Welcome to the New York Times podcast, you're We Already One of music news and criticism.

I'm your host, John Caremonica.

This is a very special one this week.

This is fun, a little bit different than most weeks.

So you guys may remember during early and mid-COVID pandemic popcast, one of the things that

I was doing in the home office was grabbing various items and pulling things off my

shelves to talk about all the unusual ephemera that I have collected over the years, to talk

about them just to give you a little bit of sense of the things that I have collected

and held on to, whether it is the buster rhymes, break your neck brace, the bun B, A-life,

styrofoam, cop and marker, the Bubba Sparks Deliverance Barbecue Sauce, you are hearing

Bubba Sparks Deliverance at the top of the show.

That's the music.

I have the barbecue sauce, because of course I do.

And let this serve as a reminder and a nudge to all my record label friends.

If you have weird promo items, I should have them.

Why don't I have them?

You should send them to me.

So just file that away, keep that in mind, get the UPS guy working.

Anyway, all of which is to say these items and the stories that come with them are very

meaningful to me.

And there is no person that I know who is better at ephemera than our guest today.

Hwasu is here, Hwas is a professor at Bard, Hwas a staff writer at the New Yorker, he has

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