Podcasts about junk culture

Have you heard about shrinkage? Everybody's talking about it.  Used to be called stealing, but that was way too honest and could be offensive to simple organisms.  They don't have shrinkage in China or Mexico or even LotaVodka, mainly because they just cut off your hands if you're caught shrinking something into your bag.  Junk Culture tells us that "shrinkage" helps people feel better about themselves, but they probably still won't want to go RV-ing.   Hear Podcast ~ Wash Hands 

Goody bags, Easter baskets, and other junk culture opportunities: Revisiting the cheap plastic toys conundrum.Here's a preview:[3:00] Everybody hates goody bags, so why are we still giving them?[8:00] The history of gifting: 4 reasons why humans are wired to give gifts[20:00] Words of encouragement for listeners reluctant to go against the grain[27:00] 5 things to consider re: hosting a no-present birthday  Resources mentioned:Episode #253: Everything Eco-Minimalist BirthdaysEpisode #8: How To Host a No-Presents BirthdayEmail me your best junk-culture free birthday hacks! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com. Join our (free!) community here.Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + YoutubeSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sustainable-minimalists/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We can't get enough junk culture. It's in our DNA as Americans, and as humans to crave the lowbrow, the camp, and the frivolous. We like our pop culture chocked full of empty calories. The only thing better are those classic bands and artists that sing about this stuff! The fabulous Nikki Kreuzer is on hand to wrap up our favorites with picks 5-1 in TOP TEN BANDS/ARTISTS THAT CELEBRATE JUNK CULTURE. There's beauty, or at least fun in garbage.If you missed Part 1, get it here:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/alltimetopten/episodes/2023-02-27T04_00_00-08_00Lest we forget! The Top Ten Bands/Artists That Celebrate Junk Culture Spotify playlist is a beauty:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4KDt8DPYY0k5EFOTPZVNRL?si=9fe99a6f644a4b30Nikki is always up to cool stuff in LA. Follow her on Twitter for music, movies, photography and more:https://twitter.com/NikkiKreuzerShe's also on Instagram, folks:https://www.instagram.com/lunabeat/We're still cooking up monthly bonus episodes exclusively for our favorite people in the world - the Patreon people. Join them for $2 a month and help the show continue its showiness.https://www.patreon.com/alltimetopten

American pop culture is the best of all worlds. From Leonard Bernstein to Sidney Poitier, some of the brightest and most sophisticated visionaries the world has ever seen have called the good old US-of-A home. America is also where the corn dog, The Love Boat and John Waters have made their mark. Call it what you will - camp, lowbrow, junk culture - this is the everyday stuff that we love unabashedly. The bands and artists featured in this week's episode also unabashedly love "stuff", and love to sing about it. Our good friend Nikki Kreuzer is not only into high art, writing and photography, she's also into JUNK CULTURE, and especially bands that sing about it. Nikki joins to help count down the best in music that celebrate the uncultured and fun.Nikki is always up to cool stuff in LA. Follow her on Twitter for music, movies, photography and more:https://twitter.com/NikkiKreuzerWe're still cooking up monthly bonus episodes exclusively for our favorite people in the world - the Patreon people. Join them for $2 a month and help the show continue its showiness.https://www.patreon.com/alltimetopten

T Lo talk about the "Sandman" casting news, celebrate the work of Cicely Tyson and Cloris Leachman, review "Call My Agent" and then bat around the question of what's happening to the culture after a year of lockdown. Are we consuming our culture like junk food?

In today's episode, Brian Scudamore discusses how his business focuses on mutual goals and passions in order to elevate all of the brands and franchises under his company umbrella. Listen in as Bruce and Laura discuss accidental moments of clarity, utilizing words as a vision board to allow the audience to picture the goal, and making sure your leaders are the kind of people others want to follow.  Serial entrepreneur Brian Scudamore pioneered the industry of professional junk removal with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, turning a chore people avoid into an exceptional customer service experience. Then he scaled that success into two more brands, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING and Shack Shine. Through franchising, he's giving thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to live their dreams of business ownership. Brian is also the author of WTF?! (Willing to Fail): How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success. You can follow Brian via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scudamore/?originalSubdomain=ca   To learn more about Dr. Laura Sicola and how mastering influence can impact your success go to https://www.speakingtoinfluence.com/quickstart and download the quick start guide for mastering the three C's of influence. You can connect with Laura in the following ways: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlaurasicola LinkedIn Business Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vocal-impact-productions/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWri2F_hhGQpMcD97DctJwA Facebook: Vocal Impact Productions Twitter: @Laura Sicola  Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/vocalimpactproductions Instagram: @VocalImpactProductions See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 1984 and 1989 Anniversaries

