Recapping the week's news using the greatest poetic form of our time.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 hours 6 minutes
episode 11: 10. “Cases grow, Cuomo, 'Imagine" vid with Gal Gadot” March 22, 2020
From the first full week of NYC quarantine. A lot of news; none of it wanted to fit in the song structure this week. But it got there.
episode 9: 9. "Social Distance, Italy, Contactless delivery" March 15, 2020
The week everything changed. Jerzy flies solo (from a few weeks in the future) to recap the events and news that we missed while the global Coronavirus pandemic took over our lives. No highlights this week, just the song and a quick recap.
episode 8: 8. “TurboTax, Trump hates court, Kelly Slater surf resort” March 8, 2020
We do this for the EIGHTH time. We keep getting better at it. There's a lot of news to cover. Sam was away on vacation but still could not escape this project. Highlights: "Vaccine," "Heavy metal suicide," Bob's Red Mill, Wuhan students review-bomb h...
episode 7: 7. “U.S. Comms firewalls, Steyer chases Waterfalls” February 23, 2020
We test out the new format. We like it. Also: confronting the songwriter's OBVIOUS Brooklyn Dodgers bias and getting even deeper into how the song works. Our Highlights this week: Syngman Rhee, Roy Campanella, WhatsApp/Signal, BBC Africa Eye's "Sex f...
episode 4: 6. “Idlib, Malcolm X, South Dakota sucks at sex” February 16, 2020
Episode 6: We figure some stuff out! Highlights: Where are we getting our news? Jerzy pitches Sam on a new format, the Renegade dance, Yemen, and THE PIANO MAN.
episode 6: 5. "Joaquin vegan milk promoter, 'lying dog-faced pony soldier'" February 9, 2020
This week, we try out our new, streamlined approach. It goes well. We didn't hate doing it this week. With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski.
episode 5: 4. "Locust Swarms, Samsung" February 2, 2020
What IS news? What happened to the "World's Worst Cat?" What if this song had been written during World War II? Why are we doing this?? We also get more efficient with our news gathering and our method of writing the final verse. With Sam Corbin and ...
episode 3: 3. "Kobe and Gianna Gone" January 26, 2020
We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of a hit song from 1989. Every week. With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski. Episode 3... was a slog. We discuss how to reduce major events into rhymes- ...
episode 2: 2. "Bong Joon-ho, LSU" January 19, 2020
We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of a hit song from 1989. With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski. Episode 2 covers January 13-19, 2020. We discuss what it was like to cover our first 7-d...
episode 1: 1. "Don Larsen, David Stern" January 12, 2020
We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of a hit song from 1989. "Week Didn't Start" with Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski First episode, covering January 1-12, 2020.