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The Post Relevant Podcast28. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 2Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 2. The Post Relevant Podcast dares to go where no one dares to dare as we follow the owl's screech along a jagged path strewn with corn and backwards dreams across a multidimensional soap opera in order to glance into the deep puddles of Lynch's bubble gum mind. Or something similar...Its a jumbo-sized episode as hosts Phil Ristaino and Justin Epifanio:1. Talk and eat and talk some more.2. Interview Stephen James Buckley of the music project Polypores (part 1 of a 2-part interview, to be...2025-03-203h 09
The Post Relevant Podcast27. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 1Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE.The Post Relevant Podcast looms over the city. This isn't your mama's podcast. Its the Post Relevant Podcast EXTREME!!!! Exclamation points!!!Our decode of David Lynch and Mark Frost's magnum opus Twin Peaks: the Return begins in earnest as host Phil Ristaino and his new co-host (director and TV post-production coordinator) Justin Epifanio dig into TP: TR episode 1. After an EXTREME intro to the show, Phil ponders the loss of David Lynch, the LA fires, and reads from Lynch's book "Catching the Big Fish."Then...2025-02-192h 31
The Post Relevant Podcast26. PRP season 3: Twin Peaks: The Return: The Decode episode 0Twin Peaks: The Return: the DECODE...
The Post Relevant Podcast has once more again returned! And also, we're back! Rising up out of the gigantic hole in the sun (look it up) like a phoenix bird who's firey wings have been extra lit on fire, just in case. And soon, once we've shed the eggshell that is the sun (just roll with this metaphor) we will explode into a million stories, gently falling on the minds of one and all like snow and stardust...
The podcast is back with Season 3. And we're leveling up...2025-02-051h 51
The Post Relevant Podcast25. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 25 - Mad Carl and the Ghost of Jerry GarciaParles vous, Post Relevantinizers! Grateful to have you return from the Dead (metaphorically speaking) to the Post Relevant Podcast. You found your miracle (or you maybe just jumped the fence) and waded into the crowd of online onlookers to grok and jibe most froogaly with the rhythmic geometries of the music emanating from the Grate Jerry!
We are resurrected with episode 25, and what an episode it is! Guest host Carl Ristaino (visual artist and host of the 'Welcome to the Art Shed' podcast - you may have also heard him on PRP episodes 10 and 20) is back, and...2023-06-061h 35
The Post Relevant Podcast24. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 24 - Cheese and the Transcendental Object at the End of Time4 men knock on the Gates of Heaven. One man enters. One man goes insane. One man goes suicidal. One man goes Post Relevant!
Welcome back for the first time and ever and always again to Post Relevant Podcast episode 24. Its time to resolve your opposites and check your mates as we spelunk way down into the depths of our own metaphysical mastery in pursuit of the Transcendental Object at the End of Time with rapper and chess master Anthony the Goat Cheese Koz aka the learned rebel known as Cheese!
Host Phil Ristaino tries to...2023-04-141h 29
The Post Relevant Podcast23. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 23 - The Birth of the Post Relevant Movement with Yehuda DuenyasThe Post Relevant Podcast has yet once again re-returned with the actual real and proper beginning of season 2! Episode 23 phones it in from across the seas as host Phil Ristaino is joined by his old experimental theater buddy and co-creator of the Post Relevant Manifesto Yehuda Duenyas. Yehuda is an actor, director, and intimacy coordinator who paid his dues in the NYC downtown theater scene creating wild theatrical experiences with his former company the National Theater of the United States of America. But before that, he and Phil were part of a short-lived, nearly-legendary theater group called C. and Hamm...2023-03-161h 27
The Post Relevant Podcast22. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 22 - "Under the Silver Lake" Watch-A-LongHappy 2023! Welcome to Season 2 of the Post Relevant Podcast. Your host Phil Ristaino here.
Sync up your TV or computer or home theater with this episode, because we've recorded a watch-a-long to explain the A24 hipster-bizarro-noir "Under the Silver Lake." I know, I know, I said I was done with explaining the movie...and I am...but brother Andy and I thought it would be a cool thing to record this last gasp to ring in the new year and put the final stamp on my 21 episode explanation of this brilliant symbolist film. Honestly, I could probably do 21...2023-01-182h 53
The Post Relevant Podcast21. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 21 - Sam Swims to the Moon - Explaining the End of "Under the Silver Lake"Ahoy, Post-Relevanteers! We be steerin' the 'cast into our final destination, and quite a heavenly body is she. She be the most Silvery of Lakes....
Welcome back to the final installment of our season long decode of the film "Under the Silver Lake." We've dog-paddled all the way to the surface of the moon, the first heaven, finding ourselves washed up on a strange and shining midnight shore.
Host Phil Ristaino and returning champ Andy Ristaino sit down in Treebeard Manor to peer through the many watery layers of truth and into the portals to th...2022-12-082h 59
The Post Relevant Podcast20. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 20 - The King's Chamber part 3 - Thru the Lion's GateHale Hale, hearty listeners! You have answered the sphinx's riddles, donned the Wadget, the all seeing eye, and discovered the Lyre of Orpheus, alit in the sacred temple of Abydos by the starlight of the constellation Lyra itself. As you strum the lyre's silver strings, a 7th dimensional tone turns the locks etched into the walls, held aloft by the lion goddesses Sekhmet and Bastet for centuries in living stone. Granite walls shimmer and slide, revealing the golden portal to the solar system of Vega, home of the Lion Angels. Yeah, verily, you have discovered the legendary Lion's Gate! Are y...2022-10-043h 00
The Post Relevant Podcast19. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 19 - The King's Chamber part 2 with Mark RistainoHowdy! Welcome to the King's Chamber part 2. We are full on peering into the heavens from the vantage point of the apex of the original mountain of creation, which birthed the phoenix bird and rose up the djed pillar at the very center of the globe.
In this episode, we expand on the ideas introduced in episode 18 with the decode of the King's Chamber scene in "Under the Silver Lake."
We talk Mayan Astronauts! Wrestling! Randy Bonesaw Savage! Naked bike parades! Meeting bears and mountain lions! The secret war between the hermeticists and the Roman Empi...2022-08-181h 58
The Post Relevant Podcast18. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 18 - The King's Chamber part 1 - Sam's Moment of Truth in "Under the Silver Lake"If a feather fell from a weather bell, would you wonder whether your will would be well? Or would wonder well in your whither well till your whethers wilt as your feathers filled?
Do you know the answer?
It takes puzzling the sphinxian riddle to cross the threshold into the King's Chamber. But cross it we do! Welcome back for the first time to episode 18 of the Post Relevant Podcast. This just might be the very most ultimates-est and super-bestest episode of the podcast ever created in three-dimensional time space! Or even in 7 dimensional thrime-space! (Thrime...2022-07-291h 58
The Post Relevant Podcast17. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 17 - Ladies of the Hour part 2 - An interview with Laurelle RethkeI am Infinite. I am cosmic. I am purple, obsequious, and clairvoyant. I am POST RELEVANT. I AM the END of the END of TIME....
Fall into the cosmic crystal oceans along the edge of the Lagoon Nebula and surf the silver tides of Aldebaran! The time has come for the grand entrance of the Ladies of the Hour. Let's all live in a swamp and be three dimensional!
You are about to witness the return of the Elfling herself to the show for the first time ever! Ladies and Gentlemen, Its Laurelle Rethke, performer, healer...2022-06-232h 19
The Post Relevant Podcast16. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 16 - Ladies of the Hour - decoding the scene in the Hut in "Under the Silver Lake"The time has come to meet the Ladies of the Hour. Tuck your pistol into your pants and enter the hut as we decipher the ascension secrets of the Final Man and this 3 Brides. Have some tea. On second thought, you might not want to drink that....
