Chilluminati Podcast - Midweek Mini: A Wolfenstein Listener Story

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

This Minisode was originally uploaded with Episode 328: The Great Santa Robbery of 1927 ft. Santell Claws - some of the topics discussed might be outdated. Subscribe to our Patreon to listen and watch the Minisodes as they release every week! http://patreon.com/CHILLUMINATIPODMike Martin - http://www.youtube.com/@themoleculemindset Jesse Cox - http://www.youtube.com/jessecox Alex Faciane - https://www.youtube.com/@StarWarsOldCanonBookClub/Editor: DeanCutty Producer: Hilde @ https://bsky.app/profile/heksen.bsky.social Show Art: Studio Melectro @ http://www.instagram.com/studio_melectro Logo Design: Shawn JPB @ https://twitter.com/JetpackBragginSOURCES: Wolfenstein Listener Story: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChilluminatiPod/comments/1oja41k/wolfenstein_dream/Is America Full Of Monsters:https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-asylum/202512/is-america-filled-with-monstersKaikoura Lights Incident:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hNmg-fXcvs

Notice, notice, this midweek mini was recorded several months ago and may not be up to date with current events. For fresh minisode uploads with every episode, head to patreon.com slash Chaluminati pod. The nods and welcome. Minisot 255. Still weird. I miss you. Oh, yeah. Am I supposed to be weird too?

Is this what we do on the video? No, God, don't be weird. We don't prep. No, we're done. That's the intro. It's already over. you missed your opportunity to be weird. Hi,

everybody. Welcome to the internet. No, no, Centel's going to be like, creepy. You got to like creepy. Okay.

Like Tim Allen in the main. Alex, you said you have something to read for us, right? Yeah. So last week we did our awesome Chiluminati Christmas Advent calendar of listener stories, which was very fun.

I really enjoyed it. But there's more listener stories than I could fit in the Advent count. I mean, that they could fit in the Advent calendar. And so I had I had to I had to leave this one out. So this one is from a it's like a longer one, but it's just it's so out there that I had to read it. This is from Spriglewiggle. It's called Wolfenstein Dream. So here we go. Okay. Hello to Luminati podcast. Longtime listener first time poster. I've been meaning to post dreams since I had it. But ADHD and life had their fair share distracting me. I implore you to read this on the pod. I'd love to know what you all in and what symbolism Jesse will dissect from this one.

I don't experience my dreams often, but when I do, I try to write them down, albeit in a stupor since I just awoken. Sometimes I remember to go back and clean it up. This is one of the few dreams I've ever experienced with the beginning, middle, and end, and the only one with some level of coherence. Incredibly cinematic.

I copied and pasted exactly as it is in my notes, so if there's any typos or weird wording, have fun with it. Okay, I digress. Let us bag in. DMY, month, day, year confuses and it annoys me. 6-2-25. 6-2-25. That's February 6th.

It's February 6th, 2025. First dream. First person. I'm in a small room, only about 10 by 10 by 6 feet. Everything looks in the style of the original Wolfenstein, including armors, ammo, and a pistol sitting on the ground. Listener, if you don't know what Wolfenstein is, It's the original first person shooter.

And it's still around today at Bethesda. The armor, however, is reminiscent of MCRN light armor. I've been watching a lot of the expanse as of late. The expanse listener is a show on television. It's quite good. If you like the Star Trek East, Mass Effect type stuff, check out the expanse. When I collect the pistol, I hear a voice echo throughout the building. Find the beast.

Kill the demon. Free your brother. And so it begins. Oh, okay. Each room has a doorway about four feet by three feet. Every wall is smooth white with a very dark brown ceiling. The first door I shuffled through leads to a landing of a steep ramp. Old school stairways were simpler, days of basic polygons. So I ascend, crawl through the entry and see a hallway stretching ahead of me and to the right of me. I go right and at the end are doors next to both shoulders. I go left and find some armor against a wall and a four by four square. the floor to drop down a level. I walk through a doorway that is immediately on the right of the one I entered and I start to hear breathing, heavy animalistic breathing. I don't have a flashlight so I can't shine a light to see the other end of this really, really long room. I ever so carefully

creep closer as the breathing gets louder and louder until I can make out its whole shape. It looks humanoid. Instead of skin, it's made purely out of only what I can describe as dark red, tree roots. It has no eyes, only sockets, and it seems to be looking right at me. I make a vicious scream, similar to a T-Rex in Jurassic Park mixed with the HL2. That's Half-Life 2. Stocker scream. Truly frightening. Listener, Half-Life 2 is a game that's for a PC came out about 20 years ago. Truly frightening. I turn around and run. It chases. I enter the armor room immediately step side back into the hallway and run down the corridor to the way I haven't gone before. I keep moving. I turn right. It's another long corridor. I keep pace. I can feel the fear on my breath. I turn right again.

