Best Levi MK Podcasts (2025)

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Farthest Heaven w/ Bill Ballard 1:46:40

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Farthest Heaven is publishing some of the most exciting poetry and (soon!) fiction around today. I got to talk to the First Consul (an in-house naming convention) of Farthest Heaven, Bill Ballard, about book design, finding great authors, his approach to editing, what it means to run a small press, and a whole lot more. I was really looking forward…

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£, flesh and Femoid w/ Aaron Barry 2:27:27

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£, flesh and Femoid are a novella and novel, respectively, written by Aaron Barry and published by McBussy Publishing. Both star poorly-adjusted female leads suffering terminal brainrot, and both are written in a dense, internet-inflected style. In line with both books' preoccupations, this episode we talked about how to write the internet (and wha…

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#132 Pretty Boys Are Poisonous - Megan Fox w/ Aaron Barry aka Jasper Ceylon 2:12:01

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Pretty Boys Are Poisonous (2023) is a poetry collection written by actress Megan Fox. Mostly focusing on her troubled relationship with professional machine-gun Colson Baker, the poems are surprisingly adolescent for a (currently) 39-year-old mother of four. To assist me in parsing these poems, Aaron Barry, aka Jasper Ceylon, joined me for this epi…

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Officeparks w/ Noam Hessler 1:26:51

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Officeparks is a wonderful poetry collection from Noam Hessler, and yet another winner published by Farthest Heaven. Romantic, funny, and shot through with an easy, natural experimentation, Officeparks is a real treat. I'm trying hard not to be too effusive in my praise, in case people think I'm being disingenuous, but these poems really are that g…

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#131 This Hoe Got Roaches in Her Crib - Quan Millz w/ Slater aka Simpulacra 1:21:32

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Quan Millz is a maestro of urban fiction. Since 2017, he has self-published over 70 books and (apparently) made more than $500,000 from titles such as Old THOT Next Door, Pastors Eat Pwussy Too, Pregnant by My Gay Stepdaddy, and, the subject of today's episode, This Hoe Got Roaches in Her Crib. It's a tale of characters who make remarkably poor dec…

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Like You Have a Choice w/ Ivan Niccolai, aka Notes from the Periphery 1:36:49

1M ago1:36:49

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Like You Have a Choice is the first short story collection from Ivan Niccolai, the man behind the Notes from the Periphery Substack. We talk about Melbourne's inner-north, wogs, JG Ballard, Mark Fisher, Nick Land, bilingual writing, watering the driveway on Sunday morning (wogs), accelerationism, lemon trees in the back yard (wogs), illegal satelli…

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#130 Eumeswil - Ernst Jünger w/ Brad Kelly 2:07:07

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Eumeswil (1977) is one of Jünger's final novels, and is bizarre, inscrutable, and wonderful. It is, in many ways, a glassy dramatisation of the second volume of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, and also an introduction to Jünger's archetype of the anarch, a series of odd animal metaphors, a collection of fragmented musings by a survivor o…

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Grendel VVept/Playing God w/ C.P. Serret 1:23:49

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Grendel VVept is a bizarre book that I can kind of describe as Joycean cosmic horror, but that doesn't cover everything. Traveling through time and prose styles, from today to Renaissance Italy to Sumer to ages even more distant, it's disorienting in a fascinating way. Playing God, the other book of Serret's that I read for this episode, is a tight…

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#129 The Decline of the West (Vol. II - Chapters IV-VI) - Oswald Spengler w/ Gabe Sinclair 2:09:30

2M ago2:09:30

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Gabe Sinclair and I talk about the 'Cities and Peoples' section of the second volume of Spengler's The Decline of the West. Cities versus nomads, Spengler's particular definition of race, language, landscape, The Elder Scrolls, and a whole lot more. Gabe on X: @ezrarunnaround Tooky's Mag on X: @tookysmag VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has publishe…

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Sleep Capricorn w/ Jack Norman 1:29:11

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Sleep Capricorn is an absolutely fantastic short story collection by Jack Norman, to be published soon by Bonfire Books. Formally inventive with some of the best prose I've read in years, everyone should go get a copy from www.bonfirebooks.org. Jack on X: @Thingol2006 Jack on Substack: thingol.substack.com VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has publis…

