* "I'm a Yorkshire man in Berlin..."
Sam Riley Talks Islands, Mint, and his Jack Kerouac - along with his 'cool, dark overcoat' in Doves, and breakout role as Joy Division's Ian Curtis in Control. The British actor calls in from Germany to discuss his latest film, Islands - a class conscious femme fatale noir allegory pitting his despondent resort worker against the carefree wealthy tourists. Or are they?
** "Bill Gates is worth 300 billion, and Garland is worth no hundred billion..."
Pacifica Host Garland Nixon does the math. With connections to Larry Ellison, CBS, BET and Paramount; Amazon layoffs, UPS and the myth of AI; China, Israel, Arizona, Biden and CNN; what happened to TikTok - and 'what ICE is doing here, the war on terror has been doing abroad - at some point it's gonna come home...'
** "I was like, the reporter in me kicked in - what am I doing sitting at home, this is a big story..."
Bird City: A Continuing Conversation With Author Ryan Goldberg. Referencing celebrity birds, an escaped owl roaming the city streets - and ideas of wilderness, ideas of wildness we have, the ways in which maybe the world is becoming a lot more almost pre-programmed...'
Plus...Censorship, the press, and Don Lemon committing the crime of journalism...
** "BBC's Waiting For The Out - 'or looking for an out...'
Bro On The Global Television Beat: The BBC and working class life - or rather 'what is the BBC up to here.' And what it has to do with loan sharks, Marx and materialism; class conflict behind bars - and teaching philosophy as a maximum security prison day job...