** ""You and I wouldn't be talking right now if it weren't for La Bamba - and to do what I love and be given these opportunities. Or something that actually touches people, like 'The 33' about the Chilean miners - that was a huge honor for me."

Get Fast, Conjuring Ritchie Valens For La Bamba, Che, Stand And Deliver - and among the triumphant copper coal miners trapped underground in the real life survival drama, The 33: Conversations With Lou Diamond Phillips. While the Asian, white and Indigenous actor of color talks surviving racial stereotypical casting in Hollywood by well - playing all of them.

Phillips also delves into getting in touch with his inner villain for Get Fast - likewise sharing thoughts about the state of the world today that may be drawing the masses to crime and chaos on screen, in figuring out the dark side of the universe at the movies - and what Gregory Peck told the actor about Phillips reminding him of Anthony Quinn.

** "Let me tell you a true story - I don't care if you believe it or not..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on his time at Fox News, and what it has to do with the Epstein files. In other words - a hen in the Fox House. Plus, 'MAGA people apparently burning their red hats - I love to see anybody realize they've been took, they've been had, they've been hoodwinked...'

** "You ain't seen nothing yet..."

Union: A continuing conversation with investigative filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing - fighting for the first union representation ever in the nation from an Amazon workplace. While 'we'll explore strategy, the international scene - and what the possible win of Zorhan Mamdani for NYC mayor, might mean for labor...'

** I'd like to talk about Hollywood and its involvement in politics...''

                                 Marked Woman...

The Five Minute Marxist. This week's episode...All In The Family - who is Vera Caspary, and cinematic revelations linking McCarthyism, film noir back then, metaphorical plot points intimating accusations and incriminating lists - and genocide in Gaza today. The case of the Caspary film, Laura - and the mystery underground Laura screenwriter counted among the imprisoned Hollywood Ten. Broadcasting from the art and activism Red Star Cafe in Red Iowa. 

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