I heard him recently on an episode of Chris Fairbanks and Karen Kilgariff's podcast Do You Need a Ride?, but you're definitely right that he doesn't "guest around" the way the rest of the LA podcast community seems to. He just strikes me as borderline anti-social … not in a hostile way, more like he can't be bothered…

Where in that Deadline article does it say anything at all that even implies the show is "Western-inspired"? You realize that The Dirty Dozen was a World War 2 movie, right?

So, is Podmass no longer a thing?

Just FYI, that was NON-Downtown Julie Brown on the podcast.  The white one.  Downtown Julie Brown was a black VJ.