The Post Relevant Podcast has returned once more again, and with this revival, we proudly welcome back Brother Andy to the show! And whadayaknow? Its an actual, honest-to-god decode of one of the final scenes of "Under the Silver Lake." Together with very special returning champ sister Christine, PHD (of episod...2022-06-151h 54
The Post Relevant Podcast15. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 15 - Lloyd Booker part 2Welcome back to part 2 of an epic conversation with actor/producer Lloyd Booker. In this half of the conversation, Lloyd and host Phil talk almost exclusively about the short film they both appear in, "House of Brotherly Love" by writer/director Max Kane. Max has created a challenging snapshot of a wealthy Black family throwing a New Years Eve party in 2020 in their home outside of Philadelphia, and how their lives, already fractured in many small ways, become upended when the family's daughter brings home a belligerent white boyfriend to meet them.
This film is a great mod...2022-06-081h 48
The Post Relevant Podcast14. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 14 -- Interview with actor/producer Lloyd Booker part 1Strap in and hold on tight, Post-Relevantians! You're about to be Booker-ized! In this episode we take a detour from our investigation of the film "Under the Silver Lake" to speak to a working actor and producer from out of Philadelphia, the raconteur of Philly Cool - Lloyd Booker.
Lloyd appears in the same short film as me (your host Phil), a film called "House of Brotherly Love." In episode 7 of the PRP, I interviewed the writer/director of the film, Max Kane. Lloyd heard the interview and contacted me with hot takes and in-depth interpretations about the fi...2022-06-071h 36
The Post Relevant Podcast13. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 13 - Dog Paddling in the Deep End of the Silver LakeThe Post Relevant Podcast episode 13, "Dog Paddling in the Deep End of the Silver Lake," has crawled its half-blind way out of the life-slime of the cement pond and is now roaming the city streets for warm-blooded crowds to consume and the tallest building on top of which to build its gigantic nest.
This is a lively and strange discussion, a wild ride of a conversation, inter-splicing two talks in time, and featuring a complete musical score, with actor/writer/director/editor/woodsman Matt Kalman. Matt has been listening to the podcast and now has some insightful t...2022-05-062h 10
The Post Relevant Podcast12. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 12 - Dante Ascends Over "Under the Silver Lake""There both, I thought, the eagle and myself did burn; and so intense the imagined flames, that needs my sleep was broken off."
Yeah verily, dear listeners, we have arrived at the cliffs of purgatory, with nothing but stairs upward and the heavens before us! Its part 2 of my conversation with Christine Ristaino, PHD, as we explore and expand through the 2nd and 3rd segments of Dante's "Divine Comedy," in an effort to figure out if this magnificent epic has anything to do with the cryptic facilities of the film "Under the Silver Lake."
Turns out...2022-04-211h 48
The Post Relevant Podcast11. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 11 - Dante Descends "Under the Silver Lake"Welcome baaaaaacckkkkkk! Put the bag back in the backpack. Put the backpack back in the back of the Cadillac! Do it! The Post Relevant Podcast is back (again), and this time we are taking an epic journey deep below the Silver Lake, as we journey into the Dante's "Divine Comedy" in an attempt to relate its mytho-poetical themes with the hidden story inside our obsession, the film "Under the Silver Lake."
More specifically -- This is the first half of an epic interview as host Phil Ristaino talks with his sister, Professor Christine Ristaino, about the most tragi...2022-04-132h 04
The Post Relevant Podcast10. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 10 - The Apotheosis of Kurt Cobain - Sam's True Identity in "Under the Silver Lake"He's the One, who likes all those REM songs, and he likes to shoot the Songwriter's gun, and he likes to call his Mom, but you don't know who he is. You don't know who he is. And I say "yeah!"
The Apotheosis of Kurt Cobain is here, and with it, the revelation of Sam's true identity in "Under the Silver Lake." Its taken 10 (technically 11) episodes to get here, but we think it has been worth the ride! Strap in, tap in and get to adaptin'. We are going for an epic, nay, mythological journey, ultimately culminating with an...2022-02-242h 33
The Post Relevant Podcast9. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 9 - The Temple of Diana : the Eternal Moment in "Under the Silver Lake"Meanwhile...at the Temple of Diana!
