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Old Movies For Young StonersS4E12 Bonkers Holidaze Special w/ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) & Santa Claus (1959)We're wishing stoners young and old out there a joyous Season's Greetings with our BONKERS HOLIDAZE SPECIAL. Philena still hasn't seen WICKED: FOR GOOD but we got more than enough witches and weirdness for her with THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ from 1910, a silent wonder which condenses Dorothy's entire journey into just 13 baffling minutes! What this early (but not first) version of THE WIZARD OF OZ lacks in coherence, it more than makes up for with stoniness. Glinda turns Toto into a strange dog-beast, and the flying monkeys are replaced with a bat-winged frog nightmare! We not only tell you...
2025-12-161h 25
People in Transition134. Jack Calhoun - Founder, Encore Career LabThis week on "People in Transition", our guest is Jack Calhoun—an inspiring guide for anyone exploring what comes after a successful first career. As the founder of Encore Career Lab, Jack helps high-achieving professionals design meaningful “second acts” that blend purpose, flexibility, and fulfillment. His passion comes from experience: after leading Capital Directions, LLC from $50 million to over $1.5 billion in assets under management, Jack sold the firm in his early 50s—and quickly discovered how little guidance there was for life after career success. That realization became his mission...
2025-11-1629 min
Old Movies For Young StonersS4E11 Noir City Dames feat. Eddie Muller w/ Out of the Past (1947) & 99 River Street (53)Noirvember is here and the Czar of Noir Eddie Muller is back on the podcast to talk about his new book, DARK CITY DAMES: THE WOMEN WHO DEFINED FILM NOIR along with two crime classics featuring FOUR of those Dark City Dames! First, Jane Greer uses her seductive wiles to pit private eye Robert Mitchum against domineering gangster Kirk Douglas in OUT OF THE PAST (1947), from director Jacques Tourneur (CAT PEOPLE). This movie is a stone cold classic, and not only of the best noirs, but one of the best movies ever. Rhonda Fleming is a bonus Dark City Dame...
2025-11-132h 09Old Movies For Young StonersS4E10 Halloweed feat. Ngaio Bealum w/ Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (48) + The Abominable Dr. Phibes (71)Cannabis comic and activist Ngaio Bealum is back on the podcast for our HALLOWEED episode, and he's bringing a pair of horror comedies. First, we've got maybe the ultimate Halloween movie with ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948). This one has all the monsters--Lon Chaney, Jr. as THE WOLF MAN, Bela Lugosi is DRACULA, and Glenn Strange is the FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER. Plus you've got some mad scientist action, and they're all after Lou Costello's brain because he's even dumber than the monster. Thrill to Dracula hurling potted plants at the Wolf Man! There's also a Nor Cal/So Cal schism over...
2025-10-131h 42
Old Movies For Young StonersS4E9 Greg's Midcentury Sleaze w/ Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) & Sins of the Fleshapoids (65)Our very own Greg Franklin just won the Best Director, Animation award at the Jane Austen International Film Festival for the short film THE WHISTLE, which also took home the award for Best Animation! Congratulations Greg! So to celebrate, Greg is programming this episode, but he's not letting the prestige go to his head! He's bringing on the MIDCENTURY SLEAZE in what he promises is a return to this podcast's exploitation roots after we sunk to new highs in our last episode with NATIONAL VELVET.
First, the immortal Tura Satana and her gang of fast-drivin', karate-choppin' go-go dancers cut...
2025-09-221h 30Old Movies For Young StonersS4E8 Animal Husbandry w/ National Velvet (1944) and Hot to Trot (1988)As promised like three episodes ago, horse enthusiast and dog groomer extraordinaire Sage Porter joins us to talk HORSE MOVIES in our ANIMAL HUSBANDRY episode. First we go very unstoney with Elizabeth Taylor in NATIONAL VELVET (1944), the ultimate girl and her horse movie, which is a genre unto itself according to Sage, and we're not going to doubt him? Sage, Philena, Bob and Cory ask the probing questions here, like what's up with the kid with the bug necklace? Also, be sure you listen to the dramatic recreation of young Liz Taylor's audition for the role that made her a...
2025-08-081h 22
The Informed Health Initiative#7-Dr. Bob CalhounToday we will be talking to Dr. Bob Calhoun, who practices in the Monroe, LA area. Dr. Calhoun was on the frontline of physicians who used early treatment for COVID-19 in the state of Louisiana. He continues to be involved in the treatment of COVID, as well as associated conditions, and also maintains a practice utilizing various aspects of functional and integrative medicine. We will be discussing his experiences during the early days of COVID, as well as his ongoing thoughts concerning this subject. We will also touch on other issues in functional and integrative medicine.For...
2025-07-2853 min
The Informed Health Initiative#7-Dr. Bob CalhounToday we will be talking to Dr. Bob Calhoun, who practices in the Monroe, LA area. Dr. Calhoun was on the frontline of physicians who used early treatment for COVID-19 in the state of Louisiana. He continues to be involved in the treatment of COVID, as well as associated conditions, and also maintains a practice utilizing various aspects of functional and integrative medicine. We will be discussing his experiences during the early days of COVID, as well as his ongoing thoughts concerning this subject. We will also touch on other issues in functional and integrative medicine.For further information: Convenient...
2025-07-2853 minOld Movies For Young StonersS4E7 A.K.A. Cassius Clay (1970) feat. Dave ZirinAuthor and sports columnist Dave Zirin of The Nation joins us to delve into the Muhammad Ali psychedelia of A.K.A. CASSIUS CLAY (1970), possibly the trippiest sports documentary ever conceived. In this amazing conversation, Dave explains how Ali linked the civil rights movement to growing antiwar protests as well as giving us the lowdown on director Jimmy Jacobs and narrator Richard Kiley, a Broadway legend who looks like a handsy college professor here. Cory and Bob talk about the movie's funkified jazz score by Teo Macro, who scored this movie the same year he produced Miles Davis' fusion opus...
2025-07-1848 minOld Movies For Young StonersS4E6 Emergency Mini-Episode with The Birds (1963)Netflix has a Hitchcock series going right now so--gasp--there are actually movies on the world's biggest streamer that are from before 1980! I know, it's hard to believe but because of The Master of Suspense there are even movies from the 1950s and 60s--and they're being promoted on Netflix's landing page like they're a big deal and everything. We couldn't and shouldn't pass this opportunity up, so Cory and Bob talk about Hitchcock's apocalyptic chiller THE BIRDS from 1963. Cory even gives this movie his stoney medal of approval as he talks about meeting the classic film's star Tippi Hedren in Bodega...
2025-06-301h 00Old Movies For Young StonersS4E5 PhilenApocalypse III: Drag Story Time w/ To Wong Foo... (1995) & Hurricane Bianca (2016)The PhilenApocalypse is back with a vengeance in Super 3D! Well, it's an audio podcast, so it's not really in 3D but this is the third PhilenApocalypse. Have there really been three of these things??? Yes, there have been three and this time it's the DRAG STORY TIME edition where Philena fails to completely torment the olds but she does enlighten them.
