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Anger Turns To Violence Against Oppressive, Brutal, Overly-Entitled Police Across America

Just over 4 decades ago-- May 1979-- a conservative court decided to let ex-policeman, ex-County Supervisor Dan White off the hook (the Twinkie defense) after he assassinated Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The ensuing violent riot wasn't about Moscone. The organizers intended to lead a peaceful protest march of a couple of hundred people up Market Street to City Hill. That didn't last and when the infuriated crowd reached City Hall, there were over 5,000 people-- mostly gay not absolutely not entirely so-- under no one's control and united more in anger than in grief...

Esoteric Hollywood: Lloyd Johnsonius, Orson Welles & Vertigo

Intro theme: “Dream Agent” by Ariel Electron, Holeg Spies and Thierry Gotti on the “Kore Kosmou” album.
In this wild and wacky installment of Esoteric Hollywood, moral majority neo-con figure Lloyd Johnsonius tells us in Dobsonesque fashion which movies are acceptable. From there, I’m joined by my old high school hijinks partner, Ben Enoch to discuss Orson Welles’ The Third Man, and then I dissect Hitchcock’s Vertigo in esoteric style.