Joseph Matheny

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The Why Files: Operation Podcast · The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

Del was a practicing Golden Dawn magician.

Wow.

Yeah.

So if you look at the portrait, if it's still there, the Delco Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, if it's still there, I don't know if it is.

I don't think it is.

I haven't gone for like 10 years.

Yeah.

But it used to be.

If you look at the portrait, a big painting of him on the wall, he's wearing a ring.

With a pentagram on it.

Wow.

Yeah.

I didn't know that.

And if you read some of the weirder little interviews that he did, he does admit to using the Golden Dawn Talismanic principles to teach improv.

That's amazing.

So Talismana is when you learn ritual...

you learn basically theatrical principles.

And so you think in your mind, like, in front of you there is an angel, and this is what the angel is wearing, and these are the principles of the angel.

You learn all this stuff you're projecting.

And Del used that as the method to teach people, this is what you're doing in theater.

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