Episode Transcript: #891 - Zach Leary

is cool this is cool any friend of duncan's a friend of mine likewise likewise it's cool

it's fun dude okay so i have to ask the opening question okay what the fuck is it like being the

son of timothy leary the opening question right it has to be the opening question okay that's cool

um yeah man you know and you know that the answer to the question kind of it's it's changed a lot

over the course of time obviously you know because when i was younger when i was a kid

you know really up until my mid-20s even my late 20s i would say like i didn't know how to answer

that question how could i it's just all i knew it's just life you know it's just my dad it's just

how i grew up you know he would take me to little league he'd make sure i did my homework or didn't

do my homework in my case but whatever it was you know what i mean it just was life i didn't have

any objectivity to it i didn't have any distance from it i couldn't be removed from it you know i

didn't know like that it was perhaps really strange right and then uh you know he he died in 96 uh you

know i was 22 and then kind of after that then i sort of you know i got some distance from it then i was

like oh shit you know things are a little different at home you know they were well your dad is probably

like one of the most important if not the most important people ever in terms of the psychedelic

revolution he was i mean yeah i my relationship with him and my relationship especially with his

work was um yeah i mean of course the psychedelic part was a core pillar and i understood that's what

made him famous but i considered him to be like he was a futurist really you know when you know during

my formative years i mean the psychedelic thing was always there but he was much more interested in

like in technology and cyber culture and kind of like the progressive kind of technology arts and things