The Long Seventies Podcast

We talk about the movie The Towering Inferno. 

We talk about the movie The Towering Inferno. 

We do a Long Seventies Award show.

We have an off the cuff discussion of the Long Seventies paradigm shift from Liberalism to Neoliberalism witnessed across society and Foreign Relations. 

We talk about the 1979 film "Over the Edge." Misunderstood miscreants, Jr. High School dope dealers, antisocial antiestablishment antimonies take on suburban america in this surreal and absurdist take on youth in America during the Long Seventies.  

We talk about the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island in SF Bay by the Indians of All Tribes activist group, and provide some important context and background to understand this important event.  

In this holiday Substitute Teachercast we present another educational film from the golden years of American 16mm (1969). This is "Drug Abuse: The Chemical Tomb." The title says it all.  

We talk about the tragic but probably fictional story about 15 year old Alice and her decent into drug abuse as portrayed in the 1973 made for tv movie Go Ask Alice.  

We talk about the 1973 Oil Crisis. Obviously.  

We talk about the 1974 film The Parallax Movie starring Warren Beatty and talk about how paranoia and distrust of institutions sunk roots deep into the American psyche during the long seventies.  

We talk about the eccentric and brilliant jazz musician/band leader Sun Ra's 1974 movie Space Is the Place and its connection to Afrofuturism and Afrofuturism's 20th century roots in new religious movements.  

We talk about the giant boom in imported Japanese musical gear during the Long Seventies and what effect it had on music during and after the time period.  

We talk about 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a seminal film in the annals of the horror genre and doing a little brainstorming as to why the movie was so frightening to audiences of the Long Seventies.  

In 1971 a small group of anti-war activists successfully pulled of a plot to break into an FBI office, steal secret files & get them published by a major newspaper, beginning the process of outing COINTELPRO.

We talk about the 1970 documentary Chariots of the Gods based on Erich Von Daniken's book the spawned the ancient aliens craze. Also some rambling about memetic theory and how the west went through an epistemic crisis in the Long Seventies.  

We talk about the history of American MONEY, banking & Nixon closing the Gold Window in 1971 after a bank run on the Federal Reserve and Fort Knox.  

We talk about the era of existential car chases through the lens of Hollywood vision and Detroit muscle.  

We introduce the Decade of Dope series and talk about the history of drugs from Mesopotamia to Richard Nixon.  

We talk about the quintessential Boston crime novel, The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970) and compare it to the film adaptation, starring Robert Mitchum. Hard boiled dialogue and hard nosed criminals trying to avoid doing hard time.  

We talk about post-period horror movies that are throwbacks to the Long Seventies genre and discuss how the concept of Hauntology might explain why TLS is such a rich source of cultural artifacts for filmmakers to unearth and recycle.  

We intro our new plans for 2021 including new release schedule and some soon to be covered episode topics.  

We talk about 1982's Mt. Everest of B-Movies, Raw Force aka Kung Fu Cannibals. Nudity - Adventure - Martial Arts - Zombies - Monks - Action - Explosions & Cameron Mitchell!

We talk about Gus Hall, the Communist Party USA candidate for President from '72 - '84. Old Left vs. New Left. From industrial strikes to the FBI sterilizing imported stallions… this one get weird.

We talk about the drama and historical importance of possibly the most exciting Super Bowl of all time between the New York Jets & Baltimore Colts.

KBG defector? CIA plant? Bircher stooge? Whistleblower who tried to warn us of Russian subversive activities? In light of KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's recent pop culture emergence we look into this mysterious figure who has played such a big part in the shadowy side of many peoples' conception of The Cold War.