The Talking  Show

As we enter the warm, pleasant summer months and make leisurely travel plans, The Talking Show and Wendy Brown would like to remind you, gentle listeners, of effects of Neoliberalism.

This week Steve and Nicolas contend with the never ending growth of The Talking Show archive. Special guests the British Broadcasting Company join in to help them with their archival anxiety.

Now, if you didn’t know that there are two theosophically inclined Krishnamurtis, then tune-in to this episode for the full scoop. Willem de Ridder was there too.

This week on The Talking Show we let a little bit of Christian love into the mix with living philosophers Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley.

Just in case The Talking Show’s stance on Christianity was not clear, we invited Penny Rimbaud, co-founder of Crass, to set the record straight.

English polite society is turned completely on it’s head as YouTube commentators dare to challenge Andrew Berry’s method for making rings. If you’d like to learn one method to rule them all, then check out this weeks episode of The Talking Show.

This week on the Talking Show Samson Kambalu explains masks and puts the fun back in talking!

This week Steve, Nicolas and Carlo Ginzburg gather at the KCHUNG studios to travel out of their bodies to fight the malevolent forces around them. Also known as, “making radio history”.

This week Nancy Grossman exposes the secret origins of her leathered figurative sculptures. Elizabeth Streb joins for some Extreme Action™.

Have you ever hovered at the periphery of a movie shoot on the streets of Los Angeles? Did you crane your neck in an attempt to see a Hollywood Star? Were you gutted to realize that it was a Pepsi or a Lexus commercial? This must stop — and we’ve invited Cauleen Smith down to the KCHUNG Studios to tell us what to do about it.

We tried to make the KCHUNG remote link to Mr. Posset over Newcastle-on-tyne work, but we just didn’t manage it.

Did any of you listeners out there see Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel? Did you wonder: “how on earth did Matt Damon and Ben Affleck write such a believable French noblewoman from the 14th Century?” Well, they didn’t. Our guest tonight did. Enjoy some breezy talking with Nicole Holofcener.

Britain’s most Brutalist architect slowly walks us through his childhood.

Not even Theodor W. Adorno could’ve guessed that capitalism would completely ruin shopping. Well, gentle listeners, it wasn’t always this way. This week Huell Howser takes us to Southwestern Law School in MacArthur Park to talk about the good old days of conspicuous consumption.

It’s always time for Renata Adler on the talking show.

Nicolas gets to meet one of his childhood heroes, the educator William Nye, a guy of science. But as ever, it’s pretty weird when you meet your heroes.

After Martin two weeks ago and Roel last week we decided to combine both water and ditches and go with the KCHUNG mobile unit out to distant Arizona.

Have you ever watched Braveheart or something and wondered: did they really just charge at each other like that?

Well, Roel is here (all the way from Oxford) to tell you that no: they didn’t do that. Self-preservation was not invented in the modern era.

Martin Riese unleashes a torrent of water knowledge on us broadcasting remotely from the heart of high-end grocery darkness that is the Erewohn on Beverly.

Back by popular demand, Christian Oldham was on the show this week. They cracked the case of Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer 2000 wide open. Steve and Nicolas contemplate their new lives as Furios.

Have you ever wondered why the New York art world of the 1970s seems so coherent in retrospect? Well, think again and have a listen to Hannah Weiner’s unconscious account of NYC right here on The Talking Show.

The Talking Show prides itself in being a hospitable place for all talkers. Anne dropped by to deepen our practice.

Loyal listeners know that Steve and Nicolas are quick with a joke, a sally, a humorous retort. What is not well known is the full power of the “put on”. This week Coyle and Sharpe add a new technique to the Talking Show arsenal.

Steve and Nicolas are firmly committed to labor rights. They strongly believe that all labor disputes between workers and management should be held, not in a court of law, but in a court of volleyball. John Musker agrees.

Normally we would not ask our listeners to “hold their breathe” for the Talking Show, but this week we strongly encourage it. And enjoy some quality talking from Leo Chadbourne.

Just when you thought that Mike was coasting on big payouts from the Team Disney building and that unnerving swan hotel…think again.

For years Steve has sought out rare, American accents. This week we let DARPA tell us which American accents really matter. The results were altogether shocking.

This week sartorial genius Michael Taussig talks about mimicry and bestiality

Is Fashion revolutionary? We do not know. So we asked Amy de la Haye to explain.

This week on the Talking Show, social life returns with Nelson Sullivan. Steve and Nicolas suddenly recall that it wasn’t all that great to begin with.

This week on The Talking Show, Steve and Nicolas expose KMUNCH and Eric Bogosian acts like a real jerk.

This week’s guest, Digital Friend, has 3.3K followers on YouTube. Could that many people ever be wrong? Find out now by listening to The Talking Show.

On this episode of the Talking Show Jacqueline Rose tells us about the good ways to die — and the bad ways.

