EPISODE 47: Double Jackpot All The Way

PROMPTS: Bridge, Tangerine, 1077

This week, Neal and Lauren balance on the edge—of collapsing bridges, spiritual awakenings, and the line between realism and mysticism. It’s an episode about burden and beauty, as we trace the paths of two vastly different artists connected by one thing: the courage to push beyond what’s expected and into something sublime.

Neal dives into William Friedkin’s Sorcerer (1977), the sweaty, pulse-pounding remake of The Wages of Fear. It’s a tale of four desperate men driving trucks full of nitroglycerin across a rotting jungle bridge—but it’s also a story about fate, failure, and Friedkin’s quest to make something raw and real. Neal explores the movie’s notorious production chaos, its moody Tangerine Dream score, and why this film—long overshadowed—might just be a masterpiece.

Lauren brings light to the life and work of M. Louise Stowell, a Rochester-based artist and educator, who wove mysticism, nature, and design into luminous works of watercolor, posters, and illustration. A founding member of the Rochester Arts and Crafts Society, Stowell studied with Arthur Wesley Dow and taught at what is now RIT. Her work—dreamlike and spiritually charged—blended Japanese aesthetics, feminist ideals, and celestial symbolism. With glowing moonlit forms and reverence for line, space, and color, Stowell built quiet, meditative bridges between the physical world and something deeper.

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