Philosophy scholar and friend Ryan Cook joins me to discuss one my favourite novels, Franz Kafka's The Trial.  

You can find Ryan's musical projects and live concert performances here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5TaGNPeOhQy22GZNekxfNg

While I was ideologically opposed to the Ottawa protest, I also opposed Trudeau's use of the emergency act to end them; I join the condemnation of Putin's invasion of Ukraine and I also oppose NATO expansion. Anders Bergstrom joins me to discuss why it is good to have nuanced politics.

Forrest Miller and J. Andrew World from Movie Night Extravaganza join me to talk about The Maltese Falcon.

My friend Mike joins me to discuss the recent events in Ottawa and what the left can potentially do.

Beginning our conversation on the author Franz Kafka with a couple of his shorter works, The Judgement and Metamorphosis.

Here is a link to the Art of Darkness podcast on Kafka that goes into more depth about his biography: https://artofdarkpod.com/franz-kafka-goes-to-hot-topic/

Conan Neutron from Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal and Movie Night Extravaganza will join me to memorialize Peter Bogdanovich by discussing his 1971 masterpiece The Last Picture Show.  

Conan's podcast, Protonic Reversal, can be found here: https://www.protonicreversal.com/

and here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ProtonicReversal

Movie Night Extravaganza can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/c/MovieNightExtravaganza

Conan's music can be found here: https://neutronfriends.bandcamp.com/

Anders Bergstrom from 3 Brothers Film returns to talk about the perennial Christmas classic, A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim.  

You can follow the writings of 3 Brothers Film here: https://3brothersfilm.com/

You can listen to their podcast here: https://3brothersfilm.com/3brothersfilmcast

A discussion on the new 7+ hour re-cutting of the 1970 Let It Be film.

Joe Lasko and I discuss Wes Anderson's second movie - 1998's Rushmore.

The floods in BC are a good example of human-influenced climate change. So what can we do to prevent future ecological disasters?