8. The Precarity is the World. [Beth Martin.] from This Is Your Mixtape

This Is Your Mixtape

Michael Collins

8. The Precarity is the World. [Beth Martin.]

1 hour 8 minutes Posted Mar 14, 2018 at 8:20 am.

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Beth Martin grew up in rural Ontario, in a

farming community near Lake Huron—the kind of place you'd recognize from the

fiction of Alice Munro. Music was a tool Beth used to establish a cohesive

identity, and later to probe her relationship with the outside world. She

recently completed a PhD in English Literature, and is one of the co-founders

of the Megaphonic podcast network, where she co-hosts

It’s Just a Show, a deep-dive into 90’s cult

classic show Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Beth and Michael discuss escapism,

futurism, modernity's terrifying velocity, and raising a child in a world that

sometimes feels doomed.

We'll be celebrating at The Bastille, 16 Walmer Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,

on Saturday, March 24th, 7-11pm. Join us! Free drinks and snacks! Me, Beth,

and all the other Megaphonic crew will be there to meet and greet.

Beth’s Five Songs.

It’s Just a Show. Beth's Mystery Science

Theatre 3000 podcast.

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. An episode of 99% Invisible about the failed housing

project Beth discusses in the context of Philip Glass's Vessels.

A Spotify playlist of every song from every episode of This Is Your Mixtape

[if it is on Spotify].