Vayse
banner
vayseesyav.bsky.social
Vayse
@vayseesyav.bsky.social
A podcast about weird stuff…

Peter C Hine and Stephen James Buckley explore magic, mysticism, high strangeness & the occult. Usually Hine doing the posting.

Find us here: https://linktr.ee/vayse
Pinned
Vayse is free, we love doing it & we want anyone to be able to listen to all of it, whatever their financial situation.

But, if you enjoy Vayse & want to chuck us some coin we’re now on Ko-fi:

ko-fi.com/vayse

🚨Monthly subscribers get access to our Discord server!!!🚨
ko-fi.com
Thanks to www.unexplained-mysteries.com which we used to help put this episode together & thanks to each & every one of you who is still listening - please keep it up & please tell a friend!!! 👽
Unexplained Mysteries - Paranormal News and Discussion
Daily coverage of UFOs, paranormal phenomena, ancient mysteries, metaphysics, cryptozoology, philosophy, science and space exploration.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
…dance through to Jun 2025 there’s strange encounters with egg shaped UFOs; wooly mice; twitchy dangling robots; foul mouthed relatives of the Pope; the wreckages of Musk's childish spacefaring ambitions; soldiers on the moon & some motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane!
February 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
… predictably we encounter the usual suspects: Lue Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Eric Davis et al, but also some new (to the Vayseverse, at least) recurring characters: Mark Christopher Lee, Avi Loeb & the sinister genetics company Colossal Biosciences. In this dizzying…(2/3)
February 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
“Weird.”

VYS0056: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0056

We’ve barely recovered from the horrific ordeal of looking back at 2024 but here we go: bravely getting our shit together just about enough to sift through the ragged tatters of weirdness that held together the fabric of reality in 2025…(1/3)
February 4, 2026 at 7:05 PM
You can find Phil here:

Web: www.thesearedreams.com

Post Relevant Podcast: www.postrelevant.com

Insta: www.instagram.com/philristaino/

Bandcamp: agentsofvenus.bandcamp.com/album/boduvt

Thanks to Mike for the Vayse photo & you for listening, Merry Christmas & thanks for your support this year❤️‍🔥🎄🎅🏼
THESE ARE DREAMS .COM
THESE ARE DREAMS .COM
www.thesearedreams.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
…side of Henson & the muppets, the incredible ground-breaking puppeteering in the movie, how the ghost of Jim Henson visited his successor to the voice of Kermit... & how the Muppets got the best performance of his career out of Michael Caine. God bless us, every one!!! 🎄 🎅🏼
December 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
…incredibly Phil had never seen the movie but put in several careful viewings before our discussion. Phil is a self affirmed muppet-enthusiast & together with Hine & Buckley forms the 3rd head of the Muppet Xmas Kraken as we discuss the genius of Jim Henson, the spiritual…(2/3)
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“It’s true wherever you find love, it feels like Christmas…”

VYS0055: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0055

Back after a record absence of only 4 episodes is actor & host of the Post Relevant Podcast, Phil Ristaino, for a very important meeting about ice-cold christmas classic The Muppet Christmas Carol…(1/3)
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
You can find more Joshua Cutchin here:

Website: www.joshuacutchin.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/w3eirdwayz?u...

& find more Vayse here: www.vayse.co.uk

Thanks to Mike Warburton for the Vayse photo & thanks to everyone for listening - we’ll see you soon for a special episode, Christmas week 🎄👻
Joshua Cutchin: Weird Words & Brass Beats
Professional website and blog of Joshua Cutchin, author and musician
www.joshuacutchin.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This wide-wandering conversation goes all the way from real-life encounters with fictional characters to the fabric of reality itself & the possibility that our beliefs are what holds it together &, naturally, we take the opportunity to introduce Joshua to the Peanut King 🥜 👑 …(3/3)
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
… Joshua is a writer, a researcher & a musician, having written modern classics of weird non-fiction including “A Trojan Feast”, “Ecology of Souls” & most recently the mind-bending, mind-expanding & mind-blowing masterpiece, “Fourth Wall Phantoms”… (2/3)
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"…we need to have a half-hearted belief in invisible forces to literally hold together the fabric of reality…”

