My Family Thinks I'm Crazy

My Family Thinks I'm Crazy is an interview show hosted by Mystic Mark, built around guests whose ideas sit well outside the mainstream. The format is simple. Episodes open on a stretch of the guest talking, already mid-thought, before Mystic Mark comes in with 'you just heard today's guest', a short introduction and a formal welcome back. The argument comes first and the framing follows. Laird Scranton covers the cosmic end of the range. He argues that Dogon, Egyptian, Buddhist and Hindu cosmologies contain correct science, deeper than what well-known science popularizers offer. He also says the interstellar object 3I Atlas was a technological device that authorities presented as a comet. Mystic Mark closes that conversation by asking him back to talk about megalithic structures. History comes in through family records. Daniel J. Duke, an author and descendant of Jesse James, describes a treasure map handed down in his family: geometric symbols, a sun, a crescent moon and star, and a simple code that spells out cash or greenbacks. Some people, he notes, read that crescent moon as proof of a KGC connection. Richard Grove is an author, researcher and host of the Grand Theft World podcast. He lays out a history in which Rockefeller and Rothschild interests trade places between oil and banking, and he argues that the British empire was behind the creation of the OSS, CIA and NSA. Then the talk turns to the devices people carry every day. Shannon Rowan argues that apps are designed to be addictive, and uses Pavlovian and operant conditioning to explain the pull of notifications and social approval. The Paranoid American, a podcaster, comic book publisher and friend of the show, talks about voice-to-skull technology and bone induction headphones that he says were once military-only. A conversation with Wednesday 13 turns to Morgellons, nanobots and a drawing of creatures a patient says he sees crawling inside him, and it includes the candid line 'I don't know the answers to it all.' Taken together, the episode titles show the range: Serpent Teachers and Serpent Society, Black Goo, Freemason and Templar treasure, the 5G grid, occult cartoons. Serpents come up twice in that short list. Around the conversations, Mystic Mark handles the framing: the welcomes, the thank-yous, a pitch for an ad-free and interruption-free version of every episode, and a sign-off that asks listeners to immerse themselves in the moment, wherever they are, in the now. The back catalog is large. Anyone drawn to history might start with Daniel J. Duke, anyone drawn to the cosmos with Laird Scranton, and anyone uneasy about screens with Shannon Rowan.