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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Today's conversation features a live podcast that takes place at BTG Pactual's NYC office for an audience in private markets.We are joined by Todd Owens, the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Cantilever Group, where BTG Pactual is an investor.Cantilever is an independent firm focused on providing capital solutions to middle market asset managers. The firm's capital can be used to accelerate growth, support acquisitions or liftouts, fund GP commitments, seed new strategies, facilitate generational ownership transfer, and provide liquidity to founders. Cantilever focuses on asset management firms that have enterprise values between $50M and $500M. The team has executed on over $500M of GP stakes, financing, and seeding transactions as both investors and principals. The team's advisory experience working with stakes funds includes over 15 GP stakes transactions, multiple GP stakes portfolio financings, numerous GP and BDC IPOs, and dozens of asset management financing and control transactions.Cantilever is working with two strategic partners as they build their firm: BTG Pactual, the ~$30B market cap Brazilian bank and wealth and asset manager has invested into Cantilever's fund, and Broadhaven Ventures, the principal investment arm of Broadhaven Capital Partners.Todd has over 30 years of experience as an advisor covering financial institutions and as a senior financial services executive. Prior to founding Cantilever, Todd has been a Partner at Broadhaven Capital Partners, an independent financial services focused investment bank that's completed over $100B in announced M&A transaction volume, as well as the former CEO of Fifth Street Finance. Todd began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co, spending 24 years including as a Managing Director and Partner in the Investment Banking Division.Todd and I had a fascinating conversation about the GP stakes space and why the middle market represents a compelling part of the asset management ecosystem as the industry undergoes change and consolidation. We discussed:The early days of alternative asset managers going public.The evolution of the GP stakes market.The role that GP stakes investing can play in the growth of alternative asset managers.How and why GP stakes has shades of private equity, private credit, and secondaries in a single strategy. A tale of two cities — the upper end of the market and the middle-market.What will liquidity look like in the GP stakes space?Thanks Todd for sharing your wisdom and views on GP stakes and asset management.Subscribe to Alt Goes Mainstream to receive the weekly newsletter every Sunday and all of AGM's podcasts.Show Notes00:38 Welcome to the Alt Goes Mainstream Podcast00:40 Live Podcast at BTG Pactual's New York City Office00:49 Introducing Todd Owens and Cantilever Group02:26 Welcome to Alt Goes Mainstream Live03:04 Todd's Background and Perspective03:29 The Early Days of Minority Equity04:28 Alternative Asset Managers Going Public04:53 The Success of Public Offerings05:32 Evolution of the GP Stakes Market05:58 The Financial Crisis and Market Evolution06:14 Understanding the Asset Management Business06:47 Public vs. Private Market Perceptions08:07 Middle Market Opportunities08:37 The Role of GP Stakes in Firm Growth09:05 Different Approaches to Building a Business09:15 Lessons from advising Oaktree and Ares09:27 Strategic Planning in Asset Management10:14 Sophistication in the Middle Market10:45 The Future of GP Stakes and Asset Management11:48 Differences Between Upper and Middle Markets14:46 Opportunities in the Lower Middle Market16:03 The Persistence of the Middle Market17:58 Wealth Channel and Private Markets18:48 Evolution of Wealth Management20:04 Democratization of Alternatives20:24 GP Stakes as an Investment Strategy20:54 GP Stakes: The Best of All Worlds?20:59 Investment Strategies and Market Trends22:08 Private Credit vs. GP Stakes22:58 Betting on Private Markets Growth23:17 Long Duration Capital in GP Stakes23:47 Liquidity in the GP Stake Space24:22 Managing Portfolio and Realizations25:01 The Need for Liquidity Solutions25:19 Quick Fire Questions25:26 Favorite Asset Class in 2025?26:06 Next Firm to Go Public?26:16 Challenges of Merging Large Firms27:21 Future of Middle Market GP Stakes28:07 Conclusion: Live Podcast Wrap-Up28:12 Thank You and Closing Remarks Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

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https://youtube.com/live/xC7iMY2mcSQ Sammy Hagar Announces ‘Best of All Worlds' Las Vegas Residency. After a successful summer tour, Sammy Hagar has announced The Best of All Worlds Residency in Las Vegas. The Red Rocker's Van Halen celebration will hit the stage at Dolby Live inside Park MGM next spring. Check out the full list of shows below! Joining Hagar on the Vegas Strip are Michael Anthony, former Van Halen bassist; guitarist Joe Satriani; and renowned drummer Kenny Aronoff. Aronoff steps in after Jason Bonham, who played drums during the summer tour, confirmed he would not be continuing with the group. Aronoff's impressive career includes work with John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath. Dolby Live at Park MGM will also host Mötley Crüe's Las Vegas residency starting in March. Hagar originally launched The Best of All Worlds Tour on July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida, alongside Anthony, Satriani, and Bonham. The 28-date North American trek celebrated Hagar's Van Halen era with a setlist of iconic hits, rare tracks, and songs from Montrose, Chickenfoot, and the members' solo catalogs. Fans were treated to a high-energy revival of Van Halen's legendary music, making the upcoming Vegas shows a must-see event!

https://youtube.com/live/Xh8G_pc5nbg Sammy Hagar is building excitement among fans with hints of something big on the horizon. The rocker recently posted videos on social media featuring himself and Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony in the studio, captioned, “Big announcement coming up next week. The best of all worlds band—we are up to something.” The post also included hashtags like #newmusic, fueling speculation about what's to come. In the clips, fans get a taste of what could be a new song. In one video, Anthony is seen laying down a bass line while Hagar's vocals—singing “thank you”—play in the background. Another clip shows Anthony recording backing vocals, adding to the intrigue. But it might not stop at music. The post also included the hashtag #moreshows, hinting that another leg of the tour could be in the works. Hagar tagged Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani, and drummer Kenny Aronoff, who stepped in for Jason Bonham during part of the previous tour, suggesting the entire lineup could be involved. Hagar previously told ABC Audio that he had plans to create new music with his Best of All Worlds tour band and had already collaborated on a song with Satriani. He also expressed hopes for additional tour dates. The Best of All Worlds tour, which kicked off in July, showcased a mix of Van Halen classics and Hagar's solo hits, leaving fans eager for what's next. #sammyhagar #vanhalen #eddievanhalen #johnnybeaneTV

https://www.youtube.com/live/ijwFzTTHMSQ?si=30pjq7OUSIGmAOLd In an interview with Billboard, Alex Van Halen explains why his new book, Brothers, co-written with Ariel Levy, isn't a tell-all. "If I start throwing dirt, it'll never end," Alex says. He acknowledges the appeal of sensationalism but stresses his aim is to honor the spiritual and creative side of his late brother, Eddie Van Halen. He believes much of what's been said about Eddie was inaccurate, often from third-party sources. “Before I die, I would like to at least partially set the record straight," he adds. Brothers, which releases on Oct. 22, centers on the Van Halen brothers' relationship, both personally and musically, rather than delving into band drama. Alex says the process of writing was emotional, reflecting on their 65 years together, but it also allowed him to explore his own motivations. The book details their family dynamics, including the influence of their father, Jan, a jazz musician, and their Dutch East Indies-born mother, Eugenia. Alex hopes to give a more sophisticated view of Eddie's talents, describing Eddie's ability to make the guitar "sing" and expressing frustration that people focus only on his playing, missing who Eddie was as a person. “Maybe people don't care, but I care. He's my brother." While the book covers the early days of Van Halen, it notably stops after David Lee Roth's departure in 1985. Alex acknowledges the band was “dysfunctional” but that their performances kept them together until the split. Roth's exit, he says, was “the most disappointing thing I'd experienced in my life, the thing that seemed the most wasteful and unjust. Until I lost my brother.” Despite years of tension with Roth, Alex says he's not angry, respecting Roth's work ethic. After Eddie's passing, Alex even called Roth first to inform him. Alex explains his decision not to cover the Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone years, stating, “What happened after Dave left is not the same band." He also confirmed he's uninterested in the Best of All Worlds tour with Hagar and Michael Anthony, feeling they're not doing the band justice. Alex also clarifies his recent drum equipment auction wasn't a sign of retirement: "I'll die with sticks in my hand." Despite battling spinal issues, he plans to continue playing, with advancements in modern technology offering hope for recovery in the coming years. Regarding Eddie's health and the band's inactivity before his passing, Alex says, “Ed had been dealing with cancer for quite a number of years... He was fighting cancer. It's as simple as that.” Fans can look forward to a new instrumental track, “Unfinished,” included in the audiobook version of Brothers, part of a trove of unreleased material the brothers recorded at 5150 Studios. While Alex says more will be released when it feels right, he stresses the need for high standards and the right team to handle it. He's even approached OpenAI to help turn some of the material into songs. Looking ahead, Alex expresses interest in turning Brothers into a movie but notes the complexities of the process. In the meantime, he's focused on three book events in New York, New Jersey, and California, where he'll sign copies and answer fan questions—though he reserves the right to pass on certain topics. Reflecting on Eddie's passing, Alex says, “He's not gone for me." He believes in the connection between them, rooted in both quantum physics and their mother's spiritual upbringing. “You cannot destroy energy, it just takes different shapes... That's kind of how it is for me with Ed.” Though the pain of losing Eddie remains, Alex finds solace in the idea that their bond continues. In a poignant closing note, he recalls writing in the book, “When I see you again, I'm gonna kick yo' ass…”

https://www.youtube.com/live/V9DAdm4VpcA?si=RsJ3aSCumvxUxzdH Joe Satriani initially agreed to join a Van Halen tribute with David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen but later backed out, telling Guitarist it was "too hard" to fill Eddie Van Halen's shoes. Though excited at first, Satriani struggled with the challenge of replicating Eddie's unique style, saying, “Eddie played in a completely different way. His timing and feel were so different from what I've cultivated over decades." While Alex convinced him to reconsider, Satriani ultimately felt the tribute wasn't the right fit, noting that Wolfgang Van Halen's own tribute to his father offered fans the closure they needed. Instead, Satriani joined Sammy Hagar's Best of All Worlds tour, which includes Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham, playing a mix of songs from Hagar's career, including 15-20 Van Halen tracks. Satriani explains that this project resonated with him because it wasn't solely focused on Van Halen, but on Hagar's legacy as a whole. He appreciated the tour's celebratory vibe, adding that the fans' reaction has been heartwarming. Though he's mindful of not copying Eddie's parts, Satriani has adapted some of Eddie's techniques, blending them with his own style to honor the music while staying true to himself. "It's not a Van Halen tribute," Satriani clarifies, "It's a tribute to Sammy's legacy that happens to include a huge chunk of Van Halen music." “Exclusively Van Halen" is the ultimate destination for all things Van Halen. Step into the world of rock and roll legends as we delve deep into the history, music, and trivia surrounding one of the most iconic bands of all time. Join us as we explore Van Halen's storied career, from their electrifying performances to the making of their timeless hits. Get to know the band members, their inspirations, and the stories behind the songs that have rocked generations. But that's not all – tune in for exciting giveaways where you can win exclusive Van Halen merchandise and more. Whether you're a die-hard fan or just discovering the magic of Van Halen, this show promises to keep you entertained, informed, and rocking out from start to finish. Get ready to jump into the world of "Exclusively Van Halen" and experience the music like never before.

MUSICAfter days of speculation as to what the countdown on their website meant, Linkin Park have confused fans again. https://xn--pda.linkinpark.com/Sean Strickland fired back at MGK with a wild social media post on Tuesday. The former middleweight champion got wind of MGK's comments on the just-released Impaulsive podcast episode where MGK talked about the time he met him. Sammy Hagar had to call an audible on The Best of All Worlds tour Tuesday in Cincinnati when drummer Jason Bonham had to head home to England due to a family matter. His mother Pat lives there, and a source close to the family tells us, "They are not making any details public as of now." Congratulations to Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins and his wife Chloe, who are expecting their third child.A trailer has been released for the new John Lennon documentary, Daytime Revolution. The film examines the week in February 1972 when Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show. Their guests included Chuck Berry, George Carlin, and activist Ralph Nader. Daytime Revolution opens in theaters on October 9th, Lennon's 84th birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkjiRlTVVnQJourney's Jonathan Cain came out victorious in his lawsuit against bandmate Neal Schon as the Delaware Chancery Court will appoint a third, independent director of Freedom 2020, Inc., their touring company of which they each own 50% and serve as sole directors.  TVNikki Glaser is set to host the upcoming 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards. An authorized biopic on actor, comedian, and host, Steve Harvey, called Seventy Two, is currently in the early stages of development. 50-year-old Tyra Banks will return to the catwalk of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for the first time in 19 years. Former Baywatch cast member Jeremy Jackson was hired at the age of 10 to be on the show, and he overshared in the documentary After Baywatch: Moments in the Sun. MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS:'The Bear' star Jeremy Allen White says there are two things that are helping him prep for his movie role as Bruce Springsteen in the biopic 'Deliver Me from Nowhere' - and they involve YouTube and advice from The Boss himself.  You've probably noticed that Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis did NOT return for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice". Well, Tim Burton has explained why          GAMING!Creative boost for video games … The CEO of Amazon Games, Christoph Hartmann, has high hopes for artificial intelligence, as the machines work to improve the development of video games. While many people in the field are freaking out and worried about AI taking their jobs, Hartmann believes AI will get rid of the boring parts of the process – and free people up to spend more time on being creative.Nintendo is putting the finishing touches on an epic museum in Kyoto, Japan – which is scheduled to open to the public in early October. Guests who plan to visit the new Nintendo Museum will use their Mii character as an admission ticket, with all the fun inside – including scores and photos from interactive exhibits – linked to their Nintendo account.AND FINALLYUltimateClassicRock.com did some kind of mathematical magic . . . or maybe they just pulled names out of a hat. Either way, they came up with the answer. The Big Four of Folk Rock are: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Byrds, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.Follow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams > Check out King Scott's band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

MUSIC After days of speculation as to what the countdown on their website meant, Linkin Park have confused fans again. https://xn--pda.linkinpark.com/ Sean Strickland fired back at MGK with a wild social media post on Tuesday. The former middleweight champion got wind of MGK's comments on the just-released Impaulsive podcast episode where MGK talked about the time he met him.  Sammy Hagar had to call an audible on The Best of All Worlds tour Tuesday in Cincinnati when drummer Jason Bonham had to head home to England due to a family matter. His mother Pat lives there, and a source close to the family tells us, "They are not making any details public as of now."  Congratulations to Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins and his wife Chloe, who are expecting their third child. A trailer has been released for the new John Lennon documentary, Daytime Revolution. The film examines the week in February 1972 when Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show. Their guests included Chuck Berry, George Carlin, and activist Ralph Nader. Daytime Revolution opens in theaters on October 9th, Lennon's 84th birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkjiRlTVVnQ Journey's Jonathan Cain came out victorious in his lawsuit against bandmate Neal Schon as the Delaware Chancery Court will appoint a third, independent director of Freedom 2020, Inc., their touring company of which they each own 50% and serve as sole directors.   TV Nikki Glaser is set to host the upcoming 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards.  An authorized biopic on actor, comedian, and host, Steve Harvey, called Seventy Two, is currently in the early stages of development.  50-year-old Tyra Banks will return to the catwalk of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for the first time in 19 years.  Former Baywatch cast member Jeremy Jackson was hired at the age of 10 to be on the show, and he overshared in the documentary After Baywatch: Moments in the Sun.  MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS: 'The Bear' star Jeremy Allen White says there are two things that are helping him prep for his movie role as Bruce Springsteen in the biopic 'Deliver Me from Nowhere' - and they involve YouTube and advice from The Boss himself.   You've probably noticed that Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis did NOT return for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice". Well, Tim Burton has explained why           GAMING! Creative boost for video games … The CEO of Amazon Games, Christoph Hartmann, has high hopes for artificial intelligence, as the machines work to improve the development of video games. While many people in the field are freaking out and worried about AI taking their jobs, Hartmann believes AI will get rid of the boring parts of the process – and free people up to spend more time on being creative. Nintendo is putting the finishing touches on an epic museum in Kyoto, Japan – which is scheduled to open to the public in early October. Guests who plan to visit the new Nintendo Museum will use their Mii character as an admission ticket, with all the fun inside – including scores and photos from interactive exhibits – linked to their Nintendo account. AND FINALLY UltimateClassicRock.com did some kind of mathematical magic . . . or maybe they just pulled names out of a hat. Either way, they came up with the answer.  The Big Four of Folk Rock are: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Byrds, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Follow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams > Check out King Scott's band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://www.youtube.com/live/xfOep3rXNPQ?si=lJ5Am_GCqBJAGuZO Tonight on Exclusively Van Halen, we'll cover David Lee Roth's recent announcement that he's taking a break for a vacation, meaning we won't see much of him online for a while. Plus, we'll dive into how Kenny Aronoff saved the day at Sammy Hagar's Best of All Worlds show in Cincinnati on Tuesday night, stepping in on drums after Jason Bonham had to leave the tour due to an undisclosed family matter. “Exclusively Van Halen" is the ultimate destination for all things Van Halen. Step into the world of rock and roll legends as we delve deep into the history, music, and trivia surrounding one of the most iconic bands of all time. Join us as we explore Van Halen's storied career, from their electrifying performances to the making of their timeless hits. Get to know the band members, their inspirations, and the stories behind the songs that have rocked generations. But that's not all – tune in for exciting giveaways where you can win exclusive Van Halen merchandise and more. Whether you're a die-hard fan or just discovering the magic of Van Halen, this show promises to keep you entertained, informed, and rocking out from start to finish. Get ready to jump into the world of "Exclusively Van Halen" and experience the music like never before. We talk all things Van Halen! #vanhalen #johnnybeaneTV #eddievanhalen #alexvanhalen #exclusivelyvanhalen #KennyAronoff #davidleeroth

You might recognise his name, Oberon Zell. I've had him on the pod before, he's incredibly interesting. He identities as many things, including as an artist, author and a teacher. He's also a wizard and is the headmaster of The School of Wizardry. On top of all of this he's also the Founder and First Primate of the Church of worlds… Aaand he's polyamorous. In fact his life-mate, Morning Glory actually coined the term Polyamory!Genuinely this is one of my favourite conversations. Our chat was recorded about three years ago in the midst of a global covid lockdown. A lot has happened since then, so at the end of this ep I'll pop back in and give you a bit of an update on Oberon. For now though, please enjoy my conversation with the wonderful Oberon Zell. Listen to our first chat about the Church of All Worlds here.Check out or get in touch with Oberon Zell here:FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/oberon.zellGreen Egg Forum FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1069823176940972Grey School of Wizardry FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1436042009981163Church of All Worlds FB: https://www.facebook.com/cawincGet in touch if you'd like to suggest an idea for an episode or just to say G'day

https://youtube.com/live/sA5ndYcCDZc?feature=share On tonight's high-energy episode of "Talking Guitars," we're taking you along on our unforgettable Los Angeles road trip! We jammed out at Sammy Hagar's "Best of All Worlds" tour in LA, visited the iconic Norman's Rare Guitars, and dove deep into Kramer's KILLER NEW & UPGRADED MODELS. Plus, we got an exclusive look at some stunning EVH Gear Special Edition Custom Shop models that are sure to blow your mind. And don't miss our discussion about an upcoming Heritage Auctions event featuring some rare Eddie Van Halen Steve Ripley guitars. Follow us for more epic content!

https://youtube.com/live/5yBRUazAopY?feature=share We just experienced the "Best of All Worlds" tour stop in Concord, California last night—what an incredible show! We're heading to the Los Angeles show on Monday, and we can't wait! “Exclusively Van Halen" is the ultimate destination for all things Van Halen. Step into the world of rock and roll legends as we delve deep into the history, music, and trivia surrounding one of the most iconic bands of all time. Join us as we explore Van Halen's storied career, from their electrifying performances to the making of their timeless hits. Get to know the band members, their inspirations, and the stories behind the songs that have rocked generations. But that's not all – tune in for exciting giveaways where you can win exclusive Van Halen merchandise and more. Whether you're a die-hard fan or just discovering the magic of Van Halen, this show promises to keep you entertained, informed, and rocking out from start to finish. Get ready to jump into the world of "Exclusively Van Halen" and experience the music like never before. We talk all things Van Halen! #vanhalen #johnnybeaneTV #eddievanhalen #joesatriani #sammyhagar #exclusivelyvanhalen

MUSIC There might be a simple reason why Alex Van Halen has never responded to Sammy Hagar's invitation to join him on The Best of All Worlds tour. It turns out that he may harbor a grudge against Hagar's drummer, Jason Bonham because of something his father, the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, did to the Van Halen drummer. Sammy Hagar says David Lee Roth "went AWOL" after inviting him to join him on his 'Best of All World'. Roth had initially expressed interest in the tour saying "I'm in" but Hagar told Eddie Trunk, "He went AWOL. After clarifying the offer, he just kind of went to sleep on it, which is fine. I don't need Roth antagonizing me.” The estate of late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell has launched a new line of liquor called Blacktooth Beverages. It includes Blacktooth American Rye Whiskey; Blacktooth Blended, which blends whiskey and vodka; and Blacktooth Grin Ready to Drink Single-Serve cocktails, which is a canned mix of Blacktooth Blended and cola available in “Leaded” (with sugar) and “Unleaded” (sugar-free) - LINK Sets by Blink-182, The Killers, Deftones, and Pierce the Veil will be featured on Hulu's Lollapalooza streaming schedule. It starts Thursday - LINK TV It's a full-circle moment for Carrie Underwood, as she is replacing Katy Perry as a judge on American Idol Season 23 - LINK In other SNL news: Jason Reitman's upcoming 'SNL' biopic, 'Saturday Night' and will premiere on October 11th, the same day the live sketch comedy series premiered in 1975 - LINK MISC Pete Davidson has checked into a rehab facility in order to focus on mental health - LINK AND FINALLY People on Reddit have listed out some movies that they think SHOULD never get a remake: Some responses: The Princess Bride. The Shawshank Redemption. The Godfather. Blazing Saddles... AND MORE Follow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams > Check out King Scott's band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MUSICThere might be a simple reason why Alex Van Halen has never responded to Sammy Hagar's invitation to join him on The Best of All Worlds tour. It turns out that he may harbor a grudge against Hagar's drummer, Jason Bonham because of something his father, the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, did to the Van Halen drummer. Sammy Hagar says David Lee Roth "went AWOL" after inviting him to join him on his 'Best of All World'. Roth had initially expressed interest in the tour saying "I'm in" but Hagar told Eddie Trunk, "He went AWOL. After clarifying the offer, he just kind of went to sleep on it, which is fine. I don't need Roth antagonizing me.”The estate of late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell has launched a new line of liquor called Blacktooth Beverages. It includes Blacktooth American Rye Whiskey; Blacktooth Blended, which blends whiskey and vodka; and Blacktooth Grin Ready to Drink Single-Serve cocktails, which is a canned mix of Blacktooth Blended and cola available in “Leaded” (with sugar) and “Unleaded” (sugar-free) - LINKSets by Blink-182, The Killers, Deftones, and Pierce the Veil will be featured on Hulu's Lollapalooza streaming schedule. It starts Thursday - LINKTVIt's a full-circle moment for Carrie Underwood, as she is replacing Katy Perry as a judge on American Idol Season 23 - LINKIn other SNL news: Jason Reitman's upcoming 'SNL' biopic, 'Saturday Night' and will premiere on October 11th, the same day the live sketch comedy series premiered in 1975 - LINKMISCPete Davidson has checked into a rehab facility in order to focus on mental health - LINKAND FINALLYPeople on Reddit have listed out some movies that they think SHOULD never get a remake:Some responses: The Princess Bride. The Shawshank Redemption. The Godfather. Blazing Saddles... AND MORE Follow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams > Check out King Scott's band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

https://www.youtube.com/live/1vG43nX1Bo8?si=8ruz8ywEkIEkNX0L Welcome to another episode of "Exclusively Van Halen"! In this episode, we dive into how Sammy Hagar invested $1.5 million into the production of the "Best of All Worlds" tour. If Joe Satriani hadn't been the guitarist on this tour, who would you want to see in that role? Plus, we explore an intriguing what-if scenario: What if Eddie Van Halen had left Van Halen and joined KISS in 1981? What might have happened? Don't forget to subscribe to JohnnyBeaneTV for more Van Halen discussions!

EPISODE #103 - Sammy Hagar has launched his Van Halen heavy tour, “The Best of All Worlds” packed with 15 VH songs. The Daves deliver a road report from the band's Bridgeport, CT show. The dynamic duo also does a deep dive on the new Van Halen box set, “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” (Expanded Edition). Buckets of VH News and a deep mailbag segment completes this July 2024 episode. Download the podcast for free on Spreaker, YouTube, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Google podcasts, Amazon Music, Podvine or iTunes. Connect with the Daves on Twitter: @ddunchained, Facebook: Dave & Dave Unchained – A Van Halen podcast, Instagram: ddunchainedpodcast or via email: ddunchainedpodcast@gmail.com

On this episode of "Exclusively Van Halen," we dive into Sammy Hagar's recent appearance on Eddie Trunk's show. The "Best of All Worlds" tour is rocking the road with Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, and Jason Bonham keeping the music LIVE and alive! This morning, during my show, CFG (Cable Free Guitar) dropped a promo video featuring yours truly, and I was pleasantly surprised to see it! Check it out here - https://youtube.com/shorts/cEE9con89WQ?si=vu4-o5812hV6Tn4e “Exclusively Van Halen" is the ultimate destination for all things Van Halen. Step into the world of rock and roll legends as we delve deep into the history, music, and trivia surrounding one of the most iconic bands of all time. Watch here - https://www.youtube.com/live/8xxcUGBxyTU?si=kNF_C_NaUZjBJPZu Join us as we explore Van Halen's storied career, from their electrifying performances to the making of their timeless hits. Get to know the band members, their inspirations, and the stories behind the songs that have rocked generations. But that's not all – tune in for exciting giveaways where you can win exclusive Van Halen merchandise and more. Whether you're a die-hard fan or just discovering the magic of Van Halen, this show promises to keep you entertained, informed, and rocking out from start to finish. Get ready to jump into the world of "Exclusively Van Halen" and experience the music like never before. We talk all things Van Halen!

https://youtube.com/live/hmfL7hLC35U Tonight on "Exclusively Van Halen," we dive into exciting news as Joe Satriani unveils the EVH guitars he will be using on the upcoming "The Best of All Worlds" tour with Sammy Hagar. These guitars, a mix of customized EVH Gear and Ernie Ball, promise to deliver that signature sound. Sammy Hagar shares his efforts to connect with Alex Van Halen, though he hasn't received a response yet. Get ready for an unforgettable tour packed with classic Van Halen hits! Don't miss it! “Exclusively Van Halen" is the ultimate destination for all things Van Halen. Step into the world of rock and roll legends as we delve deep into the history, music, and trivia surrounding one of the most iconic bands of all time. Join us as we explore Van Halen's storied career, from their electrifying performances to the making of their timeless hits. Get to know the band members, their inspirations, and the stories behind the songs that have rocked generations. But that's not all – tune in for exciting giveaways where you can win exclusive Van Halen merchandise and more. Whether you're a die-hard fan or just discovering the magic of Van Halen, this show promises to keep you entertained, informed, and rocking out from start to finish. Get ready to jump into the world of "Exclusively Van Halen" and experience the music like never before. We talk all things Van Halen!

Dear listeners, we are in sura 81 AlTakweer, The rolling upالتكوير. This message is for All People ! Wawoo what a verse , where do we go from here? This sura is about the day of Judgment and a description of how it starts. For anyone that asks about why is this happening to me? this is not fair ? Don't worry have faith it is in His Hands. God a translation of Allah ; He is Lord of the Great Throne and The Lord of All Worlds. This is the day where you will get it all back. So have good intentions, be a good human to everyone and everything in this world . Remember all your actions are recorded , and payback will happen. So have faith in God , the one and only, and enjoy making the best of your life

Guitarist extraordinaire Joe Satriani is presently on tour with Steve Vai, and after that he'll be on the road with Sammy Hagar's "Best of All Worlds" extravaganza. Joe is so down to earth and interesting, you'll love listening to him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello – welcome back to the “with Mon” podcast! This week's a bit of a special one, I've been “rummaging” through some of my old interviews and found a conversation I had with the extraordinary Oberon Zell. Genuinely one of THE most interesting people I've had the pleasure of speaking with. He's an artist, teacher, author. He's also a wizard, and the Founder and Primate of the Church of All Worlds. We recorded this chat right in the thick of the pandemic – which is wild, it feels like so long ago now. We cover SO many interesting topics, I'm not even going to try and summarise it for you now because it really is best if you hear straight from the conversation. So settle, because you really are in for a treat.Check out or get in touch with Oberon Zell here:FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/oberon.zellFriends & fans FB page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/oberonzellwizard/community/Green Egg Forum FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1069823176940972Grey School of Wizardry FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1436042009981163Church of All Worlds FB: https://www.facebook.com/cawincAnd if you'd like to get in touch - feel free to send in any ideas for future episodes - or just say G'Day!EMAIL: listen_with_mon@outlook.comNEW INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/withmonpodcast/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At The Parliament of the World's Religions, Doug Pagitt sat down with Master Wizard Oberon Zell who founded the Church of All Worlds and Carl Bonebright, Director of Education and Publishing for The Troth, an Inclusive Heathenry organization.   www.oberonzell.com   www.thetroth.org   Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt   Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic   votecommongood.com votecommongood.com/podcast facebook.com/votecommongood twitter.com/votecommon

We welcome back Eric Senich from both the Van Halen News Desk and the Booked On Rock Podcast. Is the CMPU pushing Corey too hard? We discuss workloads, from the Podcast to working for VHND, and how we all maintain ourselves between life and hobby. Eric fills us in on some great interviews he has had and some of the regulars on his own show. (0:32)The Best of All Worlds tour featuring Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Joe Satriani is gearing up soon. We discuss the upcoming tour and what we know about it. (23:47)David Lee Roth, the man with the mouth and the hyperactive personality may have been the best thing to happen to the Van Halen brothers, but that relationship was full of pitfalls. We dig in deep on Dave. (29:55)Come back next week for the second half of this momentous conversation.#podcast #music #vanhalen #podcastwillrock #bookedonrock #vhnd #rockWebsite: www.seanmcginity.caMerch: Red Bubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/seangeekpodcast/shopTee Public: https://www.teepublic.com/seangeekpodcast@seangeekpodcast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook@fastfretfingers on Instagram@ToddGeeks Tech Talk on Facebook @captivatefmMentioned in this episode:New Merch AdAn ad that incorporates Red Bubble and Tee PublicThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Greg Renoff, author of the definitive history on #vanhalen joins me to talk about the new Best of All Worlds tour in 2024. News from the @oakwellbeerspa The #NYCBrewed folks have set the opening bash date. New N/A beer from a company based out of NYC. Whiskey Speakeasy from Great Jones Distilling and @otherhalfnyc making moves in NY State. Suds and Duds and so much more. @njcraftbeer  @hoppedupnetwork @sjbeerscene @brewerystrong #metalforever #drinklocal #drinkcraftnotcrap #stouts #ipas #lagers #ales #sours #hops #pilsners #porters #gastropub #speakeasy  #growler #beer #jerseybeers #fcancer #smallbusinessowners #beerfestivals #beertours #music #savenjbeer #podcasts #crowlers @sammyhagar @mad_anthony_bassman @joesatriani @jasonbonhamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Milli Vanilli doc on Paramount+, Will Smith denies he's gay, Nepo Baby All Star: Deacon Phillippe, burner phones, butt chugging, ‘The Killer' on Netflix, and someone on Facebook declares Drew dead. Charles Anderson “killed” Drew. Kwame Kilpatrick has a brand-new gig with a non profit. Bobby Ferguson is out here complaining about Detroit ending a deal with his daughter's company. Drew learned about Mother God and the power of drugs. There is a new Milli Vanilli documentary on Paramount+. Rolling Stone talked to Lil Tay for some reason. Check out her hit song here. Nikki Haley wants anonymity off the world wide web. Update: Now she doesn't. Kurt Russell and his nepo-brat are in some new series. Will Smith denies that he was “murdered” via butt sex according to his former assistant. Jada is suing! Rachel breaks her silence on Chandler's death. Ross did too. As did Phoebe. All 5 living Friends have now commented. We all wish Reese Witherspoon was our mom. Deacon Phillippe has started his music career. It's going great. The Best of All Worlds is on it's way for all you Van Halen fans out there. Sports: The Kelces and Swifts are meeting at the Philadelphia Eagles v. Kansas City Chiefs game! Deshaun Watson is injured and out for the rest of the season. Patrick Mahomes wears the same underwears every game. Gross. Draymond Green gets physical with Rudy Gobert. Marc has a boner for television refresh rates. The Killer on Netflix has awesome sound. Drew sees no purpose in burner phones. There is new Connor Stalions news. John Harbaugh has his brother's back. JaMo eats disgusting cheeseburgers. Danii Banks earned herself some new OnlyFans subscriptions. Her ex, Damon Arnette, is a hell of a guy. Dean McDermott breaks his silence on the separation with Tori Spelling. Did David Cone beat off in the bullpen or what? Butt-chugging remains a thing. Steve-O is the king of butt chugs. No smoking the ganja on cruise ships. Visit Our Presenting Sponsor Hall Financial – Michigan's highest rated mortgage company If you'd like to help support the show… please consider subscribing to our YouTube Page, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew and Mike Show, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon).

