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 Rosenbergs, and Joseph McCarthy in An End to Innocence (1955...
18 Mar 1h 14min
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 investigate the secret sauce of the comic genius who ...
10 Mar 1h 2min
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 reborn? I probe my personal history and tragedies ...
23 Feb 45min
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/gamble/deal with Japs... and of course how to reme...
17 Feb 1h 24min
133. Palisades Lost III: Paul Revere's Ride
Caressed by Sunset Boulevard, at the flammable foot of Mandeville Canyon, lies a middle school named Paul Revere -- where the fate of a man (and a nation) was riding that night... Palisades Lost Part ...
5 Feb 1h 44min
132. Mulholland Dr. on Mulholland Drive w/ Scout Dixon West
Hollywood is now more than ever a woman in trouble. Can she be saved? Perhaps, in the spirit of its recently departed dream maker (and fearless visionary namesake), Mulholland Drive can show us the wa...
21 Jan 14min
131. Winkie's Diner w/ Scout Dixon West
An interdreamensional tour of Mullholand Dr. begins at the Satanic Denny's on Sunset Boulevard where David Lynch -- who passed one year ago today -- got the idea for his eternal Winkie's diner. Part...
16 Jan 1h 45min
130. Marty Inferior, Scott Supreme
Jukebox variety show on Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, the final gift of Scott Adams, the passing of Bardot, assorted news, and a bedtime story about two gay friends who just happen to be Armenian. For ...
9 Jan 13min
