Exploring connections in high strangeness, fringe culture and the occult
Episodes
Monday Jun 08, 2026
Monday Jun 08, 2026
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Enter the Backrooms with CU... or take a field trip with Aaron Burr to Greenwich village??? A discussion of the new horror film, some bizarre synchronicities, Vile Vortices and The Jefferson Market Triangle in NYC, Eugenia Macer-Story's prescient paranormal theories, AI-critical cinema, Aleister Crowley and Roddie Minor's portal opening Amalantrah Working, LAM the ultraterrestrial wizard and more!
Monday Jun 01, 2026
Monday Jun 01, 2026
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The Gateway closes... or is it forever open? The final installment in our loose series of discussions of the works of Robert Monroe and his out of body experience trilogy, culminating in Ultimate Journey, a bizarre chronicle of his later travels in the astral realm. Is he a CIA plant, a shaman, a sci-fi author in disguise? Find out here.
Tuesday May 26, 2026
Tuesday May 26, 2026
Alien radio waves caught in the Consensus Unreality net…. translating… it’s a new episode on contactee and influential ufologist George Hunt Williamson, the Zodiac fanzine connection in Jarett Kobek’s How to Find Zodiac, Philip K Dick’s late career scrapped opus Radio Free Albemuth, and more!
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Saturday May 16, 2026
Saturday May 16, 2026
Live from the empire which never ended... an episode about time, its (non)existence, the Exegesis of Philip K Dick and its relevance to our moment (which is the same moment as ever), Nick Land's time-war theories, the many worlds theory, CERN, and a brief eulogy for a recent loss in the weird podcast community. Hurry and listen!
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Monday May 04, 2026
Monday May 04, 2026
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The mind behind the music and performance project Coteries, Erick Van Ficken, joins Dave again for a sprawling conversation on magic, ritual and living the many lives. Erick brings a great wealth of stories on new methods to scrying and divination, tales of urban exploration and antique picking and endlessly haunted zones. Another enchanted conversation, never to be missed!
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
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In this interview we spoke with the excellent zine maker and occultist Nynnmah. We unraveled streams of inspiration and divination in creating miniature cosmologies on paper. Nynnmah describes her works as an exploration of myth and the process of soul-making through the creative act. Her works include: Psychosexual and Esoteric Symbolism in Nosferatu, On Unicorns, Phantasms of Eros, Emblematic Monstrosities, Anatomy of Descent and Dweller on The Threshold and can be found at the link below.
https://linktr.ee/nynnmah
Intro music by Treatment
https://treatmentforu.bandcamp.com/
Thursday Apr 23, 2026
Thursday Apr 23, 2026
The first in our new "Phasing" series of short audio and video. Alongside our weekly full length episodes we'll provide our shorts revisiting subjects often mentioned on the show. First up: Gray Barker's important novelistic report on the Mothman happenings of 1967, The Silver Bridge, and why it shows how much weirder that folklore is than we give it credit for today. Your Mothman plushie might be a thoughtform... or a big, oily bird.
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Sunday Apr 12, 2026
Sunday Apr 12, 2026
The moon is in the news again! In this episode, however, we talk two stories by Izumi Suzuki, one by Arkady Strugatski, and meditate on the unfurling world around us. Plus we briefly revisit The Book of the Law and some thoughts on Crowley and his legacy as his name makes yet another cycle of rounds in the occultural sphere. Terminal boredom, the difference between life and cybernetic construct, living in someone else’s dream, and more. The voice of the void is speaking to you from the dark reaches of space.
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Sunday Apr 05, 2026
Sunday Apr 05, 2026
In this episode we touch on recent sci fi reads: "The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick, "The Man Who Would Not" by James E. Gunn and "You May Dream" Izumi Suzuki. We explore some diverse themes including sentient AI, reality refraction, simulacra and first contact. We also chat on the poetry of Kenneth Grant, and speculate on many avenues of weirdness. A classic patreon ramble.
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Monday Mar 30, 2026
Monday Mar 30, 2026
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Watch what you say in the forest, you don't know what you're feeding. In this conversation on Bogna Konior's book The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet, we talk about living in an age of strategic secrecy, ufological allegory, and hidden AI game theory mind control. Does this experiment in extreme nihilism reflect our current moment? Listen to find out.