Today's Program Has Several Segments -- Table of Contents -- Program Outline:   Quotes from the Upanishads;    Bhagavad Gita/Gospel of Thomas Jesus-Krishna Parallels;    Fending For One's Self vs. Following and Getting to Know a Living Spiritual Path;    In a Book I Once Read it Says Books Are Not the Answer -- "You can't read your way to enlightenment."   In Sant Mat the Centers of Power, the Location or Real Estate Never Remains the Same Forever;    What About Those Who Get Re-Initiated? Have Been Initiated by More Than One Guru?   Sants of Antiquity Long Before the Time of Kabir;    Living Teachers Reveal the Methods of Meditation and Mysticism;    The Definition Of Sant Mat by Maharshi Mehi Paramhans;    In Hinduism and Other Eastern Religions the Main Operating System is The Eight Limbs of Yoga -- Stages of Spiritual Development... and The Five Ethical Precepts;    Initiation Into Surat Shabd Yoga -- Inner Light and Sound Meditation by a Living Master (Sant Satguru);    A Paraphrase or Summary of the Teachings of Maharshi Mehi on the Sant Mat Way of Life;    Seven Key Practices of Sant Mat Mysticism;    The 5 Jewels of Sant Mat;    Sarguna or God-with Form vs. Nirguna, the Way of the Formless God in the Bhagavad Gita of Krishna  -- A Transition from Form to Formlessness;    How A Formless God Communicates With Souls Living in Worlds of Form;    The Radiant Form is the Key to Exploring Inner Space;    The Inner Satguru: God Has Made the Reflection of His Form Available in All Worlds;    The Formless One Assumes Forms In Order to Communicate With Souls in All Realms and Escorts Them Back to the Original Abode of the Beloved;    The Outer Master Guides Souls to the Inner Master. The Inner Master (Satguru) Guides Souls Back to the Formless God;    From Light to Sound, From Form to Formlessness -- Stages of Meditation on the Path of the Masters;    Krishna -- Gita: The Power Between the Eyebrows -- the Third Eye -- The Seat of the Soul;    Recommended Reading: The Hinduism (Vedic) Chapter of, The Harmony Of All Religions, by Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj;     In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhaswami, James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts A Satsang Without Walls Sant Mat Radhasoami https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com    

Dr. John “Apollonius” Opsopaus : Dr. John “Apollonius” Opsopaus has practiced magic, divination, and Neopaganism since the 1960s. He has some 40 publications in various magical and Neopagan magazines and anthologies. He designed the Pythagorean Tarot and wrote the comprehensive Guide to the Pythagorean Tarot (Llewellyn, 2001). His recently released Oracles of Apollo (Llewellyn, 2017) teaches divination based on ancient Greek texts that he has translated. Opsopaus frequently presents workshops on Hellenic magic and Neopaganism, Pythagorean theurgy, divination, and related topics. In the early 1990s he founded the Omphalos, a networking organization for Neopagans in the Greek and Roman traditions and one of the first internet resources for them. He is past coordinator of the Scholars Guild for the Church of All Worlds, past Arkhon of the Hellenic Kin of ADF (A Druid Fellowship), and a member of the Grey Council. His writings can be found at opsopaus.com and omphalos.org/BATo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The current edition of The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper is available at www.xchronicles.net.This episode of The ‘X' Zone with Rob McConnell is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca. It's Brainalicious!