First she goes back 30 years for the family-friendly, Spielberg-produced, and strangely-titled drag queen road epic, TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (1995) where ripped action stars Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes get in touch with their...
2025-05-271h 31Old Movies For Young StonersS4E4.2 Gene Hackman Tribute feat. Lennie Loftin w/ The Quick and the Dead (1995)Gene Hackman left us in shocking and tragic circumstances on February 18, 2025. With his signature intensity, he may be one of the least stony actors of all time, but he was one of the best. To pay tribute to him we have his trippiest movie this side of CISCO PIKE (1971) with the quick-cut, dolly-shot, bullet-hole-cam madness of Sam Raimi's THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1995).
In this tribute to Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968), Gene Hackman delivers one of his most villainous performances as old west tyrant John Herod, who draws every shootist to his desert town...
2025-05-0849 minOld Movies For Young StonersS4E4 Easter 420 with Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) & The Day the Earth Stood Still (51)Easter falls on 4/20 this year so we've got HIPPY JESUS and SPACE JESUS with JESUS CHRIST SUPER STAR (1973) and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951). While Hippy Jesus screaming in the desert and Space Jesus getting shot at by jittery soldiers in Cold War Washington D.C. All this plus Carl Anderson delivering the performance of a lifetime as Judas Iscariot and GORT, the giant silver robot, melting tanks and cannons. This episode has Philena singing "I Don't Know How to Love Him" and Bob saying "Gort Klaatu Barada Nikto" to make her stop. What's the Buzz? We are buzzed.
2025-04-141h 27
Truth to PonderJudicial Clowns… Little People with Little Fiefdoms.It has been sad to watch how well-educated grown adults can act like such petulant children. The most recent of the “maturity challenged” having temper tantrums wear black robes and sit on the benches of our Federal Courts. These clownish judges make a mockery of our entire legal system, and a pathetic joke of our American Constitution. These are unfit partisan hacks who are legislating unconstitutionally from the bench and making total buffoons of themselves in the process. They put the entire United States Justice System in jeopardy. It is lawfare on steroids. On the...
2025-03-2159 min
Truth to PonderWhy Do the Wicked Prosper?Does it ever seem that honest and godly people do not fare as well in this world as those whose hearts are wicked? Does it seem troublesome that some people in the conservative or patriot movement can live comfortable lives, yet you don’t? Does is disturb you that many who claim to be preachers of God with some kind of special “Inside” biblical knowledge prosper while those who share the simple truth don’t? Bob addresses that issue today and more. On the second half of the program, Bob welcomes his friend, Jim Calhoun, to the program...
2025-03-1959 minOld Movies For Young StonersS4E3 Livin' the Dream feat. Ngaio Bealum w/ Tampopo (1985) and The Incredible Mr. Limpet (64)Cannabis comic Ngaio Bealum is back and we are livin' the dream with a pair of movies about strivers who live their dreams, and their dreams are really friggin' weird.
First, Nobuko Miyamoto is a single mom with dreams of making the greatest ramen in all of Japan and Tsutomu Yamazaki is the cowboy trucker who is going help her achieve her dream in TAMPOPO, a "ramen western" from director Juzo Itami in 1985. This movie is filled with surreal tangents, tasty-looking food and a fair amount of freaky sex! Describing the plot does not do it justice. It's...
2025-03-061h 28Old Movies For Young StonersS4E2 David Lynch Tribute w/ The Grandmother (1970) & The Wizard of Oz (39)David Lynch left this world on Jan. 16, 2025 at a time when we were all coping with way too much tragedy. While Lynch's drugs of choice were coffee and cigarettes (along with griddle cakes drenched in maple syrup), we pay tribute to him by pairing weed with a selection of his short films and THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939), a movie he was so obsessed with that there's a whole documentary about it.
For Lynch's short films, we mostly focus on THE GRANDMOTHER (1970), a 33-minute student film where an abused boy cultivates his own grandma out of a disgusting tree he...
2025-02-161h 31Old Movies For Young StonersS4E1 Cory's Stony Hang Movies w/ Cisco Pike (1971) & Arnold's Wrecking Co. (73)As this new year is hurled upon us, Cory decided we need to slow things down a bit with what he calls "stony hang movies," AKA movies that are actually about weed for a change. While we have featured movies with Vincent Price mainlining LSD, we have somehow avoided the subject of cannabis itself in the selection of our films altogether, so Cory curated this double feature from the depths of Tubi and Roku's catalogs.
In our first movie, Gene Hackman is a crooked LA cop who forces burnt-out rock star Cisco Pike (Kris Kristofferson) to sell 100 keys of...
2025-01-231h 40Old Movies For Young StonersS3E17 Nosfera-Two Christmas with Nosferatu (1922 & 1979) featuring Matthew Zoller SeitzRobert Eggers' remake of NOSFERATU will be stalking movie theaters on Christmas Day 2024, so Bob and Greg sit down with movie critic Matthew Zoller Seitz of Vulture/New York Magazine and www.RogerEbert.com to discuss the previous versions of the defining vampire classic. But before we get into that, Matt talks about his love of Robert Eggers as a filmmaker, and takes a deep dive into THE NORTHMAN (2022), Eggers' retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a bloody and ironic Viking tale. We also talk about Eggers' THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019) as slapstick comedy, and different takes on DRACULA, as NOSFERATU started as...
2024-12-071h 05
Truth to PonderWelcome Back!Today, Bob welcomes back to the Truth to Ponder microphone, good friend, Jim Calhoun. As many of you know, Bob is dealing with some health issues and has numerous appointments and tests this week. Jim Calhoun volunteered to help out during this time.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air as a radio program and podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a check payable to Ancient Word Radio, P.O. Box 510, Chilhowie, VA 24319. Thank you in...
2024-11-1259 min
Old Movies For Young StonersS3E15 Bogart Noirvember feat. AP Mike w/ The Maltese Falcon (1941) & In a Lonely Place (50)AP Mike from THE BEST SHOW joins us once again for our #Noirvember episode and he's bringing Humphrey Bogart with him. Mike has chosen two wildly different takes on the Bogart persona from two of Hollywood greatest directors.
First, it's the classic mystery that made Bogie a star with THE MALTESE FALCON from first-time director John Huston in 1941. Bogart is San Francisco private dick Sam Spade in this veritable blueprint for all the detective noir that followed it. Bogie is backed by an amazing cast with Mary Astor as femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy; Petter Lorre as Joel Cairo; Sydney...
2024-11-121h 56
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannWelcome Back!Today, Bob welcomes back to the Truth to Ponder microphone, good friend, Jim Calhoun. As many of you know, Bob is dealing with some health issues and has numerous appointments and tests this week. Jim Calhoun volunteered to help out during this time. Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air as a radio program and podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a check payable to Ancient Word Radio, P.O. Box 510, Chilhowie, VA 24319. Thank you in advance...
