KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

HEYYOOO! What's up all you beautiful kooks! WOOOO! It's good to be back from those...dark, DARK times we are living in. Ho hum! Kiss my bum! We're all here to have some fun! This week we finish out our three part series on all of the peripheral weird shit surrounding the Lewis & Clark expedition, including: cryptids, espionage, banking conspiracies, syphilis, suicide, the potentially accursed...

YOOOOO! What's up you beautiful kooks! This week the boys continue their trek in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark to look into some of the weirder aspects left out of the records of their exploration, including the enduring enigma of America's many mysterious mounds and just how little we REALLY know about their purpose or origins! We'll also be speculating upon the state of primordial America &am...

What's up folks! Hope you're all doing EGG-celent! This week the fellas are gearing up for an expedition in the footsteps of famous explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, two of the most well known and revered American explorers in all of historicity! Except this time around we'll be concentrating on all of the weirdness they left out of the history book, including such oddities as: monolit...

HEYYOOOOOOOO! This BONUS episode is a quick short while we're on hiatus that covers historical, folklore, and/or magical & mystical ritual mutilation, the practice of divination via human organs or deformities, monstrous births, abominable omens, & reading the future through "teratascopy" (or the interpretation of prophecies through the reading of meat malformations and metamorphosis throu...

This episode the boys are covering the C.I.A.'s control of Candy Jones, MKULTRA, Project: MONARCH, mind control, & Michael Jackson. Say whaaaat? There's actually quite a bit of connective tissue...BELIEVE IT...OR NOT! Also, a whole lotta drug talk! All this plus "What's Weird This Week?" where we cover YET ANOTHER incident of fast food instigated assault, some black market narcotic stock tips,...

SWEET DREAMS EVERYBODY! This week we're talking about sleep paralysis and it's connections to alien abduction, witchcraft, and demonology (amongst other things...DIRTY things!) That's right, there's a weird as hell sexual component to this mysterious sleepy brain glitch and the fellas get IN. TO. IT! What the hell is up with sleep paralysis? Give this episode a listen and find out all about it. AN...

W'ZUP! This episode the fellas cover the Mac Tonnies book "The Cryptoterrestrials" as well as a basic run through of just what some of the other more popular alternative theories besides the popular ETH (extraterrestrial hypothesis) or the interdimensional/ ultraterrestrial theory are floating around out their, that may offer an explanation as to just what "THEY" are! All that plus a piping hot fr...

Here's a weird one for ya folks! It may sound like Mike is on drugs, but trust me when I say he was soberish the whooooole time! This one covers the strange nexus between the occult and ufology. Along for the ride are a few mentions, tangents, & digressions into such related topics as Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, Typhonian occultism, sex magick, occult eugenics, & half-human hybrids! This is...

Here it is folks! This one has more of the actual MKULTRA recipe for creating an acid casualty assassin! Soak it on up! Also, check out this related book report: https://www.erowid.org/library/review/review_test_tube_murders1.shtml Email us: kooksandcranks@gmail.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554539459465 If you are struggling with mental health and/or sustance abuse issues, ple...

Here it is folks! The (pen)ULTIMATE Charles Manson episode! This one covers just about a little bit of everything: MKULTRA, Hollywood, Son of Sam, Mae Brussell, the mob, Operation: GLADIO, Scientology, and all of your most very favorite things! Mike will be dropping the final Manson episode ASAP! Enjoy! Opening/closing music: "Blood in The Gutter (Yikes!)" by Laurie Johnson Email us!: kooksandcran...

Here's what people are saying about "The Kooks, Cranks, & Iconoclasts Podcast"! "WTF are you talking about? What is that?" -Pope Francis "It's a subtle mix of poignant insight, fiendishly clever dialogue, an unmitigated retardation!" -Marjorie Taylor Green "(Kooks, Cranks, & Iconoclasts") is cheeky, ribald, and highly problematic!" -Podcaster's Weekly In this highly "polarizing" W.W.T.W.?...

WAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZAAAAAAAA(*achem!*)AAP! Because there's just so damn much Manson related craziness, we're kicking out this bonus one-point-fiver episode to help clear our info overflowing coffers, for you, our listeners & subscribers in the grip of morbid curiosity! You guys are great and you keep us going, so THANKS A ZILLION! IT'S A REAL NUMBER! MAYBE? Anyways this joint covers the rest of th...

This here is a mulligan of a previously covered topic: Abe No Seimei & Onmyodo practices! This is also the first in what may be a reoccurring series of "Under 1 Hour Crash Courses" as I try to not only improve my brain's random knowledge quotient but also the finer points in the black arts of broadcasting and/or content production. Hope you dig it! Let me know what you think! Leave a comment!...

The cat stepped on the laptop & I can't undo that Boogie Cat black magick! (You'll see...or hear. Shit!) So here it is! Manson Part Uno! This is the one where you'll find the smoking gun of The Manson Family's connections to MKULTRA! You'll also learn that, in Spencer's now & forever immortalized words: "MKULTRA'd people MKULTRA people!" Enjoy the episode, we got some extra goodies coming...

Here it is folks! Part 2 of our Laurel Canyon series as well as the end where we'll sliiiiide on in to Chucky Manson! This one's got it all: sex, death, drugs, more drugs, MKULTRA, satanism, COINTELPRO, & dirty, filthy, wackadoo celebrities! That plus a few bits of personal "hot goss!" from the boys! THE HIPPY JIHAD GOES ON! ALALALALALALALALALALA! Opening/closing theme: "Light My Fire" by The...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS IS A BIG ONE! In this episode we're covering the birth of hippy culture. But was it a birth...or was it a vast conspiracy meant to distract a growing anti-war movement (amongst other things?). If you hold high regards for various 1960's counter-culture figures, well get prepared to have numerous illusions SHATTERED! That's right, we gonna shit on some hippies! This episode is...

Finally! Yeesh! The closing instalment of the Dealer's Choice Trilogy and guess what? Chicken butt. What? I've been up all night, gimme a stroke...I mean break. FEAST YOUR EARS ON THIS SPIN DOCTORS MIX! Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com Insta: https://www.instagram.com/kooks_cranks_iconoclasts/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554539459465 Opening/closing theme: "Ghost Town" by Aves...

Here is where you'll find the quintessential American story. And that story...is a cautionary tale. Here's what NOT to do kids. ENJOY! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kcip/support

Inquire within. It'll all make sense then. Just listen, you'll see. I mean hear. Ah shit! You know what I mean. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kcip/support

OH MY! How late is this episode? Let's make this one a Halloween/Election Day Horror special! That'll work! Suuuuuure! (It's all pretty horrifying TBH.) Anyways, in conjunction with a few technical difficulties, we've finally gotten this "SPECIAL!" episode out to you fine folks! We'll be discussing a potentially vaaaaaast string of unsolved early 20th century axe murders that to this very day stil...

What's up you beautiful kooks! This week we got ourselves a good old fashioned Halloween week Two-for-One! We're dropping this episode today, as well as an extra Halloween special, dropping (ideally) on Halloween! (Or TBD? Fingers crossed folks!) This week we're covering one Mr. Fred Lee Crisman, one of America's lesser known yet very intriguing human nexus points upon which roughly the last 100 y...

HEYYOOO! What's up kooks! Join us this week as we reach brand new heights of intellectual inquiry as we explore the alien adventures of one Mr. Chang Hsiang Chien! From his humble origins as a rural Chinese farmer to intergalactic sex stud to potential future super-science messiah, we try our best to interpret the intensely strange & often times quite disturbing life trajectory of Chang Hsiang...

WARNING! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SOME VERY HIGHLY "CONTROVERSIAL" INFORMATION WITHIN! This week we've got a double sized super huge episode full of INSANE information regarding occult practices within the Vatican and early Christian church. We'll cover a variety of topics which includes: exorcisms, apostolic procession, black masses, demon summoning, grimoires, & sorcery as it has been practiced...

WHAT'S UP KOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This week we're taking a 3D stereo-optic vision look into UFOlogy's most misunderstood good guys (OR ARE THEY?!): THE MANTIS ALIENS! We'll examine their fascinating earthbound cousins then jump into the alien and cryptid insectoid lore then get deep into the DMT realms where these entities are allegedly encountered all around the world by numerous unaffiliated psychonaut...

HEYYOOO! What's up everybody? This week things are gonna get dark as we examine the infamously UNSOLVED "Black Dahlia" murder mystery! We'll try our best to get to know the victim, Elizabeth Short (or "Betty", as she liked to be called) & try to dispel many of the awful rumors and misinformation about her that have spread since her gruesome death. We'll take a look at the looooong list of susp...