Frank and Torm discuss a creatively profitable contest for Unknown Armies held on a weekend long, long ago or recently. Enjoy as our two hero critics battle philosophically and make references past each other. Check out the entries here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g1RzxcmTUeq6QVxUr8zHw6AH6HGbLpmQgMp9BTbOues/edit?usp=sharing…

Reciting from golden plates he found in a stone box, Tormsen reveals this week's topic as the Church of Latter Day Saints. While discussing the history of this most American of religions, your two hosts cover matters involving coffin canes, rituals of the LDS inner circle, and entries from the old Unnatural Phenomena website.Geneamancy: https://www…

Join Bird, Garrett, Lithobraker, Top Hat, and Tormsen as they enter the wild world of Z-list Japanese Women's Pro-Wrestling, seeking vengeance against their sleazy management and the cruel house shooter Lady Strong. Listener Discretion is Advised.Von 33.3 FM

Fresh from doomscrolling, Frank and Tormsen log in to a discussion of the occult underground in the social media landscape, from WitchTok to LinkedIn Alchemy. Like and subscribe and don't forget to ring that bell, it tolls for thee.Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen get up to some weird science and construct themselves a bit of artificial life. While hard at work in the kitchen, they discuss the reasons to make life, go over examples from world folklore and mythology, and give a few tips and tricks for spicing up your next homunculus or unspeakable servant.…

Frank and Tormsen visit Shelbyville with friends of the show Ben and Zomner to discuss the Simpsons, its occult legacy, and applicability to Unknown Armies. The Stonecutters managed to intercept the live broadcast, so enjoy an additional twenty minutes or so of almost Frank Tormsen free discussion.The Swedish cartoon referenced in the episode can b…

Frank and Tormsen vibrate at lower frequencies and expose the hidden masters behind the Reptilian Hunting Society. On their way out of the matrix, they go over David Icke, the pulp fiction origins of lizard people, and uncover the real conspiracy of reptilian humanoids that has infiltrated the halls of power.…

In this exclusive scenario written and run by Valiant for Unknown Armies, Frank, Tormsen, and CJ are nuns with secrets. Can the sisters get to the bottom of the strange happenings at their abbey, or will they be consumed by an outside threat? For overview and character sheets, see here: https://strange.domains/ua3e-scenario-cloister/…

Frank and Tormsen answer some more questions out of their mailbag. Between procrastinating on episode topics and content creation, they give some brief takes on the Avatar Underground, James Ellroy, and the occulted implications of Gregg's sausage roll.Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen ring in the new year with a trip to the mailbox, responding to some submissions from their Blessed Century. By popular demand, they give their piece on forgotten GMCs, D.B. Cooper, UA campaigns of the past and future, and more.Mellonbread's blog: https://bellenmred.blogspot.com/Von 33.3 FM

While enjoying a festive cookout, Frank and Tormsen encounter CJ and succumb to a detailed discussion on the history and tropes of antisemitism, how they have affected conspiracy theory, and what all this means for your Unknown Armies game.Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen check out and give their takes on the submissions for the hopefully first annual Unknown Armies Halloween Jam.List of jam entries: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gk7SCn3oA94yii2l4krKvIDwn2Doo_XOwDOI_ECiHDU/Mellonbread's reviews: https://bellenmred.blogspot.com/2023/11/2023-unknown-armies-halloween-jam.html…

Armchair philosopher hacks Frank and Tormsen discuss the Unidentified Foreign Ontology group, detailed in the Unknown Armies splatbook Postmodern Magick, and come to grips with what is and what what is.Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen wrap up their look at Unknown Armies 3rd Edition's Campaign Starter Kits. They give their takes on The Violence Inherent in the System, Raiders of the Lost Mart, and The Wasteland from Oddities and Endlings, then they close things out with opinions and advice on how to tackle Campaign Starter Kits.…

After a fortuitous find during an All Mart trip, Frank and Tormsen discuss the Campaign Starter Kits of Unknown Armies 3rd Edition. In this part, our heroes delve into Heroin Highway, Derby Girls Destroy DC, The Young Practicals, and Sacred Pharma. Spoilers abound.Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen finally talk about what they know, discussing the Fool and the Trickster archetypes across Unknown Armies editions, and the provocative variations lurking in between.Von 33.3 FM

