topics Incldue: Texture Of Time, Kubrick, Blade Runner, Desire, Barry Lyndon, Lolita, Venus Club, Incest, Insect, Nicest, Eden, Par...

Eric Wargo: Time Loops

December 06, 2018 15:45 - 25.7 MB

42 Minutes 319: Eric Wargo - Time Loops - 11.05.2018 Time is not what you think it is, and neither are you! (And maybe not synchronicity either.)-So we spend 42 minutes with Eric Wargo, author of Time Loops, and talk precognition. Topics Include: Synchronicity, Jung, Precognition, Minkowski,, Block Universe, Spacetime, 4D, Causality, JW Dunne, Precognitive Dreams, Vonnegut, Retrocausation, Self Fulfilling Prophecy, Consciousness Displaced In Time, Freud, Oedipus, Philip K Dick, Dream Journa...

Trish and Rob MacGregor: Secrets Of Spirit Communication

November 26, 2018 15:45 - 27.6 MB

42 Minutes 318: Trish and Rob MacGregor - Secrets Of Spirit Communication - 10.22.2018 The program reconnects with Trish and Rob MacGregor, prolific authors, (who both are featured in The Sync Book), and discuss time slips and hurricanes. Oh, synchronicity too. Topics Include: Florida, Hurricanes, Irma, Turnpike, Maria, Michael, South FL, Key West, Area X, St. Marks Refuge, The Fog, Bermuda Triangle, Fort St. Catherine, 1780, Dear John, Climate Change, Global Warming, Synchronicity, Bohm, S...

Tim Murphy: Tome Of The Aeon

October 23, 2018 17:00 - 26.5 MB

42 Minutes 317: Tim Murphy - Tome Of The Aeon - 09.24.2018 The program reconnects with synchromystic filmmaker, Tim Murphy to chat about his latest work, as well as time, art, and sync. Topics Inclue: Hill House, Close Encounters, Stop Motion Animation, Jodorowski, Dragon Frame, Puppet, Snake, UFO, Solar Ascension, Duality, Lighting, Reception, Vision & The Voice, Townes Van Zandt, The A Pill, Maniac, Synchronicity, True Detective, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Pollan, LSD. 42minutes.com

Walter Kirn: The Stones, The Crows, The Grass, The Moon

September 25, 2018 19:15 - 25.9 MB

42 Minutes 316: Walter Kirn - The Stones, The Crows, The Grass, The Moon - 09.18.2018 Today for 42 minutes we reconnect with synchronicity by considering politics, entertainment, speculative fiction, and spirit with Walter Kirn, author most recently of The Stones, The Crows, The Grass, The Moon. Topics Include: New Chaos, Infinite Jest, 1996, 2006, The Unbinding, Hyperlinks, Surveillance, Intrusion, Technology, Qanon, Speculative Fiction, Sneaky Superhero, Mythological Narrative, Hopium, Cl...

Dean Radin: Real Magic

September 16, 2018 18:00 - 27.4 MB

42 Minutes 315: Dean Radin - Real Magic - 09.10.2018 Today for 42 minutes, the chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences turns a critical eye toward such practices as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis. Are such powers really possible? Science & Dean Radin, author of the recent, Real Magic, say yes. Topics Include: Science, Worldview, Technology, Mythology, Empiricism, Magical Thinking, Open Mindedness, Consciousness, Fantasyland, Information, Symbolism, Math...

Jordan Bartee: Interstate

September 10, 2018 16:00 - 43.6 MB

42 Minutes 314: Jordan Bartee - Interstate - 09.02.2018 In perfect fashion, we get into sync with a Fox on the run for 911. Today the program heads out onto the interstate for 42 Minutes with Jordan Bartee, reconnecting with so much history. Topics Include: Interstate 60, Back To The Future, Bob Gale, Zemeckis, O.W. Grant, Synchronicity Genie, Christopher Lloyd, 8 Ball, Oracle, Ego Killer, archive.org, Disney, Hallmark, Michael Pollan, Cannabis, Materialism, 911, Fox, Red Twins, RAW. https:...

