42 Minutes 247: Claire Hoffman - Greetings From Utopia Park - 10.17.2016 While there is no utopia yet on earth, the program considers this idea with one who survived A Transcendent Childhood. Claire Hoffman, author of the recent Greetings From Utopia Park, explains that there is a larger fabric of the universe to which we all belong even if our human religious structures collapse under the weight of their own design. Topics Include: Harry Potter, Marked, Super Powers, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Beat...
Nov 02, 20160
42 Minutes 246: Jacques the Fatalist - "28 days 6 hours 42 minutes 12 seconds" - 10.18.2016 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Or that's what Doug and Will find as they look back at five years of 42 Minutes on the very day they set the thing in motion. Were all five years present in that first episode? Maybe! Find out . . . Topics Include: Anniversary, Synchronicity, Time Travel, Back To The Future, Joe Alexander, Jake Kotze, Sync Practice,...
Oct 24, 20160
42 Minutes 245: 5th Anniversary - Episode Now - 10.18.2016 The program travels back in time to a moment in October of 2011 when Will & Doug began a weekly conversation about SYNC. Topics Include: Pop, Rituals, Synchromysticism, Symbolism, Ephemeral, Meaning, Jung, Imp Movie Awards, Conspiracy, Watching The Watchmen, TMI, Black Swans, Moon Child, Sync Book, Cloudy Ideas Of Truth, The Alchemist, Illuminatus, The Stand, Discordia, Dark Tower, Atlantis, Time Travel. http://thesyncbook.com/donate...
Oct 18, 20160
42 Minutes 244: Jacob Gentry - Synchronicity - 10.09.2016 Tonight the program considers the zeitgeist and uncovers the secrets of time travel with writer, director, editor Jacob Gentry, the filmmaker responsible most recently for the film, Synchronicity. Topics Include: Jung, The Sync Whole, Broken Bells, Danger Mouse, Christina Hendricks, Mix Tape, Resonance, Zeitgeist, Time Travel, Nostalgia, Back To The Future, The Matrix Elon Musk, PKD, Archetype, Noir, Meaning, Genius, Giger, Kubrick, Melvi...
Oct 10, 20160
42 Minutes 243: Michael Isaiah - The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - 09.25.16 Tonight the program meets long time listener, Michael Isaiah, a musician from the Bay Area who released a solo album of music this past spring. Time is of the essence! Topics Include: PKD, Radio Free Albemuth, We, Time, Ghost Light, David Plate, Sync Summit, Blessing, High Witness, Doors, Black Angels (I meant!), Magic, Chronos, Time Travel, Chaos, Information, Gleick, Fatalist, Paranoia, Mistakes, Error Redundancy,...
Oct 03, 20160
42 Minutes 242: William Keefer - Anamanesis - 09.18.2016 The program wakes up tonight, or experiences, an Anamnesis, a loss of forgetfulness with SyncBook+PLUS member, William Keefer, author of the recent Jupiter Publications novel, Anamnesis. Topics Include: Consciousness Change, Matrix, Iraq, 911, North Tower, Heaven Is Empty, Philip K. Dick, Red Jays, Ayahuasca, Conspiracy, Standing Rock, Election, History of Religion, Axial Age, Invisible Army, Consumption, Politics, Winnipeg, Stargate, Chel...
Sep 26, 20160
42 Minutes 241: Alan Green - Sync Book Anniversary - 09.11.2016 Will, Doug, & Alan look back at five years of Sync Book and consider a community of artists exploring the impossible. Topics Include: 911, Building 7, Building 3, 22, 217 & 237, Accepted Conspiracy, Oly 2016, Support, Community, Radio8Ball, Knight of Cups, Demons, Catharsis, Success, Jams, Providence, Trigger Warnings, Self Reflection, Troll 2, Znore, Medium Is The Message, Artist Platform. http://amzn.to/2cZEDi8
Sep 19, 20160
42 Minutes 240: 240: Claire Vaye Watkins - Gold Fame Citrus - 08.29.2016 The program considers the allure and propaganda of the West as well as its harsh realities with Guggenheim fellow, Claire Vaye Watkins, author of the recent Gold Fame Citrus published in 2015 by Riverhead Books. Topics Include: Mojave Desert, Dune, Frank & Brian Herbert, Victorians, Cli-Fy, Corrections, Erotica, Geological Time, White Whale, Kidnapper, Dowser, Cults, Kunzru, Gods Without Men, Benevolent Sexism, Chivalry...
