{"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":"The Firm, with Steven DeLay (Surveillance Cinema 3)","slug":"the-firm-with-steven-delay-surveillance-cinema-3","published_at":"2026-06-12T04:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psyop-cinema-4255066/the-firm-with-steven-delay-surveillance-cinema-3","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psyop-cinema-4255066","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-firm-with-steven-delay-surveillance-cinema-3--72489175","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72489175/the_firm.mp3","summary":"Steven Delay returns to our Surveillance Cinema series for a discussion of Sydney Pollack's 1993 legal thriller The Firm, starring Tom Cruise. We first spend some time on Pollack's background, including his established Mossad connections and the themes of his 1975 paranoid spy thriller Three Days of the Condor, which had significant CIA involvement in its production. The Firm turns out to be largely a misdirection op, depicting a white shoe law firm as running interference for the mafia (a favorite Hollywood scapegoat) rather than for the deep state. We also talk about themes of demoralization, subversion of traditional social values, and the movie's significant Masonic/occult symbolism. This conversation was recorded in April but personal circumstances took us away from the podcast for a couple months. https://twitter.com/StevenDeLay4 https://stevendelay.com/ If you enjoy Psyop Cinema, check out the research anthology series Cultural Engineering Studies. Volume #3 (on Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism) is out now! Volumes #1 and #2 feature Steven's essays on Chinatown. Use code psyopcinema for a discount - https://decoding-culture.com/print-copies/ https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop https://www.patreon.com/c/PsyopCinema https://psyopcinema.com/ thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.com brett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com","meta_description":"Steven Delay returns to our Surveillance Cinema series for a discussion of Sydney Pollack's 1993 legal thriller The Firm, starring Tom Cruise. We first sp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":9239,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/psyop-cinema-4255066/episodes/the-firm-with-steven-delay-surveillance-cinema-3/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/the-firm-with-steven-delay-surveillance-cinema-3.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}