I examine four variety shows from past decades and recommend television networks reinvent the variety show, "cure" declining ratings, and enjoy the intended “side effect” of “healing" the nation.

I examine “original” movies made for television as my “treatment” for declining network television entertainment programing ratings.

Let’s examine Hugh Hefner’s “Playboy after Dark” for a clue to my “fix”.

Your heart monitor is about to flatline, television networks. Open my podcast serving as your medicine cabinet and find the cure sitting inside for over fifty years.

Director Sam Peckinpah’s customary Shoot ‘Em Up genre film includes a protagonist taking the form of a severed head! I call it a “wholesale film” but there’s much more inside than blood and guts.

A classic series about dedicated educators struggling with familiar social issues offering inspiration to the underappreciated educators of today.

Trouble in "Tinseltown".

Which was the better band? It’s about “context”. Let’s study “context” with the help of Jimi Hendrix, Wilson Pickett, The Beach Boys, David Lee Roth, Devo, and classical music.

Eco disasters; Migrants; Homeless; “Big Ag”; bad banks, and no help from government. Sound familiar? Inside, Ma Joad reminds us, “They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us.. 'cause we're the people."

What do men have to offer their female clients? Let’s explore themes inside three films starring William Holden, Paul Newman, and Richard Gere.