Dear Novel Coronavirus policy makers, you may wish to automate our jobs, but you’ll never replace The Talking Show. (Aaron Benanav)

We are very, very, very sorry to have had Mike Daisey on the show.

The long shadow of Robert Ashley takes on a strange musical form this week via Chris Morris. Not even Odo from DS9 could’ve seen this one coming.

Just when we thought that all the leaders in Tech should be drawn and quartered for ruining life itself, Ton Roosendaal made us think again. Thank you, Ton.

Tech filth has a name. And that name is Shingy. You’ll need a bath after this episode.

The Talking Show, along with Tiger Drylac and Paul Soto Gallery, continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation. This week we shed new light on the true origins of this deadly virus.

The revolution will not be televised, but it will be aired at midnight on KCHUNG.

What do a grocery stocker, grilled eels and medieval scholarship all have in common? You guessed it. Stacie Vos is on the Talking Show!

Have you been lonely during lockdown? Well so has Juliana Huxtable. And this week on The Talking show she does something about it.

Getting to “no” with perennial candidate for Governor of Tokyo and President of the United States, Toyama Koichi.

Lovers of fine wordplay and the tilt and thrust of great debate rejoice!

The maestro of Word Jazz returns for an encore presentation.

Jeff keeps his server coooooool. Content sponsored by Tripp-Lite.

Rick Roderick takes Nic and Steve back to the far away time when a postmodernism could like TOTALLY BLOW YOUR MIND!

KCHUNG Alumnus Johnny Jungleguts returns to co-host with Nicolas and Steve.

Doctors are notoriously hard to understand.

Famous Scotch talker visits us with some recordings of vigorous and busy talking.

Possibly the first Zoomer we’ve had on the show.

All the different streams of the talking show, erotic thrillers, psychoanalysis, theory, vampires and the heroic age of computing all collide in this incredible episode.

The Talking Show is back! And so is Willem De Ridder! Our second ever guest is back, flown to Los Angeles on an extra special KLM flight where he was the only passenger. Things are almost normal! We have guests again!

Striving for a livable future, the Talking Show announces its bold plans to reopen to business as, more or less, normal. You will not want to miss these important nuggets of news.

Inexcusably, Steve confused Dino De Laurentiis with Carlo Ponti, AFTER mistaking De Laurentiis for a Greek person. The shame will never evaporate.

Nicolas and Steve talk about movies again.

Nicolas and Steve survive the Sqirl Mold Saga.

The story of how Steve got back from Texas.

We did it again!

A remarkably fluid episode, reflecting the kind of heights that are possible in our new, unprecedented, times.

Hungover in quar.

Wherein, after seven weeks in isolation, The Talking Show figures out how the art is made.

Steve and Nic continue to protect the health of their guests and talk only among themselves. Are erotic thrillers actually noir? Is there a difference? Physically distant but socially close – the talking show will never be stopped.

Spatially distant, but psychically bonded, Steve and Nicolas continue talking between themselves.

For another week Steve and Nicolas save the lives of any prospective guests by confining the talking between themselves.

Just here to let you know that The Talking Show, KCHUNG Radio’s longest running program, is currently monitoring the novel corona virus situation. Donations to The Talking Show will be MAIL IN ONLY until further notice. Thank you for your patience.

Sometimes we all need a story of someone overcoming great adversity. Especially when the precise source of their adversity becomes a wellspring of kindnesses. And when Steve and I need such a story, we talk to Tippi Hedren.

Many years ago Steve and I spent a few weeks together in Marfa, TX. During that time we saw many, many nice chairs. Most were made of wood or metal. What we didn’t know then, but do know now, is that there are many, many, many more chairs made of plastic. Bryan Ropar was in this week to bring some of those chairs to our attention.

Some guests are exceptional hard to book. James Spader was one of them. After years of negotiations Mr. Spader finally allowed us to invite a Japanese TV crew to KCHUNG Studios to interview him.

Lock your doors. Shutter your windows. Put the kids to bed because Bobcat Goldthwait is on the prowl.

On tonight’s episode of The Talking Show the brethren and sistren of Eric’s fan club perform a seance to ask a single horrid question: is Eric Roberts “the man”?

Tonight on the Talking Show we learn one of life’s painful truths: like father, like son.

Tonight on the Talking Show we learn one of life’s painful truths: like father, like son.

It finally happened. We finally got Michael Douglas to tell what it was like being the star of all those erotic thrillers in the 90s.

When you fly to LA every week to record a radio show you eventually meet some really wild guys on the Flyaway.

In the great odyssey that is Hollywood’s portrayal of erotic life, the Talking Show hosts Scotty Bowers and Skip E. Lowe. Tune in to hear them peel back one more layer of this twisted onion.

Just when you thought you’d laughed enough for this year, we bring Mitch Hedberg on to bust you wide open.

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Sharon Stone suffers the insufferable by chatting for over thirty minutes with Larry King. Thanks Sharon, we really appreciate it.