2024-11-1059 min
The Successful Screenwriter with Geoffrey D Calhoun: Screenwriting PodcastEp 248 - Making an Impact with Short Films: Alexandra Essoe and Alexis Iacono on The Carnal SoulHost:Geoffrey D. Calhoun, Author of The Guide For Every ScreenwriterGuests:Alexandra Essoe, Writer and Director of The Carnal SoulAlexis Iacono, Producer of The Carnal SoulSummary:In this lively episode, Geoffrey sits down with Alexandra Essoe and Alexis Iacono, the creative minds behind the short film The Carnal Soul, which is making waves on the festival circuit. They dive into the origin of the film, discuss the challenges and triumphs of producing indie projects, and explore the film’s unique humor, deep themes, and collaborative spirit. With a fun behind-the-scenes look at casting Bob Gunton, a...
2024-10-3018 min
The Successful Screenwriter with Geoffrey D Calhoun: Screenwriting PodcastEp 248 - Making an Impact with Short Films: Alexandra Essoe and Alexis Iacono on The Carnal SoulHost:Geoffrey D. Calhoun, Author of The Guide For Every ScreenwriterGuests:Alexandra Essoe, Writer and Director of The Carnal SoulAlexis Iacono, Producer of The Carnal SoulSummary:In this lively episode, Geoffrey sits down with Alexandra Essoe and Alexis Iacono, the creative minds behind the short film The Carnal Soul, which is making waves on the festival circuit. They dive into the origin of the film, discuss the challenges and triumphs of producing indie projects, and explore the film’s unique humor, deep themes, and collaborative spirit. With a fun behind-the-scenes look at casting Bob Gunton, a...
2024-10-3018 min
The Successful Screenwriter with Geoffrey D Calhoun: Screenwriting PodcastEp 248 - Making an Impact with Short Films: Alexandra Essoe and Alexis Iacono on The Carnal SoulHost:Geoffrey D. Calhoun, Author of The Guide For Every ScreenwriterGuests:Alexandra Essoe, Writer and Director of The Carnal SoulAlexis Iacono, Producer of The Carnal SoulSummary:In this lively episode, Geoffrey sits down with Alexandra Essoe and Alexis Iacono, the creative minds behind the short film The Carnal Soul, which is making waves on the festival circuit. They dive into the origin of the film, discuss the challenges and triumphs of producing indie projects, and explore the film’s unique humor, deep themes, and collaborative spirit. With a fun behind-the-scenes look at casting Bob Gunton, a...
2024-10-3018 min
Retrophilia: The '90s in Music, Film & CultureWrestling in the '90s: Conversation with Bob CalhounPro-wrestling really had a chokehold on our imaginations in the '90s. Whether our brains were being bodyslammed by WWF (WWE) or beat down by WCW, we loved every choreographed minute of the glammy, absurd high drama. Perhaps the most '90s of all wrestling shows of that time was the punk rock DIY version, Incredibly Strange Wrestling, which got its start in San Francisco in 1995 and then toured the world. Imagine an even more unhinged take on pro-wrestling mixed with the spirit (and sometimes masks) of Luche Libre and in-your-face Jackass-style antics. Add a few punk bands and...
2024-10-241h 21Old Movies For Young StonersS3E14 Off-Brand Hammer Horror feat. Rowan Lee w/ The Creeping Flesh (1973) & The Crimson Cult (68)With Halloween only 21 days away, folk horror blogger Rowan Lee joins us to discuss a pair of offbeat Brit horror movies with totally loaded casts.
First, Peter Cushing discovers that the humanoid fossil he discovered in New Guinea transforms into the slimy embodiment of pure evil when you just add water in THE CREEPING FLESH (1973). In a film with f--d-up family dynamics, Cushing almost immediately injects cells from his creepy skeleton's newly formed flesh into his young daughter (Lorna Heilbron) in a hair-brained attempt to inoculate her against evil. Christopher Lee is Cushing's hyper-competitive half-brother who mismanages a mental...
2024-10-101h 36Old Movies For Young StonersS3E13 Feminist Westerns feat. Audra Wolfmann w/ Johnny Guitar (1954) & Forty Guns (57)Three time Ms. Noir City Audra Wolfmann joins us once again to look at some of the strangest Westerns ever produced by Hollywood. Both of these films have surprisingly feminist themes while being directed by two of the studio system's true iconoclasts.
First, Joan Crawford as saloon keeper Vienna is pitted against Mercedes McCambridge as the sexually-frustrated matriarch Emma Small in JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) for control of an Arizona town, and its two most eligible bachelors: The Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden). Vienna has had both of them, which Emma has had none, but Emma appears to...
2024-09-191h 26
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannYes, I get by with a little help from my friends…Many years ago, there was a popular song, “With a Little Help from My Friends.” Well today, Bob gets a “little help” from two of his friends for today’s episode. After some commentary on current events, Bob welcomes a good friend and helper, Jim Calhoun, to share some important thoughts on our chaotic world. On the second half of the program, Bob welcomes Frank Salvato with his take on today’s politics.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air as a radio program and podcast by v...
2024-09-0456 min
Truth to PonderYes, I get by with a little help from my friends…Many years ago, there was a popular song, “With a Little Help from My Friends.” Well today, Bob gets a “little help” from two of his friends for today’s episode. After some commentary on current events, Bob welcomes a good friend and helper, Jim Calhoun, to share some important thoughts on our chaotic world. On the second half of the program, Bob welcomes Frank Salvato with his take on today’s politics.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air as a radio program and podcast by v...
2024-09-0456 minOld Movies For Young StonersS3E12 Voyeurism feat. Ngaio Bealum & Ajax Green w/ Rear Window (1954) & Cairo Station (58)With both Franklins on assignment, cannabis comic Ngaio Bealum and Instagram movie reviewer Ajax Green (@leonard_malted) join us for an exploration of voyeurism in film.
First, we've got the ultimate voyeuristic spectacle with Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece REAR WINDOW (1954), the first work from the Master of Suspense we've featured on this show, and we've only been at it for nearly three years now. What is up with that??? Jimmy Stewart J.B. "Jeff" Jeffries, a news photographer whose broken leg has left him nothing to do but stare out the back window of his Greenwich Village apartment into all...
2024-09-031h 26
Poised for Exit#205: Julie Keyes interviews Calhoun Companies brokerIn the latest episode of the "Poised for Exit" podcast, consultant and author Julie Keyes is joined by Manoj Moorjani, a business broker with Calhoun Companies.
2024-08-2824 minOld Movies For Young StonersS3E11 Blaxploitation Feat. Odie Henderson w/ Blacula (1972) & Darktown Strutters (75)Boston Globe movie critic ODIE HENDERSON joins us to talk about his new book, BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS: A HISTORY OF BLAXPLOITATION. For this, Odie has programmed two equally stony but very different examples of the film movement that further funkified the 1970s. First, Shakespearean actor William Marshall brings dignity and pathos to the title character of the horror classic, BLACULA from American International Pictures in 1972. (Where would this podcast be without AIP???) We debate how to pronounce the name of BLACULA costar Thalmus Rasulala and Odie explains why Count Dracula is a redneck. Blaxploitation musical interludes, cool Los...
