Episodios

  • S04E37 High Weirdness with Erik Davis

    S04E37 High Weirdness with Erik Davis
    Jun 16 2025
    We're joined by Erik Davis to discuss his book High Weirdness - a history of psychedelics and counterculture as a triptych embodied with three prominent figures: Terrence McKenna, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Anton Wilson. From Blade Runner to the Illuminati to Magic Mushrooms these three laid down foundational blocks decades ago that underpin (or perhaps undermine?) our present.

    Terrence McKenna
    Philip K. Dick
    Robert Anton Wilson

    Pyrrho - ancient Greek skeptic

    Our coverage of Operation Mindf*ck (part 1 and part 2)

    Erik Davis links:
    Burning Shore (Substack)

    Techgnosis (huge web archive)

    Techgnosis (Book - Affiliate Link)

    High Weirdness (Affiliate Link) - the Audiobook read by the author is very good. -B.

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    48 m
  • S04E36 – Nefarious Stealth Evangelicalism?

    S04E36 – Nefarious Stealth Evangelicalism?
    Jun 9 2025
    We’re joined by Matt Baxter to discuss what we thought was a horror film but turned out to be something quite different.Warning: This film and episode deal with suicide, murder, abortion, politics, religion, and pretty much most of the hot potato topics we generally try to eschew. Hopefully we do a decent job of discussing it.

    Nefarious (streaming) – Affiliate Link

    More on Blaze Media

    Some reviews:
    7th Day Adventist review

    A Christian review with interesting comments

    Reddit tackles Nefarious

    Horror Obsessive – really didn’t care for the “bait & switch”



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    50 m
  • S04E35 - Dread Bothy and Beyond

    S04E35 - Dread Bothy and Beyond
    Jun 2 2025
    Matt Baxter returns to join Karen and Blake in a discussion of allegedly haunted “bothies” in the remote hiking regions of the UK. This episode contains some discussion of guns, suicide, and cannibalism.

    Links to further reading/listening:

    What is a “bothy?”

    Mountain Bothy Association

    BBC’s Uncanny episodes we mention:

    Don’t Sleep in this House – December 2021

    Return to Luibeilt Christmas Special 2024

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    46 m
  • S04E34 - The Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks

    S04E34 - The Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks
    May 26 2025
    Jerry Drake returns to discuss his new book:
    Hazel was a Good Girl: The Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks

    Jerry has been with quite a few times to discuss Grimoires, Jack Parsons, The Hollow Earth, Internet Mysteries and Ghost Lights and we're excited to see what he makes of this real life unsolved murder with ties to one of the most influential shows to ever air on TV.

    This episode does discuss murder, sexual assault, and other sensitive topics. It's not really explicit but it might not be suitable for children, hence the tag.






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    53 m
  • S04E33 - BigFootage: The Secret of Bigfoot pt 2

    S04E33 - BigFootage: The Secret of Bigfoot pt 2
    May 19 2025
    We're back with part two of our 2-part coverage of the 1976 episode of The Six Million Dollar Man that introduced a generation of kids to Bigfoot, and the idea that the creature might be interconnected with space aliens living inside a California mountain.Related
    Links:

    The Bionic Book by Herbie Pilato (affiliate link)

    Operation Plowshare

    The Six Million Dollar Man series (DVD)

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    1 h y 4 m
  • S04E32 - BigFootage: The Secret of Bigfoot pt 1

    S04E32 - BigFootage: The Secret of Bigfoot pt 1
    May 12 2025
    Karen joins Blake to discuss the influential 2-part episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man that introduced a generation of kids to Bigfoot, and the idea that the creature might be interconnected with space aliens living inside a California mountain.

    This is part one of a two-part special edition.

    The patron edition has extended footage and no modern commercials.

    Extensive show notes available here:
    https://www.patreon.com/posts/128686370?forSale=true

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    53 m
  • S04E31 - Catching Up May 2025

    S04E31 - Catching Up May 2025
    May 5 2025
    Blake and Karen take a minute to catch their breath and talk about where things are in their lives and what's up next in MonsterTalk news.

    Links:
    Bitch: The Journey of a Word

    Adhesive Capsulitis

    Idiopathic Illnesses

    Mechanical Turk

    Speaking Machine

    Replica of Speaking Machine (YouTube)

    Wolfgang von Kempelen

    Deep Mind

    Deep Blue

    Marvin Minsky

    John McCarthy

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    43 m
  • S04E30 Dinos & Dragons - Part 2

    S04E30 Dinos & Dragons - Part 2
    Apr 28 2025
    This is part two of our two part look at Dragons and how these mythical beasts are being used to promote Creationism. Our guest is Dr. Philip Senter and he's the author of a new book about this topic. We use the word bullsh!t a lot in this episode so I slapped an explicit tag on - but I don't think it's too explicit otherwise.

    Get Dr. Senter's book here: The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons

    News story about Mokele Mbembe being compromised by Creationists

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    35 m
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