BACKKLASH: THE UNSILENCING is a series devoted to uncovering stories and voices from eyewitnesses and whistleblowers that support an alternative narrative surrounding the AIDS crisis.

In this episode, Nick Petosky and Poolhouse sit down with Tony, a NYC native and survivor of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Tony’s story is one of survival, strength, and triumph. Each anecdote he shares is instructive, as he dripping with a type of wisdom that only can be attained through perseverance in the face of near-certain death.

Like our previous guest, Ed, there were numerous times where it seemed like Tony would not in fact persevere. And yet, he is here with us today against the odds. Tony shares numerous episodes from his vibrant life as a New Yorker that will take us from Village discos to Wall Street and everywhere in between. This is very much a story about the Times as much as it is about Tony’s life that you are certain to find thought-provoking, poignant, and inspirational.

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Tony appears in HBO’s documentary LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK, because in addition to surviving AIDS, he also survived a serial killer.

https://www.hbo.com/last-call-when-a-serial-killer-stalked-queer-new-york

Dr. Edith Lincoln biography (via NIH): https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_201.html

from Dr. Lincoln’s obituary (30 Aug 1977, NYT)

https://web.archive.org/web/20180224205611/http://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/30/archives/edith-maas-lincoln-doctor-dies-at-86-she-pioneered-in-use-of-drugs.html

Dark Victory (1939) - Tony makes reference to this Steel Magnolias-esque classic drama of the Golden Age of Hollywood

The Saint NYC

Both Tony and Ed make reference to the iconic 80s literal pleasuredome called The Saint, which occupies a prominent place in disco, gay, and AIDS histories.

Here’s some additional info on The Saint, courtesy our Episode 23 show notes:

https://backklash.substack.com/i/121936559/the-saint-nyc

Previous episodes in THE UNSILENCING series:

Episode Hit Parade

Human League - Things Dreams Are Made Of

Edwin Starr - Contact (7” Mix)

Taana Gardner - Heartbeat (Club Mix)

First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder (Shep Pettibone)

Diana Ross - Chain Reaction

There are vibeshifts, and then there are auraquakes. Mythic poster, published author, and oracle of the zeitgeist Anna Krivolapova joined Poolhouse for this EPIC state of the orange-vibeshift summit.

Late summer 2023, Anna published her first collection of fiction. Entitled Incurable Graphomania and published through APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL, her debut has been received with a swarm of buzz and growing cult acclaim.

Anna’s style is both accessible and cryptic, with elements of the absurd and the supernatural injected into portraits of the mundane and the everyday. Her storytelling is remarkably fresh; her fix on the yarns she spins is both perceptive and precise.

The end result is Krivolapova’s kaleidoscopic world, one which is both familiar yet alien, where the unremarkable and the uncanny playfully coexist to color and serve her incisive commentary on the culture.

In an already-legendary episode, Anna and Poolhouse immerse themselves in an effervescent, free associative journey to the underside of the 1960s and back. Along the way, Anna discusses her debut collection + shares some thoughts on writing and style, before they peer behind the moldy masks of countercultural institutions such as the Joans (Didion and Baez), Richard Brautigan, and the Diggers.

This endlessly unfolding, ultra-cosmic affair will illuminate and CONFOUND you, as AK+PH dissect parapolitical celebrity power couples, CPT vs RPT, and then uncover a sinister urban conspiracy at the center of America’s citie–sHome of the Brave…and the Whopper(??). Anna reveals her favorite president, Poolhouse’s retardation becomes infectious, and there is an epochs-in-the-making moment for the true heads: our intrepid vibecruisers reveal the existence an archaic and immaculate order (the Black Hebrew Israelites, obviously. or maybe the Moors. but for the record, both Anna and DJPH disavow of any knowledge of the Siberian Knights).