Sep 12, 20160
42 Minutes 239: Olympia Sync Summit 2016 Report - Synker Things - 08.28.16 Will and Doug come home from vacation to discuss their first meeting at the 2016 Oly Sync Summit. Topics Include: Kitchen Sync, Jerry Rosenberger, Algorithm Intelligence Mixer, Immediacy, Ephemeral Nature of Sync, Flight 23, Fatalism, Balance, Social Media, I5 Traffic, David Plate, Ben Goraj, Denney's, Federal Way, Tree of Life, Bo G, Sync Machine, Supernals, Bumbles, Dogs, State of Being, Radio8Ball, Patrick Sevc, Renega...
Sep 05, 20160
42 Minutes 238: Summer Book Club - 1Q84 - 08.01.2016 The program again discusses "alternate realities" for this, our third edition of the seasonal book club, but this time under the guise of 1Q84, Haruki Murakami's gigantic novel from 2011. Our friends of the book for this program include Talitha Wall, Dennis Koch, & SJ Anderson. Topics Include: 1984, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fee Collection, Domestic Abuse, Love Wins, Janacek Sinfonietta, Q's, Cults, Assassins, Literature, Synchronicity Trigger, M...
Aug 08, 20160
42 Minutes 237: Dr. Jonice Webb - Running On Empty - 07.25.16 As a close to our monthly exploration of emptiness, we consider childhood emotional neglect with author and clinical psychologist, Dr. Jonice Webb, who wrote Running On Empty which looks with a discerning eye at what didn't happen in childhood creating a lack in later life. Topics Include: Emotional Neglect, Behavior, Expression, Michael Jackson, Robin Williams, Naked Ape, Las Vegas, Meaning, Fulfillment, Attachment Theory, Walled Off...
Aug 01, 20160
42 Minutes 236: John Zerzan - Running On Emptiness - 07.04.2016 The program celebrates Independence Day with primitivist philosopher and author, John Zerzan. We consider mass society, anarchy, and technology for 42 minutes. Topics Include: Ironic Alienation, Invasive Technology, Community, Mediation, Extreme Weather, Ecological Disaster, Ishmael, Domestication, GMOs, Nano Technology, Total Surveillance, Rejection of Hierarchy, Rat Race, Story, Myth, Reservation, Globalization, Battle in Seattle,...
Jul 27, 20160
42 Minutes 234: Zander Sherman - Running on Empty: Anarchy & Alienation - 06.27.16 The origin of the word "anarchy" comes from the Greek which means "without" "chief" or "ruler." We explore this today for 42 minutes with Canadian essayist, Zander Sherman. Topics Include: Ironic Alienation, Ideology, Emptiness, Meaninglessness, Synchronicity, Mental Illness, Impaired Emotions, Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Inciting Event, PKD, Paranoid Delusions, Technology & Nature, Unabomber, John Zerzan, S...
Jul 04, 20160
42 Minutes 233: Dr. Jeffrey Kripal - The Super Natural - 06.20.16 The extraordinary exists if we know where to look for it and how to think about it, and today's guest, Dr Jeffrey Kripal, author of the recent book, The Super Natural, helps us to see it. Topics Include: Mutants & Mystics, The Visitors, Academics, Future Community, Hope, Science Fiction & Horror, Abduction Experience, Alien, Conversation, Comparative Religion, Phenomenological Cut, Social Ego, Paranormal, Cognition, Mind, ...
