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  • Ep.65 – The Tree of Life, with Steven DeLay (Malick 5)

    Thomas and Steven discuss the spiritual and social themes of The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick’s 2011 coming-of-age of drama with a cosmic background. They unpack the narrative’s biblical references to Genesis and Job, and Steven describes the film’s resonances with Augustine, Freud, and Dostoevsky. Analyzing the film’s dichotomy between a motherly “way of grace”…

  • Ep. 64 – Blade Runner 2049

    Continuing the discussion that began with our analysis of Blade Runner, we look at the legacy sequel released in 2017 and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Blade Runner 2049 intensifies the psy-op of the original film, making the Monarch tropes and mind control themes far more obvious. The ever-sus Leto appears as a Elon Musk style…

  • The Albertini Tapes (on Wake the Dead)

    Brett and Steven DeLay appeared recently on Sean McCann’s Wake the Dead podcast to discuss the shockingly detailed accusations of ritual murder, blackmail, and human trafficking made by Richie Albertini, an associate of the Gambino crime family who grew up in the 80s alongside a bevy of future Hollywood A-listers. Albertini was later involved in…

  • Ep.63 – Mandy and Beyond the Black Rainbow, with Sean McCann

    Thomas and Brett are joined by Sean McCann for a discussion of the films of Panos Cosmatos, analyzing Beyond the Black Rainbow‘s MKUltra New Age horror and Mandy‘s dark psychedelic Nic Cage rampage. Getting into his biting commentary on 1960s boomer spirituality and 1980s Reagan conservatism, they discern which countercultural psyops Cosmatos is rejecting and…

  • Ep. 62 – Blade Runner

    Thomas and Brett talk about Blade Runner, getting into its attack upon the boundaries of the human and its prevalent Illuminati symbolism. Differentiating Philip K. Dick’s ill-fated Gnostic impulses from Ridley Scott’s overt promotion of the superclass worldview, they contrast the source material and the film, also noting key distinctions between the several cuts of…

  • Ep.61 – The New World, with Steven DeLay (Malick 4)

    The Terrence Malick series continues with The New World, Malick’s depiction of the Pocahontas story. Thomas and Steven analyze the film’s treatment of religion, romance, and civilization, while continuing to consider the extent to which Malick’s mystical themes are Christian. They discuss philosophical questions raised by the film regarding religious pluralism and phenomenology. See more…

  • Ep.60 – Return to Oz (Monarch 11 – 13, Extended Preview)

    An extended preview of the most in-depth content yet from Brett’s Monarch series. In clips from three full length Patreon-only episodes, Brett details his research on the nightmarish 1985 children’s film Return to Oz. This preview of the Monarch subseries provides information on the history of Wizard of Oz programming, the occultic career of of…

  • Ep.59 – Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills, and Halloween Ends, with Geoff Shullenberger

    Geoff Shullenberger joins us for an analysis of the recent David Gordon Green Halloween trilogy. He discuses a Girardian reading of Halloween Ends as well the “lab leak theory of Michael Myers.” Is the 2018 film correctly read as based and right-wing, or is it more of the same MK-culture fetishization of trauma? Why is…

  • Ep.58 – Halloween III: Season of the Witch, with Sean McCann

    We continue through the Halloween franchise, this time joined by Sean McCann to discuss the strange cult classic Halloween III: Season of the Witch. This unique entry in the series showcases some intense revelation of the method in its combined depiction of technology, witchcraft, and corporate media. We discuss the significance of Samhain and demonic…

  • Ep.57 – John Carpenter’s Halloween, with the Collins Brothers

    We are joined by Paul and Phillip Collins to discuss John Carpenter’s Halloween, in the first of three episodes on the Halloween franchise. They explain the apotheosis of Michael Myers, how this archetypal slasher fits into the occult transhumanist project to transcend good and evil and remake humanity. We discuss depictions of evil within Carpenter’s…

  • Ep.56 Malick’s Origins and The Thin Red Line, with Steven DeLay (Malick 3)

    We discuss The Thin Red Line with Steven DeLay, after first going much deeper into Terrence Malick’s background. Considering many remarkable and little known facts about Malick’s biography, we analyze his relationship to the academia/media/intelligence culture creating complex. We then talk about Malick’s late 90s epic war film The Thin Red Line, discussing whether the…

  • Jacob’s Ladder (On Debra Gets Red Pilled)

    The guys went on the podcast Debra Gets Red Pilled for a fun conversation about the influential horror film Jacob’s Ladder. It’s a movie that hits most major Psyop Cinema themes, including religious engineering, trauma-based experimentation, the psychedelia psyop, Gnosticism, and fetishization of dissociation. They talk about the highly suspicious drug experience that led to…