Counter Esperanto Podcast: Winds Of The Weird

By Karl, Jubel, Divers and Hands

What's Counter Esperanto Podcast: Winds Of The Weird about?

The Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents about Twin Peaks is the work of Karl Eckler and Jubel Brosseau, and represents their first foray into podcasting about their Weird interests. This is not a recap podcast (there are plenty of those), spoilers abound as Jubel and Karl discuss the Twin Peaks mythos as a whole, generally working backwards from Mark Frost’s new book The Secret History of Twin Peaks.

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Counter Esperanto Podcast: Winds Of The Weird episodes:

12.25.2023
Ep. No. 46 Just a Taste of the Elixir: a “Project Mercy Seat” Teaser
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Merry Yule, everyone. Today, just in time for us to call it a Christmas gift to you, we present just a taste of our Super Secret Project that we’ve been cooking up for over a...
03.29.2023
Ep. No. 45 HBO’s The Last of Us, and the Terrifying Power of Love
The Last of Us series of games on Playstation did a great deal to promote serious consideration of the medium as a true narrative art form. The performances, the attention to detail in building its characters and world, and especially...
01.12.2023
Ep. No. 44 Twin Peaks: The Return Rewatch Wrap-up
2022 was something of an experiment for Karl and Jubel, and we believe it was a resounding success. We’ve always talked about wanting to incorporate more interviews into the mix, so we did five consecutive interview episodes exploring Twin Peaks:...
10.27.2022
Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 5
This episode marks the last in a series of five episodes following our re-watch of Twin Peaks: The Return, which feature guests each of whom bring a unique and thorough perspective to the puzzling, beautiful, haunting, heartbreaking, harrowing and frustrating...
07.14.2022
Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 4
This is the next in our series of revisits of Twin Peaks: The Return. This time we are happy today to have with us author, teacher, and co-host of The Bicks Podcast (Formerly Bickering Peaks), Lindsay Stamhuis. We begin by...
06.02.2022
Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 3
We are happy to begin our next exploration into the Return with John Bernardy: journalist, Twin Peaks master-theorist, and host of Blue Rose Task Force podcast, which I believe is the first of its kind, being a holistic podcast that...
03.31.2022
Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 2
Greetings Listeners! We continue our series of guest-packed Twin Peaks: The Return re-watch discussions with author, scholar, and all-around lovely gent Rob E. King! Rob E. King is an associate librarian at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library and a...
02.24.2022
Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 1
Greetings listeners! This week we are excited to have on, as our first guest in a five-part retrospective of Twin Peaks: The Return, none other than John Thorne, author and co-creator of the Wrapped in Plastic magazine, and more recently...
12.24.2021
Ep. No. 38 A Return to Tangents About Twin Peaks and a Deep Dive Into the Final Dossier
When Karl and Jubel realized that they had passed the five year mark of the podcast, they thought it would be fitting to return to their “Tangents About Twin Peaks” roots, and use Mark Frost’s The Final Dossier as a...
12.02.2021
Ep. No. 37 Yule Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
Here’s a short reading by your Humble Co-Host Jubel Brosseau, of “Yule Horror,” a short poem by H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft made a habit of writing Christmas poems every year that he sent to friends and family, but generally they were...
11.01.2021
Ep. No. 36 The Deep and The Dune(s)
“Dreams are messages from the Deep” In this episode, a review and impromptu analysis of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” Karl and Jubel are surprised to find their views and thoughts on the film evolving as they break...
10.04.2021
Ep. No. 35 Ten Top Weird “weirdos, Lynchian”
“It never got weird enough for us” Here’s some audiovisual notes about today’s podcast: Guild Navigator – Dune Ben (Dean Stockwell) from Blue Velvet The “Bum” behind Winkies Mr. and Mrs. X (Mary X’s parents from Eraserhead Mrs. Tremond (and...
11.01.2020
Ep. No. 34: Children of Keep and Phantasm
Jubel and Karl give in to the lure of nostalgia and return to movies that they haven’t seen in 25 years or so: The Keep and Phantasm. These are weird movies, and also really Weird movies. We talk about them,...
07.25.2020
Ep. No. 33: This is… “The Last of Us”
….But Counter-Esperanto will return: Greetings Listeners, Jubel Brosseau here. We are doing something a little different with this episode. Late June saw the release of the long-awaited sequel to The Last of Us, a fan-favorite and critically heralded game exclusive...
06.01.2020
Ep. No. 32. Millennium is Coming
Millennium is Coming “We apologise for the inconvenience.”
04.29.2020
Ep. No. 31 Horror and the Zeitgeist: Candyman’s Heart of Darkness
