Lost Rhetoric

Send us Fan Mail In the early days of LSD experimentation, there were quite a few deaths in the scene & a lot of rumors surrounding those deaths.  LSD may have caused some of them but maybe, just maybe, the hype & fear surrounding the drug was used as a scapegoat. JPX from Post Rhetoric & The Degenerate Life Podcast joins me to talk about some baffling historical cases.  Grace Bigler a...

Send us Fan Mail Edward Leedskalnin, we've determined, was probably not a good guy.  He had some sketchy personal ideals (which he wrote about) and by today's standards he was a love spurned pedophile obsessing psychotically over losing the chance to marry a child 10 years his junior.  He took all of his bitterness, moved from Latvia to the USA & eventually built a modern marvel of a...

Send us Fan Mail Justin Stimson, I mean...Mustin Douch, from Nasalrod & M.A.R.C. & The Horsejerks joins me to discuss whether or not we are living in a simulation. That's pretty much all I can say.  I love this conversation & it was a pleasure catching up with an old friend.  NASALROD: https://nasalrod.bandcamp.com/ M.A.R.C. & THE HORSEJERKS: https://marcandthehorsejerks-nadin...

Send us Fan Mail Pony & I discuss the mega strange Russian hiking story that isn't Dyatlov Pass but had the same ending...a bunch of people dead under mysterious circumstances.  Also, Emily Donat joins me for CALL ME CRAZY! to tell her story of manifesting her 90210 heartthrob into existence.  DOMER EZZA ROSE A YOUTUBE EXPLANATION OF THE INCIDENT MEDIUM ARTICLE WITH PICTURES CREEPY VIDEO...

Send us Fan Mail I tell my Mom a Bigfoot story, I try to tell The Old Man a story but we just start chattin' UFOs, My brother & I watched Santa Claus Conquers The Martians & do some trivia.  It's amazing. WATCH THE FULL MOVIE THEN TRY THE TRIVIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGh7ryVZops ALBUM OF THE YEAR: TURNSTILE - GLOW ON https://www.turnstilehardcore.com/ SONG OF THE YEAR:...

Send us Fan Mail Artist & Musician Micah Kassell joins me to discuss the weird history of my current place of residence & his hometown...Silverton, Oregon.  There's a lot of high strangeness 'round here & Micah has a wealth of wild tales to share.  Strange vibes, UFOs, mauled animals, Bigfoot, Ghosts walking the highway, church fires, teenage drug use & the injuries that...

Send us Fan Mail I'm no Sky-intist but Jesse Gee might be! The Co-host of the SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER PODCAST schools me on some time travel theories, shares his favorite time travel movies & other time travel related shit.   Paul Barfo from GODSTOMPER re-joins the show in the 1st installment of "Call Me Crazy!" & my music recommendations change the world. TIME TRAVELLING...

Send us Fan Mail Science Fiction has helped the world advance in countless ways but it has also predicted, or perhaps ushered in, a lot of dystopian ideas of a bleak future.  Willy Dee & I discuss some of the technological advances that were inspired by science fiction & the darker side of sci-fi that seems to be coming true before our eyes. "Extravagant fiction today...cold fact tomo...

Send us Fan Mail In this, the LAST episode to be produced in Portland, The Old Man & I discuss aging & The Fountain of Youth.  Is it just water in general & not a physical place you can find on google maps? Probably. Most likely. Yes. LISTEN TO POST RHETORIC ! SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/67cozEhcr0el9T8LYy8Rqk?si=8OcnbO3aQxO3npAAAVo0kw&utm_source=copy-link N...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jon Campos from PRIMITIVE MAN & BLACK CURSE joins me to talk all things Sasquatch. It's a good time with an old friend just throwing out all sorts of wild ideas about what the hell Sasquatch/Bigfoot is & where they come from.  We don't solve the mystery. Nope. Not at all. "THE LIFER" PEDAL FROM FOWL SOUNDS: https://www.fowlsoundsfx.com/product...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Freiburger from Seattle Doom band deathCAVE joins me to discuss his experiences with Tree Spirits or Tree Elves or whatever you want to call them...while under the influence of psychedelics.  Encountering these entities is not uncommon &  we discuss his unique experiences & what it could mean for them to be a constant presence in the outer realms of reality. SAT...

Send us Fan Mail TRIPLE E #1! I'm not dead, I'm alive. I talk about myself & Herbert Schirmer.  More Soon...

