Pump Up the Volume w. Zoe Whittall
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
As a wise teenaged pirate radio DJ once said, "Feeling screwed up at a screwed up time in a screwed up place does not necessarily make you screwed up." Join us as we talk hard about Pump Up the Volume with Zoe Whittall.
You can find Zoe on Twitter here. You can find Zoe's book The Spectacular here.
Pump Up the Volume is very hard to find in distribution, though we've been told it's available on Archive dot Org. We mention this profile of the movie in the episode.
We made a playlist to accompany this episode! It's comprised of songs that come to mind when we all think about this movie.
You Are Good is a show in which Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed attempt to understand what the hell it means to be the grown children of dads and other dad-like figures. And, as they do with all difficult subject matter, they do so by looking through a pop culture lens.
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| 0:00.0 | What did you know about pump up the volume before you thought this movie? |
| 0:25.1 | I assumed it had the song pump up the jam in it and it really didn't. |
| 0:34.4 | There was like early BC boys songs and like punk from the 80s. |
| 0:38.7 | I love. And I guess sitting there like waiting for the techno-tronic to start, you know. |
| 0:44.8 | Hurry up, it's coming towards us. It's going to happen soon. |
| 0:48.5 | I knew that it had Chris Kinsley later and I knew that like a |
| 0:51.6 | pensive young man with whom I'd gone out with like a single time in college, |
| 0:55.8 | had done college radio and cared deeply about this movie, which I think allowed me to |
| 1:00.4 | correctly triangulate it as a very sincere piece of media that allows itself to be loved by young |
| 1:06.4 | guys who are too angry to think that there is sincere as they are. That describes the whole |
| 1:12.4 | swath of folks. It's a dead poet society for angry boys. That's brilliant. I think that is |
| 1:20.2 | the height of his career, of the first phase of his career because he was in I think tails from |
| 1:25.0 | the dark side in the mid 80s. Then he was in gleaming the cube, which was a huge error to mind, |
| 1:29.9 | a skateboarding movie, which I've never known what that movie is about. I kind of enjoy that it's |
| 1:34.6 | still some mysterious to me. Oh my God, Sarah. He has to assemble a posse of his skateboard friends |
| 1:41.4 | who become vigilantes, one of whom is Tony Hawk. Of course. Tony Hawk also does all the stunts |
| 1:47.6 | as his stand-in. It's phenomenal. I love all these 90s movies about like guys who have to do |
| 1:54.2 | really cool extreme sports stuff for some kind of plot reason. Then he went on to do Heather's |
| 2:00.4 | and that was when he was like, oh, it's Christian Slater and then there was this and then my absolute |
| 2:04.9 | favorite, which was the giant in the arena of the type of movie you just described for the type of |
| 2:09.1 | person you just described, which is true romance. Yes. Oh my God. And true romance is a movie where like |
| 2:15.0 | I watch it now. Obviously, I'm noticing this thing and this thing, this thing's problematic, |
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