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Now, on to today's episode.

The movie Whiplash came out in 2014, and it's about

this young jazz drummer named Andrew Nyman, who is determined to succeed as a jazz musician,

and he's driven by his demanding music teacher, Terence Fletcher, who can be best described

as a harsh, ruthless, yet highly respected instructor,

who really has abusive teaching methods.

And Andrew, the drummer, a student college, can best be described as an overly ambitious

young musician who is completely obsessed with improving and of course fulfilling

his desire to be a great musician.

And when this movie first came out and I watched it, I absolutely hated it.

I hated it because to me it seemed like this completely wrong view of what it's like to be an

aspiring musician or what it's like to be instructed by great jazz musicians is it really this

abusive horrifying stressful deprecating experience and me, I just absolutely hated the notion

that this could possibly be true. Or let's go to another movie that depicts jazz La La Land,

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