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The Epstein War, El Mencho’s Blue Balls, and America’s Next Top Model
I recorded this from my studio apartment in Los Feliz, in the lobotomizing sunshine of psychedelic Southern California, and despite my suntanned brain tissue. I have thoughts.
Thoughts on the BAFTAs disaster during Black History Month. Thoughts on the BBC censoring “Free Palestine” while airing something they absolutely should not have aired. Thoughts on Larry Ellison buying a Hawaiian island, abandoning it, and moving 20 minutes from Mar-a-Lago like the demon he is. Thoughts on the Ellison-Paramount-Warner Brothers megadeal that will make sure every story you consume is owned by like, three guys.
El Mencho is dead. The Jalisco Cartel boss, one of the most wanted men on earth, tracked down through a girlfriend. Very Adriana La Cerva coded. Mexico is burning and none of it touches the Epstein files, which is, I suspect, the whole point.
America and Israel bombed Iran at 4am whilst we all slept. We woke to the killing of little girls. The Epstein War. Look over there guys! Don’t look at what’s happening here.
Oh, and America’s Next Top Model? We always knew it was fucked. Some of us said so at the time. “It was a different era” is not the excuse people think it is.
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Berlin, 1924.Hyperinflation. Maimed soldiers. Cocaine cabarets. Early gender-affirming surgery. Queer films screening publicly. Magnus Hirschfeld arguing homosexuality is innate, not criminal.
In this episode of Blue Movie, we trace how the sexual laboratory of the Weimar Republic burned bright and brief — and how its collapse under Adolf Hitler reshaped the future of pornography.
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From the liberal sexual attitudes of Berlin to Nazi book burnings and raidsFrom underground American stag films to the Hays Code.From wartime pin-ups to mail-order bondage empires.From Alberto Vargas to Bettie Page.
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🪷🪷🪷 David Lynch's legacy is forever entwined with the practice of Transcendental Meditation. He was gleefully evangelical about it, describing the practice as a dive within, to the bottom of the ocean of consciousness. But what exactly is TM? Who invented it? How is it different from other forms of meditation? Allow me to enlighten you. 🪷🪷🪷
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Fergie’s big pimpin’ with Epstein and the files; Ketamine, then and now. 💊 🪿The geese take revenge on the late Great Gandolfini; and a journey through my old ipod 📱 from 20 years ago. JOIN PATREON - YOUR SUPPORT KEEPS THIS SHOW INDEPENDENT AND SENDS REAL MONEY TO REAL CAUSES 🧊 ICE OUT🧊 Patreon.com/thisbodypodcast ☎️
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Before OnlyFans, before the internet, there were French postcards.Blue Movie from This Body traces the hidden history of pornography and its impact on desire, labor, and culture. From French erotic postcards to stag films, Warhol’s downtown New York, Deep Throat, VHS vixens, and today’s OnlyFans economy, this series asks: how did we get here, and what has porn done to our bodies and fantasies?
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Happy New Year, Night People. January is a holy month for our community, marking the first anniversary of David Lynch's passing, his birthday, Bowie's birthday, and 10 years since the Black Star passed; and now, one year since the LA fires. Let us reflect. Come with me, wont you, on a journey into the unexamined shadows of the Black Lodge, and it's opposite, the White Lodge, a place where wisdom and peace reside in abundance. Are the notions of these lodges real, like a formica table? Or are we always dwelling on the thresholds of these states of being, passing through and doubling back, like threading a needle, again and again.
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Merry Christmas from the FBI!
This year we lost a real one (another one), Assata Shakur. Freedom fighter, political refugee, mother, and MOTHER. From growing up under Jim Crow, to the Black Panthers, and on to the Black Liberation Army - from COINTELPRO to Cuba, this episode is about hope in times of chaos. Assata’s story is crazy, it’s unbelievalbe no one has made a blockbuster out of it yet. Rest in Power Assata, and Merry Christmas ALL!
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Little bits of “Song For Assata” by Common & Cee Lo Green
“Money’s Too Tight To Mention” - Simply Red, a band I have always deeply disliked, up until this moment. The tides are turning on the old definitions of self, if my softening in Simply Red’s direction is to be trusted.
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Welcome back to Night Blooming Jasmine. Join me as I visit the myth of Annie Blackburn — a woman written as a narrative fix, then transformed by David Lynch into something spectral and essential. From the convent shadows to Miss Twin Peaks, Annie becomes a guide, a sacrifice, a hinge in Cooper’s fate, and an echo of older myths: Ariadne, Persephone, Psyche.
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It’s 2001 in Y2K Hollywood — a world of TV stars, Maxim covers, and after-hours in the Hills. A young woman, Ashley Ellerin, is murdered by the man who would become known as the Hollywood Ripper. Around her, a new generation of idols is rising — and one predator is hiding in the shadows, while another hides in plain sight.
This episode traces the machinery that protects men like Danny Masterson — Scientology's cover ups. The Hollywood system that shields it's money makers.
When the Me Too movement finally tears through decades of denial, karma's underground current finally reaches the open ocean.
