
Once again, not a movie podcast. I don't have a guest, so I extemporize alone and go on and on with political theories buttressed by books I've read: DEPRESSION: A PUBLIC FEELING, by Ann Cvetkovich; THE FIRST TYCOON: THE EPIC LIFE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, by T.J. Stiles; INDIGNATION, by Philip Roth; THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY, by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burnstein; and CUBA: AN AMERICAN HISTORY, by Ada Ferrer. I don't at all expect anyone to listen to this backwash cataract of stream of consciousness poetry and fatuous name dropping. I just made it. So what? This has nothing at all to do with the Bill Pullman/Ben Stiller/Kim Dickens/Ryan O'neal detective comedy from 1998. It's just a podcast of a guy alone in his apartment on a Saturday. I don't talk about THE ZERO EFFECT.