the big updates episode

High Brow

Society & Culture

4.8 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Mina discusses some major updates for Patreon, Youtube, and the High Brow pod. Also: Hozier, Renaissance Faire turkey legs, the fashion influencer economy, the Real Housewives of New York City, whatever happened to Jeffrey Campbell, and “the commodification of taste.”

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Rachel's article:
Whatever happened to having taste?
Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture by Rachel Rubin
An ad for the 1963 Ren Faire
Who Jane Read, Who Read Jane: Austen's Readers and Favorite Books

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, darling, I would do it again I would do it again.
0:20.0	Okay, hey. I would do it again. Huh.
0:22.4	Okay.
0:23.0	Hey.
0:26.3	My name is Mina.
0:27.1	Welcome.
0:28.4	Welcome back.
0:29.5	This is Highbrow.
0:33.3	I've been obsessed with Hozier's new album.
0:34.1	Who's Ye?
0:34.7	Who's Ye?
0:35.4	Who's Ye?
0:40.1	The song is called Francesca. And the track is inspired by Dante Allegheny's Divine Comedy, particularly the story of Francesca de Rimini in the second circle of hell.
0:48.3	Conto Five. According to the artist, the track is taken out from the second circle, that of lust.
0:53.7	Also, if your name is
0:54.9	Francesca, you hell lucked out because I would be bragging that Joseer wrote a song about someone
1:02.7	named my name. Also, okay, Donda Alegieri never read The Divine Comedy. I'm trying to change that because I feel like it's one of those pieces of literature that
1:13.7	I kind of need in my little mental library so I can just say that I've read it.
1:18.8	That's kind of my relationship with classic novels.
1:22.0	Most of the time I don't actually like the book, but I feel like this pressure to read them so that I can say that I read them.
1:29.4	So yeah, divine comedy is definitely on the to read list, especially because I need my cat
1:35.1	Dante after Dante Aleguri and I'm like, I actually have no idea who that man is. No idea.
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