A believer of all things paranormal and mysterious argues with a bitter and unemployed skeptic to create spicy babies of mildly offensive comedy. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from alien abductions to cryptids to creepy folklore from around the world. Enjoy!
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We are going on indefinite hiatus and this is the last episode for a while or something! Thank you for the 21,700 listens and for sticking by us for over 100 episodes! FBI NOTICE: The source file of this episode and all before have been seized by the United States Government and have been left online for archival reasons.Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
It's known that humans can't get into the Galactic Federation of Light, but this religion from the stars might be the first step toward boosting our vibrations enough to ascend past our primitive status among greater species!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
At this point, we might just start a sex-positive podcast because of how often we talk about R18 things! Fun updates as we ATTEMPT to get back into space subjects!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
The eerie conclusion to the unanswered questions and speculations about Bigfoot! We go over the most famous cases and argue about if the evidence are hoaxes or not, as well as possible explanations for the creature!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
More Bigfoot next week we swear!!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
It's Winter Break! Nick and Tasker take it easier than usual on their allotted vacation-recording and talk about their disappointments, triumphs, and successes in surviving the holiday season!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
The wait is finally over for us to cover one of the most famous, elusive, and perplexing mysteries of the cryptozoological world! We go over the biology, behavior, and the basics of what the world knows so far of the Bigfoot species!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
As we gear up for our 100th main series episode, we take a minute to reflect on what's important in life, such as what kinks are unreasonable, opinions on video game movie adaptations, and the proper amount of cheese to put on food!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
The actual-for-sure-last-episode where prosecutors piece together gruesome details, find out what was wrong, and a look into how Dahmer faired in his final days in prison!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
We got harrowing news, fear-mongering, one weekly Elvis fact and holiday shopping advice that you do NOT want to miss!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
Dahmer solidifies his place in history with the atrocities he performs as he completely slips away from reality and into an endless void of nightmares!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
It's a mild fall afternoon and we're ready to make some hot takes to warm up! Tasker ups his social credit score and Nick gets some IT help! Bing Chilling!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
Things are gonna get a whole lot worse as Dahmer begins to loosen up on his urges to kill and begins developing into one of the world's most infamous serial killers!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
We don't have time like we used to, so now here's a short relaxed episode to fill the void just in time for Halloween! Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
What better way to celebrate Halloween than with serial murder? In a CEOTPK first, we jump into the true crime story of Jeffrey Dahmer, the famed serial killer best known for eating his victims and his odd openness about his history! Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
Every hiker's nightmare is ending up on the Missing 411 list, so pack your compass and charge your phone and pray you never end up like the people we have in these stories!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
Confront your fears! Or deal with them in a healthy and reasonable manner! We list off and discuss various popular phobias that plague mankind for the Halloween spooky season!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
Get ready to cringe and wince as we go over the most brutal and inhumane ways to ruin or end the lives of our fellow man in our first gore-tacular episode for the October season! Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
The horror of seeing a man's body with a dog's face charging at you in the middle of the mid-west night comes alive! We go into the local phenomena of a creature messed up enough to cause car accidents and complete paranoia! Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
Graveyard specters, cinematic legends, and the sanguinarians that drink blood in real life! Time to kick off the spooky month early with the long-awaited sequel to Historical Vampires!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
SCPs hand-picked by Nick! More opinions! And the thrilling conclusion to the worst fanfic ever heard by man! Shaka brah!Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
Nick is reporting live from his homeland to bring you cryptids, updates, and smutty fanfic to get you through your commute or workweek! God help us. Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/ceotpk)
What casts a shadow from above could be a godlike deity out to protect you, or a surviving dinosaur coming to kill you! We go over stories, myths, and legends about what lurks above in our dedicated bird episode!
Ancient Greece! Nazis! Aliens! We go over the origins, plausibility and potential leads to the location of the lost city of Atlantis that has captivated mankind since the Classical Period!
Netflix has a popular alien show out, so you know we had to watch and review it! We'll be covering the show's format and content about Project Blue Book from the US Government!
Myths, cryptids, and paranormal legends DEBUNKED! We tackle some of the most popular cases of the fantastic that ended up being cases of a little trollin'!
