The Post Relevant Podcast Phil Ristaino

The Post Relevant Podcast has yet once again re-returned with the actual real and proper beginning of season 2!   Episode 23 phones it in from across the seas as host Phil Ristaino is joined by his old experimental theater buddy and co-creator of the Post Relevant Manifesto Yehuda Duenyas.  Yehuda is an actor, director, and intimacy coordinator who paid his dues in the NYC downtown theater scene creating wild theatrical experiences with his former company the National Theater of the United States of America.  But before that, he and Phil were part of a short-lived, nearly-legendary theater group called C. and Hammermill, making radical happenings in NYC, upstate NY, and PA, eventually culminating in a 3 month stint in the mid Nineties crawling the streets of Prague in the Czech Republic with a 12 day long epic theatrical extravaganza and performing in the legendary Roxy theater.  

At some point in their Czech adventures, in the back of a bar in Prague in 1994, Phil and Yehuda sat down and wrote out the Post Relevant Manifesto, a Bob Dobbsian declaration to End Construction which eventually inspired the creation of this here podcast.  WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE POST RELEVANT!

Have a few shots of absinthe and freak out as Phil and Yehuda talk about not using husband pillows, what its like to walk on top of shoes made of triangles, how tricky it was to buy hash on a boat, why you shouldn't camp in a bush made of nettles, and, eventually, just what the hell were the two of them thinking when they dared to scribe the incendiary and quickly forgotten Post Relevant Manifesto.  We find out who wrote what, sort of.  

All this, plus Hoody rides a bike in Paris AND talks on the phone!  Ooh La La!  

Find out more about Yehuda by going to www.xxxyehuda.com.  Learn more about Yehuda's organization Cinematic Intimacy Artists by going to CINTIMA.co

Hear the entire first season of the Post Relevant Podcast, where we decode the symbol-laden hipster noir film "Under the Silver Lake," by going to www.PostRelevant.com

Click on the merch button at www.PostRelevant.com check out 5 new PRP T-shirt designs created by Phil.

Support the podcast by donating at www.patreon.com/postrelevant

Check out Phil's acting, art and music at www.TheseAreDreams.com

Contact Phil on Instagram, and check out the full 5D experience by going to www.instagram.com/philristaino

The Post Relevant Podcast theme song was written by Allen Towbin and Phil Ristaino, aka Agents of Venus.  You can hear their full length album "Boduvt" by going to https://agentsofvenus.bandcamp.com

This episode was scored with the music of Jonas the Plug Expert.  Songs include "Pling Plong," "Yugk," "CFD," "Tipdeuntje," "Stap," and "Val."  All music was found on www.freemusicarchive.org -- check out Jonas' page at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/jonas_the_plugexpert


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Happy 2023!   Welcome to Season 2 of the Post Relevant Podcast.  Your host Phil Ristaino here.

Sync up your TV or computer or home theater with this episode, because we've recorded a watch-a-long to explain the A24 hipster-bizarro-noir "Under the Silver Lake."   I know, I know, I said I was done with explaining the movie...and I am...but brother Andy and I thought it would be a cool thing to record this last gasp to ring in the new year and put the final stamp on my 21 episode explanation of this brilliant symbolist film.  Honestly, I could probably do 21 more episodes just trying to get this movie right, so stop me now, before I go insane....

Season 2 of the PRP offers lots of new experiences for you podcast fans who love a full on Post Relevant 5D experience:

1.  There's a new website that will be the home for the show -- www.PostRelevant.com -- its rad.

2. This show features a brand new theme song, written by Phil and guitarist/producer Allen Towbin, aka The Crawfthsmen, aka Agents of Venus.  It is also majorly rad.

3.  PRP merch to come in the near future.  My prediction for the merch is it will be bad-rad.  And bad meaning 'good.'

4. Future Season 2 episodes will have a whole new approach, ranging from serious-style real interviews with fascinating weirdos from the Arts and Esoterica to comedy-style fake interviews with actors and improvisors that still explore cool ideas like ETs, magic, other dimensions, conspiracy, you name it.  And don't worry, the serious-style interviews won't be too serious.  There will also be shows exploring music and music festivals, the origins of the Post Relevant Movement, live free style raps, and lots more.  Every episode will still have the dense, imaginative production style you've come to enjoy from the show.  I hope you will stick around and dig in to all the auditory goodness.

Thanks for listening to the Post Relevant Podcast!  Super-psyched to go on this whole new boogaloo with all y'all....

Support the show!  No commercials means we need your help to keep making the cast.  Go to www.patreon.com/postrelevant to donate.

Learn more about the Post Relevant Podcast by going to www.postrelevant.com

See tons of samples of Phil Ristaino's acting, art, and music at his website www.TheseAreDreams.com

Check out all the posters, lyrics, videos and more for the show at Phil's instagram www.instagram.com/philristaino

See all of Andy Ristaino's amazing illustrations, comics and character designs at www.AndyRistaino.com

Theme song for the show was created by Agents of Venus - get their album "Boduvt" at https://agentsofvenus.bandcamp.com

The songs "You're Magic," "Game On," and "Horizon Ending" featured on the show were created by Soft and Furious.  You can find their music at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soft_and_Furious

You can contact Phil @philristaino on Facebook and Instagram or at phil@postrelevant.com


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Ahoy, Post-Relevanteers!  We be steerin' the 'cast into our final destination, and quite a heavenly body is she.  She be the most Silvery of Lakes....

