#509 - Kung Fu Bicycles

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and for a fee, they'll turn it into a song. Maybe the song will even be your entryway into the industry and the Billboard charts! But most assuredly it will not be. Was this industry exploitative? Did it produce art? What even is "art" anyway? We tackle all these questions and more as we discuss the documentary OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG-POEM STORY (2003). Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/posts/100937391

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0:00.0	Can our government be competent?
0:09.0	Jimmy Carter says yes.
0:13.0	Jimmy Carter says yes.
0:16.0	Can our government be honest.
0:23.7	Jimmy Carter says yes.
0:26.2	Jimmy Carter says yes.
0:28.0	Well, welcome to Michael and us.
0:28.8	I'm Will Sloan.
0:29.8	Here, as always with.
0:31.5	Luke Savage, good to be back.
0:34.4	Well, I don't know why I said good to be back.
0:35.3	I haven't been anywhere.
0:36.6	God damn it.
0:38.8	Well, we've been away for for a week.
0:45.9	I don't know. Like five, five days. I mean, you know. Welcome back to the show, everyone.
0:52.2	What you were hearing there was my kind of mild discomfort at the way we introduced the show, which has always felt a little bit generic to me. Isn't it funny that
0:55.5	over the last, I'd say, month especially, we've had such a hard time just like getting into the show.
1:01.8	And we've recently passed 500 episodes. I think if you listen to episodes, I don't know,
1:06.8	300 through 450 were probably like perfect at introducing the show. We have it down to a science,
1:14.4	but at some point over the last few weeks, I don't know, something's gotten into the water.
1:19.6	We can't quite get it together. Well, we aren't recording this one in person and we haven't
1:24.9	been recording in person. I feel like I haven't seen Will for several months.
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