Conversation on the main topic starts in the second half of the episode. It's the end of August, and for us, it is the harvest season. We discuss this year's harvest of the grapes and the beginnings of this season's winemaking. Kyle reads a few news stories and we discuss those, then in the second segment Russ reads a long story from the Mysterious Universe website about four cases of strange mass animal deaths. In the second half of the show, Kyle talks about the "philosophy of narrative", how ...
Aug 25, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 256
We invited Laura to join us on this episode of listener communications, where we catch up on news stories and listener emails. There is some physics and cosmology discussion at the beginning after Kyle reads some science articles, then we dive into the emails on all manner of topics: the moon and the Younger Dryas, the Mississippi Mounds, ancient tech and tools, skeptics and the standard model. Thanks to the following Producers of episode 255! Executive Producer: Greg Kaighin Associate Executive...
Aug 18, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 255
Is it possible that human civilization is much older than we've been taught? Maarten from Mario Buildreps has put together an enormous body of research that implies humans have been constructing complex structures going back hundreds of thousands of years, through multiple catastrophic periods of crustal displacement. Mario Buildreps website: https://www.mariobuildreps.com/ Mario Buildreps YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarioBuildreps...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 254
Saved by the swapcast! This was originally scheduled as a guest appearance on the excellent Where Did the Road Go podcast with Seriah, but our plans for our regular episode this week fell through, so Seriah kindly allowed us to use this episode as a swapcast. We discuss Charles Fort and the Book of the Damned, Feynman, cosmology, physics, electric universe, cryptids, UFOs, and the limits of human knowledge, as well as reading a few news stories and discussing those. Find Where Did the Road Go he...
Aug 04, 2022•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 253
In this final episode of our book report on The Character of Physical Law , we go through Dr. Feynman's final lecture, Seeking New Laws , in which he describes how science works, and the methods physicists must use to attempt to discover new fundamental aspects of the natural world. See the full set of lectures here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncQLg_H7f6T9yJmJ2aCIBUHS Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413 Get the new Fifty Dolla...
Jul 28, 2022•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 252
Continuing our book report on The Character of Physical Law , we read through the 5th and 6th lectures, The Distinction of Past and Future and Probability and Uncertainty . These are discussions on entropy and quantum mechanics, done in Dr. Feynman's unique style. See the full set of lectures here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncQLg_H7f6T9yJmJ2aCIBUHS Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413 Get the new Fifty Dollar Dynasty album "Pr...
Jul 21, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 251
We finish the chapter on The Great Conservation Principles , and move on to Symmetry in Physical Law . We understand what it means for an object to have symmetry, but what about a mathematical expression of a physical law? This chapter is full of interesting concepts, delivered in Feynman's unique style as always. We discuss relativity, lightspeed, gravitational lensing, angular momentum, and how to tell an alien the difference between "right" and "left". Find the full playlist of the lectures o...
Jul 14, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 250
We dive back in to The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman, again using short clips pulled from the lectures themselves and reading excerpts from the book. This episode we focus mostly on the second lecture, "The Relation of Mathematics to Physics" , where Feynman talks about how Nature seems to follow sets of mathematical rules, and how those mathematics might be related--at least in some cases--to large numbers of simple processes in the physical universe. Near the end of the episode ...
Jul 07, 2022•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 249
Having just returned from the Montana megafloods trip with Randall Carlson and crew, we aren't ready to continue the Character of Physical Law series yet, but we did have a backlog of emails we needed to get to, so we dedicate yet another episode to reading and responding to a series of fantastic and sometimes hilarious communications from listeners. We operate on the Value for Value model here at Brothers of the Serpent. If you get value from our podcast, you can support us in turn and also get...
Jun 30, 2022•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 248
For this special episode we have most of the members of Kyle's band Fifty Dollar Dynasty in studio with us for a long-form conversation about making music, writing songs, and specifically, making the new Precession album. Through clouds of smoke and many beers we joke and laugh and poke fun at each other while also giving our history of making music and this album. This episode is scheduled to drop the day of the public release of Precession, so go check it out at the FDD website: https://fiftyd...
Jun 21, 2022•2 hr 34 min
We tackle the first in the series of seven lectures by theoretical physicist Dr. Richard Feynman titled "The Character of Physical Law", this first lecture being on the Law of Gravitation, the history of its discovery, and its wider application in the methods of science and the further discoveries of physics. Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein are among the giants on whose shoulders modern physics stands. Get the book from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Pr...
Jun 09, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 247
Brandon is a Jujitsu instructor and teaches the Wim Hof Method. He has joined us on many of our Contact at the Cabin events, running breathwork sessions and ice bath instruction for attendees. Brandon was in our area to teach some classes over the weekend so we invited him out to the Tangent Cube for some podcasting. We talk about Jujitsu, Wim Hof, shamanism, the power of the breath, and general life hacking for physical and spiritual improvement. Find Brandon on Instagram: @brandonpowell369 Bra...
Jun 02, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 246
We have a lot of your emails to catch up on, but first we give a big Rock n' Roll update - Kyle's band Fifty Dollar Dynasty is releasing their new album, "Precession", on June 21st, the summer solstice! You can check their website for the countdown, and also join their new Patreon if you want access to an early digital release. Support the band and get cool behind-the-scenes content as FDD adds them to their Patreon feed. Our SpaceWeather News section also goes a bit further this week, discussin...
May 26, 2022•2 hr 23 min•Ep. 245
Jahannah recently got involved with the team from the "Builders of the Ancient Mysteries" documentary to help them with the English narration, and she's become fascinated by the mystery of the amazing rock-cut chambers in India called the "Barabar Caves". These chambers are explored in the documentary itself, along with many other megalithic mysteries of the ancient world, and the BAM team is working on a new documentary that focuses on the Barabar Caves. Jahannah joins us to talk about her work...
May 19, 2022•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 244
We explore over 180 images we took on our recent trip to Egypt, discussing the megalithic stonework of Menkaure at Giza, the Osireion of Abydos, the quarry at Aswan with the Unfinished Obelisk, and the Serapeum of Saqqara. At these sites, there is evidence of anomalous, unknown techniques of stoneworking, evidence of multiple stages of construction with vast amounts of time between them, and evidence that the people doing the work seem to have just vanished in the middle of the job, never to ret...
May 12, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 243
Ben from UnchartedX joins us this week for a long-form discussion on the technical aspects of some of the anomalous ancient megalithic stonework we see around the world. Are these sites connected stylistically? Do the precision, difficulty, and advanced engineering evident in many of these sites indicate the presence of a lost precursor civilization in deep history? We tackle these questions and many more in this episode. This episode was also broadcast live to our Discord Server, which we do fr...
May 05, 2022•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 242
George Howard, member of the Comet Research Group and owner/operator of the excellent Cosmic Tusk website, joins us this week to deliver a presentation he gave at the recent WorldViewzMedia conference in Sedona. In this presentation, George lays out the evidence for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis as an explanation for the massive changes that took place on Earth at the onset of the Younger Dryas period, just before the beginning of the Holocene. Many of you will be familiar with much of thi...
Apr 28, 2022•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 241
We're back from the conference in Sedona and ready to dive into listener emails and some long-form rambling discussions, SnakeBros style. Laura also joins us in the Tangent cube for this episode. We read some great emails of experiences and encounters, questions about UFOs and spirituality, travelling the world on foot looking at ancient sites, and a visit to one of the Smithsonian's "storage" buildings. Executive Producers: .-/ "Period Dash Slash" Join us on the first SnakeBros Meetup: http://w...
Apr 21, 2022•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 240
In the final installment of our deep dive into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned , we read about strange enormous revolving wheels of light in the ocean, of mysterious shadows cast in storm clouds, objects that seem to transit the sun or moon in the sky, and luminous objects that sound very much like sightings of UFOs. Join us on our first SnakeBros Meetup! A weekend on the river in Texas for some BBQ and kayaking and talking about pyramids: http://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/p/meetups-and-...
Apr 14, 2022•2 hr 22 min•Ep. 239
Marty Garza returns to the Tangent Cube with more of his in-depth writings on the subject of UFOs, aliens, spirits, "demons and angels", and how encounters with these things seem to merge at the edges. This episode we dive into the subject of channeling, automatic writing, messages from beings claiming to be from space, and the formation of UFO cults with "apocalyptic" prophecies...all of which seem very similar to the formations of much more ancient religions with similar beginnings and similar...