Step lively, Post Relevationers! We are entering the sacred temple of the moon goddess herself. The gateway to the heavens! Prepare to have your skull exploded...in a good way. Oh, and have I mentioned I really like your shirt? I do.
Strap in for a ride, as this, the ninth episode of the Post Relevant Podcast, careens headlong hither and yon. Its one part chaos, one part wacky, one part deep, one part info-dump, one part fun-and-games, one part revelation, one part soundscape, one part bossanova, and one part h...2022-02-111h 35
The Post Relevant Podcast8. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 8 - aka THE GODKiLLER : Slaying the Songwriter in "Under the Silver Lake"Post up, Post Relevantizers! The podcast is back, and we have a few questions for you. Are you tired of worshipping a celestial being who's constantly lying to you? Denying you? Side-lining, side-eyeing, and side-winding you? Me too! It's time to slay your duplicitous deity, and what better way to slay than while listening to this episode, aka THE GODKiLLER?
Join host Phil Ristaino, along with the triumphant return of brother Andy, as they engage in a bout of verbal chess to unlock more highfalutin' mysteries of "Under the Silver Lake." We climb out of the mercurial pond and...2022-02-011h 38
The Post Relevant Podcast7. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 7 - Interview with Filmmaker Max KanePurple tidings, Post-Relevantians! Today we are like kings making a royal decree to be different, as the podcast steps away from its regular obsession with the film "Under the Silver Lake" to talk to an up-and-coming film writer and director Max Kane. Max has created an excellent new short film called "House of Brotherly Love," and he cast your host Phil in it to play the ne'er-do-well character 'Lucas Pickering.' And it was a blast!
The film is now online to be seen, so Phil and Max throw down the blueberry-colored gauntlet of conversation and talk abo...2022-01-211h 38
The Post Relevant Podcast6. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 6 - Skipping Stones from Sag Harbor to the Silver LakeGrab your hats and sling your flats (stones), the Post Relevant Podcast is BACK!!!
Happy 2022! We passed...a kidney stone. Well, Phil did. On January first! Is it good luck? Dare we call it...auspicious?
Big things are afoot as we doggy paddle around the Silver Lake. After a month away, episode 6 has finally dropped (like a stone to the bottom of a lake?) (too many stone metaphors, sorry). Here's how we rock (sorry) the pod:
1. Phil welcomes you to 2022 and tells the harrowing tale of painting a house and purging a crystal pill. ...2022-01-141h 48
The Post Relevant Podcast5. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 5 - Wading into the Silver LakeCome with me! Its old music night at the Crypt Club!
Welcome back to the Post Relevant Podcast. You've arrived at episode five. Imagine that. No, really, imagine it. Are you imagining it?
Its another Under the Silver Lake decode banger, as we descend into the LA underworld with our perplexed protagonist. The episode starts off with Phil telling a successful D&D story (drugs and dancing). Then we take a left turn and interview artist and liminal space dweller Anna Tanner in an attempt to understand what a thoughtful-artsy-type lady might think of this lewd mo...2021-12-101h 57
The Post Relevant Podcast4. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 4 - Moon Day Manifesto : A Key to Overstanding "Under the Silver Lake"Happy Moon Day, post-relevantites! Welcome to a very special episode of the PRP. Today we reveal a very important piece of the "Under the Silver Lake" puzzle, a pivotal key to understanding the real meaning of this movie. If you had to listen to only one episode of this podcast, THIS SHOULD BE THAT EPISODE. But please, don't do that. Listen to them all. Maybe...uh...listen to this one twice? It's that big a deal.
On this episode, Phil gives his Moon Day Manifesto in the form of a musical story about an unusual encounter with the Moon...2021-11-291h 07
The Post Relevant Podcast3. The Post Relevant Podcast Episode 3 - Standing Barefoot on the Shore of the Silver LakeWelcome back, toe-dippers! Ready to paint your toenails silver? The water's sooooo refreshing!
