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!!! 👽

…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!

… 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)

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❤️‍🔥🎄🎅🏼

…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!!! 🎄 🎅🏼

…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)

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 🎄👻

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)

… 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)

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...

…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…

… 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)

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!🧛

…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…?🎷

…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)

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 ❤️‍🔥🌛