Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNostalgia Trap - Episode 339: Black Tar America w/ Hit Factory
Aaron and Carlee from the 90s movie podcast Hit Factory join us for a conversation about Oliver Stone's 1994 maximalist murder-fest Natural Born Ki…
3 years, 6 months ago
Gender Trap - Ep 8 : Comfortably Powerless (PREVIEW)
The world is filled with Pete Campbells – people whose wealthy families and social connections allow them to coast through life, easily opening doors…
3 years, 6 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Livestream 9.16.22: Goodbye, Neoliberal World w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
We're back on the livestream circuit with Justin Rogers-Cooper, talking about the fragile set of historical circumstances upon which the neoliberal e…
3 years, 6 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 338: Millennials Killed the Video Star w/ Amanda Klein
Amanda Klein is a professor of Film Studies at East Carolina University and the author of a number of works on American media and society. Her latest…
3 years, 6 months ago
Record Trap Ep 4 - Bowie's Last Act (PREVIEW)
This week Justin and I consider the life and career of David Bowie, casting him as a master practitioner of pop magick, who harnessed the occult ener…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 337: Keep On Rockin' In the Free World w/ Penny Von Eschen
In her incredible new book Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989, historian Penny Von Eschen identifies nosta…
3 years, 7 months ago
Campus Trap Ep 5 - Whither the Wonder Boys? (PREVIEW)
This week Ryan and I watch Wonder Boys (2000), starring Michael Douglas as a professor struggling to write a follow-up to his successful first novel …
3 years, 7 months ago
Gender Trap - Ep 7 : Inside Doesn't Matter (PREVIEW)
Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel American Psycho, about a 1980s Wall Street serial killer, is one of the sickest acts of American satire I've read, and …
3 years, 7 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 336: The Dream of the 90s w/ Daniel Chard
Daniel Chard is a professor of history at Western Washington University and the author of Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerillas, and the O…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 335: Scorched Earth w/ Jonathan Crary
Jonathan Crary is a professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University whose work examines the role of the human eye, aesthetics, and visual c…
3 years, 8 months ago