The Post Relevant Podcast

The Post Relevant Podcast is a secret brought to Earth through the wise Owl, handed off to a cadre of Hawks, red-eyed demon dogs, an army of Deer, an Air Force of Vultures, and borne to the foot of the the mystical Blue Heron, who blesses every episode and eventually drops them beneath the Blue Moon into the ears of local Rabbits. The Rabbits leave each episodes of the show on listener's doors...

The year of the Fire Horse has galloped a flaming path of destructransmorphication into 2026. (Just in time for Easter, btw). Follow the fiery hoof prints into the future! The Post Relevant Podcast is proud to present the second half of our epic decode of Twin Peaks: the Return episode 8 (the nuclear explosion episode). Hosts Phil Ristaino and Justin Epifanio are joined by Peter C Hine and Stephen...

Imagine a world where computers are made of ants! Nature's robots! Are you imagining it? Are you? ARE YOU? The Post Relevant Podcast season 3 proudly presents: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 8: Birth Of (the) Bo(m)b. Ever since host Phil Ristaino started recording decodes of Twin Peaks: the Return with his buddy and co-host Justin Epifanio over a year ago, they (we) were keenly awa...

The Post Relevant Podcast has emerged from its magical initiation and is now riding on the wings of the podcast's spirit owl across the astral realms. We are also simultaneously roaming the streets at night to catch other wild owls to collect more wisdoms for our wisdom sack. We are ALSO whistling into the ether as a call to the heavens to unlock a space in a wall that has no door. But wait, a...

At the stroke of Midnite, on the Eve of All Hallows, the Post Relevant Podcast lands at the foot of your shadowy path. A being of pure magic, it has taken the form of Pallas Athena's cosmic owl, newly descended from the dreamtime of Mt Olympus to shock you into epiphany. "Who are you?" you entreat. But no message is forthcoming, only the steady, silent stare of your own destiny sinki...

A kitten purrrrrzzzzz. A bee buzzzezzzz. A podcaster cazzzzzttttttzzzzzz. A Lion's Gate returnnnnzzzzzz!!!!! Is the universe exploding? Not. Quite. Yet............ Its the Post Relevant Podcast's triumphant trip back through the Lion's Gate once more again, but this time, with bees! Strap on your mesh spacesuit and try not to get stung (by the insight) as hosts Phil Ristaino and Justin...

Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 4. SONNY JIM IS BACK IN. Full stop. June 1st, 2025 has arrived. We all knew this day would come. 2000 years ago, when the first western savior was born to a virgin in a manger beneath the Star of Bethlehem, the prophecy was set in motion: "Yay, verily, a special child would rise again when the world of shadows most needs him. This savior of the 3rd a...

Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 3. The Post Relevant Podcast hatches out of a bright red Easter egg and skitters diagonally across multiple dimensions with our decode of Twin Peaks: the Return episode 3!  You are in for another audio epic.... We follow everyone's favorite cosmic FBI agent Dale Cooper as he silently falls through space, warps through an electrical socket and assumes...

Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 2. The Post Relevant Podcast dares to go where no one dares to dare as we follow the owl's screech along a jagged path strewn with corn and backwards dreams across a multidimensional soap opera in order to glance into the deep puddles of Lynch's bubble gum mind. Or something similar... Its a jumbo-sized episode as hosts Phil Ristaino and Justin Ep...

Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE. The Post Relevant Podcast looms over the city. This isn't your mama's podcast. Its the Post Relevant Podcast EXTREME!!!! Exclamation points!!! Our decode of David Lynch and Mark Frost's magnum opus Twin Peaks: the Return begins in earnest as host Phil Ristaino and his new co-host (director and TV post-production coordinator) Justin Epifanio dig into...

Twin Peaks: The Return: the DECODE... The Post Relevant Podcast has once more again returned! And also, we're back! Rising up out of the gigantic hole in the sun (look it up) like a phoenix bird who's firey wings have been extra lit on fire, just in case. And soon, once we've shed the eggshell that is the sun (just roll with this metaphor) we will explode into a million stories, gently...

Parles vous, Post Relevantinizers! Grateful to have you return from the Dead (metaphorically speaking) to the Post Relevant Podcast. You found your miracle (or you maybe just jumped the fence) and waded into the crowd of online onlookers to grok and jibe most froogaly with the rhythmic geometries of the music emanating from the Grate Jerry! We are resurrected with episode 25, and what an episode i...