Taking refuge in Henry Kissinger's bathroom, Frank and Tormsen get iconoclastic on Iconomancy. Seeing their only opening, they meditate upon the school's origins, go over potential alterations to its game write-up, and talk about some new types of Iconomancers they've seen in the wild.Von 33.3 FM

Avid consumers Frank and Tormsen discuss the Swap Meet and the people who run the event, how to incorporate it into your Unknown Armies campaign, and what other events for avatars are out there for you to gatecrash.Von 33.3 FM

With the station's broadcasting equipment on the fritz, your hosts end up giving airtime to a variety of their alternate universe counterparts.Von 33.3 FM

After their first episode idea ends up a wash, Frank and Tormsen go with their backup and do an episode on the sundry conspiracies surrounding former president Barack Obama. Follow them on a journey that takes them to Hawaii, Chicago, Mars, and the boardroom of Alex Abel as they try to squeeze a bit of gameable content out of this.…

While raiding the fridges at an abandoned medical research facility, Frank and Tormsen discuss the Abnormal Pathogen Research Group and its recent exploits. Content Warning for discussions of and riffing on medical conspiracy theories within the Unknown Armies universe.The APRG is detailed on pages 11-12 of Unknown Armies 3rd Edition's Book Three: …

Frank and Tormsen talk shop on magickal artifacts, getting into where they come from, how you make them, some shortcuts for coming up with interesting ones, and techniques for deploying them in your game.Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen return to the northern hemisphere to investigate another country's occult landscape. Friend of the show Toasty accommodates us with stories of sacrificial cults, KGB psychics, and some homemade Russian conspiracy theory.Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen get stuck in a pit (again!) and are set upon, verbally and conceptually, but returning friend of the show Mellonbread. A discussion on dungeon crawls in Unknown Armies ensues, along with tangents on heists and Objectives.The Temple of the Crying Buddha, a one shot scenario by Mellonbread, can be found here: https://bellenmred.blog…

Frank and Tormsen go crawling through Atlas Games' dungeons in search of treasure, only to discover a far stranger artifact. From the strata of the OGL's primordial days walks The Ascension of the Magdalene, a dungeon crawl for Unknown Armies 2e and Dungeons and Dragons 3e.Von 33.3 FM

Alarmed by a sudden growth, Frank and Tormsen discuss two of UA's warped animal spirits and how they can be used in your Unknown Armies campaign.Information on Familiars can be found on pages 88-90 and 112-120 of the Break Today sourcebook, while Lycanthropes are described on pages 303-304 of Unknown Armies 2nd Edition.…

What does it mean to "Wake the Tiger"? What really is "the Unnatural"? What makes people freak out when they witness the occult? Your two hosts get into the weeds on some common assumptions and received wisdom in the Occult Underground, looking for bugs.Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen attempt to avoid going off topic too often as they scheme and plot for another year of content for our Blessed Century.Von 33.3 FM

In the spirit of Christmas, Frank and Tormsen discuss the cultic consulting group currently representing many of His living incarnations, the Jesus Christ Advisory Board. They talk about some potential members of the board, give some tips for starting your own cult, and try to figure out just how many archetypes Jesus fits into.…

To celebrate three years of uploads, Frank and Tormsen take a risk and bring two game designers onto the show.Von 33.3 FM

Live from a holding cell at Changi airport, Frank and Tormsen discuss the developments, divergences, and bad trips to be found in sorcerous drugs and drug-addled sorcerers. Saddle up Saturn's horse, the UPS is about to hit.Von 33.3 FM

Three factions, one episode! Frank and Tormsen take a look at some of the groups mentioned in passing in the second edition core book: the old world secret society the Seven Invisible Chairs, the airborne and enigmatic Awâmîd al-Samawât, and the hellish Sardinian constructions of Les Infernaux.Von 33.3 FM

In search of answers for their many questions on the furry subculture, Frank and Tormsen bring Ironclaw and ABYSS designer Norman Rafferty into the studio. Most of these questions are left unanswered as the three instead talk about their experiences with Delta Green, Rafferty's time in the early years of the RPG hobby, and the changing face of occu…

Unfortunate circumstances involving a needle gun and various lost body parts lead into a discussion on the works Michael Moorcock and the Moorcock Hypothesis. As your hosts fight to recover the Balance of Tormsen's depth perception, they talk Moorcock's far reaching influence, multiversal Neverwhen travel, and Henry Kissinger's role as the Eternal …

Frahnk, Tormsen, and Mellonbread discuss the release of RITE, a new Statosphere fan splatbook for the Scottish Rite, part of a series devoted to the squabbling factions of contemporary Mak Attax called Special Orders.Mellonbread's creations can be found at The Rogue's Wallet https://bellenmred.blogspot.com/Look for RITE at https://www.drivethrurpg.…

Frank and Tormsen bring an actual skeleton into the studio to discuss the finer points adept magick. With this meeting of some of the statospheric minds underway, they cover how they wrote adept schools of their own, principles for designing adept schools yourself, and some ideas for fixing some issues with existing adept schools.Necroturgy: https:…

大家好！Frahnk's Panda Express sits forlorn and uneaten as Tormsen rants about the Brotherhood of Harmonious Repose, it's origins in the ancient Sui dynasty, the shenanigans of its modern history, and its current position within China's occult underground.Von 33.3 FM

While failing to pull off some gutter magick, Frank and Tormsen reminisce on 90's style tilt rituals. Peering through a shared pair of rose tinted glasses, they compare second and third edition's different approaches to design, and give some ideas for porting over parts of tilts that got lost with the universal reset.…

An intercepted phone call between two great slanderers and friends of the show, Kate and CJ, is exposed to the world. Marvel as they discuss avatar consciousness, the effortlessness of true idiocy, theme music, Unsung Champion diagnostics, a bunch of information from as yet unannounced projects and campaigns unavailable to the public, and much much…

Frank and Tormsen analyze the recent activities of Data Freedom Foundation. While they check the figures, they get into the nonfalsifiable joys of gutter magick, what makes an Adept sell out, and the Foundation's role at the front lines of the war against the machines.Von 33.3 FM

Lost in an infinite pub in what is probably still technically England, Frank and Tormsen encounter another local occultist, Obtuse, who edifies our hosts on the deep history of the United Kingdom's 'honest' underground,Von 33.3 FM

While innocently urbexing through the ruins of Gleeson House, Frank and Tormsen discover local occultist Cliomancer, who edifies our hosts on class divisions, the British media, vegan sausage rolls, and the magickal utility of the King James Bible.Von 33.3 FM

Clinging desperately to scaffolding under a verdant sky, Frank and Tormsen discuss Otherspaces and the motivations behind their construction. Rejected episode titles: Pocket Dimensions for Fun and Profit, Everybody’s Blowing Bubbles, Do You Wanna build a Cos-mos?Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen cower in a closet hiding from indoctrinated child soldiers and discuss the Milk, everyone's favorite avatar training camp.Von 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen get into it on the topic of Neverwhen People and Exostock. This leads into discussion of alternate timelines, how a Universal Reset actually goes down, and questions on the boundaries of humanocentricity.Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/33point3fmVon 33.3 FM

Frank and Tormsen accidentally wander into the Arctic Circle and inside the apartment of Finnish occultist, Zomner. While we try to figure out a way back home, he reveals info on the remote Finnish occult underground, including sauna adepts, Finland's demoscene, and the salacious origins of human language.Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/33point3f…

Frank and Tormsen take a road trip to discuss Justin Miland's Three Miles of Bad Road, hot and fresh from the Statosphere, fits right into the cup holder of your game.Check it out here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/388581/Three-Miles-Of-Bad-RoadFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/33point3fm…

Desperate to rid Tormsen of his Paglian demons, Frank enlists the assistance of old friend of the show Kate and new guest CJ to attempt an exorcism. This quickly devolves into a discussion of the Naked Goddess, possibly the biggest hoax to ever hit the occult underground.Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/33point3FM…

Frank has spurious but plausible bone to pick with Tormsen, spurring a discussion on the most aggravating and the least noteworthy unnatural entities of Unknown Armies 2nd Edition.Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/33point3FMVon 33.3 FM

Tormsen concludes his Columbian investigation by looking into some person's of interest from the town's history, getting into aviation, emancipation, and occult patriarchal machinations along the way.Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/33point3FMVon 33.3 FM