System of Systems
Episodes
Fanboy Skepticism (w/ Daniel Keller)
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Adam speaks to the self-described "former artist" and current tech worker Daniel Keller to discuss the performative Luddism of the art world...
Iran Out of Content
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A catch up episode, covering the Iran war, antisemite influencers, and Adam being iced out by old friends SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon...
Epstein Opens Doors (Or Not)
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The boys reconnect. Adam reflects on early fatherhood, Mattio documents his trip to Mexico City to see Ye, and both chronicle the absolute abysmal mor...
Not So Industrious
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back after an extended hiatus, Adam’s paternity leave included, and a massive thanks to the subscribers who bore with us through this transi...
The Prodigal Jasian Son (w/ David Jager)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since we last posted, Adam became a father. Writer David Jager joins the show and he, Adam and Matt wade into some of his recent writing topics, like ...
Joaquin Mumbles
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Aster's 'Eddington' is awful SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREONhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/joaquin-mumbles-136432946?utm_medium=clipboard_copy...
PREVIEW It Was Not Conceptual (w/ Matt Forney)
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by author and Terror House Press editor-in-chief Matt Forney for a free-wheeling conversation about upstate New York, immigration, li...
Asgardsrei (W/ Vlad Davidzon)
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam's friend and Tablet Mag colleague, the European politics writer and Ukraine expert Vlad Davidzon, joins the show to discuss the state of the ...
We're Back (w/ Kieran Saint Leonard)
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apologies about our slow pace, work and life priorities have distanced us from our cause, which we are now here to reclaim once more. Beginning with t...
PREVIEW: Jack Off of All Trades (W/ Noah Stalgia)
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New York artist Noah Stalgia discusses embracing art and leaving furniture design behind FULL EPISODE at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jack-o...
Nuked Overton
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The boys discuss Ye nuking the overton window and how genuine or disingenuous leftists' complaints about the Trump admin are SOUNDTRACKPlagal Grin...
FriendFiction (w/Omar King)
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Omar King, as well as publisher Evan Papadakis, join the show to discuss his new short story collection An Odyssey of Dingbats, published on fr...
PREVIEW Trash American Style (w/ Malcolm Tent)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Malcom Tent is an under appreciated legend of underground rock n' roll. From entering into the punk fold in South Florida in the 1980s with his ha...
PREVIEW The Codependent Benefactor (w/ Philip Van Den Hurk and Stefan Ruitenbeek)
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A very special episode here, featuring none other than Dutch artist and director of the infamous KIRAC film series Stefan Ruitenbeek and his benefacto...
PREVIEW DOGEing Bullets (W/ Shay Semple)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and MAGA OG Shay Semple joins once more to discuss the radical first month of the Trump presidencyOSTKraftwerk "Computer Love"ESG &qu...
Melrose Place (w/ Zach Brown)
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Zach Brown joins the show to discuss one of the stranger and more era specific art works of the 1990s, Darren Starr's adult nighttime soap seri...
Rockin Back Inside My Heart (w/ Jack Mason)
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The life, the legacy, and the art of David Lynch, with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist SOUNDTRACK Julee Cruise "Rockin' Back Inside m...
PREVIEW Opportunism and Moralism (w/ Kat Chamberlin)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Kat Chamberlin discusses her political discontent and Dean Kissick's recent panel with Anna and DashaSUBSCRIBE FOR FULL EPISODE Soundtrack:Mor...
Goodbye 2024
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Memorable art, music, film and memes of 2024 OSTRed Lorry Yellow Lorry "Pushing On"Horsepower Electronics "Gorgon Sound" Thergothon "Elemental" NOF...
Magic Man (w/ Christopher Zeischegg)
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author and filmmaker Christopher Zeischegg discusses his semi autofictional 2020 novel The Magician, a new film based on that text, and a little bit a...
PREVIEW Omertà (w/ Med Gold)
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sensitive young man and friend of the show Med Gold joins to discuss too good and decent men wildly condemned and deliberately misunderstood by the me...
