Barry Jones is a twenty-years-plus high school history teacher in Tennessee – near Nashville. Without exception, in his twenty years in the classroom, the JFK assassination, the Watergate Scandal, and the CIA’s “Medical Manhattan” Project have generated more student interest than any other topic. Barry is back to discuss the Watergate break in and how a theory of its purpose was to sink Richard Nixon's presidency, there has never been a concrete explanation of how these ex CIA members could be so careless during the break in.

Hope Anderson is a Los Angeles-based writer and director whose films include “Jim Thompson, Silk King”, “Under the Hollywood Sign”, and “Peg Entwistle’s Last Walk.” She writes about movies, TV, literature, and Japanese culture on Substack, and about Hollywood history on Wordpress. Her novel Tanzania will be published this year. o

Peter Coogan is the director of the Institute for Comics Studies and co-founder and co-chair of the Comics Arts Conference, which runs during the San Diego Comic-Con International and San Francisco WonderCon. Coogan is the author of "Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre". Peter joins me once again to discuss comic culture and its evolution and how we should view them from a deeper understanding of its depiction to our values and predictors of the times.

Edward Alwood is a former CNN correspondent who reported on the White House, Congress and various federal agencies. Prior to that, he reported for WTTG-TV (Channel 5) in Washington. Edward joins me to discuss more in depth the evolution of journalism and the pitfalls of media integrity, things such as conflicts of interest and political bias become engrossed in reporting and can lead to difficult choices for journalists when seeking truth on a story.

Chuck Norris is a captain and podcaster for "Chuck & Ruff Go to the Movies" where two brothers review films and give their insight into the movie. Chuck joins me again to discuss the importance of cinema in todays age of streaming services and clip culture. The evolution of film has grown drastically over the years but what has only changed a little has been the movie going experience which seems to remain a classic.

Corey Walsh is the host of "Libservative" a podcast that isn't quite liberal but also not full conservative. Corey is back to discuss a perspective on politics and how we view discussions around heated issues in life, sharing viewpoints that are not biased in parties but discussing the absurdity of life conforming to a certain belief or value and expecting to govern without issues.

Iwan Morgan is Emeritus Professor of United States History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. Professor Morgan has published widely in various fields of modern US political history and in political economy, Morgan is the author of "Hollywood and the Great Depression American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s" about a selection of films that reflect politics and society in the Depression decade, this fascinating book examines how the challenges of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.