SHOW NOTES:

• Parents and kids were united in what was watched, experiences, and enjoyed in the early 50s. Gunsmoke, Soupy Sales, MASH, Bonanza, Sink the Bismark.

• Then came Dick Clark and American Bandstand.

• The 60s saw the Beatles, Sex/Drugs/Rock and Roll.

• Viet Nam and campus occupations.

• A man on the moon.

• Assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King.

• Woodstock.

• The Cuban Missile Crisis.

• The Schism has evolved into polarization.

• We don't trust each other anymore.

• We feel entitled. (You can't give an activist enough, ever.)

• What can unite? Comedy, trust, tolerance, art, forgiveness?

• Unlike climate change, which is highly existential, this is immediate and grave. This is a threat that we need to handle now.

• The alternative is chaos.