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You're Wrong About

Napster with Niko Stratis

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week, a tale of two Shawns/Seans, their impossible dream, and the file sharing service that lived fast, died young, and helped create the internet as we know it. Plus, Metallica.

Here's where to find Niko:

Website
Newsletter
Twitter

Resources cited in the show introduction:

The Racial Roots Behind the Term "Nappy" on NPR's Code Switch
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/08/09/412886884/the-racial-roots-behind-the-term-nappy

The Complex History and Politicization of Black Hair in America, presented by Danielle Harvey
https://kisaradio.org/podcast-feature-the-complex-history-and-politicization-of-black-hair-in-america-presented-by-danielle-harvey/

Coiled by Leanne Aile
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coiled/id1585408648

"The Other N-Word" by Shalwah Evans
https://www.essence.com/feature/is-nappy-negative-or-black-hair-empowerment/

"How Natural Black Hair at Work Became a Civil Rights Issue" by Chanté Griffin
https://daily.jstor.org/how-natural-black-hair-at-work-became-a-civil-rights-issue/

"The Natural Hair Movement" by Kamina Wilkerson
https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/continuum:0001.008

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Where else to find us:

Sarah's other show, You Are Good

[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase

Links:

https://www.nikostratis.com
https://nikostratis.substack.com
https://twitter.com/nikostratis
http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout
https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-about
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yourewrongaboutpod
https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good
http://maintenancephase.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Carson Daley knows what side his bread is buttered on.

0:07.0

Welcome to your roundabout.

0:17.3

I'm Sarah Marshall and today we are talking about the dramatic rise and even dramaticer fall

0:24.7

of Napster.

0:26.1

We are learning about this today from Nico Stratis who per her website is a writer, podcaster,

0:32.5

speaker, and former smoker.

0:35.6

We've learned about email on the early internet with Ann Helen Peterson.

0:39.1

We have learned about Karen Carpenter and the music industry with Carolyn Kendrick.

0:45.3

And now we're going to go right to the intersection of the two and figure out what happens when

0:52.2

a new unstoppable force meets a much older and movable object.

1:00.0

Some of you may have heard that we are having a Valentine's Day live stream show.

1:05.0

I will be visible to your eyeballs as well as your earballs.

1:10.7

And you can get tickets if you want to see it at moment.co slash year wrong about.

1:15.8

It's going to be on Valentine's Day Eve at 5 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. mountain.

1:20.8

Everyone always forgets the same mountain time, 7 p.m. central, 8 p.m. Eastern, and of course

1:25.5

9.30 in Newfoundland.

1:27.8

And if you're in another time zone that puts that in the middle of the night, you can

1:31.6

also watch it for the next seven days after it airs.

1:35.8

And also you can watch it for the week after it airs anywhere.

1:38.9

You don't have to be in Belgium, but of course it helps.

1:42.8

If you want some bonus episodes, you can find us on Patreon or Apple Plus.

1:46.9

And we just had an episode with the wonderful guest Eve Lindley talking about the moment

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