Gary Lachman: Dark Star Rising

September 04, 2018 06:15 - 31 MB

42 Minutes 313: Gary Lachman - Dark Star Rising - 08.27.2018 Did positive thinking and mental science help put Donald Trump in the White House? We explore this today with author and scholar, Gary Lachman as well as considering what other various magical and esoteric ideas are impacting political events across the globe. Topics Include: Meme Magic, The Occult, Trump, History, Now, Alt Right, Power Of Positive Thinking, New Thought, Emerson, William James, Mind Cure, Alternative Facts, Richar...

Summer Book Club: Mrs. Dalloway

June 26, 2018 10:10 - 38.5 MB

42 Minutes 312: Summer Book Club - Mrs. Dalloway - 06.16.2018 Tonight, on Bloomsday, the 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club seeks a sense of proportion in the pages of Virginia Woolf's 1925 modernist masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway. Topics Include: Stream Of Consciousness, Composed, WWI, Class, London, 1923, The Hours, Septimus, Connection, Nature, Sky Writing, Conversion, Colonialism, Lark, Hero's Call, Plunge, Wave, Leitmotif, The Waves, Infinite Jest, Bark, Science, Conrad, Prosody, Royal We...

Alan Abbadessa Green: Vision & The Voice

May 22, 2018 10:10 - 31.2 MB

42 Minutes 311: Alan Abbadessa Green - Vision & The Voice - 05.15.2018 Upon the release of the full length feature sync film, Vision & The Voice, the program has the pleasure of sharing 42 Minutes with its creator and the editor of the Sync Books, Alan Abbadessa Green. Topics Include: The Infinite Jest, Sync Summit, Bill Klaus, Synchronize, Negativland, Fine Just Fine, Joe Alexander, Always Record #175, Senses, Perceptions Synchronicity, Elements, Time, Reality Synchromysticism, Jake Ko...

Kirby Ferguson: This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory

April 24, 2018 10:10 - 27.8 MB

42 Minutes 310: Kirby Ferguson - This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory - 03.12.2018 As the media age gets deeper into the fake news era, the program considers again whether or not it's all a conspiracy by reconnecting with Kirby Ferguson, the filmmaker responsible for This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory & Everything Is A Remix. Topics Include: Infinite Jest, Meaning, 2012, Trump, Power, Comprehension, Tariffs, Complexity Science, 1960s, Good Guys/Bad Guys, Reality, Systems, Elites, Norms, Legacy ...

Paul La Farge: Luminous Airplanes

April 10, 2018 10:10 - 26.8 MB

42 Minutes 309: Paul La Farge - Luminous Airplanes - 04.10.2018 On the day before the paperback edition of The Night Ocean arrives, we meet again with Paul La Farge to speak about his 2011 work, Luminous Airplanes, an expansive, hugely imaginative, and very funny novel about history, love, memory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world. Topics Include: 90s, San Francisco, Infinite Jest, Internet, Digital Media, Immersive Text, Truth, Buildungsroman, Blogs, Histor...

Spring Book Club: Infinite Jest

April 09, 2018 10:10 - 30.6 MB

42 Minutes 308: Spring Book Club - Infinite Jest - 04.01.2018 Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; So yo then man what's your story? (Or that's what the bookclub sets out to find on this April 1st, 2018) Topics Include: 1996, Loop, Samizdat, DMZ, NASA Cup, Wraith, Mold, Don Gately, Cheese, AZ, Trauma, Johnny Gentle, Joke, Garbage, Area X, Annular Fusion, Mad Stork, Madame Psychosis, Met...

