In this first of (at least) two discussions revolving around David Lynch, the gents focus on the director's underrated 1997 film Lost Highway. But first! A brief encore discussion the postpunk band Silkworm and the new article on this at PopMatters.

A&E discuss John Potash's 2019 documentary "Drugs as Weapons Against Us" as a way into a conversation about the intelligence community's overt interest in the drug trade-as-social-control. Also discussed: Tupac, Bob Marley, Henry Rollins, Dylan, Nirvana, and of course (groan) hippies.

Here we go: A&E chat Stanley Kubrick's 1980 gem The Shining, wondering how it was that Kubrick saw into our unconscious. Again.

Richard Donner's The Goonies (1985). Quite possibly the strangest film of the 1980s, not so much because of the explicit treasure-hunting content of this "kids" movie so much as the subtext: child exploitation, neoliberal capitalism's obliteration of community, and other sins of the father. A&E discuss why this film still haunts the unconscious of an entire generation.

A&E note the passing of Jean-Luc Godard by revisiting his legacy generally, focusing on his 1963 film Contempt. Along the way we chat indie punkers Silkworm, the genius of Jack Palance, and the the future of film in the West.

A&E chat Alex Lee Moyer's compelling and nuanced Alex's War (2022), which survey's the career of Alex Jones from his youth in Austin, Texas, to his international fame.

A&E chat Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 masterpiece Stalker, the film that set modern science fiction on its trajectory, from Blade Runner and The Thing to Children of Men and Annihilation.

The gents chat the new Danny Boyle Sex Pistols miniseries "Pistol" and remind you that 1) we all have bool on our hands, and 2) because there literally may be no future, we need a Sex Pistols moment now more than ever.

With friend of the pod Joe back for more abuse, yr hosts chat Matt Reeves's three hour incel turf war docu-drama, The Batman, wondering why it is Americans aren't allowed to make or see good movies anymore.

Here we go: aliens, conspiracies, the nature of consciousness, and the deep state. With the Steven M. Greer doc "Unacknowledged" as our launch pad, A&E take on each of these topics in turn, if for no other reason than to wax poetic on our favorite rock band #Clutch.