Finding Common Ground, forging Common Good, fighting Corporate Greed (and musing over '80s metal and other musics)
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Finding Common Ground, forging Common Good, fighting Corporate Greed (and musing over '80s metal and other musics)
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March 20, 2024
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry"
<p><strong>ON THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <p>In this audio version of last Friday March 15th’s CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, we come to the next stop on the tour of my vintage cassette collection: Def Leppard’s <em>Hysteria</em>.</p> <p>Then the week’s serious-er subject that stood out to me most: data being released that affirmative action did not help the folks it was created to help—namely Black and Native Americans—as much as we thought. And we go into a bit more detail on the…well, the details.</p> <p>And then our friendly neighborhood AI (*gulp*) picked “Rusty Cage” by Soundgarden to mull over for our final segment (inspired by the “<a href="https://substack.com/redirect/18977946-3fb1-46d9-9edf-ddeb9417d27b?j=eyJ1IjoiZDE5dSJ9.e80CLnH1kw2DugMKiOTNXQ085PTqfHENG2XtQt043kk" rel="">Recollection Records: Music That’s Entered My Head Out of Nowhere</a>” Spotify playlist).</p> <p><strong>The Primary Link </strong>to check out on affirmative action is a “The Morning” newsletter from <em>The New York Times</em>, gift link <strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/briefing/affirmative-action.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dE0.wjp0.wa4TtC2zes32&smid=url-share" rel="">HERE</a></strong>.</p> <p><strong>The Quote(s) of the Show:</strong></p> <blockquote> <p><em><a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/bbCUREc-2mFtsKaTq9eleQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn1qi1P0TpaHR0cHM6Ly90aW1lc21hY2hpbmUubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vdGltZXNtYWNoaW5lLzE5NjUvMDYvMDUvOTcyMDU4NzYuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD05JmVtYz1lZGl0X25uXzIwMjQwMzE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExNzY3MyZubD10aGUtbW9ybmluZyZwYWdlTnVtYmVyPTEmcmVnaV9pZD05NTgyNzA5OSZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2MDg2MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9MmM4NTczYWY1ZDg5ZjI5YzllZDAyMzM3NjM3MDNkYjVXA255dEIKZeK1I_RlccTBSlITbWNobGR2ZG1yQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~" rel="">As [President Johnson] said in 1965</a>, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, [and say], ‘You are free to compete with all the others.’” Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said, “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him.”</em></p> </blockquote> <p><strong><br>SHOW SYNOPSIS:</strong></p> <p>CeeGees Aloud: where together we try to figure out how to find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed in this absurdist 21st century society of ours.</p> <p>And to help the medicine go down, we discuss classic rock, classic pop, classic country, and, especially, '80s metal, too. (OK fine, call it "hair metal" if you must...)</p> <p><strong>Theme music: </strong>Faith in Phantoms' "Let It Go"</p> <div class="bandcamp-wrap album" data-attrs="{"url":"https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms","title":"Faith In Phantoms, by Faith In Phantoms","description":"10 track album","thumbnail_url":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5bce6518-8815-4b67-98a7-15f196ce369e_700x700.jpeg","author":"Faith In Phantoms","embed_url":"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2354741418/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/","is_album":true}" data-component-name="BandcampToDOM"><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2354741418/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div>
March 15, 2024
"For the Love of Money"
<p>Last week’s Substack CeeGees.org newsletter version of this episode:</p> <div class="_digestPostEmbed_1cl67_1" data-component-name="DigestPostEmbed"> <div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-reset"><a href="https://www.ceegees.org/p/for-the-love-of-money">https://www.ceegees.org/p/for-the-love-of-money</a></div> <div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-reset"> </div> <div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-reset"> <p><strong>ON THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <p>In this audio version of last Friday March 8th’s CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, we provide a refreshed rundown of the mission of the newsletter and podcast—which is to “…find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed.”</p> <p>That’s the tagline, but it’s tough to implement the harder work it’ll take to actually move the needle. (It’s definitely gonna take more than just me bellyaching from my bedroom…)</p> <p>And then, next stop on the vintage cassette collection tour is Scorpions’ <em>World Wide Live</em>. And artificial intelligence picked “Shake & Tumble” by Firehouse to mull over for our final segment (inspired by the “<a href="https://substack.com/redirect/18977946-3fb1-46d9-9edf-ddeb9417d27b?j=eyJ1IjoiZDE5dSJ9.e80CLnH1kw2DugMKiOTNXQ085PTqfHENG2XtQt043kk" rel="">Recollection Records: Music That’s Entered My Head Out of Nowhere</a>” Spotify playlist).</p> <p><strong><br>A couple links to check out from the current events portion of our program:</strong></p> <p>In Biden’s 2024 State of the Union, he said:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><strong>“Wall Street didn’t build America. They’re not bad guys—they didn’t build it, though. The middle class built this country. And unions built the middle class.”</strong></em></p> </blockquote> <p>Joe ad-libbed the “They’re not bad guys” part. Read the speech <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/2b2fe500-79db-48d0-84bc-ec4771527633?j=eyJ1IjoiZDE5dSJ9.e80CLnH1kw2DugMKiOTNXQ085PTqfHENG2XtQt043kk" rel="">as it was written here</a>, and then read the transcript of <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/bc4e2e6e-18ce-408b-a49e-7ab180c6fd9d?j=eyJ1IjoiZDE5dSJ9.e80CLnH1kw2DugMKiOTNXQ085PTqfHENG2XtQt043kk" rel="">what he actually said here</a>.</p> <p><strong><br>SHOW SYNOPSIS:</strong></p> <p>CeeGees Aloud: where together we try to figure out how to find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed in this absurdist 21st century society of ours.</p> <p>And to help the medicine go down, we discuss classic rock, classic pop, classic country, and, especially, '80s metal, too. (OK fine, call it "hair metal" if you must...)</p> <p><strong><br>Theme music: </strong>Faith in Phantoms' "Let It Go"</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms">https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms</a></p> </div> </div>
February 24, 2024
"Brick by Boring Brick"
<p dir="ltr">The Substack newsletter version of last week’s CeeGees: <a href="https://www.ceegees.org/p/brick-by-boring-brick">https://www.ceegees.org/p/brick-by-boring-brick</a> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>ON THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Starting this episode, we narrate the dang newsletter first, then revisit the current events piece for an update on what’s gone down since the newsletter was published the Friday before.</p> <p dir="ltr">In Dean’s recitation of last Friday February 16th's CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, he reckons with the curse of record collector completism, goes local to spotlight the singer from Paramore’s ballsy call-out of the Tennessee House, and looks back at some personal experiences with this week’s super-heavy (but melodic) Top Slice of the CeeGees proverbial music/news/music s#!t sandwich.</p> <p dir="ltr">Looking back, then, on Tennessee politics, we suggest a podcast on which a writer for <em>The Atlantic</em>, Anne Applebaum, talks about her article “Is Tennessee a Democracy?” (Hint: the answer coulda been a straight-up “no,” I spose, but…it ain’t great.)</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>This week's media to explore further:</strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>The Tennessean</em>: “Paramore's Hayley Williams decries TN GOP after Allison Russell resolution dustup”</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/16/paramore-hayley-williams-decries-tn-republican-leadership-after-allison-russell-resolution-dustup/72614456007/">https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/16/paramore-hayley-williams-decries-tn-republican-leadership-after-allison-russell-resolution-dustup/72614456007/</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>The Tennessee Holler Podcast</em>: “Anne Applebaum Asks, ‘Is Tennessee a Democracy?’”</p> <p dir="ltr">On Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OOnJzta1zHmTjoYvf2oIm?si=AfdR0pxLQs2extr8XMLKtw">https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OOnJzta1zHmTjoYvf2oIm?si=AfdR0pxLQs2extr8XMLKtw</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">On Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anne-applebaum-asks-is-tennessee-a-democracy/id1463126787?i=1000621652662">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anne-applebaum-asks-is-tennessee-a-democracy/id1463126787?i=1000621652662</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>The Atlantic</em>: “Is Tennessee a Democracy?” (gift link) <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/tennessee-republican-partisanship-one-party-state/674732/?gift=g4VZR7q4r0asHoB9wEmtBSJkYmKih_6QA9kcFt662mY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/tennessee-republican-partisanship-one-party-state/674732/?gift=g4VZR7q4r0asHoB9wEmtBSJkYmKih_6QA9kcFt662mY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share</a> </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>SHOW SYNOPSIS:</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">CeeGees Aloud: where together we try to figure out how to find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed in this absurdist 21st century society of ours.</p> <p dir="ltr">And to help the medicine go down, we discuss classic rock, classic pop, classic country, and, especially, '80s metal. (OK fine, call it "hair metal" if you must...)</p> <p dir="ltr">CeeGees Aloud is 50% narration of the previous week's CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, and 50% check-in on the current events discussed in that newsletter.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-f2400410-7fff-b9ef-5e77-f3205db9e772">Theme music: Faith in Phantoms' "Let It Go" (<a href="https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms">https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms</a>)</strong></p>
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