The revelations never end! We continue with more stories, truths, and secrets from Lacerta, the only known Reptillian to ever grant a human being an interview without killing anyone (we know of)!
In a cozy 3am sitdown, Tasker explains and discusses the nuances of Hyperreality, the concept of humans being unable to determine between a simulation from what is real!
Hypnotism, premonitions, and inappropriate sexual alien advances! We're returning to our grassroots and talking about a famous abduction that contributed highly to the UFOlogy community!
The big report we all were waiting for: in-depth, uncensored, and pulled apart! There's no national panic, so you can bet we have some opinions and criticisms!
4th of July 2021! What better way to celebrate than with the twisted history of America and some ghosts that resulted from it! We got Confederates, we got history, we got blood and we got ectoplasm!
We travel to the most hidden parts of the Congo, Madagascar, Ethiopia, and more to cover some of the bigger-named cryptids that lurk under all of our noses, waiting to be rediscovered!
We conclude our Men In Black series with more peeking into the ruined lives of goth and non-goth UFOlogists across the globe who met with these eyebrowless weirdos, as well as provide explanations for their very existence!
Stalking, hypnotic, and more creepy cases of Men In Black appearing and disappearing! We go to Jersey City and even to the good 'ol UK to explore the people affected and the photo evidence!
With the tacky suits, fedoras, sunglasses and all, the real MIB guys aren't here to save you. We jump into the earliest known sightings and cases of MIB activity in the first of our three-part series on the Men in Black!
Sodomy, scat, fires, and furries! Dante and Virgil's journey to the center of Hell comes to a climactic finish in part two of our dramatic and non-serious narrative retelling of The Divine Comedy's Inferno!
The Vestibule, Limbo, Lust, Greed, and Wrath! We go through and describe the first five circles of Hell from the famous narrative journey from The Divine Comedy starring Dante and his poetry bro Virgil
Anabelle the Doll is one of the many supernatural things that go bump in the night in this horrifically dazzling collection of scary objects with some kind of paranormal twist to them!
The NSA. Edward Snowden. The FBI. Government surveillance is a real and constant threat to the private lives of citizens all over the world! Nick brings these issues to light, as well as some ways to protect yourself and your weird secrets!
Twisted necks, stretched smiles and hollow eyes got you down? Tasker has an explanation for you in this special about Uncanny Valley while Nick is away for the week!
In 1999, Swedish men Ole K. and E.F. managed to score an interview with a Reptilian alien. We bring you both the transcript and the polarizing truths that come with this hallmark moment in Ufology history!
The rich are drinking children's blood for youth? Possibly! We explore the horrible ritual of harvesting Adrenochrome and the people behind it in a very brand-risk type episode!
Life-giving water! Modern vampirism! Alchemy! Magick! Of the many ways to live well beyond your original lifespan, we look at some of the more adventurous, prolific, and realistic attempts to achieve it!
IMPOSTER IS SUS AHAHA anyways, get ready to doubt your friends and loved ones as we discuss the methods, precautions, and defense procedures against creatures that replicate the human form!
Nick aka E-rratic Samurai becomes the sole star of the show in a questionable takeover of the podcast! Join him for short-form alien stories, guests, fanfics, and conspiracies in this new format that will last forever and ever and ever...?
Privet! We travel to Soviet Russia to discuss the possibly suspicious, scientific, or supernatural explanations of the mysterious, basically-unsolved case that took the lives of 9 experienced Russian hikers!
The drinking episode! After a cup of scotch, we revisit the only thing that we know about Ireland for St. Patricks Day!
During an era where mankind's vibrations were brought down to an all-time low, we look into the horrifying and true tales of torture and murder within the walls of some of the worst concentration camps!
The super-alliance of alien species across the cosmos, right into your earbuds! We've hinted at it before, but we are finally jumping into the main species that make up the Federation that keeps us safe from the horrors of deep space!
Time Travel? CIA? Alien contact? We discuss all the possibilities for the unsolved case of a man who appeared in Japan from the nonexistent country of Taured!
The clock is ticking and humanity's last hope may lie in this episode! Join us to discover why we've been protected by the Galactic Federation for so long, and how we might be able to slip into their ranks before it is too late!