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Joni Mitchell, Local TV's Last Days, and Shared Culture Lost
from Skin Pocket · #92
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
3 minA tangent about Joni Mitchell mix tapes turns into a riff on how shared cultural touchstones like music have disappeared, and whether hyper-local morning TV and radio will survive.
- 16:41Tim compares himself to Joni Mitchell, calling her a failure who never worked in vice or did a sports show.
- 17:23Lack of shared cultural touchstones means there's no common bond anymore — people are going into the woods by themselves.
- 17:46Tim interrupts himself with a sketch about a detective interrogating him regarding a missing woman.
- 18:16He feels like he's on the last leg of doing local TV shows, though he'll probably still be doing them in three years.
- 18:50It would be amazing if in ten years there was still New Day Cleveland, but local morning TV might be the last thing to survive.
- 19:04Every morning radio show features two guys who are buffoons, with David Cross having written a great bit about the format.
- 19:24Story about a Spokane radio guy being called too good for his market — Tim's instinct is the guy is exactly where he belongs.
- 19:42Local radio remains the only place where small businesses like Bob's shellacking service can actually afford to advertise.
- 19:58Radio only exists in meaningful form at the local capacity level, according to Ralph Sutton.