Ladies, gentlemen, tortured poets.

Jesus.

I even knew it was coming and I'm still like, oh, it's here.

You are literally a tortured poet this week how does it feel

b b b b i irritating because words mean things I am not a tortured poet. Neither is Taylor Swift. She's also not a poet.

We're gonna get there. First of four, we'll save it. I'm Sam Sanders.

I'm Saeed Jones and you're listening to Vibe Check. Wow listeners have we got a show for you this week for

for starters our dear sister Zach is in Bali with his man snaps Snaps for that.

Indonesia is such a beautiful country.

Bali is a gorgeous island.

Wow.

I'm excited to see the pictures.

We'll hear a little bit from Zach on his travels in just a bit. But first to set up this episode,

two big discussion topics this week. First, I'm going to talk about anti-war protests sweeping college campuses across the nation.

We're going to laser focus on the flashpoint in all of these protests.

It's going down at Columbia University, I'm sure you've all seen by now.

A student protesters there were shut down last week by the NYPD with over 100 arrests.

It was a major. It brings up a lot of questions about the power and

purpose and place of protests and what a college campus is actually for. I'm so

ready for this chat. Then after that I'm going to talk to my favorite maybe not

tortured poet about the tortured poets department Taylor Swift's latest album

that has 31 songs. I know get ready. You're not smiling. Pointed silence on this end of the mic.

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