Hitchhiking on the Hermetic Highway

We're back and COVID-negative but positive the Beijing Olympics is about to be nuclearly disrupted. As promised, we still can't shut up about satellites, broadcasting, and telecommunications, but now we've got MJ, Muhammad Ali, Princess Di, and, for some drunk reason, Kanye to spice up the conversation. Tune in to hear two non-architectural experts explain late 20th century architecture through the eyes of the Architect in the Matrix and decipher Steven Michael John McClane's Century City 1988 Christmas Olympic message between the twin towers of Minoru Yamasaki and I.M. Pei.

Time to whip out your wallets because corona pandemic assistance ended and beer ain't cheap—psyche! We're holding off on paywalls to dive even deeper into crowns and popes, exploring coronation propaganda in the age of mass media, where Howard Hughes meets Hugh Jackman. We also look Corona, Queens and the Queen's corona as we reminisce about the balance of power between American corporatism, British Monarchy, and the papacy, and how all this and the corona virus's spikes somehow come to a head in Spike's corona doc at the epicenter of Elmhurst Hospital.

Join Chase and Eric as they travel back again to the future foreseen by past generations. Reborn from the ashes of one of the biggest dumps in history, the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964 prove once again that capitalism and commercialization always work… as long as you offload the losses. This episode demonstrates that the US can propagandize with the worst of them. We won't name any names except for Pope Paul VI, Queen Elizabeth II, Edward Bernays, Walt Disney and a bunch of other people. Who needs a crown when you've got the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park?

Once upon a time, the United States created a little old intelligence agency that created a little old satellite program that took a f*ck ton of photographs from space and surveilled the entire surface of the earth easing Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union. In what is surely just another coincidence, that program's name was CORONA and it defined a new era of intelligence, advanced film, telecommunications, and manned space flight, and led to the billionaire space cowboy low earth orbit satellite monopoly techno-dome internet panopticon we have today… during a Corona pandemic… wow, what a coincidence. The End.

Never have our hosts tried so hard to justify their place in this mad world, appealing to insane penguins and cannibalistic chimps to validate their existence. With a little help from Tom Hiddleston, Nordic mythology, and Disney we're feeling pretty confident in our mischievous ways. Also, turns out we weren't so far off when we connected the Ford Edsel to Janet Jackson's nipple. Why the hell didn't we go into advertising?

We just noticed the Hermes mobile is actually a morphing time-traveling 1958/1959 Ford Edsel last registered in 1964, oscillating between the underworld and Earth orbit. We're on the threshold of a major breakthrough exposing the best of American broadcasting exploitation and the breast of Janet Jackson for a stimulating conversation about who the hell knows what.

Don't shoot the messenger, unless of course you realize the medium is the message in which case go for it, just be sure to take out the entire system at once for a clean transition, preferably through an assassination and/or the Olympics. Also bear in mind that all technologies are merely extensions of ourselves, and so you're actually shooting ourself. Lastly, don't worry, all this funny business is sanctioned by the Olympian messenger himself—Hermes.

We’re stuck in Pensacola, our dome away from home, concocting an Egyptian pyramid scheme—I mean dream. It feels a bit like an anti-coronation nightmare, surrounded by all this death of kings and transporting mummified pharaohs. Indeed our conversation includes the stuff of tales... tall tales, super tall tales, or maybe even mega tall tales, like radioactive AI robots and, of course, aliens... Aka 4/20.

Somehow we’re still on satellites... oh, it’s because everything we do, say, see, and talk about on this earth is related to an omnipresent network of orbiting telecommunication surveillance satellites that watches our every move, entertains our every thought, and has flooded the earth with a calming wave of life giving feminine energy during this pandemic. Big Brother? More like Big Mother!

Bill Dee Bingham Esquire and Ted Neo Reeves follow Dr Who in his time traveling phone booth into the Twilight Zone of the Matrix (aka television) to root out a foreign invader disturbing their magical political blood-purified dreamland in all its MCU terror—Wandavision.

All aboard the sub liminal submarine “HHH”, we’re embarking down the feverish synapse void of our hilarious hermetic covid hermits deranged lock down minds. We’re going deepmind subconscious memeosphere mental stock Mercury market trend setting billionaire man-up-ulation deep. I mean that’s deep. Also Slugworth.

Chase and Eric look to the past and realize that it was the same as it is today....always has been. Big Broadcast doesn't want you to know that. The tech may change but the message stays the same: "Get in line and shut the fuck up! It's for your own good!" Luckily we agree.

Plug in, tune in, change the channel and stay tuned. We’re about to reveal the 20th century reality of telecommunications and governmental cooperation to propagandize the earth and yet strangely maintain some level of freedumb through corporate self sacrifice and rebirth... just like you and your mom.

