Exploring Santa Cruz and Serendipitous Encounters

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The chapter takes a deep dive into the speaker's experiences in Santa Cruz during the dot com era, highlighting the city's allure, seismic impact, and connections forged during a spontaneous road trip. It narrates personal anecdotes of chance meetings with significant individuals and the intricate journey that led the speaker to discover Santa Cruz. Additionally, it touches on the challenges faced in acquiring rights for photos from old movies and the legal complexities surrounding copyright claims in the film industry.

In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Joseph Matheny, multidisciplinary artist and explorer of both the wilderness and the esoteric. Joe was an old friend of Robert Anton Wilson (Joe was also Bob's chauffeur for a while), and he was talking to Bob a lot when the book Reality Is What You Can Get Away With was published, and part of the efforts in trying to get the screenplay produced.

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• Joseph Matheny's website:
https://josephmatheny.com/

• Exploring Ong's Hat:
https://chasingshadowschronicle.substack.com/p/exploring-ongs-hat

• Incunabula Research Center.:
https://deoxy.org/irc/

• Robert Anton Wilson's "The I in the Triangle":
https://archive.org/details/THEIINTHETRIANGLE

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Host Mike Gathers: https://linktr.ee/mgathers23

Producer/Engineer Richard Rasa: http://www.pelorian.com/rasa.html