Episodes
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[originally published on Patreon Jul 18, 2022]
Today I'm joined by Flipper (@moonbaseking) to discuss all things sus Beatles. We start by going through the Profumo Affair largely through the lens of the Beatles. Then we discuss my favorite topic, John Arthur Reid Pepper, dentists, LSD, MKULTRA and parallel programs, and so forth.
I explore the Beatles' finances in an attempt to understand why they became the biggest band in the world. That's right - taxes, offshoring, capital gains, stock companies, and especially the shadowy financial figures behind the Beatles.
We talk about the Maharishi (very interesting guy), Magic Alex, the Eastmans, Allen Klein, and anything Beatles must inevitably talk about Yoko Ono. Finally, we discuss Lennon's assassination.
Songs:
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by EVE
Can’t Buy Me Love by the Korean Kittens
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by Puffy AmiYumi
Help by Let's Sing in Japanese!
Within You Without You by the Strawberry Feel
Run 4 Your Life by the Beetles
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[originally published on Patreon Jul 11, 2022]
Today I'm joined by my secret society guy, Monty, to discuss the legacy of the historical Bavarian Illuminati. Monty and I talk about the Illuminati's influence on the French Revolution and trace a direct revolutionary lineage from Weishaupt to Marx. Ultimately, we ask the question, "why was the Illuminati so shitcoated?"
Songs:
Excerpt from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
La Marseillaise
Black Helicopters by Non Phixion
Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9
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[originally published on Patreon Jul 3, 2022]
Today I'm joined by my secret society guy, Monty, to discuss the historical Bavarian Illuminati. Monty takes us through the state of Europe at the time, and we talk about the Jesuits and the Catholic church, the Enlightenment, the Rosicrucians, and so forth. Monty introduces all the main figures of the story - Weishaupt, Knigge, Franck, the goals and structure of the Illuminati, the development of the secret society, and various famous historical figures. Monty walks us through the repression of the society, and that's the end of the story - nothing interesting happens after that.
Songs 1:
Excerpt from Beethoven's Symphony No.9 (Scherzo)
Walpurgisnacht by Faun
Queen of the Night aria from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
Illuminati by Anuel AA and Lil Pump
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[originally published on Patreon Jun 13, 2022]
Today I'm joined by Alex Tsakiris (@skeptiko) of Skeptiko for a wide-ranging discussion on a number of topics of mutual interest, including running a podcast and getting to talk to people, science, consciousness, MKULTRA, gifted kids, Whitley Strieber, Epstein, transhumanism, Mirage Men, and so forth. It was very fun.
Links:
https://skeptiko.com/
Song:
Satan is Real by the Louvin Brothers
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[originally published on Patreon Jun 6, 2022]
Today I'm joined by Matt Farwell (@huntclancy) of the Hunt for Tom Clancy blog to discuss the 1984 film Dreamscape. Dreamscape, as it turns out, is a very weird film, and Farwell and I use it to discuss a wide range of weird things.
Songs:
In Dreams by Roy Orbison
All I Have to Do is Dream by the Everly Brothers
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[originally published on Patreon May 23, 2022]
Today I'm joined by by Dr. Pig Bodine aka CJ (@Pussy___Teeth) of the MindGamez podcast to discuss Alan Moore's Lovecraft cycle yet again, having been cut off by technical difficulties. We get more specific about various subplots in Providence and spend more time discussing Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, class war, why the Irish are the only decent people in Moore's works, and so forth.
Songs:
the Call of Ktulu by M*tallica
Antarcticans Thawed by Sleep
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[originally published on Patreon May 17, 2022]
cw: sexual assault
Today I'm joined by by Dr. Pig Bodine aka CJ (@Pussy___Teeth) of the MindGamez podcast to discuss Alan Moore's Lovecraft cycle. We discuss the Courtyard, Neonomicon, and the general outline of Providence. We continue to discuss Lovecraft, Moore's stance on Lovecraft, Moore's stance on magic, the nature of Elder Gods, Kenneth Grant, and a wide number of other things. We got technical difficulties at the end so there's another episode to follow this one up.
Songs:
Dunwich by Electric Wizard
In the Mouth of Madness theme from In the Mouth of Madness
Lovecraft in Brooklyn by the Mountain Goats
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[originally published on Patreon May 10, 2022; now you should check out Tanner's blog, Getting Spooked]
Today I'm joined by a very special guest, Fortean expert Tanner Boyle (@TannerFBoyle1) to discuss some early high strangeness, and particularly a lot of the incredibly underdiscussed parapolitical angles to said phenomenon. We discuss the weird figures around the Mothman thing, the factories around Point Pleasant, the backgrounds of people like John Keel, Woodrow Derenberger, and Indrid Cold, and the Lanulos abduction story.
