[originally published on Patreon Oct 17, 2022] Today's the third of four horror movies for CrackpotoberFest 2022 - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) aka Halloween 6. I'm joined by Blauer (@blauer_geist) to discuss the film. Blauer helps me walk us through the plot to Halloween 6, the cult of Thorn, and especially contextualizes the film within the Halloween franchise as a whole. Then, I discuss the Matamoros cult in relation to the film, and hopefully point out some things which...

[originally published on Patreon Oct 9, 2022; you can also find the episode on Tanner's blog Getting Spooked] Today's the second of four horror movies for CrackpotoberFest 2022 - Ghostwatch (1992), and I'm joined by Fortean expert Tanner Boyle (@TannerFBoyle1) to discuss the film. Tanner walks us through the plot and we discuss the film and its themes, which include spiritualism, baby farming, psychological operations, Jimmy Savile, the Society for Psychical Research, and even, yet again, a...

[originally published on Patreon Oct 1, 2022] Today's the first of four horror (or quasi-horror) films for CrackpotoberFest 2022 - Girl, Interrupted, both the memoir and the film. I discuss Susanna Kaysen and her father, a very interesting figure. I talk about McLean Hospital, Jim Watson, spies at McLean, and Kaysen's later career.  Then, I go over some interesting themes that Girl, Interrupted the film injects into the narrative - some potentially spurious, some maybe not. To wrap up, I...

[originally published on Patreon Sep 23, 2022] Today's the final installment of the Cathar series, dropped a few days early because I'll be busy next week. I finally did it - an Angleton episode. I discuss the life and times of James Jesus Angleton. I argue that there's something new for listeners with any level of Angleton familiarity. I discuss Soviet defectors, the Trust, Kim Philby, Anatoly Golitsyn and Yuri Nosenko, MKULTRA, the Lovestone empire, the Israelis, the USS Liberty, the...

[originally published on Patreon Sep 18, 2022] Today much is revealed including the source of the dissertation I've been using for Cathar research. I discuss Cicely d'Autremont starting with her family history, her early life, her love of James Jesus Angleton, their rocky marriage, the Georgetown Set, and her time in France. Then it becomes Programmed to Chill's Poetry Hour as a I read several of her poems which range from nice to disconcerting. Finally, I reveal exactly why I've been so...

[originally published on Patreon Sep 10, 2022] In part 2 of 4, I revisit and reiterate the Cathars' cosmology and the situation leading up to the Albigensian crusade. Along the way I discuss Thomas Pynchon and his essay on the Luddites. Then I discuss the period of time immediately before and leading up to the Albigensian Crusade, namely two Cistercian preaching missions to the Languedoc. One of these was spearheaded by Bernard of Clairvaux. In particular, I utilize a dissertation which...

[originally published on Patreon Sep 4, 2022] Today's the first of four episodes on the Cathars, a series which is going to be much more relevant to P2C's interests than you might initially think. This episode is very much a straightforward account of the history of the Cathars, their origins and beliefs, an account of the Albigensian Crusade, the inquisition, and and overview of the modern-day neo-Cathar movement, such as it is. Big payoffs in this series in episodes 3 and...

[originally published on Patreon Aug 29, 2022] Today's all about the Simon Necronomicon as explained by the book 'Dead Names', also written by "Simon" aka Peter Levenda. I go through Levenda's early life, as reported by Levenda, which CJ describes as having "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" vibes. I attempt to cross-reference what I can to external sources, and we explore the subterranean world of the wandering bishops. We discuss the Necronomicon text, its purported origins and the...

[originally published on Patreon Jul 18, 2022] Today I'm joined by Flipper (@moonbaseking) to discuss all things sus Beatles. We start by going through the Profumo Affair largely through the lens of the Beatles.  Then we discuss my favorite topic, John Arthur Reid Pepper, dentists, LSD, MKULTRA and parallel programs, and so forth. I explore the Beatles' finances in an attempt to understand why they became the biggest band in the world. That's right - taxes, offshoring, capital gains, stock...

[originally published on Patreon Jul 11, 2022] Today I'm joined by my secret society guy, Monty, to discuss the legacy of the historical Bavarian Illuminati. Monty and I talk about the Illuminati's influence on the French Revolution and trace a direct revolutionary lineage from Weishaupt to Marx. Ultimately, we ask the question, "why was the Illuminati so shitcoated?" Songs: Excerpt from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 La Marseillaise Black Helicopters by Non Phixion Ode to Joy from...

[originally published on Patreon Jul 3, 2022] Today I'm joined by my secret society guy, Monty, to discuss the historical Bavarian Illuminati. Monty takes us through the state of Europe at the time, and we talk about the Jesuits and the Catholic church, the Enlightenment, the Rosicrucians, and so forth. Monty introduces all the main figures of the story - Weishaupt, Knigge, Franck, the goals and structure of the Illuminati, the development of the secret society, and various famous...

[originally published on Patreon Jun 13, 2022] Today I'm joined by Alex Tsakiris (@skeptiko) of Skeptiko for a wide-ranging discussion on a number of topics of mutual interest, including running a podcast and getting to talk to people, science, consciousness, MKULTRA, gifted kids, Whitley Strieber, Epstein, transhumanism, Mirage Men, and so forth. It was very fun. Links: https://skeptiko.com/ Song: Satan is Real by the Louvin Brothers

[originally published on Patreon Jun 6, 2022] Today I'm joined by Matt Farwell (@huntclancy) of the Hunt for Tom Clancy blog to discuss the 1984 film Dreamscape. Dreamscape, as it turns out, is a very weird film, and Farwell and I use it to discuss a wide range of weird things. Songs:  In Dreams by Roy Orbison All I Have to Do is Dream by the Everly Brothers

[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...

[originally published on Patreon May 17, 2022] cw: sexual assault 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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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,...

[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,...

[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...