The Age of Nigredo.

Both relieved our colleague displays no outward signs of psychopathy, we dive into the psychic rabbit hole to plumb the depths of inner idiosyncrasies, just to make sure. Along the way we meet alter (L)egos like Schméagol, expose traumatic cult affiliations and most embarrassing of all, reveal our Totem Animals. Finally we divulge why the alchemical state of Nigredo is so conducive to writing poetry.

Timestamps:

00:01 How Many Ex-Streams Form A River?

09:50 The Age of Nigredo.

14:45 Wherever Ego Go I By Inner Schméagol.

20:00 Shut Up Schméagol!

27:30 Discrete Critique of the Charismatic Con.

33:00 Cult Grooming of a Cohost.

39.:00 Yin Yangst! (Don’t Mention the Genocide)

45:45 Advantage of a Slave Economy.

48:30 Shadow Selfies.

54:50 Totem Animal Exposé.

Hosts: Sebastian Gregus and Simon Dancaster.

Production Team: Jozef Gregus. Kim Stennabb Caesar. Cato Langnes. Dagfinn Utgård.

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Parliament of the Streets.

Authentic, knowledgeable and insightful, Elling Borgersrud from the Norwegian hiphop collective Gatas Parlament, Parliament of the Streets, is our guest today. I had planned a concise, interlocking set of questions, designed to enhance our conversation in (hopefully) an engaging manner. As usual I screwed that up right from the beginning, but Elling, being the generous professional he is, responds in a most enlightening way, and we touch on topics that might surprise even fans of Gatas Parlament and rap music in general.

https://www.instagram.com/elling_fragatas/

Check out the music of Gatas Parlament:

https://www.youtube.com/@gptv

You will find their latest album here:

https://www.gatasparlament.com/

Timestamps:

00:04:57 On the Advice of Our Intimacy Coordinator.

00:07:40 ADHD Trials and Tribulations.

00:22:41 A Jarring Change of Topic.

00:27:15 Social Cultural Discourse and Discord.

00:33:34 The Military Industrial HipHop Complex.

01:05:08 Anecdotes from the Far North and Polar-bear Atrocities.

Hosts: Sebastian Gregus and Simon Dancaster.

Production Team: Jozef Gregus. Kim Stennabb Caesar. Cato Langnes. Dagfinn Utgård.

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Grizzly.

Lurking beneath the mild mannered, affable exterior of former Norwegian sumo champion, Anders Fægri, there dwells a formidable alter ego known as Grizzly. We unwisely attempt to coax forth the savage beast and bid Anders bare all and ask why Mr Ursus Arctus Horribilis, wrestling announcer extraordinaire, hates bullying.

Timestamps:

00:01:58 The Bear Necessities

00:12:28 The Care Bear

00:52:30 Bear Hug Crush

01:20:05 Bear Pit Announcer

01:27:25 Kilt Complex

#NorwegianWrestlingForbund #Sumogrizzly #sumo #sumowrestling #antibullyingweek #wrestling #bears #grizzlies #norwegian #sagenefestivitetshus #SageneKunstsmie #podcast

Contacts:Our Guest IG:

https://www.instagram.com/grizzlysumo/

https://www.wrestling.no/

Hosts: Sebastian Gregus and Simon Dancaster.

Production Team: Jozef Gregus. Kim Stennabb Caesar. Cato Langnes. Dagfinn Utgård.

You can reach out to Gregus Productions at:

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My Dear Diarrhea.

The third and final part of our Who The Hell Are You? trilogy. This is where Sebastian and I let our guards down to the level of contemptible familiarity. I expose myself to ridicule by detailing my alimentary agonies and intestinal fortitude on a trip within the belly of the beast in India. A gut-wrenching tale to be sure.

Timestamps:

00:02:35 Gladiator Too Bad

00:17:20 Death By Rhinoceros

00:20:50 The Jewel In The Brown

00:38:40 Divide And Fool

00:45:45 World War Too Soon?

