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VYS0054 | You Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking A Few Egregores - Vayse to Face with Joshua Cutchin - show notes

Having released 53 episodes of Vayse without interviewing Joshua Cutchin is nothing short of an embarrassment - and one that Hine and Buckley are keen to make up for. Joshua is a writer, a researcher and a musician, having written modern classics of weird non-fiction including A Trojan Feast, Ecology of Souls and most recently the mind-bending, mind-expanding and mind-blowing masterpiece, Fourth Wall Phantoms.

Like hungry Sasquatches devouring a Roc egg, Hine and Buckley are in a feeding frenzy, ravenous for Joshua's thoughts, ideas and insights. The particularly wandering conversation goes all the way from real-life encounters with fictional characters to the fabric of reality itself and the possibility that our beliefs are what holds it together... and, naturally, Hine and Buckley take the opportunity to introduce Joshua to the Peanut King... (recorded 6 November 2025)

Joshua Cutchin Links

Website - joshuacutchin.com

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You Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking A Few Egregores

Fourth Wall Phantoms by Joshua Cutchin

Jaques Vallée - Wikipedia

John Keel - Wikipedia

Jane Goodall - Wikipedia

Bigfoot - Wikipedia

Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon by Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner

Ecology Of Souls by Joshua Cutchin

King Kong - Wikipedia

King Kong Trailer - YouTube

Stan Winston - Wikipedia

Ray Harryhausen - Wikipedia

Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena by Jerome Clark

Raincoast Sasquatch: The Bigfoot / Sasquatch Records of Southeast Alaska, Coastal British Columbia & Northwest Washington from Puget Sound to Yakutat by J. Robert Alley

A Trojan Feast by Joshua Cutchin

Anomalist Books

The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe - Goodreads

The Ark Encounter

Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism by Howard Schwartz

Claude Lecouteux - Wikipedia

Aimé Michel - Wikipedia

The Shadow - Wikipedia

John Constantine - Wikipedia

Embodied Imaginations: Fictional Characters Making Experiential Crossings into Real Life: An Unusual Phenomenon by Chidambaram Ramesh - Goodreads

Tulpa - Wikipedia

Fourth Wall - Wikipedia

Metalepsis - Wikipedia

Deadpool - Fandom

Deep Weird: The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience - edited by Jack Hunter - Goodreads

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Wikipedia

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Trailer - Youtube

The Big Lebowski - Wikipedia

The Big Lebowski - Trailer - Youtube

The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. Hansen - Goodreads

Jacques Vallée Still Doesn’t Know What UFOs Are by Chantel Tattoli - Wired

Anxiety Dream - Wikipedia

Gift For Gardening: Is The Green Thumb A Myth? by Nikki Tilley - Gardening Know How

Placebo - Wikipedia

What’s It Like to Take Google’s Mindfulness Training? by Mirabai Bush - Mindful.org

An Airplane-Sized Bird and Roc Eggs in 1961 Miami - American Strageness - Thunderbirdphoto.com

The Monster Munch Monsters - Fandom

Smiths Crisps - Monster Munch - Dream - 1977 - UK Advert - YouTube

American Gods by Neil Gaiman - Goodreads

Hellier Season 1: Episode 1 | The Midnight Children - YouTube

Terence McKenna - Wikipedia

Hyperstition - Wikipedia

Mitch Horowitz

Mr Peanut - Planters.com

Game of Thrones - Wikipedia

Seinfeld - Wikipedia

H. P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia

Cthulhu - Wikipedia

Kenneth Grant - Wikipedia

The Blair Witch Project - Wikipedia

The Philadelphia Experiment - Wikipedia

The Montauk Project - Wikipedia

The Roswell Incident - Wikipedia

Austin Osman Spare - Wikipedia

Albert Ostman - sasquatchalberta.com

Joshua's Recommendations

King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDonald - Goodreads

New Moon by Ian McDonald - Goodreads

Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald - Goodreads

Moon Rising by Ian McDonald - Goodreads

The Ridge by Michael Koryta - Goodreads

Rabbit Trap - Wikipedia

Arrival - Wikipedia

Fargo Season 2 - Wikiepdia

Red Dead Redmeption 2 - Wikipedia

Reservation Dogs - Wikipedia

Esalen Institute - Wikipedia

Labyrinth - Wikipedia

The Muppets - Wikipedia

David Bowie - Wikipedia

Hellboy - Wikiepdia

Slimer - Wikipedia

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey - Wikipedia

Kermit the Frog - Wikipedia

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