John Murray Spear's Excellent Adventure Part II (Premium E344)
John Murray Spear and his followers have built their “mechanical messiah.” There’s just one problem: it won’t move.
In the conclusion to Spear’s excellent adventure, the spirit of Benjamin Franklin guides the “Motorists” through increasingly elaborate attempts to bring the “Electrical Infant” to life. These include a copper-and-zinc wizard suit, a proposed worldwide network of telepathic transmission towers, powdered metals, personal magnetism, soul blending, and the spiritual labor of medium Sarah Newton., newspapers erupt, and P.T. Barnum raises the obvious question: who is the father?
The machine finally twitches, but many, including P.T. Barnum, are less than impressed. Jack follows the New Motor’s journey through “wombific” processes, free-love theology, public scandal, exile, and its alleged destruction by a gang of young Baptists. Spear moves on to spirit-designed sewing machines, an electrically powered ship modeled after a duck, and a new doctrine of “True Marriage.” Jack also digs into the 2019 claim that the long-lost Mechanical Messiah had been discovered in a Colorado attic and the professional hoax engineer behind the story.
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Produced by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)
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Comments (44)
Was not expecting the WKUK audio at the end!
This might be the best episode you’ve ever done. Really enjoying what Jack brings to the table. More of them please!!
John Murray Spear was simply born too soon.
Spraying buckets in this episode. Nice WKYK reference in the AutoQ.
Jake's song had me in tears 😭😂🤣
Wow QAA has been on an amazing run recently, reminds me of the vivacity and novel surrealism and absurdity of the early seasons c. 2017 or ‘17. All the hosts seem locked in and balanced, with some of the most bonkers content we’ve ever been blessed with
My vote for best episode of 2026!!!
A freaking Whitest Kids You Know reference at the end with "Sex Robot"?! That was a real treat.
'Week long coma' mentioned.
Think you milked this one a bit too much
This is giving me flashbacks to The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman by Angela Carter
Semen retention is a common topic in Daoist writings, so we're looking at centuries of this stuff at least
Millenia
Am I the only person who thinks that this is the mechanicum origin story? Is Ben Franklin the omnissiah???
If he is then the Noctis Labyrinth is an enormous fart machine. 😝
I just came here to say that I find Jake’s derailments enjoyable and relatable plus I appreciate that they are a part of his essence also rather than writing an insufferable comment protesting a lovable aspect of someone’s personality I would probably just skip forward thirty seconds on my podcast app bc I’m not a self-involved prick. 🫶🏾
I love where this podcast is ending up post-Q
Our beautiful boy Jake was in great form for this one.
This is one of the funniest episodes
I was SO happy to hear that Auto-Q
Julian has chillaxed the past few months and thankfully Jake has been picking up the slack for insane energy the pod needs lol
I Superstructure has been giving him an alternative outlet for anger and frustration. (I haven’t listened so I’m only guessing.)
The Ghost in the Machine was cum all along. Who knew?
Nice fade tho
bing bong?
Heyyyyy Ex Machina!
Thanks for the WKYK flashback at the end
I am here for this version of Jake. I was crying from laughing so hard. Just brilliant all around.
Jake rambling on during the intro jingle is some great energy to match robo jizz jesus
This would make an amazing Cronenberg movie
This story feels like one of those jrpgs where the bad guy wants to create a new god to rule humanity and you end up fighting it in the end.
What if my intentions are also too naively pure and i also drift into... This
Nice to have some less serious episodes, great job Jack
What the heck was that cursed autocue‽ 🤣
I came here to find this out too
Bing bong!!!
This fucker was trying to make an astranomicon. I see you, yah false bastard.
this is Evangelion. they were trying to do Evangelion.
Absolutely rare form Jake ep
That realization that the sentence they were trying to parse was no fap was so fucking funny
I made sure to fuck my Alexa in honor of this episode
Nicely done Corey.
Station!
No comments.... that's some kind of crime for sure. JACK JACK JACK!