Premium 309: Real Authentic Cities (w/ special guest David A Banks)
Added 2024-06-17 17:14:55 +0000 UTCThis week we're joined by author David A. Banks (@DA_Banks) to talk about his book The City Authentic, about how cities have used social media and reality TV to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living, among many other things!!
Please buy David's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383456/the-city-authentic
Also check out David's wife's podcast, as mentioned in the episode: https://reactionpod.podbean.com/
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David Byrne is ridiculously beautiful in this movie. He has the same kind of "drown in your kind brown cow-eyes" that Robert Carlyle had in 1994:s "Priest" (and who I am pretty sure left enough of an impression on me that I got real hung-up on a guy in high school, who had a similar look). Just so beautiful, physically and "as a presence". ...I remember seeing the VHS cover of this film - "True Stories" - in my local store, and - as is the want of a dumb teenager - being arbitrarily annoyed at the way he was sitting on the cover. Like he struck that pose, on that cover, specifically to annoy me - the protagonist of reality in bumfuck wherever, outside of the US, at age whatever the fuck, consumed as a lower-shelf VHS jewel-case. I had similar hang-ups with depictions of spiderman squatting - as is his want; he's always doing that - and the way the skin-tight suit seemed to - aggressively - communicate "this is my pooping stance. You squat like this not for relaxation, or whatevs, but for pooping. And I welcome you quote-un-quote having to imagine just that. I am squatting like this - me, a literal cartoon- to annoy you. Specifically. Whoever you are." ...the point is, an adolescent brain is idiotic. So, if you know anyone who is adolescent, maybe cut them some slack. Also, you can go back to stuff that used to irritate you immensely, and find that they are beautiful, now, all of a sudden. The duality of man. Or just a lingering, immature brain. Much the same, really.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-04-05 21:37:03 +0000 UTCthey also make a current-news (but with regional specific segments about Troy New York) podcast (Ironweeds) and a movie-podcast about 90's movies (called Hit Factory). They're both nice and pleasant to listen to while you do garden stuff.
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-06-28 00:44:50 +0000 UTChttps://reactionpod.podbean.com/ Here it is
Trillbilly Worker's Party
2024-06-22 14:43:35 +0000 UTCVery curious about Wife Guy’s podcast rec. I can’t find it Please help
Adam Holley
2024-06-21 16:19:04 +0000 UTCWere you talking about Jim Cramer or Matt Lesko at the beginning?
Jerimiah
2024-06-20 12:01:51 +0000 UTCThank you for this
Jimbo
2024-06-19 20:51:33 +0000 UTCwait is tom not in the episode cuz he got caught by the fuzz?
hatsune kiku
2024-06-19 18:54:12 +0000 UTCGreat episode! This is the why I subscribe
Mary Radford
2024-06-19 17:10:40 +0000 UTCnasty nati 😩
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2024-06-19 07:59:44 +0000 UTCRad episode! Ordered the book.
MallSoft 95
2024-06-18 21:36:58 +0000 UTCAlso it would be great if you could add the Bob-hater free eps into the Patreon stream. Minion Death Cult did the same recently and it has been so much more convenient on my podcast app.
Tim Buckman
2024-06-18 20:21:27 +0000 UTCLong live Bob, and PM of England Jimmy Page, while we're at it!
Tim Buckman
2024-06-18 20:18:51 +0000 UTCI know the "coding for miners" thing is a joke (and was it ever implemented?) but all I can think of when I hear it is the fact that the few times I've "written code", it's been to modify various computer games, and everytime I've done it, it's taken hours of stretching my brain into a migraine to produce what is essentially baby's first code. ..I don't know in what world it would be a reasonable plan to turn a bunch of miners - presumably not just those in their early 20's - to get proficient enough to produce commercially viable code. You might as well have proposed that they re-train into astronauts, and that's no shade on any miners, but if anything, the physical work that would entail would probably be more in-line with previous expertise than trying to become high-quality code-monkeys. People generally don't "become great coders" from nothing. There's already a self-selection that's happening of the kind of people who more or less gravitate towards it naturally, and on their free-time, way before any of them starts to learn it formally in a school, but because "learning to code" is this relatively new formalized thing, and in some ways associated with certain geographic locations (...and a generation of people who grew up with computers), it creates this missconception that it's something everyone can re-train into, now that it's economically lucrative to be able to do it. And these former miners would directly compete with people who have coded since they were children. It's not even so much that "if everyone becomes a coder, then it devalues the profession, making it be worth nothing", but the more fundamental question of "could any of these miners realistically ever compete with people who have been coding their whole life? Because that would be the level - the new normal - you had to be at for it to still be a well-paying job, ie, the whole reason for this endeavour." ...Yeah, you *can* re-train miners. But should you? Is it worth the enormous effort for any other reason than to say that you can (and because you have a myopic idea of what "a viable job for the future" is)? ...this is all founded on the assumption that it was an earnest attempt. It's kinda beside the point if the actual goal was to drum up interests for grants, make a few token efforts, and start planning for when you can slide out of town with what's left of the grants without being flagged as a grifter.
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-06-18 19:09:30 +0000 UTC"wow, this looks so authentic. Like straight out of a movie."
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-06-18 18:22:55 +0000 UTCBanger episode boys
Joseph Hughes
2024-06-18 15:50:26 +0000 UTCLove the David Byrne cover 🫶
Betsy
2024-06-18 15:11:01 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite fun facts used to be that Bourbon County KY was a dry county. Damn liberals changed that tho.
Jonathan Howard
2024-06-18 12:45:49 +0000 UTCDefinitely recommend this book. David was also on I think 2 episodes of True Anon as well.
SF
2024-06-18 12:09:23 +0000 UTCFuckin' Cincinnati
Lucy McGillicuddy
2024-06-18 09:19:52 +0000 UTCI uploaded a picture of the mural because words don't do it justice. https://postimg.cc/gxDWdMTH
Alex Hennessey
2024-06-18 04:53:30 +0000 UTCToronto has an area called the "Stockyards" which used to be a huge pork processing area, but now it's a box store shopping complex. However they pay homage to the "authentic" history of the area by putting a few murals of trains and shit on the side of Best Buy. The Firehouse Subs has a baffling mural inside depicting a firefighter saluting a statue of a firefighter, while a pig eats slop out of a bucket next to him.
Alex Hennessey
2024-06-18 04:47:28 +0000 UTC“Cincinnati uh….people think Cincinnati is gonna be a thing” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Jesscon
2024-06-17 19:24:36 +0000 UTCAlbany mentioned #pog
Tom Stein
2024-06-17 19:24:28 +0000 UTCEpisode request: Justified but Raylan is Bob Dylan, Boyd is Jimmy Page and Eric Cartman is Raylan's boss who gets pissy whenever Raylan shoots someone.
Vincent
2024-06-17 18:05:55 +0000 UTCOh great
HarshMalarkey
2024-06-17 17:27:26 +0000 UTCI literally have one hour and 40 minutes of bushhogging left to do, hell yeah bois
Joshua Cool
2024-06-17 17:25:01 +0000 UTCHoly shit the tardy boys are on the case
William
2024-06-17 17:20:24 +0000 UTCFirst?
BloomingmyBerg
2024-06-17 17:17:35 +0000 UTC