From Elizabeth Short to Ashley Ellerin to Chrissy Bixler, this is the Black Dahlia, and Los Angeles — a city that’s always worshipped Gods of it's own making.
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What does it costs to live inside a fantasy built by men? On this episode we prod that viper’s nest. David Lynch loved Kubrick’s film adaptation of Nabokov’s Lolita, so much so that he conjured his own Dolores Haze with Laura Palmer. JOIN PATREON We move between fantasy and wreckage. Between Desire, danger, and the American girl—through the eyes of genius. So put your heart shaped glasses on, pop a lolly in your mouth, and settle in. It’s about to get disturbing.
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The Black Dahlia murder shocked postwar America and ignited a media frenzy that reduced her to pulp headlines and grotesque speculation. The LAPD’s bungled investigation faded into silence, until the incest trial of George Hodel thrust the Dahlia’s specter back into the spotlight.
In episode 3 of This Body, we trace a line from Elizabeth Short’s depersonalized body in Leimert Park through Tamar Hodel’s testimony, and into the next generation of Hollywood daughters: Michele and Chynna Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips, and Bijou Phillips.
From Chinatown to Lolita, from the Mamas and the Papas to Scientology, this is a story of how Los Angeles devours its daughters, and how some live to tell the tale.
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Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the darkness of mid-century Hollywood. In this episode 2 of The Black Dahlia, we trace the fractured childhood of Elizabeth Short and the parallel story of Tamar Hodel, daughter of the wealthy, decadent physician George Hodel.
We follow Elizabeth’s vulnerable path to Los Angeles, her hopes colliding with predation. We enter the surrealist world of George Hodel’s Franklin Avenue “Jaws House”—a space where art, sadism, and sexual perversion merged, and where his daughter Tamar became both witness and victim. Her testimony would spark one of the most disturbing incest trials in California history.
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Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the darkness of mid-century Hollywood. In this episode 2 of The Black Dahlia, we trace the fractured childhood of Elizabeth Short and the parallel story of Tamar Hodel, daughter of the wealthy, decadent physician George Hodel.
We follow Elizabeth’s vulnerable path to Los Angeles, her hopes colliding with predation. We enter the surrealist world of George Hodel’s Franklin Avenue “Jaws House”—a space where art, sadism, and sexual perversion merged, and where his daughter Tamar became both witness and victim. Her testimony would spark one of the most disturbing incest trials in California history.
Content warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual assault, incest, child abuse, and graphic violence.
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In Twin Peaks, heaven is not eternal. Angels appear and vanish, offering only brief mercy in a violent world. This episode of Night Blooming Jasmine follows Laura Palmer, Dale Cooper, and the fleeting visions of grace that haunt David Lynch’s universe. Also: Mary Magdalene, the Upanishads, The Dweller On The Threshold, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Lana Del Ray, & The Veils.
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The Black Dahlia murder remains unsolved 78 years later, and Los Angeles has never stopped dreaming about her.
Elizabeth Short's story is the story of Hollywood itself. A city that projects it's dark fantasies onto the female body like film on screen, and devours what it gazes upon. A place where beauty and brutality are bound together.
We follow the threads that connect the Black Dahlia murder of 1947, to Joan Didion's Helter Skelter 1960s on Franklin Avenue, and the paranoid circle that surrounded it. Welcome to Episode 1 : The Body In The Lot.
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Welcome back Peaks Freaks! In this installment of Women in Trouble, we enter The Surreal Housewives of Twin Peaks. From Nadine to Sarah, to Shelly to Norma, we explore how Twin Peaks gives space to women at every stage of life — their pain, resilience, shadow selves, and survival. Along the way: rescue fantasies, menopause, family trauma, and what Bravo’s Real Housewives can teach us about visibility, melodrama, and the messy beauty of women’s lives.
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A midsummer night’s tease from deep inside the Mojave desert. Join PATREON for the full kit & kaboodle. This week: Dante’s Inferno, The Black Dahlia murder, and morphine’s long journey from poppy du jour to Dilaudid, heroin, and beyond!
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On this episode of Night Blooming Jasmine, we open the file on Women in Trouble—beginning with the blonde of all blondes: Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn Monroe and Laura Palmer—two luminous blondes devoured by image, myth, and men.
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Episode 3, in which we explore maps, disorientation, cursed geometry, and the dangerous liaisons of the dead girls of Twin Peaks. What does it mean to live — or die — in a place where the map fails you? Also - the transformation of Dr Jacoby, Ben Horne's failed attempts at redemption, the evolution of Bobby Briggs, plus the psychic self-defence of Marina Abromovic. We look at the Highway of Tears, and the kind of murdered girl that America loves: blonde, white, loved by all. Meet me at the Roadhouse after 9.30.
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Omfg, it's July. I do a mid year check in on the state of the nation, extol my love of fan noise, stoke the flames of my complex trauma... It's Lucinda Williams' memoir, Cardi B’s revenge arc, and why Paula Abdul's Rush Rush video is Keanu Reeves' finest hour. ONLY ON PATREON
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