Wesley Morris Returns with ‘The Wonder of Stevie’
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Today, culture critic Wesley Morris (The New York Times) returns to Talk Easy for a conversation about The Wonder of Stevie, his new podcast with the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions.
At the top, Wesley unpacks Stevie Wonder’s legendary five-album run from 1972-1976, his recent “battleground states” tour in the run up to the election, and how his relationship to Stevie’s music has evolved in the process of making this limited series.
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| 0:00.0 | Most food critics are all about those fancy high-end meals no one can actually afford. |
| 0:04.7 | But what about the rest of us? Who's got our back? |
| 0:07.6 | Join me, your host Michael Ornelas each week on the fine dining podcast, |
| 0:11.5 | as I subject my taste buds to the tepid offerings of every chain restaurant in America. |
| 0:15.6 | I hop, done. Cracker Barrel, without a doubt. P.F. Chang's, you bet I've been there too. |
| 0:21.8 | It's my mission to find the ultimate mediocre dining experience. |
| 0:25.2 | Because who said mid can't be mid-nificent. |
| 0:28.3 | It's not fancy dining, but it's fine dining. |
| 0:31.4 | Check out the fine dining podcast wherever you prefer to listen. Pushkin. Wesley Morris. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi Sam, how are you? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm okay. You're talking to a person who has just I've been I'm at work. I've been working you know is this peak Wesley |
| 1:06.1 | No no no it's falling up a cliff. It's like a little cliff But I mean I'm all right. I'm all right if I were at a screening right now. I'm all right. I'm all right. If I were at a screening right now, I definitely would be at that moment in the movie where I'm like, I hope this movie is interesting enough to keep me going and not having me fight to keep going. |
| 1:24.7 | You hope you're watching megalopolis. |
| 1:27.2 | I mean there are parts of that movie where I think it's fine if you fall asleep. |
| 1:31.8 | Sir, this episode is following Francis Ford Coppola. |
| 1:34.6 | We cannot accept this. |
| 1:38.1 | Listen, here's what I'll say about that movie. |
| 1:40.4 | I think, you know, I mean it does operate by his own rhythms right and sort of like you |
| 1:48.4 | but I also think that it's fun watching people lose their minds over all kinds of aspects of this movie. |
| 1:57.0 | Like are the people freaking out about how little money it made? |
| 2:01.0 | Like, did you just meet this man? I don't really't really I mean I know he wants people to see it but I also |
| 2:06.2 | think he didn't make a movie to be number one at the box office I just I don't know I I love the |
| 2:12.1 | spirit of this thing. It is an unholy mess but there are so many |
| 2:18.0 | wonderful copulaisms in it and it sort of meets up with reality in these interesting ways and some of that |
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