Skip to content
The Post Relevant Podcast podcast artwork

PODCAST · arts

The Post Relevant Podcast

by Phil Ristaino

Phil Ristaino is an actor. An artist. A songwriter. And now a podcast host, with a show that celebrates the rebirth and imminent demise of the nigh-eternally defunct Post Relevant Movement, a movement for the End of the End of Time. Join Phil and special guests as they explore and decipher film, art, music, comedy and improvisation, the esoteric and occult, the extra-terrestrial and other-dimensional, the spirit and the surreal, and all things Post Relevant. Witness wild wayward wonders descending from the seven heavens to be made manifest at the crossroads of absurdity and eternity!

Publisher-supplied feed metadata · PodParley refreshed Feb 26, 2026 · Source feed

Episodes

  1. 37. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 10: No Stars

    The Post Relevant Podcast season 3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 10. Hey Laura! A lottery ball rides the kettle steam of infinity to this moment in time. To thank you for your bravery for making your sacrifice. Whispered from a Red Room, your radiant smile and your sad, sad eyes....

  2. 36. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 9

    The Post Relevant Podcast is a secret brought to Earth through the wise Owl, handed off to a cadre of Hawks, red-eyed demon dogs, an army of Deer, an Air Force of Vultures, and borne to the foot of the the mystical Blue Heron, who blesses every episode and eventually drops them beneath the Blue...

  3. 35. PRP3: Twin Peaks: The Return: The DECODE episode 8.5: The (Fire) Horse is the White of the Eyes

    The year of the Fire Horse has galloped a flaming path of destructransmorphication into 2026. (Just in time for Easter, btw). Follow the fiery hoof prints into the future! The Post Relevant Podcast is proud to present the second half of our epic decode of Twin Peaks: the Return episode 8 (the...

  4. 34. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 8: Birth Of (the) Bo(m)b

    Imagine a world where computers are made of ants! Nature's robots! Are you imagining it? Are you? ARE YOU? The Post Relevant Podcast season 3 proudly presents: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 8: Birth Of (the) Bo(m)b. Ever since host Phil Ristaino started recording decodes of Twin…

    more
  5. 33. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 7

    The Post Relevant Podcast has emerged from its magical initiation and is now riding on the wings of the podcast's spirit owl across the astral realms. We are also simultaneously roaming the streets at night to catch other wild owls to collect more wisdoms for our wisdom sack. We are ALSO…

    more
  6. 32. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 6

    At the stroke of Midnite, on the Eve of All Hallows, the Post Relevant Podcast lands at the foot of your shadowy path. A being of pure magic, it has taken the form of Pallas Athena's cosmic owl, newly descended from the dreamtime of Mt Olympus to shock you into epiphany. "Who are you?" you…

    more
  7. 31. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 5

    A kitten purrrrrzzzzz. A bee buzzzezzzz. A podcaster cazzzzzttttttzzzzzz. A Lion's Gate returnnnnzzzzzz!!!!! Is the universe exploding? Not. Quite. Yet............ Its the Post Relevant Podcast's triumphant trip back through the Lion's Gate once more again, but this time, with bees! Strap on your...

  8. 30. PRP3: Twin Peaks: The Return: The DECODE episode 4

    Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 4. SONNY JIM IS BACK IN. Full stop. June 1st, 2025 has arrived. We all knew this day would come. 2000 years ago, when the first western savior was born to a virgin in a manger beneath the Star of Bethlehem, the prophecy was set in motion: "Yay, verily, a...

  9. 29. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 3

    Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 3. The Post Relevant Podcast hatches out of a bright red Easter egg and skitters diagonally across multiple dimensions with our decode of Twin Peaks: the Return episode 3! You are in for another audio epic.... We follow everyone's favorite cosmic FBI…

    more
  10. 28. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 2

    Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 2. The Post Relevant Podcast dares to go where no one dares to dare as we follow the owl's screech along a jagged path strewn with corn and backwards dreams across a multidimensional soap opera in order to glance into the deep puddles of Lynch's bubble…

    more
  11. 27. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 1

    Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE. The Post Relevant Podcast looms over the city. This isn't your mama's podcast. Its the Post Relevant Podcast EXTREME!!!! Exclamation points!!! Our decode of David Lynch and Mark Frost's magnum opus Twin Peaks: the Return begins in earnest as host Phil Ristaino...

