Screaming Reverberations Podcast

REUPLOAD Screaming Reverberations Podcast Episode 2.2: Cool Heads for the Hot Summer - The Life and Times of Evelle Younger - Part 2

*Re-UPLOAD* The audio issues from the previous original upload have been fixed. Join us for the long-awaited second installment of our series Pynchonianly probing LA DA and California Attorney General Evelle Younger. In this episode, Frankie and Geena continue to plow through Younger's biography, revealing fascinating connections and collisions with everyone from Bill Cosby to the Nation of Islam. Particular attention is paid to Younger's place in the history of race relations in 1960's LA, which prove highly pertinent in light of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice's fixation on the Watts Riots. Twitter: @ScreamingRevPod Patreon: Screaming Reverberations Podcast

Screaming Reverberations Podcast Episode 2.2: Cool Heads for the Hot Summer - The Life and Times of Evelle Younger - Part 2

Join us for the long-awaited second installment of our series Pynchonianly probing LA DA and California Attorney General Evelle Younger. In this episode, Frankie and Geena continue to plow through Younger's biography, revealing fascinating connections and collisions with everyone from Bill Cosby to the Nation of Islam. Particular attention is paid to Younger's place in the history of race relations in 1960's LA, which prove highly pertinent in light of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice's fixation on the Watts Riots.

Screaming Reverberations Podcast - Episode 02 Footnote- Reading Thomas Pynchon's "A Journey into the Mind of Watts"

In the latest installment of our on-going examination of Inherent Vice and Vineland, Frankie and Geena read and tackle Thomas Pynchon's illuminating 1966 New York Times article "A Journey into the Mind of Watts"; join us as we constellate Watts, Evelle Younger, and the beginnings of Black radicalism in Los Angeles, and start answering what all of this means for Inherent Vice and Pynchon in general. Texts cited: Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon "A Journey Into the Mind of Watts" - Thomas Pynchon

Screaming Reverberations Podcast - Episode 2.1: Evil Younger - The Life and Times of Evelle Younger Part 1

Join Geena and Frankie for the first part in an examination of a figure long under-examined in the sphere of parapolitics: Evelle Younger. The story of a man who rose from Nebraska farmboy into the FBI, the OSS, before marrying into a California legal dynasty and roaming the halls of California power. With multiple digressions along the way examining: FBI fumbles, Imperial Japan, narcotics, reality TV, Christian Identity theology, and more! Works cited: Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon "Evelle Younger- A Lifetime in Law Enforcement", part of UCLA's "Governmental History Documentation Project- Ronald Reagan Era" "Mildred Younger- Inside and Outside Government and Politics, 1929-1980", part of UC Berkeley's "Women In Politics Oral History Project" The Voice, issue of 9/11/1941, "Bridges Turns Tables; Spies on FBI Wiretappers" Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner "1940 Japan-America Student Conference Diary" by James E Halsema, University of Kansas, Publications for the Center for East Asian Studies The Independent Press Telegram, issue of 6/6/1954, "The Strange Case of Hazel Younger and Her Campaign That Isn't" Various other Los Angeles-area newspaper articles regarding Hazel Younger, all from April-June of 1954 Twitter: @ScreamingRevPod Patreon: ScreamingReverberationsPodcast

Screaming Reverberations Podcast - Episode 01: The Beach Boys, Manson & the Mafia (Part 2)

In this second installment of our series detailing the connections between Thomas Pynchon's "California Trilogy" and the Manson Family, Frankie and Geena move away from Manson and into the Cielo Drive house, where we sort through Tom O'Neill's criss-crossing stories of Reeve Whitson, Charles Tacot, and Lt. Col. Paul Tate, and try to add more to his checkered telling of these stories. From there, we move into Paul Tate's connections to cutting-edge information technology, Curtis LeMay, John K Singlaub, and the shadowy plots of the American Security Council, and the LAPD's PDID. Join us and find out what all of this and more means in relation to Doc Sportello and Zoyd Wheeler's bad trips. Trigger warning time stamp: 0:12:53 - 0:14:27 & 0:22:50 - 0:25:30. Texts discussed: Inherent Vice Vineland Texts cited: Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon, 2009 CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, Tom O'Neill, 2019 The Family, Ed Sanders, both editions Sharon Tate: A Life, Ed Sanders and Rick Veitch, 2014 Manson in His Own Words, Nuel Emmons, 1986 Restless Souls: The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice,Alisa Stratman and Brie Tate Team Lotus: The Indianapolis Years, Andrew Ferguson, 1996 A Strange and Wild Place, Lady Sandra Macpherson Glentruim, 2004 Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party, Russ Bellant, 1991 Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, Sara Diamond, 1995 A Partial History of "the List", Linecook, (2020? - digital document, publication uncertain) "Fear and Loathing in the American Security Council Parts 1-4", Steven Snyder, Visupview.blogspot.com [https://visupview.blogspot.com/] Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Peter Dale Scott, 1993 The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond, Peter Dale Scott, 1976 The Farm podcast's WACL and Albacore series by Steven Snyder, et. al. Dig Infinity: The Life and Art of Lord Buckley, Oliver Trager, 2002 Has Corrine Been a Good Girl?, Corrine Calvet, 1983 Various articles on Chicago from Andrea Nolen's blog (andreanolen.com [https://andreanolen.com/]) Twitter: @ScreamingRevPod [https://x.com/ScreamingRevPod?s=20] Patreon: ScreamingReverberationsPodcast [https://patreon.com/ScreamingReverberationsPodcast?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=copyLink]