Episode 129: Ghostbusters

Nathan Gilmour hosts a conversation with Danny Anderson, Michial Farmer, and David Grubbs about the 1984 movie "Ghostbusters." Digging into its treatment of the supernatural and its ties to emerging political phenomena, the quartet both appreciates its staying power and wonders at the strange ideas that lie just beyond the screen. Among the religious movements and other realities engaged are Spiritualism, Cold War nuclear weapons anxieities, the Tea Party, the Comedy of Humors, and Bill Murray.