Monologue: 'The Apprentice'
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam discusses Ali Abbasi's Trump biopic, Sebastian Stan's incredible performance, and portraiture in general, and finds in the film a surprisingly an...
Psychogeography (W/ Chino Amobi)
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Multi-hyphenate artist, musician and writer Chino Amobi calls in from Houston to talk about his masterful new album Eroica and the state of the whole...
Dada Disturbed (w/ Morgan Garrett)
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Philly based musician and artist Morgan Garrett's excellent recent album Purity has been compared to bands as unrelated as Korn and the Shadow Ring by...
PREVIEW Abuse of THE SUBSTANCE (w/ Jack Mason and Ryan Simón)
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Jack Mason of the Perfume Nationalist and Ryan Simón American Vulgaria Magazine OST:Raffertie "The Substance" Butthole Surfers "Dum Dum" E...
Hermanos Menendez
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and Adam discuss Ryan Murphy's second season of Monsters on the Menendez Brothers, the Gary Indiana novel Resentment also about the case, and oth...
THOUGHTS on 'Wise Guy'
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by Alex Gibney's recent documentary on David Chase, Adam finally tries to communicate what 'The Sopranos" means to him SUBSCRIB...
PREVIEW Baller Blockin' (w/ Anna Khachiyan)
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Convening around the topic of the culd oddity that is the 2000 Cash Money Records produced film Baller Blockin', Anna K wades into her love of hip...
PREVIEW SEX Pod (w/ Asher Penn)
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sex Magazine is now in its 14th issue and its 4th since it was reborn as a print journal, and it's a doozy. Sam Hyde, the man who started it all, ...
Desire to Destruct (w/ Jukka Siikala)
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Finnish multimedia artist, painter, and recent author Jukka Siikala joins SOS by SP to discuss his zine series Seksnobyl, new film work, doing album a...
THOUGHTS: Art Market Crash
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why is the art market tanking? Economic instability is obviously mostly responsible, but Adam thinks there might be a more spiritual quandary at the r...
The Veneer of Respectability (W/ Nina Power)
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With some months separating now between her exit from Compact Magazine, Nina Power discusses the chaos of post-cancellation cultural life, RFK, Jr'...
Algerian Boxing (w/ JJ)
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Combat sports expert JJ discusses the peculiar psyop that was the Algerian "intersex" boxer competing in the women's division of the 202...
PREVIEW Tastefully Tasteless (w/ Ryan Simón)
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Montana's own avant-garde good ol' boy and sturdy lad Ryan Simón joins SOS by SP once more to discuss his magazine's upcoming 4th issue, ...
Journal Entries, Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam documents observations, thoughts and dreams he had from July to August, 2024 OSTJandek "Blue Blister"Non "Fire in the Organism&q...
Cheap Shocks, Part 2: On P**N
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the second part of a two-part series, Adam laments a culture where eroticism has collapsed and content is all porn... OST:Meatshits "Forced t...
PREVIEW The Gen-X Problem (W/ Jack Mason)
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Mason, the iconic creator of the Perfume Nationalist podcast, joins the show to definitively define what we call "The Gen-X Problem", w...
Paved w/ Good Intentions (W/ Ron Morelli)
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DJ, producer and founder of iconic NY techno label L.I.E.S., Ron Morelli, makes the honorable decision to redeem his entire generation and join in the...
Deserted (W/ Gary Beauvais aka Mammal)
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Beauvais is a Michigan based artist and musician who has been recording beneath the name Mammal since the beginning of the '00s. This year, h...
The Teflon Don
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Self-medicated on benzos and weed, Adam hits up Matt to discuss the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's lifeLINKS:Adam on Trump
PREVIEW Bending the Knee to Luke Turner in 2024
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam explains his experiences as a contributor of Compact Magazine, how it was pitched to him versus what the magazine has become, based around the re...
Harm Reduction Mantra (W/ Shay Semple)
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
People have been telling me for years that the artist Shay Semple and I would get along. Finally, we started bonding on Instagram over a shared contem...
