What did you know about pump up the volume before you thought this movie?

I assumed it had the song pump up the jam in it and it really didn't.

There was like early BC boys songs and like punk from the 80s.

I love. And I guess sitting there like waiting for the techno-tronic to start, you know.

Hurry up, it's coming towards us. It's going to happen soon.

I knew that it had Chris Kinsley later and I knew that like a

pensive young man with whom I'd gone out with like a single time in college,

had done college radio and cared deeply about this movie, which I think allowed me to

correctly triangulate it as a very sincere piece of media that allows itself to be loved by young

guys who are too angry to think that there is sincere as they are. That describes the whole

swath of folks. It's a dead poet society for angry boys. That's brilliant. I think that is

the height of his career, of the first phase of his career because he was in I think tails from

the dark side in the mid 80s. Then he was in gleaming the cube, which was a huge error to mind,

a skateboarding movie, which I've never known what that movie is about. I kind of enjoy that it's

still some mysterious to me. Oh my God, Sarah. He has to assemble a posse of his skateboard friends

who become vigilantes, one of whom is Tony Hawk. Of course. Tony Hawk also does all the stunts

as his stand-in. It's phenomenal. I love all these 90s movies about like guys who have to do

really cool extreme sports stuff for some kind of plot reason. Then he went on to do Heather's

and that was when he was like, oh, it's Christian Slater and then there was this and then my absolute

favorite, which was the giant in the arena of the type of movie you just described for the type of

person you just described, which is true romance. Yes. Oh my God. And true romance is a movie where like

I watch it now. Obviously, I'm noticing this thing and this thing, this thing's problematic,

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