1. Tora! Tora! Tora! - Depeche Mode 2. Brother And Sister - Erasure 3. God Tonight (Art Of Mix) - Real Life 4. I Get Excited (Razormaid! Mix) - Pet Shop Boys 5. A Kind Of Tragedy - Celebrate The Nun 6. Your Tears (Razormaid! Mix) - Echo Romeo 7. Hurt - Re-Flex 8. 5-8-6 (Razormaid! Mix) - New Order 9. Cubik (Kings County Dub) - 808 State 10. Disappointed (808 Mix) - Electronic 11. Think (Virtual Reality Mix) - Information Society 12. Creation (Ultimatum Mix) - Stereo MC's 13. Train Of Thought (Extended Mix) - A-ha 14. Tesla Girls (Razormaid! Mix) - OMD 15. Reap The Wild Wind (Extended Version) - Ultravox Notes and other random things: Starting off this podcast is a song that may not be familiar to non-Depeche Mode fans - or about four of you. The phrase itself is notable for its connection to Pearl Harbor. The word "tora" literally means tiger in Japanese, though in a WWII context it is radio code for "totsugeki raigeki", meaning lightning attack. In a Depeche Mode, context, however, the song is also notable as it is one of only two Martin Gore-penned songs appearing on the band's debut: Speak & Spell. (the other was the instrumental track, Big Muff). As most of you probably know, Vince Clarke, who later went on to form Yaz and Erasure, was an original member of DM and its primary songwriter before leaving the group shortly after the release of their first record. Gore would take over songwriting duties after that. Tora! Tora! Tora!, while not one of the most well-known or provocative songs in the DM catalog, provides a tantalizing, albeit brief, glimpse into the mind of Martin Gore and all that was to come. As a side note, a live version of Tora! Tora! Tora! appears on the 12" version of the song "Get The Balance Right". It was the first live track to appear on any DM single. A limited edition version of GTBR contained several more live tracks, making it the first DM single to appear in a limited edition format. Speaking of Vince Clarke and Erasure, the second song in this 'cast, "Brother & Sister" is, in my humble opinion the best track on the band's Wild! album, which dropped in 1989, and perhaps one of their best tracks, period. Considered one of the stronger Erasure albums from stem to stern by many fans, Wild! is enigmatic in the sense that, for whatever reason, it didn't strike a chord with American audiences. Coming immediately on the heels of The Innocents from only a year earlier, an album which contained the massive hits "Chains Of Love" and "A Little Respect" one would think that the next album would have more appeal stateside. Yet, not even great songs like "Drama!, "Star" or "Blue Savannah", (#4, #11, #3 respectively in the UK) sniffed the American singles charts. The band wouldn't see the American charts again until the release of "Chorus" in 1991. On another side note, it was around that time that I got to meet Andy Bell. It was at a hotel bar in downtown Fort Worth, Texas after a concert. While I didn't attend the concert, I had a friend who worked at the hotel tip me off that Andy would be in the bar area sometime after the show. Three other friends and I piled into our car and headed for the hotel. When we arrived, there was a rather large throng of people waiting outside, hoping to get in to catch a glimpse of the band. We showed up well after the fact, walked right in the front entrance and took a seat at a table in the bar area. Nobody even inquired whether or not we had a room at the hotel (we didn't). About 15-20 minutes later, Andy and a couple members of his entourage took a seat at a table near us. We mumbled among ourselves, starstruck as ever. It took about another 15 minutes for us to get enough courage to walk over and ask for an autograph. As we were the only other people in the bar, he kindly obliged. We didn't linger or ask a bunch of questions. We simply said how much we loved Erasure's music and thanked him for the autograph. Then we returned to our table. He appeared exhausted from the show and I think he truly appreciated the fact we didn't press the issue. While many stateside think of Re-Flex as a one-hit wonder thanks to their international smash, "The Politics Of Dancing", the fact is the band had five other singles chart in various countries around the world, including the track "Hurt", which appears here. Reaching #82 in the US back in 1983, the song is largely forgotten or overlooked by all but die-hard fans at this point in time, but it's a fantastic pop gem by any standard and deserves to be heard. Re-Flex were formed in the early 1980s by musicians Baxter on vocals and guitar and Paul Fishman on keyboards and backing vocals, and included Francois Craig on bass, and two successive drummers, Phil Gould and Mark King, both of Level 42 fame. Following King's exit, Roland Vaughn Kerridge took over on drums and later, after Craig’s departure, Thomas Dolby introduced ex-Gloria Mundi bass player Nigel Ross-Scott to the band, thus completing Re-Flex's final and perhaps best-known line-up. Though the group stopped working together in 1987, they have never officially split up. If you are a fan, it might interest you to know that in 2010, Re-Flex band members released a 6 CD box set entitled 'Re-Fuse'. The set includes a re-mastered version of their debut album, The Politics of Dancing, and five CDs of other previously unreleased material. One of those five discs is their sophomore effort called Humanication which, somewhat ironically, was shelved by EMI before its release as it was deemed ... wait for it ... too political. And speaking of pop perfection, OMD's "Tesla Girls" would have to qualify. Though it's one of the definitive club tracks in the band's catalog, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys found it exceptionally difficult to come up with a version that they knew to be "right". At the time, the band's confidence had bottomed-out after the release of their fourth album, Dazzle Ships, and the group struggled to produce new music they felt was up to their lofty standards. Inspired by Yugoslavian-born scientist Nikola Tesla, who developed the alternating current, and armed with a title suggested to the group by musician Martha Ladly, "Tesla Girls" went through endless revisions and multiple adaptations during umpteen recording sessions for their fifth album, Junk Culture. Even after creating what would become the album version of the song, McCluskey recorded two new versions and even attempted to remix the original studio recording before admitting defeat and signing off on the version we've all come to love ... except for "Kids In America" singer Kim Wilde, who called the tune "inane and monotonous". Still, in 1984 the track reached #21 in the UK and has become a classic. By the way, the "No, No, No" vocal sample was done by Maureen Humphreys, Paul's wife at the time. Last, but never least, you may be wondering about the title 5-8-6 by New Order. The song was originally conceived out of Factory Records' head, Tony Wilson, requesting "twenty minutes of pap" from the band. From that directive was borne a 23-minute instrumental titled "Video 5-8-6". The song contained many elements that would surface in various songs on NO's debut album, Power, Corruption and Lies, including their best-selling club hit, "Blue Monday". The song would eventually be distilled down to the vocal version of the song most fans are familiar with. Bassist Peter Hook has stated that the title comes from the bar structure found in the track "Ecstasy". The track went on to chart at #86 on the British Singles Chart and #19 on the British Indie Chart. It also went on to become a classic among classics in the New Order catalog. Welp, another episode in the books. I'll be back with another soon. Thanks for listening!

