** "I felt like I got to play an intellectual Beetlejuice - because it was a character that only existed in Strindberg's mind..."

Clint Howard Talks The Wolf And The Lamb, Memories of Andy Griffith, and his Ibsen. And in the both real and surreal unconventional western mixing evil monsters and evil men in The Wolf And The Lamb, Clint's portrayal of possibly both - as a rich land baron exploiting the local people in the lawless west.

The actor likewise shares memory lane recollections about his tormented playwright in Planet Ibsen, along with being directed in no less than seventeen films by his eminent brother, Ron Howard. And his very unusual rise to stardom at the age of two, as The Andy Griffith Show's Leon - offering everyone his peanut butter and jelly sandwich. While subsequent experiences as well where 'I so enjoyed getting to know Andy Griffith, as he said goodbye to the world...

** "Every four years, you're going into the frying pan. And every now and then, we take some little country and throw them up against the wall - just to let everybody know we can..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on Trump polls and fishing poles - and sliding into full fascism. Referencinga pickup truck and a chainsaw, the price of gas, the Silicon girls, the psychology of fascism - and how much power they have 'with a stroke of a pen we can crush the man - and we can crush you too...'

** "There was once a few years ago a Golden Age - a difficult characterization to stomach in the lack of serious substance, and their replacement with cheap documentaries and reality series of every flavor and stripe - a blanding out of striking content designed to rewind..."

Bro On The Global Cultural Beat: Backroom deals, designs and delusions. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on 'mergers, AI, the threat of social media, and the public TV world in crisis...'

Plus...Surviving Trump next door...Peace Corridor, Episode Six...