Episode one hundred and fifty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “White Rabbit”, Jefferson Airplane, and the rise of the San Francisco sound. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-three-minute bonus episode available, on "Omaha" by Moby Grape. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Erratum I refer to Back to Methuselah by Robert Heinlein. This is of course a play by George Bernard Shaw. What I meant to say was Methuselah's Children. Resources I hope to upload a Mixcloud tomorrow, and will edit it in, but have had some problems with the site today. Jefferson Airplane's first four studio albums, plus a 1968 live album, can be found in this box set. I've referred to three main books here. Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane by Jeff Tamarkin is written with the co-operation of the band members, but still finds room to criticise them. Jefferson Airplane On Track by Richard Molesworth is a song-by-song guide to the band's music. And Been So Long: My Life and Music by Jorma Kaukonen is Kaukonen's autobiography. Some information on Skip Spence and Matthew Katz also comes from What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean?: The Moby Grape Story, by Cam Cobb, which I also used for this week's bonus. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, I need to confess an important and hugely embarrassing error in this episode. I've only ever seen Marty Balin's name written down, never heard it spoken, and only after recording the episode, during the editing process, did I discover I mispronounce it throughout. It's usually an advantage for the podcast that I get my information from books rather than TV documentaries and the like, because they contain far more information, but occasionally it causes problems like that. My apologies. Also a brief note that this episode contains some mentions of racism, antisemitism, drug and alcohol abuse, and gun violence. One of the themes we've looked at in recent episodes is the way the centre of the musical world -- at least the musical world as it was regarded by the people who thought of themselves as hip in the mid-sixties -- was changing in 1967. Up to this point, for a few years there had been two clear centres of the rock and pop music worlds. In the UK, there was London, and any British band who meant anything had to base themselves there. And in the US, at some point around 1963, the centre of the music industry had moved West. Up to then it had largely been based in New York, and there was still a thriving industry there as of the mid sixties. But increasingly the records that mattered, that everyone in the country had been listening to, had come out of LA Soul music was, of course, still coming primarily from Detroit and from the Country-Soul triangle in Tennessee and Alabama, but when it came to the new brand of electric-guitar rock that was taking over the airwaves, LA was, up until the first few months of 1967, the only city that was competing with London, and was the place to be. But as we heard in the episode on "San Francisco", with the Monterey Pop Festival all that started to change. While the business part of the music business remained centred in LA, and would largely remain so, LA was no longer the hip place to be. Almost overnight, jangly guitars, harmonies, and Brian Jones hairstyles were out, and feedback, extended solos, and droopy moustaches were in. The place to be was no longer LA, but a few hundred miles North, in San Francisco -- something that the LA bands were not all entirely happy about: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Who Needs the Peace Corps?"] In truth, the San Francisco music scene, unlike many of the scenes we've looked at so far in this series, had rather a limited impact on the wider world of music. Bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Big Brother and the Holding Company were all both massively commercially successful and highly regarded by critics, but unlike many of the other bands we've looked at before and will look at in future, they didn't have much of an influence on the bands that would come after them, musically at least. Possibly this is because the music from the San Francisco scene was always primarily that -- music created by and for a specific group of people, and inextricable from its context. The San Francisco musicians were defining themselves by their geographical location, their peers, and the situation they were in, and their music was so specifically of the place and time that to attempt to copy it outside of that context would appear ridiculous, so while many of those bands remain much loved to this day, and many made some great music, it's very hard to point to ways in which that music influenced later bands. But what they did influence was the whole of rock music culture. For at least the next thirty years, and arguably to this day, the parameters in which rock musicians worked if they wanted to be taken seriously – their aesthetic and political ideals, their methods of collaboration, the cultural norms around drug use and sexual promiscuity, ideas of artistic freedom and authenticity, the choice of acceptable instruments – in short, what it meant to be a rock musician rather than a pop, jazz, country, or soul artist – all those things were defined by the cultural and behavioural norms of the San Francisco scene between about 1966 and 68. Without the San Francisco scene there's no Woodstock, no Rolling Stone magazine, no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, no hippies, no groupies, no rock stars. So over the next few months we're going to take several trips to the Bay Area, and look at the bands which, for a brief time, defined the counterculture in America. The story of Jefferson Airplane -- and unlike other bands we've looked at recently, like The Pink Floyd and The Buffalo Springfield, they never had a definite article at the start of their name to wither away like a vestigial organ in subsequent years -- starts with Marty Balin. Balin was born in Ohio, but was a relatively sickly child -- he later talked about being autistic, and seems to have had the chronic illnesses that so often go with neurodivergence -- so in the hope that the dry air would be good for his chest his family moved to Arizona. Then when his father couldn't find work there, they moved further west to San Francisco, in the Haight-Ashbury area, long before that area became the byword for the hippie movement. But it was in LA that he started his music career, and got his surname. Balin had been named Marty Buchwald as a kid, but when he was nineteen he had accompanied a friend to LA to visit a music publisher, and had ended up singing backing vocals on her demos. While he was there, he had encountered the arranger Jimmy Haskell. Haskell was on his way to becoming one of the most prominent arrangers in the music industry, and in his long career he would go on to do arrangements for Bobby Gentry, Blondie, Steely Dan, Simon and Garfunkel, and many others. But at the time he was best known for his work on Ricky Nelson's hits: [Excerpt: Ricky Nelson, "Hello Mary Lou"] Haskell thought that Marty had the makings of a Ricky Nelson style star, as he was a good-looking young man with a decent voice, and he became a mentor for the young man. Making the kind of records that Haskell arranged was expensive, and so Haskell suggested a deal to him -- if Marty's father would pay for studio time and musicians, Haskell would make a record with him and find him a label to put it out. Marty's father did indeed pay for the studio time and the musicians -- some of the finest working in LA at the time. The record, released under the name Marty Balin, featured Jack Nitzsche on keyboards, Earl Palmer on drums, Milt Jackson on vibraphone, Red Callender on bass, and Glen Campbell and Barney Kessell on guitars, and came out on Challenge Records, a label owned by Gene Autry: [Excerpt: Marty Balin, "Nobody But You"] Neither that, nor Balin's follow-up single, sold a noticeable amount of copies, and his career as a teen idol was over before it had begun. Instead, as many musicians of his age did, he decided to get into folk music, joining a vocal harmony group called the Town Criers, who patterned themselves after the Weavers, and performed the same kind of material that every other clean-cut folk vocal group was performing at the time -- the kind of songs that John Phillips and Steve Stills and Cass Elliot and Van Dyke Parks and the rest were all performing in their own groups at the same time. The Town Criers never made any records while they were together, but some archival recordings of them have been released over the decades: [Excerpt: The Town Criers, "900 Miles"] The Town Criers split up, and Balin started performing as a solo folkie again. But like all those other then-folk musicians, Balin realised that he had to adapt to the K/T-event level folk music extinction that happened when the Beatles hit America like a meteorite. He had to form a folk-rock group if he wanted to survive -- and given that there were no venues for such a group to play in San Francisco, he also had to start a nightclub for them to play in. He started hanging around the hootenannies in the area, looking for musicians who might form an electric band. The first person he decided on was a performer called Paul Kantner, mainly because he liked his attitude. Kantner had got on stage in front of a particularly drunk, loud, crowd, and performed precisely half a song before deciding he wasn't going to perform in front of people like that and walking off stage. Kantner was the only member of the new group to be a San Franciscan -- he'd been born and brought up in the city. He'd got into folk music at university, where he'd also met a guitar player named Jorma Kaukonen, who had turned him on to cannabis, and the two had started giving music lessons at a music shop in San Jose. There Kantner had also been responsible for booking acts at a local folk club, where he'd first encountered acts like Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, a jug band which included Jerry Garcia, Pigpen McKernan, and Bob Weir, who would later go on to be the core members of the Grateful Dead: [Excerpt: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, "In the Jailhouse Now"] Kantner had moved around a bit between Northern and Southern California, and had been friendly with two other musicians on the Californian folk scene, David Crosby and Roger McGuinn. When their new group, the Byrds, suddenly became huge, Kantner became aware of the possibility of doing something similar himself, and so when Marty Balin approached him to form a band, he agreed. On bass, they got in a musician called Bob Harvey, who actually played double bass rather than electric, and who stuck to that for the first few gigs the group played -- he had previously been in a band called the Slippery Rock String Band. On drums, they brought in Jerry Peloquin, who had formerly worked for the police, but now had a day job as an optician. And on vocals, they brought in Signe Toley -- who would soon marry and change her name to Signe Anderson, so that's how I'll talk about her to avoid confusion. The group also needed a lead guitarist though -- both Balin and Kantner were decent rhythm players and singers, but they needed someone who was a better instrumentalist. They decided to ask Kantner's old friend Jorma Kaukonen. Kaukonen was someone who was seriously into what would now be called Americana or roots music. He'd started playing the guitar as a teenager, not like most people of his generation inspired by Elvis or Buddy Holly, but rather after a friend of his had shown him how to play an old Carter Family song, "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy": [Excerpt: The Carter Family, "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy"] Kaukonen had had a far more interesting life than most of the rest of the group. His father had worked for the State Department -- and there's some suggestion he'd worked for the CIA -- and the family had travelled all over the world, staying in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Finland. For most of his childhood, he'd gone by the name Jerry, because other kids beat him up for having a foreign name and called him a Nazi, but by the time he turned twenty he was happy enough using his birth name. Kaukonen wasn't completely immune to the appeal of rock and roll -- he'd formed a rock band, The Triumphs, with his friend Jack Casady when he was a teenager, and he loved Ricky Nelson's records -- but his fate as a folkie had been pretty much sealed when he went to Antioch College. There he met up with a blues guitarist called Ian Buchanan. Buchanan never had much of a career as a professional, but he had supposedly spent nine years studying with the blues and ragtime guitar legend Rev. Gary Davis, and he was certainly a fine guitarist, as can be heard on his contribution to The Blues Project, the album Elektra put out of white Greenwich Village musicians like John Sebastian and Dave Van Ronk playing old blues songs: [Excerpt: Ian Buchanan, "The Winding Boy"] Kaukonen became something of a disciple of Buchanan -- he said later that Buchanan probably taught him how to play because he was such a terrible player and Buchanan couldn't stand to listen to it -- as did John Hammond Jr, another student at Antioch at the same time. After studying at Antioch, Kaukonen started to travel around, including spells in Greenwich Village and in the Philippines, before settling in Santa Clara, where he studied for a sociology degree and became part of a social circle that included Dino Valenti, Jerry Garcia, and Billy Roberts, the credited writer of "Hey Joe". He also started performing as a duo with a singer called Janis Joplin. Various of their recordings from this period circulate, mostly recorded at Kaukonen's home with the sound of his wife typing in the background while the duo rehearse, as on this performance of an old Bessie Smith song: [Excerpt: Jorma Kaukonen and Janis Joplin, "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out"] By 1965 Kaukonen saw himself firmly as a folk-blues purist, who would not even think of playing rock and roll music, which he viewed with more than a little contempt. But he allowed himself to be brought along to audition for the new group, and Ken Kesey happened to be there. Kesey was a novelist who had written two best-selling books, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion, and used the financial independence that gave him to organise a group of friends who called themselves the Merry Pranksters, who drove from coast to coast and back again in a psychedelic-painted bus, before starting a series of events that became known as Acid Tests, parties at which everyone was on LSD, immortalised in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Nobody has ever said why Kesey was there, but he had brought along an Echoplex, a reverb unit one could put a guitar through -- and nobody has explained why Kesey, who wasn't a musician, had an Echoplex to hand. But Kaukonen loved the sound that he could get by putting his guitar through the device, and so for that reason more than any other he decided to become an electric player and join the band, going out and buying a Rickenbacker twelve-string and Vox Treble Booster because that was what Roger McGuinn used. He would later also get a Guild Thunderbird six-string guitar and a Standel Super Imperial amp, following the same principle of buying the equipment used by other guitarists he liked, as they were what Zal Yanovsky of the Lovin' Spoonful used. He would use them for all his six-string playing for the next couple of years, only later to discover that the Lovin' Spoonful despised them and only used them because they had an endorsement deal with the manufacturers. Kaukonen was also the one who came up with the new group's name. He and his friends had a running joke where they had "Bluesman names", things like "Blind Outrage" and "Little Sun Goldfarb". Kaukonen's bluesman name, given to him by his friend Steve Talbot, had been Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane, a reference to the 1920s blues guitarist Blind Lemon Jefferson: [Excerpt: Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Match Box Blues"] At the band meeting where they were trying to decide on a name, Kaukonen got frustrated at the ridiculous suggestions that were being made, and said "You want a stupid name? Howzabout this... Jefferson Airplane?" He said in his autobiography "It was one of those rare moments when everyone in the band agreed, and that was that. I think it was the only band meeting that ever allowed me to come away smiling." The newly-named Jefferson Airplane started to rehearse at the Matrix Club, the club that Balin had decided to open. This was run with three sound engineer friends, who put in the seed capital for the club. Balin had stock options in the club, which he got by trading a share of the band's future earnings to his partners, though as the group became bigger he eventually sold his stock in the club back to his business partners. Before their first public performance, they started working with a manager, Matthew Katz, mostly because Katz had access to a recording of a then-unreleased Bob Dylan song, "Lay Down Your Weary Tune": [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Lay Down Your Weary Tune"] The group knew that the best way for a folk-rock band to make a name for themselves was to perform a Dylan song nobody else had yet heard, and so they agreed to be managed by Katz. Katz started a pre-publicity blitz, giving out posters, badges, and bumper stickers saying "Jefferson Airplane Loves You" all over San Francisco -- and insisting that none of the band members were allowed to say "Hello" when they answered the phone any more, they had to say "Jefferson Airplane Loves You!" For their early rehearsals and gigs, they were performing almost entirely cover versions of blues and folk songs, things like Fred Neil's "The Other Side of This Life" and Dino Valenti's "Get Together" which were the common currency of the early folk-rock movement, and songs by their friends, like one called "Flower Bomb" by David Crosby, which Crosby now denies ever having written. They did start writing the odd song, but at this point they were more focused on performance than on writing. They also hired a press agent, their friend Bill Thompson. Thompson was friends with the two main music writers at the San Francisco Chronicle, Ralph Gleason, the famous jazz critic, who had recently started also reviewing rock music, and John Wasserman. Thompson got both men to come to the opening night of the Matrix, and both gave the group glowing reviews in the Chronicle. Record labels started sniffing around the group immediately as a result of this coverage, and according to Katz he managed to get a bidding war started by making sure that when A&R men came to the club there were always two of them from different labels, so they would see the other person and realise they weren't the only ones interested. But before signing a record deal they needed to make some personnel changes. The first member to go was Jerry Peloquin, for both musical and personal reasons. Peloquin was used to keeping strict time and the other musicians had a more free-flowing idea of what tempo they should be playing at, but also he had worked for the police while the other members were all taking tons of illegal drugs. The final break with Peloquin came when he did the rest of the group a favour -- Paul Kantner's glasses broke during a rehearsal, and as Peloquin was an optician he offered to take them back to his shop and fix them. When he got back, he found them auditioning replacements for him. He beat Kantner up, and that was the end of Jerry Peloquin in Jefferson Airplane. His replacement was Skip Spence, who the group had met when he had accompanied three friends to the Matrix, which they were using as a rehearsal room. Spence's friends went on to be the core members of Quicksilver Messenger Service along with Dino Valenti: [Excerpt: Quicksilver Messenger Service, "Dino's Song"] But Balin decided that Spence looked like a rock star, and told him that he was now Jefferson Airplane's drummer, despite Spence being a guitarist and singer, not a drummer. But Spence was game, and learned to play the drums. Next they needed to get rid of Bob Harvey. According to Harvey, the decision to sack him came after David Crosby saw the band rehearsing and said "Nice song, but get rid of the bass player" (along with an expletive before the word bass which I can't say without incurring the wrath of Apple). Crosby denies ever having said this. Harvey had started out in the group on double bass, but to show willing he'd switched in his last few gigs to playing an electric bass. When he was sacked by the group, he returned to double bass, and to the Slippery Rock String Band, who released one single in 1967: [Excerpt: The Slippery Rock String Band, "Tule Fog"] Harvey's replacement was Kaukonen's old friend Jack Casady, who Kaukonen knew was now playing bass, though he'd only ever heard him playing guitar when they'd played together. Casady was rather cautious about joining a rock band, but then Kaukonen told him that the band were getting fifty dollars a week salary each from Katz, and Casady flew over from Washington DC to San Francisco to join the band. For the first few gigs, he used Bob Harvey's bass, which Harvey was good enough to lend him despite having been sacked from the band. Unfortunately, right from the start Casady and Kantner didn't get on. When Casady flew in from Washington, he had a much more clean-cut appearance than the rest of the band -- one they've described as being nerdy, with short, slicked-back, side-parted hair and a handlebar moustache. Kantner insisted that Casady shave the moustache off, and he responded by shaving only one side, so in profile on one side he looked clean-shaven, while from the other side he looked like he had a full moustache. Kantner also didn't like Casady's general attitude, or his playing style, at all -- though most critics since this point have pointed to Casady's bass playing as being the most interesting and distinctive thing about Jefferson Airplane's style. This lineup seems to have been the one that travelled to LA to audition for various record companies -- a move that immediately brought the group a certain amount of criticism for selling out, both for auditioning for record companies and for going to LA at all, two things that were already anathema on the San Francisco scene. The only audition anyone remembers them having specifically is one for Phil Spector, who according to Kaukonen was waving a gun around during the audition, so he and Casady walked out. Around this time as well, the group performed at an event billed as "A Tribute to Dr. Strange", organised by the radical hippie collective Family Dog. Marvel Comics, rather than being the multi-billion-dollar Disney-owned corporate juggernaut it is now, was regarded as a hip, almost underground, company -- and around this time they briefly started billing their comics not as comics but as "Marvel Pop Art Productions". The magical adventures of Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts, and in particular the art by far-right libertarian artist Steve Ditko, were regarded as clear parallels to both the occult dabblings and hallucinogen use popular among the hippies, though Ditko had no time for either, following as he did an extreme version of Ayn Rand's Objectivism. It was at the Tribute to Dr. Strange that Jefferson Airplane performed for the first time with a band named The Great Society, whose lead singer, Grace Slick, would later become very important in Jefferson Airplane's story: [Excerpt: The Great Society, "Someone to Love"] That gig was also the first one where the band and their friends noticed that large chunks of the audience were now dressing up in costumes that were reminiscent of the Old West. Up to this point, while Katz had been managing the group and paying them fifty dollars a week even on weeks when they didn't perform, he'd been doing so without a formal contract, in part because the group didn't trust him much. But now they were starting to get interest from record labels, and in particular RCA Records desperately wanted them. While RCA had been the label who had signed Elvis Presley, they had otherwise largely ignored rock and roll, considering that since they had the biggest rock star in the world they didn't need other ones, and concentrating largely on middle-of-the-road acts. But by the mid-sixties Elvis' star had faded somewhat, and they were desperate to get some of the action for the new music -- and unlike the other major American labels, they didn't have a reciprocal arrangement with a British label that allowed them to release anything by any of the new British stars. The group were introduced to RCA by Rod McKuen, a songwriter and poet who later became America's best-selling poet and wrote songs that sold over a hundred million copies. At this point McKuen was in his Jacques Brel phase, recording loose translations of the Belgian songwriter's songs with McKuen translating the lyrics: [Excerpt: Rod McKuen, "Seasons in the Sun"] McKuen thought that Jefferson Airplane might be a useful market for his own songs, and brought the group to RCA. RCA offered Jefferson Airplane twenty-five thousand dollars to sign with them, and Katz convinced the group that RCA wouldn't give them this money without them having signed a management contract with him. Kaukonen, Kantner, Spence, and Balin all signed without much hesitation, but Jack Casady didn't yet sign, as he was the new boy and nobody knew if he was going to be in the band for the long haul. The other person who refused to sign was Signe Anderson. In her case, she had a much better reason for refusing to sign, as unlike the rest of the band she had actually read the contract, and she found it to be extremely worrying. She did eventually back down on the day of the group's first recording session, but she later had the contract renegotiated. Jack Casady also signed the contract right at the start of the first session -- or at least, he thought he'd signed the contract then. He certainly signed *something*, without having read it. But much later, during a court case involving the band's longstanding legal disputes with Katz, it was revealed that the signature on the contract wasn't Casady's, and was badly forged. What he actually *did* sign that day has never been revealed, to him or to anyone else. Katz also signed all the group as songwriters to his own publishing company, telling them that they legally needed to sign with him if they wanted to make records, and also claimed to RCA that he had power of attorney for the band, which they say they never gave him -- though to be fair to Katz, given the band members' habit of signing things without reading or understanding them, it doesn't seem beyond the realms of possibility that they did. The producer chosen for the group's first album was Tommy Oliver, a friend of Katz's who had previously been an arranger on some of Doris Day's records, and whose next major act after finishing the Jefferson Airplane album was Trombones Unlimited, who released records like "Holiday for Trombones": [Excerpt: Trombones Unlimited, "Holiday For Trombones"] The group weren't particularly thrilled with this choice, but were happier with their engineer, Dave Hassinger, who had worked on records like "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, and had a far better understanding of the kind of music the group were making. They spent about three months recording their first album, even while continually being attacked as sellouts. The album is not considered their best work, though it does contain "Blues From an Airplane", a collaboration between Spence and Balin: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Blues From an Airplane"] Even before the album came out, though, things were starting to change for the group. Firstly, they started playing bigger venues -- their home base went from being the Matrix club to the Fillmore, a large auditorium run by the promoter Bill Graham. They also started to get an international reputation. The British singer-songwriter Donovan released a track called "The Fat Angel" which namechecked the group: [Excerpt: Donovan, "The Fat Angel"] The group also needed a new drummer. Skip Spence decided to go on holiday to Mexico without telling the rest of the band. There had already been some friction with Spence, as he was very eager to become a guitarist and songwriter, and the band already had three songwriting guitarists and didn't really see why they needed a fourth. They sacked Spence, who went on to form Moby Grape, who were also managed by Katz: [Excerpt: Moby Grape, "Omaha"] For his replacement they brought in Spencer Dryden, who was a Hollywood brat like their friend David Crosby -- in Dryden's case he was Charlie Chaplin's nephew, and his father worked as Chaplin's assistant. The story normally goes that the great session drummer Earl Palmer recommended Dryden to the group, but it's also the case that Dryden had been in a band, the Heartbeats, with Tommy Oliver and the great blues guitarist Roy Buchanan, so it may well be that Oliver had recommended him. Dryden had been primarily a jazz musician, playing with people like the West Coast jazz legend Charles Lloyd, though like most jazzers he would slum it on occasion by playing rock and roll music to pay the bills. But then he'd seen an early performance by the Mothers of Invention, and realised that rock music could have a serious artistic purpose too. He'd joined a band called The Ashes, who had released one single, the Jackie DeShannon song "Is There Anything I Can Do?" in December 1965: [Excerpt: The Ashes, "Is There Anything I Can Do?"] The Ashes split up once Dryden left the group to join Jefferson Airplane, but they soon reformed without him as The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, who hooked up with Gary Usher and released several albums of psychedelic sunshine pop. Dryden played his first gig with the group at a Republican Party event on June the sixth, 1966. But by the time Dryden had joined, other problems had become apparent. The group were already feeling like it had been a big mistake to accede to Katz's demands to sign a formal contract with him, and Balin in particular was getting annoyed that he wouldn't let the band see their finances. All the money was getting paid to Katz, who then doled out money to the band when they asked for it, and they had no idea if he was actually paying them what they were owed or not. The group's first album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, finally came out in September, and it was a comparative flop. It sold well in San