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An Early Reality TV Star Turned Punk Rocker

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Jim adds a song to the Desert Island Jukebox from a star of one of the first reality shows, "An American Family," who turned punk rocker and became part of the CBGB's scene. His story is told in Emily Nussbaum's book "Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV."

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I tell you little buddy this whole island is bewitched.

0:04.0

Just the cost away, the island lost a sea.

0:09.0

Now I'm stranded all my own. You remember we were ship back together?

0:25.0

I'm the bumper I'm on the phone.

0:30.0

Welcome to this bonus episode of Sound Opinions.

0:32.0

I'm Greg Cott. My co-host is Jim De Regottis.

0:35.6

And if you want to be the first to hear our bonus podcasts,

0:39.0

Become a Sound Opinions member on Patreon, like Emmett Ramirez from Fallbrook, California.

0:45.0

Thanks for your support, Emmett.

0:46.5

We appreciate all our listeners.

0:48.6

The ones from California, the ones from New York,

0:51.5

the ones from Chicago, wherever you are.

0:53.0

East Coast to West... Where is Fullbrook?

0:56.0

Good question. I don't know.

0:58.0

I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to look it up on the map.

0:59.0

Emmett, my friend, write us back.

1:01.0

Is it like wine country?

1:02.0

Is it out south, where? I've never heard of

1:04.6

Fulbrook. All right, Jim, so we got plenty of music that we want to get to. The

1:09.6

bonus podcasts are tailor-made for that. Give us a hint of what you're going to add to the

1:14.3

Desert Island jukebox today. Craig I'm going to play a track from one of the

1:19.7

original CBGB bands that have sort of been written out of history, although its leader is hugely

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