We talk Bosco Nedelcovic, Union Carbide, COINTELPRO, men in black, the Hopkinsville goblins, the Flatwoods Monster, the recurring theme of weird connections between cryptozoology and espionage, and the alien abduction concept. We discuss certain salient aspects of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction, and the truly insane stories of several hypnosis experts. At the end, we contemplate what's left of these stories and their possible utility as psychological operations.
Links:
https://twitter.com/TannerFBoyle1
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-fortean-influence-on-science-fiction/
https://tannerfboyle.substack.com/
Songs:
I Got Abducted by a UFO - the Lillingtons
Hardcore UFOs - Guided By Voices
When You See Those Flying Saucers by the Buchanan Brothers
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - Klaatu
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[originally published on Patreon Apr 19, 2022; show art was the incredible Anti-Gnostic Action artwork by Dakota which was also sold as t-shirts, stickers, etc.]
I'm joined by Monty again to finish our conversation on the Knights Templar. Monty wraps up the history and we get into the nutty stuff; their post-breakup solo work, as it were. We discuss gnosticism, why everyone wants to be a Templar, Freemasonry, occultic traditions, and how perhaps the entire understanding of the order was a form of fan fiction.
Then, we end the episode with some of the weirder, stranger connections to the Knights Templar in modern times.
art by the harmless individual known as Dakota
Songs:
Templar’s Revenge by Death SS
Knights of the Cross by Grave Digger
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[originally published on Patreon Apr 13, 2022]
Today I'm joined by my buddy Monty to discuss the Knights Templar. Monty walks us through the history we know, the history we think we know, and the different categories of theories about what the Templars were all about.
Today we cover the history, next week we cover the theories about what it all meant.
Songs:
Templars of Steel by HammerFall
Hassan I Sahba by Hawkwind
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[originally published on Patreon Apr 5, 2022; Ellroy Boys is now defunct but Apocalypse Confidential is thriving]
Second entry into the Paranoiac Films series, and I'm joined by Blauer (@blauer_geist) of Ellroy Boys and Apocalypse Confidential to discuss the other JFK assassination film, Executive Action (1973). As always, we discuss some of the finer points of the film and weigh the pros and cons of the film on its own. Then we compare and contrast it to Oliver Stone's JFK.
We discuss the source material, the director, screenwriter, and actors involved, and then talk about Executive Actions, or whacks, as they're also known. Along the way we discuss how we both got into JFK conspiracy culture.
Links:
Apocalypse Confidential - @APOCCON_MAG
https://apocalypse-confidential.com/
https://soundcloud.com/ellroyboys
Songs:
Jack Ruby by Camper Van Beethoven
Who Killed Marilyn? by the Misfits
Bullet by the Misfits
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[originally published on Feb 28, 2022]
Today I'm joined by Matt Farwell (@HuntClancy), author of American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan, and the Hunt for Tom Clancy substack, to discuss all kinds of things: gardening, his wild life, Michael Hastings, "fringe information networks", and especially Tom Clancy, "the Rosetta stone...for understanding and interpreting the mad trajectory of America in the late cold war and through the war on terror". We talk about Clancy's ties to the national security state, COG (continuity of government), the Institute for Creative Technologies, all kinds of noided topics. See the links below to find his work.
Links:
https://twitter.com/HuntClancy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://thehuntfortomclancy.substack.com/
Songs:
Ya Habibi by Mohamed Ramadan & Gims
Aameur Yahdar by Cheb Fares
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[originally published on Patreon Feb 16, 2022]
Today's a fun one, I'm joined by Stephen Snider aka Recluse of the VISUP blog and the Farm podcast. I pick his brain on William Stephenson and the British Security Coordination for about an hour. We talk honeypots, intelligence, the Beatles and Britpop, the informal British intelligence network in the US before WWII, the networks afterwards like BACC/WCC, and so on. Then we get into Le Cercle and how it plugs into Gladio, the Profumo Affair, and how Epstein's operation ties into these broader orgs.
Recluse's links:
http://visupview.blogspot.com/?m=0
https://www.thefarmpodcast.com/
https://thefarmpodcast.store/
Songs:
Career of Evil - Blue Öyster Cult
Dominance and Submission - Blue Öyster Cult
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[originally published on Patreon Jan 25, 2022; for the retarded theory that Guterma was a tulpa, see Penny Royal's episodes]
Joined again by @Boyd_Beaver, today's the final episode on Alexander Guterma, where we discuss how Guterma fit into the Moe Dalitz / Roy Cohn connection. We discuss how exactly how sexually repressed Hoover supposedly was, the DoJ's attacks on the Purple gang / Desert Inn gang, and another Howard Hughes connection. Then we discuss Guterma's deals with Rafael Trujillo, and speculate on why the government's documents on this are still redacted.
This leads us to Guterma's arrest and conviction for a variety of crimes. Interestingly, the feds wanted Guterma to snitch on capital flight from the Soviet Union. Then, we cover how Guterma structured his offshore wealth to hide it from the feds. Guterma tried to break into Resorts International, and then got into Kentucky Coal, doing essentially the same tax writeoff schemes as they did with oil decades prior.
