Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

Coming to you from...

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

Today on Roon Soup as something of a new year special we welcome back author, lecturer and rights advocate the inimitable Connor Habib.

Connor Habib, welcome back to the show, welcome to 2017, and welcome to Jurassic Park, why not?

I'm glad I don't have to answer whether or not I was a weird kid again.

No, we've done that.

Although I think we could,

I've been thinking about yours in preparation for the show

and I'm like, there's a few moments there

where I thought, maybe we could double down on some of it, but

great. But we are at the beginning of 2017, so there is much to discuss, principally, and I guess the idea for the show emerged from some discussions we've

had in Twitter DMs, how we think about 2017, where our head needs to be coming out of 2016 and what we need to do and what's

actually in front of us and basically what's the best way to have

2017 in our head and I thought to myself in my head who is the person who I think I can say with some confidence has you know got that

fairly publicly sorted and that was your good self.

Thank you I'm a mess thank you.

But mess is fine though, right?

It's not a mess, lack of mess question.

No, I'm a different sort of mess. That's the key I think. Yeah I mean I totally I agree with you that have a different perspective I have a different perspective than a lot of

people surrounding us and also I mean you can't help but feel the intensity of other people's emotions surrounding you even if you're not absorbing

that the same kind of intensity they're having.

...