PREVIEW Lust4Life (W/ Udith Dematagoda)
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Udith Dematagoda, editor of Hyperidean Press and author of the stellar new novel Agonist, joins Adam and Matt to discuss his home country of Scotland&...
Based Safety/Cringe Propaganda 2024, pt 1
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam discusses the good, the bad and the bewildering of 2024, as of June. WRITE-UP LINK
LARP LIFE (w/ Ben Werther)
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Werther is a conceptual artist, born in Nashville and living in New York, whose new exhibition at No Gallery, “WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER SPEAK, SIN...
ANTIFAshionable (w/ Elena Velez)
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Famed fashion designer and high fashion's Dimes Square rep Elena Velez discusses her last two insta-iconic shows, the mud fight of SS 2024 and the...
PREVIEW Laibach Merch Game (w/ Saul Adamczewski and another)
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Musician and former member of the Fat White Family Saul Adamczewski and another lowly Brit join the show to finally settle their score with Adam and A...
No Fun to be Had (W/ Carlos Giffoni)
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amongst the many legends Adam met in Osaka, experimental musician, comics writer/illustrator and creator of the now legendary and historic No Fun Fest...
300 and Beyond (w/ Paul K and Kurt)
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After months of criticism about the fight card, 300 indeed ended up being the best martial arts card in history, and launched fan favorite and fighter...
REPOSTED Rapedman (W/ Damen Corrado)
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Damen Corrado is a Chicago-based writer and actor with old school links to Adam Parfrey and the broader American underground. In 2019, the late Parfre...
PREVIEW Roll the Black Dice (w/ Bjorn Copeland)
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bjorn Copeland is a mixed media artist, sculptor, and musician perhaps best known as a founding member of the long-lived and ever shapeshifting experi...
Safety Propaganda 101
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of 2023, Adam took to the podium to explain the Safety Propaganda ideology and the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde to a small but captiva...
Weebed Out
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam is back from Japan: tales of shopping, noise, fem-boys, etc OST Merging Moon "Blackout before Shadow" Prurient and Linkekraft "Container of Sou...
PREVIEW DECA DYKE
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shortly before Adam's journey to Japan, he and Matthew discuss two trashy arthouse thrillers from the past and present: Ingmar Bergman's 1980 made for...
Spiced Out (W/ Benjamin Braddock and Monica Milkers)
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dune: Part 2, Denis Villeneuve's second half of his adaptation of Frank Herbet's sci-fi masterpiece Dune, is out. It's huge. Everyone has an opinion. ...
The Avatar is a Pornographer (w/ Emma Stern)
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A week before the opening of her exhibition the Pond Society in Shanghai, artist Emma Stern discusses her work, porn, ABBA and the creation of avatars...
PREVIEW Welcome to Helltown (W/ Edward Giles and Max Julian Eastman)
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Conceptual artist, musician, and founding member of iconic NYC power electronics group Final Solution, Edward Giles, joins the Safety Propaganda netw...
PREVIEW Barney Does it All (W/ Bjarne Melgaard)
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Regularly referred to as "The most famous Nordic Artist since Edvard Munch," painter, sculptor, filmmaker and installation artist Bjarne Megaard joins...
Poor Greek (W/Zane)
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yorgos Lanthimos has not been a preferred filmmaker of the Safety Propaganda universe. Too self-consciously "weird". Too Letterboxd. His new film Poor...
Kanye Versus the Vultures (w/ Matthew Denicola)
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kanye is trying to release a new record, Vultures, with Ty Dolla $ign, and his enemies are refusing to get its samples cleared, leaving the record unr...
PREVIEW Life Long Insomniac (W/ Stephen Tunney AKA Dogbowl)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of November, friends of SP Newton Gallery hosted an exhibition of paintings and cartoons by American artist Stephen Tunney. Many of those i...
Olympian Fall (W/ Laje Amare and William Landry)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are now a few weeks passed the 2023 Mr. Olympia contest. Bodybuilding seems to have reached its pinnacle, with Phil Heath being the champion who s...