2024-08-111h 52Old Movies For Young StonersS3E10 Damned Hankys w/ Hanky Panky (2023) and Village of the Damned (1960)Lindsey Haun and Nick Roth join us for this SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE to talk about their new tubi sensation, HANKY PANKY (2023), a sci-fi stoner comedy where a man and his sentient handkerchief battle a brain-eating hat from another dimension with the fate of the universe hanging in the balance. Nick and Lindsey co-direct and star in this inspired piece of cinematic shenanigans and Seth Green provides the voice of Harry the Hat! You've got hats and hankies flying around on strings, gallons of bright-red blood gushing out of peoples' heads + full-frontal male nudity! Nick and Lindsey dish on the economics...
2024-07-2959 minOld Movies For Young StonersS3E9 The F--k Fascism Episode w/ Duck Soup (1933) & Death Race 2000 (1975)Fascism is scary AF but it's always been ripe for satire, so as counter programming to this week's RNC, we're pairing strains with two sendups of strutting authoritarians with THE ANTIFA EPISODE, aka the F--K FASCISM EPISODE.
Hitler was named chancellor of Germany in January 1933, and the Marx Brothers spoofed the shit out of him by the end of the year with DUCK SOUP, which is widely considered to be their greatest work. Groucho is Roofus T. Firefly, who is installed on the throne of of Freedonia by wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Hamilton). The plot hardly matters though...
2024-07-161h 23
Old Movies For Young StonersS3E8 Criterion Crackup feat. Ngaio Bealum w/ Point Blank (1967) & Pressure Point (62)The Dank Diplomat Ngaio Bealum is back on OMFYS and he's picked a pair of movies to get high to from Criterion Channel's current series HOLLYWOOD CRACK-UP: THE DECADE AMERICAN CINEMA LOST ITS MIND. First, LEE MARVIN is punching dudes in the nuts and throwing them out of high-rise windows all to get his $93,000 back in POINT BLANK (1967). It's heavy on the testosterone but has lots of psychedelic and French New Wave touches from then-young director JOHN BOORMAN, who went on to make some of the trippiest movies ever made with EXCALIBUR (1981) & ZARDOZ (1974). Also starring Angie Dickenson, Sharon Acker, Carrol...
2024-06-171h 23Old Movies For Young StonersS3E7 The Bret Berg Made for TV Museum w/ Gargoyles (1972) & Death of a Cheerleader (94)Bret Berg from the Museum of Home Video and the American Genre Film Archive joins us and he has chosen a pair of made for TV movies ranging from 70s horror to 1990s ripped-from-the-headlines true crime.
Our first feature is GARGOYLES (1972) one of the many TV terrors that scarred Gen-Xer childhoods. Cornel Wilde and Jennifer Salt are a father-daughter team of occult researchers who discover a race of living gargoyles in the caves of New Mexico. Former SF 49er and LA Ram Bernie Casey in full-body Sam Winston make-up effects plays the winged-stuff of nightmares as the Gargoyles' leader + Scott...
2024-05-281h 19Old Movies For Young StonersS3E6 PhilenApocalypse II w/ But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) & Sleepover (2004)It's been delayed, but IT COULD NOT BE STOPPED. The PhileApocalypse is here!!! The episode where Philena takes over and subjects the OMFYS olds to MORE RECENT FILMS--movies from this century even! Can they take it?!? The answer may surprise you.
First, Philena goes easy on the geezers with BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999)--an actual good movie! Is such a thing possible??? Natasha Lyonne is Megan, a cheerleader whose love of Melissa Etheridge and tofu convinces her god-fearing parents (Mink Stole and Bud Cort!) to pack her off to a conversion camp run to get her off the path...
2024-05-061h 17Old Movies For Young StonersS3E5 - Bringing Up Hawks w/ His Girl Friday (1940) & The Thing from Another World (51)The PhilenApocalypse has been postponed! While Philena ain't too thrilled with this development, we were able to keep our already inconsistent schedule with this Howard Hawks double feature, which is like a PhilenApocalypse prequel because her contrarian take on Howard Hawks' screwball classic BRINGING UP BABY (1938) is what landed her on OMFYS. In short, she hates it--AFI Top 100 or no. Because of this, Bob programmed two wildly-different films from the versatile Hawks' filmography, and with wildly different results.
First, we've got HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), another classic screwball comedy from Hawks. Cary Grant is Walter Burns, a conniving newspaper publisher who...
2024-04-191h 08Old Movies For Young StonersS3E4 Kaiju Unite w/ Son of Godzilla (1967) and Destroy All Monsters (1968)S3E4 Kaiju Unite w/ Son of Godzilla (1967) and Destroy All Monsters (1968)
With GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE upon us, we salute the Big G himself, GODZILLA, with a pair of his movies made a year apart from each other, that show his tremendous range. First, the radioactive mutant dinosaur tackles family comedy in SON OF GODZILLA (1967), the "Courtship of Eddie's Father" of kaiju movies. But unlike so many movie and TV single dads, Godzilla has to rear young Minya while battling overgrown mantises and a freaky-assed spider called Kumonga. I'd like to see Dustin Hoffman do that in "...
2024-03-281h 20Old Movies For Young StonersS3E3 WTF Criterion? w/ The Devils (1971) and The Unknown (1927)There are lots of bonkers classics on Criterion Channel right now and we wanted to pair pot with them before they show up on that "Leaving Criterion Channel" list in an episode we call "WHAT THE FUCK CRITERION." First up is THE DEVILS (1971), Ken Russell's masterpiece of blasphemy, demonic possession and religious persecution in 17th Century France. Oliver Reed is Urbain Grandier, an impossibly hot Jesuit priest, and Vanessa Redgrave is Sister Jeanne des Anges, a delusional nun who claims that she is possessed by the devil, and that devil works with Grandier. It's a gut-wrenching work that may be...
2024-03-111h 18Old Movies For Young StonersS3E2 Into the Marloweverse feat. AP Mike w/ Murder My Sweet (1944) & Lady in the Lake (47)Mike Lisk AKA AP Mike of The Best Show and co-host of his own Egg Foo What?! podcast takes us INTO THE MARLOWEVERSE with a pair of very different portrayals of Raymond Chandler's cynical gumshoe Philip Marlowe.
Mike's choice, MURDER MY SWEET (1944), is one of the first examples of film noir, and its success--along with DOUBLE INDEMNITY from the same year--added the spark that set off late 40s film noir explosion. It's also a way stoney and a total gateway drug to classic cinema with its snappy dialog and its trippy AF hallucination sequences. Former song-and-dance man Dick Powell plays...
2024-02-131h 16Old Movies For Young StonersS3E1 The Cat Episode w/ The Cassandra Cat (1963) & The Incredible Shrinking Man (57)We are back from our break for our SEASON 3 PREMIERE!!! Hey! We've lasted longer than most Netflix shows! To kick off 2024, we are celebrating Criterion Channel's wonderful CAT COLLECTION for our CAT EPISODE! Cats rule the Internet, and this podcast is on the Internet, so kitty cats rule us as well. We pair cannabis with the Czech New Wave weirdness of THE CASSANDRA CAT (1963) and the existential 50s sci-fi dread of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) from CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON director Jack Arnold and legendary author Richard Matheson. We start the episode by discussing Jodie Foster's thoughts on Gen...
