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

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we are speaking with the luminously bright Sam Block.

Sam is one of my very favorite Geomancy nerds and keeper of the digital ambler,

one of the most entertaining and informative blogs in the magical space.

Sam, thank you for your time.

Good to be here, Cyprianic season's greetings to you.

Oh, indeed, indeed, and actually this episode will come out during days of since

Cyprian so that that works well. Siprienic greetings to us all.

Yes. All right so question question the first, Sam, were you a weird kid?

Oh God, I mean, weren't we all, really?

Yeah, you know, I knew the standard, you know, and you're at the standard, you know, Navy child, Navy brat, upbringing, who's

interested in, you know, weird shit that no one else wanted to talk about, so didn't have any

friends growing up and then high school

happened and puberty happened and then alcohol happened you know how it goes.

Yeah that was you know that was quite the afternoon? Just the one.

Yeah.

So I mean, was the interest in this kind of stuff there from an early age,

where you were reader?

Did you, you know, was there like fiction books that particularly kind of shaped your impressionable mind or is it something else?

So I will say without too much lying that I was born into a magical family.

None of this seventh son of a seventh son bullshit

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