Francisco itself, selling around ten thousand copies in the area, but sold basically nothing anywhere else in the country -- the group's local reputation hadn't extended outside their own immediate scene. It didn't help that the album was pulled and reissued, as RCA censored the initial version of the album because of objections to the lyrics. The song "Runnin' Round This World" was pulled off the album altogether for containing the word "trips", while in "Let Me In" they had to rerecord two lines -- “I gotta get in, you know where" was altered to "You shut the door now it ain't fair" and "Don't tell me you want money" became "Don't tell me it's so funny". Similarly in "Run Around" the phrase "as you lay under me" became "as you stay here by me". Things were also becoming difficult for Anderson. She had had a baby in May and was not only unhappy with having to tour while she had a small child, she was also the band member who was most vocally opposed to Katz. Added to that, her husband did not get on well at all with the group, and she felt trapped between her marriage and her bandmates. Reports differ as to whether she quit the band or was fired, but after a disastrous appearance at the Monterey Jazz Festival, one way or another she was out of the band. Her replacement was already waiting in the wings. Grace Slick, the lead singer of the Great Society, had been inspired by going to one of the early Jefferson Airplane gigs. She later said "I went to see Jefferson Airplane at the Matrix, and they were making more money in a day than I made in a week. They only worked for two or three hours a night, and they got to hang out. I thought 'This looks a lot better than what I'm doing.' I knew I could more or less carry a tune, and I figured if they could do it I could." She was married at the time to a film student named Jerry Slick, and indeed she had done the music for his final project at film school, a film called "Everybody Hits Their Brother Once", which sadly I can't find online. She was also having an affair with Jerry's brother Darby, though as the Slicks were in an open marriage this wasn't particularly untoward. The three of them, with a couple of other musicians, had formed The Great Society, named as a joke about President Johnson's programme of the same name. The Great Society was the name Johnson had given to his whole programme of domestic reforms, including civil rights for Black people, the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts, and more. While those projects were broadly popular among the younger generation, Johnson's escalation of the war in Vietnam had made him so personally unpopular that even his progressive domestic programme was regarded with suspicion and contempt. The Great Society had set themselves up as local rivals to Jefferson Airplane -- where Jefferson Airplane had buttons saying "Jefferson Airplane Loves You!" the Great Society put out buttons saying "The Great Society Really Doesn't Like You Much At All". They signed to Autumn Records, and recorded a song that Darby Slick had written, titled "Someone to Love" -- though the song would later be retitled "Somebody to Love": [Excerpt: The Great Society, "Someone to Love"] That track was produced by Sly Stone, who at the time was working as a producer for Autumn Records. The Great Society, though, didn't like working with Stone, because he insisted on them doing forty-five takes to try to sound professional, as none of them were particularly competent musicians. Grace Slick later said "Sly could play any instrument known to man. He could have just made the record himself, except for the singers. It was kind of degrading in a way" -- and on another occasion she said that he *did* end up playing all the instruments on the finished record. "Someone to Love" was put out as a promo record, but never released to the general public, and nor were any of the Great Society's other recordings for Autumn Records released. Their contract expired and they were let go, at which point they were about to sign to Mercury Records, but then Darby Slick and another member decided to go off to India for a while. Grace's marriage to Jerry was falling apart, though they would stay legally married for several years, and the Great Society looked like it was at an end, so when Grace got the offer to join Jefferson Airplane to replace Signe Anderson, she jumped at the chance. At first, she was purely a harmony singer -- she didn't take over any of the lead vocal parts that Anderson had previously sung, as she had a very different vocal style, and instead she just sang the harmony parts that Anderson had sung on songs with other lead vocalists. But two months after the album they were back in the studio again, recording their second album, and Slick sang lead on several songs there. As well as the new lineup, there was another important change in the studio. They were still working with Dave Hassinger, but they had a new producer, Rick Jarrard. Jarrard was at one point a member of the folk group The Wellingtons, who did the theme tune for "Gilligan's Island", though I can't find anything to say whether or not he was in the group when they recorded that track: [Excerpt: The Wellingtons, "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island"] Jarrard had also been in the similar folk group The Greenwood County Singers, where as we heard in the episode on "Heroes and Villains" he replaced Van Dyke Parks. He'd also released a few singles under his own name, including a version of Parks' "High Coin": [Excerpt: Rick Jarrard, "High Coin"] While Jarrard had similar musical roots to those of Jefferson Airplane's members, and would go on to produce records by people like Harry Nilsson and The Family Tree, he wasn't any more liked by the band than their previous producer had been. So much so, that a few of the band members have claimed that while Jarrard is the credited producer, much of the work that one would normally expect to be done by a producer was actually done by their friend Jerry Garcia, who according to the band members gave them a lot of arranging and structural advice, and was present in the studio and played guitar on several tracks. Jarrard, on the other hand, said categorically "I never met Jerry Garcia. I produced that album from start to finish, never heard from Jerry Garcia, never talked to Jerry Garcia. He was not involved creatively on that album at all." According to the band, though, it was Garcia who had the idea of almost doubling the speed of the retitled "Somebody to Love", turning it into an uptempo rocker: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love"] And one thing everyone is agreed on is that it was Garcia who came up with the album title, when after listening to some of the recordings he said "That's as surrealistic as a pillow!" It was while they were working on the album that was eventually titled Surrealistic Pillow that they finally broke with Katz as their manager, bringing Bill Thompson in as a temporary replacement. Or at least, it was then that they tried to break with Katz. Katz sued the group over their contract, and won. Then they appealed, and they won. Then Katz appealed the appeal, and the Superior Court insisted that if he wanted to appeal the ruling, he had to put up a bond for the fifty thousand dollars the group said he owed them. He didn't, so in 1970, four years after they sacked him as their manager, the appeal was dismissed. Katz appealed the dismissal, and won that appeal, and the case dragged on for another three years, at which point Katz dragged RCA Records into the lawsuit. As a result of being dragged into the mess, RCA decided to stop paying the group their songwriting royalties from record sales directly, and instead put the money into an escrow account. The claims and counterclaims and appeals *finally* ended in 1987, twenty years after the lawsuits had started and fourteen years after the band had stopped receiving their songwriting royalties. In the end, the group won on almost every point, and finally received one point three million dollars in back royalties and seven hundred thousand dollars in interest that had accrued, while Katz got a small token payment. Early in 1967, when the sessions for Surrealistic Pillow had finished, but before the album was released, Newsweek did a big story on the San Francisco scene, which drew national attention to the bands there, and the first big event of what would come to be called the hippie scene, the Human Be-In, happened in Golden Gate Park in January. As the group's audience was expanding rapidly, they asked Bill Graham to be their manager, as he was the most business-minded of the people around the group. The first single from the album, "My Best Friend", a song written by Skip Spence before he quit the band, came out in January 1967 and had no more success than their earlier recordings had, and didn't make the Hot 100. The album came out in February, and was still no higher than number 137 on the charts in March, when the second single, "Somebody to Love", was released: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love"] That entered the charts at the start of April, and by June it had made number five. The single's success also pushed its parent album up to number three by August, just behind the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Monkees' Headquarters. The success of the single also led to the group being asked to do commercials for Levis jeans: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Levis commercial"] That once again got them accused of selling out. Abbie Hoffman, the leader of the Yippies, wrote to the Village Voice about the commercials, saying "It summarized for me all the doubts I have about the hippie philosophy. I realise they are just doing their 'thing', but while the Jefferson Airplane grooves with its thing, over 100 workers in the Levi Strauss plant on the Tennessee-Georgia border are doing their thing, which consists of being on strike to protest deplorable working conditions." The third single from the album, "White Rabbit", came out on the twenty-fourth of June, the day before the Beatles recorded "All You Need is Love", nine days after the release of "See Emily Play", and a week after the group played the Monterey Pop Festival, to give you some idea of how compressed a time period we've been in recently. We talked in the last episode about how there's a big difference between American and British psychedelia at this point in time, because the political nature of the American counterculture was determined by the fact that so many people were being sent off to die in Vietnam. Of all the San Francisco bands, though, Jefferson Airplane were by far the least political -- they were into the culture part of the counterculture, but would often and repeatedly disavow any deeper political meaning in their songs. In early 1968, for example, in a press conference, they said “Don't ask us anything about politics. We don't know anything about it. And what we did know, we just forgot.” So it's perhaps not surprising that of all the American groups, they were the one that was most similar to the British psychedelic groups in their influences, and in particular their frequent references to children's fantasy literature. "White Rabbit" was a perfect example of this. It had started out as "White Rabbit Blues", a song that Slick had written influenced by Alice in Wonderland, and originally performed by the Great Society: [Excerpt: The Great Society, "White Rabbit"] Slick explained the lyrics, and their association between childhood fantasy stories and drugs, later by saying "It's an interesting song but it didn't do what I wanted it to. What I was trying to say was that between the ages of zero and five the information and the input you get is almost indelible. In other words, once a Catholic, always a Catholic. And the parents read us these books, like Alice in Wonderland where she gets high, tall, and she takes mushrooms, a hookah, pills, alcohol. And then there's The Wizard of Oz, where they fall into a field of poppies and when they wake up they see Oz. And then there's Peter Pan, where if you sprinkle white dust on you, you could fly. And then you wonder why we do it? Well, what did you read to me?" While the lyrical inspiration for the track was from Alice in Wonderland, the musical inspiration is less obvious. Slick has on multiple occasions said that the idea for the music came from listening to Miles Davis' album "Sketches of Spain", and in particular to Davis' version of -- and I apologise for almost certainly mangling the Spanish pronunciation badly here -- "Concierto de Aranjuez", though I see little musical resemblance to it myself. [Excerpt: Miles Davis, "Concierto de Aranjuez"] She has also, though, talked about how the song was influenced by Ravel's "Bolero", and in particular the way the piece keeps building in intensity, starting softly and slowly building up, rather than having the dynamic peaks and troughs of most music. And that is definitely a connection I can hear in the music: [Excerpt: Ravel, "Bolero"] Jefferson Airplane's version of "White Rabbit", like their version of "Somebody to Love", was far more professional, far -- and apologies for the pun -- slicker than The Great Society's version. It's also much shorter. The version by The Great Society has a four and a half minute instrumental intro before Slick's vocal enters. By contrast, the version on Surrealistic Pillow comes in at under two and a half minutes in total, and is a tight pop song: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"] Jack Casady has more recently said that the group originally recorded the song more or less as a lark, because they assumed that all the drug references would mean that RCA would make them remove the song from the album -- after all, they'd cut a song from the earlier album because it had a reference to a trip, so how could they possibly allow a song like "White Rabbit" with its lyrics about pills and mushrooms? But it was left on the album, and ended up making the top ten on the pop charts, peaking at number eight: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"] In an interview last year, Slick said she still largely lives off the royalties from writing that one song. It would be the last hit single Jefferson Airplane would ever have. Marty Balin later said "Fame changes your life. It's a bit like prison. It ruined the band. Everybody became rich and selfish and self-centred and couldn't care about the band. That was pretty much the end of it all. After that it was just working and living the high life and watching the band destroy itself, living on its laurels." They started work on their third album, After Bathing at Baxter's, in May 1967, while "Somebody to Love" was still climbing the charts. This time, the album was produced by Al Schmitt. Unlike the two previous producers, Schmitt was a fan of the band, and decided the best thing to do was to just let them do their own thing without interfering. The album took months to record, rather than the weeks that Surrealistic Pillow had taken, and cost almost ten times as much money to record. In part the time it took was because of the promotional work the band had to do. Bill Graham was sending them all over the country to perform, which they didn't appreciate. The group complained to Graham in business meetings, saying they wanted to only play in big cities where there were lots of hippies. Graham pointed out in turn that if they wanted to keep having any kind of success, they needed to play places other than San Francisco, LA, New York, and Chicago, because in fact most of the population of the US didn't live in those four cities. They grudgingly took his point. But there were other arguments all the time as well. They argued about whether Graham should be taking his cut from the net or the gross. They argued about Graham trying to push for the next single to be another Grace Slick lead vocal -- they felt like he was trying to make them into just Grace Slick's backing band, while he thought it made sense to follow up two big hits with more singles with the same vocalist. There was also a lawsuit from Balin's former partners in the Matrix, who remembered that bit in the contract about having a share in the group's income and sued for six hundred thousand dollars -- that was settled out of court three years later. And there were interpersonal squabbles too. Some of these were about the music -- Dryden didn't like the fact that Kaukonen's guitar solos were getting longer and longer, and Balin only contributed one song to the new album because all the other band members made fun of him for writing short, poppy, love songs rather than extended psychedelic jams -- but also the group had become basically two rival factions. On one side were Kaukonen and Casady, the old friends and virtuoso instrumentalists, who wanted to extend the instrumental sections of the songs more to show off their playing. On the other side were Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden, the two oldest members of the group by age, but the most recent people to join. They were also unusual in the San Francisco scene for having alcohol as their drug of choice -- drinking was thought of by most of the hippies as being a bit classless, but they were both alcoholics. They were also sleeping together, and generally on the side of shorter, less exploratory, songs. Kantner, who was attracted to Slick, usually ended up siding with her and Dryden, and this left Balin the odd man out in the middle. He later said "I got disgusted with all the ego trips, and the band was so stoned that I couldn't even talk to them. Everybody was in their little shell". While they were still working on the album, they released the first single from it, Kantner's "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil". The "Pooneil" in the song was a figure that combined two of Kantner's influences: the Greenwich Village singer-songwriter Fred Neil, the writer of "Everybody's Talkin'" and "Dolphins"; and Winnie the Pooh. The song contained several lines taken from A.A. Milne's children's stories: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil"] That only made number forty-two on the charts. It was the last Jefferson Airplane single to make the top fifty. At a gig in Bakersfield they got arrested for inciting a riot, because they encouraged the crowd to dance, even though local by-laws said that nobody under sixteen was allowed to dance, and then they nearly got arrested again after Kantner's behaviour on the private plane they'd chartered to get them back to San Francisco that night. Kantner had been chain-smoking, and this annoyed the pilot, who asked Kantner to put his cigarette out, so Kantner opened the door of the plane mid-flight and threw the lit cigarette out. They'd chartered that plane because they wanted to make sure they got to see a new group, Cream, who were playing the Fillmore: [Excerpt: Cream, "Strange Brew"] After seeing that, the divisions in the band were even wider -- Kaukonen and Casady now *knew* that what the band needed was to do long, extended, instrumental jams. Cream were the future, two-minute pop songs were the past. Though they weren't completely averse to two-minute pop songs. The group were recording at RCA studios at the same time as the Monkees, and members of the two groups would often jam together. The idea of selling out might have been anathema to their *audience*, but the band members themselves didn't care about things like that. Indeed, at one point the group returned from a gig to the mansion they were renting and found squatters had moved in and were using their private pool -- so they shot at the water. The squatters quickly moved on. As Dryden put it "We all -- Paul, Jorma, Grace, and myself -- had guns. We weren't hippies. Hippies were the people that lived on the streets down in Haight-Ashbury. We were basically musicians and art school kids. We were into guns and machinery" After Bathing at Baxter's only went to number seventeen on the charts, not a bad position but a flop compared to their previous album, and Bill Graham in particular took this as more proof that he had been right when for the last few months he'd been attacking the group as self-indulgent. Eventually, Slick and Dryden decided that either Bill Graham was going as their manager, or they were going. Slick even went so far as to try to negotiate a solo deal with Elektra Records -- as the voice on the hits, everyone was telling her she was the only one who mattered anyway. David Anderle, who was working for the label, agreed a deal with her, but Jac Holzman refused to authorise the deal, saying "Judy Collins doesn't get that much money, why should Grace Slick?" The group did fire Graham, and went one further and tried to become his competitors. They teamed up with the Grateful Dead to open a new venue, the Carousel Ballroom, to compete with the Fillmore, but after a few months they realised they were no good at running a venue and sold it to Graham. Graham, who was apparently unhappy with the fact that the people living around the Fillmore were largely Black given that the bands he booked appealed to mostly white audiences, closed the original Fillmore, renamed the Carousel the Fillmore West, and opened up a second venue in New York, the Fillmore East. The divisions in the band were getting worse -- Kaukonen and Casady were taking more and more speed, which was making them play longer and faster instrumental solos whether or not the rest of the band wanted them to, and Dryden, whose hands often bled from trying to play along with them, definitely did not want them to. But the group soldiered on and recorded their fourth album, Crown of Creation. This album contained several songs that were influenced by science fiction novels. The most famous of these was inspired by the right-libertarian author Robert Heinlein, who was hugely influential on the counterculture. Jefferson Airplane's friends the Monkees had already recorded a song based on Heinlein's The Door Into Summer, an unintentionally disturbing novel about a thirty-year-old man who falls in love with a twelve-year-old girl, and who uses a combination of time travel and cryogenic freezing to make their ages closer together so he can marry her: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "The Door Into Summer"] Now Jefferson Airplane were recording a song based on Heinlein's most famous novel, Stranger in a Strange Land. Stranger in a Strange Land has dated badly, thanks to its casual homophobia and rape-apologia, but at the time it was hugely popular in hippie circles for its advocacy of free love and group marriages -- so popular that a religion, the Church of All Worlds, based itself on the book. David Crosby had taken inspiration from it and written "Triad", a song asking two women if they'll enter into a polygamous relationship with him, and recorded it with the Byrds: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Triad"] But the other members of the Byrds disliked the song, and it was left unreleased for decades. As Crosby was friendly with Jefferson Airplane, and as members of the band were themselves advocates of open relationships, they recorded their own version with Slick singing lead: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Triad"] The other song on the album influenced by science fiction was the title track, Paul Kantner's "Crown of Creation". This song was inspired by The Chrysalids, a novel by the British writer John Wyndham. The Chrysalids is one of Wyndham's most influential novels, a post-apocalyptic story about young children who are born with mutant superpowers and have to hide them from their parents as they will be killed if they're discovered. The novel is often thought to have inspired Marvel Comics' X-Men, and while there's an unpleasant eugenic taste to its ending, with the idea that two species can't survive in the same ecological niche and the younger, "superior", species must outcompete the old, that idea also had a lot of influence in the counterculture, as well as being a popular one in science fiction. Kantner's song took whole lines from The Chrysalids, much as he had earlier done with A.A. Milne: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Crown of Creation"] The Crown of Creation album was in some ways a return to the more focused songwriting of Surrealistic Pillow, although the sessions weren't without their experiments. Slick and Dryden collaborated with Frank Zappa and members of the Mothers of Invention on an avant-garde track called "Would You Like a Snack?" (not the same song as the later Zappa song of the same name) which was intended for the album, though went unreleased until a CD box set decades later: [Excerpt: Grace Slick and Frank Zappa, "Would You Like a Snack?"] But the finished album was generally considered less self-indulgent than After Bathing at Baxter's, and did better on the charts as a result. It reached number six, becoming their second and last top ten album, helped by the group's appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in September 1968, a month after it came out. That appearance was actually organised by Colonel Tom Parker, who suggested them to Sullivan as a favour to RCA Records. But another TV appearance at the time was less successful. They appeared on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, one of the most popular TV shows among the young, hip, audience that the group needed to appeal to, but Slick appeared in blackface. She's later said that there was no political intent behind this, and that she was just trying the different makeup she found in the dressing room as a purely aesthetic thing, but that doesn't really explain the Black power salute she gives at one point. Slick was increasingly obnoxious on stage, as her drinking was getting worse and her relationship with Dryden was starting to break down. Just before the Smothers Brothers appearance she was accused at a benefit for the Whitney Museum of having called the audience "filthy Jews", though she has always said that what she actually said was "filthy jewels", and she was talking about the ostentatious jewellery some of the audience were wearing. The group struggled through a performance at Altamont -- an event we will talk about in a future episode, so I won't go into it here, except to say that it was a horrifying experience for everyone involved -- and performed at Woodstock, before releasing their fifth studio album, Volunteers, in 1969: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Volunteers"] That album made the top twenty, but was the last album by the classic lineup of the band. By this point Spencer Dryden and Grace Slick had broken up, with Slick starting to date Kantner, and Dryden was also disappointed at the group's musical direction, and left. Balin also left, feeling sidelined in the group. They released several more albums with varying lineups, including at various points their old friend David Frieberg of Quicksilver Messenger Service, the violinist Papa John Creach, and the former drummer of the Turtles, Johnny Barbata. But as of 1970 the group's members had already started working on two side projects -- an acoustic band called Hot Tuna, led by Kaukonen and Casady, which sometimes also featured Balin, and a project called Paul Kantner's Jefferson Starship, which also featured Slick and had recorded an album, Blows Against the Empire, the second side of which was based on the Robert Heinlein novel Back to Methuselah, and which became one of the first albums ever nominated for science fiction's Hugo Awards: [Excerpt: Jefferson Starship, "Have You Seen The Stars Tonite"] That album featured contributions from David Crosby and members of the Grateful Dead, as well as Casady on two tracks, but  in 1974 when Kaukonen and Casady quit Jefferson Airplane to make Hot Tuna their full-time band, Kantner, Slick, and Frieberg turned Jefferson Starship into a full band. Over the next decade, Jefferson Starship had a lot of moderate-sized hits, with a varying lineup that at one time or another saw several members, including Slick, go and return, and saw Marty Balin back with them for a while. In 1984, Kantner left the group, and sued them to stop them using the Jefferson Starship name. A settlement was reached in which none of Kantner, Slick, Kaukonen, or Casady could use the words "Jefferson" or "Airplane" in their band-names without the permission of all the others, and the remaining members of Jefferson Starship renamed their band just Starship -- and had three number one singles in the late eighties with Slick on lead, becoming far more commercially successful than their precursor bands had ever been: [Excerpt: Starship, "We Built This City on Rock & Roll"] Slick left Starship in 1989, and there was a brief Jefferson Airplane reunion tour, with all the classic members but Dryden, but then Slick decided that she was getting too old to perform rock and roll music, and decided to retire from music and become a painter, something she's stuck to for more than thirty years. Kantner and Balin formed a new Jefferson Starship, called Jefferson Starship: The Next Generation, but Kantner died in January 2016, coincidentally on the same day as Signe Anderson, who had occasionally guested with her old bandmates in the new version of the band. Balin, who had quit the reunited Jefferson Starship due to health reasons, died two years later. Dryden had died in 2005. Currently, there are three bands touring that descend directly from Jefferson Airplane. Hot Tuna still continue to perform, there's a version of Starship that tours featuring one original member, Mickey Thomas, and the reunited Jefferson Starship still tour, led by David Frieberg. Grace Slick has given the latter group her blessing, and even co-wrote one song on their most recent album, released in 2020, though she still doesn't perform any more. Jefferson Airplane's period in the commercial spotlight was brief -- they had charting singles for only a matter of months, and while they had top twenty albums for a few years after their peak, they really only mattered to the wider world during that brief period of the Summer of Love. But precisely because their period of success was so short, their music is indelibly associated with that time. To this day there's nothing as evocative of summer 1967 as "White Rabbit", even for those of us who weren't born then. And while Grace Slick had her problems, as I've made very clear in this episode, she inspired a whole generation of women who went on to be singers themselves, as one of the first prominent women to sing lead with an electric rock band. And when she got tired of doing that, she stopped, and got on with her other artistic pursuits, without feeling the need to go back and revisit the past for ever diminishing returns. One might only wish that some of her male peers had followed her example.

