Caleb Brown, director of multimedia for the Cato Institute
The Cato Daily Podcast interviews Bobby Campbell about Tales of Illuminatus, and the result is a very good 15-minute podcast on the adaptation and on the original trilogy. Caleb Brown, the interviewer, is a big Illuminatus! fan, and it's really more of an excellent dialogue than an interview. I helped set this up, and I'm very pleased with the outcome. The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank, but I think everyone will enjoy this.
Bobby Campbell on Illuminatus!: "Either you never heard of it or it changed your life." And as Caleb says, most people learn about Illuminatus! because of a recommendation from a friend.
One correction: It wasn't Robert Anton Wilson who said, "I’ve come round to the conclusion that this isn’t literature. It’s too late in the day for literature. This is magick!" It was Robert Shea! This is a mistake that's also in the new RAW biography, but one of Bobby's comics quotes Shea correctly. (The quote is from a March 1977 interview of Shea and Robert Anton Wilson originally were published in a document given to people attending Ken Campbell’s British theater adaptation of the Illuminatus! trilogy.)
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