Book Club From Hell

Mar 09 2025 128 ep. 128 mins 45
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The weirdest book club on the planet.

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#115 Trump: Modern Shaman: Understanding His Mastery of Influence and Enchantment - Leo Van

Mar 09 2025 78 mins  
Ed returns for an episode! Leo Van is an engineer-turned-shaman who knows some of Ed and my (Jack's) friends. In this book, published shortly before the 2024 American Presidential election, Van analyses Trump from the perspective of Amazonian shamanism, describing him as an unwitting 'brujo rojo', a practitioner of both black and white magic.I was initially reticent to cover a book

Book Club from Heaven - Remembering the Dead w/ Lewis Woolston

Mar 02 2025 81 mins  
Lewis Woolston is a cryptid (Australian) living in Facebookistan (South Australia) who has written two lovely collections of short stories, Remembering the Dead and Other Stories and The Last Free Man and Other Stories. This episode, we talked about Remembering the Dead, regret, ageing, loss, family, NA, and more. Read his books, they're great.Buy Remembering the Dead from Truth Se

#114 Democracy: The God That Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe w/ Gabe Sinclair

Feb 23 2025 236 mins  
Hans-Herman Hoppe is a German-born economist of the Austrian School, an anarcho-capitalist, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada and, as the title of this book would suggest, not a democracy enjoyer.Considered a seminal work by, among others, NRx luminaries such as Mencious Moldbug and Nick Land, Democracy: The God That Failed offers a praxeological justifica

Book Club from Heaven - Incurable Graphomania w/ Anna Krivolapova

Feb 16 2025 146 mins  
Incurable Graphomania is a collection of bleakly funny short stories by Anna Krivalopova (not Anna Khachyan). We got to talk about Russia, being talked to by telecommunication towers, cat food, grindcore, and much more, before she had to make a sudden and mysterious exit--intriguing, elusive, maintaining frame.You should buy Incurable Graphomania: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCW2HG

#113 Fiat Food - Matthew Lysiak

Feb 09 2025 305 mins  
Without sound money, governments can expand the supply of cuckbucks (fiat currency) willy-nilly. In Fiat Food (2023), Lysiak details how monetary expansion has led to the American 'fiat food' diet of vegetable-based, food-adjacent slop. And how do we escape from the clutches of fiat food? With Bitcoin and red meat.Shout out to orangepill luminary Saifedean Ammous' publishing house

Book Club from Heaven - Slacker Genesis/Mixtape Hyperborea w/ Adem Luz Rienspects

Feb 02 2025 114 mins  
Adem is an author and audio documentarian (I guess?) whose work is characterised by, above all, a bracing honesty. Mixtape Hyperborea (2023) is a novel about high school, and Slacker Genesis is an audio collage (for lack of a better term) about relationships, faith, hypocrisy, friendship, failure and forgiveness. Both works are well worth checking out.Mixtape Hyperborea: https://ww

#112 The Power of the Pussy: Get What You Want From Men: Love, Respect, Commitment and More! - Kara King

Jan 26 2025 154 mins  
Men won't commit and women don't need to accept this. Why? They have the power of the pussy. Relationship books for women are a whole lot less gross than the ones for men, but also much less funny.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower ar

Book Club from Heaven - Dragon Day/The Black Album w/ Matt Pegas

Jan 19 2025 119 mins  
Matt Pegas is an author, podcaster and soon-to-be publisher. We talked about his books Dragon Day and The Black Album, about order from chaos, about being and becoming, about Alexander Dugin, about Ernst Junger, about the occult, about the importance of ritual, and much more.Matt's Books:Dragon Day: https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Day-Matthew-Pegas-ebook/dp/B0967PF1JFThe Black Album:

#111 Erowid.org

Jan 12 2025 109 mins  
Erowid.org is the Internet's most comprehensive and fun encyclopaedia of recreational drugs. If you aren't ordering research chemicals from a shady online Russian pharmacy and using them to commune with tree demons at a bush doof, then you aren't really living.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0C

2024 Review

Dec 22 2024 182 mins  
We look back on 2024. NB: during the Patreon shoutouts, I can't remember if I gave a shoutout to Robert/Fake Gamer Boy. Shout out to Robert! Also shout out to Trent, our grouchiest OG.We're going to be taking a break for a few weeks, new episodes again from mid-January 2025.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-B