TV Shows Watched: Solar Opposites: S5E4 (Hulu) with audio description, The Great North: S4E18 (Hulu) no audio description, The Ark: S2E7 (Peacock) with audio description, English Teacher: S1E3 (Hulu) with audio description, Only Murders In the building: S4E3 (Hulu) with audio description, The Daily Show: Monday’s Episode (Paramount Plus) no audio description, and the Presidential Debate (ABC) I honestly didn’t think to check if there was audio description.

Podcasts: Pod Save America (Politics), Consider This (an Interview with the retiring head chef at the White House)

YouTube: None

Movies Watched: Childs Play 3 (Netflix) with audio description

Since I’m writing this on Sept 11th, I want to just reflect on this day. As I grow older, i understand the Never Forget, because I now work with kids who weren’t even born yet. For the longest time, the stories were always “where were you?”, but now these kids read about it only in history books, and learn about it from movies. For me, while not the literal same thing, I grew up as a kid born in the early 80’s. So, I wasn’t terribly far removed from the end of the Vietnam War, but I was removed enough from it because it’s not like at birth I immediately knew what it was. It certainly never felt like my culture, but I grew up with shows that mentioned it, and movies centered around it. I now see my proximity to it much the same way I look at these kids today, who were born seemingly a decade later, but also is a decade really that much time in the large scheme? They still had content being created for them, that still reflected this post-9/11 reality, and they grow up in a world where the rules are different as a result.

This section is always supposed to be something about audio description, but as someone who has a “where was I” story, and remembers 9/11 very well, and the days after, I always reflect on this day in some manner. I remember I was working in a movie theatre in my small town in Missouri at the time, and it was my shift. It was mid-week in September, so the attendance would have been low anyway, and it was just myself and my manager, and we had the radio on.No one came in. Six screens, and i never needed to run upstairs to start a projector. Who could go sit in a film that day?

Never Forget, because now we have those who cannot remember.