VYS0063 | Animaxxing at the End of the World: The Return of Aidan Wachter

July 15th, 2026  |  Season 4  |  2 hrs 2 mins

aidan wachter, animism, billionaires, capitalism, climate crisis, dirt sorcery, empire, inequality, magic, magick, occult, occult podcast, paranormal, sorcery, spirits, strange, supernatural, weird, weird stuff, weirdpod

For the final episode of season 4, Hine and Buckley welcome back an all time favourite guest to discuss an all time favourite topic, as Aidan Wachter returns to Vayse to talk about how and why the world is turning to shit right and now, and, importantly, what we can about it.

The day after this episode was recorded, tech-fascist, crap-preaching, man-child, Elon Musk briefly became the world's first trillionaire. Two weeks after recording this episode the UK was in the middle of a three day run of record breaking peaks of June heat. Twenty-three days after recording this episode, convicted felon, professional liar, friend of Jeffrey Epstein and current president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, hosted a narcissistic, self-aggrandising, nationalistic $45 million party whilst the US Military continued strikes on Iran, the constitution continued to be eroded by organised governmental corruption and the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool stagnated in an undeniably on-the-nose visual metaphor.

In this conversation Aidan sets out some of the myriad issues that the world is facing in 2026, his ideas for how animism may be able to point the way towards a better future and how it may be possible to encourage people to discover, commence on and commit to the multi-generational project, whatever it may look like, that may lead humanity out of the dark and frightening mess that it currently finds itself in... (recorded 11 June 2026)

VYS0059 | We Can Trance If We Want To - Vayse to Face with Lonnie Scott

March 11th, 2026  |  Season 4  |  2 hrs 1 min

heathenism, hypnosis, hypnotism, lonnie scott, magic, magick, runes, vayse

It's always useful to get a lesson in how it's done, so Hine and Buckley welcome to Vayse an OG of occult podcasting, Lonnie Scott, the host of Weird Web Radio, a show which has now been running for a decade.

Lonnie is a heathen, a hypnotist, award winning tarot reader and Hellier-almuni and occult podfather who has been podcasting since 2016 - interviewing Vayse favourites such as Aidan Wachter, Greg and Dana Newkirk and Mitch Horowitz years before it was cool. The conversation flows quickly from how Lonnie found his way into magic, heathenism and hypnotism to what really happened in the hypnosis session in season 2 of Hellier to how he navigates the complex ethics of hypnosis to whether hypnotists can really implant ideas into the heads of their subject... and the joys of having a book addiction... (recorded 20 February 2026)

VYS0058 | Queer Devotion - Vayse to Face with Charlie Claire Burgess

February 25th, 2026  |  1 hr 55 mins

charlie claire burgess, fifth spirit tarot, magick, queer, queer devotion, radical tarot, tarot, vayse

The first Vayse interview of 2026 is with someone that Hine and Buckley have wanted to interview for years, it's none other than Charlie Claire Burgess! As an author and artist working at the intersection of spirituality and queerness, Charlie has written two of the most original and powerful spiritual books of the decade, Radical Tarot and Queer Devotion and has created the Fifth Spirit Tarot Deck, the Gay Marseille Tarot deck and has a third deck, the Aquarius Rising Oracle Deck in the works.

Charlie was super generous with their time and ideas, talking about how tarot was their rebellion against a conservative religious upbringing, how their attempt at conforming with societal norms and expectations left them searching for more and how discovering the way in which their magic and queerness is intertwined led them to finding themselves, others like them and a new direction in life.

The conversation also wanders through Charlie's process in creating the Fifth Spirit Tarot, the importance of self-expression, individuality and authenticity, the magick which can arise from embracing chaos and uncertainty... and why it's always a good time to embrace your inner-teen-goth... (Recorded 15 January 2026)

VYS0053 | The Mongoose Files - Vayse to Face with Gayle Fidler

November 19th, 2025  |  1 hr 46 mins

cryptids, gef the talking mongoose, isle of man, magic, magick, weird little guy

Ever since their childhood days reading the Usborne Book of Ghosts, Hine and Buckley have been obsessing over the mysterious mercurial mammalian Manx marvel - Gef the Talking Mongoose. And finally bringing Gef chat to Vayse is writer, paranormal researcher and selectively supportive spouse to a lard eating champion, Gayle Fidler.

In recent years Gayle and her curious collective of cryptid-hunters have made a pilgrimage to the Isle of Man to investigate Gef and immerse themselves in strangeness of his story. Her incredible adventures include some uncanny synchronicities, an unlikely team-up with a movie star, an unexpected connection to Aleister Crowley... and the unpredictable guidance of a certain Dr Allen Greenfield... (recorded 1 September 2025)

VYS0048 | Chinese Sex Balloons - Vayse to Face with Edwina Quatermass-Palmer

February 12th, 2025  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 50 mins

edwina quatermass-palmer, magic, magick, pan, spirits, vayse

Making her podcasting debut, Hine and Buckley welcome the weird, wonderful and wonderfully weird Edwina Quatermass-Palmer to Vayse. Worker of a job so secret that Hine and Buckley actually know what she does, possessor of the coolest name available to the English speaking world and wearer of a genuinely gravity defying hairstyle, EQP is an original and brilliant thinker, a valuable and treasured member of the Vayse discord community, a musician and rambler on the path less travelled. The conversation moves from early paranormal experiences in the, frankly incredibly named, Christmas Room of the Jacobean house that she grew up in, to her discovery of Crowley, root work and her dabbling in Chaos Magick. One of the most fascinating and unusual facets of EQP is her life-long relationship with the Great God Pan, and she talks in detail about how he appears to her, how he communicates with her and what this has meant to her over the years. The free ranging discussion also touches on the nature of creativity, retro-causality, the art and influence of the late, great David Lynch, and the question on everyone's lips... is EQP CIA?... (Recorded 3 February 2025)

VYS0040 | The Great Ping-Ping - Vayse to Face with OORYA

July 3rd, 2024  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 47 mins

lgbtq+, magic, magick, music, non-binary, occult, occult podcast, oorya, paranormal, queer, ritual, song, strange, supernatural, universe, vayse, weird, weird stuff, weirdpod

Artist, poet, noise maker, purveyor of queer-electro-folk-punk and fellow northerner, OORYA, joins Hine and Buckley in an explosion of joy, weirdness and super-infectious hyper-manipulation of the English Language. OORYA explains their unique view of the "Vinyl Universe", how they dance with the great ping-ping to make their life more magical and how you can do the same, how their live performances become a channeling of their deepest spine, how licking the void is an essential part of levelling up, what it means to them to be a queer artist... and prepare to receive some sonic healing from their beautiful vocal stims... (Recorded 25 June 2024)

SideVayse: SVYS004 | con-Vayse-ations Vol. I

June 5th, 2024  |  Season 2  |  34 mins 2 secs

ghostbusters, magick, remote viewing, spirits, vigo

After an unplanned three month sabbatical, Hine and Buckley are back with a cheeky SideVayse before the main podcast resumes. The first of an on-going series, this SideVayse is the highlights of an hour and a half long catch-up that Hine and Buckley had at the end of May. Hinting at what may be to come in the main Podcast, the discussions dances around favourite Vayse subjects: the nature of Magic, reality and the mind, haunted paintings, conceptual sharks and which is the scariest... Ghostbusters or Ghostbusters 2? (Recorded 20 May 2024)

VYS0033 | Battle-Owl vs Sci-fi Centipede - Vayse to Face with Loren Fetterman

December 27th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 46 mins

inner-astrology, loren fetterman, magic, magick, psychedelics, synchromysticism, synchronicity

In this episode artist, illustrator, esoteric free-thinker and Hine's tattoo-artist of choice, Loren Fetterman, completely blows Hine and Buckley's minds in a mushroom cloud of psychedelics, synchro-mysticism and inner astrology. Loren gives Hine and Buckley a whirlwind tour of his unique, self-styled brand of magick, detailing how he brings back and integrates life-changing ideas from this trips, how he invented a mirror point calendar system and bone watch to track his own personal symmetry, how he uses insight meditation to understand the recurring fractal cycles and patterns which form his life and wider reality and how he summoned a Battle-Owl to defeat an attacking Sci-fi Centipede formed entirely from his baby photos... (recorded 13 December 2023)

VYS0027 | Batchelor of Dark Arts - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 2

September 20th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 11 mins

ancestor veneration, ancestors, black magic, curses, defixios, doug batchelor, douglas batchelor, hexes, love spells, magic, magick, necromancy, nigromancy, vayse, what magic is this?

In the second part of Hine and Buckley's interview with the indefatigable Douglas Batchelor, creator and host of the luminous What Magic is This? podcast, the dark side is calling. Having explored his guiding principle of positivity and kindness in the previous episode he now explains how his thoughts, philosophies and understanding of magic play out when applied to the spookier side: Hexes, curses, love spells, necromancy, black magic and the left-hand path. Doug also answers some weird questions about ancestor veneration, synchronicity, what books are currently inspiring him and which deadly non-human-entity may be the one that eventually ends each and every one of us... (Recorded 3 August 2023)

VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1

September 13th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 28 mins

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Hine and Buckley are back for the first episode of season 2 and they've brought Douglas Batchelor along with them! Doug is the host and creator of the incomparable What Magic is This? - a podcast about Magic, the Occult, the Esoteric, the Paranormal, the Supernatural and the Weird and surely the single most frequently mentioned magical resource throughout the first season of Vayse. In the first part of this two-part, slightly giddy interview, the roots of Doug's magical life are revealed as he talks about how he graduated from being a disillusioned materialist teenager to a punk-rock chaos magician to a self-styled-necromantic-performative-ritual-magician with an awesome occult podcast. The conversation bounces around: from synchronicities to Bob Ross, from how to start your own magical practice to Hot Wheels skating gear, from podcasting as a work of magic to the psychic influence of the Lost Boys soundtrack... and all whilst Hine and Buckley try their best to uncover and assimilate the source of Doug's seemingly inexhaustible enthusiasm and positivity... Recorded 3 August 2023