Bad Breath Presents: The Rod Carmichael Show

Sean's dad

A fresh episode of Stories for Boys. In which we are absent Sean but joined by local wizard and comedian Doctor Foxmeat.

Stories about talking tumors, drunk unicycling, and the sexual habits of the worst generation in recent history. All that and more, this week on Stories for Boys. It's not about

BB Productions presents R. Carmichael's BeachWatch: Fury 2022

Terrible impressions, bad dates, the Venus of Willendorf evolving into a missile. Remote viewing Angels in the astral plane.

Homegrown tattoos, apartment peepers, porn in the wild. Join Shea and Collin as they tell the hard-bitten stories from their hard-boiled youth that made them into the hard men they are today.

Josh is back

Strip clubs, party monsters, "kids," and Vince Neil

Spies, aliens, and the future of the species

New co-host "Mark" offers insight on some baffling modern phenomena.

We finally get into some of the legal stuff regarding the name change...

Season Two continues with more brave stories and wild theories

Season Two soft-opening

We have another meandering conversation about the dive-bombing nature of both leftist discourse and bad comedy and how it's all bottomed out into cultural wars.

Humboldt Confidential.

Shea and Collin try to talk about Michael Crichton's Westworld, etc

Explaining the joke and thereby emptying it of its significance. Interlude: The Pop Group - Kiss the Book Outro: Lou Bega - Tricky Tricky

We start the episode off with a little detour into Humboldt County and give the listeners a peak behind the redwood curtain in all its local flavor before having one of our usual pseudo-intellectual conversations about the nature of free will, history, freedom, conditionality and contingency and Hegel. And Collin gets tokens every time he swears! Ghetto Brothers - Girl From the Mountain Rush - Freewill The Mothers of Invention - Trouble Everyday

...They just want you to think it does. Join us for a conversation about cats, space force (omg lolcatz can haz spaceburger?!11), magic, voodoo, the retelling of history, satanic panic, false memory syndrome, musk libertarianism, nostalgia and handing off the script to the new generation.

We're talking about the dawning of the New Golden Age!

We're talking Law and Order in the good old Platonic sense.

Iconography, iconoclasm, Angels and Andrei Rublev's Trinity. Interlude: Popol Vuh - Ave Maria Outro: Utopia - The Ikon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(Andrei_Rublev)#/media/File:Angelsatmamre-trinity-rublev-1410.jpg

This week we talk about the empire of reality and its endless battle with the forces of reaction and emotion, and whether there is any truth behind the idea of fact, or if we are all living in a larger fiction composed by our own stresses and prejudice. Or whether it's even possible to talk about these things using the language and formats which we have available. We explore the medium of the internet and the world of gaming to find some intersections with another couple of extremely popular forums of American expression: paranoia and explosive violence. Interlude: George Duke - So Mean To Me Interlude: Li Garattoni - Friends Outro: Petula Clark - Downtown

This week we align with the Solstice and the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn to have a discussion with our friend Andy about his many travels in Mongolia, China, and Siberia and the art and cinema he has made there. We talk about the vastness of time, empire, and space as it relates to a westerner considering the so-called "Far East," and how soundtracks and film emerge from dreams, landscapes and travel. Enjoy. Twitter: @abaddonic2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/circumambulation_the_film/ Movie: https://www.indieboomff.com/circumambulation.html Soundtrack: https://0thpersonperspective.bandcamp.com/album/circumambulation

We take a look at the halls of history and discuss the pathways from primitive osso-weaponry to modern satellites with a few pit stops. Prominent milestones include the Julio-Claudian Dynasty, The English Romantic poets, Edgar Allen Poe, Stanley Kubrick, and Elizabeth Warren. We also talk about those silly monoliths. Enjoy. Interlude: Glenn Philips - The Flu 2nd Interlude: Todd Rundgren - Eastern Intrigue Outro: Dead Can Dance - How Fortune The Man With None