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Tune in today as Dr. Debra Condren chats with the acclaimed author and journalist Peggy Orenstein who, as a new mother, was blindsided by the persistent ultra-feminine messages being sent to a new generation of little girls—from endless permutations of pink to pressures to be “a hot tot” and a “spoiled brat princess.” When Orenstein published an essay in The … Read more about this episode...

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Show #105 goes digging in the virtual crates of IODA Promonet and comes back with some serious gems ranging from hip-hop and electronic to disco, Latin jazz, and Afrobeat. Music includes selections from Matthew Dear, Mux Mool, General Elektriks, Ja Prawn, Presto, Unison, Ini Kamoze, and many others. this episode is 100% WORKSAFE.

"Carmel Valley Girls" by Junk Culture from West Coast; "It has Widespread Support" by Madlib from Medicine Show Number 6: The Brain Wreck Show; "Sappelur" by FNS from his self titled album; "Bitter's Bust" by The Bitters from East General; "Cumbiatches Brew" by Diego Bernal from Besides; "Aminals" by Baths from Cerulean; "The World He Left Behind" by Sean McCann from Chances are Staying; "Bad Vibes" by Light Pollution from Apparitions; "Corona" by Pan Sonic from Gravitoni; "Fly Away Another Day" by Pretty Lights from Passing Behind Your Pretty Eyes; "Wardance" by Mahjohngg from the Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger; "F150 Night Eros at the Highway's End" by James Ferraro from Last American Hero.

"Carmel Valley Girls" by Junk Culture from West Coast; "It has Widespread Support" by Madlib from Medicine Show Number 6: The Brain Wreck Show; "Sappelur" by FNS from his self titled album; "Bitter's Bust" by The Bitters from East General; "Cumbiatches Brew" by Diego Bernal from Besides; "Aminals" by Baths from Cerulean; "The World He Left Behind" by Sean McCann from Chances are Staying; "Bad Vibes" by Light Pollution from Apparitions; "Corona" by Pan Sonic from Gravitoni; "Fly Away Another Day" by Pretty Lights from Passing Behind Your Pretty Eyes; "Wardance" by Mahjohngg from the Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger; "F150 Night Eros at the Highway's End" by James Ferraro from Last American Hero.