WYRD_SIGNAL

Nov 14 2023 46 ep. 93 mins 259
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Podcast encountering the spectres of the 20th century via cult film, fringe literature, strange sounds and haunted landscapes. [Now on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod]

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Palestine, the media and the manufacture of consent

Nov 14 2023 96 mins  
In the first of what we're intending to be a series of conversations around the theme, Lucy joins Jonathan Kennedy (@getradified) to discuss the onging events taking place in Gaza and the Western media's role in facilitating Israel's onging war on the Palestinian people. WYRD_SIGNAL is still on hiatus but we've opted to use this channel while we figure out our long term plans with

episode: 041_INTERVIEW_SERIES [010] Don Webb

Aug 29 2023 68 mins  
In the latest in our ongoing interview series, Sean talks with horror writer and literal ex-High Priest of Set Don Webb about weird America, the Left Hand Path, and eyebrows.

[UNLOCKED] episode - 038_THE_MOTHMAN_PROPHECIES - Pellington (2002)

Jun 28 2023 115 mins  
Sean and Lucy join up with Bobsy (of Diane and DEEP STATUS fame) get to grips with an entity that has loomed large over the history of the 20th century and the history of WYRD_SIGNAL since its inception - the archangel of high strangeness: Mothman!

[UNLOCKED] episode - 035_WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR - Schoenbrun (2021)

Jun 28 2023 102 mins  
Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair

episode: 040_INTERVIEW_SERIES [009] M_John_Harrison

Jun 28 2023 70 mins  
Sean is joined by none other than M. John Harrison to discuss science fiction and the limits of genre, failures of personal identity, landscape weirdness, and an untranslatable word in Portuguese. Author photograph by Hugo Glendinning (cropped and grayscaled by Lucy to fit design conventions)

episode: 039_MUSIC_OF_FUCKED_AMERICA - Various Artists (1981-1994)

Apr 25 2023 131 mins  
Lucy and Sean take a detour from their focus on film to explore what "fucked America vibes" mean to them in musical terms through an intensely personal road trip across the post-punk/prog rock/groove metal and 90s alt. landscape

[PREVIEW] episode - 038_THE_MOTHMAN_PROPHECIES - Pellington (2002)

Apr 01 2023 15 mins  
Sean and Lucy join up with Bobsy (of Diane and DEEP STATUS fame) get to grips with an entity that has loomed large over the history of the 20th century and the history of WYRD_SIGNAL since its inception - the archangel of high strangeness: Mothman! Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the full two hour episode at patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod

episode: 037_INTERVIEW_SERIES [008] Lee_Edelman

Mar 18 2023 75 mins  
Sean is joined by the legendary Lee Edelman to discuss the history and (no) future of queer theory, with a brief bypass through Coronation Street

episode - 036_INVASION_OF_THE_BODYSNATCHERS - Kaufman (1978)

Mar 01 2023 152 mins  
Lucy and Sean go down the rabbit hole of American Paranoia, talking conspiracy cinema of the 1970s, therapy cults, the post-60s malaise, the deep state and the confusing unreality of the American Century in Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

[PREVIEW] episode - 035_WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR - Schoenbrun (2021)

Feb 13 2023 5 mins  
In our first Patreon exclusive episode of WYRD_SIGNAL, Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair Access to Patreon-exclusive episodes is $2 a month over at https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsig