#43: SHEPHERD SIEGEL | Disruptive Play

CREATING A NICER WORLD THROUGH PRANKS & PLAY AKA THROWING WATER BALLOONS AT PRINCIPLES

This week’s guest is Dr. Shepherd Siegel, author of Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics & Culture. The pages of this marvelous book are just littered with prankster cultural heroes. People like Andy Kaufman, Lenny Bruce, Banksy, The Yes Men, and so many others… all in the context of educating about PLAY, which is something it turns out that too few of us really do.

There is so much going on in this podcast, but to name a few:

The trickster archetype throughout human history

Loki – The neutered Marvel version + the pre-Christian amoral trickster extraordinaire

The surprising origins of Bugs Bunny

Robert Johnson’s “Deal with the Devil”

Dada genius Jarry

Burt Bacharach – The Legend

Original play vs. cultural play

The madness of ‘play dates’

Erik Satie, the Grateful Dead & Thelonious Monk – the music of play

Levitating the Pentagon 30 feet off the ground

Why sports & video games aren’t PLAY.

Billionaire Bunkers – Busted!

Burning Man

The amazing Yes Men

Lenny Bruce

Andy Kaufman

Lord Buckley

Abbie Hoffman

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