  12. 26. PRP season 3: Twin Peaks: The Return: The Decode episode 0

    Twin Peaks: The Return: the DECODE... The Post Relevant Podcast has once more again returned! And also, we're back! Rising up out of the gigantic hole in the sun (look it up) like a phoenix bird who's firey wings have been extra lit on fire, just in case. And soon, once we've shed the eggshell…

    more
  13. 25. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 25 - Mad Carl and the Ghost of Jerry Garcia

    Parles vous, Post Relevantinizers! Grateful to have you return from the Dead (metaphorically speaking) to the Post Relevant Podcast. You found your miracle (or you maybe just jumped the fence) and waded into the crowd of online onlookers to grok and jibe most froogaly with the rhythmic geometries...

  14. 24. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 24 - Cheese and the Transcendental Object at the End of Time

    4 men knock on the Gates of Heaven. One man enters. One man goes insane. One man goes suicidal. One man goes Post Relevant! Welcome back for the first time and ever and always again to Post Relevant Podcast episode 24. Its time to resolve your opposites and check your mates as we spelunk way down...

  15. 23. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 23 - The Birth of the Post Relevant Movement with Yehuda Duenyas

    The Post Relevant Podcast has yet once again re-returned with the actual real and proper beginning of season 2! Episode 23 phones it in from across the seas as host Phil Ristaino is joined by his old experimental theater buddy and co-creator of the Post Relevant Manifesto Yehuda Duenyas. Yehuda…

    more
  16. 22. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 22 - "Under the Silver Lake" Watch-A-Long

    Happy 2023! Welcome to Season 2 of the Post Relevant Podcast. Your host Phil Ristaino here. Sync up your TV or computer or home theater with this episode, because we've recorded a watch-a-long to explain the A24 hipster-bizarro-noir "Under the Silver Lake." I know, I know, I said I was done with...

  17. 21. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 21 - Sam Swims to the Moon - Explaining the End of "Under the Silver Lake"

    Ahoy, Post-Relevanteers! We be steerin' the 'cast into our final destination, and quite a heavenly body is she. She be the most Silvery of Lakes.... Welcome back to the final installment of our season long decode of the film "Under the Silver Lake." We've dog-paddled all the way to the surface of...

  18. 20. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 20 - The King's Chamber part 3 - Thru the Lion's Gate

    Hale Hale, hearty listeners! You have answered the sphinx's riddles, donned the Wadget, the all seeing eye, and discovered the Lyre of Orpheus, alit in the sacred temple of Abydos by the starlight of the constellation Lyra itself. As you strum the lyre's silver strings, a 7th dimensional tone…

    more
  19. 19. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 19 - The King's Chamber part 2 with Mark Ristaino

    Howdy! Welcome to the King's Chamber part 2. We are full on peering into the heavens from the vantage point of the apex of the original mountain of creation, which birthed the phoenix bird and rose up the djed pillar at the very center of the globe. In this episode, we expand on the ideas...

  20. 18. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 18 - The King's Chamber part 1 - Sam's Moment of Truth in "Under the Silver Lake"

    If a feather fell from a weather bell, would you wonder whether your will would be well? Or would wonder well in your whither well till your whethers wilt as your feathers filled? Do you know the answer? It takes puzzling the sphinxian riddle to cross the threshold into the King's Chamber. But...

