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!!! More to come very soon 🃏🪄👽
…the not-at-all-a-horror-movie-plot thawing of ancient organisms from arctic ice, a genuine fake Bigfoot body & despite sightings of triangular UFOs, Lockheed Martin's new drone & a tentacled alien potato in 2025 did humans become too boring for ETs to bother visiting us at all?
…the relentless rain of crap that made up the news between July & December witnessing the coming of mysterious cosmic interloper 3I/Atlas & the incoherent stream of nonsense that Avi Loeb chats about it, more fantastic fungi, a troubled train driver with chronic insomnia…(2/3)
“Really weird…”
VYS0057: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0057
As the second half of shit-show now know collectively as 2025 crashes & burns, Hine & Buckley read it its last rites as they prepare for the difficult delivery of a bouncing baby 2026.
Ploughing on through… (1/3)
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)
“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)
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)
“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)
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)
"…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)
A lovely chat between the lads of @vayseesyav.bsky.social and the ethereal Gayle Fidler. In Gef We Trust.
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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)
“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)
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
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.
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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)
“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)
Love this one. Also, I get a generous shout out.
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 ❤️🔥🌛
…the discussion galavants from from our shared special areas of obsession, Under the Silver Lake & Twin Peaks, to Phil’s wider thoughts on magic, the essential intrinsic delight of creativity, art as an expression of life... & then out of nowhere Phil recommends the moon...(3/3)
