Podcast Episodes

Nostalgialand w/ Rick Perlstein

Season 2 Episode 217

Rick Perlstein is a historian and the author of a series of bestselling, massively entertaining books on the rise of American conservatism in the lat…

5 years, 6 months ago

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I'm the Bad Guy? w/ Danny Bessner

Episode 216

The 1993 film Falling Down, starring Michael Douglas and directed by Joel Schumacher, divided audiences and critics with a story of a man's descent i…

5 years, 6 months ago

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I Hope Someday You'll Join Us w/ Jon Wiener

Season 2 Episode 215

Jon Wiener is an American historian and co-author, along with Mike Davis, of the extraordinary book Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. In t…

5 years, 7 months ago

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Every Story is a Travel Story w/ Daegan Miller

Season 2 Episode 213

Daegan Miller's first appearance on Nostalgia Trap, in which he discussed both his painful exit from academia and his stunning book This Radical La…

5 years, 7 months ago

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From Head Shops to Whole Foods w/ Josh Davis

Season 2 Episode 211

What happened to the world of independently-operated head shops, feminist and black-owned bookstores, and health food markets that blossomed in the 1…

5 years, 7 months ago

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World Police Comes Home w/ Stuart Schrader

Season 2 Episode 209

Stuart Schrader is a Lecturer and Assistant Research Scientist in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of Badges Without Borders: Ho…

5 years, 7 months ago

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Dying to Serve You w/ Sean Lawrence

Season 2 Episode 206

Sean Lawrence works as a bartender and manager at a couple of the most popular eating and drinking establishments in downtown Ventura, California. In…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Onward Christian Soldiers w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Season 2 Episode 205

Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of history at Calvin University whose work focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and politics in Ameri…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Eating Ass and Martial Law w/ Eddie Pepitone

Season 2 Episode 204

Eddie Pepitone is an actor and comedian whose latest standup special For the Masses captures the visceral hell of life in late capitalism. In this co…

5 years, 8 months ago

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No Place Like Home w/ Yasmin Nair

Season 2 Episode 202

How does the way we live reflect all the traps of American ideology? This week, one of our favorites, writer and activist Yasmin Nair,  joins us for …

5 years, 9 months ago

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