All Episodes
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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
minutes 21-24 - rather than work to build better systems"
preemptive ostracism, the 1776 commission, reality television, cops, pepsi, suicidal tendencies, and the male gaze
minutes 25-28 - any idiot can see i need limits
mark's gunplay, miles davis, schooley d, beastie boys, introducing gangsta rap to white people, fairness doctrine, right wing radio, joe rogan, after school specials, ...
minutes 29-32 - nobody has a clue
suicide, robert johnson and his 'rediscovery' by white people, cowboy junkies, above the law, rap as literature, freedom of speech, chagall guevara, and the misfits
minutes 33-36 - the consequences of his radio show
awkward hellos, canadian bulletin boards, stan ridgway, high school suicide response, nora's investigation, i sing the body electric, captain cayatanita, and sparse cl...
minutes 37-40 - he has no idea what he's doing
sunglasses as disguise, nora's characterization, confusing food, parenting, mark as incel, why johnny can't read, johnny got his gun, and copycat suicides
minutes 41-44 - getting rid of all the protest songs
short wave radio, if it be your will, youth job and relationship satisfaction, and sukiyaki
minutes 45-48 - that's a little too freudian
hamlet, heaven, mirrors, nothingness, the prince of pennsylvania, my boy lollipop, kick out the jams, paige, totems of perfection, and explosions
minutes 49-52 - terrified to say anything about it
homosexuality in high school, gay representation in film and television, that certain summer, my so-called life, hollywood, adults not believing teens, and homophobia
minutes 53-56 - and she's just yelling
pixies, wave of mutilation, somewhere, over the rainbow, bechdel test, sonic youth, titanium expose, authoritarians, ohm's law, and #resistance
minutes 57-60 - also, he doesn't have a warrant
acts of defiance, white privilege, george bickham, lean on me, bad high fives, bad reporters, bad administrators, bad teachers, bad cops, bad clerks, and bad commissio...
minutes 61-64 - that's stupid on multiple levels
racist casting, useless parents, useless reporters, peter murphy, and mark's growing audience
minutes 65-68 - and what did the gods give him?
covid rallies, the cure, disintegration, nrbq, wild weekend, problematic muses, white male privilege, and suspicious parents
minutes 69-72 - he's definitely hard harry again
sexist thattaboy talk, nwa, gansta gangsta, ice cube, trump's platinum plan, and tracing phone calls
minutes 73-76 - don't leave 'em on for more than 30 minutes
elvis costello, pump it up, mommyheads, love & rockets, everybody wants to go to heaven, ivan neville, why can't i fall in love?, cock rings, and impotence
minutes 77-80 - still, he just can't finish
#zoomdick, meaningful silences, cliff martinez, strawberries for heads, graffiti, classroom doors, and childish authoritarians