World War 5G AT&T 1984 Let's GOOOOO! Meet Chase and Eric in downtown New York for a New Years' celebration no one will ever forget. Out with the old, in with the new. Who needs theaters when you can tap directly into everyone's pocket?... and pick it? Welcome to the streaming pleasuredome global paradigm brought to you by Mickey Mouse and Wonder Woman. 

Chase and Eric get an early start on their holiday cheer in the spirit of Saturnalia and raise a glass to their old friend Bacchus. He may be dead but that’s ok because he’ll rise again, just like the insane murder cults that bear his name. Kick back and have a toast with Livy and your favorite conspiracy realists as we celebrate this Great Conjunction Winter Solstice of 2020.

The ultimate shitpost, Eric and Chase get several layers deep into Amazon’s new series, Utopia, as fiction truly merges into reality. Utopia explores weaponized viruses and manufactured pandemics as predicted in a fictional comic book that gets a group of obsessive fanboys and fangirls into a shitty situation. Released in the middle of real-life pandemic, our hosts were floored by the parallels with recent discussions on HHH, and examine the rise in blatant Hermetic themes in entertainment media.

Eric and Chase have entered chaos mode. Further along the ole Hermes Highway Route 88/777/93. Things get strange and dark as they dive into Pepe and the frog archetype. They discuss the new documentary "Feels Good Man" and the spreading of meme magick and mythology. Plus, some random ass rants.   Feels Good Man (2020)

This is it folks, this is for all the marbles. We all knew something was off about 2020 but, if you ask us, there’s also something very on about it too. What’s on is the culmination of thousands of years of history and manipulation of the mass of humanity toward ever greater unification through traumatic collective events in order to build an ever more unified globe. It’s like going to the gym but for global domination, world empire and cosmic communion. Or just a really good box office and psychotic podcast selling point.

Remember, remember all those crazy double agent, agent provocateur films Nicholas Cage did back in the day? We only sorta did but the result was explosive. Join us as we dive into the function of sabotage in recent history and its shifting nature with advancements in chemical explosives and nuclear weapons.

The splitting of the trident, the union of opposites, the Alchemical Great Work, and achievement of unus mundus or “one world” are all wrapped up in the ‘mother’ of “symbolic events on a world scale.” Like history itself, our podcast has developed episode by episode from ancient Near East mystery religions and the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt to this, the political, spiritual, and psychological unification of the entire globe on the first day of the Egyptian calendar of the new millennium. We’ll present 9/11 like you’ve never heard before, focusing on perspectives from Jean Baudrillard, Carl Jung, alchemy, and the whole history of esotericism.

All jokes about Hermes and crossroads aside, come meet us and Hermes at the crossroads of the world as we analyze the current and historical significance of the World Trade Center site in Manhattan.

Tune in to channel 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 77, or 88 for a look into the totally random events surrounding the assassination of JFK like news of the event being sent to Japan on Sagittarius across the Pacific Ocean a la Pan Am but in an instant serving as the inaugural intercontinental television satellite broadcast in history. JFK is known as the first “television president”, and he remained true to the title both in life and in death. His trophy case includes: 1st televised presidential debate, 1st televised presidential press conference, first call by satellite between heads of state, and first transcontinental satellite television broadcast after the state had his head. Oh, and Beyonce. 

Chase and Eric meet Prometheus at the crossroads for a shady exchange under the Elm tree. Suddenly our dynamic duo realizes they’ve been transported to the the grassy knoll, Dallas Texas, 12:30pm, 11/22/63. Fuck. Prometheus is giving out divine light and knowledge in exchange for sacrificing the US’s first Roman Catholic king. “Of course!” they scream, just kidding, they would never do that, their global ruling elite would, however, and did. In this episode our hosts provide the key to unlocking the ancient esoteric symbolism behind the assassination of JFK, from elm trees and tragedy in Ancient Greece to 88 and political and religious revolution in medieval and enlightenment Europe. Find out how the motif of killing of the king and the splitting of Poseidon’s trident spear are central to the most pivotal moment in the Cold War Era.

Your two favorite potheads take a detour to further digest last week’s episode on air flight and the unification of the Pacific Ocean over the International Date Line (IDL). Chase and Eric explore additional narratives involving zeppelins in alternate timelines and the age of industrial steel in film television and video games. Not surprisingly, things get a little extra terrestrial as our hosts refuse to bring this psycho blimp down to earth before next week’s coronation, er, killing of the king.

Come along on a trip in the air and around the world as we take lives and tank industries in our psycho-blimp from the future. We look at the advent of radio, lighter-than-air flight, time travel, splitting, and aliens in shaping global events and story telling before WWII and the advent of the atomic bomb.