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#128 Cyclomancy: The Secret of Psychic Power Control - Frank Rudolph Young w/ Capitalisimo 2:20:10

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Cyclomancy: The Secret of Psychic Power Control (1966) is a self-help book written to give readers access to their Primal Autoconscious. Why would someone want access to their Primal Autoconscious? Because they want to have psychic powers. And why would anyone want psychic powers? If the examples given in this book are anything to go by, to make su…

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#127 The Decline of the West (Vol. II - Chapters I-III) - Oswald Spengler w/ Gabe 'Faustian Extraordinaire' Sinclair 1:33:05

3M ago1:33:05

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I (Jack) am joined by Gabe of Tooky's Mag to talk about the first three chapters of Spengler's best book: The Decline of the West, volume II. This will hopefully be a semi-regular series where we talk about a few chapters of this book in-depth. Prepare for levels of autism never seen before or since the German Conservative Revolution. Apologies for…

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#126 Welcome to the Desert of the Real - Slavoj Žižek w/ Stephen G Adubato 1:10:14

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Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002) is Slavoj Žižek talking about 9/11 from a Lacanian, Hegelian, Ljubljana-slobber-in-a-stained-Lenin-T-shirt perspective. For this episode, the wonderful Stephen G Adubato of Cracks in Postmodernity helped me navigate Žižek's discursive 'It feels like I'm reading five books at once' style. Cracks in Postmodern…

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Pale Townie/American Cats Are in a Big Country w/ Tom Will 1:22:05

4M ago1:22:05

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Tom Will is a poet who has, among other things, written Pale Townie (Apocalypse Confidential, 2023), a 999-line poem which keeps the heroic couplet end rhymes from Pale Fire (Nabokov/Shade) intact, while transforming the story into something quite different, very Tom Will. He's also recently published American Cats Are in a Big Country (2024, Farth…

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#125 The System's Neatest Trick - Theodore Kaczynski 1:42:07

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Written in prison in 2002, The System's Neatest Trick is an essay from Kaczynski's Technological Slavery. In it, Kaczynski describes how 'the System' - more or less a technological society - redirects the popular frustration caused by its intrusions into human life, and its subversion of the power process. Where does it redirect this frustration? I…

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Book Club from Heaven - Spare Us Yet w/ Lucas Smith 1:12:14

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Spare Us Yet is a short-story collection from Lucas Smith, the Editor-in-chief of Bonfire Books. Each story is a new examination of Christian faith, human fallibility and our ways of finding meaning, and are all well worth your time. Bonfire Books: www.bonfirebooks.org Wiseblood Books: www.wisebloodbooks.com/ Lucas' Substack: https://lucassmith.sub…

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#124 Sex and Character - Otto Weininger w/ Nina Power 1:45:28

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Otto Weininger, at the age of 23, published Sex and Character, an idealist justification for not trusting the cosmic Woman, as well as an extended rumination on genius, sexual compatibility, Judaism, memory, ethics, and logic, all upon the background of his sexual fears. Shortly after the book's tepid critical reception, including accusations of pl…

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The Everlasting w/ Lewis Woolston 1:08:09

5M ago1:08:09

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The Everlasting is an excellent short story collection by Australia's favourite son, Lewis Woolston. Many of these stories are inspired by his upbringing among Jehovah's Witnesses in Western Australia, addiction, working bad jobs to stave off poverty, and, despite everything, having the fortitude to find a place of stability. This is Lewis' second …

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#123 Wake in Fright - Kenneth Cook w/Sini and Fresta from Getting Lit 1:55:15

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Wake in Fright (1961) is an Australian novel about a pushover Sydney city boy's experiences in Broken Hill-inspired Bundanyabba. Here, he loses all of his money gambling, is constantly drunk, knife fights kangaroos, tries to shoot himself, and much more. To help me gush over this sinister and very funny book, I enlisted the help of Matthew Sini and…

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#122 Irene Iddesleigh - Amanda McKittrick Ros 2:03:31

