This starts out with the 'Empty Seats' collage which was in our streamed webcast program, 'Don't Worry' which can be found on Mixcloud in its entirety:

www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-dont-worry/

It includes clips from late night TV talk shows such as 'The Late Show' with Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers' Late Night segment, A Closer Look (NCN actually modded one of these clips by adding truck horn sound effects).

This collage also includes a rare song by Pink Floyd, that seemed too perfect for this subject to not include, called 'Empty Spaces' which is an outtake from their 1979 album, 'The Wall' but made its way into the 1982 film version of that album.

The dialogue after this was excerpted from The Dana Gould Hour podcast which is available here:

www.danagould.com/dgh/

The music in the background of this clip was added by NCN, it is the theme to The Pink Panther by Henry Mancini however this version of the theme has been digitally modified to be in major key (the original version is in minor key). The sound effect sequence at the end of this segment was also created by NCN.

The piece at the end of this track is called 'Michelle Obama's Appeal' and was put together by us, The National Cynical Network, by mashing up Michelle Obama's speech for The Democratic National Convention in 2020 with the piece 'Time' by Hans Zimmer. It originally appeared on our (currently unreleased) streamed program 'Staying Alive' and also appears on our Bandcamp album, 'Death, Taxes and Empty (Part 2)' available here:

nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/death-taxes-and-empathy-part-2