Episode 130 - Gen-X Takes A Sick Day

If you were stuck at home sick in the dark days before cable t.v., before VCR’s, and well before the internet, you had limited options to fill the day. Sure, you could’ve read Judy Blume or Encyclopedia Brown books, but that was just like being at school. Instead, you plopped yourself down in front of your best friend, the television, and watched whatever crap happened to be on. Like, all day. This involved a few cartoons, The Price Is Right, and endless re-runs of old shows so lackluster that you won’t even see them on TV Land because nobody misses it. Yup, Gen-X is uniquely prepared to ride out a pandemic while stuck at home, enduring what most people call “boredom” - because we’ve been doing this our whole lives. You can find Negativland’s Escape From Noise album on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1iI8thQSDO3kvRxMtxNuTD?si=RUYlDVppSU-lrVf9uwNd6g And on Apple Music here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/escape-from-noise/386818766 | 0:00 - Intros | 7:10 - Negativland - Escape From Noise | 13:23 - Upstart Crow | 19:10 - Louis C.K. and cancel culture | 26:55 - Bert Kreischer | 29:20 - Guns Akimbo (2020) and Bloodshot (2020) | 39:10 - Daytime television before cable and the Internet | Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon | Clip from Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) | Negativland - Time Zones | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Negativland - Quiet Please | Negativland - Methods of Torture | Negativland - Christianity Is Stupid | Negativland - Nesbitt’s Lime Soda Song | Negativland - Sycamore | Clip from Upstart Crow | Clip from That Mitchell & Webb Look | Clip from Demolition Man (1993) | Enis Rotthoff - Enter the Ride - Guns Akimbo Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Steve Jablonsky - Initiate Sequence - Bloodshot Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Woody Woodpecker Theme Song | I’m Popeye The Sailor Man | The Price is Right theme song | On the Franches Mountains from Swiss Mountain Music | Clips from The Joker’s Wild | Clips from Search for Tomorrow (1974) | Clips from Room 222 | Clips from The Dick Van Dyke Show | Clips from Mayberry R.F.D. | Clips from Topper | Clips from Please Don’t Eat The Daisies