Chase and Eric sell what’s left of their souls to Hermes Pan at the crossroads of the North and South, East and West, Old World and New World, past and future in exchange for that icon of 1950’s utopian visions of the future: a rusted out gas-guzzling piece of sh*t. It’s no DeLorean, but time flies in this tin can on wheels as our hosts explore the religion of imperial progress that underlies American culture as reflected in the Tennessee and Oklahoma Expositions of statehood and detail the dubbing of Michael J Fox as the new Atomic Kid.

Chase was sleepy. Eric did pod alone.  Celebrate this 4th of July (last week) and take a trip down south to Oz at the crossroads with Chase and Eric and Nat Turner to be enlightened to the meaning of the number 77. 

Eric and Chase go on a musical history tour from the vantage point of the mythical crossroads and its significance as a symbol of transition and transformation. The “Crossroads” adorns everything from popular music to the electrification of rural America, military nuclear tests and the bikini. Join us at the Hermetic hermeneutic threshold between the hydroelectricity, popular music, and the Atomic Age. Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson Rocket 88 by Ike Turner Rock a While by Goree Carter Buckaroo Banzai (1984) Back to the Future (1985) O’ Brother Where Art Thou (2000)

Chase and Eric hook it up with that extra pure DMT straight from the extraterrestrial source. They explore the endless connections between nuclear history and aliens and analyze the popular narrative pattern of time travel and alien/human intervention to secure future fortune.   Back to the Future (1985) Doraemon (1970) Man and His Symbols - C.G. Jung (1964)

Eric and Chase breakdown electronic new wave with its Krautrock roots as they discuss the effects of the Berlin Wall and the Cold War on the human psyche. They explore the significance of splitting and unification on a political, psychological, cultural, and historical level and how it relates to the incredibly immense Manhattan Project that developed the world’s first atomic bomb.

Chase and Eric take another time out from season 2 to discuss the ongoing BLM and Anti Police Brutality protests around the world including New York and Los Angeles where they’ve had boots on the ground. They also discuss racism and historical ignorance in the white community including their own.   Split donation between 39 community bail funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

Chase and Eric put a pause on season 2 to discuss the killing of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the history of systemic racism in America.

Chase and Eric start Season 2 off with a bang, exploring the profound influence of the ATOMIC AGE and the COLD WAR on contemporary culture, the nature of SOCIAL COMPLEXES and the role of COLLECTIVE TRAUMA in producing myths, religions and philosophies.   Music:  Great Atomic Power (1952), by The Louvin Brothers    Film/TV:  Dr Strangelove (1964) Watchmen (HBO)   Books: Man and His Symbols (1964), by Carl Jung Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), by Robert Jacobs

Chase fled to the desert and Eric is currently trapped in London, presumably with the royal family. It is possible his initiation will be delayed due to the global pandemic. Either way, Chase and Eric hop on the ole' hermes cyber highway to shoot the shit and discuss all the insanity going on in the world right now and the need for an actual NWO.

When mankind perfects time travel, the government establishes the Time Enforcement Commission to thwart criminal attempts to alter the timeline, wait, that's the synopsis to Time Cop. Well, in this episode Eric dives deep into numbers, time and how they relate to the occult and hermetic thought. Had Chase been there it would've devolved into a stoned conversation about the movie Time Cop. Enjoy!

Chase makes a wild discovery about the great Martin Luther King Jr. who, as it turns out, was no stranger to Mithraism and the history of ancient mystery religion. Chase and Eric discuss similarities between MLK and Gandhi and their connection to esotericism and are actually helpful for once.  Read Dr. King’s paper here: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/study-mithraism

Eric and Chase replace the bat signal with a taijitu, which their less illuminated western friends think is a yin and yang. Christian Bale and Heath Ledger show up at the same time leading to a never-ending best-of-three game of paper rock scissors that continually ends in a tie. Finally, everyone agrees to give the role of Batman to whomever comes up with the worst voice. Find out how extradition, Hong Kong, NSA, Snowden, Batman, Egypt and cocaine are all connected as we explore the esoteric meaning behind Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight

Join Chase and Eric under the mistletoe (oak cum) for some psychedelic holiday cheer as they muse about the origins of America’s most popular holiday, Christ Sol Invictus Jesus Dionysus Yule Odin Apollo Saint Nick Claus mas Day.

Chase's recounts his *alleged* first LSD trip. Shadow people, Synesthesia, Elemental Women, and Twiztid Jesters all make an appearance. Enjoy it!

