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Explore culture, parapolitics and high weirdness with Recluse, the longtime curator of the legendary VISUP blog (visupview.blogspot.com). After cutting his teeth in the synchro-mystical movement, Recluse developed a novel approach to parapolitics that emphasizes both hard research with a reluctant acceptance of Fortean (and Saturnine) currents. He is also the author of Strange Tales of the Parapolitical: Postwar Nazis, Mercenaries, and Other Secret History (along with Frank Zero, the original host of The Farm) and A Special Relationship: Trump, Epstein, and the Secret History of the Anglo-American Establishment Book I. He has a forthcoming work, due in 2022, dealing with the history of Discordianism, state-sanctioned behavioral moficification programs, and conspiracy theories. The Farm podcast produces highly quality, in-depth, weekly shows in the long form. Free, public shows are posted here every Monday while patrons to get two additional, exclusive shows on the 1st and 16th of each month.
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The Farm Podcast Mach II Recluse

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 107 Ratings

Explore culture, parapolitics and high weirdness with Recluse, the longtime curator of the legendary VISUP blog (visupview.blogspot.com). After cutting his teeth in the synchro-mystical movement, Recluse developed a novel approach to parapolitics that emphasizes both hard research with a reluctant acceptance of Fortean (and Saturnine) currents. He is also the author of Strange Tales of the Parapolitical: Postwar Nazis, Mercenaries, and Other Secret History (along with Frank Zero, the original host of The Farm) and A Special Relationship: Trump, Epstein, and the Secret History of the Anglo-American Establishment Book I. He has a forthcoming work, due in 2022, dealing with the history of Discordianism, state-sanctioned behavioral moficification programs, and conspiracy theories. The Farm podcast produces highly quality, in-depth, weekly shows in the long form. Free, public shows are posted here every Monday while patrons to get two additional, exclusive shows on the 1st and 16th of each month.
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    Invoking the Blair Witch w/Colin Kerris & Recluse

    Invoking the Blair Witch w/Colin Kerris & Recluse

    Blair Witch Project, found footage genre, blurring of reality, Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick, Black Hills, Burkittsville, Maryland, high weirdness before and after movie, Blair Witch Project II: Book of Shadows, Joe Berlinger, Paradise Lost, college professors embedded in paranormal groups, mind control, Blair Witch III
    Music by: Keith Allen Dennis
    https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/
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    • 1 hr 5 min
    Albacore Mysteries: Sunset Boulevard w/ J.G. Michael & Recluse

    Albacore Mysteries: Sunset Boulevard w/ J.G. Michael & Recluse

    Sunset Boulevard, Donald Trump, Billy Wilder, Wilder's career, film noir, how to classify Sunset Boulevard, Sunset as a horror film, the organ grinder's monkey, Mank, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Hollywood lore, Black Dahlia murder, Elizabeth Short, references to the Black Dahlia murder in Sunset Boulevard, William Desmond Taylor, Taylor's murder, Mabel Norman, the murders/shootings surrounding Norman, Mary Miles Minter, Thomas Ince, Ince's strange death, William Randolph Hearst, Gloria Swanson, Joseph P. Kennedy, Swanson's affair with JPK, Erich von Stroheim, Stroheim's notorious productions, was Stroheim making pornography?, pornography and honeypots in early Hollywood, Mack Sennett, the Tuna Club of Avalon, Catalina Island, the Tuna Club's possible role in sexual blackmail, Sunset Boulevard's subtle references to sexual blackmail, Peter Ivers, the bizarre parallels to Sunset and Ivers' murder, David Lynch, Inserts, pornography in early Hollywood
    Music by: Keith Allen Dennis
    https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/
    Additional Music by: the Four Tops
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    • 1 hr 9 min
    Oz's Curse, Carpenter's Madness & Cinema's Gnostic Golden Age w/ Robert W. Sullivan IV & Recluse