Worshipping at the Alter of the Boul God (W/ Boul God Records)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boul God records is a Philadelphia-based bizarre music label that traffics in all manner of surreal and mind-bending contemporary styles of music. Fro...
And Usually Just a Syringe (with Conor Tomaka)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artist, musician, academic, and member of legacy American experimental band ONO Conor Tomaka joins the show once more, but with a specific purpose thi...
Loads All Over Anne Hathaway (w/ Ryan Simon)
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Montana's most avant-garde good ol' boy and the editor of the magazine American Vulgaria, Ryan Simón, joins the show to discuss him and Adam's advent...
PREVIEW Crankn Nuts (W/ Dan Baltic)
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Baltic, writer and co-host of the New Write podcast, releases his debut novel Nutcrankr for Terrorhouse Press. It is a contemporary novel about ma...
At the Wall of Transgression: A Whitehouse Retrospective (W/ Xylon Otterburn)
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adam has been re-reading David Keenan's historical biography on the rise of Industrial Music, England's Hidden Riverse, after it was re-published with...
PREVIEW New Millennium Men (w/ Alex Kazemi)
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Alex Kazemi wrote his first novel, Your Truly, Brad Sela, back in 2013 when he was only 19-years-old. In a true time capsule of the 2010s, Alex...
PREVIEW The Death of a Socerer (W/ Bradford Kessler and Benjamin Kellogg)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the greatest American film artists, William Friedkin, has passed away at the age of 87. The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrant parents (who fled...
All Along the Lonesome County Highway (W/ Walter Kirn)
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrated novelist and essayist Walter Kirn, author of works of fiction like Up in the Air and non-fiction such as Lost in the Meritocracy and vetera...
PREVIEW Married Mid (w/ Scott Litts)
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Litts is a New York-based writer, linked tangentially to Expat Press who also publishes a literary site called Violence Café. While the reason ...
Fucked Up in 20 Different Ways (w/ Jack Skelley)
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Skelley is a writer and a poet that has been publishing books since the 1980s. His career began in the early '80s in LA when he worked at the Ven...
PREVIEW Rapedman (w/ Damen Corrado)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Damen Corrado is a Chicago-based writer and actor with old school links to Adam Parfrey and the broader American underground. In 2019, the late Parfre...
Probable Mossad (W/ Thomas Moore and Audrey Szasz)
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Writers Audrey Szasz and Thomas Moore have both just released new novels for Philip Best's Amphetamine Sulphate. Audrey's novel is called Counterillum...
(PREVIEW) Ritualistic Humilation (W/ Sven Loven)
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Sven Loven joins Adam in his living room where they consume edibles and discuss Sven's new show, 'Humiliation Ritual', at No Gallery in New Yor...
Communication Medium (W/ Max Julian Eastman)
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Max Julian Eastman is a noise musician known for recording music under his own name and with projects like Greathumour and Tantric Death as well as th...
PREVIEW Fantasy Core is Over (W/ Grant Tyler)
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our friend from Los Angeles, the curator of the new LA gallery Imperial as well as online editor of Caesura Magazine Grant Tyler, joins the show to di...
Aspirational Mid (w/ Eva and Elena Sullivan)
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, Hadrian Belove asked Adam to meet up with him at Soho House, where he was with two young ladies Eva and Elena Sulli...
UNLOCKED Attacking the Castle from Within (W/ BILLY CORGAN)
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Around August of 2022, Adam opened up his email to find what was a message of profound encouragement, and could hardly believe it when it was addresse...
Raver Symbolism (W/ Tom Koehler)
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show and visual artist Tom Koehler brings Adam into his studio in Ridgewood, shows him some new landscape paintings, and discusses his a...
Riding the Trenwave: Safety Propaganda Records (W/ Zac Davis)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What started as a Substack and a podcast but became a prolonged conceptual art project IS NOW a full-circuit multimedia assault! Making good on his pr...
Shadow Ring Covers (W/ Eric Schmid and Connor Tomaka)
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artist/philosopher/mathematician Eric Schmid and artist, researcher, and member of industrial music collective Ono Connor Tomaka join SOS by SP. We d...
