In this expansive solo episode, Mookie Spitz takes listeners on a hallucinatory, high-concept journey through the philosophical backbone of his new novel, Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine. The focal point? A chapter titled “Hating Mondays," featuring an object so conceptually loaded it makes Borges’ Library of Babel look like a cozy bookshelf.

Mookie starts with literary ground zero: Jorge Luis Borges and the mind-warping thought experiment of a library containing every book that could ever be written. From there, he threads this concept through the lens of 21st-century tech — digital photography, quantum computing, and the limits of human creativity — to build his own speculative monstrosity: The Spider’s Jar. a 10-meter-high cylinder containing every possible 3D instantiation of reality— past, present, and future —down to the Planck pixels.

Now imagine it’s been hacked...

But this isn’t just a mere philosophical exercise. It's also the heart of the novel’s plot. The Spider’s Jar becomes a battleground of power and emotion when it’s hijacked by Alice — a cryptic, childlike avatar who claims to possess the “Builder Numbers,” mathematical keys to all of Reality. Mookie reads from his novel and breaks the fourth wall to annotate his own fiction with literary analysis, physics, philosophy, and a touch of twisted humor.

This episode brings it on: Nietzsche's eternal recurrence, Tegmark’s multiverse, quantum determinism, synesthetic memory, and digital reality. It’s one part lecture, one part novel reading, and one part bong-hit dorm-room revelation.

Whether you’re a Borges junkie, a speculative fiction nerd, or just someone tired of formulaic alien-invasion plots, this is the episode that dares to ask: what happens when a simulation becomes self-aware — and falls in love?

The Novel: Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine

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