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Dec 22, 2025

At this time of year, when many of us are rudely awoken from our hard-earned slumber by multiple ghosts wanting us to support their gofundme or something, I thought we might look at ghosts.

What are they? Are they even real? And if they’re not, what are they for?

And the exploration is framed by a series of strange...


Dec 18, 2025

Austinmas 2025! Can you even believe it? Legendary astrologer, Austin Coppock, returns to the show for a look at what 2026 has in store for you.

Here's what we cover:

🪐The end of "nothing ever happens" energy
🪐 What war looks like in the Age of Air
🪐 January's hidden assemblies and the parade before Pluto
🪐...


Oct 31, 2025

Lucifer: Praxis! 

 

Peter Grey joins the show once again to talk about his explosive new book. We explore who the being of Lucifer is, his relationship to western magic, western magicians' relationships to him and how the current of liberty, individualism and legitimate rebellion have shaped centuries of culture.

 

An...


Oct 6, 2025

Synchromystic raconteur, author, and pattern seeker Christopher Knowles returns to the show, as well as the wheelhouse, for this one.

Not that we would ever need one, but the flimsy excuse for Chris coming back this time is so that we can discuss his amazing new book, XF-ULTRA: The X-Files, Conspiracy Culture, and the...


Sep 24, 2025

In this episode, Dr Radin returns to the show to talk to us about his amazing new book, The Science of Magic.

We look at

  • Meta-analyses with trillion-to-one odds.

  • Hotel poltergeists that target specific researchers.

  • Spoons that bend without force.

  • Sigils. Always, always sigils.

Radin explains why materialist...