In our Season 2 opener, we meet co-hosts and deep state experts Muriel Woland and Clifford Hanger. Muriel discusses how she came to write the Deep State anthem in exchange for a couple of the Shovelmen's first-born. And Ford remembers an event from his childhood in which Gisele Bündchen saved his parents' marriage. And his foreskin. *** Credits: Liz Sanders played Muriel Wolland. Liz performs with Madeline , a Washington Improv Theater house ensemble. Jamal Newman played Clifford Hanger. Jamal p...
Feb 03, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The deep state is real. And it’s just that — a 51st state, hidden from the American people and unacknowledged by the federal government, even as it pulls Washington's most important levers. How do you hide an entire state? You bury it. Deep. *** Credits : Produced by Tim Townsend. Theme music by Bart Warshaw . Cover art by Claire Smalley . Website by Chance Griffin....
Jan 21, 2020•3 min
In the season finale, we learn the truth about what was really going on at Kagnew Station, and what STONEHOUSE was for. Debra and Hassan have a hard time coming to terms with the hard evidence as it’s presented to them by Victor Sifuentes. *** Credits: Liz Sanders played Debra. Liz performs with Madeline , a Washington Improv Theater house ensemble. Jamal Newman played Hassan Gray. Jamal performs with Lena Dunham and NIXON . You can follow him on Instagram and Twitter at @hell0newman, and find h...
Dec 16, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Terry Timmons was cruise director aboard Shimmer of the Seas, Royal Caribbean's Indian Ocean flagship, in the early 1980s. Each time Timmons and his crewmates began responding to mysterious Russian transmissions — likely from the STONEHOUSE project antennas — they lost consciousness and woke up unharmed in their bunks. *** Credits : Denny Johnson played Terry Timmons. Denny performs with Ugh , an all-gay improv troupe in DC, often seen at Washington Improv Theatre. He also just launched a new ta...
Dec 09, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In 1979 Convoy Jack Lafarge, legendary roadie for psychedelic San Francisco bands of the 1960s, found himself driving the bus for Bob Marley's 1979 tour of Africa. After the Wailers' final show in Addis Ababa, Marley insisted on recording an all-star synth-pop album in a mysterious studio he'd heard about: Kagnew Station. *** Credits : Luke Hennig played Convoy Jack Lafarge. Luke performs with The Lodge , a legendary Washington, DC indie improv team. Jamal Newman played Hassan Gray. Jamal perfor...
Dec 02, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Cupcake designer Nancy Schwan was playing Scrabble with her boyfriend one romantic evening, when her tiles came up "Kagnew." It happened again the following night, and soon the owner of Nancy's Fancies was obsessed with painting watercolors of beautiful African desert landscapes she'd never seen before. *** Credits : Jenny Koch played Nancy Schwan. Jenny performs with DC-based improv teams, The Quitters and The Lodge . Liz Sanders played Debra. Liz performs with Madeline , a Washington Improv Th...
Nov 25, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
What if everything you thought you knew about your orientation on this planet was wrong? Not just wrong, but exactly 180 degrees wrong. Kim Ingram, a talent scout from Mustardton, SC, believes the STONEHOUSE antennas are actually powerful magnets designed by the government to disrupt the way we think about directions, injecting chaos and confusion into society as a way to make us more docile. That stop sign ahead of you? It really means "go." *** Credits : Krystal Ramseur played Kim Ingram. Krys...
Nov 18, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 9
When Father Richard Thomas’s dad was stationed at Kagnew, he found that STONEHOUSE was concealing a supernatural government discovery: the Gates of Hell. And he succumbed to the Prince of Darkness. When the U.S. Navy officer finally returned to San Diego, his own son was forced to perform a secret exorcism. *** Credits : Mikey Blunschi played Father Richard Thomas. Mikey performs with Lizard Girl at Washington Improv Theater. Follow him on Instagram at @Boyz_Nite or Twitter at @pizzapartymikey ....
Nov 11, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 8
After a traumatic childhood audition for "Oliver!" that blacked out his community theater, Dan Hammer had a feeling someone, or some thing, was controlling the world's electronic grid. Despite his conviction that STONEHOUSE was the cause of every bad thing that happened in his life, Dan persevered with his acting career. And he found love. Tragically, electronics found her too. *** Credits: Reaves McElveen played Dan Hammer. Reaves performs with his teams NIXON and Colossus at various improv the...
Nov 04, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In 1975, Gary Belt and his brother were stationed at Kagnew when Gary’s brother was beamed in the face with a space laser from the STONEHOUSE antennas. Gary, now a ghost writer at the Farmer’s Almanac, believes the content of his brother’s brain was the first of thousands that STONEHOUSE sucked into a mysterious black box, a massive database we now call ... The Internet. *** Credits : Kevin Mahoney played Gary Belt. Kevin performs with Madeline , a Washington Improv Theater house ensemble. Follo...
Oct 28, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Before Tabitha Walton worked in Warren, Connecticut’s only occult museum, she spent years as a dental hygienist in Washington, DC. It was in the office of Dr. Stephen C. Hopkins, DMD that she discovered a horrifying coincidence: Many of Hopkins’s patients had worked on Kagnew’s STONEHOUSE project. And they were hearing voices. And then their teeth began to disintegrate. --- Credits : Erin Murray played Tabitha Walton. Erin performs on Washington Improv Theater house ensemble Madeline . She can a...
Oct 21, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Librarian Sylvia Brown discusses her research into a mid-1970s north Africa earthquake that unleashed what many have since called "the voice of God." The quake triggered a mass, 48-hour bout of glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, across much of Eritrea. The U.S. government harnessed that energy and still deploys it on Americans today when, for instance, they're deciding whether or not to eat at Ruby Tuesday's. *** Credits: Eva Lewis played Sylvia Brown. Eva performs with Press Play, White Privi...
Oct 14, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 4
After starring as Girl With Beach Ball in 1965's "Beach Blanket Bingo" and Girl Near Jukebox in 1973's "American Graffiti," Meredith Crossings found herself on the set of "Cleopatra 2" filming near Kagnew Station. During a night spent under the stars with a herd of goats, Crossings received a mysterious message that ultimately forced her to leave her parents' Hollywood dreams for her behind. CREDITS: Catch Kristina Martinez on the improv stage in Washington, DC, and follow her on Instagram at @k...
Oct 07, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Our guest this week, Theodore Kettle, grew up in the privileged world of 1980s international diplomacy. As the son of the UK ambassador in Addis Ababa, Kettle stumbled upon a hard-partying music scene in east Africa's Great Rift Valley, considered the "cradle of humankind," where he lost his virginity to a Russian-speaking beauty named Olga. Or did he? --- Credits: Saleh Karaman played Theodore Kettle. Saleh performs with Nox and Colossus, usually at the Washington Improv Theater. Follow him on ...
Sep 30, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 2
We introduce the show's Season One co-hosts: Hassan Gray, a Verizon Fios sales analyst and host of the "Not My Problem" podcast & Debra, former host of the syndicated radio program "Debra," and author of "I Can't Go for Mind Control (No Can Do): Hall, Oates and the Soviet Roots of Blue-Eyed Soul" available in free-thinking bookstores everywhere. --- Credits: Liz Sanders played Debra. Liz performs with Madeline, a Washington Improv Theater house ensemble. Jamal Newman played Hasaan Gray. Jama...
Sep 30, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 1
In 1965, the U.S. Army Security Agency began a secret U.S. intelligence project on a shuttered military base in the Horn of Africa called Kagnew Station. The project — codenamed STONEHOUSE — included two 15-story parabolic antennas that made for optimal for stable military radio communications during the Cold War. Declassified Defense Department documents show, however, that for the next decade the true purpose of STONEHOUSE was to intercept Soviet space research data. But is that all the U.S. w...
Sep 04, 2019•3 min