Someone shackled to the wall. It's a black haired lady in a skin tight leather suit. It's Ashi, the daughter of Aku. I don't think I've seen her in years or even finish watching the show, but somehow she's in my head. Guys, I don't think I know this one. Is it Samurai Jack? I think it's Samurai Jack. Okay. Samurai Jack. In Samurai Jack. Jack? Yeah, who has in like the one they created later. That was like the last season. Spoilers. I know why she's in your head. You dirty.

There you. All right. All right. She looks up at me. Then lowers her head in sadness. This is written in like Germanic like high speech font. Just end me and be done with it. She says.

And then we're back to Ariel. I'm starting to slow my breath. And without thinking, I shoot the chains holding her arms and run into another room to my left. There's only one other door in here. I enter and it's another stair slope that leads me back down. I glide down and snake my way back to the first room, so many empty rooms. I hear the creature.

Its low growl permeates the walls, filling the air with a dark fog of anger. I sneak around the bottom floor waiting to come face to face with a thing again. I enter a room and it's on the other side. I aim my gun at it and wait until it turns towards me. When it does, I realize that it doesn't actually see. It only hears. Shooting might hurt it, but it will only give away where I am. Find the beasts.

Kill the demon. Maybe I'm not supposed to kill this creature, only find it. I make a stomp. It hears. It looks directly at the betraying foot. Listeners, Stomp the Yard is a pretty good dancing. If you don't know about it, you should check out Stomp the Yard. I went to go see Stomp the Yard in theaters, and it was sold out.

And so instead, I saw a movie I knew nothing about called Children. of men. Oh my God. What a big one. It fucked us up. It looks directly at the betraying foot. Makes it scream and lunges at me.

I sprint back the way I came after making distance. I slow down enough that I don't get too far ahead. I run back up the newly found slope and run back into where I left the prisoner. She's not there, of course. She's behind me. She was waiting for me to return. She hits me in the back of the head and I fall over. The pistol didn't class.

fashion slides away from me. She picks it up. We're back in Germanic high speech. Think next time, hero. I'm going to have to copy paste this one. I can't tell. I can't tell what this word is because it's actually, I can't read the font. What do you guys think? Think. Here's a, I'm going to copy paste it and change the font. Great question. Great, great, great, great detective work. I mean, what else would T-H-I-N- be? surely that's an but the K does but the K looks like a little treat yeah

yeah thanks dude I don't I like I don't want to pause but I feel like I feel like I gotta know what this word is before I it won't change font it'll like it's just get thimp about it all right think next time hero thimf next time hero

yeah there you go thump thump thump thump thump grudge And so I found the beast, killed the demon, and out of the twisted roots and dark form of the creature, my brother appeared, innocently dormant and unaware of the events. And that is where this post ends. There's nothing else after that. That is actually, yo, I was taking notes like crazy. You all have no clue. That actually is the easiest one to figure out. I'm so thrilled. This is fantastic. Usually they're like complicated. This one's so simple. Okay, I'm going to break it down for you.

Obviously a lot of this could be like you just thought of a thing and included in your dream. Of course, as always. But one, when you think Wolfenstein, you think all of those old games, they're basically boxes or halls that look like boxes. It's oppressive. It's, uh, you know, it's kind of all around you, all encompassing. All right. Then find the beast, kill the deal. demon free your brother. This is awesome because, okay, first off, the beast, right? So find the beast,

kill the demon for your brother. It's a stage thing, right? Stage one, stage two, stage three. It's a process. You're going through a process. And so the beast could be an instinct that finding suggests you need to acknowledge this part of you, right? Need to find the beast within you or whatever that beast might be, right? Some sort of animalistic thing. And then the part where you face the demon, right? You kill the demon is you have to like face this inner adversary or like the concept of striving for peace to feeding this evil.

And then for your brother, right? Brother in the dream is more than just a brother. It symbolizes your connection to humanity like finding that, right? But the thing that's great about this, the thing that ties it all together perfectly. is that Ashi, who is Aku's half-demon assassin daughter from the revival of the adult, raised to kill Jack from the revival adult, yet falls in love with Jack. Yeah. Is literally, find the beast, kill the demon for your brother.