PREVIEW Fear of Lewdness (w/ Cliff Sargent)
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cliff Sargent runs the very popular Youtube literary show Better than Food where he offers his candid thoughts on the books he reads. He has excellen...
Copenhagen Cowpunks (W/ Bradford Kessler and Glen Rockney)
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, brothers in arms Adam, Will, artist Bradford Kessler and Rare Candy co-host Glen Rockney convene to discuss Nicolas Winding Refn's ne...
PREVIEW Attacking the Castle from Within (W/ BILLY CORGAN)
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Around August of 2022, Adam opened up his email to find what was a message of profound encouragement, and could hardly believe it when it was addresse...
Emperor Bezos (W/ Lev Parker)
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Old friend, colleague within the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde, and editor of Morbid Books Lev Parker stops by SOS by SP once more to discuss coll...
PREVIEW Flame it All (W/ Kevin Kautzman and Brad Kelly)
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The men of Art of Darkness podcast, Brad Kelly and Kevin Kautzman, join Adam to discuss Kanye and the legacy of endurance based performance art, the a...
Conservacucking (w/ Glen Rockney)
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Old friend Glen of Rare Candy and Back Wall pods joins us once again to further stuff the digital void with some more content: Balenciaga, pedos, Kany...
Mostly Gut and Nut (W/ Kevin Tobin)
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friend, artist, and the lone homosexual attendee of Adam's bachelor party Kevin Tobin joins SOS by SP. We discuss his current solo show at Lubov Galle...
(PREVIEW) Damaged Blonde Ambition (W/ Jack Mason and Filthy Armenian)
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Enlisting the incendiary voices of old friends Filthy Armenian, of Filthy Armenian's Adventures and the Back Wall, and Jack Mason, of the Perfume Nati...
(PREVIEW) Hellenic Glory (W/ Zach Brown)
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam has returned from his travels abroad. To inaugurate the return of System of Systems by Safety Propaganda, artist Zach Brown joins the show to dis...
Immersed in Death (W/ Worth)
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam speaks with American harsh noise master Worth, aka William Van Gorder, who has a new record on White Centipede Noise called Sacred Violence Noise...
(PREVIEW) Satanic Art Phag Propaganda (W/ Psyop Resistor)
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A long anticipated episode, Adam and crew delve into the history and culture of black metal, enlisting the help of metalhead Psyop Resistor. The crew ...
(TEASER) Anal Blunt (W/ JJ Ruiz)
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
JJ Ruiz is an Austin-based musician who has played with several punk and hardcore bands since the 2000s. With one of those bands, Naw Dude, he opened ...
Ready to Fight (W/ Udith Dematagoda)
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, Hyperidean Press publisher, and Adam's editor Udith Dematagoda joins the show once more. This time we're discussing the cultural resonance of ...
The Diving Man (W/ Brad Kelly)
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and co-host of the Art of Darkness podcast Brad Kelly is here. Brad's writing plays with the genre of sci-fi and pushes it to the outer realms ...
Not Human (PREVIEW) (W/ Madeline Kuzak)
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prior to the day of our independence, Adam calls up his friend, the artist from Detroit and soon to move to New York Madeline Kuzak. Maddie works in ...
Charlie Sheen's Trigger Threshold (w/ Will Sheldon)
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam and Will are joined by New York-based artist and tattooer Will Sheldon. Will discusses his work with us: paintings and drawings of fantastical an...
The Gay Cowboys of Contemporary Politics (PREVIEW) (W/ Kelby Losack and J. David Osborne)
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Adam and Will are joined by the writers and co-hosts of the Agitator podcast, J. David Osborne and Kelby Losack. Both of these honora...
God Damn It Feels Good to Look Like a Gangsta (PREVIEW) (With Mikey MDC)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mr. Mikey MDC, gangsta' stylist and menswear sartorial genius, joins the program to discuss one of our crypto fascinations: style and fashion. Style i...