How Fantastic Negrito Started From Scratch

The Gist

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🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, the Democrats making Republican soundbites. In the interview, Fantastic Negrito walked a long and winding road to blues stardom. His first album (under his legal name, Xavier) was a bust—"everyone hated it"—and saw him dropped from his label. He'd also gotten into a serious car accident and sold off his instruments before returning to music. That's when the Grammys started rolling in—he's won two in the last three years, for best contemporary blues album. His latest record is Please Don't Be Dead. In the Spiel, Joe Biden at the debate. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show may contain my tips for making money on bitcoin.
0:02.9	It won't.
0:03.7	It also may contain explicit language.
0:05.6	And it really might.
0:06.5	["Bad Music"]
0:10.8	It's Thursday, August 1st, 2019, from Slate.
0:13.5	It's the justime, Mike Pasca.
0:15.5	There was a debate in Detroit last night.
0:17.9	Perhaps you heard about it.
0:19.4	If not, text joe www.30430 on ESPN, AOL, keyword,
0:24.5	and Acronistic.
0:25.7	OK, that was an hilarious mistake.
0:28.7	But many of Joe Biden's other bloopers, blorps,
0:32.0	and blunders were not so hilarious.
0:34.1	Cumulatively, they were telling if individually,
0:37.9	they were relatively inconsequential.
0:40.2	In fact, I do think Joe Biden was criticized rather
0:44.0	incompetently by his rivals at times,
0:46.8	but he snapped back even worse.
0:49.8	In fact, he snapped back as languidly as the flesh
0:53.3	on your grandfather's elbow.
0:55.8	But what I am going to do in the spiel
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