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Chilluminati Podcast

Episode 325: It Writes Itself

Chilluminati Podcast

Chilluminati Podcast

Society & Culture, True Crime, Comedy

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Alex takes Mike, Jesse and all of you into the world of fictional characters made real and the authors who met them.
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THE PHILIP EXPERIMENT
https://www.liveabout.com/how-to-create-a-ghost-2594058
https://web.archive.org/web/20180526025931/http://livinglibraryblog.com/the-skippy-experiment/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lGPT2J1cc

THE SHADOW'S GHOST
https://archive.org/details/yankeeghosts0000hans
https://archive.org/details/Duende_v01n02_Odyssey_1976

TULPAS
https://web.archive.org/web/20170315081818/http://orig04.deviantart.net/4cb5/f/2017/074/5/4/tracking_the_tulpa_by_nobillis-db2d2iw.pdf

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WITH AGENCY
https://pages.uoregon.edu/hodgeslab/files/Download/Taylor%20Hodges%20Kohanyi_2003.pdf 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810019304155 
https://journalnews.com.ph/bizarre-cases-of-fictional-characters-who-stepped-off-the-page-into-reality/ 
https://archive.org/details/frenchlieutenant0000john_d1w0/page/n5/mode/2up

DOUG MOENCH AND BRUTUS THE APE
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo5892347.html 

DAVE MCKEAN AND DEATH OF THE ENDLESS
https://www.cbr.com/sdcc-gaiman-looks-back-for-the-sandman-25th-anniversary/ 

CONSTANTINE IS REAL
https://archive.org/details/wizardmagazine027/page/n47/mode/2up
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-disease-of-language-alan-moore/4039331?ean=9780861661718&next=t&affiliate=243 
https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/declare-yourself-a-magician-the-last-war-in-albion-part-62-john-constantine 
https://www.tabula-rasa.info/AusComics/Hellblazers.html 
https://www.vulture.com/2014/10/secret-history-of-john-constantine.html 
https://x.com/mypauljenkins/status/1651025335813566470?s=20 
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fcomic-excerpt-constantine-raises-a-pint-to-alan-moore-on-v0-qfe4ki3y5baf1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D4c5ea26b304c4d5a3f05416a0ddb3df4f9415416 

SLENDERMAN
https://www.discountmags.com/au/magazine/fortean-times-april-28-2016-digital?srsltid=AfmBOop2naOe95dZXCbmU6hVvlFZWvAa9KopiQAk4dJL8-C9kY6hBNk1
http://anomalyinfo.com/Stories/2012-november-ca-disquieting-encounter 

HERNANDO DAVANZATI
https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/when-a-writer-meets-his-fictional-character-in-real-life/amp/ 

PHILIP K DICK
https://hex.ooo/library/how_to_build.html 

FURTHER READING
https://sophieinwonderland.tumblr.com/studiesandresearch 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody and welcome back to the Chulamati podcast.

0:23.6

Episode 200, no, wait, 325.

0:26.5

As always, I'm one of your host, Mike Martin, joined today by literally, who else did

0:30.1

you expect?

0:30.5

It's Jesse and Alex.

0:31.7

I like a nice square.

0:34.4

I like a nice square number, like 325.

0:37.3

I didn't expect us. You didn't? You thought you weren't going to be here today? I was, yeah, I was counting on nothing happening. Today, maybe you might feel like that after sitting through this episode. I'll tell you that much. Yeah. That's not promising to any of us. No, no, this is good. I like this episode. I want to go on the record. Today's episode, I'm running with it. First of all, patreon.com slash gilminati pod. What a website, right? Before we even get started. We wouldn't even be here without it. No, that is actually literally true. Without Patreon, we wouldn't be doing this like we are able to. If you want to support us, go over there.

1:11.8

I'm going to be able to at this point talk about way more stuff that's going to be on

1:14.9

the Patreon soon.

1:15.7

We're going to be kind of doing a little nice little coat of paint on the Patreon.

1:21.0

Nothing's really like major going to be different.

1:25.1

Nothing's being like taken away or anything.

1:27.1

It's just going to feel good. And that's what I'm excited about. So go over there. Get, get, get one. I don't know what that fucking means. Go over to Patreon and find out. It's just going to feel good. Go over there. Almost threatening. Yeah, it's going to be just what the doctor is going to feel so good when you're over there so nice so good no go there

1:48.6

check that out there's nothing else to promote right now you can still i think go buy the stickers

1:52.8

top secret stickers guys we support artists 50 50 split we pay them for their time and then we

1:58.2

split the profits that's what it should be when you're an artist.

2:02.0

Imagine that.

2:03.0

Go there, get it, buy it.

2:04.9

It's secret stickers from the episode of the author's choice, the creator's choice.

2:10.9

And it's a great sort of tangible way that the ideas that we write here on this show can become real.

2:18.8

And speaking of that, today is amazing because I did not plan it this way, but the topic

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