John A. Riley dives into a world of cinema, Russian culture, rural Georgian life, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and the Merwolves of Blackpool.  Join us as examine how De-Stalinization and the Khrushchev thaw led to work of Andrei Tarkovsky.  Learn why you should watch Tarkovsky's 1979 masterpiece, "Stalker".  We also jump down the Lynchian rabbit hole of Twin Peaks Season 3 and the Trumpian connections of a nostalgia reimagining that wasn't.  In this episode we ask the tough questions like:  Why do we first think of Monty Python when we hear the word medieval?  Did Kubrick have a point or did he just sculpt cinematography on an intuitive masterful level?  Is it still okay to worship Zappa as a god?  Who did Alex Winter play opposite to in Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventure?  And was it Kanye West?  What was Terry Gilliam offering to the world in Twelve Monkeys?  Did we listen?  Did Bruce Willis listen? What's with Bruce and these time machine movies?  And will Joseph Gordon-Levitt start to look like Bruce Willis soon?  Listen now to find out - or remain in a cave of ignorance and darkness.  This week things get radioactive.  Only on The Perplextpat.