"The reviews have been great. I've never gotten reviews like that! So I'm thrilled for my son - and really angry!"

Tim Robbins joins son Jack Robbins on the line to the show, to talk about their collaboration on VHYes - Directed by Jack and starring Tim as well as mother Susan Sarandon, in this all in the family conversation.

               Tim Robbins (Oscilloscope Films)

An unconventional satire obsessively into '80s television late night culture. And what any of this may have to do with Ronald Reagan, The November election, cat yoga, and channel surfing.

** "I needed Rutger Hauer, who he is as an actor, to have his presence seep, irrigate and haunt the whole film. I wanted an actor with that power. And he was slightly cheeky, slightly crazy - but in a good way!"

The Sonata: Director Andrew Desmond phones in from Paris to pay tribute to Hauer, on one of his last films. A gothic noir about musical genius, madness and money. And regarding the madman musician the actor plays - can art be an obsession as well as an affliction? Desmond also shares observations in the midst of the current French mass uprising.

Poetry Corner: Spotlight on spoken word poet, Aja Monet. Contemplating police brutality, race and family.

** "The 1300 low rent housing complex was dubbed Palaces of the Proletariat - and the most magnificent of that Karl Marx-Hof referred to as The Workers Versailles."

Bro On The Euro Cultural Beat: Red Vienna - An Architecture Of Hope. Arts Express Paris correspondent Professor Dennis Broe journeys to Austria to rediscover this pre-Nazi socialist utopia virtually disappeared from history. And what it has to do with Austro-fascism and 12 February Square.

 Redefining Masculinity And What It Means To Be A Man:  Political analyst, Press TV reporter and contributor to this show Jason Unruhe, on unscrambling in this excerpted presentation, the mysteries of masculinity in conflict with capitalism. Referencing Norman Rockwell, postwar prosperity, grunge and lipstick.

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