HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH

Hey guys, pardon the delay on this one! It has been a teensy bit busy ‘round BACKKLASH HQ, but I am thrilled to share this recent edition to the IWT cannon with y’all – better late than never! It’s been so crazy that I can’t even remember what we discussed on this one, other than we heard from a plethora of the warm, familiar voices of regular callers. I also recall a certain hilarious, rabble-rou...

What can a $15,000 mechanical bird, a Brooklyn curiosity shop, and America’s sweetheart Kelly Clarkson teach us about the true nature of class in America? Quite a lot, actually. In this episode of HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH, DJ Poolhouse takes the delightfully absurd controversy known as Mollygate and turns it inside out, challenging the fashionable assumption that wealth is class, celebrity is powe...

Oso, Poolhouse, and the I Was There gang are back! Our previous episode was wrecked by archonic havoc when Poolhouse was mysteriously removed from the timeline, leaving a gaping hole in the archives where a confirmed banger should be resting. This time around, we managed to keep everyone aligned on the same frequency long enough to eke out a show. Most of it, anyway. Because when you’re blasting t...

BACKKLASH™ Worldwide returning guest and Christmas Secretary Hagalaz joins Poolhouse for an incendiary blast of motherfucking TRVKE . Hagalaz returns to talk about the cult she recently started, her new occasional podcast series Hyacinth House , and to lead Poolhouse through a tarot reading on the theme of redemption before the two descend into a sprawling discussion of Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 cul...

Fan favorite Detty returns to HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH, and whenever she and Poolhouse get together, the conversation tends to unlock something strange. THE INFORMATION WON’T SAVE YOU is a free-ranging journey through the hidden architecture of modern life: media manipulation, memetic contagion, scapegoating, collective thought forms, spiritual exhaustion, and the increasingly perceptible sense th...

On this episode of HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH, Poolhouse descends beneath the material machinery of marketing to investigate its stranger, more esoteric twin: influence itself. Taking Charli XCX’s prophecy of “anti-marketing” as a point of departure, Poolhouse traces pop culture’s mutation from please love me, to please notice me, to the new commercial imperative: I don’t care if you like me. Just d...

On this episode of HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH , Poolhouse dives into the strange and relatively uncharted realm of pop authorship, an already nebulous concept made even more slippery in an age when persona, performance, identity, and technology are becoming impossible to separate, let alone authenticate. From Audrey Hobert’s clownish, hyper-aware pop persona, and the uncanny specter of one Ms. Sue H...

Hi! this one is just a quick update from backklash studios east….I promise I will get a proper microphone for the next one. We don’t have to live like this! Thanks again for your lovely support of my ice reggae musical projects, ARCTIC SUNSPLASH and HYPERBOREAN DUB EXCURSIONS. It means a lot when you take the time to listen. I’ve so thoroughly enjoyed the process of creating these albums, that the...

Recorded LIVE on X Spaces - August 7, 2026 Poolhouse was beyond thrilled to team up with TwinkTheory and Detty and a few special guest callers for this all-the-way-live, audience-powered deep dive into the strange cultural power of *Vanderpump Rules*. From cult Bravo curiosity to full-blown zeitgeist, we get into the fame machine, what the show did to its cast, what was happening behind the story,...

What makes a viral moment? Is it some improbable combination of circumstances, a near-impossible collision of timing, spectacle, and human curiosity that, once captured by consumer surveillance technology and injected into the massive public library of shame we call the internet, suddenly ignites an electric connection and spreads from user to user until the clip reaches critical mass? Maybe. But...

Sometimes a case hits the news, and you don’t feel compelled to engage any more deeply than the headlines, talking heads, influencers, and sound bites allow. It’s a busy, chaotic world. Not everyone has time to learn the ins and outs of complex criminal cases, such as those involving Tyler Robinson or David “D4vd” Anthony Burke. But it is always surprising when you push just slightly beyond the he...

Poolhouse and Oso are BACKK with the most unc-tastic Sunday night zoo on the internet radio dial. This week: World Cup fever winds down, but Plus-Sized Park Hopper season is only heating up. A caller’s streaming dilemma leads to a spirited debate about the prevalence of technology in society. Plus, the gang remembers a mutual friend who left us too soon. Also: Is Mac the Dirk Diggler of Canadian c...

