1999: The Podcast – 99@25 #007 – April 1-20 1999, the Columbine Episode
We’re taking a slightly different approach to this one, covering 20 days of April 1999 instead of 15, and, frankly, we’re focusing mostly on the 20th, because that’s when the Columbine massacre occurred.
Columbine was not the first school shooting, but it was – at the time – the most unthinkable one in terms of scope and scale. 25 years later, it has become significantly less unthinkable, as so many instances of gun-based mass murders in schools have occurred in the meantime that it’s difficult to name them all.
But Columbine is also a hotbed of misconceptions and misinformation, and since Jenn works in true crime and John works in a high school they couldn’t not talk about it.
But they do sandwich their thoughts on this horrific tragedy with SOME fun, including John’s rant on Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine and a brief chat about Tal Bachman’s “She’s So High”.
Here is the essay John references in the episode:
Retrospective: 20 Years Later, “Bowling for Columbine” is a Disgrace to Documentary Filmmaking
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