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PURCHASE & READ A COPY OF INCURABLE GRAPHOMANIA

Apocalypse Confidential

https://apocalypse-confidential.com/books/

Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCW2HGMX

Episode Timestamps

SIBERIAN KNIGHTS - VOLUME I (00:00)

Coors Light Intro

Anna Krovolapova on Incurable Graphomania, Writing & Style (18:55)

60s Free Associative Sojourn A (Been Down So Long) (40:13)

60s Free Associative Sojourn B (Looks Like Up to Me) (1:12:42)

SIBERIAN KNIGHTS - VOLUME II (1:29:36)

Coors Lite Intro 2

60s Sojourn & Graphomania revisited (1:47:26)

Siberian Knights Outro (2:08:25)

“ANNA KK” | Anna Krivolapova x BACKKLASH Mixtape

Edgar Cayce on Russo-American destiny

https://www.edgarcayce.org/about-us/blog/blog-posts/out-of-russia-will-come-hope/

Ben Kinglsey in Harem

Josh Holloway in LOST

Harry Cruise, Feast of Snakes

Cheburashka

Graphomania

Graphomen

Thomas Pynchon’s Intro to -

Richard Farina’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

Beekeeping

The Diggers

https://www.diggers.org/

The Communication Co.

https://www.diggers.org/comco/comco.html

Brautigan, “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”

[is this legal to reproduce? no disrespect lolz]

Gillian Flynn and her hot lawyer husband looking fabulous and unbothered

Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov - Chapter Three, “The Sensualists”

https://www.owleyes.org/text/the-brothers-karamazov/read/part-i-book-iii-the-sensualists-chapter-iii-the-confession-of-a-passionate-heart

Monos (2018)

A blonde dude named Carlos

South american yarn

gotta get that darned Andean drip

Episode Hit Parade:

American Life - Felix da Housecat’s Devin Dazzle Remix (DJPH Edit)

Ramones - We’re a Happy Family

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Greenwich Village Folk Sales Man

Neal Hefti / The Wild Ones - Lord Love a Duck (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Twilight 22 - Siberian Nights (Dub Version) (DJPH Siberian Knights Edit)

The Sounds - Tony the Beat (Rex the Dog Remix)(DJPH Edit)

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As eagle-eyed remote viewers of the program are keenly aware, that Poolhouse has a tendency to reference TV’s LOST (2004-2010). He has compared his little gang of internet misfits and other assorted bandits to the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, the fictional plane in the show.

Poolhouse literally seems to thinks he’s living it? But have we made it to the Island…or are we still on the flight??

Joined by intrepid anon and internet dad (NOT a woman!), and LOST super-fan Dusty Poolhouse does what he does best–takes the audience on a journey with the purpose of getting LOST!

You don’t have to be a LOST megafan like PH and Dusty–who, according to legend, posts only in accordance with the mystical LOST numbers–or even a viewer of the show to enjoy this ep. As Dusty and Poolhouse discuss, the lessons from LOST are universal, and particularly appropriate to these strange times in which we find ourselves.

Is LOST relevant? What can it tell us about our present moment? Is LOST a flat earth program? And what about that ending?

Plus, Poolhouse gets to the bottom of Dusty’s @ and an unexpected calamity leads to an impromptu discussion about the true physicality of our cosmos. Take your seat, your captains here at Backklash Airways cordially welcome you aboard the most important flight of your lives. Join us while GET LOST…

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SHOW NOTES:

cameo from lowiqmoron (Thots & Prayers ) in the intro

Reply All (RIP lmfao) - the classic tulpamancer episode (DO NOT ASSOCIATE with Dusty)

VF article about how Reply All went down in flames with a spectacular self-cannibalizing auto-cancellation.

“we have to go back” (why he just like me FR FR???)

LOST Crash Course Basics (Spoilers)

The Numbers [link]

Dharma Initiative

“Flash Forward”

The Hatch

The Others

Jacob & The Man in Black / “Across the Sea”

Lost Epilogue - The New Man In Charge

Episode Hit Parade:

Caroline Polachek x Charli XCX - Welcome to My Island (Remix - PH edit)

To My Boy - The Grid

Sparks x Giorgio Moroder - Number One Song in Heaven (PH edit)

This episode shines a little light on the shadowy operations carried out across a honeycomb network of military research. Because this the heart of the The Strecker Memorandum: allegations about experimental research carried out by post-war international scientific brotherhood–and the public health crisis which subsequently transpired.

The Strecker Group's publications make an urgent and impassioned plea to alert the public. Those calls fell on deaf ears in the late 80s when Strecker emerged, and the establishment worked swiftly to ensure his reach was limited and combatted with categorical denials from CDC PR flunkies.

But all these years later, does The Strecker Memorandum hold up?

Join me for this deep dive into a fascinating, lost artifact of the original AIDS dissident era.

Get complete show notes at: https://backklash.substack.com/p/the-unsilencing-2

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Poolhouse is joined by Fleeing California & den mother to the Lost Boys of backklash, the witty, insightful, and absolutely gorgeous white POC mommy-anon Spendy O. Williams, for a very special FLASHBACKK to the (retro)future episode.

Spendy is truly a dear friend of the pod–she’s one of our earliest guests. She also happens to be a former High Priestess of Punk, and possesses considerably informed opinions on music and culture.

Poolhouse and Spendy read Meet Me in the Bathroom, an oral history chronicling the turn of the century rocknroll zeitgeist that produced The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem and more. It is an era both Poolhouse and Spendy are intimately familiar with, as they lived it.

As PH and Spendy discovered in previous HCTB appearances, Poolhouse and Spendy are both diskopunk veterans of CLUB FAKE, the legendary underground west coast hotspot during that glittering utopian moment that was (not) called electroclash.

Poolhouse and Spendy almost certainly rubbed shoulders within the intimacy of underground “electro” (which was code for ‘cool dance music for rocknroll people’ back then) nightclubs like Fake, Popscene, The Finger, and more. They were there when the garage-rock-disco-punk revival hit San Francisco. But both were left a bit underwhelmed by the picture that MMITB painted of their shared history..so they decide to make their own!

Dust off your skinny tie and trucker cap, put on your best striped shirt and nighttime shades, and lace up your Doc Martins or Converse, because in this is very special FLASHBACKK episode, we are going on a JOURNEYY thru space and time... in which these two spunky, punky club kid veterans invite you to meet them on the cosmic dancefloor (when you’re done in the bathroom) for disco-pogo punked and pumped edition of HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH, where we go back to the dirty, dingy, sketchy, skeezy roots of so-called indie sleaze…..

Meet Me in the Bathroom

Episode Hit Parade:

Linda Lamb - Hot Room (Tiga Remix) [poolhouse 12” collection]

Annie - Greatest Hit

Fischerspooner - Emerge [poolhouse 12” collection]

LCD Soundsystem - Beat Connection [poolhouse 12” collection]

The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers [poolhouse 12” collection]

Sparks - Rock n Roll People in a Disco World

Ladytron - Playgirl (Felix da Housecat thee Glitz Remix)

Here Comes the ULTRAMEGASHOWNOTES

THE SKEEZY SF ROOTS OF INDIE SLEAZE

Club Fake

backklash fanzine is the original incarnation of HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH. originally styled [backklash] (everyone was very annoying like then, trust me it wasn’t just me@) my DIY publication I fired up in ‘02 at the height of electromania, when myself and a cohort of breakaway scenesters defected from Santa Cruz indie rock, and began making our weekly pilgrimages to the Big City (first to Popscene, then Club Fake..and then we took over The Whole Damn Scene!)

I am not even joking you when I say that backklash definitely had an influence on the scene. You can see it in the evolution of the flier art, I am telling you!

‘I USED TO FAKE IT.’ a goodbye to the clubfake era from a dedicated disciple. (originally published in the pages of _backklash_ c. 2005)

330 Ritch / Popscene

330 Ritch eventually surrendered its entertainment license after a shooting. Popscene moved to the Rickshaw Stop.

https://abc7news.com/archive/9040750/

The Arrow Bar / The Finger

The Arrow Bar was a smaller venue in SoMa where the Club Fake promoters (DJ Omar and Jenny) put on a weekly Thursday night dance party that constituted Club Fake’s inner sanctum.