Send us Fan Mail It's the 1 Year Anniversary/Last Episode of Season 1 Blowout! This week, the boys from Post Rhetoric crash my Intro to commemorate their newly beloved holiday of 6/18 but I also had the privilege of once again speaking with Jenny from Headspin Podcast to make up for it. Jenny & I's 1st episode together (LR021) was THE MOST LISTENED TO  episode of the 1st year, so she...

Send us Fan Mail This week Deena Barnwell joins me to discuss Black Spiritualism, Black Magic & African Religions that were lost during Western colonization.  Throughout the world there seems to be a growing connection to African ancestors & an interest in reclaiming African spirituality, rituals & practices that were demonized by white, western culture.  Whether it's Hoodoo, Vodu...

Send us Fan Mail Legendary Drummer, Producer, Teamster & Author Tim Leitch AKA Spit Stix from FEAR, NASALROD & a bunch of other projects joins me to talk about his family history of seeing things in the sky.  It's quite extensive & runs 3 generations deep.  This is guaranteed to be a unique side of the man you've never heard before. FEAR: https://fearleeving.com/ NASALROD: ht...

Send us Fan Mail Adam Wilson from grindcore powerbabes TRANSIENT joins  me to discuss Hermits.  We get into the reasons why a person might decide to become one, some historical examples, some modern examples & the intentions behind their decisions.  Perhaps you've thought of becoming a Hermit...I assume we all have. The perception of Hermits has changed over time from a position of knowle...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Nathaniel Rappole aka GULL joins me to discuss instruments that are known for their majestic or sometimes evil properties &  we swoon over their creation stories. We also really get into how making music & listening to music can be a magical experience.  It's time travel, teleportation, therapy, dimension hopping, tapping into the oneness, it's cathars...

Send us Fan Mail John Magnifico from Twelve Hour Turn, Old Growth  & Old Junior joins me to discuss his home state of West Virginia & a few weird monsters known to be lurking in the woods there.  He grew up in Grafton, a town known for inventing Mother's Day (Happy Mother's Day!) but also known for a massive, carnivorous being called The Grafton Monster.  We discuss the lore behi...

Send us Fan Mail Amateur Archaeologist & Weird Creature Expert  Sarah Crosley is back on the show this week to  say maybe the Bigfoots & the Hobbits of the world aren't just fantasy creatures...maybe they were & possibly still are real.  The story of Ebu Gogo is one of those folkloric creatures come to life in the form of actual skeletal remains found in a cave on the island of Fl...

Send us Fan Mail Andy Sell from Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast joins me in a crossover episode to discuss the absolutely bonkers history behind the infamous McPherson Tape. The Original movie, called UFO Abduction, depicted a family in the throes of an alien abduction caught in real time on home video. Was it real? Was it a hoax? Was the US Government involved? The creative mastermind behi...

Send us Fan Mail Aris Hunter Wales from BEWITCHER & ORDER OF THE GASH joins me in a Rock 'n' Roll romp through 4 songs that were inspired by true life events.  Whether it was their own experience or someone else's, these musicians found inspiration in the unknown.  We discuss Sammy Hagar's abduction experience & his song "Silver Lights", Creedence Clearwater R...

Send us Fan Mail Quinn Schwartz from the Portland, OR "paranormal stoner punk" band GHOST FROG joins me to discuss a handful of UFO Cults/Religions that were created soon after the 1st sightings were reported in the late 1940's in America.  We specifically discuss Ashtar Command, The Aetherius Society, The Uranius Academy of Science, Heaven's Gate & Raelism. It's a lot...

Send us Fan Mail Emily Donat returns to discuss DMT, its high probability to take you to an amazing, possibly REAL place & its correlation to Near Death Experiences & what that all could possibly mean.  Are we just a threshold away from the truth? Are we all capable of knowing the true love & understanding we are all born from & die into? DMT could reveal all of the answers... THE...

Send us Fan Mail This week The Old Man is back to discuss alien abduction. He has been fascinated by common physical traits that abductees seem to share, so with that as a jumping off point, we delve deeper into some research that breaks down what kinds of folks get plucked up from the planet by extraterrestrials.  THE 2006 STUDY/MAIN SOURCE: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333634035_A_Re...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Portland's own Sean Croghan from THE MISTONS  joins me to discuss many things.  We talk about ghosts, consciousness, the violent history of our world that could lead to dark spirits & how they could attach themselves to people or places, how to not be susceptible to these attachments, how to live life in a positive way to leave a legacy of love & not a web...