minutes 97-102 - you have the right to remain silent
but speak up instead. liquid jesus, stand, teen podcasters, teen activists, leonard cohen, hallelujah, #speakout, #vote
Nov 02, 2020•17 min
pump up the minute
A podcast about politics and music and the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume.
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Episodes
minutes 93-96 - the parents aren't gonna be there
mr robot, 5 female artists who should have been on the soundtrack, the end of the musical, continuity errors, poorly executed chase scenes, getting environmental, samurai cop, marrs, pump up the volume, gen-x finding its voice, and 5 female podcasters worth listening to
Oct 30, 2020•31 min
minutes 89-92 - is this a dangerous idea or a stupid idea
women in punk, concrete blonde, everybody knows, watts as trump, was not was, hello dad, i'm in jail, reused locations, stealing air, urban dance squad, fast lane, and adults stepping up
Oct 28, 2020•27 min
minutes 85-88 - is he making a bomb?
unregulated media, burning creswood in effigy, soundgarden, heretic, anarchist cookbook, and how to survive high school with minimal brain damage
Oct 26, 2020•25 min
minutes 81-84 - that's full-fledged assault
marvelettes, don't mess with bill, corporal punishment, larry's hairdo, authoritarians, and the right to an education
Oct 23, 2020•25 min
minutes 77-80 - still, he just can't finish
#zoomdick, meaningful silences, cliff martinez, strawberries for heads, graffiti, classroom doors, and childish authoritarians
Oct 21, 2020•22 min
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
Oct 19, 2020•19 min
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
Oct 16, 2020•28 min
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
Oct 14, 2020•25 min
minutes 61-64 - that's stupid on multiple levels
racist casting, useless parents, useless reporters, peter murphy, and mark's growing audience
Oct 12, 2020•29 min
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 commissioners
Oct 09, 2020•37 min
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
Oct 07, 2020•27 min
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
Oct 05, 2020•33 min
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
Oct 02, 2020•29 min
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
Sep 30, 2020•22 min
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
Sep 28, 2020•28 min
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 classrooms #beawinner
Sep 25, 2020•35 min
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
Sep 23, 2020•30 min
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, better off dead, leftist extremist joe biden, and the overton window
Sep 21, 2020•35 min
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
Sep 18, 2020•37 min
Minutes 17-20 - shaming and scaremongering people doesn't work
lenny bruce, guidance counselors, sex education, the dare program, and compassion fatigue
Sep 16, 2020•36 min
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.
Sep 14, 2020•32 min
minutes 9-12 - everything essentially is a simulacrum
disneyland, baudrillard, tract homes, action figures, fake sex, fake doors, fake ministers, and expensive plates.
Sep 11, 2020•40 min
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
Sep 09, 2020•36 min
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
Sep 07, 2020•29 min
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