Welcome back to the final installment of our season long decode of the film "Under the Silver Lake." We've dog-paddled all the way to the surface of the moon, the first heaven, finding ourselves washed up on a strange and shining midnight shore.

Host Phil Ristaino and returning champ Andy Ristaino sit down in Treebeard Manor to peer through the many watery layers of truth and into the portals to the underworlds, the overworlds, and all the liminal spaces betwixt. You are in for another 3 hours of infotainment, interpretation, original music, ancient literature, etymology, mythology, prophecy, post relevancy, and the actual dog-damn moon landing, stewing together for one last deep dive beneath the luna-sea.


This episode includes the new song "Mr Victory" and a reading from a classic from the ancient world, Apulieus' "The Golden Ass." Plus, humorousness! Opinions! Confessions! Special guest appearances! And, of course, we talk for ten minutes about what the lyrics from the song "Safety Dance" really mean....

Support the podcast on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/postrelevant

See Phil Ristaino's acting, art and music at his website:  www.TheseAreDreams.com

See Andy Ristaino's art at his website: www.AndyRistaino.com

Original song "Mr Victory" from this episode is off of the album "Songs from the End of the End of the World" by the Troy Westfield Experience.  Check it out here: https://thetwe.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-end-of-the-end-of-the-world

All other music used to score this episode is by HoliznaCC0 found on https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0

Support Holizna on his patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/Holizna

Special shout out to Carl Ristaino Sr, Jean Ristaino, Carl Ristaino Jr, Anna Tanner, and Rowan Ristaino for their special appearances on this ep!  

Thanks again to everyone who listened to Season One of the Post Relevant Podcast!   More to come....


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Hale Hale, hearty listeners!  You have answered the sphinx's riddles, donned the Wadget, the all seeing eye, and discovered the Lyre of Orpheus, alit in the sacred temple of Abydos by the starlight of the constellation Lyra itself.  As you strum the lyre's silver strings, a 7th dimensional tone turns the locks etched into the walls, held aloft by the lion goddesses Sekhmet and Bastet for centuries in living stone.  Granite walls shimmer and slide, revealing the golden portal to the solar system of Vega, home of the Lion Angels.  Yeah, verily, you have discovered the legendary Lion's Gate!  Are you brave enough to step through?

Welcome to Post Relevant Podcast Super Mega Episode 20 - The King's Chamber part 3 - Thru the Lion's Gate!  This 3 hour episode is a culmination of a years worth of podcasts dedicated to unveiling the mysteries behind the film "Under the Silver Lake" and exploring the larger mythological themes to which the film alludes.  Join host Phil Ristaino, along with his guests mycelium aficionado Mark Ristaino and artist Carl Ristaino (host of the podcast "Welcome to the Art Shed) as they dig up mushrooms and follow a trail of golden teachers past Hadrians Wall to forge a path through the Egyptian underworld and up into the Great Pyramid of Giza itself.  

Jumping off from the scene in "Under the Silver Lake" where the main character Sam is confronted about dog biscuits by the Homeless King, this episodes begins with the original song "Someday," co-written by Phil, and a reminiscence of early 80s Cheech and Chong, leading into fully-musically-scored conversations about growing Lion's Mane mushrooms, walking across England, the elegance of the mycelium underground network, panspermia, the genius of 16th century Hermeticist Gordiano Bruno, the conspiracy of Gordon Wasson introducing psychedelic mushrooms into American society in the 20th century, and Mark's adventures at Burning Man.  

The episode is framed by chapters 4-8 of the King's Chamber, which honor the legends of the Egyptian gods Isis and Osiris and the Great Pyramid's connection to the constellation Orion and the star Sirius.  The show eventually culminates with the brand new original song "Thru the Lion's Gate" and Phil's story of his experience taking Ayahuasca. 

Its a super-mega-episode fit to bust and kick up the mythological dust!  Follow our footprints...thru...the Lion's....Gate....

You can support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/postrelevant

Check out original posters, lyrics, videos and more from the Post Relevant Podcast at Phil's instagram :  https://www.instagram.com/philristaino

See more of Phil's acting, art, and music at www.TheseAreDreams.com

Check out Mark Ristaino at https://www.instagram.com/markristaino

Check out Carl Ristaino's art at https://www.instagram.com/carlristaino and https://www.facebook.com/CarlRistaino

Check out the Welcome to Art Shed podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts.  

This episode includes the original songs written by HoliznaCC0:  'Stealing Glimpses of Your Face,' 'Puppy Love,' 'Mundane,' 'Lost in Space,' 'Dusty Attic,' 'Keeping Cool,' 'Poor but Happy,' 'Come Again,' 'So Broke,' 'Lost in the City.'  You can find all of his royalty free music at his page on freemusicarchive.org -- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/

More Post Relevant Podcast to come!  Stay tuned!




