SAVAGE TALKS MUSIC & POLITICS with SAX MASTER SAM GENDEL - #679
THE SAVAGE NATION
Michael Savage
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Savage catches up with jazz musician Sam Gendel for an update on his music career in 2024. The pair first met in 2013 when Gendel sent Savage a collection of poetry titled "The Found Poetry of Michael Savage." Gendel creatively transformed Savage's words into poetry adding musical compositions. Gendel reflects on touring in Japan, describing its appreciation for offbeat and avant-garde music. The two discuss their love of jazz including Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker, Roland Kirk, and Herb Alpert. They ponder the trend of voyeurism in the social media age as Savage highlights the popularity of his cooking videos. Savage shares his own experience as a writer and emphasizes that there are no shortcuts to success or happiness, instead encouraging the importance of hard work and perspiration. The conversation then shifts to the balance between the spiritual and the animalistic aspects of life, concluding that true happiness comes from bringing them together. Listen and find out what it's like to be a musician in the modern age and why more artists are choosing sobriety. Enjoy this wide-ranging conversation on the Michael Savage Podcast!
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| 0:00.0 | And now the world's most exciting podcast, The Savage Nation, home of borders, language, culture. |
| 0:14.0 | Here he is, Michael Savage. So, Sam is a great musician and he did a book of my |
| 0:43.0 | radio shows and then distill my monologues or sayings |
| 0:48.0 | or whatever I was talking about, |
| 0:50.0 | down to the essence of what I was trying to say in a very artistic form and he would he sent me the book and I I didn't know who he was so I threatened to sue him |
| 1:01.4 | Of course I didn't that we became kind of, you know, internet buddies or, you know, email buddies. |
| 1:07.4 | And then we met once. |
| 1:08.9 | We haven't talked for years. |
| 1:11.1 | And I found this original interview and I played it. I was so enamored of it. |
| 1:17.0 | Sam, I sent it to the New Yorker writer who actually covered me in 09 and then covered you separately from me |
| 1:26.1 | nothing to do with me because of your great music and he received it he said |
| 1:31.5 | I can't wait to listen to it you two're two of my favorite people. Have you been in touch with him since? |
| 1:36.0 | Not recently, not really, not since he did the interview maybe a couple years ago. |
| 1:42.0 | How did he come to interview you for the New Yorker? That's |
| 1:44.5 | actually a big deal. It seems like he was independently a fan of my music and particularly a record I made with a friend of mine |
| 1:56.2 | Sam Wilkes who's a bass player we have an ongoing collaboration and he he discovered that music and our respective music catalogs and is a |
| 2:08.6 | listener to the music and he just reached out out of the blue. |
| 2:12.2 | Savage. Like some kind of Pizza Ninja, Domino's are slicing their prices. |
| 2:25.0 | Domino's Price Slice. |
| 2:27.0 | Small pizzas now 8 quid, medium now 10 quid, |
| 2:30.0 | and large now 12 quid. |
| 2:32.0 | Yet we're making cuts too. |
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