

The Farm
The Farm Podcast
Cult hit podcast hosted by VISUP's Recluse, aka Steven Snider, on all things conspiratorial, paranormal, and highly strange. Receive two additional full lengths shows a month with exclusive guests and content by becoming a patron.
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Dec 13, 2021 • 1h 41min
The Strange and Terrible History of Mormonomics w/ Jimmy Falun Gong & Recluse
Mormonism, church finances, Mormonism's estimated wealth, United Order, fundamentalist Mormonism, Kingston family, polygamy, "Bleeding the Beast," welfare abuse, Mormonism's relationship with capitalism, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith's business ventures, Brigham Young, Brigham Young's wealth, teething, anti-polygamy laws, Federal overreach, Federal raids in Utah, American Civil War, the Church's financial state by the 1890s, the financial holdings of Joseph F. Smith, Smoot hearings, the LDS becomes a corporation, modern day holdings of the Mormon church, the LDS' investment strategy, role of wealthy Mormon families, lay leadership, the Mormon mafia, Howard Hughes, organized crime, drug trafficking

Dec 6, 2021 • 1h 12min
Skinwalker, Oath Keepers, and Domestic Violence w/ Erica Lukes & Recluse
Skinwalker ranch, Erica Lukes, domestic violence, spousal abuse in the military, veterans, presidential death threats, Oath Keepers, BAASS, UFO Disclosure, Robert BIgelow, Bigelow organization, Utah, SLC area, misogyny in the paraweird community, US National Guard, UAPs, non-lethal weapons
For more on Erica's situation, check here:
https://www.fox13now.com/news/fox-13-investigates/fox-13-investigates-utah-soldier-charged-with-domestic-assault-heard-on-recordings-discussing-violence-against-biden-activists

Nov 29, 2021 • 55min
The Secret History of the Michigan Public School System w/ Phil Pater-Syn & Recluse
Michigan, public schools, special schools, gifted program, 2003 riots, Koch brothers, Devos family, Prince family, Betsy Devos, Benton Harbor, American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, Michigan's Emergency Management system, Educational Achievement Authority, EAA, privation, asset striping, Occupy, student response, Eastern Michigan University, Ford, auto unions, Flint, water supply

Nov 22, 2021 • 3h 7min
The Secret History of International Fascism 2 w/ Danny Weil, Russ Bellant, Doctor Future & Recluse
Fascism, clerical fascism, understanding fascism, Paul Manning, Martin Borrman, capital flights, German rearmament, Black Eagle Trust, Japan, Golden Lilly, gold certificates, Unification Church, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, John Birch Society, JFK assassination, Nazism, National Association of Manufacturers, Alexander Dugin, Ukraine, OUN-B, World Anti-Communist League, Spiritual Mobilization, J. Howard Pew, Vannevar Bush, Gerald Heard

Nov 15, 2021 • 1h 53min
The True Detective Mysteries w/ S-90 & Recluse
True Detective series, film/TV, pop culture, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Charles Haralson, JFK assassination, Richard Linklater, "Slacker," "A Scanner Darkly," Discordianism, Church of the Subgenus, JFK assassination, "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre," The Company, Jimmy Chagra, Judge "Maximum" John Wood, school vouchers, Council for National Policy, Christian dominionism, astral/stellar magic, occult, Aleister Crowley, scrying, ascending/descending, psychosphere, noosphere, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Cosmism, Henry Lee Lucas, Hand of Death, LeBaron family, Mormon fundamentalism, Romney family, "the sprawl," the Process Church of the Final Judgment, cults, family cults, Nik Pizzolatto, gulf states, drugs/arms trafficking, sex trafficking, The Finders, season 3 shitshow

Nov 8, 2021 • 1h 52min
The Great Reset and the Smiley Face Killers w/ Frank Zero, John Brisson, and Recluse
synchromysticism, synchronicity, pop culture, black oil, "The X-Files", "X-Men", Max Spiers, black oil as a sigil, Black Rock, the Great Reset, World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, Smiley Face Killers, water, holidays, Smiley symbolism, cults

