232. Anaïs Mitchell (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – sometimes the god speaks through you
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:03.0 | Not much to it is there? |
| 0:06.0 | Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:10.0 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:13.0 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:16.0 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:18.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.0 | So from now until March 23rd, the last day that I'll be on Think Again, I'm running this |
| 0:27.8 | series that I'm calling Jason Plays Favorites. |
| 0:31.8 | In listening back to today's episode with singer-songwriter Anaas Mitchell. I was moved all over again by what she |
| 0:41.1 | said about the myth of Orpheus, how Orpheus, who is in some ways like the original singer-songwriter, |
| 0:48.8 | the original poet, you know, goes all the way down to Hades to rescue his lover, Eurydice, gets halfway back up, |
| 0:57.5 | and then looks back, which he's not supposed to do, and she's pulled back into Hades, |
| 1:03.4 | and he fails in his quest. |
| 1:06.4 | NAS pointed out that he is a hero in spite of being a failure, that all over the world theaters |
| 1:13.7 | are named the Orpheum. He's a hero because he tried to do the impossible thing. |
| 1:19.8 | We were talking about singer-songwriters, you know, and musicians and how, you know, sometimes |
| 1:25.4 | when you have a favorite musician, you get disappointed at some |
| 1:28.0 | point in their career. They put out an album that you don't love. And she says that she likes to |
| 1:33.9 | listen to the whole arc of a musician's career and realize that, you know, sometimes the muse |
| 1:43.2 | speaks through them. sometimes she doesn't, |
| 1:46.6 | but she finds beauty and takes heart in the fact that they keep going. Again, dreaming the |
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