Like, if you just like think about the idea of what that is, she's initial, she's like his most loyal servant for Aku, and then she meets Jack and is freed from that demon defeated and they fall in love. it all like checks out on sort of like a grand scale what it means specifically i have no clue but unlike a do these things line up in the dream 100%. You guys are so lucky that jesse watched the like revival adult version of samurai jack that came out yeah i know what's up you guys are so lucky i think i think you were playing a nazi video game killing Nazis and I think you had a supernatural dream about the evils of the Holocaust, right? The beast is the genocide, right? The demon that you have to fight is us, right? Like,

we are, it was perpetrated by people. But also he like, you know, Ashi's hot. So it was like, you're in the dream too, baby. But Jason, Jesse, that's part of it because Ashkenazi Jews were part of the group that were being attacked by their father. You know, Ashi Kanasi? Pardon of me? Ashikanazi Jewish Ashpagashkins. For some reason,

the way you were saying it, you were like, an Ashkenazi Jews were trying to kill samurai. Jack. No, listen, I don't know what Hakus' religion was. I'm just telling you, this was the cemetery that I saw. And, you know, the bright light of Hanukkah is going to shine very soon, everybody. So I'm just letting you know, I think this dream has more meaning.

There's a lot of things in the air. And I have seen a special or two about Hanukkah, so I know lightly what it's about. On the first night of Hanukkah, what do we do? We light the menorah and another candle, too. Oh, that's lamb chops, lamb chops, hollowing. Ooh, if it's lamb chop, that's quality. I don't think I've seen that since actually. If you want to watch this, it's great.

It's got the dad from Growing Pains. Alan Thick? It's got an old guy, I don't know, and then Mr. Miyagi shows up to the party as well. And is hanging out with Charlie Horace. There is only one Christmas special that I acknowledge. That's the Clay mentioned Christmas special. The greatest Christmas special there ever was. I played, I watched it with you.

It's over on Jesse's Patreon. That's what I'm saying. It's one of the best things that ever existed. Are you doing a Patreon to Patreon? brand deal right now? I'm just saying if you're on the Patreon and you're not on the Chulamani pot and you're only on Jesse Cox, I'm telling you marry those together. It is a beautiful, just like when you just marry them. Just marry them.

A classic Jewish name, Jesse. A classic. And Hunter of Samurai Jack. Yes, one of the other daughters of Aku. Yes, yes, that's true. What? Do I need to watch this?

Is this show incredible? Dude, it's good. Yeah. Yeah. It's like they bring it back for like one final hurrah and it's fantastic. All right. Samurai Jack solved the problem of how do we have him kill everything? Everything just has oil in it. And it's glorious.

Yep. It's very well. I did love the Star Wars. I love those. Does original clone work cartoons? Yes. The good ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The good ones. They are very similar. No hate. No hate. No hate. It's anime. Those were just masterpieces. Is that it?

Are there more? Jesse, what do you have? I got some fun stuff. Okay, so in psychology today, an article by Tori Rondolin, it's interesting. It's is America filled with monsters is the question mark there. According to popular lore, monsters lurk in every state. Is this good for us? So the article starts out by introducing topics that we talk about a bunch. Bigfoot, Mothman, Tupacabra, etc., etc. It's a five. finds cryptids. It goes into what they are and talks about like, yeah, they're fabled creatures that scientifically haven't been proven to exist, but it's fun to talk about them. And the article goes on to say statistically, millions of Americans believe that cryptids are real. For instance, approximately one and five believe in Bigfoot. This belief in turn helps support a huge monster industry. One 2024 study found that Bigfoot products generate 140 million.

million dollars annually. What? You benefit off the monster industry. Come on now. Today, there are numerous museums available for the monster investigator, not to mention a plethora of films, toys, websites, and festivals. In fact, a brand new Bigfoot movie just came out, call American Sasquatch by the Missing 401 guy,

which I have a copy of. If you all want to watch that, I have a copy of it. The literal missing 401 series who did is me shitting on David Paul. Yes, which is why we have to watch. They're like eight hours straight. Bigfoot's come from UFOs. They're inner portal demean. They like take people sometimes.

They like go through portals. That's why we can't see them. They're not on this plane. I just heard David Politey's talking about this. I know. We need to watch it. I have a code. Let's watch.

All right. Anyway. Yeah, yeah. Some argue that monster belief propagates pseudoscience, which is a movement that challenges scientific authorities and often suggest that scientific institutions are malign entities. This can work. to the detriment of public health and faith in essential institutions.

Note literally, it's exactly what they're afraid about when they talk about, like, RFK talking absolute nonsense about medicine, where they're like, is it good, though? Is it? So that's one of the concerns they have. On the other hand, some argue that Bigfoot and its kin can spark a healthy interest in biology, environmentalism, and can also provide sucker to marginalized groups that feel more. monsterized by an intolerant society. It all sounds like a lot of, you know, like big, big foot. Like, we're helping people. Big foot.

