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Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week is all things Sasquatch -- not only do we analyze some of the folklore and typical content in the sightings, but I also am pleasantly surprised to report to you all that I have my own Sasquatch story to share with you! It happened over the weekend of April 2024's Solar Eclipse, it was auditory with several people around, and it happened multiple times. Oh yeah and there was a Sasquatch hunting board-game involved! But you'll have to listen in to learn more.
From a hairy hominid, to mystical gatekeeper of the forest, or even a poltergeist of the wilderness, my guests and I take a look at this topic from several different angles, and we even contrast them to sightings of "skinwalkers" and "dogman" at the end.
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Best link I found to the Sasquatch SIERRA SOUNDS
(The opening is stick-beating, followed by the whooping, and right afterward, listen a little closer to hear what I can only describe as snickering-death-rattles. I heard the hollers and the rattles.)
related episodes:
#52 - The Goblin Universe
#29 - Psychedelic Horror & Paranormal Activity
#21 - Unexplainable Phenomena & Mental Health
#5 - Demonology & Poltergeists
Where the Footprints End - Josh Cutchin x Tim Renner
Angels in Vermillion - PD Newman
Beasts Between the Rivers - Martin Grove
JC Johnson - Cryptid investigator and former exorcist
Martin Grove's Dogman interview, recommended by Chris
This week's featured music is brought to you by the extremely talented and multi-faceted musicians Zig Mentality. And we even have another collaboration between them and Cleopatrick! Very stoked to be bumping these tracks.
BMF #11 - ZIG MENTALITY
When You Force It - ZIG MENTALITY
What Weighs on You - ZIG MENTALITY
BMF #14 - ZIG MENTALITY x CLEOPATRICK
I & I - ZIG MENTALITY
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have a podcast-swaparoo with my homie Joe Rupe, host of Lighting the Void, and we're both celebrating the fresh release of my audiobook Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism. With the paperback released in 2020, Joe has lended his narration and editing talents to help me bring this book into audio form, and since he took the time to read the entire thing -- including all the outtakes and re-reads -- he now has quite a bit to say about it all.
I admittedly have a hard time explaining this book briefly, but it is data-driven research about my own investigations into mysticism, magick, and the religious experience. I look heavily into scientific concepts like Jungian psychoanalysis, sleep paralysis, dream analysis, phantom limb syndrome, memetics, and chaos theory. In addition, I also investigate the mechanics and history of things like alchemy, astrology, tarot, numerology, reincarnation, the Trees of Life & Death, Hermeticism, Gnostic Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, Paganism, and much more. Lastly, it has at times a semi-fictional framework that includes me as the narrator guiding you as the reader through the proverbial diving experience.
There's more I could say, but I will leave it at that for now! It's a winding journey about insanity, neuroticism, catharsis, unexplainable phenomena, and ineffable transcendence.
Don't forget -- if you dig Dive Manual, check out my second work Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana. Joe has plans to bring this to audiobook form soon as well!
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This week's featured music is brought to you by the extremely badass rock n' roll talents of ZIG MENTALITY, including some of their collaborations with their well-known homies CLEOPATRICK. I'm very excited to be able to bump these killer musicians and you really oughta check em out!
Best Direction - ZIG MENTALITY
Hate to Say I Told You So (The Hives Cover) - ZIG MENTALITY x CLEOPATRICK
BMF #13 - ZIG MENTALITY x CLEOPATRICK
Triggered Emotion - ZIG MENTALITY
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have another special guest: the wonderful, talented and laid-back Ronnie Pontiac. Ronnie is the author of books like 'American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World', he's part of the punk rock duo Lucid Nation with his wife Tamra Lucid, and he also just so happened to work as the great Manly P. Hall's research assistant and substitute lecturer for the last seven years of Hall's life.
For the first half of the show, we talk about the legacy of Manly Hall as seen and experienced by Ronnie and his wife, who were completely taken under the wing of Hall and his wife in a relationship that eventually grew to feel like grandparents and grandchildren.
Ronnie shares many candid stories about Manly Hall and gives us further insights into his philosophies and personal conduct, but beyond this we also get into Ronnie's work 'American Metaphysical Religion', and what it means to consider American spirituality from an outside perspective that focuses less on labels and more on actual conduct.
The insights from these perspectives are huge, and include contexts like, for instance, all of the alchemists that were prevalent in Colonial America. Yes, the history of America is a whole lot more esoteric than the 'Pilgrim' stereotypes would lead us believe, and with all this context, Ronnie helps me take a look at modern American spirituality as well.
And if that wasn't enough, we also get a little bit into the philosophies of DIY punk rock and even astrology!
It was a great pleasure sitting down to chat with Ronnie, and we will definitely be getting him back on the show before too long -- we hope you dig it.
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This week's featured music is brought to you by the wild punk talents of LUCID NATION -- music done by the guest and his wife, Ronnie Pontiac and Tamra Lucid!
Penetration - Lucid Nation
Food Chain - Lucid Nation
Privilege - Lucid Nation
Dad - Lucid Nation
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Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week is coming in from the Black Hoodie Alchemy patreon feed, which I have decided to roll into the main feed of the regular show. Given the inconsistency of my own schedule, not wanting to split my show feeds apart, and the fact that patreon listenership can be a long game sometimes -- I am consolidating things just a bit!
With my cohort, friend, BHA listener and fellow alchemist, Seedperson1, this week we dive into the deeper aspects of alchemy in everyday life to include unraveling the idea that so many of us wrestle with, yet often do not acknowledge: how about those weird surreal memories from our childhood?
Damn near everyone has got one if they think hard enough -- some sort of memory that seems more like a dream than anything else, that no one else seems to remember, and perhaps even has some paranormal or mystical tones to it. Are they just dreams? Why do they stick out to us so much still throughout the span of our lives? Why do they seem to exist as strange existential riddles in the back of our heads, and what might these riddles be able to tell us about ourselves if we to unravel them?
PS: if you are in the show description looking for the name of the strange eastern-mystical portal that I was describing this week, it is called a SRI YANTRA.
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This week's featured music from my homie and fellow magician, Keats Ross AKA Dakota Slim. Don't forget to support all your favorite indie artists!
Knell - Dakota Slim
WaxWaner - Dakota Slim
And Lo! - Dakota Slim
Yosotros - Dakota Slim
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This week, I share with you my most recent guest appearance on my longtime friend Joe Rupe's show, Lighting the Void.
By telling the traditional story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (which is far more alchemical and esoteric than the Universal rendition), the heartbreaking and triumphant story of Joseph 'Elephant Man' Merrick, and discussing some of Viktor Frankl's survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp (and development of logotherapy), we try to understand the struggles in our own personal lives a bit more. Relativizing one's own suffering can be problematic, surely, and should be done with caution -- but looking into the stories of people with struggles far greater than your own can give great perspective and inspiration.
We hope you dig the listen!
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, our outlaw wizard friend Keats Ross returns from his last appearance on the show to talk about his latest work: Divergent Magick - An Anarchic Grimoire, which is far less destructive than it sounds.
Or, perhaps a better way to put it is: it is destruction with strong alchemical purpose. But beyond that, the true nature of the anarchy and divergence here lies in the difference between orthodoxy and heterodoxy; the tried-and-true versus the path less traveled.
With study, practice, and structure, so much of Keats' work is centered around flipping his study on its head and finding new meaning in the abstract, the mundane, and the intuitive rather than specific rules from books.
However, with discussion of anarchy and metaphysics we as well get into the more socio-cultural implications, dealing with wealth and poverty, struggle and resilience, and how the hunger that poverty can give us is truly something even the most pampered people are envious of.
We hope you dig it!
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This week's featured music -- brought to you by this week's special guest Keats AKA Dakota Slim! Don't forget to support your favorite independent artists.
Yosotros - Dakota Slim
Cactus Crown - Dakota Slim
Knell - Dakota Slim
And Lo! - Dakota Slim
Wasted Bones - Dakota Slim
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Welcome black to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week I'm joined by yet another special guest, researcher and longtime show-host, Jess Rogge of 'Escape the Simulation'. In her time involved with broadcast and internet streaming, Jess has talked all sorts of people -- from Tommy Chong to David Icke and so many more in between -- and her wealth of experience helps me navigate modern conspiracy theory lore in our chat.
Jess is a researcher that is willing to look into just about anything with a healthy mindset that is equal parts skepticism and open-mindedness, whether it be esoteric knowledge or modern conspiracy theories. In this chat, we talk about Jess' Buddhist upbringing and her personal stumbling into the realm of conspiracy theories, and what it means to deal with these concepts and mindsets in the modern era.
9/11, the Illuminati, Alex Jones, William Cooper, David Icke, QANON and the post-Trump era of conspiracy theories, and many more topics are brought up in the chat as we try to our best to understand just what the hell is going on in the collective consciousness these days.
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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists:
The Soulution - Epidemic x Tantu
And Lo! - Dakota Slim
Waxwaner - Dakota Slim
Dreamers (feat. Fashawn) - Epidemic x Tantu
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by another special guest Leticia Martinez -- an alchemist, journalist, and holistic health counselor that utilizes herbal remedies, massage therapy, and much more in her practice with clients. Not only has she taken her studies seriously throughout the years, she has also put her money where her mouth is being a terminal cancer survivor!
In this episode, we talk about Leticia's come-up into alchemy, her cancer diagnosis and also the path that lead her into a full remission that baffled doctors. With a combination of nearly all the doctor-offered treatments ASIDE from chemotherapy, Leticia as well used a wide varying combination of mushrooms, cannabis, and other medicinal herbs and extracts that we get into during our chat.
In addition to all this we also talk about mortality, life and death and survivor's guilt, Big Pharma's looming shadow, the suppression of cancer research and researchers, the philosophy of animism, and navigating one's personal health in a very flawed western medical system.
As a final disclaimer, it should be heavily noted that I am not a medical professional in any degree, and while Leticia is far more qualified to talk about these things than I am, she also freely admits that while her story should be taken into consideration -- it SHOULD NOT be taken as some sort of medical gospel.
We hope you dig it!
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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
Put Ya Lights Out - School of Thought
High With You - M.U.T.T.
Dali - Tribesemen x Arkeologists
Night Moves - M.U.T.T.
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I got the chance to be in-studio here in Pensacola, Florida with my two guests and local Floridians: Justin Otto, host of the Dharma Junkie podcast, founder and instructor of Gulf Coast Dharma, childhood cancer survivor, former addict, and current wonderful human being; and Max Komes, licensed yoga instructor, operator of Clarity Wellness Collective, student wrapping up his Masters in Psychology, and also a current wonderful human being!
In this conversation, we peel back the layers of psychology and physical health a bit, discussing the mind-body connection in a way that seeks to dispel some of the New Age half truths that are really ancient wisdom taken out of context. We get into yoga, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and also discuss the psychologies of Carl Jung and Victor Frankl in the context of the mind-body connection. Among the ailments of this physical spirituality, we bring up debilitating bodily pains and even conditions like cancer (no, not astrological conditions!)
And, as a final cherry on top, we take the time to get into the potential religious "superpowers" that esoteric circles of Buddhist monks are said to gain as byproducts of their enlightenment process, with certain a caveat: you must never use them to placate your ego, which basically means that you can't use them intentionally or they are said to disappear. Very curious, and definitely some black hoodie shit! Justin helps us navigate this more.
All this and more this week! We hope you dig it.
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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
WaxWaner - Dakota Slim AKA Keats Ross
You Never Meant Much - Salt
Psychic Trash - Negative Blast
Yosotros - Dakota Slim AKA Keats Ross
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy I have a double-whammy for you! I'm joined by special guests and fellow writers, Brad Kelly and Kevin Kautzman of the popular biography-philosophy podcast 'Art of Darkness', which focuses on lengthy deep dives into the full lives and dark psychologies of history's greatest artists, whether they be painters, authors, filmmakers, et cetera.
With Brad as a published working fiction author and Kevin as a working playwright and director, armed with their encyclopedic brains about the plights of the artist, we get into more Jung and the shadow complex, the catharsis of art and the similarities to religion and mysticism. We also get into demonology and memetics, exploring our inner mythologies through our art, and the dichotomy of the "sell-out" vs the "real artist."
As for specific artists that we bring up throughout the chat, we discuss John Lennon, the director of the cult classic 'Solaris' Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, Lucille Ball, Dante Alighieri and many more!
We hope you dig it.
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This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
In the Paint - Towercity
Stay Golden - Epidemic x Jesse James
The TV Programs You - D REV x BBZ Darney
Promoterman - Tribesemen x Arkeologists
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by the wonderful and well-studied Hermeticist, Ashley Ryan AKA Pythian Priestess of tiktok (witchtok to be specific) and her investigative occult podcast, The Occult Unveiled, which you can find on all platforms. While tiktok is not usually on this podcast's radar, it's worth noting a bit since our guest has nearly half a million followers, and she is a refreshing example of a genuine person, putting out authentic content on tiktok (among other places), and it goes to show that you should never judge a book by its social media platform!
As for more serious matters, Ashley is an intriguing esoteric student, living in Los Angeles, doing consistent volunteer work at Manly P. Halls' Philosophical Research Society and working with a disciplined unnamed Hermetic Order in LA -- all with her tiktok virality and her detailed podcast on top.
Of particular note from her own show -- and a topic I bring up in our discussion here -- she's interviewed Manly P. Hall's last living personal student, Ronnie Pontiac, a name I hope to get in contact with in the future. Coming from the LA punk rock scene as a teenager, Ronnie's story about his time with Hall is touching, informative, and we just barely scratch the surface of the entire story.
So along with the life and times of the esoteric philosopher Manly P. Hall, we discuss some of Ashley's personal esoteric story, hermeticism in the modern day, the dangers of New Age cults, navigating the vapidness of the social media grind for positive reasons, magical philosophy, and of course we get into some Jung and shadow work!
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This week's featured music - don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
City of Dreams - Babylon Warchild
Divide - Salt
Original Spirit - Negative Blast
Gutted - Sat
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This week is a revisit of the topic from BHA #62, but if you've heard that episode before I urge you to stick around for a listen! Not only is the true crime narrative polished and expanded, there is A LOT OF ADDITIONAL RESEARCH THAT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN EPISODE 62.
More research was done into the events and songs that put several big names artists (one way or another) in association with the cult leader Malachi Z York, to include: Jay Z, Nas, Andre 3000, MF DOOM, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Army of the Pharaohs, A Tribe Called Quest, and a whole lot more.
From humble beginnings as a petty conman in Brooklyn, to an aspiring Islamic black rights activist and R&B musician, to child abusing cult leader with pyramids at his compound, Malachi Z York is one of the strangest cult stories that you've likely never heard before!
And on top of that, I join for the occasion Miguel Conner and his co-host Moondog on their flagship program Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio.
Miguel and Moondog have had longstanding fascinations with the dark and esoteric side of entertainment, to include Miguel's upcoming release on Elvis Presley's fascination with the occult!
Lastly, anyone that is familiar with this show knows that I am a big fan on authentic hip hop culture and music, so this not at all an indictment of hip-hop as a whole. Rather, it is a rabbit-hole-of-a-story that shows how we can find cult leaders anywhere that there is enough cultural traction for them to sink their teeth into.
Watch the video version of this conversation here!
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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists.
The System - Babylon Warchild
In the Paint - Towercity
Talkin Durty to the Godz - Unknown Mizery x Tainted Wisdom
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Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week is another solo episode, and another episode about the Christian author CS Lewis. Last time we brought him up, we went through his work The Problem of Pain and this time we're going to bring up a fictional philosophical book he wrote, something he dedicated to his friend JRR Tolkien, called The Screwtape Letters.
This is a fascinating read into the letters of an arch-demon, Screwtape, written to his nephew-demon-apprentice, Wormood -- teaching him how to claim the soul of a European man amidst the onset of World War II.
I am not Christian, but I do appreciate the esoteric notions found within the beliefs, and I also appreciate the writing and thoughts of CS Lewis -- so, while I do not agree with everything in this book, I think it is excellent food for thought that is well worth considering! And it has a very unique narrative context that you'll enjoy.
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This week's featured artists! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite indie artists!
The Karma - Babylon Warchild
The Injustice - Babylon Warchild
The Most Violent - School of Thought
Fragmented (feat. Hex One) - Umang x BBZ
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by another special guest: Adam Butler -- philosopher, psychonaut, alchemist, and author of the book, Butler's DMT Field Guide.
This book is a dense collection of DMT extraction recipes, the various ways to consume DMT, the best precautions and intentions to shape when trying it -- as well as some of Adam's personal experiences with it, his rigorous study and experimentation, and his overall analysis of the biological and psychological potential. And yes, some of these studies include sexual activity of the tantric variety while under the influence of DMT!
So naturally we get into all this and more -- to include more hermetic philosophy, Carl Jung, shadow work, the strong case of John Dee and Edward Kelley using to DMT to create Enochian magic, gods and devils, the nature of consciousness, and trying to navigate the balance between the spiritual and the mundane grind of life.
We hope you dig it!
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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
God's Image - Unknown Mizery x Arkeologists
Fire in the Sky (feat. Fresco P) - Babylon Warchild
Travelling North - Legitimate x Rex Seshuns
Model Citizen (feat. Black da Plague & Fresco P) - Babylon Warchild
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by special guest, Jessie Desmond! As former director of MUFON in Alaska, lifelong Alaskan resident, UFO historian, Sasquatch hunter, and overall Fortean investigator, Jessie has several books released, competes in bodybuilding in her spare time, and has several other projects and interest that we discuss.
It is highly encouraged that you check out episode 73 about some Alaskan weirdness that we get into more here!
Among the topics of high strangeness at hand, we get into all the UFO and Sasquatch action, but we also get into more investigations of the Dark Pyramid of Alaska, the Alaska Triangle (similar to the one in Bermuda), HAARP, paranormal activity, mysterious cattle mutilations, reports of Alaskan vampires, and even a discussion of the non-Alaskan alchemist, Count St. Germain!
Not only do we discuss reports of all these things, but we also get into the theories on why they might be happening, and why Jessie finds them so interesting. Heavy X-Files vibes in this episode!
We hope you dig it.
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Saucers of the North: A History of UFOs in Alaska Airspace
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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists.
In the Paint - Towercity
No Pain No Gain - Towercity
Chancers Are - The Liberators
Inifinity - Epidemic x Jesse James
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This week is another solo episode where I take the time for a deep dive into the work of Christian philosopher and fictional author, CS Lewis. Most popular for the renowned Chronicles of Narnia, it is lesser known that Lewis was a damn good non-fiction philosophy author, and his journey tracks one of an atheist to a believing Christian through the helps of people like the very JRR Tolkien himself!
This is not a "Christian show", so I must say as a disclaimer that we will be using a much more interpretive tone when approaching Lewis' philosophy, but his book The Problem of Pain is a fantastic example of why I would've bought him a drink to pick his brain, even if I didn't agree with everything he said.
Here I share my favorites quotes from his work as well as my interpretations and musings. Don't forget to check out the other BHA episodes about God, Goddess and Jungian psychology for more food for thought on the subject! This is the latest update in a long string of episodic musings.
Cheers.
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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists.
Cold Days - Umang x BBZ
Autumn State of Mind - Umang x BBZ
Oragami Starlight - Umang x BBZ
Entropy (feat. D-Rev & Halfcut) - Umang x BBZ
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Happy New Year and welcome black to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week, I'm briefly talking about my trip back home to Anchorage, and unfolding the lore behind the alleged underground "Dark Pyramid" of Alaska, near Denali, that is apparently underground and four-times the size of the pyramid of Giza. And on top of all that, we have an explicit government cover-up and an intrinsic tie to the history of the state. This story is wild!
I'm very skeptical, but as a longtime Alaska resident I love this story and think it's great weird food for thought! It is an old conspiracy theory by now, and with that it has an old school feel, harkening back to a time before things got soooo overtly bi-partisan.
This episode will serve as a bit of a part one to further investigation, trying to understand where this story came from and what, if anything, we should take seriously about it.
Supposed coordinates the mineshaft that leads to the underground pyramid, as reported by Linda Moulton Howe from her "sources": 63°17'51.4"N 152°31'24.5"W (blurred out on Google Maps last time I checked)
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a search for the Dark Pyramid and a man's disappearance (not mentioned on the show)
Bruce Pearson interview
Doug Mutchler's story
Saucers of the North: A History of UFOs in Alaska Airspace - Jessie Desmond
Alaska Triangle
Linda Moulton Howe's Earthfiles website
HAARP and the Northern Lights
This week's featured music is from my talented childhood homies in Anchorage, Alaska! Don't forget to support your favorite indie artists of all types.
Workin - Black Barrel & the Bad Men
Evil Man - Black Barrel & the Bad Men
What Do You Need - Black Barrel & the Bad Men
The Sun is Shining Down - Black Barrel & the Bad Men
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Yet again -- welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! Sort of. This episode is another bonus episode of sorts, and was technically my last guest spot on someone else's show before I started doing Black Hoodie Alchemy. Longtime listeners will be very familiar with Joe Rupe and Lighting the Void, and you're in for a treat as always.
We talk about cult mentality, my ambitions for Black Hoodie Alchemy, the Children of Thunder wannabe-cult, and much more!
Here's this week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
Change the Channel - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz
Spare Me - Salt
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Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! Sort of. This is another bonus episode of sorts -- my most recent guest appearance on another show, this one being Mike Mazzei's Mind Escape. He's had a whole lot of impressive, heavy hitter guests over the years of doing his show, Mike is a truly wonderful guy, and I always have a blast talking to him!
Oh and I shouldn't forget to mention that he and his cousin Maurice were the ones to put together the award winning UFO-psychedelia documentary that I was featured in: As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT.
If you liked this, you can check out the Black Hoodie Alchemy episode that featured Mike, and you can check out my other appearances on his show Mind Escape as well (there at least a couple.)
This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
Leave it All Behind - Hex One
Fire in the Sky - Babylon Warchild
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Welcome back, folks! This week will serve exactly what the title says: we're going back through some of the most popular episodes, the most shared, the most slept-on, and the craziest.
We're also going through some of the listeners that have reached out and supported the show, as well as some of the amazing musicians we've featured on the show.
And a special shout out to Grant Mock aka Stray Puzzle Piece -- Alex Arck -- and Blackbird the Blacksmith -- because they are the only ones (so far) that I forgot to mention in my shoutouts! My bad, gentlemen -- you're real gems!
Thank you so much to everyone for being a part of the Black Hoodie Alchemy crew so far, and here's to a whole lot more action to come!
This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
Origami Starlight - Umang x BBZ Darney
Entropy (feat. Halfcut & D-REV) - Umang x BBZ Darney
Fragmented Pieces (feat. Hex One) - Umang x BBZ Darney
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