Beyond the Vapor with Robert Stark

Recorded in September of 2020. Robert Stark talks to widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst, Caleb Maupin about his new book Kamala Harris & The Future of America: An Essay in Three Parts . Check out Caleb’s website , other books , Youtube , and Twitter . Topics: Caleb’s involvement with Occupy Wall Street, the anti-war movement, and socialist politicsKamala Harris’ re...

Robert “Starkattack” and Matt “Las” Pegas talk to Adem Luz Rienspects. Adem is the author of Mixtape Hyperborea and you can follow him on Twitter/X . Topics: -Adem’s background as a former Marxist and Sam Harris Centrist Liberal, and how he is now politically homeless-Was Trump surviving an act of God?-The current online scene that is more open, decentralized, and culturally oriented-Is Dime Squar...

Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the 2024 election and the politics of America’s power elite. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author , lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of  Attack the System . Follow Keith on  Twitter . Topics: -Factions of America’s ruling class, including the Northeastern establishment, Sunbelt capitalist class , and Wall Str...

Bing Image Creator. An alternate conception of modernity, what ‘Right-Wing Progressivism’ is about. ( From John Arcto ) Robert Stark talks to John Arcto, who blogs at The Anglofuturist on substack . Topics: -John’s political journey as a former Leftist-Why John rejects the dissident right and embraces Progressivism Rightism – What is Anglo Futurism  -The Right’s elite human capital problem and ant...

Robert Stark and co-host Francis Nally (Pilleater) talk to Rajeev Ram about the Indian diaspora, caste, HBD, theology, and America’s identity crisis. Rajeev is a 2nd generation Indian American of a Tamil Brahmin background. He is originally from Arizona, worked in  tech in the Bay Area, and now resides in a small town in Tennessee. Rajeev’s values  include, openness, pluralism, creativity, fratern...

Topics include: * Robert’s political trajectory coming out of the Ron Paul movement * Robert’s Jewish heritage * His thoughts on the political position of American Jews since the Gaza War * How the boredom of the Biden years has created a less tense environment * Robert Stark’s meeting with Richard Hanania * How recent years have driven a wedge between the Left and Liberals * How anti-whiteness le...

Robert Stark talks to Luke Ford about knowing  adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, in the aughts. Check out Luke Ford on YouTube and Rumble , and follow him on Twitter/X . Topics:-The background of Luke Ford being the number one journalist in the adult film industry-The context of how Luke knew Stormy Daniels-Luke’s impression that Stormy was highly intelligent, had a formidable presence, and a co...

Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about his book, The Black Album . The Black Album is a collection of essays and short stories, both fiction and non-fiction. The book deals with themes, including alienation, masculinity, incels, serial killers, spirituality, alchemy, philosophy and aesthetics. Topics:-the inspiration for the title from Joan Didion’s The White Album and the music trope of color-cod...

Robert Stark is interviewed by Matt Pegas and his co-host Evan , as a simulcast for their Strange Flows podcast . Topics:– Colin Wilson’s study of consciousness -Robert’s art, Substack writings, and novels-Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism – Robert’s case for Theosophy -Robert’s mystical experience at June Lake -contrasting Neoplatonism and Gnosticism , in their approach to theurgy , aesthetics and...

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas speak with Constantin von Hoffmeister about his book Esoteric Trumpism . This is a simulcast with Matt’s New Write podcast . Originally from Germany, Constantin von Hoffmeister studied English Literature and Political Science in New Orleans. Constantin has worked as an author, journalist, translator, editor, and business trainer in the United States, India, Uzbekistan,...

Robert Stark and Francis Nally (aka Pilleater) talk with Shane Bugbee about Satanism, transgressive art, serial killers, and cancel culture. Shane Bugbee is from Chicago, and is an artist, publisher (Michael Hunt Publishing), filmmaker, true crime journalist, friend of Anton LaVey, and was the last priest of the old guard, Church of Satan . Shane has a new book out on the founding of the Satanic T...

Robert Stark talks with Salmonfish about Bronze Age Pervert, art, metaphysics, philosophy, politics and economics. Salmonfish is a Renaissance man, Avant Garde artist, and Passage Prize winner from Ohio. Follow Salmonfish on Twitter/X . Topics:Raising memes to an artformOnline political tribes as an American adaption of old-world feudal entitlementsRobert’s article, Selective Breeding And The Birt...

