We discuss the transition from Westerns to Cop movies during the Long Seventies, focusing primarily on actors that started their career as Cowboys and ended the LS as Cops. 

We discuss Floyd McKissick's intentional community Soul City, North Carolina, its context, goals and why the project ultimately failed. 

We discuss the theory that The Amityville Horror and Alien are conceptually the same movie and why these movies terrified audiences in the Long Seventies and beyond. 

We discuss the story of the founding of the intentional community of Rajneeshpuram in the backcountry of Oregon and the crazy events that followed. 

 We discuss two important films that helped revitalize the American Cold War and militarism.

We discuss some super synth-based soundtracks and scores from Long Seventies films

Author Sean Howe joins the show to talk about his new book "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s.” 

We talk about Oliver Stone's 1987 drama Wall Street, starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, and wrap up the Decade of Dystopia series. 

We discuss the rapid and sweeping financialization, corporate raiding and deindustrialization that took place during the Long Seventies and what effect it had on society. 

Decade of Dystopia continues with two movies, The Crazies and Wizards. We discuss what these movies have in common, the dystopian visions they provide and what critique they make of the world of the Long Seventies.