Then we get into underground tunnels - specifically Meyer Lansky's secret tunnels in Michigan. From there, we go Galaxy Brain and discuss how everything is a front.
Then, Guterma died in a plane crash in 1977 and go over all the connections we still didn't cover (the WCC, Fassoulis, Handsome Johnny), and how Guterma is a skeleton key for the eldritch monster we're up against.
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[originally published on Patreon Jan 20, 2022; for the retarded theory that Guterma was a tulpa, see Penny Royal's episodes]
Boyd and I go through the rest of Guterma's business holdings. This included United Chemical and Dye, which leads us right into the nexus of the RFK Department of Justice's proxy war against IG Farben via General Aniline and Film Corporation, as well as their fight against the mafia, Hoffa, and Roy Cohn. Sam Garfield comes back up which links to Big Oil, as well as Ted Llewellyn, as well as Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson.
Along the way, we touch on political blackmail rings, Resorts International, diamond mining, and Llewellyn's network of nightclubs in the US, the Philippines and Japan, the Roswell connection, Uranium trading. Howard Hughes, gunrunning, drug trafficking in Japan, the Connecticut connection, and Trevor Moore.
Songs:
Birthday Cake for Everyone by My Name is Ian
US Mills - the Mountain Goats
It's Time for Guillotines by Trevor Moore
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[originally published on Patreon Jan 12, 2022; for the retarded theory that Guterma was a tulpa, see Penny Royal's episodes instead]
Part 1 of 3:
Today I'm joined by a very special guest, Boyd Beaver (@Boyd_Beaver) to discuss one of the weirdest figures in modern history, Alexander Guterma, who was a con man, businessman, figure involved in organized crime, and intelligence asset.
We discuss Isaiah Leebove, Sam Garfield, and the Purple Gang before Boyd establishes (conclusively, in my opinion) Guterma's origins as a Russian Jew whose family resettled in Manchuria. Then, we talk about Guterma's misadventures in China, Hawaii, and the Philippines before Guterma's eventual arrival in Florida. We discuss the nature of collaboration with the Japanese, his contacts with intelligence, and why this would be significant.
Guterma resettled to Florida, and we discuss kenaf at length, and then the long and surprising list of companies he managed to acquire, including the spooked up Hal Roach film studio, and a radio network. All of this leads us to hypothesize that the economy is simply not real.
Songs (largely curated by Boyd Beaver):
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[originally published on Patreon
Today I go through the life and times of Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the most interesting figures in recent times. I discuss the importance of Freud to Velikovsky's works, and the main themes of Worlds in Collision. I discuss Einstein's relationship to Velikovsky, and Velikovsky's network of followers. While this is probably not the final word on Velikovsky, I think I come to a pretty grounded explanation of how and why the Velikovsky affair got so out of hand, and why Catastrophists and New Chronologists all seem to be spooks and occultists.
Songs:
Saturn by Sufjan Stevens
Venus by Frankie Avalon
For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield
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[originally published on Patreon Jan 3, 2022]
Today's a fun one because I answer a Q&A question about how much of what we know about history is crafted into a false narrative. I go through a straightforward discussion of a few major gray areas including Stonehenge, and Heribert Illig's Phantom Time Hypothesis, and discuss the evidence for and against it. That opens up a very deep rabbit hole.
We're talking New Catastrophism, New Chronology, Velikovsky, Christoph Marx, Alfred de Grazia, and a Soviet spy ring embedded within a New Chronology study group.
Songs:
Na Dne by Molchat Doma
Discoteque by Molchat Doma
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[originally published on Patreon Dec 29, 2021]
You're premium subscribers, you already know the score. Yes, Ira Levin and William Peter Blatty were both spies, but What Does It Mean?
I go through the careers of both authors and flag the times they worked for US intelligence, then how perhaps their writing was affected by that fact, and then the reverberations their work has had on society. With Levin, we meet the Ayn Rand circle, Malachi Martin, the weirdness of Rosemary's Baby, the Stepford Wives, the Boys From Brazil, Son of Rosemary, and so on.
With Blatty, we discuss USIA, the Groucho Marx connection, the Ninth Configuration, the Exorcist, Mark David Chapman, the Zodiac, the Exorcist III, Dahmer, and I cite the great pd187 and Christopher Knowles on the Exorcist film.
To wrap it up, I discuss the "less well-known" David St. John, who weirdly corresponds with Candy Jones, and how the saga of Tom Dooley III shows that religious psyops are not exactly new. And the songs are pretty great this episode too, lol.
Songs:
Black Sabbath by Coven
Pact with Lucifer by Coven
Wicked Woman by Coven
excerpts from the Exorcist soundtrack
Room 213 by Church of Misery
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