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10:26 New York Cabbie by Skip Blumberg Robert Demella, a NYC cab driver, rants about various subjects On how to avoid getting scammed: You don't pick up drunks, teenagers or seedy types On TV: Only good for newsI'd like to take a sledgehammer and smash the TVThe TV set is the downfall of Western CivilizationPeople don't read anymore, people don't talk anymore, people don't think anymoreOur generation that grew up on TV is the STUPIDEST generation to come down the pike 17:00 More from New York Cabbie Demella continues: I hate sound bytes I hate 30 second political commercials It makes me want to take a sledgehammer to the people hoisting it on usI can smell a fraud from a mile away That's my businessWhen I get a passenger and they're just too friendly, I go, 'You got any money?' 26:48 Les Brown by Kathie Robertson Brown, a motivational speaker, comments on TV 's violent nature and its ability to desensitize people He criticizes the media for emphasizing the negative and not being committed to positive change 28:01 Free Speech by Skip Blumberg On the streets of New York City, a spokesman attracts a crowd with his advice to blacks and Latinos to avoid assimilation and support only black and Latino businesses A white policeman tries to disperse the crowd but is denounced: The man has a right to voice his opinions, and we have a right to listen! 41:01 Dee Davis commentary Maybe we could make television a little better if we thought of it not as a way to sell things, but as a way to change people's lives, a way to give them new enthusiasm, a way to energize them, to cure the sick and make the lame walk 41:24 Deep Dish TV by Dee Dee Halleck Halleck fixes a pie while discussing the importance of public access television in the exercising of First Amendment rights It's participating actively in communications 43 :19 Todd Alcott by Skip Blumberg 90's regular, Todd Alcott rants: [Speaking as a TV] Look at me Don't look over there There is nothing to look at over there Look at meDon't get the wrong idea, I'm not trying to run your life You need to go to the bathroom Go to the bathroom Come back Look at meSo we have a deal You will do what you absolutely have to do, then you will come back and look at me Don't worry about your schedule, I am here for you 110% of the timePeople tell you I am badYou tell them I've been here for your entire lifePeople say I'm bad You know what that sounds like to me? -- sour grapes I've got some stuff coming up for youCrime, thrills, sex, death, comedy - all here in the next 8 minutes 53:23 Excerpt from Radio Faces by Tom Weinberg Excerpt from the TV show that examines the professional and private lives of Chicago radio personalities In this excerpt we meet Tom Joyner, a DJ at WCGI He is interviewed in a limo as he makes his way to O 'Hare Airport He discusses his influences I don't really consider what I do work I play music and have fun twice a day I'm not an air traffic controller That's a jobI see us, Black radio, killing ourselveswithout personality we're just another station on the dial 57:36 Don Cherry by Starr Sutherland A musician at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco plays a 3 in 1 instrument: a kazoo, a Jew's harp and a clicker