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Ben Folds Talks Creativity

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

For today’s episode, Sarah is joined by special guest Ben Folds, storied American singer-songwriter, musician, and podcaster. They discuss how failure is baked into doing science, how Folds’ song about the Mueller investigation is the perfect place to start for the law-curious, and the song-writing process. Show Notes: -Mister Peepers by Ben Folds -Still Fighting It by Ben Folds -A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons by Ben Folds

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger. And this

0:09.4

might be our most unique podcast, Sarah. It just might be. Now, full disclosure, I was

0:19.0

in Northern California and could not join this interview, which I'm so upset about because

0:26.0

it is with Drumroll, please Sarah, who is it with? It's with Ben Foltz, you know, of Ben Foltz

0:35.6

five and the like rock star Ben Foltz. Yeah. So this is the value we deliver to you here

0:45.2

on the Advisory Opinions Podcast. We're going to deliver to you astrophysicists who explain

0:50.0

to us the possibility of alien visitation of the solar system. We're going to deliver

0:54.6

to you Olympic curling coaches. We're going to deliver to you rock stars or rock star singular.

1:04.1

So how the conversation go and then we'll we'll roll right into it, but I didn't get to

1:09.4

listen. How was it? So first of all, Ben, what is it now? Two years ago, wrote an awesome

1:15.6

autobiography memoir type thing called a Dream of Lightning Bugs. And he has a new podcast

1:23.8

called Lightning Bugs. So a you should check out his podcast because it's very cool. It's

1:32.9

it's sort of like our August, but like his whole podcast. So he's talking to people from music,

1:40.0

science, like everything in between to talk about creativity and what that means in their area.

1:47.2

And what their area says about what is creativity. So super cool. And so we decided to import

1:52.5

a little of that conversation into a.o. And about the law and what writing means and how you start

2:01.6

thinking about, you know, your brief or presenting an oral argument to the judge. And he wrote

2:08.6

this super Nito song. It's, you know, it's my second favorite, then-fold song about Rod Rosenstein

2:17.7

and the whole Russian investigation. And so I wanted to talk to him about what that process was.

2:24.8

I mean, he doesn't know anything about Rod or DOJ or what was going on in the Russian investigation.

2:29.8

And yet he wrote this song and the lyrics were so freaking impressive and cool and neat. And I will

2:37.1

admit that we when it came out, it was commissioned by the Washington Post. And when it came out,

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