27: The Most Perfect Album

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Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

More Perfect is back with something totally new and exciting. They just dropped an ALBUM. 27: The Most Perfect Album is like a Constitutional mix-tape, a Schoolhouse Rock for the 21st century. The album features original tracks by artists like Dolly Parton, Kash Doll, and Devendra Banhart: 27+ songs inspired by the 27 Amendments. Alongside the album they'll be releasing short stories deep-diving into each amendment's history and resonance. In this episode, we preview a few songs and dive into the poetic dream behind the First Amendment. The whole album, plus the first episode of More Perfect Season 3 is out now. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:19.5	Chad Robert. Radio Lab.
0:21.8	Are these all 24 amendments?
0:24.8	You have songs?
0:25.5	Oh, my friend.
0:27.0	Did you say 24 amendments?
0:28.7	Oh, they're 26.
0:29.5	I don't know how many there are.
0:30.4	They're 27.
0:31.4	The 27.
0:32.3	You, of all people, I thought we'd know that.
0:35.6	I know they add one every so often.
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