Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: And also in the studio today we have a guest from an earlier
time, Robert Saltzman.
ROBERT SALTZMAN: Hello.
TRIP: Hello, Robert. And then we have a bunch of folks here who
are dear friends of Benjamin's. Some have come from far away;
Moe’s come all the way from Scotland. And we have Teala, and we
have Katie, and Stephanie, and Moe Bruce, and we have Chad, we
have Catanya, Robert's wife, so we've got a roomful of people here.
Benjamin, I always prepare for our interviews, I have watched
your videos, and usually I prepare a long list of questions
[Laughs], but you're such a wild cat and I know that you're just
going to be able to just fill the time here any old way. So I-thought
it would be more fun to just be spontaneous and we don't have a
bunch of questions.
WIZARD: So who's in control here?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Well the person with the button who turns
off the sound [Laughs], obviously.
TRIP: Well, you've got a really fresh approach. Let's see, rather
than introduce you and tell you who you are, and what you are.
Let me ask, would you say you're a minimalist?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Yes, oh yes. Just really lazy, I don't want
to deal with stuff.
TRIP: Now I understand you live on $28 a day, but in the
background of your videos I saw what looked like a conventional
house and stuff.
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: I live in a little cottage in Berkeley with my
girlfriend, so we split the cost, and that's what keeps it down.
TRIP: And are you on a road trip now, going around the country?
50