In which the podcaster stops by a diner, tells you what you don’t want to know, tells you what you do want to know, and bids you adieu.

MY LINKS

Creative website: http://richardloranger.com
Literary Services: http://PowerUnit17.com
Bandcamp page: https://richardloranger.bandcamp.com/

Email: hello@richardloranger.com

LINKS & INFO

Also sprach Zarathustra, tone poem by Richard Strauss

“Here at the end of all things” – Frodo and Sam escape Mount Doom at the end of Return of the King, dir. Peter Jackson (2003)

Audacity – Wikipedia page

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television – Wikipedia page

Porky Pig – Wikipedia page

Theodor Adorno – Wikipedia page

Frankfurt School – Wikipedia page

The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman, M.D. and Michael E. Long, Health Sciences Research Commons

Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, M.D., NPR interview

Happy the Clown, entry on Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia webpage

Balafon – Wikipedia page

Heather Cox Richardson’s YouTube channel

Dean Spade’s website

In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil

Halley Low on Instagram

The Wizard of Oz on Wikipedia

Joy Harjo – Wikipedia page

Henri Tajfel – Wikipedia page

Rimski & Handkerchief

Mary Poppins, dir. Robert Stevenson (1964)

”Hello, I Must Be Going,” sung by Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers (1930)

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Episode 32 – Weeks 49-50: I’ll Show You the Life of the Mind

In which the podcaster gives a bad review, takes you on a walk to nowhere, and advocates ecstasy as a form of resistance.

LINKS & INFO

Also sprach Zarathustra, tone poem by Richard Strauss

Barton Fink, 1991 film by the Coen Brothers

Coen Brothers

Equus, a play by Peter Shaeffer

Surrealism

Exquisite corpse

Influx Blinklists (chapbook)

Blinklists as text art

Mammal (Roof Books, 2023)

San Francisco International Arts Festival

Dandelion Dance Theater

Carla Lucero

Flower Moon

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Episode 31 – Weeks 47-48: The H-Word

In which the podcaster explains the tragedy of humankind and you can’t stop laughing.

LINKS & INFO

The B-52s

“Rock Lobster” on YouTube

https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-do-we-laugh/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Doctor Strangelove

Waiting for Guffman

Galaxy Quest

Marx Brothers

What’s Up Doc?

Mack Sennett

Rick & Morty

Madge & Bisket

Equus

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Episode 30 – Weeks 45-46: Aye, I, Eye

In which the podcaster introduces himself, dissolves all boundaries, and stirs up some weather.

LINKS & INFO

Moustafa Bayoumi

graysexuality

Henri Tajfel

Mammal, Roof Books, 2023

Neurodiversity

Vitreous Detachment

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In which the podcaster reanimates dialog, disobeys much, and proffers ingredients for an albatross stew.

LINKS & INFO

Network, dir. Sidney Lumet (1976).
Speech 1
Peter Finch as Howard Beale
Speech 2
Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen

Joy Harjo, “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window” from She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983

Victor Hernandez Cruz, “tu no eres” recorded by Christopher Funkhouser at Naropa Institute, 1991. Rough translation in the episode transcript.

Barbie, dir. Greta Gerwig (2023)
America Ferrera as Gloria (main speech)
Voices in response:
Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie
Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie
Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie
Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, Gloria's daughter

Hidden Figures, dir. Theodore Melfi (2016)
Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Goble Johnson (speech)
Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group

Stonewall Forever, dir. Ro Haber, is a documentary from NYC’s LGBT Community Center. You can watch it in its entirety at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRv7dJTync, and PLEASE DO. The voices that you hear in the excerpts are, in this order, Chella Man, Jay Toole, Martin Boyce, Agosto Machado, Wallace Sanders, Judy Bowen, Sylvia Rivera, Karla Jay, Bianey Garcia, and Zackary Drucker.

Janice Mirikitani, excerpt from the film Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act?, dir. Russell Leong (1990)

Jane Fonda, excerpt from her acceptance speech for a SAG Life Achievement Award, Feb 23, 2025.

Tongo Eisen-Martin, “The Course of Meal”, recorded for the Create Justice project in 2017.

Monolog from Episode 1 of The Newsroom, dir. Greg Mottola and written by Aaron Sorkin
Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy (main speech)
Other voices (in order):
David Cromer as Debate Moderator
Riley Voelkel as Jennifer Johnson
Elizabeth Marvel as Sharon
Jason Butler Harner as Lewis

Senator Cory Booker on the Senate floor, 2:45 pm Eastern Daylight Time on April 1, 2025, 19 hours 45 minutes into a filibuster that went on until 8:05 pm, breaking the record at 25 hours 5 minutes. .

The Great Dictator, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin (1940).

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, APRIL 19.

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In which the podcaster gives you an unexpected assignment.

LINKS

The cut-up lines on the episode logo are from the poem “Final Exam” by Nancy Lambert, taken from the anthology Practising Angels, ed. Michael Mayo, Seismograph Publications (1986). You can find a digital copy of this terrific collection here on the Internet Archive.

Alien (1979) on Wikipedia (this entry is just for the first film of – currently – seven, along with crossovers and books)

Gloria Gaynor, “I Will Survive” on YouTube (3:15 version – with lyrics and roller boogie!)

Check out INeedANewPledge.com for New Pledges of Allegiance

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ONE WEEK FROM TODAY ON SATURDAY, APRIL 5.

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In which the podcaster puts on a classic, takes off some masks, and explains the politics of the moment.

LINKS

The Wizard of Oz on Wikipedia (includes a link to the page about the books)

Muriel Rukeyser on Wikipedia

Adrienne Rich on Wikipedia

No More Masks! anthology – page on poets.org
(has a couple of links to purchase that are not Amazon)

To find Meta Support for Instagram or Facebook, you need to pay for Meta Verified at $11.99 per month. (Don’t sign up till you need it – then you can cancel later.) Besides a little checkmark by your profile pic, one of the benefits is called Enhanced Support, meaning you can get help via chat. Of course if you’re locked out of your account, you can’t access the support option either. But if you have both a Facebook and an Instagram account, you can start Meta Verified on the one can access and report the problem with the other account. It might take a few days (they say). As of this posting I haven’t heard from them about my hacked Facebook account after three days, so who knows – but I do know someone who got his hacked account back through this method. Don’t forget to cancel Meta Verified after everything is fixed (unless you want to keep it).

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, MARCH 29.

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In which the podcaster takes on a tragicomic perspective while shattering glass, misplacing teeth, and taking a joyride through Hollywood.

LINKS

Dianoga – Wookieepedia page

Golden State Film Festival – 2025 Program

· Not sure this link will hold up, but you can open a pdf of the program. It has a bad interface, but if you click on the three bars on the upper left, you can scroll down it page by page. You’ll find the poster for our film “Force Drift” (which I designed) on page 5.

Ken Paul Rosenthal’s website (more links in Episode 21)

Itzhak Perlman on Wikipedia

Yaakov Andrew Cohen is @realyaakovcohen on Instagram

THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, MARCH 15.

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