Jun 27, 20160
42 Minutes 232: Robert Damon Schneck - The Bye Bye Man - 06.06.16 Today's procession of the damned considers the strange-but-true tale of American horror, The Bye Bye Man, recounted by historian, Robert Damon Schneck, which will become a major motion picture this winter. Topics Include: Bridge to Body Island, Wisconsin, American Society for Psychical Research, Ouija, Algiers, Hobo, Railroad, Voodoo, Gloomsinger, The Sack of Gore, Nightmare, Whistle, Devil's Night, Bizarre, Paranormal, Group PK, ...
Jun 20, 20160
42 Minutes 231: Erik Davis - TechGnosis - 05.16.2016 Gnosticism is the belief that the god of this world is false. Today, we enter the world next door by going into a rabbit hole with author and speaker, Erik Davis. We consider his popular 1998 book, TechGnosis, which has recently been republished by North Atlantic Books. Topics Include: PhD, Kripal, Eliade, McKenna, RAW, Gleick, The Information, PKD, Harold Bloom, Technology, Baudrillard, Simulation, Hyperreal, High Weirdness, Religion, 90's Po...
Jun 13, 20160
42 Minutes 230: John Thorne & Brad Dukes - The Great Southern - 06.01.2016 For this 42 Minutes, were inquiring about clean rooms, reasonably priced, but not at the Great Northern, at the Great Southern rather. Today we'll dig into this Twin Peaks fan fest with a couple of the panelists: John Thorne, creator and editor of Wrapped In Plastic Magazine, and Brad Dukes, author of Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks. Topics Include: X-Files, David Duchovny, Twin Peaks Season 3, Lynch & ...
Jun 05, 20160
Jun 01, 20160
42 Minutes 229: Matt Ruff - Lovecraft Country - 05.09.16 Today, for 42 minutes, we are taking a dangerous drive through the horrors and terrors of Lovecraft Country with our guide, author Matt Ruff, his most recent novel of Jim Crow America melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. Topics Include: Theron, Crowley, X-Files, Salem's Lot, White New England Sorcerers, White Supremacy, Go Set A Watchman, Jacqueline Woodson, Multicultural Theological Debate Society, The...
May 29, 20160
42 Minutes Bonus: Michael Allen - Synchrodelic - 05.05.2016 Tonight, for a bonus midweek freestyle, the program checks in with LA for our 2016 Coachella report and to talk "Synchrodelia" with our favorite projectionist, Michael Allen. Topics Include: Cinco de Mayo, Synchro deNyo, Silent Disco, Prince, Never Ending Story, Purple Reign, Beyonce, MTV, Radiohead, Sign O' The Times, NWA, 42, Burning Man, Guns & Roses, Flow, Lizard People, Snopes, The Elevator. http://www.project-ions.com
May 15, 20160
42 Minutes 228: Lars Howlett - Labyrinth Builder - 05.02.16 Today we are exploring an embodied sacred geometry by sharing 42 minutes with Lars Howlett, journeyman Labyrinth designer and builder. Topics Include: World Labyrinth Day, Walk as One at One, Sacred Geometry, Richard Feather Anderson, Land's End, Mazefest, World Wide Labyrinth Locator, Chartres, Robert Ferrre, Grace Cathedral, Synchronicity, Group Walk, Open Source Archetype. http://discoverlabyrinths.com
May 09, 20160
42 Minutes 227: Jenn Zahrt - The Minotaur & The Petroglyphs - 04.25.2016 The program reconnects with someone we first met at the Boise Spring Sync, Dr. Jenn Zahrt, author, publisher, editor, astrologer, translator, artist, amazing! Topics Include: Prince, Boise Spring Sync, Idaho, Potatoes, Wildcraft, Serendipity, Labyrinth, Astrology, Sentience, Synchronicity, Mystery Traditions, Patrick Curry, Germany. http://jennzahrt.com
May 02, 20160
42 Minutes 226: Spring Book Club - Annihilation - 04.06.16 Today marks the second installment of our seasonal book club. This time, the program discusses the first installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy--Annihilation--with members of the Always Record Bizarro crew: Talitha Wall, Dennis Koch, & SJ Anderson. Topics Include: Boise Spring Sync, Treefort, Labyrinth, Contact, Area X, FL, Tower, Tunnel, Lighthouse, Lovecraft, Crawler, Toxoplasmosis, DNA, Lucifer, Ghostbird, Seance & Science ...
