The Fiascos detect radioactivity from the breakdown of the American family in Ray Milland’s 1962 apocalyptic film Panic in Year Zero. It’s the perfect cheery note to start off our 3rd season!

Show Notes.

Panic in Year Zero.

The book about people cooperating in crises is A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit.

Host Recommendations

• Back to God’s Country (1919)

• Best Friends Forever (2013)

• Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)

Other Films Mentioned

• Five (1951)

• Hot Rods to Hell (1967)

Listener Recommendations

• The American Astronaut (2001)

• Argo (2012)

• Armour of God/Operation Condor 2 (1986)

• Booksmart (2019)

• A Bronx Tale (1993)

• The Cemetery Club (1993)

• City Lights (1931)

• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

• The Day the Clown Cried (1972)

• Dick Tracy (1990)

• The Disaster Artist (2017)

• Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984)

• Drunken Master II: The Legend of Drunken Master (1994)

• Frailty (2001)

• Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

• Hamlet (1948)

• Hickey & Boggs (1972)

• Hope Floats (1998)

• Love’s Labours Lost (2000)

• Matilda (1996)

• The Night of the Hunter (1955)

• One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

• Operation Condor/Armour of God 2 (1991)

• Pedicab Driver (1989)

• Police Story (1985)

• Posse (1993)

• The Princess Bride (1987)

• Project A (1983)

• A Rage in Harlem (1991)

• The Stranger (1946)

• That Thing You Do! (1996)

• Thunder Road (1958)

• Unforgiven (1992)

• Viva (2007)

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