There isn’t much we can do here at The Talking show headquarters other than pronounce Hanne Lippard’s visit a huge SsucceSs.

This week: Every once and a while Steve and Nicolas try to “man up”. Who better to help us than local rival Marc Maron and local filmmaker Danny McBride.

Nora Turato, dressed to the nines, sprays a eloquent stream of consciousness across the Kchung Studios.

A sentimental evening with former Kraftwerk percussionist Wolfgang Flür.

That ‘ramp guy’ comes in to explain how it wasn’t even creepy and how the only possible solution is to do architecture.

Silvia Federici takes us on a wild ride to the heart of darkness at the founding of capital: primitive accumulation.

Professor Paul Zwier teaches us how to compel others to speak the truth.

Voir dire means to speak the truth. In this combination voir derived from Old French and from the Latin *verum, not the voir “to see”.

This week Paige K.B. comes all the way back to LA from New York to read selected Q breadcrumbs and play Scott Walker songs.

This week on the Talking Show, LA artist Chris Warr tries to hold it all in, but instead he lets it all out.

During the week when two of the three countries in North America celebrate their national days we check in with Dr. Nick Estes to think with a bit more clarity about primitive accumulation and the settler colonial nation state.

Meredith Whittaker explains how the data that trains the AI is just as bad as the society that makes it.

Going where Adorno never could Michael Mills effectively defeats the demon that is popular music.

Nicolas, now a Master of Fine Arts, brings some extremely genteel garment historians into the spacious KCHUNG studio.

While Nicolas wraps up his MFA Steve is left alone in the studio to rebroadcast Neil LaPierre’s recent episode. Enjoy.

We take the high-tech solar powered KCHUNG Mobile Unit out to Garden, an art gallery in Angeleno Heights for a powerful torrent of talking.

While Nicolas is busting ass on his MFA thesis show we’re rebroadcasting a 2017 episode with the Kipper Kids to get Nicolas in that ‘fine art’ mood.

Nicolas’ sanity is in peril as he approaches the event horizon of his MFA thesis show, in steps Steve with a well-timed rebroadcast of a segment we ran a few years ago featuring now disgraced sex-jerk and creepy boss Tony Robbins. Go for Mastery Nicolas!

Isn’t Chad Kroeger the singer from Nickleback? Anyway, Chad and Bodhi lay it all out here. This is unreserved, unprecedented talking. Gnar.

Jack Levinson brings his baker’s dozen-sized cast into the KCHUNG studio along with some Zankou and wines. More about The Square Circle story can be gleaned here: https://www.thesquarecirclestory.com/

Candice Bergen’s husband dropped by with a crate of ‘pellegrino and we just took it from there…

OK, Apparently this has something to do with R.D. Laing?

Guys! The Enlightenment worked! It worked in Sweden and all we have to do is educate everyone! Thanks Hans!

Pledge drive ongoing.

A very fresh wind just blew down from Northern California and right into our spacious Chinatown Studio!

Southern California’s dominant Marxist photographer makes a posthumous appearance on our show.

Isn’t it about time we had Martha Rosler on the show? After every single person you run into is talking about Adam Curtis’ Hypernormalization in the aftermath of “recent political events” you have to ask yourself how fair is it for him to single Rosler out like that in the intro and outro of the movie? Am I the only one who made it through to the end of that thing?

Perhaps the world’s most famous German-born composer makes the trek from his castle to confer with Joe from 2True and bailed the Talking Show out when we had a last minute guest cancellation.

NB: Hans Zimmer was never a member of neither Cluster nor Kluster.

Our guest today was Mr. 20th Century: Bern Porter, who else could be said to be equally at home in the Manhattan Project and the living room of Gertrude Stein? Only this guy. Only this guy.

We ride our sentient Beta Kars back to the future with Rayner Banham.

The Talking Show redresses an oversight that we cannot understand: how did it take us so long to become aware of Caroline Bergvall?

For the first episode of the new year we bring you the first culture-world death of the year as well. The great John Berger appearing today on the Talking Show.

This is where we on the talking show just gets a pro to take over instead.

AA Bronson look-a-like and friend to shamans everywhere Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson appears on the Talking Show.

Mind Blowing. Who are these guys?

Young Economists, if you feel burned after missing our last broadcast of letters to the Economist, don’t fret; profit and the talking show always return.

Still likely murderer, and still talking – hear it again right here on the Talking Show.

Paul Chan, once again, shares some of his favorite bits of writing.

Willem DeFoe, no, Willem de Ridder is back! Check out what he almost as to say.

David Antin, our very first guest, returns – once again.

Legendary minimalist sculptor and likely murderer makes it into our studio.

Paul Chan, artist, publisher and writer shows us some of his all time favs.

Our second guest was the magical and revolutionary Willem de Ridder. His awesome live-in-studio performance was captured by our legendary engineering staff.

For our inaugural episode our guest was the legendary David Antin.