Nov 1, 2021 • 1h 54min
WACL Coda: A Requiem for Don Diligent w/ Alex Tsakiris, Clay Vandiver, Wade Davies, Keith Allen Dennis, Moss Robeson & Recluse
Don Diligent, Ed Coffman, World Anti-Communist League, Unification Church, cults, Moral Re-armament, Los Tecos, Propaganda Due, OUN-B, Process Church of the Final Judgment, Fundamentalist Church of the Latter-Day Saint, FLDS, Warren Jeffs, Whitley Strieber, David Koresh, Philip K. Dick, spirituality, leaving a cult, the effects of cults on families, Ed Coffman's struggle, friendship
The Farm and all the WACL crew would like to offer their sincere condolences to Ed Coffman's family. We hope everyone listening will help keep Ed's memory alive by continuing to spread his research. Ed's contributions to The Farm can be found at the following:
https://www.thefarmpodcast.com/e/antimystery4
http://visupview.blogspot.com/2021/03/secret-societies-narcoterrorism.html
https://www.thefarmpodcast.com/e/the-secret-history-of-ufology-i-theosophy-nazis-and-jim-mosley-w-doc-future-keith-allen-dennis-don-diligent-recluse/
Another important tribute to Ed Coffman can be found here:
https://howwelldoyouknowyourmoon.tumblr.com/post/664424830373855232/rest-in-peace-ed-coffman

Oct 25, 2021 • 3h 9min
The Secret History of International Fascism Part I w/ Dr. Danny Weil, Russ Bellant & Recluse
fascism, definition of fascism, Michigan politics, DeVos family, corporate takeover of government, private schools, dismantling public education, local government, school boards, right wing takeover of local politics, National Association of Manufacturers, Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company, Boris Brasol, Thule Society, William J. Cameron, Christian Identity theology, domestic terrorism, militias, paramilitaries, Friekorps, Italy, Black Shirts, Weimer Republic, breakdown of liberal democracy, Beer Hall Putsch, January 6, coup, mythos, colonialism, Ku Klux Klan, Knights of the Golden Circle, John Wilkes Booth, Manifest Destiny, German-American Bund, William "Will Bill" Donovan, American Legion, FDR, Business Plot, Smedley Butler, National Crime Syndicate, Meyer Lansky, Russia, White Russians, Palantir, Peter Thiel, Meyer Lansky, Israel, Nazi-Israeli collaboration, Martin Bormann, World Commerce Corporation, SOFINDUS, Otto Skorzeny, ratlines, capital flight, Golden Lilly, drug trafficking, yakuza, Unification Church, Bank of International Settlements, Vatican, Pope Pius

Oct 18, 2021 • 1h 41min
Blows Against the Empire w/ Jack Heart & Recluse
synchro-mysticism, Gnosticism, TekGnostics, Philip K. Dick, weird 70s, Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, high weirdness, bureaucratic orthodoxy, disruptive insurgency, open source intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, decline of legacy media, decline of political parties, networks, why physical violence is self defeating, Discordianism, Operation Mindfuck, the pitfalls of Operation Mindfuck, the Afghanistan withdraw/debacle, Epik hack, cyberwars, vaccines, vaccine restrictions, vaccine protests, Joe Biden

Oct 11, 2021 • 2h 15min
Exorcism, Traditional Catholicism and the Warrens w/ Conspirinormal‘s Adam Sayne and Serfiel Stephenson + Recluse
Earl and Elizabeth Warren, paranormal investigators, Rite of Exorcism, Protestant Reformation, 30 Years War, Counter Reformation, ghost hunts, Vatican II, traditional Catholicism, John Birch Society, National Association of Manufacturers, Spiritual Mobilization, J. Howard Pew, The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty, Malachi Martin, Perron family, Smurl family, supernatural anal rape, Snedeker family, Amityville incident, The Conjuring, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, A Haunting in Connecticut, The Amityville Horror series, the Warren/traditional Catholic alliance, traditional Catholic influence on paranormal investigators, demonic possession, Catholic propaganda, belief in the devil, Satanic panic, Dominionism, Strange Realities, 80s Talk Show