2024-01-231h 22
Truth to PonderChristmas MemoriesOn this edition of “Truth to Ponder,” guest host, Jim Calhoun takes a little time to share some Christmas memories and some unique music to help you turn your focus on this special time of the year.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air as a radio program and as a podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a check payable to Ancient Word Radio, P.O. Box 510, Chilhowie, VA 24319. Thank you in advance for your faithfulness to t...
2023-12-2059 min
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannChristmas MemoriesOn this edition of “Truth to Ponder,” guest host, Jim Calhoun takes a little time to share some Christmas memories and some unique music to help you turn your focus on this special time of the year.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air as a radio program and as a podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a check payable to Ancient Word Radio, P.O. Box 510, Chilhowie, VA 24319. Thank you in advance for your faithfulness to t...
2023-12-2059 minOld Movies For Young StonersS2E8 - The Lost Barbie Episode w/ Muscle Beach Party (1964) & Back to the Beach (1987)S2E8 - The Lost Barbie Episode w/ Muscle Beach Party (1964) & Back to the Beach (1987)
In our #Noivember Rain episode, we promised that you'd have a Barbie under your tree for Christmas and here she is! Now that the SAG AFTRA strike is finally over, we can finally post THE LOST BARBIE EPISODE without getting Philena in trouble as Warner Bros' BARBIE was definitely a struck work back when. We did not trim this episode down so you can hear how much the OMFYS crew underestimated the power of pink in our mostly laughable predictions of BARBIE's box office. We...
2023-12-141h 28
Truth to PonderLending a helping hand with a humble heartIn the Western world, we are increasingly living the idea of every man for himself. Even when thinking about preparing for hard times, it is a self-centered concept. Yet the Bible says to love our neighbor as ourselves. How do we balance what we need to do with what God wants us to do? Guest host, Jim Calhoun, shares his thoughts on how we help each other out. Information about guest host Jim Calhoun can be found at https://offgridliving.faith.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the...
2023-11-1559 min
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannLending a helping hand with a humble heartIn the Western world, we are increasingly living the idea of every man for himself. Even when thinking about preparing for hard times, it is a self-centered concept. Yet the Bible says to love our neighbor as ourselves. How do we balance what we need to do with what God wants us to do? Guest host, Jim Calhoun, shares his thoughts on how we help each other out. Information about guest host Jim Calhoun can be found at https://offgridliving.faith.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the...
2023-11-1559 min
Old Movies For Young StonersS2E13 - Halloween Dinner Party w/ House on Haunted Hill (1959) & Blood Feast (63)Halloween is only a few days away so we've got horror romps from a pair of carnival hucksters. First, William Castle--the King of the Gimmicks--is back on OMFYS with his ghostly masterpiece HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL from 1959. Vincent Price is back in this one as an eccentric millionaire (please tell me there's no other kind) who offers $10 thousand to a handpicked group of desperate people. What can go wrong??? Of course, there are ghosts, skeletons and gorilla hands galore in the ultimate Halloween movie. Then, we go from carny spook house to the utter depravity of the geek show with...
2023-10-281h 22
Truth to PonderThe Middle East Powder KegThe pundits will speak, the politicians will position, the news media will show what they want you to see, and people will blindly take sides. As has been the case since 1948, this small nation of Israel will once again dominate world headlines. Today, guest host Jim Calhoun offers his thoughts for you to consider.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air and as a podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a check payable to Ancient Word...
2023-10-1159 min
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannThe Middle East Powder KegThe pundits will speak, the politicians will position, the news media will show what they want you to see, and people will blindly take sides. As has been the case since 1948, this small nation of Israel will once again dominate world headlines. Today, guest host Jim Calhoun offers his thoughts for you to consider.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air and as a podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a check payable to Ancient Word...
2023-10-1159 minOld Movies For Young StonersS2E12 - Public Domain Zombies w/ Messiah of Evil (1974) & White Zombie (32)Philena Franklin is back but she's still on strike with SAG AFTRA so we've got some PUBLIC DOMAIN ZOMBIES for our first of two special HALLOWEEN episodes! First, we have rights-free ghouls invading a Ralph's in Burbank in MESSIAH OF EVIL (1974) from Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, the forgotten Lucasfilm power couple who later brought you HOWARD THE DUCK (1986). After really getting disturbing letters from her artist father, a young woman named Arletty (Marianna Hill) goes to the creepy coastal town of Point Dume to find out what's going on. She finds a polyamorous threesome, strange people gathering to stare...
2023-10-021h 32Poised for Exit#161: Julie Keyes interviews Calhoun Companies CEOIn the latest episode of the "Poised for Exit" podcast, consultant and author Julie Keyes is joined by Andy Kocemba, president and CEO of Calhoun Companies.
2023-09-2726 minOld Movies For Young StonersS2E11 Go West Young Stoner w/ Zachariah (1971) & Pursued (1947)San Francisco movie and media critic Pam Grady joins us and she finally brings Westerns into OMFYS with ZACHARIAH (1971), a homoerotic oater starring John Rubenstein and a very young Don Johnson as star-crossed gunslingers who just can't quit each other on their road to hippy-dippy enlightenment. Billed as "The First Electric Western," Country Joe & the Fish, the James Gang and the New York Rock Ensemble show up with their late-1960s Gibson guitars and Fender stacks even though everything else about the movie takes place in the 19th Century. John Coltrane drummer Elvin Jones nearly steals the show by shooting...
2023-09-111h 16
Truth to PonderPeace in an anxious world.Today, guest host Jim Calhoun shares his observation on the unrest that is our world and time today. St. Paul reminds the Christian to “not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4: 6-7) Even though not feeling well, Jim speaks to you from the heart about finding peace in troubled times. This program should be an encouragement to you as you work your way through th...
2023-09-0659 min
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannPeace in an anxious world.Today, guest host Jim Calhoun shares his observation on the unrest that is our world and time today. St. Paul reminds the Christian to “not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4: 6-7) Even though not feeling well, Jim speaks to you from the heart about finding peace in troubled times. This program should be an encouragement to you as you work your way through th...
2023-09-0659 min
Sounds of BlueSOB 403 - Features: Pat Metheny, more David Sanborn, Joe Beck, Neil Larsen & more Dan AykroydArtist Song Album Label NotesTwilight Zone by Marius Constant Wales & Saunders w/Garcia + Twilight Zone Theme w/Howard Roberts guitar TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniversary Edition - 2CD's Breakable Records + SOB Twilight Zone Theme Henry Mancini Peter Gunn Theme by Henry Mancini 45 RPM Single - 1959 - Music that Inspired the Blues Brothers RCA Single - Masters of Music 3CD Box-Set You'll seeShelly Manne & His Men Peter Gunn Theme by Henry Mancini Play Peter Gunn - 1959 - LP Contemporary Records Shelly Manne - 103The Blues Brothers Peter Gunn Theme by Henry Mancini Blues Brothers Sountrack - 1980 Atlantic Records Dan Aykroyd - 71The Coasters ...
