Episode #4

“Thrilled to have finally wholeheartedly enjoyed a PTA movie so now I can make some male friends.”

—Today’s guest, on Phantom Thread

Apocalypse is very much in the air with this episode—as Doc and Denis are whipped by newspaper-munching Santa Ana winds while learning more and more about Mickey Wolfmann, our host is surrounded by the same winds nearly 50 years later during a particularly fiery and windswept day in Los Angeles in 2019. Further, he’s sitting down with Fran Hoepfner—a brilliant writer, an insightful critic, and…someone for whom Inherent Vice simply doesn’t do much.

But if you’re going to deep-dive into Inherent Vice, part of that conversation includes the many folks and freaks and friends who just…don’t…care. Or, in certain horrifying cases that may or may not now be part of the permanent record with this episode, just don’t like Bigfoot Bjornsen (gasp!).