LIVE, Thursday, Oct. 22 at 9 p.m. Eastern. Live. The ragged edges of pop culture become smooth and delightful when hearing about them through Heather Drain. She is an author of notes on cinema fringe, as compiled in volume one of The Bizarro Encyclopedia of Film with John Skipp. Her newsletter is free. Listen to […]
LIVE, Thursday, July 27 at 9 p.m. EST, Brock LaRob returns after many speaking engagements, another book and a hiatus from broadcasts. Brock will be talking about one of his favorite subjects of pop culture—television. After-school specials aimed at a particular TV-generation and were very popular for a long time. How did they affect a […]
LIVE, Thursday, March 9 at 9 p.m. EST, Dr. David Reiss and Dusty Nathan complete the triptych in the conversations about pop culture, then and now, the media and all things millennial. One great mind (Dr. Reiss) and two mildly active ones (Dusty and our host) produce lively listening based on the wisdom and wackiness […]
Live on May 19 at 9 p.m. EDT, Dusty Nathan, broadcaster/journalist and long time friend of this show, returns to talk the Triple Crown, gambling in America, growing up in Los Angeles, skullduggery, the music business and various other pop culture topics with our host—the man whose name adorns the title of the show. Check […]
Live on March 3 at 9 p.m. EDT, Thom Savino, Tom Martin and our host, gab about all things essential for millenniums and other generations still grappling with career, identity, social media, pop culture and sex. Call them the three unwise men or the four horsemen of the apocalypse minus one, if you like, and […]
Live on Nov. 5 at 9 p.m. EDT, a recent example of Neo-Post Modernism as interpreted through the new James Bond movie, SPECTRE. No other pop-culture icon exemplifies a depth of field so clearly through the new millennium than does Ian Fleming’s creation. Through movies and books, levels of style and values have meshed Bond […]
Pop culture fell in love with the Mafia even before “The Godfather” movie trilogy. The characters and their secret world are a part of urban history in America. Stereotype villains have been created due to the crime culture’s theater personas and a certain romance has been attached to the genre. On the Feb. 26 show, […]
Virtual- porn on your Internet machine is moving into another state of reality, so to speak. The process could do more than bury the porn industry’s one-time commanding hold of the genre in cyberspace, it has ramifications concerning actual sex. What does this mean and how does it fit into the history of pop culture? […]
Brock LaRob returns for a pop-culture discussion about detective/police TV shows from the black & white 1950s through the new millennium. How the shows mirrored the values of society and continue to attempt to glorify justice are some of the topics, along with hero and villain types and the subject of realism. Brought to you […]
Up-and-coming actor Grace Williams (pictured) is live in the studio with comic Jeremy Long and your host for an exclusive discussion on her latest projects and the plight of climbing to the stars for a power-packed career. Tales of Hollywood, pop-culture business and striving for success abound. Brought to you by ‘Molotov Memoirs,’ the digital […]