Sixxteen (a weekly rock club from the Club Fake crew)

The Purple Onion

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13848445/remembering-tom-guido-purple-onion-manager-and-sf-counterculture-legend

Li Po Lounge

1015 Folsom

111 Minna

The Blank Club / Atomic

International Deejay Gigolos

This fucking CD changed my life…there is no HCTB had I not purchased this compilation.

Electroclash / Larry Tee

Clashbackk

Carlos from Interpol

Rodney Bingenheimer

The west coast roots of British indie disco on the west coast go back to the Sunset Strip glam rock era (1970s), when Rodney on the Roq (KROQ) opened English Disco.

I WAS THERE™ w. Oso & Poolhouse - Live on X Spaces

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Jin the Ninja joins the program this week to lend his highly informed perspectives and esoteric knowledge to provide insight into the secrets that lay beyond in the inner / outer para-political dynamics. Jin is basically Poolhouse’s spiritual advisor at this point, so it was probably a good idea for these two to finally meet anyway–and what an electrifying encounter it is indeed!

Together, Jin and Poolhouse touch on a number of aspects related to the modern occult currents. Jin is a trained student and practicioner of a mystical and esoteric form of Buddhism known as Vajarayana (Tantric) yoga. From this perspective, he expands on a number of concepts which have meaning and can be broadly applied across many traditions.

Don’t let the big Sanskrit words scare you! Things do get far out, but only a little bit far east. Jin and Poolhouse discuss many of the intersections of esoteric eastern philosophies and western occult traditions, by way of the Kabbalah. All of which informs what we understand to be “magic” today, in all its forms and spellings.

A little bit on Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism, which is the practice in which Jin is a learned scholar and cleric. Per wikpedia (emphasis ours):

Vajrayāna (Sanskrit: वज्रयान, [diamond lightning]), also known as .. Secret Mantra, Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Buddhist tradition of tantric practice that developed in the medieval Indian subcontinent and spread to Tibet, Nepal, other Himalayan states, East Asia, and Mongolia.

Vajrayāna practices are connected to specific lineages in Buddhism, through the teachings of lineage holders. Others might generally refer to these texts as the Buddhist Tantras.[1] It includes practices that make use of mantras, dharanis, mudras, mandalas and the visualization of deities and Buddhas.

Traditional Vajrayāna sources say that the tantras and the lineage of Vajrayāna were taught by Śākyamuni Buddha and other figures such as the bodhisattva Vajrapani. On the other hand, contemporary historians of Buddhist studies argue that Vajrayāna does not predate the tantric era of medieval India (c. 5th century CE onwards).[2]

Of course we all know our question for the contemporary historians of Buddhist studies: do you believe that trans women can be women?

Things don’t get that spicy, don’t fear–but the two do discuss the Lurianic, Luciferean, anti-Cosmic origins of the radical left, the rise of pop New Age occultism, common misconceptions about gnosticism, secret treaties, secret trees, and of course, Roseanne.

Pro-cosmic doesn’t even begin to do this justice really.

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Listen to Jin on Subconscious Realms:

OMG I almost forgot to shoutout Parabula!!

We love you Parabula - https://x.com/parabula_

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Here are some quick links to get familiar at-a-glance with some of the topics Jin and I discuss:

Vedic systems

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vedic-religion

Tantric / Vajrayana Buddhism

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vajrayana

Puranas

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Purana

Theurgy / Theurgic Process (Neoplatonist/Western esotericism)

https://www.britannica.com/topic/theurgy

Post-war Babylon Workings:

9/11 Babylon Working-style workings discussion (last third, but banger ep imo!)

