Ep. 25: Jokes that Kill
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
Nebulous Media
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The First Avenue club in Minneapolis helped break Prince, one of the most controversial artists of the 1980s despite backlash that decade from social conservatives who worried that his music was dangerous for the youth. Today that same club has caved to pressure from moral scolds on the left who claim Dave Chappelle's comedy endangers the trans community. In this episode Eli and guest, Jeff Blehar examine First Avenue's decision to cave to the censors.
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00:02 Introduction
00:17 Monologue
13:00 Interview with Jeff Blehar
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eli Lake, and you're listening to the re-education. |
| 0:03.7 | Our topic today is jokes that kill, and why some activists prefer to take this metaphor, literally. |
| 0:10.4 | My guest is Jeff Blair, host of the Political Be here today to do this thing called life. |
| 0:32.6 | Electric word, life that means forever, and that's a mighty long time. |
| 0:38.3 | But I'm here to tell you, there's something else, the afterworld. |
| 0:43.3 | A world of never ending happiness, you can always see the sun, day or night. |
| 0:51.3 | So when you call up that string in Beverly Hills, you know the one doctor |
| 0:56.0 | is going to be all right |
| 0:58.0 | I'm still asking how much of your mind |
| 1:02.0 | and that's baby asking how much of your mind |
| 1:04.0 | because if this life times |
| 1:06.0 | in my child in the after world |
| 1:08.0 | in this life |
| 1:10.0 | young in the happy world in this life, yon, yon. |
| 1:15.6 | If the other man, try and bring you down. |
| 1:18.6 | Go crazy. |
| 1:20.6 | One more. That is the opening of a legendary Prince concert from August 3, 1983, at First Avenue in Minneapolis. |
| 1:39.8 | For Prince fans like myself, the bootleg, which is now online, is a grail. |
| 1:45.0 | It was the first concert which featured the public debut of the Music of Purple Rain. |
| 1:50.9 | This club was a treasure in the 1980s. |
| 1:54.8 | It was a place where all the barriers between race and sex and culture broke down. |
| 2:00.5 | First Avenue was a hot house of creativity back then |
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