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Matt Fulmer is the creator of "Suburban Phoodie" which was a food review page based in Philly where he highlights local eats and tries to get them more highlighted in todays corporate marketed world. Matt throughout his various appearances on the show has become a amateur storyteller and through this episode we discuss his recent trip and other stories of discovery through our own respective lives...

Barry Jones is a twenty-years-plus high school history teacher in Tennessee – near Nashville. Without exception, in his twenty years in the classroom, the JFK assassination, the Watergate Scandal, and the CIA’s “Medical Manhattan” Project have generated more student interest than any other topic. Barry is back to discuss the Watergate break in and how a theory of its purpose was to sink Richard Ni...

Hope Anderson is a Los Angeles-based writer and director whose films include “Jim Thompson, Silk King”, “Under the Hollywood Sign”, and “Peg Entwistle’s Last Walk.” She writes about movies, TV, literature, and Japanese culture on Substack, and about Hollywood history on Wordpress. Her novel Tanzania will be published this year. o

Peter Coogan is the director of the Institute for Comics Studies and co-founder and co-chair of the Comics Arts Conference, which runs during the San Diego Comic-Con International and San Francisco WonderCon. Coogan is the author of "Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre". Peter joins me once again to discuss comic culture and its evolution and how we should view them from a deeper und...

Bobby is the owner of "Farmstead Foods" a truck and catering service that has a wide variety of foods and is a small business for the people. Bobby is back to discuss his viewpoint from a small business owner on the corporatization of the world and how with price increases its getting more difficult to maintain a business. Bobby has been a frequent guest on the show so the conversations tend to be...

Edward Alwood is a former CNN correspondent who reported on the White House, Congress and various federal agencies. Prior to that, he reported for WTTG-TV (Channel 5) in Washington. Edward joins me to discuss more in depth the evolution of journalism and the pitfalls of media integrity, things such as conflicts of interest and political bias become engrossed in reporting and can lead to difficult...

Chuck Norris is a captain and podcaster for "Chuck & Ruff Go to the Movies" where two brothers review films and give their insight into the movie. Chuck joins me again to discuss the importance of cinema in todays age of streaming services and clip culture. The evolution of film has grown drastically over the years but what has only changed a little has been the movie going experienc...

Corey Walsh is the host of "Libservative" a podcast that isn't quite liberal but also not full conservative. Corey is back to discuss a perspective on politics and how we view discussions around heated issues in life, sharing viewpoints that are not biased in parties but discussing the absurdity of life conforming to a certain belief or value and expecting to govern without issues.

This episode features Larry Hancock & Gary Hill both who have researched for many years into the JFK assassination and have been frequent guests on the show. Throughout the research community of the Kennedy assassination there are differences and agreements on certain areas of the case and in this episode we discuss Lee Harvey Oswald from his background to certain areas of confusion that since the...

Iwan Morgan is Emeritus Professor of United States History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. Professor Morgan has published widely in various fields of modern US political history and in political economy, Morgan is the author of "Hollywood and the Great Depression American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s" about a selection of films that reflect politic...

Wayne Rohde is the father of Nick Rohde, a vaccine-injured child who regressed into severe autism after receiving his first set of childhood vaccinations. Wayne is also the author of The Vaccine Court: The Dark Truth of America's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. It is a critical review of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the families desperately trying to navigate their...

Eric Wilson is a senior lecturer of law at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Eric joins me to discuss Howard Hughes and his upcoming book "The View from Howard’s F*** Pad: The Deep State, Bad White Men, and the Weird Noir of James Ellroy", Howard Hughes is a figure in history that seems to be involved in everything and everyone. Through this conversation we will focus on the lif...

This episode is with Richard Bartholomew and Joseph Green in which we discuss the field known as Parapolitics and how it is used to investigate controversial and unsavory events in history whether it is modern or historical. Parapolitics by definition means "political practices and arrangements that are unacknowledged and that intend to misinform or obfuscate a hidden agenda" which this...

William Proctor is Associate Professor in Popular Culture at Bournemouth University where he primarily teaches on BA English and BA Communication and Media degrees. William is the author of "Reboot Culture: Comics, Film, Transmedia" which is the first academic study to critically explore and interrogate the reboot phenomenon as it emerged historically to describe superhero comics that so...

Kasper Michaels is a professional Canadian VO artist living in the UK, with over 10yrs experience of creating voices and narrating various programs. Kasper is back to discuss the holidays and his experience in the industry on how it has evolved and impacted in certain areas when it is affected by cancel culture or political motivations.

Mike Ferrando is a former podcaster and content creator for the channel Sithtalkers which focused more on star wars related content. Through the many years of the show Mike has been a frequent guest and joins me again to have a conversation and share some stories from donating blood plasma, SPCA to looking back at fatherhood and how the holidays went.

Mark Duffett is an associate professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester, UK. Mark is the author of "Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture" which explains in the last few decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central mode of consumption. Mark has conducted much work in understanding Elvis Presley and...

David Black is a freelance writer and reporter, specializing in the analysis of covert action by the secret services. He has contributed to Rolling Stone and dozens of radical publications on political and environmental issues. David joins me to discuss the usage of LSD and its history ad it relates to the Hippie movement in specific The Summer Of Love and how influences like the CIA and Timothy L...

Nadine Strossen is a leading voice for freedom of speech as a scholar and an activist in the US and globally. She is a constitutional law professor at New York Law School, a Senior Fellow with FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and was the President of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 through 2008. Nadine is the author of "HATE: Why We Should Resist it With...

Craig Ciccone is a independent historian who has spent much of his time understanding and researching political assassination. Craig is one of the foremost experts in the assassination of Fred Hampton whose anniversary was just on December 4th and this episode focuses on the life and more explanation of the corruption in the FBI and Chicago police that led to the raid on his home that killed Mark...

David Bell served as Head of Malaria/AFS at Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). He has a background in clinical medicine and tropical public health, with expertise in malaria epidemiology and modeling of interventions. David is back to discuss some of his perspective on the past few years when it comes to the institutions and practices dealing with public health and how the trust has...

Stuart Blues is the host of "British Murders Podcast" a true-crime podcast focusing exclusively on UK murder cases and serial killers. Stuart puts a lot of work and research into a format that makes a murder case interesting and not as draining on the listener while also conducting interviews with authors and experts. Stuart is back for a wide ranging chat from content creation to research on upco...

Benjamin Bulman also known as "The Angry Dad" is the host of a podcast and overall content creator who focuses on life advice and motivation. Ben is back to speak about some of the way society is ironic in all its confusion on fitness and health and in the new age fatphobia but not fit phobic culture.

Kelly Diffie is the creator of "Rusty's Customs" where he takes his artistic talent and recreates or modifies normal products like hot wheels into a custom creation. Kelly also guest lectures at a local school to help promote the concept of critical thinking in times of panic and overconsuming stress. Kelly is back to discuss the belief of Skinwalker and some of his perceptions in the publics unde...

Andrew Coogan is a behavioral neuroscientist at the Department of Psychology Maynooth University and the director of the Chronobiology and Sleep Research Laboratory at Maynooth University. Andrew joins me again to discuss the role society plays in how we achieve and understand sleep, the average work day and the amount of products that are marketed to the individual that either keep someone awake...