The ShadowTalker Podcast

Rootless Coffee Presents… Dossier: Subject-Mark Rogers is an artist from the wilds of Oregon that has a deep connection with the ethereal and the intergalactic.  We touch upon The Smurl family’s story, the Urantia Book, Ed and Lorraine Warren, Whitley Streiber, and Avi Loeb. We harness the power of the Vortex while Mark ties his obsessions and experiences with extraterrestrials to his deeply creat...

Rootless Coffee Presents- Dossier: Jason Duncan, our subject for this evening's interrogation, has survived Christian Cults, an abusive step-parent, addiction in a biological parent, being a Southern Baptist, and growing up completely surrounded by the other. Conversely, he ws othered due to it all. This is truly a special interview. A tale of haunting like no other, told to your 3:33 AM agent...

Rootless Coffee Presents- Dossier: Colin Frangicetto, a native of Eastern Pennsylvania, lives a life entrenched in music (as a guitarist in Circa Survive) and high strangeness. From synchronic moments and altered states of consciousness to the paranormal and extraterrestrial/dimensional experiences, his knowledge and acceptance of the other is unparalleled. Our 3:33 AM agents, Nathaniel and Peter...

Rootless Coffee Presents... Dossier: Michael (Mike) Ireland, Guitarist and Pianist, is/has been a member of I Am The Avalanche, Handplant, Pass Away, Project 208, and Revenge Therapy. He has crossed the country, laying down roots in variable hotbeds of psychic activity at every turn. He has experienced events that are legitimately bone chilling. Tonight, he is cross examined by 3:33 A.M. agents Na...

Rootless Coffee Presents... Dossier: Nathaniel and Peter, both authors, musicians, and artists. Both are obsessed with the paranormal, U.A.P,s, cryptids, and strange goings on. Tonight, our 3:33 A.M. agents do the unthinkable... They interview one another. The stimulant of choice, as usual, the fine and feisty black and steamy Rootless Coffee. You can have some with us, just stop by https://rootle...

Dossier: Rootless Coffee Presents... Rootless Coffee"s own Jono Diener! Jono legitimately came of age playing music, along with his siblings, in punk band The Swellers. His trajectory branched into other musical pursuits as well as spearheading a successful, craft coffee company. Jono has had brushes with the tangental, having been in the proximity of supposed Catholic miracles/spiritual happ...

Rootless Coffee Presents... Dossier: Chris Enriquez is the go to drummer for many notable bands in the NYC Metro area. He has played with accredited scene luminaries along the way. Chris has experiences with the ether and was more than happy to share tales surrounding his life on the road and the spirits that surround us all, all the while Nathaniel and Peter, 3:33 AM's esteemed agents, chugge...

Rootless Coffee Presents- England via Pennsylvania via New Jersey ex-pat Andrew Low has spent a lifetime entrenched in Hardcore and Indie music, as well as east coast folklore. His career began in spirit of 88 Youth Crew Hardcore, and quickly morphed into the pinnacle PA second wave emo band the Jazz June. His career in music has never faltered, and his bone-chilling tale of a haunted workplace wi...

Rootless Coffee Presents... Dossier: N.Y.C. native John Lamacchia has been creating music in the metal and Hardcore spheres since the 1980's, having sharpened his industrial strength shred and crushing rhythm in his parent's basement from an early age. Tonight, John delves into the notorious van accident that he and his bandmates in Candiria barely escaped from, and served as the inspiration for t...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier: Bryan Louie is a musician, illustrator, and art director. He has travelled the country making music with some of the day's most important independent artists as well as plying his trade for physical media and even television. Tonight, he is interrogated by 3:33 AM agents Nathaniel and Peter regarding his experiences with the ethereal and the downright mystical, a...

Rootless Coffee Presents... Dossier - Jeff Dean's early and formative years were spent in the relative small town vibes of Las Vegas, Nevada. Amidst the arid, sun blanched backdrop of Sin City, he found his way through life via skate videos and Punk Rock records, eventually joiningTomorrows Gone in 1993, Yesterday's Heroes in 1994, Cleons Down in '95, Zero In Trust in '97, and ende...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier - Keith M. has dedicated his life to music since his youthful beginnings in the bucolic suburbs of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His proximity to Philadelphia opened the door to it's Hardcore scene at a very fertile time in it's history. Expanding upon a fandom of the music, he formed/joined bands, loved and lost, and ultimately rebuilt in the form of the wildly pop...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier - Mike "Mikey" Elfers (Guitar/Multi-instramentalist in Vempire, Journalist) grew up in the heartland of the U.S., avoiding the violence of rednecks and sloughing off the top 40 C&W that the Nashville machine pumped into the lower 48 in favor of Punk Rock and New Wave. His background and interests are made self evident with the music of Vempire. Mikey did not g...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier- Tara VanFlower (Author of the "Violet" and "Wulric" series, Vocalist/Keys in Post-Punk legends Lycia, solo artist) dwells in the desert town of Tempe, Arizona , a world away from her roots in rural Ohio. The town that inspired her novels... that held the locations of the Lycia "American Gothic" promo photos. The cornfield and cemetery that instilled a sense of wo...

Rootless Coffee Presents:  Dossier - Jeff Gensterblum (Drums/Percussion for The Casket Lottery, Small Brown Bike, Lamaccia, Her Heads On Fire, Beinn, Savak, Coalesce) is a consummate musician, honing his craft from an early age, he joined high school Jazz band, attended camps and has never looked back. His bona fides are a thing of legend, and an indie rock wet dream.   Beyond music, Jeff has had...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier- Bec Hollcraft (Singer/Somatic Songwriter? Death Doula) has spent a lifetime in the pursuit and creation of music. She has seen the industry from many angles; as a pop star in Japan, the front woman of an aggressive rock group, electronic chanteuse... She is a spiritual traveler, a guide to the ether for those nearing the end of this cycle, and a collaborator in t...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier- Justin Pearson -Musician/Label Owner/Artist./Actor. The subjects’ involvement in outsider music beginning in the early 1990s with Struggle and Swing Kids. He later started the foundational ThreeOneG Records, as well as igniting an out and out explosion in style and sound via The Locust. Justin plays in Dead Cross with Dave Lombardo and Mike Payton, Satanic Planet...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier - Cris 'Crude" Taylor is an artist and vocalist (Pg.99, Pygmy Lush...). He has been witness to myriad examples of otherness, traveled great swaths of this land (in vans not unlike the one this conversation had taken place within), and has experienced life as more than a mere observer. Chris has a rare and fascinating point of view, and taps into the commonalities...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier - Case #003: Sean Ingram, Vocalist of Hardcore-Punk/Noise Rock giants Coalesce, Miasis, and Restrain, as well as founder of companies Blue Collar Press, Fixcraft, and Merchtable. Sean discusses his youth in the midwestern skateboarding counterculture, discovering music via skate videos, finding Hardcore, the X-Files, living in a music vacuum, and becoming a musici...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier - Case #002: Cesar Soto, Guitarist of legendary musical icons Ministry, solo project Man The Mute, formerly of Texas Groove/Thrash Metal group Pissing Razors. Cesar discusses- Having grown up in a home alive with human and non-human entities: Discovering the early Thrash scene via his elder sibling: Facing personal tragedy and discovering a gift for empathy and co...

Rootless Coffee Presents: Dossier - Case #001: Nick Emde of myriad musical acts (Destro, Clad In Shadows, Contra Cult, Shock Withdrawl, Hogwasch) discusses the metaphysical, the interdimensional, the extra-planetary, and the interior spiritual realms that linger just beyond natural sight. This case covers UAP/UFO, spectral, and Astral phenomena. We discuss Nick's experiences and opinions on sl...