In this episode, we're shining a light on the super important reading space between younger kids' novels and YA - upper middle grade! Australia has a wealth of talent in this area, and we chat to two of the industry's finest. First up, meet the accomplished Emily Gale. Hear about her brand new release The Goodbye Year, which straddles the space between childhood and the teen years. Hear more about her varied writing career and achievements, like making change in the industry. And in Kids Capers, young superfan Amelie interviews the amazing Jeremy Lachlan! Hear more about his exciting books in the upper middle grade category, such as Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds, and his upcoming title, Jane Doe and the Quill of All Tales. We have a great book pack to give away thanks to Hardie Grant Children's Publishing, the usual shoutouts and jam-packed book reviews, and a special announcement you don't want to miss in our On Our Radar segment. Yes, we're wrapping up the podcast after five exciting years of episodes to focus on writing and other commitments, but never fear, we are still around and will continue to pop on our socials with book reviews: @onemorepageau across Instagram/FB/Twitter. We're not done yet though, stay tuned in December for our Christmas episode! Read the show notes: https://www.onemorepagepodcast.com/episode-75 Email us at: onemorepagepodcast@gmail.com Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/onemorepageAU Twitter: www.twitter.com/onemorepageau

Dr. John “Apollonius” Opsopaus : Dr. John “Apollonius” Opsopaus has practiced magic, divination, and Neopaganism since the 1960s. He has some 40 publications in various magical and Neopagan magazines and anthologies. He designed the Pythagorean Tarot and wrote the comprehensive Guide to the Pythagorean Tarot (Llewellyn, 2001). His recently released Oracles of Apollo (Llewellyn, 2017) teaches divination based on ancient Greek texts that he has translated. Opsopaus frequently presents workshops on Hellenic magic and Neopaganism, Pythagorean theurgy, divination, and related topics. In the early 1990s he founded the Omphalos, a networking organization for Neopagans in the Greek and Roman traditions and one of the first internet resources for them. He is past coordinator of the Scholars Guild for the Church of All Worlds, past Arkhon of the Hellenic Kin of ADF (A Druid Fellowship), and a member of the Grey Council. His writings can be found at opsopaus.com and omphalos.org/BA

On Friday's show: The cleanup of the San Jacinto Waste Pits faces another setback. We examine why the process is being delayed. And Houston will likely face stricter pollution standards to reduce smog. Also this hour: From Gov. Greg Abbott ending his policy of inspecting commercial trucks at the border after traffic snarls and delays, to California police pulling over a driverless car, we discuss The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week. And Kara LaMoure, bassoonist for the local chamber ensemble WindSync, talks about the group's new album, All Worlds, All Times.

I'm not really sure how to introduce today's guest, because he wears many, many hats. His name is Oberon Zell and he's an artist, author and teacher. He's also a wizard, and in fact the headmaster of a school of wizardry. On top of all this he's the founder and Primate of the oldest incorporated pagan church, the Church of All Worlds. Now I was lucky enough to speak with Oberon for another series of mine – Dying with Mon. We spoke all about the Church of All Worlds and his views on death and what happens next. If you're curious I cannot recommend that episode highly enough – check it out HERE. It's an absolutely incredible conversation, but one thing we didn't delve too far into last time was his relationships. Oberon is polyamorous. He's been in a number of group marriages, and has an absolutely beautiful outlook on the topic. I am so excited to share this one with you. I hope you enjoy it!CREDITS:A big thank you to our guest Oberon Zell!Listen to our conversation about death and what happens next on the Dying with Mon podcast HERE.Website: www.OberonZell.comFacebook page: https://www.facebook.com/oberon.zell Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/oberonzellStatues, jewelry, books: https://www.themillennialgaia.com/Church of All Worlds: www.CAW.comGreen Egg magazine: https://greeneggmagazine.com/Grey School of Wizardry: www.GreySchool.comSong of Gaea: https://songofgaea.wordpress.com/2020 Vision: The Awakening: http://2020visionawakening.com/Apotheasis website: https://apotheasis.com/Created by Monika O'HanlonYou can find Mon on Instagram hereGet in touch or keep up with all her latest projects on Facebook and on the with Mon podcast Instagram account. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Meccan sura with 227 verses. The title points to poetry and poets how the truthful of them are respected. However the beginning and ending of the sura clearly states that the prophet Mohammed is not a poet and these verses are not poetry but clear verses of scripture to make things clear for All the World. The prophet Mohammed was worried that people called him a liar and didn't believe him, verse 3 but God tells him not to worry for if He wished to put a sign in heaven for all necks will stay bowed in humiliation , verse 4. What touched me was Gods kindness in sending words to the prophet to show him he is not alone and gives him other stories of other prophets that went through the same path. As Moses, Abraham, Noah, Saleh, Hud, Lot, shuaaib. The messengers were called liars by their people, that they were just men and that these ppl followed their forefathers in their beliefs. The ending paragraphs go back to the main point of the sura: that the Quran was sent down by the Lord of All Worlds, by Gabriel the trustworthy spirit , to your heart Mohammed, it brings warning and is in clear Arabic language, that it was foretold in earlier scriptures of other religions , and the proof is with the learned men of the Children of Israel. Wawoo the sentences are direct and to the point. Then a logical argument about the non believers and time ! Verses 201-209. Then repetition of the Quran and its Origin. It is not from the Jin as it's neither in their power nor their interest. So let us All put our trust in God the Almighty, the Merciful, the All Hearing , the All Knowing.( May God bless us the best life possible) Ameen

Oberon Zell is a renowned Wizard and Elder in the global magickal community. In 1967 he was first to claim the identity of “Pagan,” incorporating the first Pagan Church of All Worlds in 1968. Publishing Green Egg magazine over more than 50 years, he was instrumental in the coalescence of the modern Pagan movement. In 1970, he published the earliest version of “The Gaea Thesis.” In the 1980s, Oberon and his wife Morning Glory resurrected authentic living Unicorns. In 1990, they coined the term “polyamory,” thus launching another movement. Oberon creates altar figurines and jewelry, and is the author of Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard and other books. His latest book—soon to be published—is That Undiscover'd Country. Oberon is also Founder and Headmaster of the online Grey School of Wizardry. Now settled at the Venusian Church's Longhouse in Redmond, Washington, for the previous two years Oberon was on Walkabout, traveling throughout the Western Hemisphere talking about Wizardry, Quantum Magick, the Awakening, 2020 Vision, and half a century of modern Paganism.Website:  www.GreySchool.com

Dr. John “Apollonius” Opsopaus : Dr. John “Apollonius” Opsopaus has practiced magic, divination, and Neopaganism since the 1960s. He has some 40 publications in various magical and Neopagan magazines and anthologies. He designed the Pythagorean Tarot and wrote the comprehensive Guide to the Pythagorean Tarot (Llewellyn, 2001). His recently released Oracles of Apollo (Llewellyn, 2017) teaches divination based on ancient Greek texts that he has translated. Opsopaus frequently presents workshops on Hellenic magic and Neopaganism, Pythagorean theurgy, divination, and related topics. In the early 1990s he founded the Omphalos, a networking organization for Neopagans in the Greek and Roman traditions and one of the first internet resources for them. He is past coordinator of the Scholars Guild for the Church of All Worlds, past Arkhon of the Hellenic Kin of ADF (A Druid Fellowship), and a member of the Grey Council. His writings can be found at opsopaus.com and omphalos.org/BA Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; and many other! That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

After the ApocalypseA pandemic survival storySeason One, Episode Eighteen - “The Shot” (Narrator)What runs through the mind of a dog? Not just a dog, but a soldier and a veteran.FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BILL THE DOG (think of him as a soldier grunt. He speaks simply and mostly in the present tense, but with urgency:Now. It is quiet. I am alert. My pack is safe. I see them on the roof of the building. The large cat waits below. The pack is my duty. I protect the pack. I fight and die for the pack. I hold here out of reach of the cat, waiting. It is hot. I am thirsty and hungry. But I will wait. Until my new man says otherwise. The new man commands less than my soldier. The new man gives commands. But the woman acts like pack leader.There is only now. There is only the mission. I can fight. I can harass. I can run. But I must protect the pack. ...Outro S1 E18 – The ShotHello my survivor friends. How's the apocalypse going? The is Chris your host fro this apocalyptic after-party. Thank you for showing up and joining the old man and KJ for an adventure! https://shows.acast.com/after-the-apocalypseI really liked Robert's read of this one. I think he got the dialogue just right. I had written these two chapters about the animal farm in 2020 during the height of the pandemic while I was experimenting with this universe to see if it merited the effort of my attention. I wrote it originally as a two-parter with the cliff-hanger. This time around I tried to cram it into 1 episode but it would not be crammed so we left the original 2-parter structure with the cliff hanger and fleshed out the dialogue a bit. I think it works. We are 2 episodes away from wrapping up season 1. Like I said before, we are going to take a break after episode 20 and turn the first season into a paperback, ebook and audio book. The mechanics of this are not unfamiliar to me. I have done it before, but not for a couple years. I contracted a starving artist to work on a cover for me and another to edit it back into book form. The difference between writing for an audio read and a regular read is minor but I think it's worth the help. When I write for audio I break up the paragraphs into smaller chunks and phrases to reinforce the cadence. So I'm having a nice lady from Jamaica go through and pull some of those back together for readability. Also she'll delete all the audio instruction notes, look for typos and blatant grammar issues, like dangling participles. I would love to have any of you who are readers support the book launch if you're game. I could use typo hunters. You get a pre-release of the book. Come over and join the FaceBook group for After the Apocalypse and join the team. I'll apologize for making you work hard, but There are a bunch of Facebook groups and pages called After the Apocalypse, mine is https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldmanapocalypse/Another thing I'll be recruiting for is a book launch team. In couple months when all this comes together I'll need help in, for lack of a better word, marketing.  Again, FaceBook, After the apocalypse. Since we last talked I've been reading a Robert Heinlein, retrospective called Requiem, which if you are interested you can procure on Thriftbooks for $5.29. It a collection of “unreleased” stories and other stuff. One of the stories is a novella he wrote in 1950 called Destination Moon.  You may know him from his more famous works, Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough for Love, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. This novella or short story depending on your appetite is followed by piece, penned by Heinlein about the making of a movie from the story.  So I, curious as I am for the literary obscura, of course went out and hunted down the movie, which you can watch on Youtube. It's interesting because it is such a time capsule, (pun intended), of a sort of religion of hard science that came out of American engineering culture in this post world-war 2 time. This golden age of science fiction. Heinlein was involved in the movie production and they worked really hard to make sure that the science of it made sense. That the gravity and the exit velocities and all the other stuff actually made sense. It ends up as almost a documentary of sorts. These guys were one of the big influences in turning the American cultural knobs towards space. Cheerleading, if you will, that going to the moon was not fantasy, not fiction, but science. And if the incompetent bureaucratic government would just get out of the way of industrialists and engineers it be done. And it could be done before the Russians did it! But, it's a great example of what the sci-fi of the time was all about. They loved hard science. They thought every problem could be solved by smart, brave, independent minded engineers. It was this vision of reimagining the world as a fact-based, science-based libertarianism. Heinlein is famous for the following quote: “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” ― Robert A. HeinleinAnd, yes, if all this sounds sort of pseudo religious, religions were founded based on this scientific-libertarianism. These guys believed that the soft-sciences of psychiatry and religion could be fed into the logically precise meat grinder of science, and that what came out the other end would be free of all the emotional clap-trap of society. I bet you've all heard of Dianetics which grew out of this process by golden age sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard. But, you probably haven't heard of the Church of All Worlds a neopagan religion that was founded in California (of course, because all the crazy head for the coasts) based on the writings of Robert Heinlein. So, I guess the moral here is be careful what you imagine, be careful what you write, be careful what you believe because sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. These golden age writers, by pouring their beliefs and realism into their writings made them compelling, more than stories for boys, and, quite literally, changed the world. Sorry for the long screed, but I find it all very interesting and thought you might too. Remember to make a donation at the Patreon Group, I am reading extra credit stories into audio for members there. Join the Facebook group and volunteer to be a typo hunter or a member of the book launch team. Maybe you and I can change the world. But above all else, put one foot in front of the other, confront each morning with joy and Keep Surviving.  Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Master Wizard Oberon Zell, 1st LIVING UNICORNS in 100's of years! Predication Cycles, Great Awakening, Purging Process, 2020 For-Sight & more Master Wizard Oberon Zell, Headmaster of the Grey School of Wizardry, the founder and curator of the Academy of Arcana. Oberon is a transpersonal psychologist, metaphysician, naturalist, theologian, shaman, author, and ordained Priest of the Earth-Mother, Gaia. Among the many projects he has undertaken in his lifetime, Oberon is one of the founders of the Church of All Worlds, is the first publisher of Green Egg Magazine!

Vallibus discusses the Robert Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_All_Worlds

Vallibus discusses the Robert Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_All_Worlds

Greetings folks and wow its approaching 2021, did you ever think we would finally leave 2020? I did not and I do not really hold my breath for 2021 either but it really is dependent how we handle it. So, I wear many hats so this message will breach two of them, the Pagan and the Paranormal. The Pagan. We run a group called Forest Moon Grove which is a large network focused on our Pagans and Heathens of all Traditions in the Military. We currently endorse a group stationed in Korea with groups on two Camps and with multiple Traditions. There is no Pagan Chaplain in the Military to support our Troops, so they have what is called the DRGL or Distinguished Religious Group Leader, who must be endorsed by an Organization of their faith and sponsored by a local Military Chaplain regardless of that Chaplain’s faith and FMG is a recognized Pagan Organization to do this. We started in 2004 in Iraq and have been going strong ever since. Now, on a personal note, 2021 I plan on focusing my personal growth on Traditions I do not know as much about such as our Heathens and Norse Traditions as I find them culturally enriching. There are a lot of changes coming into 2021 as well with a Joint Alliance with Church of All Worlds and Oberon Zell, and Joint work with a Network with Ed Hubbard Founder of Witch School, who also comes on our show frequently which I’ll get to later. While FMG does not hold public rituals or meetings we are always available if you have questions or issues or other needs on your path so feel free to ask especially in these trying times. You can find FMG at https://www.facebook.com/groups/146047182249413 Now, Forest Moon Paranormal is our Paranormal Branch of FMG. As any Pagan knows what we see is reality ties into Paganism as a whole, but is recognized as paranormal to the general public, i.e. Spirits, Fey, and many other paranormal phenomena. FMP has been around since 2004 as well and indirectly started in Iraq but not as an investigative team at that time. What is paranormal to us? Anything attributed to a haunting, Spirits and other entities both malevolent and benevolent, Fey or those in the Faerie Realms, Cryptids such as Bigfoot, Dogman etc., UFO sightings which also include Alien Races and Abductions. We also work with Psychic Phenomenon such as Astral Travel, ESP, Clairvoyancy, etc. and delve a little into government programs. We run a show every Sunday night called S-4 Paranormal Radio from 7-10PM Pacific Time. S-4 has been running since 2016 and can be found at https://www.spreaker.com/show/s-4 or on our website at www.s-4radio.com and heard on Terrestrial Radio on Saturday nights pre-recorded from 10-12 at www.ksvu.org and you can find the Forest Moon Paranormal group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/forestmoonparanormal 2021 is going to be an interesting year as we plan on taking some camping expeditions in some hot Bigfoot and UFO areas, test out some equipment and just have fun. We also have Sky watches where we almost always see something unusual in our local skies and investigate them. Have something unusual going on you wish to report, let us know if you are local and in Skagit County, WA and we can check it out for you. UFO’s are on the rise and the government is coming out with more and more information it seems so will be an exciting year on S-4. We also talk Active Shooter and Disaster Preparedness topics and public safety on the show seasonally so make sure you tune in.I have been Pagan for 30 plus years, and also been a Paranormal experiencer for longer, but been on the investigative and emergency response side of the paranormal since 1994. I was in the Army 19 ½ years and I hold a BA in Homeland Security so public safety and emergency and disaster response in general is my third area of interest. Looking forward to a new year as I am sure many of you are, so follow us on our quests, and if you have questions feel free to send me Facebook friend request or email at medicyne_eagle@yahoo.com Stay safe out there and Keep your Eyes to the Skies.

Jeremy Lachlan was born and raised in Griffith, country NSW, Australia. He completed his Honours degree in creative writing at the University of Canberra in 2004, and now calls Sydney home. His debut novel, Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds, was the 2019 Australian Book Industry Award winner for Book of the Year for Older Children, and he once took home $100 in a karaoke competition, of which he's equally proud. He came up with the idea for the Jane Doe Chronicles while lost in the Cairo Museum. Book two, The Key of All Souls.