VYS0054: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0054

Releasing 53 episodes of Vayse without interviewing Joshua Cutchin is, frankly, an embarrassment - & one that we’re keen to make up for…(1/3)
December 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Vayse
Find Gayle’s paranormal writing here: www.spookyisles.com/author/gayle... & here: www.lapisparanormal.com/simon-pegg-s... & her fiction here: legironbooks.co.uk/about-the-au... & there’s still time to get tickets to see her at this year’s LAPIS conference: www.lapisparanormal.com/conference-t...
https://spookyisles.com/author/gaylefi…
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
…movie star, an unexpected connection to Aleister Crowley & the unpredictable guidance of a certain Dr Allen Greenfield. … and we also discuss how her husband became an award winning competitive lard eater…
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
… In recent years Gayle & her curious collective of cryptid-hunters have made a pilgrimage to the Isle of Man to investigate Gef & immerse themselves in strangeness of his story. Her incredible adventures include some uncanny synchronicities, an unlikely team-up with a… (2/3)
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Nothing Would Surprise Me When It Comes To That Mongoose…”

VYS0053: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0053

In this episode we discuss 1 of our favourite cryptids with 1 of our favourite people, as writer & paranormal investigator Gayle Fidler joins us to talk Gef the talking mongoose…(1/3)
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Happy Halloween!!! Blessed Samhain!!! Merry Feast of All Souls!!! Have a great October 31st!!!

We’ve got the perfect accompaniment to an Autumn Friday when the veil is thin…

#Halloween #samhain #lostboys #vampires #weirdstuff #gothic #darkacademia
“Today’s popular culture is tomorrow’s history…”

VYS0052: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0052

Back from the dead just in time for Halloween, Vayse welcomes film critic, writer, academic & all-round legend Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn to discuss the 1987 horror-comedy, vampire masterwork, Lost Boys…(1/3)
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by Vayse
The new season of @vayseesyav.bsky.social has dropped and they've brought out Lost Boys aficionado Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn to help light the Samhain pyre.
www.vayse.co.uk/vys0052
VYS0052 | Goddamn Shit-sucking Vampires - Halloween 2025: The Lost Boys - Vayse to Face with Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die." - Sounds exhausting. This is not how Hine and Buckley do Halloween anymore. So, instead of re-living their twenties, or the Lost Decade, as...
www.vayse.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sorcha is a Reader in Film Studies specialising in American Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, find her here:

Website: www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profil...

Insta: www.instagram.com/vampiresorch...

Twitter: www.instagram.com/vampiresorch...

Thanks to everyone who’s listening, Happy Halloween!🧛
https://mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/…
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
…explores some of the more cryptic themes of the film including the transplant of vampiric folklore from dark-ages Europe to MTV-era USA, how certain 1980s vampire movies contributed to the pantheon of queer horror & exactly what's the deal with greased up, pumped up, thrusting sax guy…?🎷
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
…Sorcha was an absolute bloody joy to talk to, she understood the assignment from the very beginning & we quickly got our teeth stuck deep into Joel Schumacher's unrivalled masterpiece without getting lost in the gory details (but never over-looking the Corey details), the discussion… (2/3)
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
“Today’s popular culture is tomorrow’s history…”

VYS0052: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0052

Back from the dead just in time for Halloween, Vayse welcomes film critic, writer, academic & all-round legend Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn to discuss the 1987 horror-comedy, vampire masterwork, Lost Boys…(1/3)
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Reposted by Vayse
Love this one. Also, I get a generous shout out.
“Have you tried the moon recently? It’s up in the sky…?”

VYS0051: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0051

When, after 3 years of searching, we finally found a real-life human more obsessed by Twin Peaks & Under the Silver Lake than we are, we knew we had to interview Phil Ristaino without delay… (1/3)
July 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
You can find Phil here:

Web: www.thesearedreams.com

Post Relevant Podcast: www.postrelevant.com

Insta: www.instagram.com/philristaino/

Bandcamp: agentsofvenus.bandcamp.com/album/boduvt

Thanks as always to @peakflow.bsky.social for the show notes, Mike for the Vayse photo & you for listening ❤️‍🔥🌛
THESE ARE DREAMS .COM
I'm a guest on the latest episode of Lisa Wright's "Third Concept" podcast.  We talk about spiritual awakenings, pursuing different art forms, interpreting "Under the Silver Lake" and "Twin Peaks...
thesearedreams.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM