Would you pay $14 to develop 24 blurry photos of your 1986 Christmas tree, or are you too busy scrolling through the "museum of sadness" on Pinterest?

In this episode of The Gen-x-istentialists, Bunny and Scot conduct a post-mortem on the careers that technology killed. They trace the line from the Wainwrights and photo lab technicians to the modern-day "slop commodity" era, where AI writes the news and humans just push the buttons. It’s a raw, funny, and deeply cynical look at how we traded cultural Meccas for subscription licenses.

Inside the conversation:

• The Fotomat Piss-Test: Why sitting in a tiny cube in a parking lot was the ultimate test of endurance, and why we miss the mundanity of "trapped light" artifacts.
• Record Alley v ...