Detective Poolhouse is BACKK on his beat for a special edition of HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH, bringing an octolecitcal eye and a gumshoe’s intuition to true crime stories ripped straight from the headlines. Tonight: the fallout from the Graham Platner allegations, the media manipulations shaping the public perception of the Tyler Robinson case, and shocking new developments in the D4vd investigation...

Well. Technically, I am off Takes at the moment. But sometimes Opportunity knocks. A friend of mine from The Agency (CIA? Fight. Agency? Barbizon? I will never tell) called me up this afternoon and asked me for my Take on the Platner Thing. “You mean the Platner QUESTION?” I grinned. “What about it?” “Poolhouse, I just know you’ll have… a take like none other,” she said. “If you were advising the...

Poolhouse expands on his philosophy of machine art in music production, examines how AI and IP surveillance create barriers to marketing, and explains why the blackpillers and doomsayers aren’t worth caring about because the American spirit still lives on. EPISODE MIXTAPE Ladytron - Seventeen (The Droyds 12” Mix) Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro (Euro Mix) DJ POOLHOUSE / Jacquesques “Jah KK” Fröszt - Al...

Oso and Poolhouse are back with another edition of I WAS THERE!™, the internet’s favorite call-in radio show. This week the gang dive into a myriad of show topics, from Oso’s fight against Big Kratom to the (alleged) gang stalking networks of X, the nitty-gritty of Halsey vs. Anthony Fantano saga, Katy Perry and Rick Rubin discourse, does Charli XCX have sex appeal, and Oso dusts off an all-time I...

You don’t just WANT it. You don’t simply NEED it. You DEMANDED it… HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH… a pop art radiotronic broadcast that is as PURE and TRUE as it gets … In spring of 2025, Poolhouse and his dear mutual Crypp, aka cryptid_papi , got together for one of them Very Special Episodes of HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH… you know, the kind that quietly shifts the entire landscape of the culture in the...

so just what is a “pop art pirate radio all-American alchemical samizdat,” indeed? it’s everything you’ve ever wanted from the dazzling cosmic calculus that governs this very intimate moment we call the Here and Now. DJ POOLHOUSE — your favorite rabble-rousing, cosmic-crusading, autistic radio jazz savant and ultimate big bro — is BACKK , and he is BETTER THAN EVER , so frankly: fuck u if u doubte...

Poolhouse touches down with a quick update for his darling backlasistas on hidden influences, invisible winds, and what comes next. Poolhouse: SUBSTACK.COM/@POOLHOUSE INSTAGRAM.COM/DJPOOLHOUSE LINKTR.EE/DJPOOLHOUSE YOUTUBE.COM/@DJPOOLHOUSE This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit backklash.substack.com

Poolhouse continues to broadcast transmissions that defy category or convention, but which provocatively sum up his singularly incisive perspective on our strange times. On tonight’s BACKKLASH: Poolhouse on Machine Co-Authorship, the sacred value of creative expression, the invincible summer of the heart, and the power of perception. PLUS: Is there something…. OFF about Substack? And Poolhouse add...

In tonight’s HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH: Poolhouse delivers a wandering Takecel transmission through AI, creativity, collapsing meaning, secret star systems, data centers, and the strange new reality where machines uncannily mirror reality itself.. Part cybernetic apologia, part psychic weather report, Poolhouse touches down from his radiotronic realm beyond the static veil to ask whether or not AI...

Poolhouse reflects on how America’s shift toward populism has reshaped traditionally non-political media sectors, including the celebrity gossip and true crime industrial complexes. He examines how this trend has manifested in coverage of recent events such as the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni dispute, while also drawing lessons from his own coverage of the D4vd case. Poolhouse on gossip media’s...

Tonight on HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH : Poolhouse concludes his explosive D4vD Question series with the final installment of his examination of the legal and media narrative surrounding the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Moving beyond the narrow question of the individual guilt and complicity of David Anthony Burke, aka D4vD, Poolhouse examines the larger industrial and cultural machinery that en...

Poolhouse is back on the case, making the argument that the tragic death of cannot be separated from the music industry apparatus that surrounded and supported — from housing arrangements to tour logistics that prosecutors themselves claim Celeste became involved in. This episode asks a difficult question: why does the prosecution’s recent filing appear so determined to obscure the role of the ind...

Poolhouse returns to the airwaves for a deeper investigation into not only the tragic death of , but the growing mysteries surrounding the investigation itself. Responding directly to critics who accuse him of defending the heinous crimes that David Burke is accused of, Poolhouse makes clear that his position is simple: true justice requires hearing the entire case before rushing to judgment — and...