A World Full of Potential Cult Leaders

A conversation with someone I find endlessly fascinating to talk to — one of my favourite authors, Jason Pargin. He’s perhaps most well known for writing John Dies At The End , or a host of other books that all have amazing titles including This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It, What the Hell Did I Just Read , and If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe . His latest comes out this week , and is called — in true Jason style — I Am Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom. I was reading his stuff way before I knew I was reading his stuff, later finding out he was the guy who started Pointless Waste of Time which ended up being Cracked.com . If you don’t know his writing, you might know him as “ the geriatric TikTok personality ” (his words, not mine) who stumbled upon Tickled recently , before moving onto Mister Organ . After watching that reaction video, I got in touch with him and fawned a little, before discovering that we have a lot of interests in common — from the chaos of social media and AI, to cults and religion, to all the stuff Tickled and Mister Organ touched on. I loved talking to Jason — and so here’s our conversation. It goes all over the place, and I hope you enjoy what he has to say. BOOK LINK: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit webworm.substack.com/

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A World Full of Potential Cult Leaders is an episode from Webworm with David Farrier by David Farrier.

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This episode was published on Sep 23, 2024.

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