Greetings from Cyberdelianx

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and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic

Salon. And I am pleased to begin today by thanking Bruce C. and also Peter F. from Seattle

for their generous gifts to the salon and I thank you both. Now today I'm going to play a

recording of one of my favorite people, Robert

Anton Wilson. And in this talk to a libertarian convention in 1987, back when Ronald Reagan was

still president, we were treated some really great stories, a few of which remind me of the one

and only American political prankster, Abby Hoffman.

Now, not many people today probably remember Hoffman's antics,

like when he organized several hundred people to maybe over a thousand people, I guess,

to surround the Pentagon in an attempt to levitate it.

And they didn't succeed, by the way.

Then there was a time that he disrupted stock trading

by throwing dollar bills down at the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

And if I remember correctly, Abby also urged all of us

to send a urine sample to Nancy Reagan every single day.

But, as you're going to hear in just a moment,

Robert Anton Wilson wasn't that radical. You see, Wilson urged constraint, and he recommended

that we only mail our urine samples to Nancy Reagan once a week. So you can see even in chaotic

times, calmer heads can prevail. I guess that I should

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