The Wetwired take on Bezos’ glam astronauts, Nancy Pelosi refusing to release her wrinkled grip on the other well-heeled corporate Democrats, and the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang model of California politics.

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In the time we prepared to record this episode, Trump announced the insane tariff policy, so we had to update everything. Then we recorded and right afterward, he put it all on hold. By the time you listen to this, the stock market will have zeroed out, and we'll be staking out our new freehold on Greenland.

Music:

Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY)

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While the Signalgate drama has been playing out across the news shows and editorial pages, the Trump administration has also mostly quietly continued to disappear as many people as possible.

In addition to snatching up student visa holders who have the gall to criticize genocidal Zionists, ICE, with the help of some State officials, is also targeting Chinese nationals studying and working in the US.

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Last time, we talked with Gabriel Kennedy about his exceptional biography of Robert Anton Wilson. This time, we're talking about an insane chapter in post WWII history—one that also captured Wilson’s interest.

And that would be Propaganda Due.

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Propaganda Due (P2) was originally a Masonic lodge established in 1877 under the Grand Orient of Italy, adhering to Continental Freemasonry traditions. In 1976, its Masonic charter was revoked, and under the leadership of Licio Gelli, it evolved into an illegal, clandestine organization. 

P2 operated as a radical right-wing, anti-communist, anti-Soviet, and anti-Marxist secret society, violating Article 18 of the Italian Constitution, which prohibited such secret associations. Gelli continued to run the unaffiliated lodge from 1976 to 1984. 

P2 was linked to numerous crimes and scandals in Italy, including the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano (associated with the Holy See), the murders of journalist Carmine Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi, and widespread political corruption during the Tangentopoli bribery scandal. The organization's activities were exposed during investigations into the downfall of Michele Sindona's financial empire.

Gabriel Kennedy

https://chapelperilous.us

https://bsky.app/profile/propanon.bsky.social

Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson

https://a.co/d/dSvGVWh

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Kevin Hartnell - Tree of Tears (CC-BY)

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We could be talking about Trump punishing Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy with a humiliation ritual in the White House. Or we could talk about all the NAZI salutes at CPAC this year.

Instead, we’re escaping from the political brush fire to the world of movies. Just a few days after the Oscars, you might think we’d want to talk about any of the award winning films from the last year.

But you would be wrong.

No, we’re looking at a movie that was released in exactly one theater, Apple TV’s streaming hit, The Gorge.

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The troubling history of the FBI encouraging mass shooters and the outing of a White supremacist US ICE prosecutor.

Some reading:

https://booty.substack.com/p/prior-contact-between-mass-shooters

https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

Child computer engineers, raised on effective altruism and Groyper memes, have invaded nearly every agency and department in the US government.

They're accessing personnel information, rewriting code in the Treasury Department's computer system, and executing Trump's 19th century vision of small government.

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Today we have independent reporter on the extremism beat, Teddy Wilson, returning to join us to talk about how supporters of one of the historically most unpopular presidents (at least according to a Gallup poll) in the history of the US are reacting to his reelection.

Unfortunately, the US isn’t the only home for far-right extremism. It also isn’t the only place where extremists have cheered for Trump’s reelection.

Teddy Wilson's links:

https://www.radicalreports.org/

https://bsky.app/profile/reportbywilson.bsky.social

https://x.com/reportbywilson

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In the early 2000s, so many Boomers and Gen-Xers had their brains melted by a movie that blended legitimate critique of religion, the economy, and US politics with full on 9/11 truther, Sov Cit, New World Order conspiracy theories.

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Stephanie Kemmerer joins us to talk about Zeitgeist, Trump in 2016 and now, and how she got a hold of an early 20th century Templar sword.

Stephanie is a freelance writer and heads up Discussing Our Unusual Beliefs Together, D.O.U.B.T. She’s an outreach volunteer for HONR Network.

Once in the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories herself, Stephanie now works to communicate to pilled folks and those who’ve come back through the looking glass by debunking conspiracy theories and supporting those walking away.

Stephanie's links:

American Information Integrity Alliance: https://infointegrity.us/

HONR Network: http://www.honrnetwork.org

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/intothestewniverse

Adventures in HellwQrld podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZpUDJgTgJIAliDOeuhRKN

Twitter: https://x.com/StephInDOUBT

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/doubtisthewayout.bsky.social

**UNLOCKED**

Wilson, or RAW, was maybe one of the more prolific authors of the twentieth century, not only in terms of just the sheer number of words he put on pages, but in the intensity and the complexity of the thoughts he was expressing.

Despite all that work, he’s still somehow largely unknown to the public.

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Robert Anton Wilson has been introduced as a stand-up philosopher and a sit-down comic. He edited Playboy in the 1960s, co-authored Illuminatus, wrote Cosmic Trigger, the Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy, Prometheus Rising, and too many others to mention in this short introduction.

He did all this while helping to raise a family, dropping acid, speaking to crowds all over the US and Europe, and rubbing elbows with some of the most illuminated people in the Western world.

RAW continues to stand out among other philosophers and thinkers because as intelligent and insightful as he was, he never seemed like he was presenting the last word on a subject.

With that ground laid, I would like to welcome our show, Gabriel Kennedy, author of the recently published, and the first biography of Wilson, Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson.

Buy Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilsonhttps://www.amazon.com/Chapel-Perilous-T…ook/dp/B0DHV9PLTX

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chapelperilous.us/

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