Congratulations to you, on your graduation from Meme-ing University and entrance into the greater void! The faculty and administration would also like to belatedly thank you for having enrolled, and compliment you on your refinement and sense of discrimination in choosing Meme-U … the only available choices (3).
Chapters
Rough guide, auto-generated from a transcript — times match the audio above.
0:00:00 Bob live — Hermitage praises the DJ set; Susanna arrives late; Remembrance Day; new “Trump Music” intro/sign-off
0:05:05 Music eras and the tactile age — cultural memory, Fugazi, AI hyper-subjectivity (Kroker), Trump as “quadrophenic”
0:09:20 Hermitage’s AI digest of Bob — Greg heckles on chat; Bob reads and rebuts a chatbot “comprehensive digest” of himself and McLuhan
0:16:48 Digest continued — “secret Council of 10”, CKLN 1987 first interview (“before the Logos”), the persona as performance
0:20:03 The “McLuhan archivist” story — the bibliography, George Thompson, the 1981 boxes, SubGenius calls to Eric McLuhan
0:27:33 Lumpy Gravy’s Hubbards, Nova Scotia photos — Queensland Beach, J.D. Shatford library, war memorial, Shore Club, Black Harbour
0:38:04 Zappa and MKUltra — Bob’s 1996 talk on Zappa’s father; Bobby Zappa’s book on Frank’s death; Moon Unit/Pamela Des Barres; Ike Willis
0:45:44 Hermitage reflects; Bob on generations, meeting Zappa in 1958, Don Preston
0:47:52 Greg (“Duffel”) — private phone-call news; Bob and Clinton’s open McLuhan “school”; Eric McLuhan’s jealousy; Bob’s Media Ecology album
0:52:04 Lumpy — Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast, Dr. Jack Kruse
0:55:22 William Irwin Thompson and the Coach House — Adam Pugen’s forum, Conrad Black backing WIT in ’83, Kroker, Barthes/Theall
1:03:49 Lumpy: “McLuhan, Disney, IBM — discuss” — Clinton on black-box tech and AI slop; Lumpy’s dentist-office aquarium image
1:18:00 Bob: “Culture Is Our Business” as McLuhan’s key prediction; Clinton’s full-stack essays; the chip body’s “stomachs”
1:29:31 Clinton’s LSD night — tactility, Finnegans Wake, furries, sensation-chasing; Bob: the drug is the chip body
1:36:54 Lumpy’s bumper-car passenger analogy — reaction videos and algorithmic feeds
1:41:07 Susanna’s online-order runaround across several companies; Lumpy’s Banggood story
1:44:20 Bob: five bodies = culture; Lumpy: Zuckerberg looks like Shrek; tailored ads, astrology; Jung pronunciation
1:51:03 Intuition in the five bodies — kids’ “ESP”; Malpsychia, Maslow, Dylan in 1985
1:55:17 Gurus and figure/ground — Marianne Williamson, Peterson, golden calves; Bob’s press conference; Nightingale to Ann Landers
2:05:01 Lumpy: RAND game-theory secretaries (Adam Curtis); Curtis “tetraded out”; McLuhan’s 1971 retreat; Dennis Young and NSCAD
2:15:45 Roll call and mutes — “a dialogue no one hears on the internet”
2:16:52 Jean(?): “matter of the heart” and iON; Bob scolds Lumpy over Jack Kruse; Hermitage’s “come-to-Bob moment”
2:25:20 AI’s limits — Carolyn on AI and nutrition; Susanna asks if AI can digest audio; Bob on Chad’s tool (Resonant Interval, Mae Brussell)
2:34:50 iON lore — aliens dictated Finnegans Wake; Bob’s second chart (ALP/HCE); Nostradamus, Leonardo, Sistine Chapel
2:39:08 2016 France trip — man in a cave-house says Leonardo never died
2:41:16 Three Jesuses; “Atlantis hasn’t happened yet”; Dark Journalist and Joseph Farrell; the coming press conference
2:46:29 Jean asks if iON will appear — five species at war; JW “survived his autopsy”; Bobby Inman and the Evergreens (1990)
2:55:55 Maui — Lahaina fire as a hunt for Bob, hurricanes; Jeff Cotton (Antennae Jimmy Semens) “space beam” photos; blue roofs
3:05:22 “Study the archives” — Radio Bob; Hermitage (4 a.m.) on UFOs; Bill Davis, Pynchon, von Braun’s aide, the Gravity’s Rainbow manuscript
3:14:51 Jean: mystery schools — iON on Tartaria/Moscow underground, Revelation “chapter 23”, archangels vs Lucifer, Musk–Bessent fight
3:24:47 Jean asks about “SO” (a stock?); LaRouche/Hamilton; Bob tells Jean to stop theorizing
3:28:55 Press conference ends it all; hearts failing; Roseanne Barr and Hollywood “vampires”, Lady Gaga, Prince; Kirby Sommers
3:36:13 Keeping Iondom low-profile — Ruben wakes up; Brian: “are you ready?”; caller’s AI-industry contact on the “untouchable guy in Hawaii”
3:46:44 Edgar Friedenberg and Lon Dubinsky; iON’s Texas-sized ships; Shatner saw no stars; moon is plasma, faked broadcast
3:54:04 Astronauts, Paul Hellyer, CIA disclosure since Dec 2017, Chris Mellon; “how were you prepped for Bob?”
3:59:17 Silent Melbourne listener; Tierra del Fuego listener; Leah Fyles / Shawn Ryan / Candace Owens drama
4:05:33 Anonymous drive-by caller; “abuse value”; fashion-obsessed students; Venice Beach boardwalk with Jerry Fialka; Lumpy’s “Spot the American”
4:13:56 Greg returns — praises Lumpy’s voice; former regular Scott (died in January); Clinton’s acid; vocabulary quiz
4:23:21 Greg on Walt Disney — the animation “miracle”, the Dalí collaboration (Destino), Spellbound, the Disneyland TV show
4:35:11 Greg: Lumpy should do late-night radio; Lumpy’s Canadian Guitar Festival (2004–2018) and his CDs
4:40:26 The Dave Newfeld story — Broken Social Scene, NYC beating and lawsuit, CKLN, Media Ecology album, Stang feud, 1993 move to US
5:11:01 Greg: Innis’ Bias of Communication (McLuhan intro, 1964) — Bob on Innis, McLuhan and Wyndham Lewis
5:25:05 “There is no Canada”; Greg on Disney, Felix the Cat, Disney as collective art; the auteur theory
5:33:58 Frank Tashlin and Jerry Lewis — Greg on Tashlin’s cartoon-style live action (reads an AI summary)
5:46:22 Greg meets Tex Avery (1975) — Avery acts out “Symphony in Slang”
5:59:38 Sign-off
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