David Ossman & Phil Proctor at Sasquan, 2015

Recorded live on August 21, 2015 at the Worldcon SF convention, "Sasquan", in Spokane, Washington, here’s an interview I did with David Ossman and Phil Proctor via phone in front of a crowd of Fireheads as our very own Lonesome Beet and Uh Clem talk about how science fiction intersected with the Firesign Theatre's oeuvre. Subjects talked about include Everything You Know Is Wrong, Firesign’s predictive nature, “One man one channel”, Ray Bradbury, “Empire of the Air”, Steve Jobs and bozos/hackers/viruses, how science and SF are both about what we want and don’t want, Norman Corwin, Disneyland as a story framework, the ELIZA program, deprogramming and liberation, the Mark Time awards, and their lost 1970s chapbook The Apocalypse Papers.

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