    Oz's Curse, Carpenter's Madness & Cinema's Gnostic Golden Age w/ Robert W. Sullivan IV & Recluse

    The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum ,the Oz curse, the political allegory in Oz, gold standard, Greenbacks, Free Silver, William Jennings Bryan, Oz as allegory for Mystery tradition, Aleister Crowley, numerology, 93, 777, 42, Gnosticism, Wounded Knee, 1893 Chicago World Fair, Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz, Barbie, Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut, In the Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter, Bailides, eXitenz, Phantasm V, occult casting in Madness, who really wrote Madness, Cybernetic Cultural Research Unit (CCRU), Madness as hyperstition/theory-fiction, Madness as harbinger of Gnostic "golden age in cinema, Madness in the context of Carpenter's "apocalypse trilogy, JFK
    Music by: Keith Allen Dennis
    https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/
    Additional Music by: J. Money
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    • 1 hr 27 min
    Unraveling the Octopus w/ Jeremy Kuzmarov & Recluse

    Unraveling the Octopus w/ Jeremy Kuzmarov & Recluse

    American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders, "The Octopus," Danny Casolaro, Bill Hamilton, Inslaw, PROMIS software, CIA, financial tracking, "back door," Fred Alvarez, Cabazon Indian Reservation, Wackenhut, Michael Riconosciuto, drug trafficking, Casolaro's "suicide", Mark Lombardi, Interloc, Sissy Farenthold, Jonathan Beaty, the Lombardi-Casolaro connection, Nugan Hand, Australia, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, Jim Keith, Kenn Thomas, Keith's strange death, Burning Man, J. Orlin Grabbe, Grabbe's disappearance, Zachary Treitz, Christian Hansen, Ann Klenk, Robert Maxwell, Maxwell's death, Robert Booth Nichols, Sam Israel, the Golden Lilly, Ted Gunderson, Gunderson's links to Nichols, Tray Casolaro
    Music by: Keith Allen Dennis
    https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/
    Additional Music by: Double Veteran
    https://flnoise.bandcamp.com/album/double-veteran
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    • 53 min
    The Hoffa Mysteries IV w/ Steve Kopesky & Recluse

    The Hoffa Mysteries IV w/ Steve Kopesky & Recluse

    Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, the best suspects for Hoffa's likely murder, why Hoffa's body was never found, faux mafia hitmen, Donald "Tony the Greek" Frankos, Giant's stadium, Playboy, Detroit Partnership, Russell Bufalino, Frank Sheeran, the Syndicate, James Hoffa Jr., right wing populism, Bernie Sanders, recent Teamster politics, Lyndon LaRouche, the LaRouche organization, LaRouche infiltration of the Teamsters, Roy Cohn, UPS, recent Teamster politics, Robert DeNiro, The Irishman, Hoffa, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Nicholson vs Pacino as Hoffa
    Music by: Keith Allen Dennis
    https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/
    Additional Music by: Double Veteran
    https://flnoise.bandcamp.com/album/double-veteran
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    • 1 hr 14 min
    The Hoffa Mysteries III w/ Steve Kopesky & Recluse

    The Hoffa Mysteries III w/ Steve Kopesky & Recluse

    Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters, the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), Bay of Pigs, JFK, RICO Act, the Syndicate, Detroit Partnership, Russell Bufalino, Philadelphia mafia, Philadelphia mob wars, the Chicago Outfit, the Five Families, political intrigues of the Syndicate outside of New York, the mafia in New Orleans, the gangsterization of labor unions, Hoffa's incarceration, Frank Fitzsimons, Richard Nixon, the Teamsters and Nixon, Hoffa's disappearance
    Music by: Keith Allen Dennis
    https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/
    Additional Music by: Matt Baldwin
    https://psychicarts.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-psychology
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    • 1 hr 32 min

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107 Ratings

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Awesome show

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unfortunate

great podcast but really poor mic quality + huge difference in volume between host/guest in many episodes make them unlistenable

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