We discuss 20th century mass communication technologies and how they facilitated the Pop Culture Empire that saw its zenith during the Long Seventies and has since crumbled.

We talk about E. Howard Hunt, CIA agent and Watergate break-in planner, and his work as an author of numerous pulp fiction novels like The Coven and Diabolus.

We talk about 1974's Foxy Brown and the ways Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown pays homage to the blaxploitation genre and provides a mature exploration of its themes.

We discuss the transitionary Masculinity and Masculine stuff of the 70s, sandwiched in between John Wayne and John Rambo.

Join us and special guest Sean to discuss Italian Giallo. Black leather gloves. Straight razors. Murder. Betrayal. Thrills. Horror. Sex. Booze. More sex. Great music. Literal backstabbing. Saturated colors. Crumbling country estates. Swank 70s hotel rooms and apartments. Everything good in life. 

We talk about the 1984 comedy Police Academy, a metaphysical yet socially grounded intermediary between Animal House and The Naked Gun. 

We discuss an early example of the Alternative Reality Game genre of multimedia participatory "fiction."

We discuss one of Philip K Dick's weirdest novels (genetically augmented variety show host timeline surfing on someone else's dope trip) and connect the dots between his timeline-jumping ideas and other similar philosophical concepts in the memesphere. 

We discuss the various forms the Occult takes in Long Seventies cinema and why this medium informs all other media for decades when it comes to depictions of the Occult. 

We talk about how the occult was used to promote rock and roll in the long seventies and Matt goes on massive digression about ancient magic and messianic mysticism.