Hello – thank you so much for clicking on this podcast! I am SO excited to share with you episode 1 of Dying with Mon

It's been a grim year. Death has never been more highlighted around the world than in 2020. On top of everything else that can get us, now we've got Covid-19 breathing down our necks - and it's terrifying! Dying is the great connector, it's the one thing we all have in common. So why are many if us SO afraid of it? The scariest thing about what happens when we die is - we just don't know. Which is why I'm bringing in the big guns. Join me – Monika O'Hanlon for series one of Dying with Mon as I chat with people from different religions and movements such as The Church of All Worlds, Raëlianism, the Hare Krishna Movement, clairvoyants, the Noosa Temple of Satan and more. So if you're scared, or just curious – click Subscribe – tell a mate – and let's come to grips with our mortality – together. CREDITSCreated by Monika O'HanlonFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/listen.with.mon/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeremy Lachlan is a middle-grade fantasy author of the highest order. His debut novel Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds won the 2019 ABIA Book of the Year for older children and his follow up The Key of all Souls has just been released to high praise. Jeremy is not only an accomplished writer, but makes a mean rainbow sponge cake and is one of the few people in the world who know the difference between a maze and a labyrinth. His selection of best fantasy books contains some wonderful surprises. We also had an interesting bonus discussion about the hero’s journey and how that factors into his writing process (you’ll find it after the end credits). To read full show notes for this episode, including a list of all of Jeremy's fantasy book recommendations, head here.

We finally did it, we reached episode 30! To celebrate the 'big 3 0' we decided to invite back co-hosts Raymond Wiley and Austin Gandy to get the proceedings in full swing, and booked a guest that we've been hankering after for a while now. To top this off, we also recorded the show live (something we plan to do from now on), and our audience gave us some great questions!The guest in question, Isaac Bonewits, has had a fantastically rich career in occultism. From becoming the ArchDruid of  the RDNA, to helping reconstruct the 'Caliphate' branch of the OTO, Isaac gives us a fantastically engaging, frank and often funny, interview.Discussed this week: Why Neo-paganism appears to be changing, How to get thrown out of the Church of Satan by Aton Lavay, being awarded the only recognised academic degree in 'Magic', the effect of 'crud' on estoterism, and uncle Aleister.Of course, no show would be complete without a musical interlude from the amazing Daddytank and his chorus of noise! This weeks entertainers:Each Paw Gremlin Small - IIIseye.r.o.d.e - R03Early Paintings - FundamentalistWe'll keep you posted on the site for when we're doing the next live show. You can also follow site developments on Twitter, just follow @sittingnowenjoy!Isaac Bonewits Bio:Bonewits, P. E. I. (Isaac) (1949–?) One of the brightest and most colorful figures of the Neopagan movement, Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits is best known for his leadership in modern Druidism. He is a priest, magician, scholar, author, bard and activist, and has dedicated himself to reviving Druidism as a “Third Wave” religion aimed at protecting “Mother Nature and all Her children.“Bonewits was born on October 1, 1949, in Royal Oak, Michigan — the perfect place, he likes to joke, for a future Archdruid. The fourth of five children (three girls, two boys), he spent most of his childhood in Ferndale, a suburb of Detroit. When he was nearly 12, the family moved to [Southern California, first on the actual beach of Capistrano Beach, later to] San Clemente, California.From his mother, a devout Roman Catholic, Bonewits developed an appreciation for the importance of religion; from his father, a convert to Catholicism from Presbyterianism, he acquired skepticism. He bounced back and forth between parochial and public schools, largely due to the lack of programs for very bright students — his I.Q. was tested at 200.His first exposure to magic came at age 13, when he met a young Creole woman from New Orleans who practiced Voodoo. She showed him some of her magic and so accurately divined the future [and so successfully performed spells] that he was greatly impressed. During his teen years, he read extensively about magic and parapsychology. He also read science fiction, which often has strong magical and psychic themes.In ninth grade, Bonewits entered a Catholic high-school seminary. He soon realized, however, that he did not want to be a priest in the Catholic faith. He returned to public school and graduated a year early. After spending a year in junior college to get foreign language credits, he enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. At about the same time, he began practicing magic, devising his own rituals by studying the structure of rituals in books, and by observing them in various churches.His roommate at Berkeley, Robert Larson, was a Druid, an alumnus of Carleton College, where the Reformed Druids of North America (RDNA) had been founded in 1963. Larson interested Bonewits in Druidism and initiated him into the RDNA. The two established a grove in Berkeley. Bonewits was ordained as a Druid priest in October 1969. The Berkeley grove was shaped as a Neopagan religion, unlike other RDNA groves, which considered the order a philosophy. The Neopagan groves became part of a branch called the New Reformed Druids of North America (NRDNA).During college, Bonewits spent about eight months as a member of the Church of Satan, an adventure that began as a lark. The college campus featured a Spot where evangelists of various persuasions would lecture to anyone who would listen. As a joke, Bonewits showed up one day to perform a satirical lecture as a Devil’s evangelist. He was so successful that he was approached by a woman who said she represented Anton Szandor LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan. Bonewits attended the church’s meetings and improved upon some of their rituals but dropped out after personality conflicts with LaVey. The membership, he found, consisted largely of middleclass conservatives who were more “rightwing and racist” than Satanist.Bonewits had intended to major in psychology but through Berkeley’s individual group-study program fashioned his own course of study. In 1970 he graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in magic [and thaumaturgy], the first person ever to do so at a Westem educational institution. He also was the last to do so in the United States[?]. College administrators were so embarrassed over the publicity about the degree that magic, witchcraft and sorcery were banned from the individual group-study program.The fame of his degree led to a book contract. In 1971 Real Magic was published, offering Bonewits’ views on magic, ritual and psychic abilities. A revised and updated edition was published in 1979 and reissued in 1989.In 1973 Bonewits met a woman named Rusty [Elliot], a folksinger in the Berkeley cafes. They moved to Minneapolis, where they were married, and where Bonewits took over the editorship of Gnostica, a Neopagan journal published by Carl Weschcke of Llewellyn Publications. He gaveGnostica a scholarly touch and turned it into the leading journal in the field. But the job lasted only 1 1/2 years, for the editorial changes resulted in the loss of many non-Pagan readers, who found the magazine too high brow.Bonewits remained in Minneapolis for about another year. While there he established a Druid grove called the Schismatic Druids of North America, a splinter group of the RDNA. He also joined with several Jewish pagan friends and created the Hasidic Druids of North America, the only grove of which existed briefly in St. Louis, where its membership overlapped with that of the Church of All Worlds. In 1974–75, Bonewits [partially] wrote, edited and self-published The Druid Chronicles (Evolved), a compendium of the history, theology, rituals and customs of all the Reformed Druid movements, including the ones he invented himself.[During this same time] he also founded the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League (AADL), a civil liberties and public relations organization for members of minority belief systems, such as the Rosicrucians, Theosophists, Neopagans, Witches, occultists, astrologers and others. [See The Aquarian Manifesto.] Bonewits sought to convince such persons that they had more in common with each other than they realized. By banding together, they could effectively fight, through the press and the courts, the discrimination and harassment of the Judeo-Christian conservatives.Bonewits served as president of the AADL and devoted most of his income — from unemployment insurance — to running it. The organization scored several small victories in court, such as restoring an astrologer to her apartment, after she had been evicted because a neighbor told her landlord that her astrology classes were “black magic seances.” In 1976 Bonewits and Rusty divorced, and he decided to return to Berkeley. The AADL disintegrated shortly after his departure.In Berkeley, Bonewits rejoined the NRDNA grove and was elected Archdruid. He established The Druid Chronicler (which later became Pentalpha Journal) as a national Druid publication in 1978. He attempted to make the Berkeley grove as Neopagan as the groves in Minneapolis and St. Louis, which caused a great deal of friction among the longtime members. After a few clashes, Bonewits left the organization. Pentalpha Journal folded.[Also in 1978 , he researched and wrote Authentic Thaumaturgy, essentially a rewrite of Real Magic for players of fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. It was published in booklet format, shown left, in 1978 and 1979 by The Chaosium, publishers of the Runequest and Call of Cthulu games. “A.T.” became highly influential in the RPG community, even though no more than 1,000 copies were ever printed. Many years later, in 1998, he published a dramatically expanded and updated edition, shown right, for Steve Jackson Games, which released it as a large trade paperback. Excerpts from this new edition can be foundhere.]In 1979 he married for a second time, to a woman named Selene [Kumin]. That relationship ended in 1982 [after a brief stay in Santa Cruz, California, where he worked as a typesetter]. In 1983 he was initiated into the New Reformed Order of the Golden Dawn [the San Francisco Bay Area’s best known, and stereotypically “eclectic,” Wiccan tradition]. The same year, he married again, to Sally Eaton, the actress who created the role of the hippie Witch in the Broadway musical, Hair. [During the early 1980s, Bonewits and Eaton were heavily involved in the California revival of the Ordo Templi Orientis, or “O.T.O.,” best known for its most important historical figure, Aliester Crowley.] They moved to New York City in 1983 where Bonewits met Shenain Bell, a fellow Neopagan, and discussed the idea of starting a Druidic organization.The fellowship, Ár nDraíocht Féin (“Our Own Druidism” in Irish Gaelic), was born as a fresh Neopagan religious organization with no ties to the ancient Druids or to the RDNA, which by this time was apparently [but not exactly] defunct. Bonewits became Archdruid, and Bell became ViceArchdruid.In 1986 Bonewits and Eaton separated, and he moved to Kansas City for several months, where he worked as a computer consultant. He then returned to Berkeley but could not find work in Silicon Valley, which was in a slump [they had a glut of unemployed technical writers at the time]. He moved back to the East Coast, to Nyack, New York, near Manhattan, in November 1987, with his intended fourth wife, Deborah Lipp, a Wiccan high priestess [and married her in 1988]. He continued work as a computer consultant and worked on the building of Ár nDraíocht Féin. He also began work on a book on the creation, preparation and performance of effective religious rituals [finally published as Rites of Worship: A Neopagan Approachin 2004 and as Neopagan Rites in 2007].[From 1988 through 1995, Bonewits and Lipp were partners (along with several others across the continent) in making ADF the largest and most successful Neopagan Druid organization in North America, with legal standing and tax exempt status in the USA. For most of this time, they were also partners in running a Gardnerian Wiccan “Pagan Way” group and then a coven in New York and New Jersey.][1990 saw the birth of Bonewits’ first known child, Arthur Lipp-Bonewits, at their home in Dumont, New Jersey. Arthur quickly became known among East Coast Neopagans as an intelligent, self-aware, and hyperactive child. 1990 also saw, however, a serious blow to Bonewits’ health, when he began showing symptoms of a newdisease called Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome, caused by chemically contaminated L-Tryptophan tablets manufactured in Japan and consumed by tens of thousands of Americans in 1989. This multisystemic disease caused Bonewits an increasing inability to perform his secular or Archdruidic duties, leading to his loss of employment in 1992 and his resignation as Archdruid of ADF, and assumption of the Archdruid Emeritus title, on January 1, 1996.  In 1997 and 1998, Bonewits began to show signs of recovering from the disease’s worst effects, except for relapses in the winter months, but by this time the disease had also caused severe damage to his marriage with Deborah, and in 1998 they separated.]The “10–year gap.” Bonewits has discovered, he says, a “10–year gap” between many of his views and their acceptance among Neopagans. In 1973 he was the first Neopagan to state publicly that the alleged antiquity of Neopagan Witchcraft (Wicca) was “hogwash.” The Craft, he said, did not go back beyond Gerald B. Gardner and Doreen Valiente [Now he is willing to push it all the back to the 1920’s. See Witchcraft: A Concise Guide]. Bonewits was held in contempt by many for that, yet by 1983, Neopagans generally acknowledged that Neopagan Witchcraft was a new religion, not the continuation of an old one. The Aquarian Anti-Defamation League was also ahead of its time. In 1974–75, Neopagans were not ready to admit that they needed public relations and legal help. By a decade later, a number of such organizations were in existence.Around 1985 Bonewits began regularly discussing the need to provide social services for domestic and personal problems and drug dependencies. Neopagans, he points out, represent a cross section of the population, and such problems cut across religious lines. Bonewits estimates that as many as 80 percent of Neopagans come from “non[‘dys-’]functional family” backgrounds. Neopagans, he observes, are brighter and more artistic than average, but also, therefore, “more neurotic.” [He now thinks much of it may be related to “Aspergers Syndrome”] The community has been quick to address these social issues with programs [such as various “Pagan 12-Step Programs”].Bonewits also began lobbying for financial support for full-time Neopagan clergy (the priesthood is essentially a volunteer job), but the idea fell on uninterested ears. In 1988 Bonewits was pursuing a goal of buying land and establishing an academically accredited Pagan seminary. [As of 2006, there are dozens of Pagan-owned land sanctuaries, and a few Pagan seminaries earning accreditation from the national accreditation agencies. Alas, ADF is not among them, though a couple of ADF groves own their own land. A few Neopagan clergy have managed to obtain employment via the Covenent of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) as UU ministers.][On July 23, 2004, Isaac was handfasted to ceremonial magician, Wiccan priestess, and early member of CUUPS, Ms. Phaedra Heyman. On December 7th of 2007, Isaac and Deborah were legally divorced and Isaac and Phaedra were wed on December 31, 2007. They now reside in Rockland County, New York, and have recently written a book together: Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, and Substances to Heal, Change, and Grow (New Page, March 2007).

Author Matt Betts joins Carrie and K.W. to talk about his latest release, Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds, and some of his favorite pop culture!

We are walking in one world here, yet we are of ALL WORLDS! We are walking each other home! Aurora brings forth light codes using sound, color, geometry and light language from many ethereal sources to assist us in activating and remembering our divine blueprint and sacred gifts! Listen in as Cari and Aurora discuss […]

Has Paganism gone mainstream? There are over 3 million professing pagans in the U.S. Have you heard about the Covenant of the Goddess? What is Poly-pantheism? The Church of All Worlds, Ego-Magical activism? Exploring past lives? Today's guest, Carl Teichrib, just returned from the 26th annual PantheaCon in San Jose, CA, the world's largest conference gathering of Wiccans, Witches, Druids, and other practitioners of the New Age, neo-Pagan community in the world. Daily podcast, relevant articles on issues pertaining to Christians and more can be found on Stand Up For The Truth.

ANOTHER DIGITAL CITIZEN Episode 213- Razor Blade Seesaw Predicts Sky-Net On This Episode Of ANOTHER DIGITAL CITIZEN: We will be talking about News of the Week, Trond Tells the Truth, TV of the Week, The Church of All Worlds, Movies of the Week, Undone: Episode 8 Review, Another Digital Review of “Terminator: Dark Fate”, and Much, Much More. —You can email us at anotherdigitalcitizen@gmail.com— — Also, Subscribe on Itunes and Spotify today! — Itunes: — https://tinyurl.com/y4hahrc2 — Spotify: — https://tinyurl.com/y6bt2kd8 — — A Member of Pod All The Time Podcast Network —

Today's guest is Donald Wildgrube. He doesn't use a title but is an ordained Pagan Priest, ordained in 1973 by the Church of All Worlds. He is 80 years old and has been in the Poly movement since before the word was coined by Morning Glory Zell. He has talked to many groups, given talks at our Pagan Picnic, on subjects ranging from Paganism, Witchcraft, Herbalism, Ancient Egypt and related subjects. Donald can be reached at dwildgrube@earthlink.net About Us: www.aboutsexpodcast.com  Angela Skurtu is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an AASECT certified sex therapist. Her second book released in 2018. Get marriage therapy and sex therapy in the St Louis area with Angela Skurtu LMFT M.Ed. at: www.therapistinstlouis.com

On this episode of Guest Boyz we have two undiscovered Youtube talents by the names of 8-Bit Brody and Dumbest of All Worlds. Both criminally unknown the the high quality stuff they make I thought it would be fun to have them on the show to talk about what its like before you 'make it' as a youtuber. Talking Points: Monetization, advertiser vs creator, almighty algorithm, salty seas of content, canadian youtube, networking, youtube haiku, chris chan, full time youtube, dangers of burnout ► 8-Bit Brody https://www.youtube.com/user/8BitBrody ► Dumbest Of All Worlds https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4YNwIa0KQ455Ji2jYVLKFQ Check out the website for links to our shows on iTunes and GooglePlay ► http://www.lmtya.com Peep us on Twitter ► @LetMeTellYouPD Official Discord ► https://discord.gg/SqyXJ9R /////// SHILL CORNER /////// ► https://www.patreon.com/LMTYA LMTYA shirts! ► https://represent.com/lmtya /////// SHILL CORNER /////// LMTYA Theme by ► https://www.huskyswonderfulmusicland.net/

In this pigisode, Brian returns from his gaycation in Palm Springs for Desert Heat and shares his piggy adventures at CCBC Resort, All Worlds and the DILF Party. Rick discusses upcoming events Pig Week FTL, Circuit Miami and the other parties for the year. Rick and Brian discuss cruising culture from cruise bars to sex parties. The boys wrap up with announcement for upcoming Dirty Gay Fun parties with special porn star, Stephen Raw coming next month

