Episode 79: Upside Down S.M.I2.L.E. feat Gabriel Kennedy
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Aug 10, 202630 June 2025
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We chat with Gabriel Kennedy, author of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson, about Wilson and Timothy Leary’s 1970s and 80s hope-fueled tech utopianism and what's left of it in the age of Musk and Thiel’s tech-fash dystopia. Find Gabriel online and buy his book:chapelperilous.us Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get extra episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog.
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So instead of this revolution in people's banks that predate, uh, PJ Prudhomme was, was seeking to put out there, um, we have crypto, right. And crypto, uh, say for instance, you know, Trump's meme co
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