Inherent Vice (2014) and L.A. Confidential (1997)

The seventh episode of the Grey Album Podcast – an audio companion to the newsletter that takes a free-wheeling look at pop culture.

This episode we discuss two Los Angeles-set detective films: Inherent Vice (2014), Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s hippie mystery novel, and L.A. Confidential (1997) which follows three cops in 1950s L.A., each with wildly different styles, on hunt for the perpetrators of the Nite Owl Massacre.

Featuring:

• Spotted Dick

• Benecio Del Toro’s 70s face

• A digression about Hippie Pizza

• The actual narrator

• Epic Nixon Foundation TikToks

• Watch Guys

• ‘Audrey, Donna or Shelley?’

• What even is ‘Skibidi Toilet?’

and much, much, more!