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Howdy!  Welcome to the King's Chamber part 2.   We are full on peering into the heavens from the vantage point of the apex of the original mountain of creation, which birthed the phoenix bird and rose up the djed pillar at the very center of the globe. 

In this episode, we expand on the ideas introduced in episode 18 with the decode of the King's Chamber scene in "Under the Silver Lake."

We talk Mayan Astronauts! Wrestling! Randy Bonesaw Savage! Naked bike parades! Meeting bears and mountain lions! The secret war between the hermeticists and the Roman Empire! Hallucinogenic lizard wine! Andrew Garfield's quite storm! Mushrooms!

Plus! Chapter's 1-4 of the origin story of the Egyptian God Osiris!

Host Phil Ristaino and special guest mycelium enthusiast Mark Ristaino roam the countryside to uncover more mysteries! And a special appearance of Brother Andy! 

All this plus music, sound effects, chaos and catharsis! It totally slaps!

The Post Relevant Podcast. Kicking esoteric ass from the top of the Great Pyramid.

Support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/postrelevant

See poster art, lyrics, videos and more for the podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philristaino

See Phil's original acting, art and music at his website: www.TheseAreDreams.com

Check out Mark Ristaino on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markristaino

Check out Andy Ristaino at his website: www.AndyRistaino.com

All music used to score this episode is by HoliznaCC0 and found on https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0

Support Holizna on his patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/Holizna


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If a feather fell from a weather bell, would you wonder whether your will would be well?  Or would wonder well in your whither well till your whethers wilt as your feathers filled?

Do you know the answer?

It takes puzzling the sphinxian riddle to cross the threshold into the King's Chamber.  But cross it we do!  Welcome back for the first time to episode 18 of the Post Relevant Podcast.  This just might be the very most ultimates-est and super-bestest episode of the podcast ever created in three-dimensional time space!  Or even in 7 dimensional thrime-space!  (Thrime-space is sort of like time-space, but in in the 7th dimension...it's too hard to explain right now....)

Reaching new levels of sound design and special effects, the King's Chamber is a right banger, I must say!   Brother Andy returns once again to hash it out with show host Phil Ristaino, and they re-create the scene in "Under the Silver Lake" where Sam is chained to a chair in a bear cave and has to explain his way out of possessing dog biscuits to the mysterious Homeless King.  You might ask, how can you make a two hour podcast about a 5 minute scene in a movie from 2018?  Well, look, its possible, ok?  You gotta listen to the show to find out.  You should get an answer right around the 2 hour mark, keep listening....

Here's how the truths are revealed:

1.  We enter the great pyramid and confront the futuristic riddle.

2. Phil and Andy make several left turns at Albuquerque as they remember Bugs Bunny's "Wackiki Rabbit," ask why brother Mark is avoiding being on the show, how Death loves showbiz in "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey," how to speak English with a bad Swedish accent, who is a hamburger and who is a hotdog, and how to effortlessly create your own foley for a podcast by banging and clanging stuff off-handedly while recording.  Among other things!  This beginning of the show is most non-heinous!

3. Max Flackman (aka Matt Kalman, guest from the infamous episode 13 where Phil and Max get drunk) re-emerges from the woodlands of upstate NY to respond to Phil's revelations of all the lies Oliver Stone foisted on the unsuspecting public when he released his 90s epic "The Doors."  Hint - Jim Morrison never killed a duck.  Gasp!   That's just scratching the surface....

4.  Yet another brand new song is played, entitled "Tall Girl."  Pretty self-explanatory.

5. In the decode section of the show, we talk about being pregnant in a float tank and arguing with Judge Mablean on national TV.  Andy talks about the imminent arrival of his new baby. Phil explores the UTSL reddit.  Phil digs into the relationship between Homeless King actor David Yow and Kurt Cobain.  Phil re-investigates the Horned God/Osiris/Green Man connections in the movie.  Phil and Andy re-ennact the aforementioned scene between the Homeless King and Sam.  Is the truth revealed?  We notice Sam's been sitting on his gun the whole time.  Phil and Andy finish the episode still trying to figure out what "Hamburgers Are Love" means....

Support the Post Relevant Podcast by going to www.patreon.com/postrelevant

Check out Phil's acting, art and music at his website www.TheseAreDreams.com

Check out episode art, lyrics, videos and more at Phil's instagram - www.instagram.com/philristaino

You can contact Phil @ philristaino on instagram and Facebook and by finding post_relevant_70 on the UTSL reddit.

Check out Andy Ristaino's art at www.AndyRistaino.com

This show is scored by the royalty-free songs "The Wild Truth," "Sons of the Cornucopia" and "From the Future to You" by 23 and Beyond the Infinite, the songs "Chased," "Mage," "Cake," and "The End" by Ketsa, and "Two Mountains at a Time" by Pachyderm.  All songs found at freemusicarchive.org.




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