
The Farm Podcast Mach II
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest episodes

Oct 7, 2024 • 1h 40min
The Supernatural, Hoaxes & Strange Realities w/ Adam Sayne & Recluse
hoaxes, Watseka Wonder, Lurancy Vennum, Spiritualism, was the Watseka Wonder a hoax?, the Watseka Wonder in pop culture, Cottingley fairies, Theosophy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, prostitution in Spiritualism, Spiritualism as organized crime, the Cottingley fairies as a hoax, Highgate Vampire, David Farrant, Sean Manchester, is the Highgate Vampire a hoax or mass hysteria?, Hammer Films, Dracula AD 1972, the importance of hoaxes to legit supernatural events, Strange Realities 2024, ShakespeareStrange Realities Tickets:https://www.strangerealitiesconference.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFurpVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHT6EoztEyEhKE5AENXKkgJb964yx-tLua08q0AJ7SR2_Qje5odf_vLNOqQ_aem_H_OULJhLPRslS2pNsvjV_gMusic by: Keith Allen Dennis:https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 30, 2024 • 41min
Metaphysics in America Part I w/ Ronnie Pontiac & Recluse
American Metaphysical Religion (AMR), appropriation in AMR, the role of the melting pot, can Westerns truly grasp traditions outside their own?, Pierre Bernard, tantra, the first American trantra, Pascal Beverly Randolph, Sufism, Christian Science, Mark Baker Eddy, Inayat Khan, Noor Inayat Khan, World War II, Rosicrucianism, Rosicrucian Fellowship, Max Heindel, Theosophy, Los Angeles, Manly P. Hall, Philosophical Research Society (PRS), Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 30, 2024 • 1h 6min
As the World Burns w/ Billy Ray Valentine & Recluse
2024 election, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, the Trump "assassination" attempts, were the assassination attempts real, Elon Musk, Twitter, Twitter's role in the 2024 election, Peter Thiel, the rise of social media vs the decline of the legacy media, foreign influence in the election, Tenet Media, Russiagate 2024, Irangate, Iran attempting to feed Harris campaign hacked materials, FBI, Trump's claims Iran is trying to assassinate him, setting the stage for war with Iran, WWF, Telegram, Facebook, Israel, Lebanon, is war in the Middle East unavoidable, Ukraine, Israel relocated to Ukraine, P.Diddy, US port strikes, will there be a 2024 electionMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 23, 2024 • 1h 43min
A Sun That Never Sets w/ Charles R. Bernard & Recluse
the modern far right, The Matrix vs. They Live, the pros and cons of "gatekeeping," gatekeeping in the twenty-first century, Eugene Thacker, Thomas Ligotti, Cosmic nihilism, cosmic nihilism vs. Nietzschean nihilism, how bending perceived reality is the essence of black magick and social engineering, Mormonism, Mormonism's influence of the American New Age and far right, the 2016 Meme Wars, the extent of the Meme Wars influence on social media, Tenet Media, Russiagate2024, Blaze Media, Glen Beck, Blaze's links to Tenet, The Joker, Heath Ledger's Joker vs. Joaquin Phoenix's, Operations MIndfuck, the DKMU, the Assault on Reality, why the Assault on Reality succeeded while Operation Mindfuck failed, how the far right has exploited the Internet from the beginning, Louis Beam, the Satanic Temple, TST's authoritarian drift, the dangers in the search for "authenticity," Hindu nationalism, esoteric Hitlerism, Piss Earth 2025 and the futureMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 16, 2024 • 1h 54min
America's Occult Tradition w/ Mitch Horowitz & Recluse
Plethon, Byzantium, Italy, the Eastern Roman Empire's influence on Hermeticism & the Renaissance, Venice, Venice as a refuge of the Eastern Roman Empire, Bohemia, Thirty Years War, Reformation & Counterreformation, Elizabethan England, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's role in keeping alive the occult tradition, Peter Brook, Mormonism, Mormonism's role in American metaphysics, Mormonism's role in modern New Age movement, Bush family, Reverend George Bush, Bush's Swedenborgian church, Satanism among the Romantics, Manly P. Hall, the Philosophical Research Society PRS), Hall's death and the attempted coup at PRS, Kyballion, Charles Fort, Fort's enduring influence of Ufology and Discordianism, Vice-President Henry A. Wallace, Wallace's occult interests, the Ouija board, Stephen K. Bannon, Bannon's esoteric interests, Bannon as a Discordian, Traditionalism, Rene Guenon, Julius Evola, the future of esotericism, the end of gurus & master/teacher roles Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional Music: Albert Bouchardhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DHX6JH7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HGDK2O22CQN0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VMOkbz1YKIA3xk8rSMaHpSyycbimuR7T39QtMhEacIW1k4NfeFjUGmWo9tMk7Gxs-ZWz1zenT14kA1K61d9ylbembad2iq1AuocgQlQAve9A6-CePCr7w0LlGSHb6O1FKMsA9QRuh0oOhVhRnmT-t8VH11kBieMDbXeALvX2cqE2uo3u0JwG5_OcIcK3YnNosDy2S0NhjT1IKCv6BUH2SRemDQPfn9cR4mrT2b7Kztc.Dh8Z1WB56eE3q2wJWz7Q1_tGT7o2ksyY6bQONn6Nc7s&dib_tag=se&keywords=albert+bouchard&qid=1726453739&s=dmusic&sprefix=albert+bouc%2Cdigital-music%2C481&sr=1-1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 9, 2024 • 1h 26min