Its time for more "Under the Silver Lake" deep dives with the Ristaino brothers Phil and Andy. In this episode, we lead off talking about broken third eye management while attempting to relate to Sam's fractured psyche. Then we get into decoding the next section of the film, where we discuss 'good puking,' Sam's magic TV remote control, insightful media analysis while bathing in tomato juice, and the glamour of auditioning in some shmoe's garage. And of course, we ask that important question: Why is...2021-11-181h 45
The Post Relevant Podcast2. The Post Relevant Podcast Episode 2 - Standing outside the fence surrounding the Silver LakeSo, you've come back to stare into the depths of the Silver Lake? Fingers gripping the fence as you try to understand the ever-shifting facets of this mercurial pool. You've left a dog biscuit and lit a candle, now you're hoping for some inspiration....
On this episode of the Post Relevant Podcast, Phil and brother Andy spend the whole time trying to find a foot hold on the rocky shores of their brains in an effort to 'get' just what the hell the film "Under the Silver Lake" is trying to say. Listen to them ask dumb qu...2021-11-111h 58
The Post Relevant Podcast1. The Post Relevant Podcast Episode 1 - Reading the Post Relevant Manifesto while standing across the street from the Silver LakeHey! You've found the Post Relevant Podcast Episode 1, with your host, Phil Ristaino. We are standing across the street from that strangely poetic Silver Lake over there, trying to look nonchalant as we glance at our retro copies of the Post Relevant Manifesto. Don't want to draw any undue attention while we're trying to decipher this mystery. And decipher we do! Here's how it all plays out on this magnificent first episode of the Post Relevant Podcast:
1. Phil welcomes us to the podcast, defends his initiative, and lays out the skinny as to the sequence of events.
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The Post Relevant Podcast0. The Post Relevant Podcast episode zero -- with your host Phil RistainoHey! Welcome to episode zero of the Post Relevant Podcast, with your host Phil Ristaino. This is a brand-spanking-new podcast created by actor/artist/musician Phil as a way of celebrating the rebirth and imminent demise of the nigh-eternally defunct Post Relevant Movement, a movement for the End of the End of Time. It's just a joke, really. The Post Relevant Podcast is an optimistic excuse to explore Phil's interests in film, art, music, symbolism, interpretation, the esoteric and occult, conspiracy, spirituality, extra-terrestrial and astronomical ideas, the surreal and absurd, lost histories and future mysteries, and whatever else lurks in t...2021-10-171h 24
Welcome to the Art ShedThe Pepper’s Ghost MarathonJosh Ellington joins us an tell us about he creates a intense 3D images called Pepper’s Ghost illusion. He also tells us how you can.If you are on Valencia street in San Francisco, you can see the illusion for yourself. Carl tells us about his art show “Art on the trail” currently running on the the Center Trail in Hopkinton Ma until Oct 17th. We also talk about Haunted Houses in the 1980s. Find Josh online at https://www.joshuaellingson.com Co host Mad Carl Ristaino web site https://www.madspiral.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carlristaino/ CoHost and c...2021-10-1159 min
Welcome to the Art ShedBack from the DeadWe open the show with a segment called plague facts where we bring up facts about the black plague and discuss it and connect it with modern times. A very famous dead musician’s ghost makes an appearance in the shed. Phil Ristaino stops by and joins us on the Shed. We do a new segment called “hypothetically speaking” We discuss a series of hypothetical situations and how we would deal with them. Co host Mad Carl Ristaino web site https://www.madspiral.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carlristaino/ CoHost and cover-art Andy Ristaino website https://www.andyristaino.com/ Instagram https...2021-05-0255 min
Welcome to the Art ShedOdd JobsWe talk about growing up in suburbs in the 70s and 80s. The great caterpillar plague or our childhood . We talk about all the crazy weird jobs we all had. Surprise guests Phil Ristaino and Laurelle Rethke show up. Stick around till the end because we hear Phil’s song petrified flowers by the Troy Westfield experience.Co host Mad Carl Ristaino web site https://www.madspiral.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carlristaino/CoHost and cover-art Andy Ristaino website https://www.andyristaino.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/skronked/Producer Chris Peters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/livefirecook/Intro Music by Ed...2021-04-251h 09
