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1:56:06 —Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night.

Tonight, I’m wondering why my generation has gotten such a bad rap for so long. Is it really just our love for Avocado toast, or something much deeper? Maybe we’re all looked down on because all the 80s and 90s pop culture we’re so nostalgic for was kind of vapid and banal, or it’s simply the fact that we never claimed to not wanna sell out? Whatever it is, we’re tired of taking it, and I dedicate a large portion of this episode to my kid sister, born in ‘84, who went viral recently for turning her middle school history classroom into a “Museum of the Millennial”, making the case that we did have a unique culture that, like so many generations before us, is totally antiquated and wholly mysterious to the kids of today.

You can check out my sister’s “Museum of the Millennial” on Instagram (@hipsterhistorywithmrsn)… Also, here’s the article that Fast Company did on Malinda’s amazing lesson!

Later on…

I play some music before I tell you about the new movie I saw — Friendship, starring I Think You Should Leave‘s Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd (who has a mustache in this one, which means it’s kind of artsy — but not really; it’s just darkly funny and demented in a very non-mainstream way). Anyway, I give a sort of review with no spoilers, but mostly talk about what the movie has to say about adult men, loneliness, and also the whole “A24” thing…

And lastly… I relate the particulars of my latest existential crisis — this one happening over paying too much for a donut at the Circle K. Kind of dramatic, I know. But really… Why are we all so cool to live in a world where a day old donut costs the same as a gallon of gas? The answer, I guess, lies in the work of post-war Critical Theory and that ultimate Debbie Downer, Michel Foucault.

Music Break

“The 80s” by Sean Ferree (CC-NY-NC-ND)

“Hey Lowdown” by Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys (CC-BY-NC)

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