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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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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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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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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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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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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What secret quality is needed to survive the current onslaught of warring hyperrealities with your soul and sanity intact? Jacob Siegel, 9/11 veteran and author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, tells his story.

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Jukebox episode reviewing The Drama by Kristoffer Borgli and the Iran War by Donald J. Trump.

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Personally selected passages from Witness, Whittaker Chambers's deeply emotional memoir about testifying to -- and against -- the ideology that dare not speak its name.

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On the falsification of history known as the Red Scare -- as revealed in Leslie Fiedler's tremendous essays on the Hiss-Chambers trial, the Rosenbergs, and Joseph McCarthy in An End to Innocence (1955) -- and how communism has re-infiltrated American culture today in the form of systemic Woman.

With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist and Ben Braddock

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