Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Jack of In Show. Jen is out this episode, but we are joined

by David Griskem. And tonight we're going to be talking about socialism and music. We're

really, really glad to have David on the show tonight. He is a musician himself. And he's

the host of left reckoning and a dear friend of the Jack of In Show. Hi, David. Hey, it's

really fun to be here. I always like hanging on the Jack of In Streams. Where's your banjo?

Where's your guitar? Are you ready? I could bring him out. Despite, you know, the impulse

to we're not just going to promote our own bands or music. We're going to dig into some subjects

around the history of socialism and music, the current state of unionism and music. But before

we get to that, I wanted to ask you, did you watch the Grammys last week, a little over

last week? No, I could not get myself to do it other than, you know, Cardi B's performance

obviously was a much, a must-watch, but no, I didn't catch it live. What I like about

the Grammys is that they always have this, they always prompt the same kind of conversations

around representation and women's sexual expression. And it's an endless loop. Yeah, exactly.

That's the groundhog day of the Grammys. Yeah, that's true. It's not just the Grammys.

They're nested in a bigger set of everyone talking about those issues. So what did you

think of Cardi B's performance? I mean, I thought it's killer. I'm so I'm a huge Cardi

B stan. That's, you know, not too normy of me, but like, I think she's incredible. And

obviously I'm a big fan of the stallion as well. Yeah. Well, Cardi is a Bernie bro. So that

helps. Yeah, I think it's interesting how people are grappling with that platform as a way

to kind of protest it. The weekend didn't submit anything for review because he didn't

feel that people were being fairly represented. But there's so much more going on in the

music industry and the conditions of it, which we'll dig into later, you did say you watched

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