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Howard Bloom - Author of The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong
Episode 13
Friday, 8 August, 2025

THE MIKE GORMLEY SHOW -Author of The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong In 1968, Bloom turned down four fellowships in psychology and neurobiology and set off on a science project in a field he knew nothing about: popular culture. He was determined to tunnel into the forces of history by entering “the belly of the beast where new myths, new mass passions, and new mass movements are made.” Bloom used simple correlational techniques plus what he calls “tuned empathy” and “saturated intuition” to help build or sustain the careers of figures like Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, John Mellencamp, Queen, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Run DMC, and roughly 100 others. In the process, he generated $28 billion in revenues (more than the gross domestic product of Oman or Luxembourg) for companies like Sony, Disney, Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, and Warner Brothers. Howard Bloom has been called “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,[and] Freud,” by Britain’s Channel4 TV , “the next Stephen Hawking” by Gear Magazine, and “The Buckminster Fuller and Arthur C. Clarke of the new millennium” by Buckminster Fuller’s archivist. The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON! https://howardbloom.net/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE MIKE GORMLEY SHOW Host - Mike Gormley Executive Producer - Jeremiah D. Higgins Sound Designer - Graham Palmer, Surprise Studio Airing Weekly On RADIO EVOLVE ROCKS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices