SOUND CREDIT: The Chamber Stage (YouTube)

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Because someone will ask: the Nixon tape is from Feb 1st 1972 and features the Reverend Billy Graham giving his fascinating interpretation of the Jewish Question in the Oval Office. Nixon concludes (its' a little garbled on the tape) by saying "I believe it. I can't say it but I believe it."

⁠https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/662/conversation-662-004⁠

The books in question are "The Contrarian" by Max Chafkin (the better book, for the record) and "The Philosopher in the Valley" by Michael Steinberger.

If you are interested in browsing the internet without Palantir et. al. surveilling you, I would highly recommend you look into the Tor Project, and specifically the Tor Browser:

https://www.torproject.org/download/

Worm gods, ayahuasca babies, megadeath, the conquest of the universe, gross protuberances, white saviors, seeing the future, declining immortality, accepting immortality, liberating the universe, and most importantly: always keeping the spice flowing.

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He who can destroy a thing (Will's sanity) controls a thing.

On this episode, Thomas and Richard flap their hands and shriek for 2 hours about Dune and Dune: Messiah lore. If you've only seen the movies (Will) prepare to get dunked on.

Arrakis will bloom again.

Paul Thomas Anderson made this when he was 28. So did Richard and Will.

A celebration of ⁠the greatest movie of our greatest living director.⁠ Hats off to you, man.

advisory: child abuse, self-harm, suicide.

“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”―Hafez

Music Credits:

⁠Violin version of Habañera by Katy Adelson⁠

⁠Aria version of Habañera by Deutsch Opera Berlin⁠

⁠Tom Cruise Leaked Scientology Interview

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Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine.

People Mentioned:

• Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers

• H. P. Blavatsky

• William Wynn Westcott

• Aleister Crowley

• John Dee

• Edward Kelly

• A. E. Waite

• Erich Fromm and Wilhelm Reich

References:

• Douglas Haig, the Battle of the Somme, and Séances

"On 20th September 1906, Haig attended a séance with his sister Henrietta where he sought advice as to whether the expansion of the Territorial Army would be more satisfactory on a company or battalions basis. He was advised by the spiritualist a Miss McCreadie to adopt the former rather than the latter. Apparently, when Ms McCreadie gave this advice she was under the control of a native girl called ‘Sunshine’, who had Napoleon by her side. Haig must have found this circumstance most reassuring."

• Kant's Hilariously Stupid Anthropology of Blackness

• Crowley Getting Kicked Down the Stairs by W. B. Yeats

• Victorian Mummy Powder

• Mahayana Buddhism

• Lawrence v. Texas (2003) Last Repeal of Anti-Sodomy Law in America

• The "Lost" Language of Senzar (Blavatsky)

• Master Hilarion (Also Blavatsky)

• Nazis Using Pendulums to (Not) Find British Ships

Out of their depth. By 1942, British Navy vessels had begun to shift the tide in the Atlantic battlefront, sinking more German U-boats than Hitler’s army could Allied submarines. Scientific progress proved a major factor in Allied dominance, with the development of Radar and Sonar technology significantly upping the odds of locating German vessels in deep water. But Germany Navy officials had a different strategy in mind: U-boat captain Hans Roeder convinced colleagues in arms the British were using pendulums to predict their boats’ location underwater. As an amateur pendulum dowser himself, the enterprising captain established the Pendulum Institute to pinpoint British ships, enlisting pendulum dowsers and occultists from across the country and tasking them with applying their clairvoyant powers to search for British vessels. Results were, unsurprisingly, not altogether successful.

Books Mentioned:

• Perdurabo by Richard Kaczynski

• The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune

• The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky

• John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv

• The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie

• A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry By A. E. Waite

• Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm

• The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with a Commentary by Sri Swami Satchidanada

• Aleister Crowley:

  • Liber 777

  • Eight Lectures on Yoga

  • Konx Om Pax - Light in Extension

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Movies:

• ⁠The Master (2012)⁠

• ⁠There Will Be Blood (2007)⁠

• ⁠Magnolia (1999)⁠

• ⁠Boogie Nights (1997)⁠

Music:

⁠Violin Concerto in D Major, Movement III Allegro Giocoso by Johannes Brahms⁠

⁠Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan⁠

Etude Op 10 No 3 in E Major "Tristesse" Composed by Frederic Chopin, (Best) ⁠Performed by Maurizio Pollini⁠

⁠Song: "No Other Love" by Jo Stafford⁠

-//-No other love can warm my heartNow that I've known the comfort of your armsNo other love, oh the sweet contentmentThat I find with you everytime, everytimeNo other lips could want you moreFor I was born to glory in your kiss, forever yoursI was blessed with love to love youTill the stars burn out above youTill the moon is but a silver shellNo other love, let no other love

know the wonder of your spell-//-

References

For the general conversation of " God wants me to destroy you, obviously" see especially the ⁠Melian Dialogue.⁠

If you want to watch a Scientology documentary I would recommend ⁠Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief⁠ by Alex Gibney (2015).

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The best version of Musashi in English that I have found is the book The Complete Musashi translated by Alexander Bennett, which is available in audiobook form and is quite short and scholarly to boot. ⁠Goodreads link⁠.

Books and Movies:

⁠Silence, Martin Scorsese⁠

⁠Pi, Darren Aronofsky⁠

⁠Introduction to Zen Buddhism - D. T. Suzuki⁠

Links:

⁠Eleusinian Mysteries⁠

⁠Ergotamine (LSD)⁠

⁠Sekiro (From Software Game)⁠

Music Credit (Drums, Intro/Outro) by RelaxMusicPro on YouTube:

⁠https://youtu.be/M3cJs_m351A⁠

Edit: removed the part where Shogun Richard and I discussed the YouTube parody AI Am a Jedi, which you should look up just in case:

⁠https://youtu.be/v6So-4uvruU

A truly decadent and indulgent episode for the genuinely twisted wordheads and storyfreaks still crawling on all fives. Cheers, you beautiful bastards.

Music by Anapse, track Bisector off Streamsafe Essentials

Books

Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson

Better Than Sex: The Gonzo Papers Vol 4 by Hunter S Thompson

Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff by Daniel Joseph Watkins

Dark Alliance by Gary Webb

Goebbels by Peter Longerich

HST's Best Audiobook Narrator: Scott Sower

Film

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

Fear and Loathing in Aspen

Inherent Vice

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Rum Diary

Sundry Fed, Spook, and Military Initiatives

COINTELPRO (FBI)

MHCHAOS (CIA)

Project Plowshare (DARPA)

With special guest Deputy Dick filling in (for) Richard Sinex.

Music by Anapse, track Bisector off Streamsafe Essentials

--Books--

Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson

Better Than Sex: The Gonzo Papers Vol 4 by Hunter S Thompson

Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff by Daniel Joseph Watkins

Dark Alliance by Gary Webb

Goebbels by Peter Longerich

HST's Best Audiobook Narrator: Scott Sower

--Film--

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

Fear and Loathing in Aspen

Inherent Vice

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Rum Diary

--Sundry Fed, Spook, and Military Initiatives--

COINTELPRO (FBI)

MHCHAOS (CIA)

Project Plowshare (DARPA)

Now It's Dark.

Advisory: This episode contains potentially upsetting discussions of child sexual abuse/violence as well as addiction and human trafficking.

Music Credit: ⁠Twin Peaks Theme (Cover)⁠ by ⁠Dehli Musikk⁠

In this one Richard and I cover the twin masterpieces: Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2001) and list Sixteen Reasons why we love David Lynch.

Wishing DL an auspicious passage into the Bardo - see you later, President Roosevelt....

Watchlinks:

⁠Blue Velvet⁠

⁠Twin Peaks (TV Series)⁠

⁠Twin Peaks: The Return⁠

⁠Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me⁠

⁠Lost Highway⁠

⁠Mulholland Drive⁠

Interviews / Sources

⁠Painter: Francis Bacon⁠

⁠Isabella Rossellini⁠ (Plays Dorothy Vallens in Blue Velvet)

⁠1997 Charlie Rose Interview⁠

⁠"The Art Life" Interview with Artforum⁠

⁠Outstanding Essay⁠ by Auteur Cinema (YT) (Rosselini Interview Source)

⁠Bad Canadian Interview for Blue Velvet⁠

⁠Braindead Siskel and Ebert Takes on BV⁠

⁠Lynch Interview about Roy Orbison and the BV Music