Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show

Hollywood's in free fall, and David Poland's got the play-by-play. Phil and Ted sit down with the veteran film critic for a candid, funny, occasionally brutal look at how the old studio model is collapsing under the weight of streaming, YouTube, and a creator economy nobody saw coming this fast. Festivals dying. Theaters emptying. Studios panicking. It's all here, and it's a lot more entertaining than it has any right to be. Along the way: the industry's long, weird history of cycling between do

Phil and Ted sit down with Lisa Graves — author of the bestseller Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights — to ask the question nobody in a robe wants to answer: who bought the Supreme Court, and what did they get for their money? Spoiler: dark money, billionaire puppet strings, and a decades-long plan to gut your rights one ruling at a time. Lisa names names, connects the dots, and lays out exactly how we got here — and

The new voices of Bugs Bunny and Mr. Potato Head walk into a podcast. Phil and Ted are ready. Jeff Bergman is the new Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story 5 — and the current voice of Bugs Bunny and the entire Looney Tunes universe, following in the giant footsteps of Mel Blanc and Don Rickles. His wife, playwright and vocal powerhouse Carla Delaney-Bergman, is right there with him. Together they unpack the invisible art of voice acting — how you honor a legend, become a character, and make a plastic po

Not Insane! Firesign Theatre, Psychedelic FM Radio, and the Comedy That Rewired Your Brain Before the internet taught us to layer memes inside memes inside memes, four guys in Los Angeles were doing it with reel-to-reel tape, and it changed everything. Phil Proctor and Ted Bonnitt sit down with Cornell professor Jeremy Braddock — author of Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums. If you're a Bozo on this bus, you're in for fresh treats. If you've never h

Twenty thousand Ukrainian kids — ripped from their families, shipped into Russia, renamed, re-educated, erased. And some of their parents are slipping behind enemy lines to get them back. Dr. Olga Popel, President of the Southern California Holodomor Genocide Committee, has seen this playbook before. Russia didn't invent the erasure of Ukrainian identity — it perfected it. From the engineered famine that killed millions to the drone wars reshaping the front lines today, she traces the through-li

What does it take to build a subway under one of the most car-obsessed, earthquake-prone, politically tangled cities on Earth? Turns out: a lot of explosions, a few sinkholes, and an almost heroic tolerance for bad faith. Phil and Ted climb aboard with Ethan Elkind — Climate Policy Director at UC Berkeley Law and author of The Fight for Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City — to trace L.A.'s wild transit saga from the forgotten golden age of electric streetcars, through the smoggy sp