In this episode, your hosts delve into two jungles; one 8,000 miles removed from from familiar Twin Peaks psychogeography, and the other in the very center of America’s heartland. One set in, arguably, the most hopeful American Decade, the 1960s. ...
08.26.2019
Ep. No. 30, Apertures and Doorways
“You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples. It could also be something much better. Prepare...
06.10.2019
Ep. No. 29, Flying Saucers are Real!!!!
We grew up In Search of… the Mysteries of the Unknown. For those shows–and indeed for most of the 20th Century–the arch unknown has been Alien. So, your hosts will be talking about Aliens. We talk a lot about how very, very similar our...
03.03.2019
Ep. No. 28, “Don’t Look Now” Rebecca, it’s Women in Horror Month (sorta)
Today, Counter Esperanto is celebrating Women in Horror Month, which is February and therefore a bit in the rear-view mirror, but now it’s March, which is Women’s History Month, so it all works out in the end! Karl and Jubel...
01.11.2019
Ep. No. 27, The Yellow Wallpaper by Gaslight, a Counter Esperanto discussion
For this “minisode,” Karl and Jubel discuss “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, our most recent reading, which features all-new music and sound design, and a masterful performance by actress Suzanne Owens-Duval. We break down the story’s use of...
12.24.2018
Ep. No. 26 — The Eighth Song: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
As with most pieces of great literature, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is many things simultaneously. It is an exquisite ghost story, a prime example of the “unreliable narrator” in short fiction, a psychologically astute depiction of a...
10.28.2018
Ep. No. 25: The 18th Secret or “A Ghost of a Memory”
We talk about ghosts in this one. We start at Laura Palmer’s suffused spirit and how it haunts Twin Peaks for most of the original run and our dreams ever since, then I completely fail to bring that conversation around to...
08.22.2018
Ep. No. 24: The 17th Secret or “A Question and Some Answers”
“I have a question for you. Apologies, it’s a bit of a long one, but I think I’m going to need to unpack it a bit. Okay. So you love Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie. I want to...
07.12.2018
Ep. No. 23: The 16th Secret: Rob King and the Questions Ten
This week, Rob King of 25 Years Later joins us in a non-synchronous, phase-shifted, pan-dimensional interview. Not to worry, we’ll still throw more tangents per minute than any other podcast of this type! (what type are we again?) Apology: Diane,...
05.30.2018
Ep. No. 22: The 15th Secret: “Season Two, Episode One”
We’re back! Back in the Twin Peaks zone… Some Notes on the 15th Secret of Counter Esperanto: How is Red like a courtly fool? Why is China back in the Twin Peaks Narrative? Will we say something about infiltration? Will...
12.30.2017
Ep. No. 21 — The Seventh Song: “Horror at Harold House”
Here’s something a little different… It used to be that the dark of the year was the time to tell each other ghost stories, and so this particular song would not be out of place with it’s six fellows. Yet,...
12.10.2017
Ep. No. 20 — The 14th Secret: Folklore of (and in) Twin Peaks
The holidays are holiday-rific as they say, and their multi-spectral horror and insane blandishments have had certain “insalubrious” effects upon your humble hosts. Rallying against this tinseled terror, we present for your hopeful approval, the initial results, interpretations, commentary and...
10.31.2017
EP No. 19 — The 6th Song: “The Beast of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith”
Much like the corpus of our favorite TV Show/Movie/Franchise/Intellectual Property/… “Art”, this story has something of a tortuous production background, interference from the studio…er, the publisher (Weird Tales) resulted in at least two versions, and later editors have combined these...
09.10.2017
EP No. 18 — The 13th Secret: “What year is it anyway?”
In their first post-finale podcast about Twin Peaks: The Return, Karl and Jubel begin what will surely be the long task of parsing out what the hell just happened. Setting aside the cross-textual analysis for the most part, they look...
08.05.2017
EP No. 17 — The 12th Secret: “or… ‘Technical Difficulties: Being a Cadenza in Several Parts for Resonator and Atom Bomb'”
After some major technical issues, your intrepid hosts are back and talking about Twin Peaks: The Return, with a focus on Parts 9 through 12. True to form, we live up to the “tangents” part of our title, talking about...
07.21.2017
The Fifth Song: “From Beyond”
An overarching theme of The Weird is that some knowledge is–or should be–forbidden. That seeing into the abyss means that it’s denizens may see you, reach you, touch you… and do worse than see and touch. In various ways, Twin Peaks has always...
07.04.2017
The 11th Secret: “A Beginning is a Very Delicate Time…”
Today, ladies and gentlemen, we will concentrate on “Eight”. The 8th installment of Twin Peaks: The Return, we feel, will be looked on as the beginning of a new thing in the world of Television. It is also the best...
05.30.2017
The 10th Secret: The Return
