Welcome to Holiday Capitalist Cronenberg Hell.

We discuss the harrowing tale of a father who turns into a product, as inspired by Ted's fantastic essay on this remarkably disturbing Christmas classic along with a review of Ahnohld's film career and his uniquely unhinged comedic jaunts. This conversation was incredibly fun and weird.

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JDO returns and we chat about the magpie's feathers, Martin Shaw and Paul Kingsnorth, the craft of writing and storytelling, story itself, the wisdom that comes with age, ideological capture, self-importance as a boon to good music and a bane to writing, and much more.

J David Osborne is a prolific independent author who treats his craft with an animistic respect, allowing agency for stories and the spirits who inspire them. His recent novel Berserker Club blends animism, pulp, humor, and sincerity into a hyper-violent yet contemplative page-turner and ties it all up with a shamanistic bow.

Berserker Club

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We return with part five in our four-part series covering the misunderstood genius of Patrick McGoohan's masterpiece series The Prisoner.

The final two episodes elicited many sidetracks and conversational digressions which was to be expected considering the potency found in these couple hours of footage. The final one of which caused riots on the streets of London and forced McGoohan to go into temporary hiding. He considered this the reaction he had hoped for. God bless him. Truly a hero.

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An excellent interview with Patrick McGoohan

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This week we discuss the three wackiest and possibly least fan-beloved episodes of The Prisoner with Part 4 in our series. (We thought they were great.)

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This time we cover the following episodes:

Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling

Living In Harmony

The Girl Who Was Death

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"It's not illegal to party with Jeffrey Epstein"

An emergency emotional-processing episode in light of the week's news. We chat about the atrocities in the massive file dump which is probably also a psyop. We also discuss the purple-haired propaganda girl that has massively backfired on the UK government. We chat incel wizards, the silicon valley dark enlightenment, and we foolishly approach the crossroads where billionaire elites, eugenics, occult philosophies, and control systems seem to meet and sip the tea of ambiguity.

Obviously this episode contains an 18 wheeler-load of trigger warnings, in case you somehow missed the "explicit content" badge.

Stay tuned next week when we return with Part 4 of our series on the most important television show ever made, Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner.

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We continue our odyssey into the magic and madness of The Prisoner with Part 3 in our series.

Expect transcendental insights and juvenile dick jokes.

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This time we cover the following episodes:

Checkmate

Hammer Into Anvil

It's Your Funeral

A Change of Mind

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We continue our exploration of the 1967 phenomenon The Prisoner with our friend Joe.

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This week we tackle:

The Schizoid Man

The General

Many Happy Returns

Dance of the Dead

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This week we begin our in-depth exploration of the 1967 series that changed TV forever: Patrick McGoohan's masterpiece, "The Prisoner".

Surreal, clever, gripping, beautiful, groundbreaking, and career-ending, this series broke television's rules and forever elevated the medium of episodic television to new heights. Cited as a major inspiration for J.J. Abrams' Lost (and with a series finale that made people even angrier than Hurley being the stupid island), this show is positively infamous. With good cause, too. Nothing can prepare you for the vibes, the psychological mindf*ckery, the costumes.

Originally airing out of the intended episode order, and with no official canonical sequence, we have opted to follow along in sequence with the following youtube channel which has the entire series for free and in good quality.

Follow along with the boys: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0e0v1z2u91x2KISWPvXfnw5GcCGf6x8F&si=emwhJ_dXFFjFZWjw

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