The Long Seventies Podcast

We talk about the 1972 film Trouble Man featuring one of the coolest private eyes in cinema history. 

We discuss David Talbot's love letter to San Francisco during  the latter half of the 20th century. 

We discuss a mysterious & little known Long Seventies aesthetic phenomenon we call The Smoothening. 

We discuss the Netflix documentary Fear City about the Feds' and NYC govt's takedown of the New York Mafia. 

We retroperspect on the last year's episodes and make some long shot predictions about 1970s history podcast episodes in the next year. 

In Feb 1981, Joey Coyle, a Philly longshoreman, found $1.2 million in cash in the middle of the road and decided to keep it. Too bad the money belonged to the Federal Reserve and they wanted it back. 

Delve into the murky world of MKUltra with discussions on psychological warfare tactics, covert operations, psychedelics, and the evolution of advertising strategies. Uncover the dark history of CIA involvement in the counterculture movement and explore themes of mind control in American Ultra. From government secrets to modern surveillance, this episode offers a captivating journey through the tangled web of mind manipulation.

We talk about the Chuck Norris classic Good Guys Wear Black and the best stretch jeans on the market. 

We discuss the Acali Experiment, an "only could have happened in the 70s" adventure/scientific experiment where a scientist sets sail on the high seas with a nubile crew of test subjects to determine how human nature will manifest in the worst of conditions. 

We talk about the movie The Towering Inferno.