In this episode, we wrestle with the awesome beauty and genius of David Lynch’s triumphant Return to Twin Peaks by way of Buckhorn South Dakota, Philadelphia and… New. York. City? We won’t get a rope, but we will explore what...
05.14.2017
The Ninth Secret: Almost 25 Years later…
It’s hard to believe that we have already made it to the 9th secret of Counter Esperanto, and because 9 is a magic number we talk a lot about magic this time. The magic of 25 years ago and the...
04.30.2017
The Fourth Song: “The Music of Erich Zann”
The Music of Erich Zann is a haunting reminiscence of a place found outside the normal rules of society, order and physics. Something exists behind the high wall that only Erich Zann can see over. Does he long to see?...
04.10.2017
The Eighth Secret: Weird Outlooks
For artists, their outlook of the world can be expressed in the form of discrete symbol systems, and in this way artists are likely to refer to their art as their children. For this is true in a partially incestuous...
03.10.2017
The Third Song: The Horla
The Horla is all about a creature from “outside” that causes a previously good and sane person to doubt their sanity, indulge in actions of questionable moral turpitude and ultimately make a terrible choice with unknown consequences. Sound familiar? Read by...
02.28.2017
The Seventh Secret, or Our Tribute to Laura Palmer
She is the reason that we are first introduced to the town of Twin Peaks, but died before that lonely foghorn first blew. Homecoming Queen and sex worker, murder victim and drug dealer, charity volunteer and thief, Laura is a...
01.23.2017
The Sixth Secret, bright with sinuous rills of “Starr Creek”
Nathan Carson is the drummer for Witch Mountain, a Doom Metal band from one of our favorite Twin Peaks adjacent cities, Portland! He’s also (in no particular order) a Twin Peaks fan, a really cool dude, and the author of the...
01.08.2017
The Fifth Secret: Talking Theosophically…
The Key to the Key of Theosophy, a Counter Esperanto joint. Being a mostly Clear, although somewhat muddled Exposition, in the Form of questionable Question and improbable Answer, of the ETHICS, SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY (such as they are) for the...
12.26.2016
The Second Song: A Christmas Carol (No, not that one)
This ain’t no Star Wars Christmas Special folks. This is Karl Eckler the Elder reading H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Festival“, a story about the Yule-time, which is older than Christmas and fated to survive it.
12.26.2016
The Second Song: A Christmas Carol (No, not that one)
This ain’t no Star Wars Christmas Special folks. This is Karl Eckler the Elder reading H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Festival“, a story about the Yule-time, which is older than Christmas and fated to survive it.
12.20.2016
The Fourth Secret: Ten Things We Love About Dale Cooper
The detective hero falls into a few quickly identifiable types: There is the tough guy, like Mike Hammer or Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op; the systematic police that shows up on Law & Order or CSI; and of course there is the...
12.20.2016
The Fourth Secret: Ten Things We Love About Dale Cooper
The detective hero falls into a few quickly identifiable types: There is the tough guy, like Mike Hammer or Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op; the systematic police that shows up on Law & Order or CSI; and of course there is the...
12.11.2016
The Third Secret: What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird
As promised, this week we take out our microscopes to examine things as they are, and as they might be. Jubel examines Weirdness as a literary and cultural phenomenon, while Karl goes and gets himself lost in the woods… and...
12.11.2016
The Third Secret: What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird
As promised, this week we take out our microscopes to examine things as they are, and as they might be. Jubel examines Weirdness as a literary and cultural phenomenon, while Karl goes and gets himself lost in the woods… and...
11.28.2016
The First Song: Into the Night, Beside the Lake
Along with the rest of the country, we have been a little too successful at our “Counter Esperanto,” and the heaping plates of Double R Diner Turkey Specials have done us in for yet another year. And yet, in our...
11.28.2016
The First Song: Into the Night, Beside the Lake
Along with the rest of the country, we have been a little too successful at our “Counter Esperanto,” and the heaping plates of Double R Diner Turkey Specials have done us in for yet another year. And yet, in our...
11.20.2016
Counter Esperanto #2 The first mini-episode “Strange Things in the Woods, With Slime”
In this mini-sode, the terrible twosome find traces from nowhere leading into the town of Twin Peaks: impossible octopi and the Fortean “Star Slime” that rains down mysteriously on the just and the unjust alike. No connections, says you? We...
11.20.2016
Counter Esperanto #2 The first mini-episode “Strange Things in the Woods, With Slime”
In this mini-sode, the terrible twosome find traces from nowhere leading into the town of Twin Peaks: impossible octopi and the Fortean “Star Slime” that rains down mysteriously on the just and the unjust alike. No connections, says you? We...

