Media Montage Podcast 106: Chariots of the Gods? (1970 Film)

Did humanity get a jump start thousands of years ago via in Extra Terrestrial intervention? Is Earth merely the location of the biggest Cargo Cult in all of creation?  Bruce and Larry visit the ancient astronaut theory and watch Chariots of the Gods?, the 1970 film adaptation of Erich Von Daniken's book of the same name. 

They look at the plausibility of the theory as well as criticisms of invented evidence and bad science. They explore the theory's impact on popular culture including Jack Kirby and Battlestar Galactica. 

All that and more in Episode 106 of the Media Montage Podcast!

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Media Montage Podcast 105: The Beastmaster (1982)

He can talk to the animals! 

Dr. Doolittle? 

No! The Beastmaster. 

This week Bruce and Larry visit a faraway time and place filled with magic, prophecy and loincloths. They take a look at Don Coscarelli's 1982 fantasy epic starring Marc Singer, Rip Torn, Tanya Roberts and John Amos.  Singer plays Dar, a child born of prophecy and gifted with the power to communicate with and control animals.  He fights against the evil powers of Maax (Rip Torn) and the evil horde of Juns.  

Beastmaster is a cable TV classic and seemingly ran forever on HBO and WTBS in the 1980s and 90s, developing cult film status. Is that status deserved?   Does Dar need to take some sensitivity training? Did that tiger really die from an allergic reaction to black dye?  Those questions and more in Episode 105 of the Media Montage Podcast.

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Media Montage 104: Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

It's high school reunion time! Larry and Bruce go back to 1997 to take a look at the 10 year high school reunion of Martin Blank. Martin's life is complicated by the fact that he's a contract killer, the government is after him and the love of his life isn't ready to let him back into her life.

Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 black comedy starring John Cusack as Martin, Minnie Driver as Debbie, and Dan Ackroyd as Martin's relentless rival, Grocer.

Are we our jobs? Can we move past what we do for a living, and be better people? When is the right time to let go of the past? Those questions and more in Episode 104 of the Media Montage Podcast!

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Coming Soon: Grosse Pointe Blank

Coming on this week's Media Montage Podcast, Grosse Pointe Blank!

Media Montage Podcast 103: The Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow

The Flash and Arrow have wrapped up their seasons and another show in their universe, DC's Legends of Tomorrow,  has been announced! 

Bruce and Larry take a look at the Arrow-verse family of shows featuring superheroes from DC Comics.  We rundown Season 3 of Arrow and the inaugural season of the Flash.  

How do these two shows set up the third?  What characters were mishandled?  What kind of time travel paradoxes are we in for?  All that and more in Episode 103 of the Media Montage Podcast.

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Media Montage Podcast 102: Stripped (2014)

Newspaper Comic Strips. They used to have massive impact on popular culture, their characters were world famous, as were their creators. The decline of newspapers has led aspiring strip creators to publish on the web. 

In the 2014 documentary Stripped  Dave Kellett and Frederick Schroeder tell us a brief history of the comic strip, we see interviews with creators, and they delve into a generation gap between the syndicated creators, and those going it alone on the World Wide Web.

Interviews with Jim Davis, Cathy Guisewise, Mort Walker, Scott Kurtz, Kate Beaton and many more tell us the story of a dramatic shift in a beloved industry. 

Larry and Bruce discuss this documentary and some of the issues it raises in episode 102 of the Media Montage Podcast!

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Media Montage Podcast 101: Introduction to the New World Order

New World Order 101: An introduction to the New World System.

This week Bruce and Larry take a look at a couple of foundational items to the modern New World Order conspiracy theories.

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, a document allegedly found inside a copy machine purchased for parts in 1986, lays out a systematic approach to economic warfare that can be waged on a civilian population for all sorts of nefarious purposes.

The New Order of Barbarians is a series of tapes recorded by pediatrician Dr. Lawrence Dunegan in 1988, recalling a presentation he heard in 1969 laying out plans for what he calls the New World System, including control of the media, sex and reproduction and a plan of massive depopulation.

Are these documents real or hoax? Do their predictions come true? Is it all just paranoid rambling? Bruce and Larry try to make heads or tails of a global conspiracy in episode 101 of the Media Montage Podcast!

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

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