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The Long Seventies Podcast is an in depth historical exploration of all things 1970's, including politics, film, television, literature, music, culture, science and artistic/philosophical movements
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May 14 2023
Top Ten: Audio and Musical Gear
We each choose ten pieces of audio and musical gear that we think were important to the audio/musical landscape of the Long Seventies.
May 14 2023
Top Ten: Audio and Musical Gear
We each choose ten pieces of audio and musical gear that we think were important to the audio/musical landscape of the Long Seventies.
May 1 2023
Rollerball (1975): Skate or Die
We discuss the eerily prescient 1975 dystopian film Rollerball, starring James Caan. Skates, motorcycles, fire, blood, murder, drugs, multivision tv and more!
Apr 23 2023
The Americanization of the South -- Part Two
We finish our discussion of John Egerton’s 1974 book The Americanization of the South, focusing on Politics, Industrialization, City growth and Culture.
Apr 3 2023
Bareknuckle Boxing Movies
We discuss some of the best bareknuckle boxing movies from The Long Seventies, in particular Charles Bronson's Hard Times and Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way But Loose.
Mar 19 2023
The Americanization of Dixie -- Part One
We discuss the meaning of "Americanization" the first three chapters of John Egerton's fascinating 1974 book "The Americanization of Dixie."
Mar 5 2023
Thief (1980): A Faustian Heist
We talk about the 1980 Michael Mann film Thief, starring ultimate tough guy James Caan as a besieged jewel thief working the mean streets of Chicago.
Feb 19 2023
Paperbacks From Hell: Hi-Octane Horror
We discuss the flourishing of the horror genre during the long seventies as hauntology and Grady Hendrix's fantastic book Paperbacks From Hell.
Feb 12 2023
The Beast (1988): The Great Game On The Big Screen
We discuss the 1988 movie The Beast depicting a lost Russian tank crew hunted by Mujihadeen during the Russian-Afghanistan War. Peak cold war cinema!
Jan 30 2023
The Tunnels Of Cu Chi: Our Subterrenean Entrance To The Vietnam Conflict
We discuss the vast network of tunnels the Vietnamese National Liberation Front dug underneath Cu Chi district 25 miles NW of Saigon, how they were used, how the US Army dealt with this unusual tactic, and how the tunnels origins were in the French Indochina Wars after WWII.
Jan 15 2023
Turk 182: Terry Flew, Tyler Knew
We discuss the 1985 film Turk 182 about a young graffiti artist fighting New York City Hall and finding love along the way.
Jan 2 2023
The Rise and Fall of the Pop Culture Empire
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.
Dec 19 2022
E. Howard Hunt: Pulp Fiction Plumber
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.
Dec 6 2022
From Foxy Brown to Jackie Brown
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.
Nov 15 2022
Museum of Masculinity
We discuss the transitionary Masculinity and Masculine stuff of the 70s, sandwiched in between John Wayne and John Rambo.
Nov 1 2022
Giallo: Motel Money Murder Madness
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.
Oct 16 2022
Police Academy: Entrance to Absurdity
We talk about the 1984 comedy Police Academy, a metaphysical yet socially grounded intermediary between Animal House and The Naked Gun.
Oct 2 2022
Ong's Hat: Alternative Reality Games Are Not Games
We discuss an early example of the Alternative Reality Game genre of multimedia participatory "fiction."
Sep 10 2022
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K Dick
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.
Jul 13 2022
The Occult In Cinema
We discuss the various forms the Occult takes in Long Seventies cinema and why this medium informs all other media for decades when it comes to depictions of the Occult.
Jun 17 2022
The Myth and Marketing of the Occult in Rock Music
We talk about how the occult was used to promote rock and roll in the long seventies and Matt goes on massive digression about ancient magic and messianic mysticism.