The Stoner Noir Mysteries Part II w/ Doc Inferno & Recluse
stoner noir, Shane Black, Black's private eye quartet, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodbye, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys, the deep politics of Shane Black, NFL/organized crime links, mafia infiltration of LA's porn industry, Mormon mafia, the cooptation of the environmental movement, CIA, death squads, programmed assassins, false-flags invoking Islamic terrorism, sci-fi stoner noir, Strange Days, James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, Homegrown, A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater, Phillip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly vs. the Florida drug scene of the 00s, PKD's Gnosticism, the "Lexington Cure," Synanon, Bad Times at the El Royale, Manson, Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon, the similarities/differences between Inherent Vice and A Scanner DarklyMusic: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional Music:Cypress Hill Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 2, 2024 • 58min
The Stoner Noir Mysteries Part I w/ Doc Inferno & Recluse
stoner noir, Inherent Vice, The Big Lebowski, Under the Silver Lake, film noir and it's characteristics, Psycho as noir, horror, giallo, slasher films, neo-noir, John Boorman, Point Blank, Roman Polanski, Chinatown, origins of stoner noir, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, Leigh Brackett, Altman/Brackett's subversion of the detective film, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, The Late Show, Shane Black, Black's quartet of private detective films, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Tony Scott, Quentin Tarantino, is Tarantino stoner noir?, the characteristics of a stoner noir movie,Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional Music: Cypress Hill Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 26, 2024 • 1h 13min
Gnosticism, A.I. & the Grateful Dead w/ Jack Heart & Recluse
Gnosticism, Philip K. Dick, science fiction, Neo-Platonism, the Demiurge, Elon Musk, Twitter, Paypal Mafia, Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes as archetype, meme magick, meme magick heading into the 2024 election, Donald Trump, trump cards, trump cards as an archetype of Trump, Operation Mindfuck, QAnon, the relationship between QAnon and OM, the Grateful Dead, Deadhead subculture, mythology of the Dead, cryptocurrency, open source insurgency, networking, A.I., the environmentMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 19, 2024 • 1h 12min
Uncovering the Lost Mothman Movie w/ Matthew Tannam-Elgie & Recluse
Mothman, The Mothman Prophesies, Mark Pellington, the Mothman Death Curse, Doug TenNapel, Dreamworks, Steven Spielberg, stop-motion animation, Claymation, 90s culture, how TenNapel's Mothman movie came about, John Keel, Gray Barker, Andrew Colvin, Ed Hall, the plotline of the TenNapel Mothman, Point Pleasant, shooting the film in location, why the film was abandoned, the different versions of the film, slot machines, Pittsburgh crime family, organized crime in West Virginia, the run-ins the film makers had with organized crime, West Virginia's criminal history, Point Pleasant's Mothman festivalMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/Additional Music: J Money Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 12, 2024 • 33min
Unraveling the Lake Valley Mysteries w/ Nathan Nish & Recluse
Fairy tales, children's stories, Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, Discordianism, Mormonism, chaos magick, magical symbols & languages, American McGee's Alice, Alice Liddell, Utah, Gilgal Gardens, Ted Bundy's cellar, many worlds hypothesis, cats as hyperdimensional beings, cats vs fogs as spiritual beingsNathan's book can be found here:https://www.amazon.com/Lake-Valley-Mysteries-Nathan-Nish-ebook/dp/B0CXSDZG2W/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2SH2XTSEI7O1G&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FRhWyDDd9yADVXbuwmVzq3XcredAHdKbyPDuIzUZt_LCX18gJk8NfX_sQpJ3H_U_AY0Oqx8a6hp13h4aPEbIekHy-21nLcz5OUk1xEsu4g1aU1Ly2fnRyc6UJscFMarhLAU326zcvqth2Sw3GnMxGATa0bqZ3i0Wo3WUofsN9QvS6BcPJ1Vfx52Sg0nF6j9gFFieb6d-JWk3YergfNaRr0fdOGOU7fyRU64h_FwOiQA3xeyoGXisss62s9Hs6fyh9EiTlikndNGosIZkyt_s&dib_tag=se&keywords=Lake+Valley+Mysteries&qid=1722560597&s=books&sprefix=lake+valley+mysteries%2Cstripbooks%2C88&sr=1-1Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.