Programmed to Chill

[originally published on Patreon May 23, 2022]

Today I'm joined by by Dr. Pig Bodine aka CJ (@Pussy___Teeth) of the MindGamez podcast to discuss Alan Moore's Lovecraft cycle yet again, having been cut off by technical difficulties. We get more specific about various subplots in Providence and spend more time discussing Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, class war, why the Irish are the only decent people in Moore's works, and so forth. 

Songs:

the Call of Ktulu by M*tallica

Antarcticans Thawed by Sleep

[originally published on Patreon May 17, 2022]

Today I'm joined by by Dr. Pig Bodine aka CJ (@Pussy___Teeth) of the MindGamez podcast to discuss Alan Moore's Lovecraft cycle. We discuss the Courtyard, Neonomicon, and the general outline of Providence. We continue to discuss Lovecraft, Moore's stance on Lovecraft, Moore's stance on magic, the nature of Elder Gods, Kenneth Grant, and a wide number of other things. We got technical difficulties at the end so there's another episode to follow this one up.

Songs:

Dunwich by Electric Wizard

In the Mouth of Madness theme from In the Mouth of Madness

Lovecraft in Brooklyn by the Mountain Goats

[originally published on Patreon May 10, 2022; now you should check out Tanner's blog, Getting Spooked]

Today I'm joined by a very special guest, Fortean expert Tanner Boyle (@TannerFBoyle1) to discuss some early high strangeness, and particularly a lot of the incredibly underdiscussed parapolitical angles to said phenomenon. We discuss the weird figures around the Mothman thing, the factories around Point Pleasant, the backgrounds of people like John Keel, Woodrow Derenberger, and Indrid Cold, and the Lanulos abduction story.

We talk Bosco Nedelcovic, Union Carbide, COINTELPRO, men in black, the Hopkinsville goblins, the Flatwoods Monster, the recurring theme of weird connections between cryptozoology and espionage, and the alien abduction concept. We discuss certain salient aspects of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction, and the truly insane stories of several hypnosis experts.  At the end, we contemplate what's left of these stories and their possible utility as psychological operations.

https://twitter.com/TannerFBoyle1

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-fortean-influence-on-science-fiction/

https://tannerfboyle.substack.com/

Songs:

I Got Abducted by a UFO - the Lillingtons

Hardcore UFOs - Guided By Voices

When You See Those Flying Saucers by the Buchanan Brothers

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - Klaatu

[originally published on Patreon May 3, 2022]

Today I knock out nine Q&A questions. Pretty soon I'll catch up, honestly, then I'll solicit some more. Thanks, everyone, for asking great questions.

Songs:

I Remember by MDC

Sorcery & Sabotage by Church of the Cosmic Skull

[originally published on Patreon Apr 19, 2022; show art was the incredible Anti-Gnostic Action artwork by Dakota which was also sold as t-shirts, stickers, etc.]

I'm joined by Monty again to finish our conversation on the Knights Templar. Monty wraps up the history and we get into the nutty stuff; their post-breakup solo work, as it were. We discuss gnosticism, why everyone wants to be a Templar, Freemasonry, occultic traditions, and how perhaps the entire understanding of the order was a form of fan fiction.

Then, we end the episode with some of the weirder, stranger connections to the Knights Templar in modern times.

art by the harmless individual known as Dakota

Songs:

Templar’s Revenge by Death SS

Knights of the Cross by Grave Digger

[originally published on Patreon Apr 13, 2022]

Today I'm joined by my buddy Monty to discuss the Knights Templar. Monty walks us through the history we know, the history we think we know, and the different categories of theories about what the Templars were all about. 

Today we cover the history, next week we cover the theories about what it all meant.

Songs:

Templars of Steel by HammerFall

Hassan I Sahba by Hawkwind

[originally published on Patreon Apr 5, 2022; Ellroy Boys is now defunct but Apocalypse Confidential is thriving]

Second entry into the Paranoiac Films series, and I'm joined by Blauer (@blauer_geist) of Ellroy Boys and Apocalypse Confidential to discuss the other JFK assassination film, Executive Action (1973). As always, we discuss some of the finer points of the film and weigh the pros and cons of the film on its own. Then we compare and contrast it to Oliver Stone's JFK. 

We discuss the source material, the director, screenwriter, and actors involved, and then talk about Executive Actions, or whacks, as they're also known. Along the way we discuss how we both got into JFK conspiracy culture.

Links:

Apocalypse Confidential - @APOCCON_MAG

https://apocalypse-confidential.com/

https://soundcloud.com/ellroyboys

Songs:

Jack Ruby by Camper Van Beethoven

Who Killed Marilyn? by the Misfits

Bullet by the Misfits

[originally published on Feb 28, 2022]

Today I'm joined by Matt Farwell (@HuntClancy), author of American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan, and the Hunt for Tom Clancy substack, to discuss all kinds of things: gardening, his wild life, Michael Hastings, "fringe information networks", and especially Tom Clancy, "the Rosetta stone...for understanding and interpreting the mad trajectory of America in the late cold war and through the war on terror". We talk about Clancy's ties to the national security state, COG (continuity of government), the Institute for Creative Technologies, all kinds of noided topics. See the links below to find his work.

Links:

https://twitter.com/HuntClancy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://thehuntfortomclancy.substack.com/ 

Songs:

Ya Habibi by Mohamed Ramadan & Gims 

Aameur Yahdar by Cheb Fares

[originally published on Patreon Feb 16, 2022]

Today's a fun one, I'm joined by Stephen Snider aka Recluse of the VISUP blog and the Farm podcast. I pick his brain on William Stephenson and the British Security Coordination for about an hour. We talk honeypots, intelligence, the Beatles and Britpop, the informal British intelligence network in the US before WWII, the networks afterwards like BACC/WCC, and so on. Then we get into Le Cercle and how it plugs into Gladio, the Profumo Affair, and how Epstein's operation ties into these broader orgs.

Recluse's links:

http://visupview.blogspot.com/?m=0

https://www.thefarmpodcast.com/

https://thefarmpodcast.store/

Songs:

Career of Evil - Blue Öyster Cult

Dominance and Submission - Blue Öyster Cult

[originally published on Patreon Jan 25, 2022; for the retarded theory that Guterma was a tulpa, see Penny Royal's episodes]

Joined again by @Boyd_Beaver, today's the final episode on Alexander Guterma, where we discuss how Guterma fit into the Moe Dalitz / Roy Cohn connection. We discuss how exactly how sexually repressed Hoover supposedly was, the DoJ's attacks on the Purple gang / Desert Inn gang, and another Howard Hughes connection. Then we discuss Guterma's deals with Rafael Trujillo, and speculate on why the government's documents on this are still redacted.

This leads us to Guterma's arrest and conviction for a variety of crimes. Interestingly, the feds wanted Guterma to snitch on capital flight from the Soviet Union. Then, we cover how Guterma structured his offshore wealth to hide it from the feds. Guterma tried to break into Resorts International, and then got into Kentucky Coal, doing essentially the same tax writeoff schemes as they did with oil decades prior.

Then we get into underground tunnels - specifically Meyer Lansky's secret tunnels in Michigan. From there, we go Galaxy Brain and discuss how everything is a front. 

Then, Guterma died in a plane crash in 1977 and go over all the connections we still didn't cover (the WCC, Fassoulis, Handsome Johnny), and how Guterma is a skeleton key for the eldritch monster we're up against.