For rocket scientist Jack Parsons, the Devil's Gate Dam proved to be a portal to the stars -- and to something else. Conrad Flynn joins me on a hot-as-Hell day for a hike around the Pasadena portal where one too many occult experiments succeeded.
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For rocket scientist/occultist Jack Parsons, the Devil's Gate Dam proved to be a portal to the stars -- and to something else. Conrad Flynn joins me on a hot-as-Hell day for a hike around the Pasadena portal where one too many experiments succeeded.
Conrad is the author of The Flynn Effect on substack.
Sep 1
44 min
Last month, counterculture icon Jim Goad (ANSWER Me!, Redneck Manifesto), godfather of the online right, died by his own hand. Adam Lehrer joins me to commemorate his legacy and review the intellectual circumstances that led to his demise, while appreciating "24 Hours on Sunset," his historic piece on the boulevard so dear to our hearts.
Adam is a writer at Tablet Magazine, Safety Propaganda, and host of System of Systems
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Aug 19
2 hr 12 min
An introduction to Jeeves, Wooster, the timeless literary paradise of by P.G. Wodehouse, his (almost) perfect writer's life, and some theories as to why the sublime comic pleasure of his work endures in the internet age. With Yeerk of Bistro Californium
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Aug 3
45 min
A man makes gladiator theater out of patriotism. Becomes rich, famous, adored. And then he risks it all for the real thing...
Reflections on the new documentary Hulk Hogan: Real American with Michael Garrity
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Jul 17
1 hr 58 min
Putting the D in Democrat, harmful stereotypes in Euphoria, too much Lena Dunham, and Camille Paglia's horrifying recent interview among other heavy matters close out our summertime independence tea with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Cara Cunningham of venmo.
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Jun 30
49 min
Pornocalypse, cruising at Buc-cees, antisocial media, state of the zoomer, return of the lesbian, and the toxic fallout of the L.A. election supply the tea for part 1/2 of this wide ranging summertime bull session with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Cara Cunningham
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Jun 22
31 min
When an evil crime takes place in Los Angeles and everyone knows whodunit, but can't imagine how the perpetrators with their perfect alibi can ever be caught, you have the perfect introduction to COLUMBO.
Casey Flynn joins me in Travel Town Railroad and the Bronson Caves of Griffith Park for a timely investigation of Richard Levinson and William Link's ageless detective series starring Peter Falk.
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Jun 11
22 min
Lifelong Democrat Max (who lost his house in Alta Dena), lifelong Republican Matt Himes (who lost his house in Palisades), and model citizen Josh Rainer Gold join me to issue a ringing endorsement ahead of the June 2 primary election for mayor of Los Angeles between Spencer Pratt, Karen Bass, and Nithya Raman.
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May 28
1 hr 31 min
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 pastrami) in the battle for the soul of L.A. Owner Norm Langer treats me to a #19 before letting loose on the mayor race, the deli business, the history of the neighborhood, and what it will take for the last "premier deli city in America" to survive.
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May 22
1 hr 13 min
How Gary Indiana's tale of unrequited love-lust amid the AIDS epidemic in Horse Crazy (1989) foreshadowed the Simptuationship Era of contemporary romance.
A nocturnal rumination with Zach Langley of I'm So Popular.
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May 7
1 hr 4 min
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