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FYI: Jack the pup is still IPotW on your website. Having been a musician for forty years, I tend to notice things having to do with music in my daily life where some saner folk might not. This week (yesterday), buying groceries in Raley's, the piped in music was different. Usually their music has been mostly 80s radio pop, innocuous, backgroundy tunes I had mostly managed to forget about with the occasional REM or Tom Petty song to quietly sing along with. Yesterday it was "country"- no, not southern radio country, not rock and roll with twangy sounding vocals and a clean-ish Telecaster solo in the middle... No, this stuff was vile. Synth strings behind an obviously sampled banjo behind the dumbest lyrics ever in a drawl that nobody from the south (my whole family came from Oklahoma) would be caught dead using. Prominent pedal steel. The whole time we were in there. Briana said that if it was still like that next week, she would complain. I mean, I probably wouldn't say anything, but if nobody does, they'll keep on with it, right?
Just one more thing being slid past us in the demolition of our world.
Not ever having owned a TV, I had mostly missed right wing media. I mean I've always known it was there, but nobody I know watched or listened to it, so the amount of it that I was personally subjected to was limited to what I checked out to find out what it was all about. Now it seems to have grown into a problem we either solve or lose our country. Maybe we've already lost our country, so instead it's more like we either get some kind of handle on it or the new setup we get to live in will be full-on fascist. Not really ready to roll over for that just yet.
Thank you again for the podcast. I maybe understand the feeling that the ability to corral morons didn't used to be a necessary skill for a public servant, but now it's right up there in the "Do they have my vote" folder with basic human decency and the acceptance of objective reality.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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