Since we mentioned him, James Lindsey in his own words on the Hermetic current:

HIT PARADE:

America, You Can Do Magic

LCD Soundsystem, North American Scum (Poolhouse Dub Edit)

Kano, Queen of Witches (Special Extended Mix)

Gordyboy - Hidden Forest (Bjork vs. The Cure edit) [Poolhouse private library]

I WAS THERE feat. OSO BLANCO + POOLHOUSE: next Sunday, Nov. 5 @ 4pm PST on X Spaces:

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prod: DJPOOLHOUSE

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Poolhouse: Special series intro 00:-08:32

Ed’s Story: 08:32

POOLHOUSE’s SHOW NOTES:

If you haven’t already, please tune in to Ep. 36, the de facto beginning of this series. This episode contains Nick’s presentation on the likelihood of an HIV lab origin, as well as a discussion on the implications of Nick’s research. There is also a plethora of resources for more information on this topic:

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SCENES FROM A LIFE: SNAPSHOTS FROM ED’S STORY

The Advocate, Feb. 1990

Executive Realness:

2001 | Gay Pocket Guide cover:

“Six months after recovering from pneumonia. I’m always pushing myself.” —Edward

U = U Campaign

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/treatment-prevention

Source: Harford County, MD Public Health Department

The Saint NYC: Under the Dome

The "Yankee Stadium” of gay discos, the legendary Manhattan venue known as The Saint was at the epicenter of homosexual subculture in the 1980s. The years of its operation closely mirrors the timeline of the AIDS crisis.

Please let it be known: in the 1970s-1980s, there existed urban centers where literally tens of thousands of homosexuals assembled on a weekly if not nightly basis. These were not the rinky-dink clubs, they were enormous palladiums, packed to the brim with actual gay people in real spaces. Does any such parallel exist today?

“The Saint Opens as AIDS looms” - https://thestarryeye.typepad.com/gay/2012/09/the-saint-opens-as-aids-looms-september-20-1981-.html

Each Disco II-era NYC nightlife hotspots catered to its own crowd. Unlike the Paradise Garage, whose crowd was also gay but largely black and latino, or Danceteria and The Pyramid Club, whose downtown crowds were perhaps a bit more diverse and arty, The Saint catered explicitly to white homosexual urbanites. The musclebound, close-cropped crew cut + mustachioed look that I have previously called the “ACT-UP Aesthetic” was very much expressed by patrons of this infamous discotheque.

Science of Mind - Louise Hay

https://www.louisehay.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/science-of-mindarticle20091212.pdf

EPISODE HIT PARADE:

Diana Ross - Chain Reaction (Special Dance Mix)

Yazoo - Situation (US 12” Francois K Dub Mix)

Sylvester - Band of Gold (12” Remix)

Shawn Benson - Seclusion

complete show notes - backklash.substack.com

Poolhouse is joined by THE DETT as she makes a legendary 4th appearance on HCTB. This one is an indescribable banger, as initiate you remote viewers into an upper division course in the deep end (but first, we have a little fun of course). Clear your mind. Open your horizons. Join Poolhouse and Detty for another cosmic voyage that you probably need to hear from start to finish to fully Perceive.

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Show Notes

2 Thessalonians 2:7 - KJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Thessalonians%202%3A7&version=KJV

Rumsfeld: Space is the new frontier

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/08/world/rumsfeld-seeking-an-arms-strategy-using-outer-space.html

Jennifer Bilek - The Billionaires Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers

Martine Rothblatt - The Trans Everything CEO New Yorker

https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://nymag.com/nymag/rss/business/martine-rothblatt-transgender-ceo/index1.html

Tim Pool - Occupier Profile (2013)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160521145325/http://nymag.com/nymag/rss/business/martine-rothblatt-transgender-ceo/index1.html

Poolhouse tweet -

https://twitter.com/NuganHandVEVO/status/1689673223758319617

Zelensky at Black Rock https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12542905/Volodymyr-Zelenskyy-secret-NYC-meeting-JPMorgan-Google-Blackstone.html

Remember when conspiracy theorists were LOSING IT over a Jacinderr at BlackRock?

ADDITIONAL THEME MUSIC:

CHARLIE - SPACER WOMAN

THE ORB - TOWER OF DUB (AMBIENT MIX)

TIGA + ZYNTHERIUS - SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT 12” MIX

OP:L BASTARDS - DON’T BRING ME DOWN

Full show notes: https://backklash.substack.com/p/episode-39

BACKKLASH WORLDWIDE: backklash.org

When Dap Man for his appearance interviewed Poolhouse this summer on Zooted Thinkpad Posse, he was quite literally thinking, “Dap Man could be my cuz!!” Dap Man interviewed Poolhouse this summer, it was clear the Dap Man was not merely an enthusiastic fan, but a talented host and producer in his own right. Dap Man is someone who knew all the right questions to get the Poolhouse.pills dropping, it was also apparent almost immediately that Dap Man was a potential new Backklash Worldwide Operative (friend of the pod? I think we can do better). Dap Man is a whole ass MOOD: his chill disposition, his passion for and deep understanding of music, and his curious nature and natural storytelling abilities, all led Poolhouse to recruit Dap Man to join the program.

Now, pretty much every planet was in retrograde at the time of this recording, and Poolhouse’s technical ineptitude (and chronic adherence to CPT) could have derailed the entire the interview. But the magic of Dap Man is such that his sheer presence, his ability to summon tranquility brought order to the affair. Dap Man is a producer’s producer. Sadly, this did not translate into any sort of calming effect on dear Poolhouse, bless his heart, but he was able to deliver this competent, jovial interview in order to give you this chance to really get to know Dap Man After Dark.

Join Dap Man @metadatapiff and Poolhouse: two Mavens of the FUNK MUTATION, for this inter-galactic, inter-generational, old-fashioned shoot-the-shit-out. Dap Man expounds on his roots and origins, politics and culture, and vividly brings to life the stories of gis his life! Growing up with a based mom, being a teenage reactionary (slash Andre3000?), being black but not necessarily politically black, how getting covid (and Jussie Smollett) wrong changed him for the better, how the 5 Per Centers played a role in changing his life, and so much more. This is HCTB, baby! We do it all. Vaccines, Jay-Z, K Records, n-word (no hard R), CAR TALK, the Taliban..RHOSLC’s Mary Cosby?? This episode has it ALL.

Note: Recorded Thursday, September 21, 2023 - important because I randomly talked about Matt Christman like he was dead, but I did not know that yet when we recorded :(

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Follow Its Whatever (Dap Man’s music project)

Poolhouse on ZTP (Pt. 1 of 2) - all Poolhouse-heads should check this out. I had so much fun with Dap Man & Camille, and I think the average HCTB will probably find them more relatable than I am haha - https://redcircle.com/shows/549b7dcb-fdb9-4bf4-800a-67def8c5983f/ep/9e74f645-fc3d-4689-99ad-794f5473f151

Bamiyan Buddhas (I would like to reiterate this is the ONLY point of contention I have with the Taliban, and this was over 20 years ago so if they were really bad guys, surely they would have done something else wrong by now)

How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/

We need to talk about Mary Cosby

Jay-Z, “Anything”

Additional theme music:

The Rolling Stones - Miss You (Dr. Dre Extended Remix)

Jay-Z - Jigga My N**** (Instrumental)

The Mighty Lemon Drops - Happy Head (as heard on NME C86 compilation)

Poolhouse has been on a rather dark sojourn of late, covering topics like AIDS and 9/11. But this episode is palette-cleansing partyline gabfest between your two favs, one that you won’t want to miss a moment of: Poolhouse is joined by his spiritual daughter, meme goddess, and the world’s #1 scene-adjacent poetess-influencer, class enemy Cassandra aka truth_enjoyer.

Poolhouse and Cassandra take on the world: exotic travels, why you should avoid rivers in England, Tilda Swinton in The Beach, the thing about the Crumps thing (false start), men who hate astrology, poster’s stigmata, and the thing about the Crumps thing (revisited). Poolhouse uncomfortably makes light of a tragic situation, and likely owes a fine nation a most sincere apology. The visionary duo hints at the orange vibeshift, but honestly, do not really elaborate. Something to do with censorship? Listen, you either get it (like @coldhealing), you do are just

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