2023-08-284h 07Old Movies For Young StonersOMFYS S2E10 - The Music Business w/ All Night Long (1962) & King Creole (1958)S2E10 - The Music Business w/ All Night Long (1962) & King Creole (1958)
Independent filmmaker Floyd Webb joins us once again for a pair of classic near-noirs that show that the music business was scammy and sleazy long before Spotify, but it was maybe a little cooler when you had Walter Matthau in a smoke-filled backroom plotting how to screw the talent. First, we've got Charles Mingus on bass, Dave Brubeck on keys and Patrick McGoohan from THE PRISONER (!) on drums--and he's really playing those drums--in ALL NIGHT LONG (1962), a jazzified retelling of Shakespeare's Othello from British director Basil Dearden. This...
2023-08-211h 16Old Movies For Young StonersS2E9 - Beatsploitation w/ Tokyo Drifter (1966) & A Bucket of Blood (1959)Podcaster, pop-culture writer and three-time and reigning Ms. Noir City AUDRA WOLFMANN joins us to talk about defending her Ms. Noir City crown, and one of her favorite sub-genres: Beatsploitation. We kick things off with Seijun Suzuki's psychedelic yakuza noir, TOKYO DRIFTER (1966). This isn't Beatsploitation per se, but there are plenty of dudes in mod suits and the film is so incomprehensible that it's gotta be poetry man. Plus it's got jazz, rock and roll, 60s bubblegum pop, and haunting Japanese torch songs. Audra asks if this movie is really a noir, and Bob wonders if it's actually a musical...
2023-07-281h 26
The Wheelhouse of Calhoun CountyLand, Air, Sea, & Space? Let’s Talk Carmin IndustriesCarmin Industries is a women-owned business in Jacksonville, AL with a diverse customer base. A business that started out with only water-jet cutting has since become a business with phenomenal growth. Join us as we get to know this industry better with the help of CEO Bob Hirneisen.Want to learn more? Please visit: www.carminservices.com
2023-07-2031 minOld Movies For Young StonersS2E7 - TCM Underground Withdrawals feat. Millie De Chirico w/ Kenneth Anger shorts & Night Tide (61)Former TCM Underground chief programmer Millie De Chirico joins us to talk about her book, "TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema." She also helps us get through our TCM Underground withdrawals that we've all been going through since Turner Classic Movies cancelled the Friday night cult movie cavalcade in February. First, Millie and the OMFYS crew discuss a trio of way underground short films from Curtis Harrington and Kenneth Anger (RIP): THE WORMWOOD STAR (1956), INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME (1956), and INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER (1969). Millie and Cory shed a lot of light...
2023-06-291h 23Old Movies For Young StonersS2E6 - The PhilenApocalypse w/ Midnight Madness (1980) & Warm Bodies (2013)The PhilenApocalypse as foretold by prophecy is finally upon us! Philena Franklin has taken over OLD MOVIES FOR YOUNG STONERS and has transformed it in NEW MOVIES FOR OLD STONERS! Both movies are in color and both have synchronized sound! No silents! No subtitles! One of these movies is even from THIS CENTURY!!! Can OMFYS survive this brush with modernity??? Listen and find out!
First, Philena shows us what it was like to grow up in the Franklin household with MIDNIGHT MADNESS (1980), a movie she claims her dad, OMFYS co-host Greg Franklin, made her watch repeatedly during her formative years...
2023-05-301h 21
Old Movies For Young StonersS2E5 - The Gorilla Episode w/ King Kong (1933) & The Bride and the Beast (58)Matt Zoller Seitz, the hardest working man in movie criticism, joins us for the long-awaited GORILLA EPISODE! In addition to covering film and TV for New York Magazine, serving as editor-at-large for RogerEbert.com, and running a bookstore and publishing company out of his house with MZS.press, Matt is a bit of a gorilla movie enthusiast going back to the 1976 KING KONG and an episode of WONDER WOMAN with a sci-fi Nazi gorilla. You'll hear all about it here plus some insights into what's up with HBO, his editorial process and watching TAXI DRIVER while stoned.
Of course we...
2023-05-051h 20Old Movies For Young StonersS2E4 - In Cold Bud w/ Touch of Evil (1958) & Lost Highway (97)Bob, Cory, Philena and Greg are back for the first time this season! Yes. This is only S2 episode with all the OMFYS co-hosts. Greg hasn't been here since our season premiere, but Cory wasn't around for that one, and the Psychedelic Kaiju ep had no Franklins whatsoever. We did get a little chatty with the joyous reunion and all, and our movies this time gave us a lot of psychological baggage to unpack, so this ep is, um, expansive. However, Cory tells Bob that "people really like long podcasts," so have at enjoy the 88 minute binge.
This week we...
2023-04-171h 28Old Movies For Young StonersS2E3 Women's History Month w/ Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) & The Hitch-Hiker (53)Philena Franklin returns for our National Women's History Month episode. Yes, Old Movies for Young Stoners has been a real sausage fest with nothing but films directed by MEN, so, like much of corporate America, we decided to rectify that for at least one episode with our salute to the work of women directors. First, we go to France for CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962), a masterpiece from Agnès Varda, the mother--or grandmother--of the French New Wave. The film is told nearly in real time as an up-and-coming pop singer named Cléo spends two hours waiting for the results of a...
2023-03-161h 08
Truth to PonderSome good news for a changeToday, Bob and his wife, Lori, are continuing their work on the church building they have found. Bob has been busy with upgrading electrical work, and his wife has been doing some serious cleaning. So, with Bob away, Jim Calhoun fills in with some good news.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air and as a podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a check payable to Ancient Word Radio, P.O. Box 510, Chilhowie, VA 24319. Thank you in advance for...
2023-03-0859 min
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannSome good news for a changeToday, Bob and his wife, Lori, are continuing their work on the church building they have found. Bob has been busy with upgrading electrical work, and his wife has been doing some serious cleaning. So, with Bob away, Jim Calhoun fills in with some good news.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air and as a podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a check payable to Ancient Word Radio, P.O. Box 510, Chilhowie, VA 24319. Thank you in advance for...
2023-03-0859 min
Truth to PonderFrom East Palestine to your hometownFrom the tragedy, the mainstream media ignores that happened and is still happening in East Palestine, OH to the “Missing in Action” Church, guest host, Jim Calhoun shares from his heart how we can make a difference. Bob Biermann wants to thank Jim Calhoun for stepping in once again to help Bob out while his voice recovers. Bob will be back tomorrow.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air and as a podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a chec...
2023-03-0159 min
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannFrom East Palestine to your hometownFrom the tragedy, the mainstream media ignores that happened and is still happening in East Palestine, OH to the “Missing in Action” Church, guest host, Jim Calhoun shares from his heart how we can make a difference. Bob Biermann wants to thank Jim Calhoun for stepping in once again to help Bob out while his voice recovers. Bob will be back tomorrow.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If you do, you can keep us on the air and as a podcast by visiting our website, https://truth2ponder.com/support. You can also mail a chec...
