Special guest Ian Rosen joins the podcast for a review of the 70s cult classic film Cisco Pike (1971). Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Gene Hackman, Karen Black.

The early 1970s were angry times. From Kent State to Watergate, from Vietnam to Patty Hearst, society was polarized, and arguably no figure was more polarizing than mild-mannered, bespectacled singer-songwriter John Denver.

We discuss Goliath Season 1, the character of Billy McBride, the genre of Beach Bum Detective Noir (inspired equally by Raymond Chandler and Gidget, and which includes the Rockford Files and Fletch), and Santa Monica Bay's evolution from gritty to pret...

A quick update on the upcoming TV Room season (it's about Patty Hearst and the SLA!). Remembering Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth, by comparing them to Hunter S. Thompson and John Updike, and revisiting the New Journalism of the 1960s.

From their founding in Berkeley to their doomed LA run, the strange but true saga of the Symbionese Liberation Army and their rendezvous with America's heiress.

A spoiler-free review of Stranger Things Season 1.

Why 'Here Comes My Girl' is such an iconic love song, and what it teaches us about rock n roll, making a great music video, and the secret to Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' success. Plus, a look back at the pre-MTV music channel from 1979/1980,

A century before Bart Simpson, another cleverly drawn little boy burst upon the scene. He caused such a sensation in his day that Yellow Journalism was named after HIM, not the other way around. He was the Yellow Kid.

Hearst, Pulitzer, Jacksonian Democracy, the Fourth Estate. New York City in the 1890s. Tabloid media concentrates its power, and becomes unchecked and unbalanced.