Apr 11, 20160
42 Minutes 225: Jason Sievers - Treefort Trail Guide - 03.28.16 Today we put Treefort 2016 to bed, but we have local help from Jason Sievers, the photographer and animator who puts together the Treefort Trail Guide. Topics Include: Treefort, Weed, Acid Mothers Temple, Sunbathe, Dana Buoy, Davies Moore, James Lloyd, Alefort, Built To Spill, Teens, The Hand, Dark Swallows, Treepeople, Pat, BCT, Bijoux, Like A Villan, Darling Rollercoaster, Cerberus Rex, Phantahex, Lucy Dacus, Commonauts, Divers, P...
Mar 30, 20160
Treefort is here! And to close out the March Music Showcase, the programs meets author and musician, David Rapaport. He plays Treefort with his band Maszer, Friday, March 25th at 10:30 pm at Hannah's. Topics Include: Tree fort, Thunderpussy, Sisters, Seattle, LA, Hippies, Light, Sharks, Psychedelic, Drugs, MusiCares, Community, Bernie Sanders, Escaping Revolution. http://www.maszer.com
Mar 22, 20160
Under Sturm und Drang the Showcase continues! This evening, in a hail storm, the program spends 42 minutes with Terra Lopez of Sister Crayon. Their album Devoted was released last summer, and they play Treefort 2016 Saturday, March 26 at 10 pm at the El Kora Shrine. See you there! Topics Include: Treefort, 2014, Built To Spill, Boise, Adam Pierce, St. Augustine, FL, Civil Rights, Providence, Protest, Artistic Practice, Jeanette Winterson, LA, Warpaint, Beyonce, Therapy, Rigsket Ball. https://www...
Mar 21, 20160
42 Minutes 222: Get Wet + - One - 03.12.16 As the March Music Showcase comes to a close, the program spends 42 minutes on location in the Garden District with Get Wet + talking Treefort, Boise bands, and the Boise scene. They perform at Treefort 2016 Saturday, March 26th at 6:50 pm at the Water Cooler. Their ep, "One" is now available on their bandcamp page. Topics Include: Treefort Music Fest, Drugs, Speed of Shark, Le Fleur, Dark Swallows, MostlyMuff, Manville, Boise Bench Dwellers, Ladies Cho...
Mar 20, 20160
42 Minutes 221: Acid Dad - Let's Plan A Robbery - 03.07.16 As the March Music Showcase continues, the program connects with Acid Dad, the NYC psych punk four piece currently touring their way to SXSW and then Treefort. We discuss their new EP, Let's Plan A Robbery, as well and their tour and psych rock in general. They perform at Treefort Music Fest Saturday March 26th at 6:30 PM at the Olympic. Topics Include: Acid, Huxley, White Reaper, Tour, Cops, Paisley Underground, The Black Angels, Digita...
Mar 13, 20160
42 Minutes 220: The Foreign Resort - The American Dream - 03.01.16 On this Super Tuesday, the program travels to Copenhagen, Denmark to meet the melodic and explosive new wave, post punk band, The Foreign Resort. They play Treefort Thursday, March 24th at The Olympic at 10:40 PM. Topics Include: Trump, The Shadow, Nightmare Air, Dark Music Communities, Socialism, Bernie Sanders, Part Time Punks, SXSW, Dutch Grand Caravan, Cops, Shades, Vaadat Charigim, Swervedriver, New Canyons. http://theforeig...
Mar 08, 20160
42 Minutes 219: Trish & Rob MacGregor - Xperiencers - 02.29.16 On this leap day, a month of "contacts" comes to a close with a discussion on precognition with synchronicity writers, Trish and Rob MacGregor. Topics Include: Synchronicity, Precognition, Planetary Empaths, X-Files, UFO Hunters, Andros Island, Black Helicopters, Fiction, Plausibility, Jupiter, Strieber, Flat Earth. http://www.synchrosecrets.com
Mar 04, 20160