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

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

So this week's episode has been burning a hole in my podcast pocket for over a month

and I'm very pleased to finally be able to share it now that Dr. Radon's book is available for purchase.

If you listen to upwards of two podcasts in your life, you may in fact already be aware that real magic is out.

Alex from Skeptico, giving the same amount of fucks for publishing schedules as he does

for all puny human conventions.

Dropped his Dean Radden album last week and I woke up yesterday to see that

Greg from THC also has his Radon show out which you know given that i.e. introduced them is cold

Gregory stone cold. The rest of us have to wait till

podcast Thursday. Anyway, the book is something of an event so I'm very happy to see

it make a splash like this. So do definitely take a listen to Greg and Alex's

conversations with Dr Radon, but speaking of, now it's time for hours.

Dr. Radon, welcome back.

Thank you. It's good to be here. Yeah, absolutely.

And congratulations on, you know, another absolute page turner of a book.

Thank you.

It's good. I'm obviously very interested in how people put the history of magic onto page because usually if you're talking in this field or writing in this field you have to give people context if they're coming to it cold and at the beginning of your book you do

exactly that and and it's an excellent job it's this very punchy and brisk history of well we'll say Western magic obviously because you know that's

specifically what we're talking about and one of the things that I thought might

be a good open up is your analysis of hermeticism.

So how is it not dualist as far as you can see?

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