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, in honor of a very special occasion,

we are turning to one of my very favorite show formats

that I like to call Story Time with Paul.

That's right, author, speaker, and psychogeographer

Extraordinary Paul Weston returns to the show to talk about the one and

only Jack Parsons. Paul Weston all the way from Westernbury as I now call it.

Welcome back to the show.

Always a pleasure.

Splendid.

You bring out the best in May. pleasure. Splendid.

You bring out the best in mate.

Well, these story time with Paul episodes are always very popular and we're talking about a very special person on a very special date, aren't we?

Yes, we are indeed because we are talking today, this has been recorded on June the 17th, which is the anniversary of

the death of Jack Parsons who is very much a man at the moment with the extraordinary CBS TV series on his life that has just begun.

So there's a lot of interest in him and I'm hoping to basically talk about a few things and give a few perspectives

that maybe other people won't be giving you're going to hear an awful lot of

stuff about occult details and bits and pieces about Crowley from all over

the internet in the months to come. I'd like to just fling in a few things that are my own distinct take with that that's maybe of interest to some people.

Sure, sure.

Do you think we should start in the kind of unlikely situation that maybe people are completely unaware of who

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