109: Admitting You Have Bad Taste
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one -- and you do: You've got bad taste. Inspired by That One Review which accuses SASF of being overly arrogant in subjective areas, Brian asks Nate how many bad takes are just because a person has bad taste. (We won't spoil the answer for you.) The guys discuss how to fix bad taste, and this begins with NOT treating your own preferences as the standard. To treat yourself as the judge, W.H. Auden argues, is to have the artistic judgment of a child. The solution to bad taste begins with zealously copying the biggest Creator in everything he does. And until you make that commitment, your own artistic judgments are always going to feel lackluster and uninspired. Furthermore, then you can actually KNOW what God thinks of a piece of art. Unfortunately, its these sorts of objective claims about subjective art that make people mad at SASF. So, in retaliation, please send a review that will make Nate cry (with cheerfulness, or anger). Also the next LAMPC pick is "Jesus Revolution."
#SASF #StoriesAreSoulFood #objectivity #art #subjectivity #taste #judgment #art
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food Podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press. |
| 0:07.9 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:11.8 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:14.9 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:17.4 | And here we are another melodious episode of SASF incoming. |
| 0:22.7 | We back. |
| 0:24.2 | Episode 109. |
| 0:26.3 | There we go. |
| 0:27.8 | 1009th episode of SASF, in which we, of course, will be completely groundbreaking, |
| 0:36.7 | established entirely new conversations well |
| 0:39.7 | this is actually episode where I'm gonna try and get us and finally grow up as a podcast |
| 0:43.7 | to be really rude oh great so let's see what we can okay we're gonna be rude this is a |
| 0:48.6 | this is well this is the part of SAS that people don't like they say that you shouldn't |
| 0:52.4 | have such strong opinions. Who is they? |
| 0:56.2 | Dude, every time anyone says they, it's not a real person. |
| 0:59.1 | Who are these jokers? |
| 1:01.2 | This is the one star reviews on our podcast because no one could dislike it. |
| 1:07.2 | You know, it's funny is, uh, I don't know, I developed or just was born with a complete |
| 1:13.2 | immunity to reviews. So yeah, it's helpful. Yeah. I am not, but I, I, so you could, you can cut |
| 1:20.8 | me. You can cut me with your reviews. I, the first, my first ever book to are, I remember |
| 1:26.7 | doing a book festival somewhere, some state or other. |
| 1:31.4 | I know I was in the United States. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Canon Press, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Canon Press and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.