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Financed by her husband as a 10th wedding anniversary present and published in 1897, Irene Iddesleigh is a romance story featuring extremely mercurial characters, bizarre pacing, and the most insane purple prose in existence. Really, The Eye of Argon reads like a physics textbook in comparison. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel …

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#121 The Transmaxxing Manifesto - Vintologi 2:08:32

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Transmaxxing is when natal males make themselves into women in order to live a materially better life. The Transmaxxing Manifesto lays out why men would (that is, should) want to become women, why an essential gender identity doesn't exist, how to 'girl-mode', why men are useless, and how to bring about a global authoritarian transmaxxing state in …

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On High at Red Tide w/ Gabriel Hart 1:20:59

6M ago1:20:59

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On High at Red Tide is a rough, scruffy, lovely, unsettling, surf-noir novel written by Gabriel Hart, a novelist, poet, musician, and reporter (among many things). We got to talk about petrifying trazedone hallucinations, the parallels between alcoholism and possession, meth, why it's always wrong to kill someone, LA subcultures, and a whole lot mo…

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#120 The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud 2:26:58

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Published in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams is one of Sigmund Freud's most significant works and, by extension, one of the most significant works in psychoanalysis, psychology, and the Western conception of the mind. In it, Freud begins with a collection of questions: what are dreams? What can we learn from them? In trying to answer, he ends up…

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After Sunstone w/ Dustin Cole 1:31:01

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Dustin Cole is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer, whose latest chapbook After Sunstone is a lovely examination of seeing, times and places. I actually ended up buying this book on the basis of its cover: it's a great edition, put out by Farthest Heaven. We talked about the link between poetry and time, poetry as a way to sa…

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#119 Drone Disorientations: How 'Unmanned' Weapons Queer the Experience of Killing in War - Cara Daggett 1:54:05

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This article, published in 2015 in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, offers a description of how the experience of piloting hunter-killer UAVs could 'queer' the battlefield and offer possible lines of flight out of heteronormative hierarchies. Poststructuralism meets mainlining hours of war footage on the internet (not really) (yes re…

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The Sleepers w/ Matthew Gasda 47:02

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Matthew Gasda is a director, novelist, playwright, essayist and Memphis horrorcore rapper, who has a novel, The Sleepers, coming out on the 6th of May, 2025. Tightly stage-managed and reading like a thickened play, The Sleepers explores millennial listlessness. This episode doubles as a New York soundscape, Matthew calling in from a cafe and crunch…

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#118 The Eroticising of HIV: Viral Fantasies - Jaime García-Iglesias 2:23:20

7M ago2:23:20

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Jaime García-Iglesias explores the phenomenon of bugchasing from a sociological perspective. And what is bugchasing? According to García-Iglesias, it is the eroticisation of HIV, expressed in many ways: getting pozzed by a detectable giftgiver during bareback sauna sex, masturbating to #poz and #BBBH ('bareback brotherhood') accounts on X, tracing …

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Agonist w/Udith Dematagoda 1:52:04

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Udith Dematagoda is an academic, novelist, musician, editor at Hyperidean Press, and the reincarnated form of Ned Ludd, who, among other things, published a great novel called Agonist last year. An actually experimental experimental novel, Agonist is a rendering of posts and videos from around the internet into a strangely coherent whole. It's much…

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#117 The Futurist Cook Book - Filippo Tomasso Marinetti and Luigi Colombo Fillìa 1:42:12

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Published in 1932, the Futurist Cook Book is part comedy, part manifesto, and all cook book (kind of). Concerned as much with the extra-gustatory as the gustatory aspects of dining, this cook book offers a Futurist, anti-passeist approach to meals, one that embraces the Futurist principles of speed, violence and contempt for women. Most importantly…

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Book Club from Heaven - Echolalia Review w/ Jasper Ceylon 2:51:52

8M ago2:51:52

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We've broken our usual upload schedule for a very special Book Club from Heaven episode. Why? Because Echolalia Review, by Jasper Ceylon, is so painfully funny. Jasper has performed an elaborate poetic hoax: over roughly two years, he wrote a series of poems, 47 of which were published in 30 different poetry journals. The thing is, these poems were…

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Book Club from Heaven - God Is a Killer w/ Max Thrax 1:25:19

8M ago1:25:19

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Max Thrax, managing editor of Apocalypse Confidential and 3rd-century Roman emperor, has written a book called God Is a Killer. An extremely fast-paced noir crime novel, it's great fun to read. Among other things, we talked genre fiction, the differences between noir and hardboiled, JG Ballard, independent publishing, and more. Buy God Is a Killer …

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#116 Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu w/ Alexandru Constantin 2:10:12

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Solenoid is a novel by Romanian novelist, essayist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu. A bizarre work of alternate-timeline autobiography, Solenoid is the diary of M.C., and details his attempts to escape from his life through dream magic, hypercube contemplation, scabies-mite transfiguration, solenoid levitation, tuberculosis recuperation, and much, much …

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Book Club from Heaven - The Raft w/ Phil Rot 1:45:00

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The Raft is an extremely funny micronovel by Phil Rot, Philip Roth's ghost-operated online nom de plume. You (yes, you, the one reading right now) should buy and read it. Buy The Raft on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ5PV8BX Phil's Book Recommendations The Amazonian Uteroboscus - BL Overman Behead all Satans - NMN-DR The Call of Horror serie…

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#115 Trump: Modern Shaman: Understanding His Mastery of Influence and Enchantment - Leo Van 1:18:29

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Ed returns for an episode! Leo Van is an engineer-turned-shaman who knows some of Ed and my (Jack's) friends. In this book, published shortly before the 2024 American Presidential election, Van analyses Trump from the perspective of Amazonian shamanism, describing him as an unwitting 'brujo rojo', a practitioner of both black and white magic. I was…

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Book Club from Heaven - Remembering the Dead w/ Lewis Woolston 1:21:42

9M ago1:21:42

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Lewis Woolston is a cryptid (Australian) living in Facebookistan (South Australia) who has written two lovely collections of short stories, Remembering the Dead and Other Stories and The Last Free Man and Other Stories. This episode, we talked about Remembering the Dead, regret, ageing, loss, family, NA, and more. Read his books, they're great. Buy…

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#114 Democracy: The God That Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe w/ Gabe Sinclair 3:56:10

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Hans-Herman Hoppe is a German-born economist of the Austrian School, an anarcho-capitalist, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada and, as the title of this book would suggest, not a democracy enjoyer. Considered a seminal work by, among others, NRx luminaries such as Mencious Moldbug and Nick Land, Democracy: The God That Fail…

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Book Club from Heaven - Incurable Graphomania w/ Anna Krivolapova 2:26:50

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Incurable Graphomania is a collection of bleakly funny short stories by Anna Krivalopova (not Anna Khachyan). We got to talk about Russia, being talked to by telecommunication towers, cat food, grindcore, and much more, before she had to make a sudden and mysterious exit--intriguing, elusive, maintaining frame. You should buy Incurable Graphomania:…

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#113 Fiat Food - Matthew Lysiak 5:05:45

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Without sound money, governments can expand the supply of cuckbucks (fiat currency) willy-nilly. In Fiat Food (2023), Lysiak details how monetary expansion has led to the American 'fiat food' diet of vegetable-based, food-adjacent slop. And how do we escape from the clutches of fiat food? With Bitcoin and red meat. Shout out to orangepill luminary …

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Book Club from Heaven - Slacker Genesis/Mixtape Hyperborea w/ Adem Luz Rienspects 1:54:22

10M ago1:54:22

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Adem is an author and audio documentarian (I guess?) whose work is characterised by, above all, a bracing honesty. Mixtape Hyperborea (2023) is a novel about high school, and Slacker Genesis is an audio collage (for lack of a better term) about relationships, faith, hypocrisy, friendship, failure and forgiveness. Both works are well worth checking …

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#112 The Power of the Pussy: Get What You Want From Men: Love, Respect, Commitment and More! - Kara King 2:34:02

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Men won't commit and women don't need to accept this. Why? They have the power of the pussy. Relationship books for women are a whole lot less gross than the ones for men, but also much less funny. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sideshe…

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Book Club from Heaven - Dragon Day/The Black Album w/ Matt Pegas 1:59:27

10M ago1:59:27

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Matt Pegas is an author, podcaster and soon-to-be publisher. We talked about his books Dragon Day and The Black Album, about order from chaos, about being and becoming, about Alexander Dugin, about Ernst Junger, about the occult, about the importance of ritual, and much more. Matt's Books: Dragon Day: https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Day-Matthew-Pegas…

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#111 Erowid.org 1:49:59

10M ago1:49:59

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Erowid.org is the Internet's most comprehensive and fun encyclopaedia of recreational drugs. If you aren't ordering research chemicals from a shady online Russian pharmacy and using them to commune with tree demons at a bush doof, then you aren't really living. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.…

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2024 Review 3:02:46

11M ago3:02:46

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We look back on 2024. NB: during the Patreon shoutouts, I can't remember if I gave a shoutout to Robert/Fake Gamer Boy. Shout out to Robert! Also shout out to Trent, our grouchiest OG. We're going to be taking a break for a few weeks, new episodes again from mid-January 2025. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazo…

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#110 The Concept of the Political - Carl Schmitt w/ Dr Jon Wittrock 1:48:41

11M ago1:48:41

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Carl Schmitt was a German legal philosopher who is probably most famous for joining the Nazi Party in 1933. He's also extremely influential in legal and political philosophy, and only growing more so, on both the illiberal left and right. He remains one of the most interesting critics of liberalism, and we were lucky enough to have Dr Jon Wittrock …

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Book Club from Heaven - House of Sleep w/ Brad Kelly 2:02:39

12M ago2:02:39

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Many of you probably know Brad Kelly as one half of the Art of Darkness podcast. Here, we talk about his 'psy-fi' novel 'House of Sleep', as well as tarot, the spookiness of literary communication, psychedelics, outsider art, and much more. I had a great time talking to Brad, and hope he comes on again soon. Brad's Recommendations God’s Dog - Andre…

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#109 The Sigma Male Bible - Bud Watson 1:40:44

12M ago1:40:44

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In the socio-sexual hierarchy of men (sorry, males), the sigma is a lone wolf, capable of being a dominant alpha, but choosing a life of mystery, solitude and 'tasteful rebellion'. The Sigma Male Bible (2021) teaches readers how to become this rarest of males. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://www.a…

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Book Club from Heaven - Quarterlives w/ Cairo Smith 1:42:54

1y ago1:42:54

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Cairo Smith is an author and filmmaker. We got to talk about his latest short story collection Quarterlives, the literary new wave, didacticism in fiction, and much more. Quarterlives: https://www.amazon.com/Quarterlives-Cairo-Smith-ebook/dp/B0DJPZDH91?ref_=ast_author_dp Futurist Letters: https://www.futuristletters.com/ X: @cairoasmith Cairo's Web…

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#108 Pro-Ana w/ Katherine Dee 1:30:50

1y ago1:30:50

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For this episode, we were joined by the reigning Empress of Internet Anthropology, Katherine Dee! Pro-ana, or pro-anorexia, is a largely-online subculture based on the experience of anorexia nervosa. At times promoting this illness, at times offering a refuge for those struggling with eating disorders, the broader eating disorder subcultures offer …

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Book Club from Heaven w/ Postliberal Book Reviews 3:02:14

1y ago3:02:14

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Postliberal Book Reviews writes, surprisingly, book reviews from a Catholic, post-Vatican II, postliberal perspective. Being less flippant, he writes very thoughtful reviews of both fictional and non-fictional works, and everyone here should check out his Substack page. Travis' Recommendations The Neighbour - Caleb Caudell Nutcrankr - Dan Baltic In…

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#107 Moon People - Dale Courtney 1:42:57

1y ago1:42:57

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Moon people, published in 2008, is, in many ways, the sci-fi equivalent of The Eye of Argon. Bizarre plotting, even more bizarre characters, and, most importantly, it's oddly charming. Buy Moon People https://www.amazon.com/Moon-People-Dale-M-Courtney/dp/1436372135 VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel called Tower! Amazon: https://…