Apr 07, 2022•2 hr 59 min•Ep. 238
We read about strange objects seen in transit of both the moon and the sun by astronomers, of earthquakes and anomalous darkness and strange storms and lights in the sky and falls of sand, fish, and leaves. Unpredicted eclipses and shadows on the moon and sun. Thanks very much to Christopher Catalogna for the artwork for this episode! Go to https://chriscatalogna.com/ to see more of his work. Get The Book of the Damned on Audible, by our friends over at AdultBrain Publishing and the Grimerica Sh...
Mar 29, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 237
We apologize for the delay on this episode! This week we dive back into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned , and we are joined in-studio by our friend and frequent podcast guest, Archer Finley, AKA "GMA". We discuss high-atmosphere ice formation, falls of rocks and pebbles, falls of giant blocks of ice, giant strange objects transiting the sun visible in astronomers' telescopes, and the possibility of transient intra-mercurial worlds. Also, happy birthday to listener Yoni!! Get The Book of th...
Mar 26, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 236
We tackle a long and detailed article from ancient-origins.net about a possible discovery of a new standard of measure that appears to have been used in many ways across multiple civilizations and structures going back 7,000 years. We're taking a break from the book report this week, as Russ is gone to help with Randall's Middle Cumberland tour at the last minute, so we pre-recorded this episode before he left. Link to the article on Ancient Origins: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancie...
Mar 15, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 235
Out of place artifacts, objects embedded in stone and coal, giants, and "little people" are some of the accounts and topics we tackle in part 6 of our deep dive into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned . Get the Audible version of The Book of the Damned, produced by our friends over at Grimerica: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Book-of-the-Damned-Audiobook/B09QD5Z484 Get the paperback or digital version from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618 Executive Produce...
Mar 09, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 234
Thunderstones, lightning strikes, bronze axes, and other artifacts fall from the skies during storms in this episode of our deep dive into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned . We're also joined in the first segment by Chris Cottrell of the Dabbler's Den to discuss new information on the possible age of the formations known as the Carolina Bays. Chris presents compelling new data that implies the Bays are hundreds of thousands of years old, and thus have nothing to do with the much more recent...
Mar 01, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 233
We tackle rains and snows of coal, grains, frogs, "fishes", and SNAKES in this episode, Part 4 of our deep dive into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned . Can "whirlwinds" account for all this biological material falling to earth? Can storms keep fish up in the skies long enough for them to begin to rot? Maybe. Or maybe something much more bizarre is happening in these instances of the damned. Get the Audible version of The Book of the Damned, narrated by our friends at The Grimerica Show, her...
Feb 22, 2022•2 hr 13 min•Ep. 232
Fibers, cobwebs, cereals, manna, worms, and phosphorescent jelly rains out of the skies in this week's continued exploration into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned . We also talk about Russ' most recent excursion with the Contact at the Cabin crew, and his trip to Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. You can see pictures of the petrified forest at our website . We also want to thank Todd, Jeremy, and the crew at Rock the USA for the amazing engraved Brothers of the Serpent megalithic m...
Feb 18, 2022•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 231
We continue our exploration of the strange and weird in Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned , reading about more strange falls of red rains, yellow rains, organic material, dried fish, and "beef flakes". You can get The Book of the Damned from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618 Audible version by Grimerica: https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-the-Damned/dp/B09QD49FM3 Learn more about our Egypt 2022 Tour with UnchartedX and Grimerica: http://www.unchartedx...
Feb 03, 2022•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 230
Time for a book report. We've been wanting to do Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned for a while now, as in many ways it is the foundation of much of modern investigations into the strange, weird, and wonderful. As always, we begin by reading through the various intros and forwards to the book. There is an introduction by Jim Steinmeyer, which gives us some insight into Fort himself and his life. Then there is Fort's own introduction to The Book of the Damned, which gives us some insight into ...
Jan 27, 2022•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 229
This week we welcome another listener and long time supporter of the show on as a guest to talk about his explorations of the area in which he lives. Brandon Ricks, AKA "HistoryShift", who has been making our YouTube videos for years, has immersed himself in the exploration of the public wilderness areas near his home in Montana, where there are many fascinating geological formations, some of which are so strange that it raises the question of possible human construction or at least modification...
Jan 22, 2022•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 228
