Week Didn't Start Jerzy Gwiazdowski and Sam Corbin
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Recapping the week's news using the greatest poetic form of our time.
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19. “SAT won’t get you in (and neither will Lori Laughlin)” May 24, 2020
Boxing! Grokking! Things that make us mad! We give a LOT of lyrical real estate to the Picasso raffle lady. We revisit the question "WHAT IS NEWS?" and we also tease a new format for next week...
Highlights: "Marciano," "British Politician Sex," Gilgamesh tablet returned from the Hobby Lobby Museum, Doja Cat saying "gang sunk that dunker"
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We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of Billy Joel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire." Every week. All year.
Week Didn't Start (the Podcast)
with Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski
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Bonus: The "We Didn't Start the Fire" Music Video
What are those burning photos? Who is the baby? Why isn't Billy warning them?? Does the video predict THE FUTURE??? Bra burning! Pre-internet memes! Lucille Ball impersonations! Making up for things that aren't in the song! So many toys! Jack Ruby! The Joel-centric bias! The song is NOT in order!
We discuss the 1989 music video for "We Didn't Start the Fire," directed by Mark Blum.
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We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of Billy Joel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire." Every week. All year.
Week Didn't Start (the Podcast)
with Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski
https://weekdidntstart.podbean.com
https://www.instagram.com/weekdidntstart
https://twitter.com/weekdidntstart
https://www.facebook.com/weekdidntstart -
18. “Beer dump in Australia, British genitalia” May 17, 2020
Baseball! Sh*tty people resurfacing in the news! Playing the "meta game!" How many people in this song are still alive in 2020??
Highlights: Mickey Mantle, Designated Hitters in the National League, Bernie Goetz, Shkreli/Goetz/Manafort/Kabuga
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We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of Billy Joel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire." Every week. All year. Week Didn't Start (the Podcast) With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski
https://weekdidntstart.podbean.com
https://www.instagram.com/weekdidntstart
https://twitter.com/weekdidntstart
https://www.facebook.com/weekdidntstart -
17. “X Æ A-12, Cover shoot for Judi Dench” May 10, 2020
The word "slog" returns! What do Billy Joel and Puck from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" have in common? What about Giannis Antetokounmpo and George Stephanopoulos? Sam has no choice but to stan Colombo! Is an octameter just two tetrameters?
Highlights: Cannabis laws, "Angels in Disguise," British Beatlemania, Little Rock -
16. “Thai king lives in luxury quar” May 3, 2020
Trochaic Octameter! The "We Didn't Start the Fire" music video! The Google News Archive! Rib injury! Disco ball batteries!
Highlights: Missing great white sharks, Sudan bans genital mutilation, Ole Miss, England's got a new Queen -
15. “North Korea’s ailing leada, ‘Quarantine Pinot’” April 26, 2020
We are getting INTO IT. Lowercase news words. Leslie Jamison! A unified theory of Billy Joel bias! Other songs?? Nobel Laureates! "Next Stop Greenwich Village!"
Highlights: Pasternak, Dylan, Mark Warner's tuna melt, Travis Scott's Fortnite concert