The Long Seventies Podcast

We discuss the 1985 film Turk 182 about a young graffiti artist fighting New York City Hall and finding love along the way.

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.

Dive into the evolution of occult themes in cinema from the Long Seventies era, exploring European sex and horror movies, generational influences in music, Baphomet in films, Charles Manson's music influence, dream-like sequences, sacrifice in Suspiria, music in film soundtracks, and occult influences in pop culture.