4 men knock on the Gates of Heaven. One man enters. One man goes insane. One man goes suicidal. One man goes Post Relevant! Welcome back for the first time and ever and always again to Post Relevant Podcast episode 24. Its time to resolve your opposites and check your mates as we spelunk way down into the depths of our own metaphysical mastery in pursuit of the Transcendental Object at the End of...

The Post Relevant Podcast has yet once again re-returned with the actual real and proper beginning of season 2!   Episode 23 phones it in from across the seas as host Phil Ristaino is joined by his old experimental theater buddy and co-creator of the Post Relevant Manifesto Yehuda Duenyas.  Yehuda is an actor, director, and intimacy coordinator who paid his dues in the NYC downtown...

Happy 2023!   Welcome to Season 2 of the Post Relevant Podcast.  Your host Phil Ristaino here. Sync up your TV or computer or home theater with this episode, because we've recorded a watch-a-long to explain the A24 hipster-bizarro-noir "Under the Silver Lake."   I know, I know, I said I was done with explaining the movie...and I am...but brother Andy and I thought it would...

Ahoy, Post-Relevanteers!  We be steerin' the 'cast into our final destination, and quite a heavenly body is she.  She be the most Silvery of Lakes.... Welcome back to the final installment of our season long decode of the film "Under the Silver Lake." We've dog-paddled all the way to the surface of the moon, the first heaven, finding ourselves washed up on a strange and shining midnight...

Hale Hale, hearty listeners!  You have answered the sphinx's riddles, donned the Wadget, the all seeing eye, and discovered the Lyre of Orpheus, alit in the sacred temple of Abydos by the starlight of the constellation Lyra itself.  As you strum the lyre's silver strings, a 7th dimensional tone turns the locks etched into the walls, held aloft by the lion goddesses Sekhmet and Bastet for...

Howdy!  Welcome to the King's Chamber part 2.   We are full on peering into the heavens from the vantage point of the apex of the original mountain of creation, which birthed the phoenix bird and rose up the djed pillar at the very center of the globe.  In this episode, we expand on the ideas introduced in episode 18 with the decode of the King's Chamber scene in "Under the Sil...

If a feather fell from a weather bell, would you wonder whether your will would be well?  Or would wonder well in your whither well till your whethers wilt as your feathers filled? Do you know the answer? It takes puzzling the sphinxian riddle to cross the threshold into the King's Chamber.  But cross it we do!  Welcome back for the first time to episode 18 of the Post Relevant Podc...

I am Infinite.  I am cosmic.  I am purple, obsequious, and clairvoyant.  I am POST RELEVANT.  I AM the END of the END of TIME.... Fall into the cosmic crystal oceans along the edge of the Lagoon Nebula and surf the silver tides of Aldebaran!  The time has come for the grand entrance of the Ladies of the Hour.  Let's all live in a swamp and be three dimensional! You ar...

The time has come to meet the Ladies of the Hour.  Tuck your pistol into your pants and enter the hut as we decipher the ascension secrets of the Final Man and this 3 Brides.  Have some tea.  On second thought, you might not want to drink that.... The Post Relevant Podcast has returned once more again, and with this revival, we proudly welcome back Brother Andy to the show!  An...

Welcome back to part 2 of an epic conversation with actor/producer Lloyd Booker.  In this half of the conversation, Lloyd and host Phil talk almost exclusively about the short film they both appear in, "House of Brotherly Love" by writer/director Max Kane.  Max has created a challenging snapshot of a wealthy Black family throwing a New Years Eve party in 2020 in their home outside of Phi...

Strap in and hold on tight, Post-Relevantians!  You're about to be Booker-ized!  In this episode we take a detour from our investigation of the film "Under the Silver Lake" to speak to a working actor and producer from out of Philadelphia, the raconteur of Philly Cool - Lloyd Booker.   Lloyd appears in the same short film as me (your host Phil), a film called "House of Brotherly Lov...

The Post Relevant Podcast episode 13, "Dog Paddling in the Deep End of the Silver Lake," has crawled its half-blind way out of the life-slime of the cement pond and is now roaming the city streets for warm-blooded crowds to consume and the tallest building on top of which to build its gigantic nest.  This is a lively and strange discussion, a wild ride of a conversation, inter-splicing two ta...

"There both, I thought, the eagle and myself did burn; and so intense the imagined flames, that needs my sleep was broken off." Yeah verily, dear listeners, we have arrived at the cliffs of purgatory, with nothing but stairs upward and the heavens before us!   Its part 2 of my conversation with Christine Ristaino, PHD, as we explore and expand through the 2nd and 3rd segments of Dante's...