Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show

Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding to the folk-rock faithful) has hopped genres for decades: folk, rock, jazz, whatever the song demands. He takes us behind the curtain of One Last Heist, his latest album, and the Cabinet of Wonders, his one-of-a-kind variety show. He’s currently touring as a singer in the band Smithereens. Wesley walks us through his witty approach to songwriting, his leap into literary fiction, and how he makes his novels, including the hilarious Wonderkid and the unforgettab

Phil fled to Canada (can you blame him?), so Ted is holding down the fort. How did one foggy city end up with the Beats, the hippies, the biggest gay community and the loudest rock scene of the 60s and 70s? Follow the trail back to the Gold Rush, where the lights came on all at once and nobody ever turned them off. Peter Richardson, author of Brand New Beat: A New History of Rolling Stone’s Early Years in San Francisco, takes us back to the city where it all caught fire. Think the Beats, LSD (

Zayd Ayers Dohrn, son of Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, grew up as a toddler on the lam, dodging the FBI while his parents traded protest signs for pipe bombs. Then a West Village townhouse blew sky high and took three of their own with it. The kids got the bill: arrests, exile, and scars that never healed. So what happens when people give up on democracy and start building bombs? Zayd knows. He was raised in the fallout. Takeaways: The Weather Underground mo

Season 7 blasts off with a mind-expanding conversation with bestselling author D.W. Pasulka, whose new book The Others: UFOs, AI, and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny has everybody from Silicon Valley to the Vatican talking. Pasulka pulls back the curtain on how faith traditions, Catholicism especially, saw this coming: a seismic shift in human consciousness now being accelerated by AI and emerging tech. Behold apocalyptic dread in Silicon Valley boardrooms, the rise of "grief tech"

Everyone dreams of dropping out and building a better world. Almost nobody plans for the compost schedule, the group meetings, or the guy who thinks he's the Messiah. Phil and Ted head deep into California's utopian fringe — one stop in a Klamath Mountains commune, the other out in the high desert, scanning the sky for something that isn't from here. Guest Jonathan Berman, professor emeritus of film at Cal State San Marcos, made Commune (2006), the first real reexamination of 1960s communal lif

How can you hate me when you don't know me? Daryl Davis walks into rooms most people would run from. A Black musician, actor, and author, Davis has spent decades doing something that sounds almost too simple to work: sitting down with Klan leaders and just talking. The result? Over 200 Klansmen have hung up their hoods for good—and more than two dozen have handed Davis their robes as proof. He keeps them, not as trophies, but as evidence of what honest conversation can actually do. Daryl breaks