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42 Minutes 257: Willy Vlauting - The Free - 01.11.2017 Today the program invokes the Patron Saint of Nurses and makes a State of the Union address about The Free with author and songwriter Willy Vlautin. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, Audiobooks, Editing, Lean On Pete, Will Patton, Dennis Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Ironweed, Working Class, The Motel Life, The Maltese Falcon, The Shining, Science Fiction, Afghanistan & Iraq, Willie Nelson, National Guard, Real American, Doughnut Holes, Grind, Mental Illness, Folk Songs. http://amzn.to/2jrawBk

42 Minutes 256: Arrington de Dionyso - Pizzagate Witch Hunt - 01.08.2017 42 Minutes. Arrington de Dionyso. Fake News. Witch Hunt. Sad! Topics Include: The Man In The High Castle, Alternate Timeline, John Podesta, Comet Ping Pong, DC, Reddit, 4chan, Sex Trafficking, Satanists, Punk Rock, DNC, Mythic Image, Ambiguous, Composition, Chicago, Social Justice, Freedom of Expression, Gender & Racial Equality, Core Values, Ghost Ship, Synchronicity, Intimidation, Empowerment. https://arrington.bandcamp.com

42 Minutes 255: Winter Book Club - The Shining - 01.02.2017 The program unmasks a Shining New Year at the Overlook Hotel with the seasonal book club. Topics Include: Jet Set, Manager Class, 1%, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rothschild, Unmask! Poe, Caretaker, Supernatural, Literary Conceit, Haunted Hotel, Sexual Overtones, Ivy League Prep, WASPS, East Coast, Redrum, Room 237, Kubrick, The Boiler, The Press, Addiction, Patriarchy, The Gold Room, Mirroring, Officious Prick, Snow Cat, Roque. http://tinyurl.com/zwxhoko

42 Minutes 254: Andras Jones & John Maguire - All The President's Men 12.19.2016 On December 19th, when The US was formally selecting a president, the program convened to discuss journalism, synchronicity, politics and empathy with Radio8Ball host and creator, Andras Jones, and Pentamental host and creator, John Maguire. Topics Include: Issues, Inspiration, Divide, United, Writing Experience, Trump, Ego, Tower, 17, Hope, Star, Tarot, Crowley, "New King", Media Consumption, Fascism, Reality Reality, Rhetoric, Fist & Boot, Genocide, Hamilton Electors, Civil Society, Facebook, Perpetual War, Intense Mindfuck, Consumerism 101, Due Diligence. 42minutes.com

42 Minutes 253: Walter Kirn - Standing Rock Speaks - 12.12.2016 The program returns to Standing Rock to once again consider Black Elk's vision as well as synchronicity and a new paradigm for living with writer Walter Kirn, author of many books including Blood Will Out. Topics Include: Arctic Blast, Trump, Uniform Subcultures of Belief, Kooks, The Establishment, New Republic, Natural Bias, Outsiders, Ignorance, Hostility, Skepticism, Conspiracy, Folk Tales, Serendipity, Rockefeller, Con Artist, Bigfoot, Standing Rock, Crows, Black Elk, Synchronicity. http://www.walterkirn.com

42 Minutes 252: Joe Jackson - Black Elk: The Life Of An American Visionary - 12.05.2016 Today the program travels from the Standing Rock Reservation to the center of the world, Black Elk Peak, and there we will consider its namesake with writer and biographer, Joe Jackson, author of Black Elk: The Life Of An American Visionary. Topics Include: Lindberg, American Heroes, Holiness, King Arthur, Jesus, Ghost Dance, Messiah, Saints, Miracles, Catholic, Indian Wars, Wounded Knee, Native American History, Black Hills, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Buffalo, General Sherman, Total War, Assimilation, John Ford, Wild Bill Cody, Mexican Joe, France, Inclusion. http://amzn.to/2gFSLgi

