As you may have noticed recently on the show, we've started to focus more on cultural commentary,

a little less on politics. And the reason for that is partly, if I'm being totally transparent,

I find the entire political podcasting space to be increasingly boring and redundant.

Everyone's saying the same things. Everyone is talking about the same stories.

Conservative podcasters all repeat

essentially the same basic talking points unless they're fighting with each other, which is even

more boring and at this point even more redundant. So I find it all incredibly uninspiring and

uninteresting, which is enough reason to try to find different things to talk about. Also,

culture matters. And that's why cultural

commentary has really always been my primary focus. All I'm doing now is kind of doubling down on it.

Culture is the shared traditions and heritage and values and artistic output of a given group of people.

It should need to be explained why that matters. And if that doesn't matter,

then it's hard to see how anything could possibly matter. The problem in our culture is it's not

so much that it's turning bad or being corrupted, although there is certainly plenty of that

happening. It's more that the culture is disappearing. It's being erased.

American culture is vanishing. So on that note, today I want to take a look at something that used

to be a hugely influential, unique, and distinctly American element of our culture,

which in recent years has all but evaporated.

And that would be rock music. Now, I have some personal ties to this issue long before I became a

podcaster with my very own fancy fish cam. In the early 2000s, I was a small market rock DJ.

It's not something I talk about very often, although every now

and then various media outlets like to bring it up. But today I'm going to make an exception,

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