…or did they just re edit the newsreels of world war I? How did the first trilogy come about? You wrote it with Robert Shea right yes that came about because we were both writing for various underground publications and we had begun with a few other…

…more popular ones? Well the bestseller of them all so far is the illuminatus trilogy, which I co authored with Robert Shea, and the schrödinger's cat trilogy. And right now penguin is publishing my historical illuminatus chronicles, of which there are three…

…Schrodinger's Cat. This is material that I remembered and recreated in Schrodinger's Cat. Was it a pleasant experience to collaborate with Robert Shea? Oh yeah, yeah we never had the kind of feud that Gilbert and Sullivan had nothing remotely like that. Did…

…was published, for some reason unknown to me, kleps took it in his head to write several magazines that Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea did not exist. The book had been written by Leary. This was just two pen names he invented to conceal the fact…

…Oh no sorry, no governor, I don't have it memorized. The cover for shike was so slick I wasn't sure it was the same Robert Shea. And then I started reading it finally and the first number was a 23 and the first scene was an initiation and I said,…

…a half years oh really. Then I started writing full time. My first major work was illuminatus, written in collaboration with Robert Shea. Illuminatus was actually a three volume comic melodramatic science fiction trilogy with a lot of facts in it so that…

…1987. Hour of Slack Number 91 with a special guest pope Robert Anton Wilson. Author of the illuminatus trilogy with the late Robert Shea and cosmic trigger and so many other books, Robert Anton Wilson was a huge influence on the development of the church…

…at the same time. Well friends I have to admit something tonight and that is that if his holiness pope Dr St Wilson and Robert Shea, if you guys had not busted your butts on the illuminatus trilogy of books, I would and I mean this I might right now…