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Still Processing

Still Processing

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.89.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Wesley worries the “skip intro” button is killing the TV theme song. He takes his concern to his friend Hanif Abdurraqib, a poet, music critic and MacArthur “genius grant” winner. Together, they explore their childhood memories of “Good Times,” “The Wonder Years” and “The Jeffersons.” Then, producer Hans Buetow unearths a rendition of a theme song that blows their minds — and they vow never to hit “skip intro” on it.

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0:00.0

I am or I was an orange is the new black watcher and it's got this great opening credit sequence with this song by Regina Spector

0:10.6

And it plays over this montage of faces

0:13.9

You know some of these people have piercings and they've got beauty marks and freckles and wrinkles and

0:20.6

Eyeliner

0:21.8

beautiful gap teeth

0:23.8

There's just wave of humanity is just washing over you and it's kind of moving and exhilarating

0:30.5

I am emotional before the show even starts most episodes

0:34.7

And during one of these seasons

0:37.0

I'm watching this show and I notice in the bottom right hand corner of the screen

0:43.6

There's a little button that says skip intro and I'm like oh well that's interesting

0:50.2

I now have the option to skip past this opening credit sequence that I love and this song which I have come to

0:57.7

Accept as like basically an elemental part of myself. I have the option to just move right past that and get to the show

1:05.6

Are they saying Regina Spector is wrong and then I don't have time?

1:09.6

Oh, no. Oh, no. What are we doing here?

1:13.7

but I will admit that I

1:17.3

clicked it and

1:19.3

I instantly felt small

1:21.9

in my own lack of patience and dignity

1:27.4

So I feel terrible about myself. I don't like it

1:31.1

I don't like skip intro and I don't like me when I press it. I shouldn't have the option

1:35.6

So on today's show

1:38.5

We're gonna talk about TV theme songs why you shouldn't skip over them

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