2023-03-0159 min
Old Movies For Young StonersS2E2 Psychedelic Kaiju w/ War of the Gargantuas (1966) & Matango (1963)S2E2 Psychedelic Kaiju w/ War of the Gargantuas (1966) & Matango (1963)
Kevin Moss from the Junk Food Dinner podcast joins Cory and Bob for the most wigged-out Japanese monster movies ever to come out of Toho Studios. First, it's the good Brown Gargantua vs. the evil Green Gargantua in a battle of land and sea elemental forces in the appropriately titled WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966), an epic that rattled the minds of everyone from Guillermo del Toro to Tim Burton to friggin' Brad Pitt (who gushed about it once during The Oscars). It's also a favorite of Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO...
2023-02-211h 13
Truth to PonderTime marches on, ready or not.First, a quick reminder, Bob is scheduled for his third bladder cancer surgery this coming week. As a result, Jim Calhoun will be guest hosting at least Monday through Wednesday. Thursday is still up in the air, but hopefully, Bob will be back with us on Friday, February 10th. On this edition of the program, Bob takes us back over the past few years, reminds us of how much change and turmoil we have seen, and reminds us, we are only in the beginning. It’s time to prepare.
Now, do you believe in this ministry? If yo...
2023-02-0359 min
Old Movies For Young StonersS2E1 Gateway Drugs feat. Ngaio Bealum w/ The Killing (1956) & Wages of Fear (53)Cannabis comic and activist Ngaio Bealum joins us for our SEASON TWO PREMIERE, and he's selected two movies that are real gateway drugs to classic cinema. Both films are tense AF depictions of desperate men trying to pull off that one last score. Both movies were also made by domineering filmmakers, so, as Ngaio says, this could have been our asshole director episode.
First up, is THE KILLING (1956), a cutting-edge noir from a young Stanley Kubrick making his first Hollywood studio film. Made on a shoestring budget, Kubrick still shows more than mere glimpses of his future promise with...
2023-01-201h 14
Truth to PonderImportant behind-the-scenes news and updatesAs many of our regular listeners know, Bob has been facing a troubling and ongoing health issue. On Tuesday, Bob and his wife traveled about two hours from their home where Bob underwent a surgical procedure to investigate the source of his medical problem. Today, Bob will share what he now knows, and what the next steps may be. Then, Bob welcomes Jim Calhoun to the program to give you some encouragement and practical solutions.
Please remember, we are only on the air because of your faithful support. You can keep us on the air and as...
2022-11-0259 min
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannImportant behind-the-scenes news and updatesAs many of our regular listeners know, Bob has been facing a troubling and ongoing health issue. On Tuesday, Bob and his wife traveled about two hours from their home where Bob underwent a surgical procedure to investigate the source of his medical problem. Today, Bob will share what he now knows, and what the next steps may be. Then, Bob welcomes Jim Calhoun to the program to give you some encouragement and practical solutions.
Please remember, we are only on the air because of your faithful support. You can keep us on the air and as...
2022-11-0259 min
Old Movies For Young StonersS1E13 - HALLOWEEN MONSTERS w/ Bride of Frankenstein (1935) & Vampyr (32)It's our Halloween episode AND our season one finale which begins with a visit to the Old Witch's lair where every bong rip could be your last. Big thanks to Tigger Franklin for her witchy cackle. It's a family affair here on OMFYS--a Franklin family affair. Our two films come from the 1930s, possibly the greatest decade for horror, but is it? We get into that before we get into our movies and weed recs. Cory comes out strong for the 1980s while Bob champions the classic monsters of the 30s, Greg makes the case for the sci fi 50s...
2022-10-271h 26
Old Movies For Young StonersS1E12 - Technological Disruption w/ Singin' in the Rain (1952) and Modern Times (36)Technological disruption wasn’t just dreamed up by annoying tech bros in Silicon Valley. Fortunes have been made and lost over advances in technology ever since the stone age gave way to bronze. And Hollywood has definitely seen more than its share of it over the past 100 years or so with talking pictures, television, home video and streaming all bringing on one form of creative destruction or another to the movie industry. In this episode, we talk about a pair of classic films that tackle this topic.
First up, Gene Kelly is back on OMFYS with Singing' in the Rain (1952), a...
2022-10-101h 14Old Movies For Young StonersS1E11 - THE SUPERHERO EPISODE with Mr. Freedom (1968) & Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (66)With superheroes dominating today's multiplexes and streaming channels, we look back at the 1960s, when people got way into superheroes for two years and then got the hell over it.
First, we've got the superhero as a metaphor for American imperialism, racism and police brutality in MR. FREEDOM (1968), a savage satire produced in France and directed by American expat William Klein. In "Mr. Freedom," fellow expat John Abbey (The Sandpiper) plays a sociopathic himbo in red, white and blue football pads who takes a break from beating up Black people to keep the "mixed-up, sniveling crybabies" of France from falling...
2022-09-231h 14Old Movies For Young StonersS1E10 - Musical Madness w/ On the Town (1949) & Lisztomania (1975)In our terrific tenth episode, we delve into the hallucinogenic possibilities of the most surreal movie genre of them all -- the musical! And as strange as the musical is, it was the most normie form of entertainment for a good chunk of the 20th Century, and is still capable of giving us the utter batshit weirdness of CATS from time to time.
For our first film, we go back to the height of MGM and the technicolor musical for ON THE TOWN from 1949 where Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are a trio of horny sailors looking for...
2022-08-231h 10
Old Movies For Young StonersS1E9 - Space Races w/ Top of the Heap (1972) & Queen of Outer Space (58)Floyd Webb of the Blacknuss Network joins us as we blast off to the stars for two wildly and weirdly different cinematic visions of space travel in a sprawling but mellow talk that goes from usual movie and weed convo into the mysterious deaths of NASA's Black astronauts, Floyd's experiences with Melvin Van Peebles, and so much more. This episode takes small steps and giant leaps PLUS it's dropping on the 53rd anniversary of the US Moon landing! Bob assures us that OMFYS is far too disorganized to have our Black astronaut conspiracy episode posting on NATIONAL MOON DAY and...
2022-07-201h 41
Old Movies For Young StonersS1E8 - The Elvis Episode w/ Roustabout (1964) & The World's Greatest Sinner (62)Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS is upon us, so it is now time for OMFYS' ELVIS EPISODE! First, Elvis Presley himself is a karate-chopping, motorcycle-riding, rock and roll rebel with a big chip on his shoulder who falls in with a traveling carnival in ROUSTABOUT (1964). Only Elvis' singing can keep the carnival from being gobbled up by a sideshow conglomerate, so it's up to carny queen Barbara Stanwyck (!) to convince him to stop being a dick long enough to save the show in what is (kinda sorta) the Elvis movie version of Nightmare Alley. Also starring Joan Freeman and the age appropriate...
2022-06-211h 00
Old Movies For Young StonersS1E7 - OMFYS Goes Dark AF w/ Detour (1945) & The Naked Kiss (1964)Special guest Justin Wiese of Torn Light Records and the Esquire Theatre in Cincinnati joins us as we go DARK AF. We begin with the inescapable fatalism of director Edgar Ulmer's film noir classic DETOUR from 1945 where Tom Neal as sadsack Al Roberts is thrust into a tragedy of errors as he thumbs a ride across the country. Just when things couldn't get any worse, they do when he hooks up with Ann Savage as Vera, the venom-spitting queen cobra of all film noir. Savage more than lives up to her surname with an intense performance that has our panel...