Yeah, yeah. We're helping people. Maybe, I don't know. Like coming from the angle of like, don't get rid of big foot, I guess. It does seem like Bigfoot lobby. But anyway. And it's certainly without debate that monsters have become economic bonanzas and even entertainment megastars.

the popularity of Bigfoot speaks to a broader context. A scholar Joshua Blue Booz notes, at mid-century, American working class white men were doing quite well financially, but broadly speaking, they were leery of the changing culture. Mass media made the world seem fake and the post-war emphasis on family and togetherness.

A word coined in 1954 could feel stultifying. In addition, the economy was changing from an industrial one to one based on services and consumption, and that change meant, changed what it meant to be successful as a man. This was one of the things, like they keep talking about aliens, they talk about like every time major cultural changes happen,

interest in all this stuff picks up. And so right now, major cultural changes are happening and we're very obsessed with aliens. Absolutely. Same thing. The same trend can be found with true crime as well, When the world gets in a darker spot, the people who take in true crime content goes up.

That's like me with comic books. When COVID-19 happens, I buy more comic books than anybody ever expected. And now it's a burden that I must carry with me for the rest of my life. And doing all of this, like both Bigfoot, Mothman, the UFOs, whatever, they offer some sort of access or understanding

to the troubles. and the things happening past, present, dreams you might have. Like, it gives easy explanations to be like, oh, it's that thing. And yeah, it can problematically inspire troubling habits, like the belief that science is wrong and that anecdotal reports and common sense are reliable evidence, but it also inspires hope and helps people, you know, resuscitate stagnant local economies and, you know, helps them get through troubling times. What is more, cryptids

have apparently deserved our national attention because it signals like deeper social and psychological processes that we're all going through. We can study cryptid belief in order to better understand the human mind, such as our proclivity to anthropomorphize objects

and our urge to believe in the more fantastical reality. So basically the article is saying, hey man, look, it might all be hogwash but like, we need this. It's the reason why we create all sorts of stuff. Even if it's real or not real,

you know, don't be a buskill. Yeah, yeah, basically the article. Well, that's kind of my vibe, honestly.

Yeah, Alex, that is what an Alex is. Over on our, over on story time, David told me all the cryptids across all this different states and in a number of small towns.

They know the cryptids fake. They're still a museum and it's the only thing going on in that small town. Yeah. So that. part of it stands out to me. I also have been, I've been watching my friends raise their kids. And like, to you and I, when we talk about bigfoots or like monsters and stuff like that, it's a little ambiguous. But like, when you're like preparing a little person for the world, monsters are real. Yeah. And like, not. And mind you, what I'm talking about is the Santa Claus

monster who's going to whip out a gun at the bank. Israel, but also like, that idea of be wary of what is in the forest. Be wary about the unknown. So, like, I also feel like part of this is also like that existential dread that you're trying to instill in people of like, just be careful. Like, even in the middle of the forest, you might get missing 4-1-1. And like, that's something, regardless of why those people go missing, sadly, that happens. Sometimes you're calling a goddamn hole.

Yeah. Yeah. What you're talking about is exactly, I think, the point of the article, which is like, no one on this show, I think believes that missing 401 is a real, like,

supernatural thing. Right. But people definitely go missing in the forest. And the moral, the message should be, hey, be careful in the forest. Yeah, try not to go missing in the forest, bro.

Yeah, exactly. Well, my other hot takeaway is, a hot takeaway is, this is why we need disclosure. I need to know that grays and mantises and, Things are real so that we can go, oh, all that other stuff was nonsense. But the biggest conspiracy to one, those gray things that people keep saying they see in their dreams, that's for sure.

No, the mantises are a split off that were mad at the big guys for destroying their destiny. And now they're coming to kill us. But we don't know about it because we didn't want to spend the socialism coin. When the military guy got taken by the mantis thing, he said, I can do whatever I want to your body and hurt you. but we can't hurt your souls. So do with that what you will, everybody. On that, we'll wrap this minisode up. I'm going to leave you boys with just a link.

That is the car footage, the Kikora UFO incident footage there. It's going to be lights on a screen, as you would expect. What's wild? I clicked on it? It sounded exactly like Jesse talking. Like 100% just like Jesse was doing his accent again. So you did a great job, Jesse is what I'm hearing. You did such a good job, Jesse.

Thank you. But what you're seeing is what you would expect, bright lights in a nice. Like, what do you expect to see? This is like, la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la it's all, you know, it's out there. You can go see it. We'll be back next week with another minisode. Santel, thank you again for joining us.

So we get it's always the pleasure to have you on, my friend. Thanks for having you. And we'll be back next week. Thank you all again. We appreciate you. We love you. Bye. Bye.