{"podcast":{"title":"Psyop Cinema","slug":"psyop-cinema-4255066","podcast_index_feed_id":4255066,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5077189/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/psyop-cinema--5077189","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fc42e79f0e1590cdfbc3d895a6fcbdcb.jpg","author":"Thomas Millary","episode_count":134,"summary":"Psyop Cinema is a podcast about the film industry and its intimate connections to mass manipulation, conspiracy, and the occult. Hosts Thomas Millary and Brett Carollo explore film from a deep politics perspective, demonstrating how the artistry of cinema combines with psychological and technological knowledge to engineer culture in subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways— making each of us the subject of the greatest mind control experiment in history.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T14:17:20.517408+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psyop-cinema-4255066"},"episode":{"title":"Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone 6)","slug":"born-on-the-fourth-of-july-oliver-stone-6","published_at":"2026-04-29T04:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psyop-cinema-4255066/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-oliver-stone-6","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psyop-cinema-4255066","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-oliver-stone-6--71716076","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71716076/born_on_the_fourth_of_july_final.mp3","summary":"After his hyper-sus digression of Talk Radio (1988), we return to the thematic focus that defined this era of Olive Stone's career. He continues to explore the ghosts of the 1960s with Born on the Fourth of July, his 1989 anti-war drama starring Tom Cruise. We keep analyzing Stone's treatments of religion, sexuality, war, and masculinity, go over some sus production credits, and talk about how this film sets the stage for his even more extensive interaction with the counterculture psyop in 1991's The Doors. If you enjoy Psyop Cinema, check out the research anthology series Cultural Engineering Studies. Volume #3 (on Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism) is out now! Please also take advantage of limited time discounts on volumes #1 and #2, with an even bigger discount if you bundle all three volumes - https://decoding-culture.com/print-copies/ https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop https://psyopcinema.com/ https://linktr.ee/psyopcinema thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.com brett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com","meta_description":"After his hyper-sus digression of Talk Radio (1988), we return to the thematic focus that defined this era of Olive Stone's career. He continues to explor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8059,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/psyop-cinema-4255066/episodes/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-oliver-stone-6/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psyop-cinema-4255066/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-oliver-stone-6.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}