LED: Artificial Flowers

April 03, 2018 10:10 - 28.1 MB

42 Minutes 307: LED - Artificial Flowers - 03.26.2018 The program looks back at Treefort 2018 with LED, a group of artists who mounted the dance "Artificial Flowers" five times during Treefort, gave a concert, and premiered a film. Topics Include: Treefort, Edmond Dantes, Magic Sword, Trailhead, Dancers, Fashion Show, Theater, Being, Visuals, Morph Suits, Pussy Riot, FOMO Management, Escondido, Starcrawler, Filmfort, Alefort, Foodfort, Storyfort, Gilbert. https://ledboise.com

Escondido: Darkness

March 21, 2018 10:10 - 27.3 MB

42 Minutes 306: Escondido - Darkness - 03.13.2018 On this our last gasp before Treefort, we share 42 minutes with Jessica & Tyler of Escondido who play Friday, March 23rd, 9pm at The Olympic. Topics Include: Treefort, Nashville, Pop Country, Americana, Margo Price, Jack White, Studio Work, Publishing, Side, Gigs, Boston, Journey, Style, Fashion, TM, Belief, Mediation, Practice, David Lynch, Utopia Park, Iowa, Hidden, Synchronicity. http://www.thebandescondido.com

John O'Neil: eLDopamine

March 20, 2018 10:10 - 26.2 MB

42 Minutes 305: John O'Neil - eLDopamine - 03.12.2018 eLDopamine is a band that goes in and out of focus, writing and recording music that is personal, heartfelt, and only occasionally misguided. We share 42 minutes with its founder, John O'Neil on Treefort, Boise and much more. eLDopamine plays Treefort Friday, March 23rd, 5:30 pm at Neurolux. Topics Include: Treefort, Treepeople, Day Drinking, AKA Belle, Hokum Hi-Flyers, Hillfolk Noir, Kool Aid, Duck Club, Record Exchange, John Doe, H...

Motherhood: Baby Teeth

March 19, 2018 10:10 - 24.2 MB

42 Minutes 304: Motherhood - Baby Teeth - 03.12.2018 The program rides along for 42 minutes with Motherhood, a Canadian band on their first US tour. They Play Treefort Saturday, March 24th, 10:20 pm at Neruolux, and Sunday, March 25th, 7:50 pm at The Linen Building. (There is also a special, free Canada party at Woodland Empire Ale Craft, Saturday March 24th, where they play at 4 pm.) Topics Include: Treefort Music Fest, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, Elsewhere, Brooklyn, Grand Car...

Jonathan Evison: This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

March 13, 2018 10:10 - 29.3 MB

42 Minutes 303: Jonathan Evison - This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! 02.12.2018 In anticipation of Treefort Music Fest, the program reconnects with Jonathan Evison discussing his novel, Harriet Chance. He appears this year at Storyfort Friday and Saturday evening for three events. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, Reinvention, West Of Here, Anna Karenina, Partenership, Mrs Daisy, Memory, Linearity, Revelation, Marginalized, William Melvin Kelly, Zeitgeist, Me Too, Class, Commerce, Al...

Angel Abaya: Treefort Preview Show

March 01, 2018 10:10 - 29.6 MB

42 Minutes 301: Angel Abaya - Treefort Music Fest Preview - 02.19.2018 Today for our Treefort Music Fest 2018 Preview Show, we meet Angel Abaya who works for Treefort as the content creator and PR assistant, but also performs in the bands Electric Coconut and LED. Topics Include: Treefort, Purring Mantis, Bijouxx, Fiona Apple, Alanis, MostlyMuff, Led Zeppelin, Butt Rock, PR, Communications, LED, Hot Ticket, Electric Coconut, Lost Summer, Xenia Rubinos, Boise Rock School, Edmond Dantès,...

Nygilia McClain: Song Of Jade

February 21, 2018 19:07 - 26.8 MB

42 Minutes 300: Nygilia McClain - Song Of Jade - 02.21.2018 Today for 42 minutes we sing the Song Of Jade with her creator, Nygilia McClain. Topics Include: Design, Travel, Research, Promotion, Writing, Inspiration, Athletics, Divorce, War, Nature, Science, Spirituality, Technology, Beta, Home, The Cage, Basketball, Art.