Robert Starks and Francis Nally (aka Pilleater) talk to Evee about culture and aesthetics, psychology, and sexuality. Evee, a long time fan of the podcast, is an underground artist and musician (formally signed to Eyeball Records ) from New Jersey, and is of French and Italian descent. Evee is a soi-disant Avant Garde bohemian, and champagne socialist, with a French mentality in temperament and cu...

Robert Stark talks to Francis Nally about the English author, Colin Wilson , his book The Outsider , and his esoteric ideas about consciousness, as well as revisiting Francis’s philosophy of Asian Aryanism. Francis’s website is Pilleater.com ,  he has a YouTube Channel , and has a new book out, Suicidal, Asian, and Promiscious. The Muse We Neglect . Topics: Colin Wilson’s brief fame, and his relat...

Robert Stark talks to Anatoly Karlin about his political transformation, as well as the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and the timeline for the singularity/ AGI . Anatoly Karlin used to blog at Unz until 2021, and has a new substack blog, Nooceleration, focused on Artificial intelligence. Follow Anatoly on Twitter . Topics:Anatoly’s ideological transformation from a Russian nationalist to a neolib...

Robert Stark speaks with James O’Meara about his book, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, & Other Populist Gurus. Mysticism After Modernism is published by Manticore Press , where it is available for purchase. You can also find it at Counter-Currents and on Amazon . “Our spirituality has gotten too tame today. James J. O’Meara has a solution [in Mysticism Afte...

Kevin Lynn interviews Robert Stark about his article, No Collapse is the Real Dystopia: still waiting for the Big Collapse . This recording is a simulcast for Kevin’s Institute for Sound Public Policy’s YouTube channel , recorded on June 13th. Kevin Lynn is executive director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy  and  Progressives for Immigration Reform , and founder of US Tech Workers . Follo...

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Keith Preston about the life and philosophy of Austrian occultist and Renaissance Man, Rudolf Steiner, and what we can learn about Steiner’s ideas to address contemporary problems. Check out Keith Preston’s article, Scientific Spirituality and Ethical Individualism: The Legacy of Rudolf Steiner , and Troy Southgate’s new book,  THE SPIRIT UNBOUND: RUDOLF STEINER...

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas speak with filmmaker, Montgomery Markland , about his film Malibu Road, which he both directed and starred in. Malibu Road is available to watch for free on Tubi , and for purchase on Apple TV and Amazon. While the pandemic delayed Malibu Road’s theatrical release, Montgomery has further plans for multipicture deals. “Fast living Los Angelenos are targeted by the Centra...

Episode recorded December 2020. Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Delicious Tacos about his books, philosophical outlook, and life in LA. Delicious Tacos is the author of Hot Naked Kittens , Finally, Some Good News , The Pussy , and his most recent book Savage Spear of the Unicorn . You can follow him on Twitter  and his books are on sale until Christmas. Topics: The “California Houellebecq ”Tho...

Robert Stark is interviewed by John Friend of the Realist Report, about his article White Californians as a Prototype for America’s Multiethnic Future . Check out the Realist Report on Twitter . Topics: Various responses to the articlePutting forth an accurate portrayal of California, in contrast with the media hypeA critique of various rightwing narratives about conflict and collapseCauses of Whi...

Episode recorded May 2020. Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Jack from The Perfume Nationalist podcast . Check out Jack on Twitter . Topics: Nationalism as an aesthetic brand, selling perfume and soap opera visions to the rightRe-appropriating “queer culture”Camille PagliaTrump as a performance art aesthetic brand despite his standard neoliberal policiesBeauty equality vs. an upward value of aes...

Interview recorded February 2021. Robert Stark interviews futurist writer Michael Anissimov about artificial intelligence, NRx politics, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Michael Anissimov is a San Francisco Bay Area native of White Russian émigré decent now living in Florida. Michael worked for the Singularity Institute where he co-founded the Singularity Summit and is the author of the Idaho Proje...

Interview recorded June 2021. Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Gio Pennacchietti about aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. Gio Pennacchietti is a social impressionist painter and writer from the “first post-national country” (Canada), Gonzo Philosopher, and failed academic. Check out his YouTube channel GiantArt Productions , Instagram , writings at Substack and WordPress , and Twitter . To...

Recorded August 2021. Robert Stark and Apex talk about Systems, Pan-Enclavism, and the Alt-Center. Apex is a former leftist from a landless North Eastern Native American Tribe, and loosely part of the Post-Left/Post-Right sphere. He describes himself as the “Cartographer of the Simulation and the Architect of Post-America.” Subscribe to Apex’s Substack and follow him on Twitter . Topics: Why the L...