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The Gist

A Matter of Chorus

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Not every great pop song has a standard format or even a chorus. Today on The Gist, Chris Molanphy joins us to look at the changing placement of the chorus in popular music. He writes Slate's Why Is That Song No. 1 column. For the Spiel, Mike eats at the pop-up restaurant WastED. At the very end of this show, we debut a new They Might Be Giants song, as part of their Dial-a-Song reboot, as we will be doing every Monday this year. You can find videos for the songs on the band's website. This one is called "Unpronounceable." Today's sponsor: Stamps.com. Sign up for a no-risk trial and get a $110 bonus offer, when you visit Stamps.com and enter promo code TheGist. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at http://www.slate.com/gistplus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:15.0

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0:21.0

On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back.

0:25.0

Oh, that's nice.

0:26.0

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0:30.0

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When you visit Stamps.com and use the promo code, the Just.

0:47.0

It's Monday, March 16th, 2015. From Slate, it's the Just I, Mike Pasca.

0:54.0

So one of these weekends, so much news. This dursed guy. I've been doing ads for him. Do I need to disclose that?

1:00.0

The Jinks just had everyone's jaw drop and comparing it to cereal.

1:04.0

Although in the Jinks, I'm gonna say spoiler alert, but like it's real life.

1:09.0

So spoiler alert, if you don't read the news and stuff, but okay.

1:13.0

In the Jinks, it seems like they got this guy dead to rights and in cereal, adnon, still flailing in the wind, might get an appeal.

1:21.0

What's the difference? Lots of people are writing about that. I'm gonna give you my one sentence. You ready?

1:26.0

It is easier to show that a clearly guilty man is guilty than it is to show that a probably guilty man is innocent.

1:35.0

That's my take. You do it. What you want. But I'm really here to say is that I want to be Vlad Putin.

1:40.0

Vlad Putin, he shows up. He's been away from public view for like 10 days.

1:45.0

The worst they could say about him is he looks a little puffy.

1:48.0

And all the rumors just help bolster this guy. They say he was away attending the birth of his love child.

1:55.0

In other countries, infidelity will topple the government. Here, this supposed bastardism cements his virility.

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