BACKKLASH: THE UNSILENCING
THE UNSILENCING: PROGRAM OVERVIEW
BACKKLASH: THE UNSILENCING is my series devoted to uncovering hidden stories and lost voices from a silent era.
This silent era is not so far removed from our present moment. In fact, as you begin to penetrate this lost fragment of the timeline, you will begin to notice that traces of this past still surround us now.
Behind the veneer of the sanitized CDC narrative of the AIDS crisis, and beyond the official timelines contained therein, Poolhouse (me), and series co-host / researcher Nick, locate a secret history of the gay men’s health crisis that paints a more shadowy portrait surrounding the circumstances of its origins.
The series focuses on eyewitnesses and whistleblowers whose accounts happen to support an alternative narrative of the AIDS crisis.
But THE UNSILENCING is much more than this. This is a time travel adventure, and a sweeping, almost romantic, historical epic. The inspiring human stories you will hear are also meant to bring to life another world: the hidden realm that was America Offline.
The 1970s-1980s are certainly remembered in the popular imaginary through their aesthetics, their cultural touchstones, their popular histories. But what did it FEEL like? What was it like to move to its pulse, its rhythms, to be connected to the true zeitgeist of the Times?
This is also very much what THE UNSILENCING is about. We are searching about the timeline for scattered ephemera, with which we are constructing a new, more truthful history of these events. And this cannot be assembled out of scientific papers, military memorandum and congressional testimony alone.
No, in order to weave for you the grand conspiracy narrative about the probable, provable, lab origins of HIV that you may have come here for, I must insist that we do it moment by moment, thread by thread. I shall cocoon you within this dense tapestry as I spin it, so you can experience it in all 360 degrees.
A truly cosmic mind is required to fully grasp the totality of this vast story we must envision, which is the secret history of AIDS. I could show you this whole picture all at once, but I fear you would not be able to fully grasp it all at o ce, or would look away in horror, and try to forget you had ever laid eyes on it.
Our eyewitness testimonies add a human touch, a light, a sparkle, that allow us to FEEL the tribulations and tragedies experienced by our subjects. It is important that we feel the pain of this past, in an honest way. We must go through this process of understanding, on a human level, in order to be able to properly confront some of the darker truths that lurk about in the shadows.
This series is about is what is what like Being in those Times, which forms our narrative point of entry that hopefully gives you the courage and motivation to dive into the factual details that compose our grim backdrop: a bioweapons research program lurking in the background, unknown to most citizens at the time.
There are many who had proximity to this crisis–gay men who managed to survive, medical professionals, activists, and others–who saw and heard things that were in contradiction to the scientific & media narratives, but they fell quiet or were silenced.
Those scientists and bureaucrats who deeply suspected that a rising leviathan in the sciences, apparently summoned through the sleight of hand of the Pentagon, was the true source of the outbreak of death and disease that exploded in the gay community beginning in late 1970s, were also silenced.
Talking heads, men in white lab coats, and carefully selected community voices, have provided the soundtrack to the story of AIDS since its inception.
But the Truth can only be obscured for so long. This is THE UNSILENCING.
–DJ POOLHOUSE, April 2024
THE UNSILENCING series playlist on Spotify:
THE UNSILENCING: PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Prologue: PRICKS [Ep. 36 of HCTB feat. Nick] (September 2023)
Eyewitness #1: Ed’s Story (October 2023)
Eyewitness #2: Tony’s Story (December 2023)
Wikisode: The Strecker Memorandum (November 2023)
Celebrity Eyewitness: Man Parrish (January 2024)
Tony & Ed: Eyewitness Roundtable [April 2024]
upcoming episodes:
Nick x Poolhouse [May 2024]
Poolhousepilled: The Secret History of AIDS [June 2024]
BONUS EPISODES/SERIES ADJACENT:
Ep. 23 - Plague Mindset feat. David Moulton
https://backklash.substack.com/p/episode-23#details
Poolhouse on AIDS [Thots & Prayers Guest Ep.]
https://thotsprayers.substack.com/p/aids-aids-aids-w-fitness-feelingz
The episode that inspired the series:
HIV LAB ORIGIN TIMELINE 2023 (NICK PETOSKY)
Poolhouse guest episode on AIDS:
17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.