On this episode we see the light in the crafting of country music personas by first seeing new release I SAW THE LIGHT starring Tom Hiddleston which leads us to a talk with musician Jacob Haller and host of the podcast Tell Me About Your Song on the Oscar winning biopic on Johnny Cash, WALK THE LINE. This very successful film goes up against a documentary on the struggles of the Dixie Chicks after a political comment made on the eve of the Iraq War in SHUT UP & SING sends the band's career in a very different direction.
In a dystopian world where a radical government has unleashed a deadly poison to control population, only those with blood type AB positive remain unscathed. But instead of outright death, the rest of the population is left to suffer in a state of chronic illness, causing widespread chaos and panic. As the majority slowly succumbs to the effects of the poison, their only hope lies in receiving transfusions of AB positive blood from the few immune survivors, like Charlie and his granddaughter Maya. Living in the decrepit remains of an abandoned amusement park, Charlie is a renegade supplier of blood to the underground market. But their sanctuary is threatened by the iron-fisted rule of District 22's ruthless warden, Onslow, who will stop at nothing to save his own dying son. As Charlie and Maya fight to defend their haven and their own sanity, the eccentric duo must navigate through a world of danger and betrayal. POPULATION PURGE was written by Brian Johnson and Toby Osborne and di...