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Podcast: Emerson Dameron's Medicated Minutes
Episode: Love, Fear, and Decency
Description: With assists from the music of Nada UV and flotsam and esoterica on loan from the Prelinger Archive, we stitch together a flirtatious invocation with stark archival recordings that swing from teen dating rules to moral panic to vanishing Los Angeles landmarks. The result is a fast, strange ride that asks what humor can protect when culture gets anxious and progress starts to bulldoze memory. • How can you be yourself without suffering for it? • How do you pick a date, and what “counts” as a real one?• What are the ever-evolving edicts of etiquette rules around...