Welcome to the Art ShedEric from XerobotEric Landmark of the band Xerobot joins us in the shed. We have a special piano intro from Ida. We talk about Eric’s interest in music history and recreating old time tunes from the 1920s. Eric plays an old time tune that he wrote called “Death is an all to common thing”. We segment into talking about NoWave punk movement. Eric also plays in a band Xerobot . We hear Mr Poppers Penguins by Eric’s band Xerobot Eric tells the origin crazy story about the song by Xerobot called “I forced him” then we hear the song. Lastly we talk about a...2021-04-1356 min
Welcome to the Art ShedThe Haunted PaintingThis is a fun meandering episode. We find out what a "McNaP" episode is. We read listener comments. We play an EVP of ghosts in the shed. We learn about making and using Trebuchets. We talk about Andy's new Science comic"The Digestive System: A Tour through Your Guts". Surprise guests Phil Ristaino and Laurelle Rethke show up and we talk about Laurelle's new book "Connecting with Crystals". And public service announcement "don't eat magnets"Find Laurelle's site : https://thefaerieden.com/Phil Ristaino web site : http://www.thesearedreams.com/Co host Mad Carl R...2021-03-0555 min
Welcome to the Art ShedAn Epic Journey with Phil set to psychedelic beatsWe go on an epic journey with artist/actor Phil Ristaino. The entire episode is set to the hypnotic music of Ed Guild. Ed creates music live to go along with the conversation. Please check out this podcast which culminates in Phil being challenged to a duel in Prague while traveling with an acting troupe in the early 90s. Guest Phil Ristaino http://www.thesearedreams.com/Ed Guild's music can be found here https://thetransparency.bandcamp.com/CoHost Mad Carl Ristaino web site https://www.madspiral.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carlristaino/ CoHost and cover art Andy Ristaino website https...2020-12-271h 03
Welcome to the Art ShedRebooting the Matrix (the Halloween Episode)In this episode we go on a mind bending journey with Ed Guild music producer and music hardware designer. Ed combines classic drum machines, modular synthesizers, field recordings, and live instrumentation to create. other worldly, psychedelic electronic music and beats that transport the listener to a different spooky dimension. Also we find out the shed is haunted! Pay attention because Cosmic haunted occurrences happen during the episode.Ed Guild's music can be found here https://thetransparency.bandcamp.com/ Website http://circuithappy.com/CoHost Mad Carl Ristaino web site https://www.madspiral.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carlristaino/ CoHost and covera...2020-10-251h 05
On Air Off Set podcastEp.21 - Comic Book Movie Retrospective (part 1)WARNING: Spoilers left and right! As far as the comic book world, you might be an outsider looking in like myself. In fact, I had alot of catching up to do for this episode when it comes to all the superhero movies and tv shows that have come out since 2000. So let’s all channel our inner geek in this epic two part episode as we take a look at comics in 21st century Hollywood. In part one, I chat with two friends of mine Phil Ristaino and Lou Arahovites about the highs and lows, th...2019-12-301h 14
The Invisible WorldThe Invisible World ep 105This week we are joined by metaphysicist rock-star PHIL RISTAINO to talk about all manner of creepy- high-concept things, including how the unknown plays into his current music project TheTroy Westfield Experience ! All this plus God-particles, modern-day dinosaurs, and Katie Holmes?!2012-07-0344 minThe Invisible WorldThe Invisible World ep 85Tonight, fireballs from the sky, coordinated UFO sightings, and special guest artist musician and metaphysicist PHIL RISTAINO2011-12-1545 min
The Invisible WorldThe Invisible World ep 36Mystery missles, ancient orbs, and special return guest co-host actor/artist/musician/metaphysicist PHIL RISTAINO!2010-11-111h 04The Invisible WorldThe Invisible World ep8Tonight, spiritualist and rock star PHILLIP RISTAINO joins us once again to continue our discussion on synchronicity, transformative experiences, and who knows what else. Give a listen to “The Invisible World ep 4” to hear the last time Phil was on the show!
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