  21. 17. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 17 - Ladies of the Hour part 2 - An interview with Laurelle Rethke

    I am Infinite. I am cosmic. I am purple, obsequious, and clairvoyant. I am POST RELEVANT. I AM the END of the END of TIME.... Fall into the cosmic crystal oceans along the edge of the Lagoon Nebula and surf the silver tides of Aldebaran! The time has come for the grand entrance of the Ladies of…

    more
  22. 16. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 16 - Ladies of the Hour - decoding the scene in the Hut in "Under the Silver Lake"

    The time has come to meet the Ladies of the Hour. Tuck your pistol into your pants and enter the hut as we decipher the ascension secrets of the Final Man and this 3 Brides. Have some tea. On second thought, you might not want to drink that.... The Post Relevant Podcast has returned once more...

  23. 15. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 15 - Lloyd Booker part 2

    Welcome back to part 2 of an epic conversation with actor/producer Lloyd Booker. In this half of the conversation, Lloyd and host Phil talk almost exclusively about the short film they both appear in, "House of Brotherly Love" by writer/director Max Kane. Max has created a challenging snapshot of…

    more
  24. 14. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 14 -- Interview with actor/producer Lloyd Booker part 1

    Strap in and hold on tight, Post-Relevantians! You're about to be Booker-ized! In this episode we take a detour from our investigation of the film "Under the Silver Lake" to speak to a working actor and producer from out of Philadelphia, the raconteur of Philly Cool - Lloyd Booker. Lloyd appears…

    more
  25. 13. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 13 - Dog Paddling in the Deep End of the Silver Lake

    The Post Relevant Podcast episode 13, "Dog Paddling in the Deep End of the Silver Lake," has crawled its half-blind way out of the life-slime of the cement pond and is now roaming the city streets for warm-blooded crowds to consume and the tallest building on top of which to build its gigantic...

  26. 12. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 12 - Dante Ascends Over "Under the Silver Lake"

    "There both, I thought, the eagle and myself did burn; and so intense the imagined flames, that needs my sleep was broken off." Yeah verily, dear listeners, we have arrived at the cliffs of purgatory, with nothing but stairs upward and the heavens before us! Its part 2 of my conversation with...

  27. 11. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 11 - Dante Descends "Under the Silver Lake"

    Welcome baaaaaacckkkkkk! Put the bag back in the backpack. Put the backpack back in the back of the Cadillac! Do it! The Post Relevant Podcast is back (again), and this time we are taking an epic journey deep below the Silver Lake, as we journey into the Dante's "Divine Comedy" in an attempt to...

  28. 10. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 10 - The Apotheosis of Kurt Cobain - Sam's True Identity in "Under the Silver Lake"

    He's the One, who likes all those REM songs, and he likes to shoot the Songwriter's gun, and he likes to call his Mom, but you don't know who he is. You don't know who he is. And I say "yeah!" The Apotheosis of Kurt Cobain is here, and with it, the revelation of Sam's true identity in "Under the...

  29. 9. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 9 - The Temple of Diana : the Eternal Moment in "Under the Silver Lake"

    Meanwhile...at the Temple of Diana! Step lively, Post Relevationers! We are entering the sacred temple of the moon goddess herself. The gateway to the heavens! Prepare to have your skull exploded...in a good way. Oh, and have I mentioned I really like your shirt? I do. Strap in for a ride, as…

    more
  30. 8. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 8 - aka THE GODKiLLER : Slaying the Songwriter in "Under the Silver Lake"

    Post up, Post Relevantizers! The podcast is back, and we have a few questions for you. Are you tired of worshipping a celestial being who's constantly lying to you? Denying you? Side-lining, side-eyeing, and side-winding you? Me too! It's time to slay your duplicitous deity, and what better way…

    more
  31. 7. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 7 - Interview with Filmmaker Max Kane

    Purple tidings, Post-Relevantians! Today we are like kings making a royal decree to be different, as the podcast steps away from its regular obsession with the film "Under the Silver Lake" to talk to an up-and-coming film writer and director Max Kane. Max has created an excellent new short film...

  32. 6. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 6 - Skipping Stones from Sag Harbor to the Silver Lake

    Grab your hats and sling your flats (stones), the Post Relevant Podcast is BACK!!! Happy 2022! We passed...a kidney stone. Well, Phil did. On January first! Is it good luck? Dare we call it...auspicious? Big things are afoot as we doggy paddle around the Silver Lake. After a month away, episode 6...