What's Counter Esperanto Podcast: Winds Of The Weird about?

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Counter Esperanto Podcast: Winds Of The Weird episodes:

Ep. No. 46 Just a Taste of the Elixir: a “Project Mercy Seat” Teaser

Ep. No. 45 HBO’s The Last of Us, and the Terrifying Power of Love

Ep. No. 44 Twin Peaks: The Return Rewatch Wrap-up

Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 5

Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 4

Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 3

Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 2

Counter Esperanto Podcast: Tangents About Twin Peaks: The Return Part 1

Ep. No. 38 A Return to Tangents About Twin Peaks and a Deep Dive Into the Final Dossier

Ep. No. 37 Yule Horror by H.P. Lovecraft

Ep. No. 36 The Deep and The Dune(s)

Ep. No. 35 Ten Top Weird “weirdos, Lynchian”

Ep. No. 34: Children of Keep and Phantasm

Ep. No. 33: This is… “The Last of Us”

Ep. No. 32. Millennium is Coming

Ep. No. 31 Horror and the Zeitgeist: Candyman’s Heart of Darkness

Ep. No. 30, Apertures and Doorways

Ep. No. 29, Flying Saucers are Real!!!!

Ep. No. 28, “Don’t Look Now” Rebecca, it’s Women in Horror Month (sorta)

Ep. No. 27, The Yellow Wallpaper by Gaslight, a Counter Esperanto discussion

Ep. No. 26 — The Eighth Song: “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Ep. No. 25: The 18th Secret or “A Ghost of a Memory”

Ep. No. 24: The 17th Secret or “A Question and Some Answers”

Ep. No. 23: The 16th Secret: Rob King and the Questions Ten

Ep. No. 22: The 15th Secret: “Season Two, Episode One”

Ep. No. 21 — The Seventh Song: “Horror at Harold House”

Ep. No. 20 — The 14th Secret: Folklore of (and in) Twin Peaks

EP No. 19 — The 6th Song: “The Beast of Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith”

EP No. 18 — The 13th Secret: “What year is it anyway?”

EP No. 17 — The 12th Secret: “or… ‘Technical Difficulties: Being a Cadenza in Several Parts for Resonator and Atom Bomb'”

The Fifth Song: “From Beyond”

The 11th Secret: “A Beginning is a Very Delicate Time…”

The 10th Secret: The Return

The Ninth Secret: Almost 25 Years later…

The Fourth Song: “The Music of Erich Zann”

The Eighth Secret: Weird Outlooks

The Third Song: The Horla

The Seventh Secret, or Our Tribute to Laura Palmer

The Sixth Secret, bright with sinuous rills of “Starr Creek”

The Fifth Secret: Talking Theosophically…

The Second Song: A Christmas Carol (No, not that one)

The Second Song: A Christmas Carol (No, not that one)

The Fourth Secret: Ten Things We Love About Dale Cooper

The Fourth Secret: Ten Things We Love About Dale Cooper

The Third Secret: What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird

The Third Secret: What We Talk About When We Talk About Weird

The First Song: Into the Night, Beside the Lake

The First Song: Into the Night, Beside the Lake

Counter Esperanto #2 The first mini-episode “Strange Things in the Woods, With Slime”

Counter Esperanto #2 The first mini-episode “Strange Things in the Woods, With Slime”