Chase and Eric try to fulfill their lifelong goal of cashing in on a SUICIDE CULT but are left empty handed. Unsure whether this constitutes failure or success they turn to drugs for the answer as per usual. Finally, our psychedelic wanderers accept their SHAMANIC mantle with its call to self-sacrifice. Stay tuned for a NUCLEAR SEASON 2 but enjoy our one-off episodes in the meantime and don’t forget to spread these mysterious mystic mysteries to THE ALL the WEIRDOS you know.   Movies/TV: Living with Yourself (Netflix); The Prestige (2006)

Chase and Eric sit down with SHRED LORD and SCHOLAR IAN FOWLES. Ian is a guitarist in the Superhero rock band The Aquabats! He also founded the band Death by Stereo and worked with Gerard Way on his solo project, Hesitant Alien. Ian is a student of religion, the occult, and all things weird. Our kind of dude. Author of A Sound Salvation: Rock N' Roll as a Religion. ENJOY!    Music: The Legend is True! by The Aquabats! (2011)

Eric and Chase's Gene Kelly Hollywood tour de force takes a detour to Gene Kelly’s unconscious underworld initiatory dream state.   Movies/TV: Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Eric and Chase realize they’ve been transported to an opium den underneath the pleasure dome in Kubla Khan’s Xanadu. About what you’d expect after a night of partying with Hollywood’s most recent fallen star Lucius who’s still passed out. They shake themselves off and remember they have a wedding to catch an alchemical, sacred, Royal wedding between film and sound officiated by none other than Gene mother f*cking Kelly... Gotta dance!   Movies/TV: Xanadu (1980); Singin' in the Rain (1952)   Books: Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Chase and Eric finally get invited to the Emmys where our boy Lucius makes a golden ass of himself on the red carpet casting his Pythagorean pearls before swine. Their limo driver “accidentally” runs over a pine tree to avoid a paparazzo on their way out opening a portal to the Dog Star for yet another encounter with the transmutative purifying good vibe check from the Queen herself.   Books: Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) by Apuleius Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Film/TV: Avengers Infinity War (2018); LEGO Movie (2014); John Wick 3 (2019); Beetlejuice (1988); Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989); Back to the Future Trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990); 1941 (1979)

Let’s be real people—like really real—like starting now, we are one, as in the One, as in the One and Only. Only Fate under the guise of being could stop us now, but not really due to the eternal fateful question of who let the dogs out? Confused? Neither are we. Like and subscribe people... like and subscribe.

Chase and Eric wake up to the rising sun with Attis-level cosmic hangovers, dazed and confused, next to Attis herself. With only 2 phalli between the 3 of them and Isis’s magic golden prosthetic phallus nowhere to be found, our fragile hosts make a run for it while definitely not reevaluating everything from their gender identity to their divine parentage. Our boys go crawling back to their all-receptive mother goddess for the true secrets of divine being.   Film/TV: Lodge 49 (AMC)   Music: Amon Duul (1970)

Chase and Eric—now dubbed Hermes and Thoth—celebrate the bounty of their mother goddess by partaking in her blessed grain-brew MODELO style. Their original outline is abandoned as they’re overtaken by the DRUNKEN spirit of Dionysus who reveals the common origin of Western and Eastern esoteric thought. Things get all ENTHEOGENIC when they astral project to the 8th dimension for a GNOSTIC rendezvous with God, Christopher Vogler, and James Earl Jones.   Books: The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers - Christopher Vogler Movies: The Holy Mountain (1973); The Lion King (1994) Beer: Modelo (CDMX)

Eric and Chase regroup after boring half of their audience to death last episode and thus establish BALANCE in the universe once again. They and their PODCAST are REDEEMED and reborn from the underworld thanks to the unadulterated rage of their new goddess-mother DEMETER-ISIS. With Hermes, god of writing once again at their side, Eric and Chase botch name after name while they perfectly articulate the entire ancient history of the NEAR EAST.   Books: The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts - Marvin W. Meyer; The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly P. Hall   TV/Film: Maniac (Netflix); Dark (Netflix)

Eric and Chase take a minute to chill out at the local crossroads bus stop where a random homeless man who turns out to be Jim Henson won’t shut up about the HERO'S JOURNEY before they’re all whisked away on a Magical Mystery School Bus. Hermes is nowhere to be found as our hosts find themselves on the express bus to Hades. Is this a oneway trip to the underworld or can the MOTHER GODDESS bail them out with all her OLYMPIC REALNESS? Books: The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts - Marvin W. Meyer Movies/TV: Labyrinth (1986); Dark Crystal (1982); Dark (Netflix)  

Chase and Eric escape the clutches of the Minotaur and exit the labyrinth realizing it was all just a big trick. Just kidding, they died, but don’t worry, they were reborn. Womb to tomb and back again, only half-conscious but somehow fully aware, they accept their new role as heroes in this never-ending but perpetually lucrative Hollywood tale.   Books: Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung; The Hero of a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell Movies/TV: The Matrix (1999); The Lego Movie (2014); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Dark (Netflix) Other: King's Quest VI (1992)