Magic, Media And Chaos with Richard Metzger

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Legendary cultural curator, media theorist and provocateur Richard Metzger joins the show this week.

Richard, of course, co-founded The Disinformation Company, founded Dangerous Minds and has spent decades observing and participating in the changing media landscape.

He is with us now to talk about his latest project, Magick Show, an extended documentary project featuring discussions with

Grant Morrison
Douglas Rushkoff
Mitch Horowitz
Gary Lachman
Bri Luna
Geraldine Beskine

And many more -including the last-ever interview with Kenneth Anger!

We cover magic, the failed promises of the internet, mind wars, propaganda and the perennial Rune Soup question: what is ours to do?

Find out more about Magick Show here, including ways in which you can support the project.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	And the The one and only Richard Metzka welcome aboard sir. How are you?
0:20.3	I'm wonderful. Thank you for having me.
0:22.4	Oh absolutely absolutely and I rather
0:25.1	fancy quite a number of listeners will be interested in your response to the
0:30.0	traditional first question Richard. Were you a weird kid?
0:34.0	Definitely.
0:37.0	Definitely.
0:38.0	I was not an innocent child either.
0:42.0	At all, at all.
0:43.0	At all.
0:44.0	My, I can remember vividly reading about Lenny Bruce when I was in the third or fourth grade, right?
0:53.8	And it was talking about his drug use, and I remember thinking like,
0:57.6	that sounds great.
0:59.3	And I was like eight years old, you know what I mean?
1:01.0	And like I say, I wasn't an innocent kid at all you
1:04.5	know I would listen to a velvet underground song like Venus and FERS and I would
1:07.3	know exactly what it was about I don't know why that is but I was not an innocent child.
1:14.5	One of the things that I can recall doing
1:16.5	was convincing my mother to buy a certain,
1:19.4	it was like a hard back book about horror films, right?
1:22.8	Oh, can you buy this for me?
1:24.0	I really like monster movies, you know, maybe like seven or eight.
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