** "A really cool element in horror is 'the final girl' - in that often the toughest, strongest last person standing is the brave woman..."

Amy Schumacher Talks Screamboat. The adventure in horror playing out on the Staten Island Ferry stars the self-described anti-heroine stunt woman and multi-tasking leading lady and directress, our guest on the show. And with an ambiguous approach to portraying NYC in movies that's been described as 'an abusive relationship with the coolest person in the world.'

Along with Amy's commentary touching on a common theme in her movies, reimagining scary versions of icons - a bad Santa in The Mean One, Bach in There And Bach Again, and Mickey Mouse as an exploited and abused working class cartoon going postal on board the Staten Island Ferry, as alias Steamboat Willie.

And casting herself as an EMS worker on board - Amy also delves into how going for a Masters In Fine Arts at a Russian acting conservatory in Uzbekistan has influenced her unusual and unique style on screen.

** "Man, neither one of these parties is going to do nothing for us - let me tell you why..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon Sorts Out The One Side To EveryStory Media Myths - surrounding bombs, billionaires and banana plantations; Yemen, China, and endless wars; and Silicon Valley's connection to DOGE downsizing the working class...

** "Welcome to Casino World - in Gaza and Dallas..."

Bro On The Global Cultural Beat: Sports And Sports Reporting - A tale of greed, gambling and avarice 'in the dead of night or under cover of darkness.'

Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe infiltrates connections to 'Mister Glass,' the Lakers and the Adesons; gambling halls in Vegas, Trump, Israel and money laundering - and 'the 8th richest woman in the world, Adelson sat in the front row at the Trump inauguration with a trio of like minded oligarchs, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Elon Musk...'

** "Misery and desperation is everywhere, shamed, dishonored, wading in blood and dripping with filth. This capitalist society stands, not as we usually see it, playing the roles of righteousness, of order, of ethics - but as a roaring beast..."

Red Rosa: A continuing conversation with Kate Evans and her graphic novel touching on the life and revolutionary resistance of Rosa Luxemburg back then - and reading passages from her letters...