42 Minutes 251: Gretchen Bakke - The Grid - 11.30.2016 The program takes a hard look at the largest machine in the world for 42 minutes with cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke, author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future, published by Bloomsbury USA last July. Topics Include: Electricity, Flow, Oregon Coast, Katrina, Public Consciousness, Blackout, Renewable Energy, Wind, Solar, Fossil Fuels, Command & Control, Rail, Pipelines, Squirrels, Make America Great Again, Light, Corner Office, Edison, Tesla, Insul, ACDC, Microgrids, Money, Monopolies. http://amzn.to/2h9EqWU

42 Minutes 250: Roy Scranton - Learning To Die In The Anthropocene - 11.21.2016 The program meditates for 42 minutes on our inevitable end with author Roy Scranton, whose 2015 work, Learning To Die In The Anthropocene helps to interrupt emotional reactions. Topics Include: Hope, Trump, Nationalism, Scarcity, Change, Death, Morality, Loss, Impermanence, Catastrophe, Interruption, Philosophy, Disruption, Complex Climate Dynamics, Warming Acceleration, Tipping Point, Feedback, Credentials, Symptoms, Standing Rock, Violence, Carbon Fueled Capitalism. http://amzn.to/2gqbgD7

42 Minutes 249: Fall Book Club - The Recognitions - 11.18.2016 For the fourth installment of our seasonal book club, the program recognizes William Gaddis's first novel from 1955, The Recognitions, a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake. Gaddis anticipates by almost half a century the crisis of reality that we currently face, where the real and the virtual are combining in alarming ways, and the sources of legitimacy and power are often obscure to us. Topics Include: Sensitive Boy, Postwar Fiction, Gravity's Rainbow, Catch 22, Forgery, Infinite Jest, Voice, Encyclopedic Novel, Jet Set, Realism, Arrival, Crypto-Kubrology, Imagination, Man In The High Castle, Art World, Painting, Sun Worship, Golden Bough, Westworld, Player Piano, Fake, Postmodern Noise. http://amzn.to/2glK2k3

42 Minutes 248: Douglas Rushkoff - Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus - 11.08.2016 On Election Day, the program considers our operating system with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, and discuss his recent book, Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus. Topics Include: Money, Media & Social Justice, Digital Technology, Value Extraction, Human Values, Economic Model, Standing Rock, Terra Firma, Currency, The FED, Conspiracy, Empire, Bazaar, Peer To Peer, Innovation, Central Capital, Pivot, Investors, Hypernormalization, Feedback Loops, Algorithm, Chobani, Distributism. http://www.rushkoff.com

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, Beatles, David Lynch, Iowa, Gurus, Townies, Prophet, Zeitgeist, India, 70s, Levitation, World Peace, Fairfield, OZ, Narrative of Self, Emptiness, Cult, The Truth, Belief, Doubt, Seeking, Pop Stars, Siddhis, Mantra, Politics, Shadow, Eckhart Tolle. http://www.clairehoffman.com

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, Talkshoe, Girl On A Train, Time Is A Loop, Rushed, Sex, Science, Wormhole, 911, Kripal, King Creation, Writing, Agency, Inception, 42. 42minutes.com

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/

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, Melville, Blade Runner, Obsession. http://amzn.to/2e9hN8a

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, Debt, Atomic Blast, Alice In Chains, Karma. http://rmisaiah.bandcamp.com

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, Chelsea, PI. http://amzn.to/2dbZxaV

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

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, Liars, Conmen, Belief, Story Powell, Muir, Melville, Wasteland, Yuca Mountain, Lawns, Water, Cadillac Desert, Stegner, Angel of Repose, Domination. http://clairevayewatkins.com

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, Renegade, Knight of Cups, Doors, Fight Club, Jaws. 42minutes.com

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, Meaning, Tantric Sex Ritual, Italics, Two Moons, Sex & Heaviness, Little People, Healing, Brain Hemispheres, Alone or All One, Split, Justice. http://thesyncbook.com/search-machine/?search=Book+Club&dropdown=allc&Submit=Submit