Hey there, it's Steve Levit. I'm an economist at the University of Chicago, a co-author of

the book Freakonomics, and also the host of the podcast, People I Mostly Admire, from

the Freakonomics Radio Network. I interview guests that range from Nobel laureates to

mathematicians from bestselling authors to NBA referees. People who are smart, reflective,

and sometimes a little bit weird. My guests include bestselling author John Green,

conservationist Jane Goodall, psychologist Danny Coniman, and Jennifer Daudna, the

scientist behind the gene editing technology crisper. I even interviewed my own

daughters. Listen and follow people I mostly admire wherever you get your podcast.

Pushkin Glen Hanzerd is best known as the lead in the 2007 movie once. It's about a hard

scrabble busker in Dublin. It's a role he was probably destined to play,

himself having dropped out of school at 13 to busk around Ireland's capital.

Prior to that movie role, Hanzerd had put out a string of great albums with a band called

The Frames. But after the film, he started working on other projects and also a solo career.

His fourth solo album, The Wild Willing, came out on anti-records last year. He and his band,

including Keyboardist Rami, met up with Bruce Hadlam and Nashville to chat about the unique

approach he and the band took to creating the record, improvising nearly every song.

And unlike most folk records, it has a lot of electronics on it. Hanzerd talks and plays through

some of the songs off the album and then opens things up with a song that contains a very

unintuitive sample. This is Broken Record. Linernotes for the Digital Age. I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's Blood Hanzerd playing All Be You Be Me. See if you can guess the sample.

It's very hard to sum up your career because you've done so many different things.

And when I was reviewing them, I realized something and I don't know if this has occurred to you.

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