Bad Role Models

Bad Role Models

William Engels and Richard Sinex

Episodes 14
Avg. Duration 2h 6m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 5.0 (4)
Since Jul 2025
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
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About This Podcast

A fair but irreverent look at some of our most dubious cultural heroes. Written and performed by Richard Sinex (CIA, FBI, ex-NATO Special Forces, Space Force, and Miramax Studios) and William Engels (History of Philosophy Audio Archive).

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SAURON INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir Part 1: Peter Thiel Crawls Out of an Apartheid-Era Uranium Mine and into the White House

Dec 12, 2025 1h 51m

SOUND CREDIT: The Chamber Stage (YouTube)Support the boys (Thomas Vanek & Richard Sinex) and I on YouTube:⁠https://www.youtube.com/@hemlock-yt⁠Because someone will ask: the Nixon tape is from Feb…

Duuuuuuuuune (Part 2) - Thomas and Richard Melt Will's Spice-Dusted Brain with Frank Herbert's Cursed Lore [BRM9]

Nov 13, 2025 2h 13m

Worm gods, ayahuasca babies, megadeath, the conquest of the universe, gross protuberances, white saviors, seeing the future, declining immortality, accepting immortality, liberating the universe, and…

Duuuuuuuuune (Part 1) - Thomas and Richard Melt Will's Spice-Dusted Brain with Frank Herbert's Cursed Lore [BRM8]

Nov 01, 2025 1h 54m

He who can destroy a thing (Will's sanity) controls a thing.On this episode, Thomas and Richard flap their hands and shriek for 2 hours about Dune and Dune: Messiah lore. If you've only seen the…

6b Magnolia (1999): A Love Letter - Paul Thomas Anderson's Greatest Film, Fate, Freemasons, Intergenerational Trauma, Pick Up Artists, Aimee Mann, and Why It's Not Going to Stop (Til' You Wise Up)

Oct 26, 2025 1h 26m

Paul Thomas Anderson made this when he was 28. So did Richard and Will.A celebration of ⁠the greatest movie of our greatest living director.⁠ Hats off to you, man.advisory: child abuse, self-harm,…

7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp

Oct 06, 2025 2h 48m

Keep this work free for everyone and unlock my entire corpus for $5 per month on Patreon!Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine.People Mentioned:Samuel Liddell MacGregor MathersH. P. BlavatskyWilliam…

6a: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master, There Will Be Blood, American Grifters, Bloodoil, Scientology, Solvent Abuse, Time Travel, Brahms, Chopin, Johnnie Greenwood, Radiohead and Milkshake Drinking

Oct 01, 2025 2h 39m

Kick in on Patreon to support the both of us!⁠This is the new work.Movies:⁠The Master (2012)⁠⁠There Will Be Blood (2007)⁠⁠Magnolia (1999)⁠⁠Boogie Nights (1997)⁠Music:⁠Violin Concerto in D Major,…

#5: Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai Duelist, the Book of the Five Rings, the Way of Combat Strategy, Dokkōdō, Zen, and the Strike from the Void

Sep 26, 2025 2h 3m

Come join the Patreon!⁠https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon⁠The best version of Musashi in English that I have found is the book The Complete Musashi translated by Alexander Bennett, which is…

4b: The HST Bonus Show: Screwjack, Better Than Sex, Hells Angels, Flesh-Eating Snails, Mescaline, Radical Lawyers, Motorcycles, and Finding the Edge

Sep 15, 2025 1h 10m

A truly decadent and indulgent episode for the genuinely twisted wordheads and storyfreaks still crawling on all fives. Cheers, you beautiful bastards.Music by Anapse, track Bisector off Streamsafe…

4a: Hunter S. Thompson in Aspen - Fear and Loathing in the Sheriff's Office, Greedheads, Hatemongers, and Yellow-Eyed Hyenas, The Freak Power Ticket, Fat City, and the Death of the American Dream

Sep 15, 2025 2h 6m

With special guest Deputy Dick filling in (for) Richard Sinex.Music by Anapse, track Bisector off Streamsafe Essentials--Books--Hells Angels by Hunter S ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by…

3b: The Art Life: A Tribute to David Lynch (1946-2025): Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive (2/2) [EXPLICIT-SEE DESCRIPTION]

Aug 12, 2025 2h 38m

Now It's Dark. Advisory: This episode contains potentially upsetting discussions of child sexual abuse/violence as well as addiction and human trafficking.Music Credit: ⁠Twin Peaks Theme (Cover)⁠ by…

3a: The Art Life: A Tribute to David Lynch (1946-2025): Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive (1/2) [EXPLICIT-SEE DESCRIPTION]

Aug 07, 2025 2h 25m

Now It's Dark. Advisory: This episode contains potentially upsetting discussions of child sexual abuse/violence as well as addiction and human trafficking.Music Credit: Twin Peaks Theme (Cover) by…

2b: Lord Byron - Frankenstein's Monster, Ada Lovelace, Dodging Child Support, 19th Century Gossip, the Greek War for Independence Butt Issues, Hayao Miyazaki, the Marquis de Sade, and David Lynch

Aug 04, 2025 1h 55m

Patreon support:patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonPodcast Sources (AI Generated, May Contain Errors):Ada LovelaceSource: Wikipedia: Ada LovelaceSummary: Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and…

2a: Lord Byron - European Grand Tours, Childhood Trauma, Crappy 18th Century Dads, Bringing a Bear to College, the Elgin Marbles, Mediocre Teenage Poetry, and the Dodging the Coppers Like a Dandy

Jul 21, 2025 2h 5m

It's not easy being a gay brain-sex icon and a straight brain-sex icon at the same time but ya boi Byron did it. Part 1 of 2.Support the show and get ad-free content on PatreonAlso, I decided Richard…

S1E1 1: Osho, the Complete Series - Sex Cults, New Age Theology, Bioterrorism, Nurse Mengele, Dynamic Meditation, Tax Evasion, and Ten Weird Reasons You NEVER Leave a Cult Unsupervised

Jul 21, 2025 4h 14m

Bhagwan Richard and I explore the life, mind, and times of a certain Raj Rajneesh, AKA Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh, AKA Osho, AKA FBI's most wanted guru.Support the Show on Patreon!References and…

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