As part of his Mondo 2000 History Project, R.U. Sirius uploaded a couple of Robert Anton Wilson recordings from a Reality Hackers Forum from 1988.
He writes:
I can't remember if having RAW give a lecture titled "The CIA-Vatican-Cocaine Conspiracy" was his idea or ours. I think it was our idea based on the fact that he'd written about it somewhere and we thought it was interesting.
Although he was no longer really a staff member, Lord Nose was still a pal to us all and he somehow got the assignment to pick Bob up from the airport. Now, Nose didn't tolerate anyone smoking in his car and Bob was a smoker's rights militant (a fact that would later cause his column to be dropped from Mondo … not my idea, but that story is for later.) So Bob got into Nose's car and lit one up and Nose asked him to put it out. I don't recall how that standoff was resolved, but (like Nose's lungs) I heard about it secondhand and that Bob was peaved.
But after he visited with some friends, it was a jovial RAW who showed up at Julia Morgan Theater for a talk that was at the top of his game. He didn't follow the script very closely, but it didn't matter — it was big mind-stimulating fun for all. Some fragments of the talk — which will be included on the Mondo 2000 History Project Website when it's made public — are presented below.