Jordan Bartee: Prince Of Darkness

January 29, 2018 10:10 - 29 MB

42 Minutes 299: Jordan Bartee - Prince Of Darkness - 01.29.2018 Before man walked the earth . . . it slept for centuries. It is evil. It is real. It is awakening. And today for 42 minutes we consider it with Jordan Bartee who makes sync films under the moniker Synk Century. Topics Include: Me Too, Time's Up, 1987, Masculine Scientific Project, Sexism, Synchronicity, Symbolism, Genre, Meaning, Consciousness, Trump World, Film & Media, Analysis, Collaboration, Editing, Sync Stack, Pynchon...

Freddy Silva: First Templar Nation

January 23, 2018 10:10 - 29.7 MB

42 Minutes 298: Freddy Silva - First Templar Nation - 01.23.2018 Conventional history claims that in 1118 nine men formed the Knights Templar in Jerusalem. Today, for 42 minutes, we'll consider otherwise with Freddy Silva, author of First Templar Nation, and a leading researcher of restricted history, ancient knowledge, sacred sites, and the interaction between temples and consciousness. Topics Include: Pyramids, Modernity, Mysteries, Advertising, Megalithic, Truth, Academic, Orthodoxy,...

Winter Book Club: The Crying Of Lot 49

January 20, 2018 23:11 - 33.7 MB

42 Minutes 297: Winter Book Club - The Crying Of Lot 49 - 01.20.2018 Tonight the 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club regulars uncover, Thomas Pynchon's classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas, first published in 1965. Topics Include: High Brow, Prose, Gravity's Rainbow, Identity, Postal Service, David Foster Wallace, Sync, Conspiracy, Inherent Vice, Code, Time, Tragedy, Bones, Meaning, California, MK Ultra, 1960s Conspiracy, Alternate Mail System, ...

Bernard Beitman: Connecting With Coincidence

January 02, 2018 10:10 - 26 MB

42 Minutes 296: Bernard Beitman - Connecting With Coincidence - 12.19.2017 Today we'll get into sync with some coincidence with an individual responsible for its transformation into a science, Dr Bernard Beitman, the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systematize the study of coincidences, and the author of ConnectingWith Coincidence. Topics Include : Chance, Geography Of Coincidence, Gary Schwartz, Serial Coincidence, Pathetic Fallacy, Sink, Simulpathity, Jung, Synchronicity, Probab...

Fall Book Club: The Final Dossier

December 19, 2017 22:10 - 33.8 MB

42 Minutes 294: Fall Book Club - The Final Dossier - 11.19.2017 How's Annie? This evening the 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club begins to answer that question by Returning to Twin Peaks one final time to consider Mark Frost's latest book, The Final Dossier, which acts as a bookend to the Showtime limited series and positions itself as the final word on Twin Peaks. (Show Contains Spoilers!) Topics: Twin Peaks: The Return, Mark Frost, The Archivist, Questions, Process, The Mystery, The Secret...

Jessica Graham: Good Sex

December 12, 2017 10:10 - 29.3 MB

42 Minutes 295: Jessica Graham - Good Sex - 12.12.2017 Let's talk about SEX! Today for 42 minutes we consider getting off without checking out with actor and teacher Jessica Graham, author of Good Sex published this past November by North Atlantic Books. Topics Include: The Joy Of Sex, Sex Ed, Consent, Ethical Porn, Pleasure, Compensation, Humanity, Four Chambers, BDSM, Male Gaze, Patriarchy, Dirty Old Man, Marriage, Property, Biology, Culture, Mindfulness, Forgiveness, Mindhunter, Poly...

