Podcast Episodes

143. SAVE L.A. - Election Special

Lifelong Democrat Max (who lost his house in Alta Dena), lifelong Republican Matt Himes (who lost his house in Palisades), and model citizen Josh Rai…

4 months, 1 week ago

142. Langer's Delicatessen Speaks w/ Norm Langer

Situated across the once idyllic now infernal MacArthur Park since 1947, Langer's Delicatessen has emerged as a symbol of what's at stake (and at pas…

4 months, 1 week ago

141. Gary Indiana's Mad About the Boy

How Gary Indiana's tale of unrequited love-lust amid the AIDS epidemic in Horse Crazy (1989) foreshadowed the Simptuationship Era of contemporary rom…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

140. Menschinformation w/ Jacob Siegel

What secret quality is needed to survive the current onslaught of warring hyperrealities with your soul and sanity intact? Jacob Siegel, 9/11 veteran…

5 months, 1 week ago

139. Open the Strait

Jukebox episode reviewing The Drama by Kristoffer Borgli and the Iran War by Donald J. Trump.

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

138. Witness

Personally selected passages from Witness, Whittaker Chambers's deeply emotional memoir about testifying to -- and against -- the ideology that dare …

6 months ago

137. The Red Scare w/ Jack Mason & Ben Braddock

On the falsification of history known as the Red Scare -- as revealed in Leslie Fiedler's tremendous essays on the Hiss-Chambers trial, the Rosenber…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

136. The Miracle of Preston Sturges

David Mamet called his films "irrefutable proof of the afterlife." I call him the poet laureate of American capitalism. Matthew Wilder joins me to in…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

135. The Merchant of Memory

What can Hollywood (and the haunted souls who still occupy it) learn from another picture-based entertainment industry that once was dead, but is now…

7 months, 1 week ago

134. Evil Sports Cards

Since their "indescribably fiendish" origins in the Civil War, picture cards taught American boys how to smoke/chew/trade/lust/worship/collect/invest…

7 months, 2 weeks ago