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KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

By: Michael Lucht Spencer Lowery Chris Wells
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Greetings & Salutations! We're here to cover various interesting/infamous/inexplicable living enigmas & anomalies from across all of time, space, maybe even beyond, & from history BOTH ANCIENT & RECENT! Basically it's "BIOGRAPHY!" but focused solely on WEIRDOS! Listen then repeat what you hear to sound smart at parties! STOP being MYOPIC! START being ESOTERIC! (Mmm! Yum!) Stay tuned True Believers! NEW EPISODES POSTED UP ON HUMPDAYS! Clear The Hump w/us as we provide Weekly Bios on strange/insane/shameful/lost/forgotten Misfits of History! Comedy/Conspiracy/True Crime/High Strangeness!Michael Lucht, Spencer Lowery, Chris Wells
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  • THE GREEN DRAGON SOCIETY & "THE MAN WITH THE GREEN GLOVES"-"SKULLDUGGERY!"
    May 14 2025

    KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Sup famalamazam! Daaaaamn! This episode covers the enigmatic figure known as "The Man With The Green Gloves", a shadowy "yellow peril" archetype lurking within the peripheries of so called "Nazi occultism" & the default figurehead of one of the most mysterious WWII era Japanese secret societies..."The Green Dragon Society"! Who were they? Were they even real? This isn't another one of those "Maria Orsic" type situations...is it? Not quite! This one's got a little more reality to it. (Even if this mystery man just so happens to be some kind of semi-mythical composite character of Nazi adjacent weirdos such as the unfortunate individual known to history as "Hitler's Psychic", one Erik Jan Hanussen. Or was it perhaps the pitifully eccentric living mistake that re-christened himself "The Great Chao Kung"?) GESUNDHEIT! Maybe a little from "Column A" and a little from "Column B"! LET'S GET INTO IT! X.O.X.O.

    Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com

    MUSIC: "Krao" by Yokai, theme from "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Incantation" & "Signal To Noise" by Scott Buckley, "Back To The Volcano Base" by Babasmas Caturday, ""Funeral March of A Marionette" by Gounod, "Irish Jig" by...YouTube? (I guess?), "Meowpurrrdy" by Meow The Jewels, and "Torgo's Theme" from ""MANOS": The Hands of Fate"

    SOURCES:

    *https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/secret-history/behold-the-green-dragon-the-myth-reality-of-an-asian-secret-society

    *https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/1bqm5ws/the_jewish_nazi_dalai_lama_madlad_full_story_in/

    *https://info-buddhism.com/Nazis-of-Tibet-A-Twentieth-Century-Myth_Engelhardt.html

    *https://maybelogic.blogspot.com/2011/01/seven-heads-of-green-dragon.html

    *https://perfumedskull.com/2017/05/25/evil-dukpas-woke-tv-reboots-and-dreams-of-tibet-on-the-blavatskyisms-of-twin-peaks/


    If you are struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, please dial 988.



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    1 hr and 49 mins
  • PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY Vol.2-"Bustin' Makes Me Feel Good!"
    May 12 2025

    What's up you beautiful kooks! While I'm losing my mind...YOU GET TO REAP ALL THE BENEFITS! This episode I'm trying something new, something different, and something (if I may be so bold) a little more personal. Something that I want to do that incorporates YOU! The listener! Check it out, let me know what you think! Is this "normal"? Are you "normal"? Just what the fuck exactly is..."normal"? Does such a thing as "normal" really and truly even exist? LET'S TALK ABOUT IT! NOW TELLLLLLLLLLL MEEEEEEEEEEE!!! What's weird in your hood? Cryptids? Cults? Conspiracies? Urban legends? Alien abductions? This and all other such "high strangeness" is welcome!