We invited our friend Josh onto the show for a discussion which was originally going to be about housing. However, sandwiched as we are between a full moon/lunar eclipse, upcoming solar eclipse, and the season of Advent, we played a little fast and loose and ended up talking about celestial shit, a new American coronation, practical magic, synchronicity, the art of John McCracken and those new monoliths, the cool stussy S, Norman Vincent Peale, and smoking pipes. Collin got drunk because he had just finished moving out of his old place and got the full deposit back. It's celebration season tonight. Interlude: Zoogz Rift - The Island of Living Puke Outro: Luna Art - Mysterious

This week's episode is a lost one, a tired and weary traveler whose visage has been mangled by the physical and spiritual geography of its own dark journey. Join us for some thrills and chills from the digital deletion bin of the forgotten podcast archives as we weave a narrative so boundless and stupid that no trashcan on God's own Creation could be expected to contain it. This is the primal belch of the rejected sons of Mother Earth, biliary and dyspeptic on the ancient shores of stank.

This week we discuss the coming superspreader event that is Pandemic Thanksgiving, rooted as it is in the very early American Pilgrim tradition of spreading deadly contagions like smallpox and Protestantism. Then we talk about evangelical and jihadist heaven, our kitschy and terrified existence on the ADHD highway of modern life, and the meaning of The Great Reset for wild-eyed, large-mouthed and unmasked believers and heretics alike.

Shea aka @bozomillionaire joins us in his first sanctioned appearance to discuss the baroque and confusing period which we have navigated from 2016 to the current election. Starring the Knight-Errant anti-hero and King Dipshit of the QAotic era, Donald Quixote and his gleeful horde of online Sanchos Panza. Come join us for a journey into a lush and treacherous world of stupid illusion and greasy, queasy fun. Interlude: Not Carlos Moog Bach - Brandenburg 2.1 in F (https://youtu.be/5cUaunnnKhQ) Interlude: Bach Air on the G String on Moog synthesizer (https://youtu.be/zLm3QmLdVi4) Outro: Joy Division - Dead Souls

Continuing with our October theme of heading into Halloween and this ominous 'Dark Winter', this week we are talking about zombies, voodoo, reanimated corpses and the American fantasy of being 'forced' to kill your neighbor in 'self-defense' scenarios. Interlude: Fela Kuti - Zombie Outro: Zombies Ate My Neighbors Soundtrack NES

Continuing the theme of the month and last week's talk about parasitism, this week we're talking exorcism in media and history. While often considered through the monocle lens of priests, holy water, demonic possession and the cloistered atmosphere of Catholicism, our conversation leads us beyond the reductionist understanding and places demonic possession and exorcism along a continuum of attempted therapeutic and medical treatments that have versions and variations across all traditions and time. We're also quick to point out that most of it is bullshit. Interlude: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Pt. I Outro: Rhythm & Noise - Schismatic

Picking up from where we left off on last week's episode on Gnosticism, we explore the 'ancient astronauts' theory a bit further from a psychological and mythological perspective. Using the Alien series as our point of departure we explore a wide range of topics and themes including panspermia, biowarfare, biblical allegory, serpent energy, ancient deities, magic, parasitism, corporatism and the hubristic search for immortality. Follow us on Twitter: @badfaithpodOG Interlude: Vangelis - Freefall Outro: David Bowie - Loving the Alien

This week we're discussing the confounding subject of Gnosticism, adding our own confusions and insights to the mix, as we touch on archons, archangels, apocrypha, orthodoxy, Sophia, the discovery of the Nag Hammadi and a PLEROMA of other related tangents... Follow us on Twitter: @BadFaithPodOG Interlude: Trio Bulgarka (youtube video) Outro: Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim

Collin (@flavorstraw) fills in for a solo episode to discuss depictions of the soul in popular media, specifically, as seen in The Simpsons episode Bart Sells His Soul. While teasing out the theological and metaphysical implications--highlighting Lisa's profound insights as they relate to the the value of one's own soul--Collin compares this storyline with the one found in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer, showing that here again, we have a story in which the value and status of one's soul is examined and is recognized as something not to be taken for granted. Interlude: The Residents - Phantom Outro: Johnny Moggi Quintet - Night's Perfume

Despite making our way into autumn, things continue to heat up both figuratively and literally. The death of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg has ignited a new wave of fiery ardor among Democrats. The Jefferson County grand jury ruling in the murder of Breonna Taylor shows yet again how broken our legal system is. Power continues to insulate itself with human shields. Bots and humans compete for authenticity in mimetic rivalry. So-called ‘personalities' and gatekeepers steer attention and allegiances to the all-absorbing kayfabe of our aestheticized political system. It would seem we are still collectively losing our shit but in the meantime we might as well dispel illusions and smash false idols. Music: The Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight (Granny remix) Frank Zappa - Son of Orange County (Live) Black Sabbath - Into the Void

Resident Asimov expert @AtlastDrugged comes on to talk about the influence of Isaac Asimov on the fields of robotics, economics, sociology and history. With not only his science-heavy sci-fi series 'Foundation', but also central concepts like 'psychohistory', Asimov has influenced people from Elon Musk to Newt Gingrich and many other self-appointed 'Gold-Souled' individuals, who, whether hedging their bets on Roko's basilisk, cheating investors out of their money or simply true-believers themselves in the tech utopia of being 'watched over by machines of loving grace', take it upon themselves to steer humanity toward self-fulfilling prophecy. We also talk a little about Silicon Valley burning, Russian spy allegations, spies moonlighting as authors, CSICOP, how Epstein 'fucking loved science', Apple TV's upcoming version of 'Foundation', and the dangers of unexamined influences. Interlude: Hitomi Tohyama - 'Sexy Robot' Outro: Baby Buddha - 'Robot Police' Follow us on Twitter: @BadFaithPodOG

Talking UFOs, aliens, To the Stars Academy, Nazis, mass ritual and the dark side of ufology. Interlude and outro: Fek and the Future Friends of Sound - Unidentified Fascist Object

We took a week off because of how hectic everything has been lately but we're back to shoot the shit and mull over some recent events while trying to get our heads back together. Intro theme by Kit Lamb Interlude: "Three Pieces for Piano: Boogie" - Ilhan Mimaroglu Outro: "Dark Cliffs" - Collin Yeo

Catching up on the weather and talking Walter Benjamin's famous, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". Benjamin describes fascism as the "aestheticization of politics" whereas "communism politicizes art". In other words, fascists are happy to let the masses express themselves insofar as the property relations of capitalism are left unchanged, but is 'politicizing art' an adequate or even helpful alternative to this situation? Music: Interlude 1: Hugh Cornwell & Robert Williams - Losers in a Lost Land Interlude 2: Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Informatique Outro: Jean Pierre Mirouze - Sexopolis

Apocalyptic and catastrophic visions are growing and crystalizing amid the Covid-19 crisis as many are possessed by an ominous anticipation of something looming on the horizon. Ever since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki this 'cold' paranoid mode of thinking has put the world on edge while simultaneously evolving from having as its focus a singular ideological enemy--e.g. communism and the Soviet Union--to the ever-present and diffuse threat of terrorism. Interlude 1: Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima Interlude 2: İlhan Mimaroğlu - Immolation Scene Outro: Pharoah Sanders - Love is Everywhere

Talking about the Nietzschean Videodrome and some contemporary symptoms of nihilism. Credits: Interlude: Earth Dies Burning - Bored Teenager Outro: The Mary Kaye Trio - I Should Care

Collin discusses his announcement to run for Arcata City Council and local politics. Then the dudes discuss Dante's Inferno, Catholicism, sin and simony.

A conversation between two dumb shits about the cultural climate, Pan, new ageism, scientism, Rene Girard, Christianity and eternity.