Fall Book Club: The Final Dossier

November 19, 2017 22:10 - 33.8 MB

42 Minutes 294: Fall Book Club - The Final Dossier - 11.19.2017 How's Annie? This evening the 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club begins to answer that question by Returning to Twin Peaks one final time to consider Mark Frost's latest book, The Final Dossier, which acts as a bookend to the Showtime limited series and positions itself as the final word on Twin Peaks. (Show Contains Spoilers!) Topics: Twin Peaks: The Return, Mark Frost, The Archivist, Questions, Process, The Mystery, The Secret...

Daisy Johnson: Fen

November 13, 2017 22:10 - 24.2 MB

42 Minutes 293: Daisy Johnson - Fen - 11.13.2017 Today we take a tour of the fenlands of England with Daisy Johnson as our guide. She transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere from which grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention. Topics Include: England, Manscape, Flooding, Dark Earth, White Sky, Ely, Oxford, Scampton, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, King Arthur, Density, Magical Realism, Poetry, Process, Short Story, Symbolism, Meaning, Waterla...

David Gill: Blade Runner 2049

November 07, 2017 10:10 - 30 MB

42 Minutes 292: David Gill - Blade Runner 2049 - 10.31.2017 Today we collectively celebrate our empathy through communal suffering by eternally climbing up a hill while being hit with crashing stones, and we do so not with Wilbur Mercer, but with Philip K. Dick Scholar and author, David Gill. Topics Include: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, Tom Petty, Marc Maron, Nourse & Burroughs, The Shining, Adaptation, Bounty Hunter, Replicants, Aliens, Anxiety, Tool, Food Cycle, Cloud Atlas, E...

Laura Tempest Zakroff: The Witch's Cauldron

October 31, 2017 10:10 - 27.6 MB

42 Minutes 291: Laura Tempest Zakroff - The Witch's Cauldron - 10.30.2017 Laura Tempest Zakroff guides us today for 42 minutes to the other side with the help of a material portal, The Witch's Cauldron, one of the most iconic tools in Witchcraft. She teaches about the cauldron's role in lore and mythology, and its development through the ages. Topics Include: Halloween, New Orlean, Witches' Ball, Pagan Pride, OTO, Ritual, Witchcraft, Practice, Vocation, Art, Magic, Spell, Separation, Sa...

Jeffrey Kripal: La Madonna dell'UFO

October 23, 2017 10:10 - 27.5 MB

42 Minutes 290: Jeffrey Kripal - La Madonna dell'UFO - 10.23.2017 According to Terrence McKenna, "We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extraterrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us." Philip K. Dick calls this Valis. And Jeffrey Kripal defines and enumerates this process as "The Super Story" in his book Mutants & Mystics. Topics Include: Hurricane Harvey, Huston, Flooding, Survivor's Guilt, Twin Peaks, Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland, Authors O...

Rich Cohen: Gen X - Story Of A Curse

October 10, 2017 10:10 - 25.6 MB

42 Minutes 289: Rich Cohen - Gen X: Story Of A Curse - 10.10.2017 We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice one whole Saturday in dentition, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are, thus, today for 42 minutes, we consider humility and irony with author Rich Cohen, responsible most recently for The Chicago Cubs: Story Of A Curse published October 3rd by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Topics Include: Baby Boomer, Greatest Generation, George HW Bus...

Brian Shipman: The Key To The Whole Game

October 09, 2017 10:10 - 26.3 MB

42 Minutes 288: Brian Shipman - The Key To The Whole Game - 10.03.2017 Today we are going to follow the monkey and determine why Australia is the key to the whole game and we'll do so with a master of the mystery, Mystimus, AKA Brian Shipman author of the blog whoisstraka.wordpress.com Topics Include: JJ Abrams, Ship Of Theseus, Mystery, Lost, S, The Numbers, Mystimus, Annihilation, Lighthouse, Notebooks, Puzzle, Joseph Campbell, Sarah Lawrence College, Pathways To Bliss, Hero's Journey...

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