Nostalgia Trap

Dec 20 2024 478 ep. 48 mins 3.3k

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Conversations about history, politics, and pop culture.

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Ep 400 - The Disney Revolt w/ Jake S. Friedman

Dec 20 2024 64 mins

A critical but often overlooked chapter in American labor history, the animator’s strike that shook the Walt Disney Corporation in 1941 was part of a wave of labor struggle in World War II era Hollywood. Jake S. Friedman’s book The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age chronicles the strike in colorful detail, and includes plenty of eye-popping images o

Ep 399 - Severance/Doppelganger w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)

Dec 13 2024 7 mins

This week we watched the excellent Apple TV series Severance and put it in conversation with Naomi Klein’s latest book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. Both texts explore how the concept of “doubles” plays out in capitalist culture, and we have fun talking about the ways they did (and didn’t) blow our minds. From Klein’s refreshing take on the left’s severe

News Trap 12.6.24 Survival of the Fittest w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)

Dec 06 2024 6 mins

A United Healthcare CEO is assassinated and the world laughs, fitness and nutrition culture goes fascist, Europe in collapse while China salivates, Trump's tariffs portend new global shockwaves. To hear the whole episode, subscribe for a FREE 7 day trial: https://www.patreon.com/posts/117457956?pr=true&forSale=true

News Trap 11.29.24 - The Internet Eats America w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)

Nov 29 2024 7 mins

It's Black Friday, so between insane binges of online shopping, Justin and I sat down to record a conversation about the Netflix documentary The Antisocial Network: From Memes to Mayhem, as we consider the path from Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders to 1/6 and Donald Trump's triumph in the 2024 election. What role has internet culture played in shaping our current reality, and

News Trap 11.25.24 - Tending the Light

Nov 25 2024 28 mins

Musk's endgame on environmental regulations, universities bracing for a war on DEI and critical race theory, Houthi pirates drawn to their deaths in Ukraine, national economies bracing for world war. Happy Thanksgiving! Subscribe to access our entire library of bonus content, including weekly News Trap updates: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap

Nostalgia Trap - Ep 398: In Levittown's Shadow w/ Tim Keogh

Nov 07 2024 70 mins

Tim Keogh is an Associate Professor of History at the Queensborough Community College in New York City. His book In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb turns a common American story on its head, giving us a picture of life at the economic bottom of the postwar suburban housing boom. This conversation features challenges to political orthodoxies o

Nostalgia Trap - Ep 397: Vincent Van Gogh to the Polls w/ Peter Sabatino

Oct 18 2024 85 mins

This week I’m joined by my good friend Peter Sabatino for a conversation all about Vincent Van Gogh’s personal and artistic legacy. We both read the book Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, a gigantic magisterial biography that affected us both in surprising ways. While Van Gogh embodies the archetypal image of the “tortured artist,” there’s so mu

News Trap 10.14.24 - Goodbye to Reality

Oct 14 2024 33 mins

Armed militias roam the hurricane ravaged wastelands of North Carolina, no one wants children and it's not because of the economy, Apple's Vision Pro is a massive failure, we're stepping off the ship of rational discourse and entering the wonderland of feelings as facts. Don't miss any of our News Trap updates, subscribe and ride the snake: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap

Nostalgia Trap - Ep 396: What Happened to the American Hitchhiker? w/ Jack Reid

Sep 27 2024 60 mins

Jack Reid is an American historian and the author of Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation (UNC Press, 2020). In this conversation, we talk about the specific culture, between the 1930s and 1970s, that produced hitchhiking as a common social experience, when ordinary Americans would travel with strangers they met on the road. What happened to hit

News Trap - Justin on Why Eating Dogs Matters (PREVIEW)

Sep 16 2024 3 mins

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