With the arrival of Bradley Cooper's remake of "A Star Is Born" starring himself and Lady Gaga in theaters it is safe to say the Oscar-bait season has officially begun. Alan & Chris discuss Mr. Cooper's first directorial effort followed by reviews of the smaller independent film "Puzzle" and the comic book adaptation misfire "Venom" starring Tom Hardy. Recommendations: "Sorry to Bother You", "Best of All Worlds"

A brief introductory study of the "worlds beyond", "next world", or "life after death" in the Bahá'í Writings. This is the full presentation, all 7 parts.Sections: 0:44 Intro 1:13 The Great Beyond - An Apt Expression 3:29 The Womb and the World - The Limits of Knowing 12:25 No Physical Form - Made Up of Heavenly Elements 16:50 World of Exemplars - the Heavenly Body of Man 24:13 Reunited with Loved Ones - Greater Development for Them 28:55 Time in Next World - Though Different 32:08 Souls Foster Arts and Sciences 34:04 The Judgement 40:09 Don't Act From Fear of Punishment nor Hope of Reward 44:29 There is a "Hell" 48:41 What is "Heaven" and "Hell"? 1:21:38 Where are Heaven and Hell? 1:26:45 Unaware You're in Hell 1:44:00 Can Fall and Not Know It 1:44:59 Do Non-Baha'is "Go to Heaven" 1:49:38 Can We Make Up for Lost Opportunities? 1:54:39 Will We Know We Were Wrong? 2:09:24 Endless Worlds of God 2:15:40 Where are the Worlds of God? Supernatural? 2:24:24 Different Degrees in the Next World 2:53:16 No Retrogression 3:00:30 The Paradox of Grace and Will 3:13:01 What does "Knowing God" mean? 3:16:48 This World is a Mirror of the Next - Nature & History 3:24:54 Revelations in all the Worlds 3:33:28 The Manifestation in All Worlds 3:42:48 Mention Him in Every World 3:47:33 Detached From Worlds Beyond 4:00:09 Finding Him - Smelling His Fragrance 4:22:04 Nothing Bad in the Next World? 4:26:15 The Two Heavens - Or Earth, Heaven, and that which Lieth in Between 4:29:08 Meeting the Prophets of God 4:33:43 The Great Journey Back to the Divine 4:46:12 Conclusion 5:05:26 Other Issues we will Address in the FutureDownload MP3 and PDF here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xlwc3BVrs--twiPCklvJ4A5d8x1oxLdaYouTubePatreonFacebookInstagramTwitterOfficial Bahá'í websiteAmbient music: “Celtic Music | Ancient Forest | Celtic Lute & Guitar Music” by Soul CandleLicense: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#bahai #bahaullah #abdulbaha #bab #scienceandreligion #religion #faith #unity #knowledge #interfaith #religiousstudies #philosophy #god #unity #religion #war #religiouswar #division #conflict #disunity #arguments #investigation #unbiased #search #truthSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/bridgingbeliefs)

Jeremy Lachlan's debut novel Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds has been eleven years in the making and is the first in a four book series that we are all really excited about. We chat with Jeremy about the process of getting published, working as a bookseller, getting lost in the Cairo Museum and changing his main character's gender halfway through his story. Books mentioned in this podcast: Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds by Jeremy Lachlan: https://bit.ly/2upijof Hosts: Sarah McDuling and Ben Hunter Guest: Jeremy Lachlan

The Cohesion of All Worlds

This episode, Mike & Tyler discuss: * SIxers vs Heat: Trust the Process * Thunder vs Jazz. * Rookie is an Open Definition. * The Brow vs the Blazers: Anthony Davis, Destroyer of All Worlds. * Lebron, Cavs, and the Warriors vs Rockets.

Phoenix Film Festival 2018 has upped its foreign film game this year. With so many strong entries it's hard to know what to pick. But we're both glad we decided to see "Die Beste Aller Welten" -- or "The Best of All Worlds." Like an Austrian version of "The Florida Project" we found this film touching, funny, and heartrending all at once.

Dr. Sinister Post-X-Day Radio Synaesthesia Show with Dr. Hal, StangDoe, Dave Live at WCSB 2017-7-9 We are at Stang Ranch and Tarzan's Radio Station is set up, but we're still unpacking everything ELSE and have to change our address on EVERYTHING. The new address for SubGenius Foundation is Box 807 Glen Rose Texas 76043.We saved a Radio Synaesthesia show that hasn't been on Hour of Slack for this week, recorded at WCSB on July 9 of the so-called 2017, right after X-Day Drill #20. Dr. Sinister kept Princess Wei, Rev. Stang, and Dr. Hal, in the station for an extra two hours, and Lonesome Cowboy Dave called in. This is the first hour. Stang credits Mayan Ruins, plugs Starwood, describes how it's mated with X-Day. Church of All Worlds and goat-unicorns. Why a goat? origin and result: Rev. Magdalen can't have SubGenius stuff in New York. New York state judges; Texas lawyers can sleep in court. Lonesome Cowboy Dave calls in. Sold 6 copies of Neighborworld. Dave's colon and convergent evolution. Dave tells tale of Sinister as stand-up comic. X-Day Drill and the awful new revelations. Hal's new song "TAKE UP THE SLACK"! New X-Day revelations. The movie people filmed Onan's new song and a whole bunch of other stuff - much filmed already. Obstructionists in the Church. Brought huge dog to X-Day Drill. Dammett and the cat who made him her little bitch. The mysteries of Wisteria - monsters, insects, spiders.  The disgusting pond scum. Wisteria as a strip mine that was rehabilitated. The terrible derecho weather disaster of 4 X-Days ago -- no power in Ohio EXCEPT Wisteria. Horrible weather in Arizona. Fossil fish of Ohio. Monsters of Ohio. New caller "Nightwing" confused re: turtles. Wei's ageless newt. Stang's video "FIG - The Newt That Time Forgot" - microorganism movie "Micro Monsters" on revstang YouTube channel. Philo wants ads for Roku. The SubGenius video archives -- Stang's new chore. Hoping to film more SubG old-timers. Robert Crumb and the Church. SubG celebs. David Byrne and the Puzzling Evidence scene in True Stories. Goat Yoga on Stang Ranch. Dave was a refugee from Middle East. Goat meat restaurants. Goat-killin'and skinnin'. World might end tomorrow but probably go to Starwood instead. Dave on Trotsky and Lenin. Why "Bob" Dobbs stopped showing up at Devivals. When Dr. Sinister saw "Bob" get hit by a bus. "Bob's" both the mouth and anus of the Universe! Dr. Sinister breaks and does credits.    Order Lonesome Cowboy Dave's novel NEIGHBOR WORLD and/or THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENUS (signed): http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/books.htm

Oberon Zell describes himself as a wizard, and this to him means that he is a kind of mentor, teacher, professor. He tells us in this extensive interview about his early childhood, when he thought that everyone had the gifts that he had... Soon he discovered that this was not the case! Throughout his life he got tasks, as he puts it, by Her Majesty's (the Godess') Sacred Service, like founding the Church of all Worlds (and along the way defining the Pagan movement), the magazine Green Egg, the Grey School of Wizardry etc. And he tells as in a moving moment also about the very special relationship he as his wife, Morning Glory Zell, shared until her death a few years ago. Then we will also speak to Damh the Bard, our featured musician of the day - see the music page for more details. The episode ends with a piece of news and a book review. Show Notes and Links Links: Oberon Zell on Wikipedia Oberon Zell on Facebook Dec 10, 2017: The following links are temporarily unavailable Oberon Zell's personal website The Grey School of Wizardry The Church of All Worlds Mutants and Mystics, mentioned in the interview, buy here Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", which inspired Oberon Zell and Lance Christie to the creation of the Church of All Worlds, buy here. Music played Intro Music: Wendy Rule - from the CD "Deity": Think of the Day Music during the episode by Damh the Bard Sabbat - from the album "Sabbat" (2015) Obsession - from the album "Herne's Apprentice" (2003) The Spirit of Albion . from the Album "The Spirit of Albion" (2006) Outro Music: Wendy Rule - from the CD "Deity": Night Sea Journey

Starts with a classic audio collage and fabulous rant by Rev. Susie the Floozie from "Bob's" Slack Time Funhouse in the distant past, and it is GREAT! Philosophical recording of Prof. Chas Smith on his show ESO, awaiting X-Day. Stang and Chas to Bleepo on rerun plans for the decimated planet. NHGH will return the tapes he took when we forgot to push "record".  Stang's old "EotW" pop song collage. REM, Quicksilver, Mojo Nixon, Sublime,   Hendrix, GWAR, etc. TITLES - Hal and Stang start in, talking about X-Day and their personal Escape Planets. We can bring back to life all extinct creatures and plants. You can have your own unicorn… albeit not as you expected. Billy-Unicorns and virgins. Elasmotherium. Lancelot the Unicorn - Morning Glory and Oberon, Stang's old buddies. Oberon has similar job description to Stang - Church of All Worlds. The Water-Sharing ceremony at Brushwood. At Starwood Stang hangs out out with rival cult leaders he once made fun of. Wiccan history. Much of pop culture came from the 1920s. Hal on recording his new songs. Burning of Ikon tonight by Cosmac and Faux. Emergentiles - drew up plans! Science is illegal! All-Science High. We could make smoke bombs here. Wasp attractant. Stang loves bugs and he lets them fly around his face and camera. Stang's Arkansas tick. Pete Goldie and bedbugs. Emboldened by the Trump administration. Grab ya by the *PUSSY*. Part of American discourse -- CoSG prepped us for world where political discourse is now internet flame wars. The contingent that suggests we're condoning sexism and etc. - bears somehow now symbolize all political male evil. New headphone for third bun - "Bob" can do Number Three. Teeters LaVerge. "I'VE GOT A TUB OF PILLS FOR DR. LEGUME!" Stents in all the old SubGs. Esquivel background music. Brother Cleve Dunkan co-composed music with Esquivel on his deathbed. Stang saw Esquivel's old tapes. Rev. Bleepo is working with The Firesign Theatre. Ray Harryhausen and "Bob." Stang's Invicta dinosaur series toys - Hayward and Harryhausen - fall-out between Harryhausen and Hayward. Ray And Diana Harryhausen almost bought Aleister Crowley's house but freaked out. But into UFOs. Predestination and Harryhausen, Sufis. Spray me with some Quantum Foam. We need an escape clause. This isn't the only universe. The SubG rockathon, the frug, and the frog!  Stang's problem with time travel and planetary movement through space. "How do you think I got here, Past-Man?" "The Sacrifice Game" is the title Stang couldn't remember of a book about time-travel through consciousness transfer. ABRUPT END!

In 1961, science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein released the groundbreaking novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Little did he know that his book would inspire the first pagan church in the United States, the Church of All Worlds. Join us for this episode of Sects Ed as we discuss paganism, science fiction, and...unicorn breeding?

This episode, we welcome Diana Morningstar, who tells us about her coming out and transition as a transgender woman. She also talks about her life in the pagan and queer communities, pre- and post-transition. Diana gives an honest look at herself, her certainties and doubts about transitioning, and her gravitation towards Goddess culture and the issues she ran into in that culture.    Diana Morningstar has been involved in the neopagan movement since the mid 80's and has participated in Church of All Worlds, NROOGD, Umbanda, and Feri tradition rites among others. She is an initiated witch, a shameless eclectic, and an amazon forest warrior. She has been involved in activism with Earth First! and Queer Nation, and lately with trans issues. She is a transsexual woman living in Sonoma County, CA and is 56 years old. She has journeyed beyond the ninth wave to reach the Isle of Women, and is immensely grateful to be at last on that shore. She writes software, makes graphic art, plays piano and harp, and loves to cycle and hike. The moonlit forest is her true home.   Links Email: diana@miragearts.com Website: http://www.miragearts.com To Survive on This Shore: http://www.tosurviveonthisshore.com/photographs-and-interviews Beautiful collection of stories and pictures from transgender elders.   Books Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano Transgender History by Susan Stryker Nevada by Imogen Binnie

We return to Starwood festival for the second half of Rev. Ivan Stang's annual Sermon to the Pagans, which includes readings from a rant by Rev. Sinphaltimus Exmortis as well as a quick but bone-chilling history of the Rosicrucians -- originally a 17th-century satire-on-cults, but from which grew most of the deadly-serious New Age movement, the O.T.O., and zillions of splinter-group False Prophets. The Rosicrucian origins and end results might not be as bone-chilling to the average person as they are to the minority of folks who created or contributed to satires on cults, only to find thousands of dipshits and numbskulls taking it all too seriously. The sermon is followed by a Q & A with the audience. Also included are a song by Phat ManDee and African collaborators recorded in the acoustically weird Pufferdome, numerous location recordings made by Stang and Wei, and a funny interview with Starwood co-founder Jeff Rosenbaum (aka St. Stymie de Bergerac) conducted by Church of All Worlds cofounder Oberon Zell (from the podcast "Pagans Tonight"). Photo Report on Starwood 31   Starwood 31 in 5.5 Minutes video "Bob" Appears at Starwood, Very Late at Night TO DONATE: http://subgenius.com/ts/hos.html OUR CATALOGS: http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/mediashack.html http://www.cafepress.com/subgen

Being the Disbeliever Mascot of a huge pagan festival has its perks. The first half of Rev. Ivan Stang's annual Sermon to the Pagans is the main feature of this episode, which also includes a righteous short SubGenius sermon by Rev. "Suds" Pshaw and a longer interview with Stang conducted by Church of All Worlds founder Oberon Zell for the weekly podcast, "Pagans Tonight." There are also some location recordings and observations by Stang & Wei from Starwood, including a discussion with Lord Thatan himself, and even little bits of Ask Dr. Hal and a LeMur collage that we saved just for a Starwood show. Next week will feature Part 2 of Stang's sermon and more location recordings. Stang's sermon is not really all-Stang; it includes readings from shorter SubGenius-defining rants by Dr. Onan Canobite, Rev. Phineas Narco, the kooks of alt.slack and scrubgenius, and others. Photo Report on Starwood 31 Starwood 31 in 5.5 Minutes video  "Bob" Appears at Starwood, Very Late at Night TO DONATE (and to see logs of all shows): http://subgenius.com/ts/hos.html OUR CATALOGS: http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/mediashack.html

This week we are joined by Wizard extraordinaire Oberon Zell Ravenheart (www.oberonzell.com) an elder and teacher of the pagan community. Oberon is the founder of the Church of All Worlds and the creator and Headmaster of the Grey School of Wizardry (www.greyschool.com). Join us for this interesting conversation.

This week the boys celebrate “The Good, Bad and Ugly”, I’m not sure which one is Paulie and which one is Evan … you decide. Paulie loves the new Rascal silicone Rim Raider Butt Plug which seems to not have only stimulated his private area but his funny bones as well. Evan reviews “Morning Wood” from Falcon (3 ½) and “Playing with Fire 4 Alarm” from All Worlds, Channel 1 (4 splats). They listen to Flying Machines “Hopelessly Alone” from NY, NY and think you might want to “bone in tone” to this group. They even stay sober enough to answer your question and emails, Stay Hard!

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OK they are finally over their hangovers from last week.  They are ready to sit down and record another week of news, laugher, reviews, letters and questions.     Evan must like watching movies because if he didn't he wouldn't be spending all his time amassing a record making list of movies!  This week he adds two more to  his growing list.  The first is "Trunks 5" from hot house video.  This is not your like your normal magazine swim suit edition unless you want to see them all removed!  Evan rates this a splashing 4 splats.  The second DVD is "Sharp" by All Worlds. Evan thinks this DVD is edgy like a knife and rates it a slicing 3 1/2 splats!   Paulie has upgraded his dildo to the new "Johnny Hazzard Cyberskin 7x Vibrating Cock with Balls".  Yeah the name is long but so will be the pleasure you get form this now toy!  Wrapping up the week is this week's MTFT with "Breathe" by This is Fiction. 

ALERT!! - If you downloaded the Itunes version of our podcast last week please re-download.  You only got half a podcast.  I keep telling Evan to stop watching porn when he creates his podcast.  But what can you do he is a slave to the podcast!     He promises you will get 100% podcast this week and you will love what you hear!  The last supper or the last orgy what's the difference?  Well Dark Alley Media is walking the line and Paulie and Evan discuss.  That and all the other news that not necessarily fit to print! Done as only Paulie and Evan can.       Evan reviews to hot new DVDs the first is "Flings 3" by Bel Ami.  Evan rates this a steamy 3 1/2 splats.  The second DVD is "Stag Party" by All Worlds rated 3 splats.  Paulie reviews the newest addition to the Manline collection.  The Double Penetration Harness. Are you Man enough?  Wrapping things up is Evans MTFT tune of the week, "She Don't" by Porter block.