Is that leaf on top of your latte art?

The arc of history of the Academy Awards is the subject of this week’s podcast.

Frankie Wagner is a vivacious young actor who has spent four years in Hollywood seeking fame and fortune.

Guest Nate Tribble joins John, Peggy and Jim for a freewheeling conversation centered on problematic depictions of race and ethnicity in popular culture.

Naval pilot power couple JT and Courtney Tierney join Peg, Jim and John discussing making the move from Naval pilot and prisoner-of-war training to civilian life with four children. Charm, intellect, service and fun characterize the couple and the episode.

Futurist George Kouros joins Jim, John and Peggy on this discussion of favorite future forecasts in fiction and film.

Splitting life between New York and Chicago, Sharon Post talks no trash about either city.

Join us for a discussion of the resurgently popular drama series The West Wing with two superfans of the show, Nicole Wanzer-Serrano and Caitlin Wilson.

Thanksgiving from a nonAmerican perspective. Outside the US, Thanksgiving 

tastes rich, bitter, sweet and secular.

Belly gazing about movies, books and television, Jim, Peggy and John are

interview-free this week and discuss their podcast and current subjects of

their reading, watching and listening.

Hitting high and low culture, the list of mentionable include: Provenence,

Mark Maron, Shania Twain, The Sellout, Paul Beatty, Roxanne Gay’s Hunger,

Bad Feminist, Anne Hornaday’s Talking Pictures, Professor Marston and the

Wonder Women, Battle of the Sexes, Thor Ragnoroc, Life with Jake

Gyllenhaal, Hacksaw Ridge, Saving Private Ryan, New York Times, New Yorker,

Evicted, Nickled and Dimed, Errol Morris, Frederick Weissman, All the Light

We Cannot See, Postwar, Blade Runner 2049, Metacritic.com, Dunkirk, Point

Blank. Lee Marvin, The Dirty Dozen, Lee Marvin, Dover Castle, The Big Sick,

Mad Max Thunder Road, Mozart in the Jungle, Amazon, Search Party, TBS, The

Original Blade Runner, Aliens, The Tick, Narcos, Victoria, The Crown, King

Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa,

Adam Hochschild, House of Cards and David Fincher.