'Young Americans' by David Bowie (w/ Julian Shapiro-Barnum)

Punch Up The Jam

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Grudgingly yet proudly acknowledging their middle-aged-ness, Evan and Andrew call in a ringer to shed some light on what the hell David Bowie is imagining when he thinks of Young Americans. Pimps? Hustlers? Richard Nixon?!? Had this guy even BEEN to America?!? Along the way, our hosts reminisce about their viral collaboration “It’s Corn,” Bruce Springsteen plagiarism, whether cocaine can make you a fascist*, and, for no discernible reason, revisit Andrew’s worst opinion.

*yes.

Guest: Julian Shapiro-Barnum of Recess Therapy.

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0:00.0	This is a head gum original.
0:06.3	This is Punch Up the Jam, the podcast in which we take the greatest hits of all time and we make them even greater.
0:13.0	This is our first time ever here in the head gum video studio. We've got the logo.
0:18.3	We've got the inspirational albums.
0:21.4	Fake Grammys. You're seeing our face for the first time ever.
0:25.0	I guess you could still be listening to the audio if you're just on a podcast app,
0:29.0	but if you want to, you could click over, you could watch us on YouTube and also we're here with Julian.
0:34.4	How's it going everybody? How you doing? What did the light?
0:37.3	Julian who didn't even know this is gonna be a video. This is just, this is how good he looks.
0:42.0	He showed up and he was like, I'm so glad we're just doing a podcast and not a video.
0:46.1	That is a thing that you know, when you think and there's like words in your head and they stick with you like a conversation.
0:52.7	Yeah, I called it a podcast. Yeah, exactly. That's my personal podcast.
0:56.3	Today I said to myself in my brain studio, thank God it would not be on camera today.
1:01.6	I can wear whatever I want because Andrew had told you very clearly, please come be on our podcast.
1:08.2	Yeah, and that means something specific and it doesn't mean anything.
1:10.9	It's confusing. If you're listening, I do want to say what I'm wearing.
1:14.4	I'm wearing this shirt that has a fox on it. It says 1922 and 2010.
1:19.6	I notice that. Yeah. And whenever I wear the shirt, people love to ask me if that's how long the fox lived.
1:24.6	That's obviously what's the gesture to suggesting it's suggesting that this is a 88 year old fox with a deaf date.
1:32.4	Yes, yes, it is just that until the time. No, this is it is how long a place existed.
1:38.4	I don't know that a cabin in the woods called Yelping Hill that my family, my grandfather,
1:43.8	about the house on and we go to sometimes and this was for its anniversary.
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