Hosts: Sebastian Gregus and Simon Dancaster.

Production Team: Jozef Gregus. Kim Stennabb Caesar. Cato Langnes. Dagfinn Utgård.

You can reach out to Gregus Productions at:

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Who Are We Are You?Interacting with fellow humans, not of our tribe, can be challenging. Yet it is a necessary requisite if one plans to pursue joint ventures. We all have our methods: sanity-level checks, desirability meters, boundary-testing, threat-detectors, and serial-killer-colleague cold-reading, body language techniques. So, observe dear peruser, as two hounds sniff each other’s behinds, seek compatible prejudices, exploitable qualities and personality pitfalls. Welcome to the Bond Age. Oh and squirrels, lots of squirrels for some weird reason. (Paging Dr Freud!).

TIMESTAMPS:

00:01:06 Games we play

00:12:03 Serial Killer? Yes or No?

00:20:15 Power of Coward

00:35:19 War! Who is it good for?

00:42:13 Leadership Ahoy!

00:47:42 Self-reflections on Narcissism

00:51:35 World´s Greatest Underachiever

00:57:36 Squirrrels are NUTS!

Hosts: Sebastian Gregus and Simon Dancaster.

Production Team: Jozef Gregus. Kim Stennabb Caesar. Cato Langnes. Dagfinn Utgård.

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Horror and the Human Condition.With guest Nikolai Kleppe, avowed horror aficionado and expert, we delve into why our fascination with the horror genre is so prevalent in the cultural landscape. We explore its roots and discuss what it is in the human psyche that seems to need a good scare and how the various sub-genres appeal to specific terrors.

Timestamps:

00:04:55 Wolves

00:10:59 Early literature. Penny dreadfuls

00:15:48 Catharsis and Hitchcock

00:20:40 Cosmic horror. Lovecraft and Poe

00:31:43 Zombie Holocaust

00:38:30 Asian horror

00:47:35 The Art of fear

00:54:55 Origin of Halloween

00:58:00 Death and Sex and Clive Barker

01:02:00 The Psychology of Horror

01:11:35 Nikolai’s Greatest Fear

Title Song: Cthulhu by Anax Imperator https://open.spotify.com/track/1NiybBeoYALc4quI7w5GBe?si=A38f8m45RZu1SJXnfBaa2Q

Production Team: Jozef Gregus. Kim Stennabb Caesar. Cato Langnes.

You can reach out to Gregus Productions at:

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A World Gone AMOC.

Will the world end in 2025? If so, how? What will the immediate consequences be for humanity and civilization as we know it? In this comedy of terrors we go through the top potential extinction level events and biodiversity bloodbaths according to the latest scientific theories and studies. We include a few hopelessly optimistic survival tips, and to round off, Autodidact University brings you our own darkest, most twisted, yet strangely hilarious apocalyptic scenario, we believe has the highest probability prognosis.

Timestamps:

00:03:55 AMOC

00:22:38 Big Freeze

00:36:50 Demographic Decline/Feretility

00:44:14 Super Virus/Mirror Life

00:49:01 Mad Genius/Mad Idiot

00:59:10 The Singularity/Sexbots

01:11:15 Survival Tips

Hosts: Sebastian Gregus and Simon Dancaster.

Production Team: Jozef Gregus. Kim Stennabb Caesar. Cato Langnes. Dagfinn Utgård.

You can reach out to Gregus Productions at:

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Making sense of chaos in Syria. The historical context and the dark shadow cast by the Assyrian Empire.

Timestamps:

02:00 Assad and Tragic Tale

11:50 Comparisons with European history

17:30 The New Regime, Proxy Factions and their Backers

36:30 Assyrian Empire Awfulness and The Red Wing

45:50 Divide and Conquer

52:00 Future Possibilities and the Big Picture

#Syria#Alowite#Assad#Assyria#Scaphism#Ba’ath #Mukhabarat#Sednaya