A podcast about politics and music and the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume.
First Episodes
minutes 1-4 - different rules for different kids
school inequality, pre-grunge music, school shootings, 80s sitcoms, looking at 1990 as parochial school students, and mark's first monologue
minutes 5-8 - threatening to kill his parents on the radio
everybody knows, joey, ice-r. privileged gen-x angst, hippies turned establishment, holden caulfield, and mark's audience coming together
minutes 9-12 - everything essentially is a simulacrum
disneyland, baudrillard, tract homes, action figures, fake sex, fake doors, fake ministers, and expensive plates.
minutes 13-16 - do you think it's a fifties film?
hippie pasts, establishment futures, nazi school logos, locker searches, commodification of black violence, and racist test scores.
Minutes 17-20 - shaming and scaremongering people doesn't work
lenny bruce, guidance counselors, sex education, the dare program, and compassion fatigue