Episode 8: Matthew Fastow joins us live in Palm Desert for a full recap of the 2025 Stagecoach Music Festival. We do a deep dive into all the beautiful acts we witnessed—including Tucker Wetmore, Lana Del Rey, Zach Bryan, Jessie Murph, Shaboozey, Goo Goo Dolls, Midland, Luke Bryan, Garth Brooks, and many more—as we try to understand where the exploding country genre and festival audience are headed.
17 Apr 2025
Episode 7 feat. Steffy Argelich & Grear Patterson
Episode 7, Steffy Argelich and Grear Patterson join us in Los Angeles to discuss the world premiere of their new film "Caballo", out now at VentanaCinema.com. We discuss the creation of Ventana, producing "Turn In The Wound" with Abel Ferrara, coming to Criterion in May, Steffy’s first film "Vera", Grear transitioning from fine art to movies, Grear directing "Giants Being Lonely", pressing olive oil on their farm in Ulldecona, Spain, and the joys of family life and homegrown food.
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26 Mar 2025
Episode 6 feat. YGA & Albert Lago
Episode 6, live from Bushwick, Brooklyn, with visionary director YGA and creative director/music mogul Albert Lago. We go deep on Chasing Amy, Scientology, YGA’s career and aesthetic, nitrous, traveling Europe, the Canary Island of Lanzarote, simulation theory, nuclear nonproliferation, and much more.
14 Mar 2025
Episode 5
Episode 5 dives deep into Chaos, Errol Morris’ new documentary based on Tom O’Neill’s explosive book linking the Manson murders to the CIA and MKUltra. From there, we connect the dots to the Oscar-nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, exposing how the CIA used jazz musicians as covert operatives in Cold War assassinations—before unraveling claims from former State Department official Mike Benz about the agency’s ongoing influence over musicians today.
6 Mar 2025
Episode 4 feat. Charlie Shuffler
Charlie Shuffler joins the pod for a discussion of the 97th Academy Awards, his favorite films, an FBI file dump, an upcoming tour and new singles, natural wine, and pseudoscience and ancient civilizations.
4 Mar 2025
Episode 3
Trump’s controversial AI-generated Gaza video, Zelensky’s explosive Oval Office visit, a major NSA scandal with Tulsi Gabbard’s response, Elon Musk’s entitlement fraud claims, an unprecedented crypto summit at the White House, and a preview of two stunning new horror films.
26 Feb 2025
Episode 2
Episode 2 - Larry Ellison’s Sensei Ag fumbles the bag, Bybit loses $1.5 billion, the meme coin crash leaves human wreckage, and a Wall Street trading scheme fueled by prescription pills finally unravels.
21 Feb 2025
Episode 1
In Episode 1, we're diving deep into Alex Karp's new book and the chilling reality of technocracy and technological feudalism. We also explore the effects of DOGE, xAI arriving in Memphis plus Brady Corbet and Cameron Winter's latest album.
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