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Show #88: Psychotropic Chemical Warfare

James Ketchum, the psychiatrist who was at the center of U.S. military research into BZ, LSD, and other deliriants and hallucinogens as potential incapacating chemical warfare agents, joins us to talk about his self-published memoir: “Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten.”

To order a copy of “Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten” contact [email protected]/

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Destiny, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Song: “I Want an Affair” by the Kleptones | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)



Show #87: Who We’d Like to See Dead in ‘07

Yes, we’re always looking ahead here at the RU Sirius Show! The past just seems so “yesterday.” Also, we give you a sampling of the recently released Mondology Vol. 1 collection of audio highlights from previous shows (damn you, yesterday!).

Playlist:

“Gimme Helter” by Mondo Vanilli | “I Have A Dream” by Rob Brezney | “Katrina Klap” by Mos Def | “Mind Control” by Fred Burks (remixed by Carlos Villarreal) | “Most Disgusting Behavior on a Plane” by Mark Frauenfelder | “Fences” by Claus Muzak | “Stammer Off” by RU Sirius and Larry Harvey (remixed by fling!) | “Other Universe of Bruce Wayne” by Bucky Sinister | “Limo Job” by Beth Lisick Ordeal | “The Fairy Real” by Neil Gaiman

Check out the full collection here.

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Destiny, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

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Show #86: Documentary Director Makes War On Christmas!

It’s the RU Sirius Show Christmas Special and it’s a schizophrenic delight. First Brian Flemming, the Director of the documentary film “The God Who Wasn’t There” returns to talk about his “Blasphemy Challenge” and his “War On Christmas.”

And then Destiny plays some strange and wonderful Christmas tunes for your entertainment. Pass the eggnog!

PLAYLIST:

Leonard Nimoy - Lost in the Stars
Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream
No Doubt - Oi to the World
Vandals - My First Christmas as a Woman
Root Boy Slim - Christmas at K-Mart
“Ding! Fries are done” (Joe Davidson Remix)
Cast of Bonanza - Merry Christmas Neighbor

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Destiny, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Blasphemy Challenge | The God Who Wasn’t There | The War Against Easter RU Sirius Show

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Show #85 (Weekend Edition): Was Mao as Bad as all that?

Building on a conversation with D’Andre the Maoist, we discuss mass slaughter and crass consciousness

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

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Show #84: SubGenius Performer & Underground Comix Artist Hal Robins

Hal Robins aka Dr. Hal joins us to talk about Secrets of the Subgenii; underground comix, and his latest book, Dinosaur Alphabet. As Dr. Hal he answers all of our burning questions.

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Song: excerpt from “Hour of Slack #1076″ | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Ask Dr. Hal | Dinosaur Alphabet |The Subgenius Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon | The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks | Hal Robins at “Satan Show” | Neverwas Haul

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Show #83 (Weekend Edition): Should We Tune Out Media and Experience Interiority?

We build on a conversation with underground publisher V. Vale again, this time to talk about whether we should switch off all the media and spend more quiet time alone.

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

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Show #82 (Interview): “It’s A Wonderful Apocalypse” with John Shirley

Original cyberpunk novelist, screenplay writer, and musician John Shirley joins us. We mostly to talk about his upcoming novel, “The Other End.” The book is a very satisfying response to the “Left Behind” series, the massively popular Christian fundamentalist apocalypse/rapture novels.

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Song: “Y_U’re The Re@S_N” by the Panther Moderns | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

John Shirley | The Other End | Signs Of Witness | Shirley’s Blog

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Show #81 (Interview): The Discordian & The Kennedy Assassination

Adam Gorightly returns to discuss his book, “The Prankster and the Conspiracy”, about how Discordian prankster Kerry Thornley became friends with Lee Harvey Oswald and got tied in to JFK assassination conspiracy theories.

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Song: “Whipsta” by Dinbot | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Adam Gorightly

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Show #80 (Interview): Laura Albert, AKA, J.T. Leroy

Laura Albert joins us to talk about food, fun, and oh yes well maybe just a little bit about that whole J.T. Leroy thing. Also, we discuss whether we got Nick Douglas fired by Nick Denton.

Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Song: “Corpus Christi” by Laura Albert | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

J. T. Leroy | Laura Albert | Nick Douglas

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Show #79 (Weekend Edition): Can Liberal Societies Deal with Human Psychopathology?

Building on a previous discussion with ReSearch Publisher V. Vale about some of the thoughts of J.G. Ballard, we discuss whether societies that try to practice classic enlightenment values can deal with group and individual psychopathologies

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

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Show #78: Robert Anton Wilson Lives!

We talk about the great writer/philosopher/prankster Robert Anton Wilson with Lance Bauscher, director of the documentary “Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson” and the force behind the “Maybe Logic Academy.” And we talk to Eric Wagner, author of “An Insider’s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson.” And best of all, Bauscher brought in some reading/performances from the upcoming audio book version of The Illuminatus Trilogy!, which will be released by his Deepleaf Production company.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Will Block, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Robert Anton Wilson | Maybe Logic Academy | Deepleaf Productions | An Insider’s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson

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Show #77 (Weekend Edition): Is Philosophy Obsolete?

Building on a previous discussion with the philosopher Richard Rorty, we discuss whether the classical notion of “The Philosopher” is meaningful in the bio age.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

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Show #76 (Interview): Manson Family Values

On this show we talk to Adam Gorightly about his book, “The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos.”

And Jeff Diehl leads off a discussion where we mouth off a bit about infamous griefer Michael Cook.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Destiny, Jeff Diehl, Steve Robles | Song: “Twilight Blues” by Charles Manson | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Adam Gorightly

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Show #75 (Weekend Edition): Is the Immigration Issue a No Brainer?

Building on an earlier interview with Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena, we discuss immigration, and the peculiar political alignment between some corporate globalists and anti-corporate multiculturalists.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Destiny, Jeff Diehl, | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

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Show #74 (Interview): Nick Douglas, Valleywag

Nick Douglas, who writes the scandalous online “tech gossip rag” Valleywag, joins us. We talk tech gossip, future plans and he psychoanalyzes Cory Doctorow. And we talk to Destiny about the new MondoGlobo show, Destinyland.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Destiny, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Valleywag | Destinyland

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Show #73 (Interview): Yay, Anal!! Violet Blue Returns

Violet BlueWe continue our discussion with Violet Blue about her latest books, “The Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Sex Toys” and “The Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn”. Naturally, our conversation eventually turns toward anal sex.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Violet Blue, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Jesus Please Me” by Genesis P. Orridge and Psychic TV | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Violet Blue’s Tiny Nibbles | SF Gate Column | The Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Sex Toys | The Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn

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Show #72 (Weekend): Is Acid the Antidote to Everything?

With this show we build on a piece Michael Horowitz read on one of our shows. He originally read it from the stage at LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann’s 100th birthday tribute in Basel, Switzerland. Violet Blue joins our usual crew as we discuss whether LSD is a panacea.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Violet Blue, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

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Show #71 (Interview): Sex Writer Violet Blue: “My Boobies Were All Over Market Street”

Violet BlueOur friend Violet Blue returns to talk about her new weekly column with the S.F. Chronicle’s website, SF Gate, and about her latest books, “The Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Sex Toys” and “The Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn”. This is the first of a two part interview.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “”New is Old” by Negativland | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

Violet Blue’s Tiny Nibbles | SF Gate Column | The Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Sex Toys | The Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn

Read the text version on 10 Zen Monkeys.

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Show #70 (Weekend Edition): The Politics of Transcendence

Building on a comment from one of our interviews with Burning Man leader Larry Harvey, we discuss the politics of transcendence

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Lisa Rein, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

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Show #69 (Interview): Dan The Automator

Dan the Automator at Mondo StudioDan The Automator Nakamura joined us in our studio today. He’s the producer genius behind Dr. Octagon, Handsome Boy Modeling School, and the Gorillaz first album, and so much more.

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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Lisa Rein, Jeff Diehl | Featured Songs: “Baller Blockin” by E-40 & San Quinn, “Catch Me” by Lupe Fiasco & Evidence of Dilated Peoples | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)

The only REAL dan the automator page

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