    EMAIL ME!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com


    "ROYALTY FREE?" MUSIC: "Incantation" & "Signal To Noise" by Scott Buckley, "Cut Throat" by Syndrome, & "Back To The Volcano Castle" by Babasmas Caturday


    SOURCES:

    Albert Rosales' "Humanoid Encounters" Series: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=albert+rosales+books&crid=2DOTU6EPKPQM8&sprefix=albert+rosales%2Caps%2C130&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_14

    George Mitrovic's "Phenomenal Database" Series: https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Strange-Mysterious-Archaeology-America/dp/B0CW6GRBWJ/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2SR4OGQ7PGBDR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-sNtU8aRTMN_QeXtDK_scWZxUQPmjCOiIKLEnGu_4SOtjWHcqoSsQG7EI0zrHA6ipqE9bAtLmkaKxJZgiz4ug-pFLLHaBW0VOy7aaLxugDaS10qd4CN07Lm-HWaAZwB8dYdt6bWbYlrAt3-56vyF7YZN_MkF1MYNxtwGLCvUFQMVzTZzVoGDLXjl4L8pUJJ0z9usZWlnZA8SBkm3yv7BG1X4mXAU2EOMi_WoBOJV27o.rzMjIhk9wCQU_-gtbOWVjpYCReTrGaoNRiavo1XC6S4&dib_tag=se&keywords=george+mitrovic+books&qid=1747060146&sprefix=george+mitrovic+books%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-6

    (This one's more of a direct jump off point because he also has a lot of kooky titles about "The Great Climate Change Deception" and other...questionable weirdness. AS IS HIS WONT TO DO...I'm not all that into those bits myself but hey, whatever, you go boy...George.)



    If you are struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues...HEY! ME TOO! WE'RE ALL FUCKED! THERAPY IS TOO GODDAMNED EXPENSIVE! But if it's an emergency, then please dial 988 or if you're in the midst of a much more mellow meltdown, then please, feel free to email me. We can talk about it. Stay strong. Know that you are loved. P.E.A.C.E.! (Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation)

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • GENERAL EDWARD LANDSDALE-"Pretty Ugly American Vampire Psyops Papa Bear"
    May 8 2025

    HEYYOOO! Here ya go folks...pertinent information from an impertinent dickhead of questionable mental state. YOU KNOW HOW WE DO! This episode is primarily taken from this awesome book: "https://www.amazon.com/Art-History-Conspiritainment-Shattering-Reality/dp/B0CJSVTH5Z/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8EVYQUX6DUSH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VLh3_2rKvn0MMr0zEsc_Ng.xoKEo23GhjwYCWlupLqGrifS0pOvgDlmlVycBIabHVM&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+art+psywar+conspiritainment&qid=1746684976&sprefix=the+art+psywar+conspiritainment%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-1 as well as this particular RAND memorandum (I DO RAND RAND!): https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2008/RM365.pdf. It covers the damnable antics of one General Edward Landsdale, the undisputed and under- known American psyops papa bear! GET TO KNOW HIM! He's another one of those lesser known invisible architects of the 20th century! The choppy and mismanaged background music is meant to mirror my current questionable mental state (featuring our usual opening/closing theme "Ghost Town" by Aves, as well as "The Magsaysay Mambo" and more music from some classical old school homies on to more contemporary sources such as The English Beat, plus some Gremlins and Killer Klowns From Outer Space and so on, etc.) I love my co-hosts and they ain't goin' nowhere...I'm just currently "goin' through some thangs" as the youth maybe says these days...I dunno for sure, as I am extremely out of touch with "reality", whatever that may be or entails. ANYWAYS! (Yeesh! Excuse me while I change my sanitary napkin.) I do sincerely hope you get something out of it and/or enjoy it on any level. BIG UPS! To both YOU! & MY CREW! LOVE TO ALL Y'ALL MOFOS! See y'all next week with more weirdness! XOXOX! P.E.A.C.E.!


    P.S. Here's a link to the article covering the compromised nature & straight up weaponization of the brainwashed victims to the movement they call..."Q": https://daniel-ed-morrison.medium.com/how-q-came-to-be-7b05e7b10ab5 , fair warning...it MAY aggravate and/or agitate!


    *If you are currently struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues...hey, me too! I'm here to talk if you want...BUT I AM NOT A LICENSED...ANYTHING! Call 988 or take a mental health day and always remember that there are people out there that worry for and care about you. You are not alone. NEVER ALONE! Much love to all those who fight the good fight and struggle to overcome the endless deluge of bullshit which the world relentlessly throws at you. Everything's (pretty much) gonna be fine...just don't lose perspective. RISE ABOVE! You can't spell "(r)evolution" without "love" (but it's all a jumbled mess and it's gonna take some work to unscramble them shits!)

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    1 hr and 40 mins

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