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A fair but irreverent look at some of our most dubious cultural heroes. Written and performed by Richard Sinex (CIA, FBI, ex-NATO Special Forces, Space Force, and Miramax Studios) and William Engels (History of Philosophy Audio Archive).

  1. SAURON INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir Part 1: Peter Thiel Crawls Out of an Apartheid-Era Uranium Mine and into the White House

    12/12/2025

    SAURON INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir Part 1: Peter Thiel Crawls Out of an Apartheid-Era Uranium Mine and into the White House

    SOUND CREDIT: The Chamber Stage (YouTube) Support the boys (Thomas Vanek & Richard Sinex) and I on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@hemlock-yt⁠ Because someone will ask: the Nixon tape is from Feb 1st 1972 and features the Reverend Billy Graham giving his fascinating interpretation of the Jewish Question in the Oval Office. Nixon concludes (its' a little garbled on the tape) by saying "I believe it. I can't say it but I believe it." ⁠https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/662/conversation-662-004⁠ The books in question are "The Contrarian" by Max Chafkin (the better book, for the record) and "The Philosopher in the Valley" by Michael Steinberger. If you are interested in browsing the internet without Palantir et. al. surveilling you, I would highly recommend you look into the Tor Project, and specifically the Tor Browser: https://www.torproject.org/download/

    1h 51m
  2. Duuuuuuuuune (Part 2) - Thomas and Richard Melt Will's Spice-Dusted Brain with Frank Herbert's Cursed Lore [BRM9]

    13/11/2025

    Duuuuuuuuune (Part 2) - Thomas and Richard Melt Will's Spice-Dusted Brain with Frank Herbert's Cursed Lore [BRM9]

    Worm gods, ayahuasca babies, megadeath, the conquest of the universe, gross protuberances, white saviors, seeing the future, declining immortality, accepting immortality, liberating the universe, and most importantly: always keeping the spice flowing. Check us out on YouTube

    2h 13m
  3. Duuuuuuuuune (Part 1) - Thomas and Richard Melt Will's Spice-Dusted Brain with Frank Herbert's Cursed Lore [BRM8]

    01/11/2025

    Duuuuuuuuune (Part 1) - Thomas and Richard Melt Will's Spice-Dusted Brain with Frank Herbert's Cursed Lore [BRM8]

    He who can destroy a thing (Will's sanity) controls a thing. On this episode, Thomas and Richard flap their hands and shriek for 2 hours about Dune and Dune: Messiah lore. If you've only seen the movies (Will) prepare to get dunked on. Arrakis will bloom again.

    1h 54m
  4. 6b Magnolia (1999): A Love Letter - Paul Thomas Anderson's Greatest Film, Fate, Freemasons, Intergenerational Trauma, Pick Up Artists, Aimee Mann, and Why It's Not Going to Stop (Til' You Wise Up)

    26/10/2025

    6b Magnolia (1999): A Love Letter - Paul Thomas Anderson's Greatest Film, Fate, Freemasons, Intergenerational Trauma, Pick Up Artists, Aimee Mann, and Why It's Not Going to Stop (Til' You Wise Up)

    Paul Thomas Anderson made this when he was 28. So did Richard and Will. A celebration of ⁠the greatest movie of our greatest living director.⁠ Hats off to you, man. advisory: child abuse, self-harm, suicide. “Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”―Hafez Music Credits: ⁠Violin version of Habañera by Katy Adelson⁠ ⁠Aria version of Habañera by Deutsch Opera Berlin⁠ ⁠Tom Cruise Leaked Scientology Interview

    1h 26m
  5. 7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp

    06/10/2025

    7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp

    Keep this work free for everyone and unlock my entire corpus for $5 per month on Patreon! Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine. People Mentioned: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers H. P. Blavatsky William Wynn Westcott Aleister Crowley John Dee Edward Kelly A. E. Waite Erich Fromm and Wilhelm Reich References: Douglas Haig, the Battle of the Somme, and Séances "On 20th September 1906, Haig attended a séance with his sister Henrietta where he sought advice as to whether the expansion of the Territorial Army would be more satisfactory on a company or battalions basis. He was advised by the spiritualist a Miss McCreadie to adopt the former rather than the latter. Apparently, when Ms McCreadie gave this advice she was under the control of a native girl called ‘Sunshine’, who had Napoleon by her side. Haig must have found this circumstance most reassuring." Kant's Hilariously Stupid Anthropology of Blackness Crowley Getting Kicked Down the Stairs by W. B. Yeats Victorian Mummy Powder Mahayana Buddhism Lawrence v. Texas (2003) Last Repeal of Anti-Sodomy Law in America The "Lost" Language of Senzar (Blavatsky) Master Hilarion (Also Blavatsky) Nazis Using Pendulums to (Not) Find British Ships Out of their depth. By 1942, British Navy vessels had begun to shift the tide in the Atlantic battlefront, sinking more German U-boats than Hitler’s army could Allied submarines. Scientific progress proved a major factor in Allied dominance, with the development of Radar and Sonar technology significantly upping the odds of locating German vessels in deep water. But Germany Navy officials had a different strategy in mind: U-boat captain Hans Roeder convinced colleagues in arms the British were using pendulums to predict their boats’ location underwater. As an amateur pendulum dowser himself, the enterprising captain established the Pendulum Institute to pinpoint British ships, enlisting pendulum dowsers and occultists from across the country and tasking them with applying their clairvoyant powers to search for British vessels. Results were, unsurprisingly, not altogether successful. Books Mentioned: Perdurabo by Richard Kaczynski The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry By A. E. Waite Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with a Commentary by Sri Swami Satchidanada Aleister Crowley: Liber 777 Eight Lectures on Yoga Konx Om Pax - Light in Extension

