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Rune Soup

Cat Vincent | Talking Robert Anton Wilson, Urban Magic & Hyperreal Religion

Rune Soup

Gordon White

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

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We talk to noted Fortean journalist and former professional combat magician, Cat Vincent about his life and adventures.

Topics include urban magic, sci fi fandom, Forteana, comics, Neil Gaiman, Slenderman, Colin Wilson, polyamory and all the Bob Wilson you could want.

Show notes:

https://youtu.be/RBD06b1trAY

https://youtu.be/0EXXMZLBELo

catvincent.com

http://tinyletter.com/CatVincent

@catvincent

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about Magic, Culture and the Paranormal, coming to you from Sunny West London.

0:10.0

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy.

0:13.0

Today we are speaking to Fortean journalist and Twitterr

0:25.9

extraordinary Kat Vincent. If this is your first encounter with Roon soup you

0:30.0

can always find the show notes and a whole lot more at rund soup dot com but now let's jump right on in mr

0:36.1

vincant sava

0:37.8

hello they morden how are you m i'm doing good i'm doing good indeed and First things first did you return home to snow this weekend?

0:46.9

Nope I return home to a flood. That's not as good. That's not as good at all. I've been following a few people in your general area as in at least

0:56.5

from a latitudinal perspective and some of them have got some quite good snow.

1:01.6

Yeah, they'd be a little bit higher up on the

1:06.7

on the hillside. The specific bit of West Yorkshire that I'm in,

1:12.3

which is a town called Hepton Bridge, was notoriously

1:17.1

flooded about three and a half years ago, like to the point was on the international news, like the whole lower half of the town was underwater.

1:28.0

And that was the day before I moved there from Bristol.

1:31.5

That is kind of how these things go. Yeah, now fair enough. Anyway, for people who don't know,

1:39.4

Hebdenbridge is kind of like the thinking weirdos Glastonbury. It's got a bunch of, you know,

1:47.0

crazy weird denizens like the person we're speaking to today, very picturesque. I'm quite jealous from a

1:55.5

location perspective of where Cat lives. All right, so seeing as, I mean we actually

2:01.9

technically did just speak on Friday in London

2:04.0

but seeing as we haven't really had a recording before I figure we might start

2:11.3

with your superhero origin story. So Kat, when did you first know you were weird?

2:17.0

Oh, that's a vicious one. I guess when I was about six or seven years old. My background was a working core. I grew up in a town,

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