Chicago - Viking Youth Live TONIGHT!

Oh how I wish I could attend this. If you're in Chicago get your butt to this! VYPH and ELVIN! Wow! ~G

The Viking Youth Power Hour will be recording a LIVE show tonight at the Green Door Tavern Speak Easy in Chicago.

The Green Door Tavern is located on the South West corner of Huron and Orleans, the Speak Easy is a real, preserved Speak Easy located in the basement of the Green Door Tavern.

The doors open around 8pm, the show starts sometime around 8:30 or 9pm. But come early cuz the Green Door has some of the best Pub Grub in Chicago. No shit.

Tonight's show is on, appropriately enough, PROHIBITION! Yes, that evil tyranical effluvia coughed up from the lungs of reptilian do-gooders who want to jockey YOUR lifestyle into THEIR pocketbooks. We'll look at the social and economic issues that led up to the prohibition of Alcohol, the many wonderful traditions and pleasures that sprang forth from prohibition, and ultimately the miserable, bloody, failure that prohibition ultimately proved to be.

And, yes, for all you hemp waiving, bong-toking, patchouli humping drug fiends we will make the strenuous mental gymnastic of equating the alcohol prohibition to this modern-day-cluster-fucking-date-rape of your civil liberties that is the War on Some Drugs.

Oh yes and, in addition to us allowing you to basque in the unusually dirty bath waters of our effervescent mind's, we will also unleash upon our unsuspecting audience the rare and beautiful musical sounds of Elvin, live and without electricity. Come drink in the talent's of these geniuses before they figure out how to actually make money off your adulation!

We'll also give away a beer or two and some Viking Youth schwag to put in your locker at school.

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The People Inside: The Viking Youth Interview Abbie Hoffman

In true Viking style we offer you this week a scoop 40 years in the making. Field correspondant Tom LaPorte brings us a 23 minute interview he held with anarchist, guerrilla clown, and stand-up revolutionary Abbie Hoffman back in 1969 during the Chicago 7 Conspiracy Trials.

We split the interview into 5 pieces, give listen and then comment upon each section. Topics range from the binding of Bobby Seale, the trial of the press, the meaninglessness of reform, and the future of judicial law in America.

Almost 40 years after the interview, Hoffman's words still buzz with relevance and hum with an electrical current vital to today's political climate.

Who will be the conduit for these words tomorrow?

BURNcast #24 - Sweet Jumps

BURNcast #24 - Sweet Jumps
Length: 35:51
Size: 34 mb

In today’s episode we visit with the boys from the Viking Youth Power Hour, a podcast originating from Chicago, Illinois. The Viking Youth are the innovators and instigators of “Sweet Jumps” which is a highly dangerous extreme sport involving go-peds, fire, inebriation and utter stupidity.

Recorded September 2, 2006 in Black Rock City.

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A Very Dub Viking Youth

Every so often we will be spotlighting new and promising cult members of the Viking Youth. Often these profiles will focus on Vikings who have both the chemical propensity and the internal promimse that we feel creates the kind of human who can confidently serve the front lines of this strange and timely battle we find ourselves within. Make no mistake about it we are quite choosey in who takes rank amongst our inner circle of brain damaged warriors, the risks are too great and the pleasures too strange for us to simply leave the doors of our great palace open to just anyone.

It's our hope that this Cult Member Spotlight series can help other young, aspiring children - those who might someday want to see themselves amongst this elite collection of god crushing delinquents - understand just what it takes to be a Viking and to offer them something by which to model their lives upon. Of course, we offer no gaurantee of recruitment and little hope for salvation, but friends in this time of the Great War of the Ages we must ask ourselves "What is more valuable: The prospect of salvation or the promise of a New Tomorrow?" Your answer to this question (and a nominal donation) is your first step along this dark and sordid path that may someday find you among the ranks of the Viking Youth.

This months spotlight: Bdub "The Shrub" Sangdwhich, III

Also featured in this episode is a detailed retelling of the infiltration of the Viking's grand vessel, the Ragnarok, into the Chicago Halloween parade and it's fine combustible ornament it lit this fine city aglow with. We have also included an attack against the Viking Youth by Evangelical minister the Rev. Harland Jenkins (2nd cousin once removed of the infamous Rev. Darnell Jenkins). Take heed friends, the battle is upon us.

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Who Wants To Drive a Veggie Car?

We return to the playa with part of our Friday interview where we discussed WVO benefits and conversion with valkyrie, raw foodist, dancer, and reality TV star Tonya Kay.

For the first part of the show we talk about the benefits and the struggles with converting your ride to run on waste vegetable oil. We compare Tonya's experience with her 2001 Jetta to the Vikings experience with Ragnarok.

In the second part of the show we get down to the information everybody really wants... what was it like on the set of "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" Learn first hand what it's like to be put through the deconditioning mechanisms of TV Studios and the Church of Scientology, hear who were the real superheroes of that cast and who were the big, fat, doughnut eating phonies. But most importantly take the opportunity to curl up close to your mp3 player and be effected by one of the most sincere and inspiring people your bound to meet on this strange planet of ours... and try to walk away unchanged.

Eat The Lion: The Viking Youth Chat with Daniel Pinchbeck

This week the Vikings sit down with author Daniel Pinchbeck to discuss how the research for his book "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" shifted from intellectual excersise into an unfolding of prophecy and the actualization of work in service of recontextualizing the world from which these prophecies emenated.

We discuss the changing face of western culture and how the roll Burning Man is playing in that shift can be related to the way the beats created culture from their relatively small base. Applying Stan Grof's matrices we explore where we may be in the birthing process and what we can do to further crystallize the needed changes.

Finally we discuss the visionary mandate Daniel received during an Ayahuasca ceremony telling him he was an avatar of Quetzelcoatl. Moving beyond a simple belief we explore the implications of drug-induced possession states and how this relatively common experience is still taboo within the psychedelic culture. We ask what is the origin of these archetypes that can impose upon human consciousness and how does humanity's understanding of identity need to change to integrate these phenomenon?

Lee Chameleon's side project, Elvin, performs the closing track, "These Pills..."

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