Okay, we are live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest. Returning guest, his name is Stephen DeLay. Last name is spelled D.E. L.A. Y.

This will be our third discussion. He was on late last year. We talked about two different topics. One was his book, Finding Meaning, Essays of Philosophy, Nialism,

and the Death of God, which kind of overlaps with what we're going to talk to today.

And then we talked about Terrence Malik. That was Life Above the Cloud's philosophy in the films

of Teres Malik. And he will be, I think my fifth guest, fourth guests, no, fifth, it'll be my fifth

guest of talking about a new publication from the Decoding Culture Foundation and the magazine

that they put out digital and will be a hard copy magazine as well, is cultural engineering studies and i've talked to

colin's brothers dorsley corolla and millerre about their article so this article is titled

forget it jake it's chinatown revelation of the Method and Cultural Demoralization in Film North.

This is part one, and it's about the film Chinatown.

If you're watching this on Rockfin, Rumble or X, you'll see a picture of this,

the two main characters, P.I. Gittis and then Mulray.

Anyway, she had an interesting relationship with Polansky, too.

I'll tell me more about that.

But anyway, it's really a great, fantastic article, very detailed and opened my eyes to this

film that I've probably seen three or four times, and I'll probably

have to watch again, but Stephen can talk more about that. So Stephen DeLay, welcome back to the show.

Oh, and thanks for having me. Really happy to be here. Yeah, so for people who hadn't heard our

newer interviews or, you know, what's going on over the Decoding Culture Foundation, maybe you can

talk a little bit about your background and your books and what led up to you

publishing this article. Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

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