Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Kanye’s Attempts at Culture As Events | The Watch (Ep. 267)
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🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, thanks for listening to today's episode of The Watch. |
| 0:03.0 | A lot of different things on today's episode. |
| 0:04.8 | Andy and I talked about the release of the new Beyoncé and Jay Z record and a bunch of |
| 0:09.2 | the Kanye produce stuff that's come out. |
| 0:12.4 | We call them the Wyoming records over the last few weeks. |
| 0:15.8 | And the idea of culture as events. |
| 0:18.1 | So basically whether it's sports or music or movies or TV, how are people trying to inventize |
| 0:24.2 | moments in culture? |
| 0:25.2 | And we talked about that because of the World Cup, but also because of the political climate |
| 0:29.8 | of the world right now and how that kind of balances itself out. |
| 0:33.2 | We also talked about what is my favorite show on TV right now, Succession in the second |
| 0:38.3 | half of the podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | And Andy had some notes on that. |
| 0:41.1 | But if you are on the fence about this show, I would highly recommend sticking around for |
| 0:45.7 | the third and next week's fourth episode because I think it's some of the strongest stuff |
| 0:50.0 | I've seen on TV this year. |
| 0:51.7 | A lot of great stuff on the ringer this week. |
| 0:53.8 | Obviously, we responded in full to the Carter's record, great pieces from Rob Harvilla, |
| 0:59.7 | and Lindsey Zollette. |
| 1:02.0 | There's also a lot of great stuff on the World Cup, the NBA draft. |
| 1:05.0 | Everything you need is on the ringer.com. |
| 1:07.2 | Please check out the Westworld, the recapables with shoemaker, hyphids and Sean Fennesy |
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