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#54b - TAKES MORE THAN GUNS TO KILL A MAN: The Psychological Assassination of Paul Robeson
In Part 2 of their Robeson deep dive, Dimitri and Khalid discuss Robeson’s calculated reaction to the arrest of his friends (Soviet Yiddish poets Itz…
5 years, 4 months ago
#54a - SCANDALIZE MY NAME: Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex
Dimitri and Khalid discuss the extraordinary career of Paul Robeson and the psychopathologizing of his Communist convictions, his struggles in 1930s …
5 years, 4 months ago
[PREVIEW] #53 - COLORLESS GREEN IDOLS PSYOP FURIOUSLY: Defrocking Chomsky
Dimitri and Khalid ruthlessly discuss the Dr. Jekkyl/MIB Hyde aspects of Noam Chomsky’s Radical Intellectual career, including: the legendary 1971 TV…
5 years, 4 months ago
#52 - RED EYE SCARE: Theories of the Mothman
Dimitri and Khalid explore various interpretations of the Mothman who terrorized West Virginia in 1966-67, the contemporaneous rash of UFO sightings,…
5 years, 4 months ago
[PREVIEW] #51 - WATER WALK WITH ME: Elisa Lam and The Haunting of the Cecil Hotel
Dimitri and Khalid discuss Netflix’s recent portrayal of the 2013 disappearance and death of Elisa Lam at the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown Los A…
5 years, 4 months ago
#50 - GOOD SCREAM: The Paranoid Cinema of Brian De Palma
Dimitri and Khalid explore the most paranoid and conspiratorial deep cuts of Brian De Palma’s insufficiently stanned filmography: satirizing the sata…
5 years, 4 months ago
[PREVIEW] #49 - SELJUKIAN MINDWARRIOR: Rumi and The Feats of the Knowers of God
Dimitri and Khalid discuss the heady 14th-century Rumi biography “The Feats of the Knowers of God”, the constant interplay between “mystics” and powe…
5 years, 4 months ago
#48 - GROTTO Q&A IV, Part 2
In part 2 of Q&A IV, Dimitri and Khalid rant further about Mark Fisher’s “acid communism” and Nic Pizzolatto’s assertion that Batman could defeat God…
5 years, 5 months ago
#47 - GROTTO Q&A IV, Part 1
In part one of the fourth installment of the Grotto Q&A, Dimitri and Khalid answer questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord about Dr. Jose Delgado,…
5 years, 5 months ago
#46 - INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC: Spirit Photography and Theories of Spectrality
Dimitri and Khalid discuss the “spirit photography” craze of the late 19th century and photography’s formative influence on modernity, then dive into…
5 years, 5 months ago