Cargo Cult

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Road Gang Radio – Tuesdays through Fridays, 7AM–11AM CT

Named after the original all night over-the-road show, Road Gang Radio is the destination for anyone who makes their living or lifestyle on the highways and byways. After a first hour dedicated to transportation news, Road Gang Radio shifts into a mad, mash-up farago of Popular Mechanics, Wired, Rolling Stone, and National Geographic with all of it filtered through the joyfully twisted brains of its irrepressible hosts: Lindsay Lawler and Jimmy Mac. 

Fueled by caffeine and increasingly accelerating life choices, Road Gang Radio is the latest technology, the coolest gadgets, the up-and-coming performers, the unique athletes, the juiciest gossip, the best accommodations, not to mention the events, shows, and must-see-locales that are just up the road. Join Lindsay and Jimmy for conversations with veterans, truckers, celebrities, RVers, campers, podcasters, bloggers, reporters, and inventors, and watch as the mile markers fly by.

Wednesday, 1/7

7:30am CT: An in-depth analysis of market trends and transportation with DAT Freight & Analytics Principal Market Analyst Dean Croke on “DAT Guy.”

8:00am CT: Robert Braswell, Executive Director of ATA’s Technology and Maintenance Council and Fred Kelley discuss electrical wiring and repair and take your calls on “Tech Talk with TMC.”

8:00am CT: Learn how industry leaders are training the next generation of drivers on "Education Station." This week features Mike Moscinski, Vice President of Trainco Truck Driving Schools.

9:30am CT: Take a Destination Detour to the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site in Lerna, IL where you’ll discover the 19th-century home of Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lincoln, father and step-mother of our 16th president.

10:00am CT: New to the Sleeper Cab Library–Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity. Reuters columnist Aimee Donnellan offers new insights into the ways that the food and beauty industries made billions while promoting unhealthy and unrealistic body image standards and accelerating the obesity crisis, and provides firsthand accounts of several early Ozempic users and the transformative effect the drug has had on their weight loss journeys.

In Season 2 of Cargo Cult, we explore the great year of 1973 and why it's such an important time, not only in the lives of Jimmy and Justin, but for the great movies, directors and producers of the world.

Jimmy and Justin discuss their favorite holiday movies including a sit down with The Corleones, a shared car with Del and Neal, decorating the tree with Mr. Joshua, after dinner acrimony with King Henry and Eleanor of Aquitane, and a heartfelt national television seasonal toast with Frank and Claire after a live version of A Christmas Carol. Can you name those movies? And, yes, Justin and Jimmy Mac resolve the ultimate seasonal cinematic question in their ultimate episode: Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

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As Joseph Campbell points out, there is a "threshold resistance" to the call to adventure. A decision must be made to head out onto the road, and often it cannot be made until the hero has looked into their soul. That decision is very much on the mind of Justin and Jimmy Mac as they discuss the fateful choice to move to Los Angeles. The penultimate episode of season one, "Refusing The Call" ranges far and wide by discussing city states, the inheritors of Orson Welles, and striking the right balance between pleasing your audience and entertaining yourself.

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Once more with David Bruckner, Cargo Cult careens not only through Mel Gibson's turn as Max Rockatansky but also into Tom Hardy's take as well with Mad Max: Fury Road. Of course, Tina Turner gets a Thunderdome shout out, but ultimately, this episode celebrates the benefits of a simple plot, the demands of an analog approach to filmmaking, and the story of a 71-year-old man, "who's doing it for real with his team in the middle of a desert". Also, if you want to know what a badass director George Miller actually was, you might wanna read Kyle Buchanan's Blood Sweat and Chrome about the making of Fury Road.

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Director David Bruckner continues to take the ride, as Cargo Cult races head on into a collision course of a conversation about transportation technology as an adversary. Duel, Maximum Overdrive, Christine, and even John Frankenheimer's Ronin are all part of tradition where anthropomorphized machines overpower the human factor. All of this merges into the beginning of an analysis of George Miller's Mad Max series. Consensus is reached that Stephen King should focus on writing and never direct or act again.

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Director of the new Hellraiser and The Night House, David Bruckner joins the gang on his birthday to talk antagonists, villians, and some of his cinematic inspirations. Engaging in a wide ranging discussion about the nature of what makes a good "bad guy", Bruckner, who directed Justin in The Signal, focuses on the terror of the unknowable motive trapped inside an antagonist's psychology. Listen for his insightful take on Terminator as a slasher flick.

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1976's Assault on Precinct 13 is a blueprint for the career of master of horror John Carpenter. Every film he would make afterwards can be found inside it. The director's own version of a Howard Hawks' movie, Assault features a pair of taciturn highly professional heroes, a modern take on the "Hawk's Girl", and a relentless adversary that can only be stopped with enough bullets. Jimmy and Justin also use the discussion to eulogize actor/trucker Darwin Joston who played the role of the great anti-hero Napoleon Wilson. Fame is a matter of luck and timing. Both Carpenter and Joston's careers prove it.

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From the utterly ridiculous to the positively sublime. Cargo Cult shifts its focus from looking at films of pop culture importance but questionable quality to a movie truly great in all its aspects. Robert Altman's MASH accomplishes the nearly impossible: it manages to be wildly funny while breaking your heart, is deeply humane despite its graphic brutality, and is simultaneously a work of exquisitely crafted art and popular entertainment. The friendships forged on the screen in MASH are so powerful they extend to the viewers themselves. Go on, after watching this, tell us you don't think of Hawkeye, Trapper, and Duke as your friends.

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After all the explosions, wrecks, and bulging biceps of Convoy, Over the Top, and The Cannonball Run, Justin and Jimmy Mac take an exit ramp for a minor grace note with Daniel Petrie's lovely-if-slight Six Pack. A peak-of-his-stardom Kenny Rogers plays minor-circuit racer Brewster Baker who ends up being a surrogate father to a half dozen orphans. Two of those kids, Anthony Michael Hall and Diane Lane, would parlay those roles into much bigger things. Rising above its made-for-television structure, the movie also captures something of the 1982's zeitgeist that would become Reagan's Morning in America.

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