Episode 102: Fed As Folk

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Politics, News

4.5 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

We're joined by historian and author Aaron Leonard to discuss his book The Folk Singers and the Bureau, which details the rise of the Communist-adjacent folk scene in America alongside the CPUSA, and the intense (and underreported) repression that followed. Link to buy the book: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/651913/the-folk-singers-and-the-bureau-by-aaron-leonard/ Companion playlist by Aaron: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHCUjL6Jr73FNc_ak3MyOV_V-6Khic2u4 Songs: "Root Hog and Die" -- Woody Guthrie "You've Got to Go Down and Join the Union" -- Pete Seeger "Song of Choice" -- Peggy Seeger

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0:00.0	Let me ask you something. How do you perceive me Liz?
0:05.6	How much time do you have?
0:07.8	Well, I mean, technically all the time in the world. This is my job.
0:12.2	What do you mean? How do I perceive you?
0:14.6	Like when I talk, what do you think?
0:18.6	I mean, I feel like this is a loaded question.
0:22.0	Well, I didn't think it was a loaded question, but now that that sort of changes the
0:27.2	tenor of things.
0:28.8	I just mean, I don't, what are you getting at?
0:31.4	Do you mean what, that's too open-ended when I talk, what do you think?
0:35.2	I don't know. Do you think I'm, well, this is, oh god, I didn't do that.
0:39.6	Just ask me. Do you think I'm stupid?
0:43.8	No.
0:45.2	Okay, well, I've got really bad news for you.
0:50.0	I have 80 IQ.
0:53.2	Is that good or not? I never know.
0:54.8	I don't know what to mean.
0:56.2	I can't.
0:56.6	80 is a super high number, right?
1:00.8	Like if someone told you that 80 is something you would say that's a lot.
1:03.4	What is the scale? It's like incomprehensible.
1:05.1	It's like Fahrenheit to Celsius.
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