  33. 5. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 5 - Wading into the Silver Lake

    Come with me! Its old music night at the Crypt Club! Welcome back to the Post Relevant Podcast. You've arrived at episode five. Imagine that. No, really, imagine it. Are you imagining it? Its another Under the Silver Lake decode banger, as we descend into the LA underworld with our perplexed...

  34. 4. The Post Relevant Podcast episode 4 - Moon Day Manifesto : A Key to Overstanding "Under the Silver Lake"

    Happy Moon Day, post-relevantites! Welcome to a very special episode of the PRP. Today we reveal a very important piece of the "Under the Silver Lake" puzzle, a pivotal key to understanding the real meaning of this movie. If you had to listen to only one episode of this podcast, THIS SHOULD BE…

    more
  35. 3. The Post Relevant Podcast Episode 3 - Standing Barefoot on the Shore of the Silver Lake

    Welcome back, toe-dippers! Ready to paint your toenails silver? The water's sooooo refreshing! Its time for more "Under the Silver Lake" deep dives with the Ristaino brothers Phil and Andy. In this episode, we lead off talking about broken third eye management while attempting to relate to Sam's...

  36. 2. The Post Relevant Podcast Episode 2 - Standing outside the fence surrounding the Silver Lake

    So, you've come back to stare into the depths of the Silver Lake? Fingers gripping the fence as you try to understand the ever-shifting facets of this mercurial pool. You've left a dog biscuit and lit a candle, now you're hoping for some inspiration.... On this episode of the Post Relevant…

    more
  37. 1. The Post Relevant Podcast Episode 1 - Reading the Post Relevant Manifesto while standing across the street from the Silver Lake

    Hey! You've found the Post Relevant Podcast Episode 1, with your host, Phil Ristaino. We are standing across the street from that strangely poetic Silver Lake over there, trying to look nonchalant as we glance at our retro copies of the Post Relevant Manifesto. Don't want to draw any undue...

  38. 0. The Post Relevant Podcast episode zero -- with your host Phil Ristaino

    Hey! Welcome to episode zero of the Post Relevant Podcast, with your host Phil Ristaino. This is a brand-spanking-new podcast created by actor/artist/musician Phil as a way of celebrating the rebirth and imminent demise of the nigh-eternally defunct Post Relevant Movement, a movement for the End…

    more

Type above to search every episode's transcript for a word or phrase. Matches are scoped to this podcast.

Searching…

We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.

No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.

Showing of matches

No topics indexed yet for this podcast.

Loading reviews...

ABOUT THIS SHOW

Phil Ristaino is an actor. An artist. A songwriter. And now a podcast host, with a show that celebrates the rebirth and imminent demise of the nigh-eternally defunct Post Relevant Movement, a movement for the End of the End of Time. Join Phil and special guests as they explore and decipher film, art, music, comedy and improvisation, the esoteric and occult, the extra-terrestrial and other-dimensional, the spirit and the surreal, and all things Post Relevant. Witness wild wayward wonders descending from the seven heavens to be made manifest at the crossroads of absurdity and eternity!

HOSTED BY

Phil Ristaino

CATEGORIES

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does The Post Relevant Podcast have?

The Post Relevant Podcast currently has 38 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.

What is The Post Relevant Podcast about?

Phil Ristaino is an actor. An artist. A songwriter. And now a podcast host, with a show that celebrates the rebirth and imminent demise of the nigh-eternally defunct Post Relevant Movement, a movement for the End of the End of Time. Join Phil and special guests as they explore and decipher film,...

How often does The Post Relevant Podcast release new episodes?

The Post Relevant Podcast has 38 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.

Where can I listen to The Post Relevant Podcast?

You can listen to The Post Relevant Podcast on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.

Who hosts The Post Relevant Podcast?

The Post Relevant Podcast is created and hosted by Phil Ristaino.
URL copied to clipboard!