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

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy. Today on Roon soup, I am very pleased to be joined by blogger, video artist, cultural

commentator and general London nerd Raj Sissodia.

Raj welcome aboard. Thank you, Gordon.

Happy to be here.

Yeah, well, it's an absolutely pleasure.

I think this is the first time I've done a recording over Skype with someone in the same city,

so there you go.

Excellent it's an honor.

Well kind of the same city you're south of the river aren't you?

I am yeah right now I'm in Stretin yeah.

Yeah cool.

All right now I think I've seen pictures of it. I love that fake divide.

Anyway, as we, you know, as we do with these things, I'm going to ask you a question I slightly know the answer to

already Raj were you a weird kid? Oh yes very weird kid. Weird from as young as I

can remember really

which was probably around three four years old

we'd like setting fire to cars or weird like you know having imaginary friends?

No, not really imaginary friends.

My parents always tell me that I learned to speak and to read very early.

And then because of that, I would sort of talk all the time and try and read everything

that I got my hands on and ask like lots of annoying sort of I guess metaphysical questions for a kid like you know

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