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Premium 23 - Q&A 6 - Y2K, the Lincoln Assassination, Ferguson, Freemasonic Basketball, Crime Novels, and the Cultic Milieu Apr 17, 2024

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[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

Premium Episode 22 - the Knights Templar: the Guns ‘n Roses of Secret Societies, pt. 2 - the Weird Stuff, feat. Monty Apr 16, 2024

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[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

Premium Episode 21 - the Knights Templar: the Guns ‘n Roses of Secret Societies, pt. 1 - the History, feat. Monty Apr 15, 2024

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[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

Premium Episode 20, Paranoiac Films 2 - Executive Action, or, Getting Dome, Getting Domed: the Other JFK Assassination Film, feat. Blauer Apr 14, 2024

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[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

Bonus Episode 16: Novels as Spycraft pt. 6: Tom Clancy, the National Security State's Insurance Salesman, feat. Matt Farwell's The Hunt for Tom Clancy Apr 13, 2024

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[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

Bonus Episode 15: Programmed to Farm: British Intelligence, Honeypots, WCC, Le Cercle, Gladio, JFK, and Profumo, feat. Recluse Apr 12, 2024

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[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

Bonus Episode 11 - “Everything around here is a front for something”: the Life and Times of Alexander Guterma pt. 3, feat. Boyd Beaver Apr 11, 2024

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[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.

Bonus Episode 10 - The Neverending Rabbit Hole: the Life and Times of Alexander Guterma pt. 2, feat. Boyd Beaver Apr 10, 2024

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[originally published on Patreon Jan 20, 2022; for the retarded theory that Guterma was a tulpa, see Penny Royal's episodes]

Boyd and I go through the rest of Guterma's business holdings. This included United Chemical and Dye, which leads us right into the nexus of the RFK Department of Justice's proxy war against IG Farben via General Aniline and Film Corporation, as well as their fight against the mafia, Hoffa, and Roy Cohn. Sam Garfield comes back up which links to Big Oil, as well as Ted Llewellyn, as well as Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson.

Along the way, we touch on political blackmail rings, Resorts International, diamond mining, and Llewellyn's network of nightclubs in the US, the Philippines and Japan, the Roswell connection, Uranium trading. Howard Hughes, gunrunning, drug trafficking in Japan, the Connecticut connection, and Trevor Moore.

Songs:

Birthday Cake for Everyone by My Name is Ian

US Mills - the Mountain Goats

It's Time for Guillotines by Trevor Moore

Bonus Episode 09 - Why the Economy is Not Real: the Life and Times of Alexander Guterma pt. 1, feat. Boyd Beaver Apr 09, 2024

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[originally published on Patreon Jan 12, 2022; for the retarded theory that Guterma was a tulpa, see Penny Royal's episodes instead]

Part 1 of 3:

Today I'm joined by a very special guest, Boyd Beaver (@Boyd_Beaver) to discuss one of the weirdest figures in modern history, Alexander Guterma, who was a con man, businessman, figure involved in organized crime, and intelligence asset.

We discuss Isaiah Leebove, Sam Garfield, and the Purple Gang before Boyd establishes (conclusively, in my opinion) Guterma's origins as a Russian Jew whose family resettled in Manchuria. Then, we talk about Guterma's misadventures in China, Hawaii, and the Philippines before Guterma's eventual arrival in Florida. We discuss the nature of collaboration with the Japanese, his contacts with intelligence, and why this would be significant.

Guterma resettled to Florida, and we discuss kenaf at length, and then the long and surprising list of companies he managed to acquire, including the spooked up Hal Roach film studio, and a radio network. All of this leads us to hypothesize that the economy is simply not real.

Songs (largely curated by Boyd Beaver):

Premium 19 - Immanuel Velikovsky: Heresy, Freud, Catastrophism, Spies, Psychological Operations, and the Occult Apr 08, 2024

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[originally published on Patreon

Today I go through the life and times of Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the most interesting figures in recent times. I discuss the importance of Freud to Velikovsky's works, and the main themes of Worlds in Collision. I discuss Einstein's relationship to Velikovsky, and Velikovsky's network of followers. While this is probably not the final word on Velikovsky, I think I come to a pretty grounded explanation of how and why the Velikovsky affair got so out of hand, and why Catastrophists and New Chronologists all seem to be spooks and occultists.

Songs:

Saturn by Sufjan Stevens

Venus by Frankie Avalon

For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield

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