2022-05-251h 03
Old Movies For Young StonersS1E5 - Valerie & Her Week of Wonders (1970) + Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits (1965)Sex vampires! Demonic possession! The burning of heretics! Sexual awakenings! Polecats! They're all right here in a pair of full color fantasias from Europe.
First, young Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) finds her journey into womanhood fraught with grotesque vampires, pervy priests and vicious polecats in the Czech new wave weirdness of Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970). Then, Italian maestro Federico Fellini explores similar themes in Juliet of the Spirits (1965) where his wife and muse Giulietta Masina is thrust into a dreamlike world by suspicions of her husband's infidelity. As in our first film, we've got the burning of witches, d...
2022-04-1951 min
Go Time: Golang, Software EngineeringBob Logblaw Log BlogEd Welch joins Mat and Jon to discuss logging. They explore the different options for logging in Go, and discuss what data is worth including. Everything from log levels, formats, non-structured vs structured logs, along with common gotchas and good practices when dealing with logs at scale.
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2022-03-101h 08
Old Movies For Young StonersS1E2 - Vincent Price Does Drugs with Dragonwyck (1946) & The Tingler (59)Horror icon Vincent Price getting wigged out on heavy narcotics was once a thing--at least in a few of his movies--and we have two of them here in our second episode of Old Movies for Young Stoners. First, there's Dragonwyck--a haunting gothic romance from 1946 where Price hides in an attic and tokes opium to escape from the sounds of a ghostly harpsichord that plays in his family estate. Then we have The Tingler (1959), the magnum opus from gimmick-king William Castle where Price mainlines LSD as part of his experiments into the nature of fear that also involve a worm-like creature...
2022-02-2347 min
Truth 2 PonderWhat a busy weekThis week, Bob has been working in Okeechobee, Florida. He is on a project to help the outreach of WRMI radio. This project has been quite an undertaking. As Bob mentions at the beginning of the program, at age 67 the physical labor is much harder than it used to be 30 years ago. For today, Bob Welcomes back a wonderful friend of the program, Jim Calhoun. Jim has been a blessing to make it possible for Bob to do this work.
2021-12-161h 01
"Truth to Ponder" With Bob BiermannWhat a busy weekThis week, Bob has been working in Okeechobee, Florida. He is on a project to help the outreach of WRMI radio. This project has been quite an undertaking. As Bob mentions at the beginning of the program, at age 67 the physical labor is much harder than it used to be 30 years ago. For today, Bob Welcomes back a wonderful friend of the program, Jim Calhoun. Jim has been a blessing to make it possible for Bob to do this work.
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2021-12-1659 min
California Sun PodcastBob Calhoun's obsession with the gruesome and luridBob Calhoun reminds us that while we may be alarmed by rising numbers of homicides in the Bay Area today, the region's history has been far worse. Calhoun, the writer of the popular SF Weekly column "Yesterday's Crime" and author of the new book "The Murders That Made Us," shares how the Bay Area has been shaped by its most grisly crimes.
2021-11-1830 min
Voice of Latveria27: The Alien, the Ally, and--Armageddon! (with Bob Calhoun)
Bob Calhoun, the author of "The Murders That Made Us," joins Douglas Wolk to discuss Fantastic Four #116. Topics include Doctor Doom's résumé, what Mike Royer had to say about why inking New Gods was easier than inking Fantastic Four, the power of Evil Reed, and the resemblance between Victor Von Doom and the founders of the San Francisco Chronicle.
2021-08-3100 min
Dive Into The Powerful Full Audiobook Now, Knowledge Hunters!The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area by Bob CalhounPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493901to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Bob Calhoun
Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Release date: May 4, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city's art, music, and politics. In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent...
2021-05-0410h 09Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, WorldThe Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area by Bob CalhounPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493901to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Bob Calhoun
Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Release date: May 4, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city's art, music, and politics. In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent...
2021-05-0410h 09Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasThe Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area by Bob CalhounPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493901to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Bob Calhoun
Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Release date: May 4, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city's art, music, and politics. In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most...
2021-05-0410h 09
HoriZone RoundtableA Conversation With Jerrod CalhounBob and Matt welcome Youngstown State coach Jerrod Calhoun to the podcast. During this episode, they talk about the progress the Penguins have made during his tenure and the work left to do. They also discuss the upcoming schedule, including stops at West Virginia and VCU, as well as the impact the team’s returning players and the homecourt advantage of the Beeghly Center.
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2020-05-1700 minHoriZone RoundtableA Conversation With Jerrod CalhounBob and Matt welcome Youngstown State coach Jerrod Calhoun to the podcast. During this episode, they talk about the progress the Penguins have made during his tenure and the work left to do. They also discuss the upcoming schedule, including stops at West Virginia and VCU, as well as the impact the team’s returning players and the homecourt advantage of the Beeghly Center.
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2020-05-1700 minHoriZone RoundtableA Conversation With Jerrod CalhounBob and Matt welcome Youngstown State coach Jerrod Calhoun to the podcast. During this episode, they talk about the progress the Penguins have made during his tenure and the work left to do. They also discuss the upcoming schedule, including stops at West Virginia and VCU, as well as the impact the team's returning players and the homecourt advantage of the Beeghly Center.
2020-05-1743 minUncategorized – HoriZone RoundtableA Conversation With Jerrod CalhounBob and Matt welcome Youngstown State coach Jerrod Calhoun to the podcast. During this episode, they talk about the progress the Penguins have made during his tenure and the work left to do. They also discuss the upcoming schedule, including stops at West Virginia and VCU, as well as the impact the team’s returning players […]
2020-05-1700 min
Entrepreneur's CornerBob Calhoun, Executive Director ST Lucie Habitat for Humanity- Entrepreneur's CornerEntrepreneur's Corner with special guest Bob Calhoun, Executive Director, St. Lucie Habitat for Humanity on Entrepreneur's Corner. When you hear ST. Lucie Habitat for Humanity, most people think of volunteers coming together to build a home... Although that is a large part of what they do, there is SO much more... On the business side of things, managing employees, volunteers, donations and the keeping everyone motivated are just some aspects Bob Calhoun discusses with Dr. Jack Mitchell on Entrepreneur's Corner.
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2019-05-3018 min
Real Purpose with Pastor Bob LenzTwenty-Seven DegreesTwenty-Seven Degrees
Whats Your Spiritual Temperature
January-26-2019
Its 27 degrees this morning here in Loganville Georgia.
Leviticus 6:12 The fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must not go out.
John 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
1. Whats your “Spiritual Temperature?”
2. How are you keeping your relationship with Christ above 27 degrees?
3. How are you staying connected?
4. Whats your “de...
2019-01-2608 minReal Purpose with Pastor Bob LenzHusbands Love Your Wives As Christ Loved The Church - "Get Connected"I find to often that husbands fail to date their wives after marriage. Why? Love her as Christ loved the Church. Take time to actually write your wife a love letter, encourage her, love her. I am no expert on relationships, but I do understand my position in Christ and He in me. Get Connected, Stay Connected.
John 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Husbands Love Your Wives As Christ Loved The Ch...
2019-01-2416 min