    2h 49m
  6. 6a: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master, There Will Be Blood, American Grifters, Bloodoil, Scientology, Solvent Abuse, Time Travel, Brahms, Chopin, Johnnie Greenwood, Radiohead and Milkshake Drinking

    01/10/2025

    6a: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master, There Will Be Blood, American Grifters, Bloodoil, Scientology, Solvent Abuse, Time Travel, Brahms, Chopin, Johnnie Greenwood, Radiohead and Milkshake Drinking

    Kick in on Patreon to support the both of us!⁠ This is the new work. Movies: ⁠The Master (2012)⁠ ⁠There Will Be Blood (2007)⁠ ⁠Magnolia (1999)⁠ ⁠Boogie Nights (1997)⁠ Music: ⁠Violin Concerto in D Major, Movement III Allegro Giocoso by Johannes Brahms⁠ ⁠Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan⁠ Etude Op 10 No 3 in E Major "Tristesse" Composed by Frederic Chopin, (Best) ⁠Performed by Maurizio Pollini⁠ ⁠Song: "No Other Love" by Jo Stafford⁠ -//-No other love can warm my heartNow that I've known the comfort of your armsNo other love, oh the sweet contentmentThat I find with you everytime, everytimeNo other lips could want you moreFor I was born to glory in your kiss, forever yoursI was blessed with love to love youTill the stars burn out above youTill the moon is but a silver shellNo other love, let no other love know the wonder of your spell-//- References For the general conversation of " God wants me to destroy you, obviously" see especially the ⁠Melian Dialogue.⁠ If you want to watch a Scientology documentary I would recommend ⁠Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief⁠ by Alex Gibney (2015).

    2h 40m
  7. #5: Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai Duelist, the Book of the Five Rings, the Way of Combat Strategy, Dokkōdō, Zen, and the Strike from the Void

    26/09/2025

    #5: Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai Duelist, the Book of the Five Rings, the Way of Combat Strategy, Dokkōdō, Zen, and the Strike from the Void

    Come join the Patreon! ⁠https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon⁠ The best version of Musashi in English that I have found is the book The Complete Musashi translated by Alexander Bennett, which is available in audiobook form and is quite short and scholarly to boot. ⁠Goodreads link⁠. Books and Movies: ⁠Silence, Martin Scorsese⁠ ⁠Pi, Darren Aronofsky⁠ ⁠Introduction to Zen Buddhism - D. T. Suzuki⁠ Links: ⁠Eleusinian Mysteries⁠ ⁠Ergotamine (LSD)⁠ ⁠Sekiro (From Software Game)⁠ Music Credit (Drums, Intro/Outro) by RelaxMusicPro on YouTube: ⁠https://youtu.be/M3cJs_m351A⁠ Edit: removed the part where Shogun Richard and I discussed the YouTube parody AI Am a Jedi, which you should look up just in case: ⁠https://youtu.be/v6So-4uvruU

    2h 4m
  8. 4b: The HST Bonus Show: Screwjack, Better Than Sex, Hells Angels, Flesh-Eating Snails, Mescaline, Radical Lawyers, Motorcycles, and Finding the Edge

    15/09/2025

    4b: The HST Bonus Show: Screwjack, Better Than Sex, Hells Angels, Flesh-Eating Snails, Mescaline, Radical Lawyers, Motorcycles, and Finding the Edge

    A truly decadent and indulgent episode for the genuinely twisted wordheads and storyfreaks still crawling on all fives. Cheers, you beautiful bastards. Music by Anapse, track Bisector off Streamsafe Essentials Books Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson Better Than Sex: The Gonzo Papers Vol 4 by Hunter S Thompson Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff by Daniel Joseph Watkins Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Goebbels by Peter Longerich HST's Best Audiobook Narrator: Scott Sower Film Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb Fear and Loathing in Aspen Inherent Vice Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Rum Diary Sundry Fed, Spook, and Military Initiatives COINTELPRO (FBI) MHCHAOS (CIA) Project Plowshare (DARPA)

    1h 10m
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A fair but irreverent look at some of our most dubious cultural heroes. Written and performed by Richard Sinex (CIA, FBI, ex-NATO Special Forces, Space Force, and Miramax Studios) and William Engels (History of Philosophy Audio Archive).

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