Best Reel In Motion Podcasts (2025)

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More Joy 20:24

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Send us a text NARRATOR: It’s Christmas Eve at the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts— after the last visitor has gone, after the gift-shop lights click off, after the lobby wreath stops smelling like “busy” and starts smelling like “quiet.” [SFX: KEY RING JINGLE. DOOR CLICKS. FOOTSTEPS ON TILE.] NIGHT WATCHMAN (GENTLE, CONTENT): A…

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Man in Motion 17:29

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Send us a text This episode begins with the night watchmen engaged in conversation with Rubik's Cube. NIGHT WATCHMAN: Mr. cube, I want the museum-tour version of how to start. RUBIK’S CUBE: Very well. Rule one: Choose one face to become your “home.” Many begin with white—because it is easy to recognize. But any color will do. RUBIK’S CUBE: Rule two…

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Christmas Eve 15:28

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Send us a text NARRATOR: It’s Christmas Eve at the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts— after the last visitor has gone, after the gift-shop lights click off, after the lobby wreath stops smelling like “busy” and starts smelling like “quiet.” [SFX: KEY RING JINGLE. DOOR CLICKS. FOOTSTEPS ON TILE.] NIGHT WATCHMAN (GENTLE, CONTENT): A…

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One's Own Haven | interview 28:34

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I talked with One's Own Haven about which Green Day album they would eliminate (besides Father of All), an unexpected mishap on tour, their favorite show to play, their favorite pizza, what gear they want for Christmas, and more!By Noelle Matonis

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Helmet - Page Hamilton | Riot Fest 2025 interview 22:39

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Sofie interviewed Helmet at Riot Fest 2025!By Noelle Matonis

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The Wonder Years - Dan Campbell | Riot Fest 2025 interview 7:46

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I interviewed Dan Campbell of The Wonder Years at Riot Fest 2025!By Noelle Matonis

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Shonen Knife | Riot Fest 2025 interview 6:48

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I interviewed Shonen Knife at Riot Fest 2025!By Noelle Matonis

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The Color of Thinking 15:52

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Send us a text NARRATOR: In the center of the case sits a classic 3×3 Rubik’s Cube— a pocket-size universe that has humbled presidents, professors, and perfectly confident ten-year-olds. It’s the kind of toy that whispers: “Go ahead. Touch me. I will teach you something about yourself.” [SFX: A TINY CLICK. LIKE PLASTIC TURNING—JUST ONCE.] NIGHT WAT…

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The Hidden Reel 15:52

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Send us a text NARRATOR (WARM, LOW): Welcome to Celebrate Creativity… and Conversations with Toys. This episode is VIEW-MASTER: CLICK INTO WONDER. This podcast is a dramatization that blends historical research with fiction, satire, and imagined conversations between people, toys, and other objects. It is not a documentary and not professional advi…

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Practice Baby 23:52

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Send us a text NIGHT WATCHMAN (reading): “Betsy Wetsy. Vintage baby doll. A ‘practice baby’—a caretaking toy reflecting changing ideas about childhood play and domestic life…” NARRATOR: He pauses, as if the next line might argue back. NIGHT WATCHMAN (continuing): “Please do not touch the exhibits.” That last part—I wrote myself. [SFX: Another tiny …

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The Tell Tale Toy 21:29

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Send us a text The alphabet blocks are gathered around the bobble head figure of Edgar Allan Poe - complete with Raven. The alphabet blocks seem to be fascinated by Mr.Poe’s use of language and are clearly intrigued by his words until the night watchmen makes an announcement. Block a You are famous for your work of terror. Could you share with us y…

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Poe and the Stars 25:32

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Send us a text Tonight we leave the playhouse wing and walk—quietly—into a different kind of stage: a mirrored room, a window, and a tube of glass and brass pointed at the sky. Because when Edgar Allan Poe looks up, he doesn’t just want a story. He wants an explanation. SFX: soft footsteps, a faint “gallery hum,” a distant night security beep. Diff…

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Jealous Angels 23:15

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Send us a text NARRATOR / NIGHT WATCHMAN (gentle, amused): It’s amazing what feels different in a museum at midnight. In the daytime, the lights are bright, the brochures are tidy, the gift shop is cheerful… …but when the doors are locked and the echoes stretch a little longer… you start to notice the small things. The way the glass cases hold thei…

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Bard's Curtain Call 33:52

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Send us a text NARRATOR (WARM, INVITING) Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and Conversations with Toys, our after-hours visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts— where the lights are low, the alarms are set, and words wait quietly on the shelves… until someone notices them. Narrator And we see the action figure of William Shak…

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Plague & Playhouse 26:59

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Send us a text Shakespeare Hello Mr. Smith. This is William Shakespeare the action figure, and I would be most remiss if I did not continue my narrative regarding my education in Stratford. You see, like many boys of my station, I probably attended the King’s New School in Stratford. It has been so long that I must admit I am a bit foggy. The curri…

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Quill After Midnight 21:46

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Send us a text Night watchman I must admit that my first impression of the William Shakespeare action figure was - what is all the big deal. I even have a background in Shakespeare acting - though I don't have a job with that training. But if you look at the William Shakespeare action figure - even though he has a scroll and quiil - your first reac…

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Words at Play 18:27

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Send us a text NARRATOR (WARM, INVITING) Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and Conversations with Toys, our after-hours visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts— where the lights are low let's get the disclaimer out of the way this podcast behind every line of Shakespeare behind every Erie sentence from Poe behind every every …

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Alphabet Blocks 18:34

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Send us a text NARRATOR (WARM, INVITING) Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and Conversations with Toys, our after-hours visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts— where the lights are low let's get the disclaimer out of the way this podcast behind every line of Shakespeare behind every Erie sentence from Poe behind every every …

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The Pillow Everyone Cries Into 18:50

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Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum isn’t all hard plastic and sharp corners. Some shelves are quieter. Softer. Places where the edges give way and the labels blur a little. Tonight, the Night Watchman has wandered away from Barbie’s high heels and Ken’s molded hair into a part of the museum that feels more like a pillow aisle. [Footst…

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Click, Click, Bamboo 19:11

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Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum remembers everything. It remembers the first teddy bear sewn by an immigrant. It remembers Barbie striking a pose at a 1959 toy fair. It remembers dragon trucks that eat cars and tiny supermarkets where children practice being grownups. But tonight, the museum is thinking in rectangles. Bricks. Studs…

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And Ken 21:03

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Send us a text The Toy Museum has its own kind of gravity. Once you’ve visited a shelf, it tugs at you. Tonight, the Night Watchman finds himself back in the Barbie gallery. Same pink glow. Same tiny shoes. But the spotlight is different. It’s shifted to the left. [Soft click of a case light turning on.] NARRATOR: Onto a smiling man, molded hair, p…

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Barbie and the Closet 25:06

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Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum never really sleeps. It sighs. It settles. It adjusts its labels. But somewhere, between the glass cases and the security cameras, the night gets… strange. Previously, the Night Watchman met a bear who smelled like home. Tonight, he’s walked into a different kind of dream— one made of high heels, seq…

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Aisle 3: Imagination 25:42

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Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum KNOWS how to roar. It has dragons that eat cars, tiny metal racers that dare gravity, and shelves of toys that glow and beep and shout. But sometimes, the museum does something much quieter. It turns the dullest errands of adult life into a stage for children. Tonight, the Night Watchman has wandered…

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Speed, Teeth, and Two Lanes 18:21

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Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum has currents, like an ocean. Soft shelves, hard shelves, loud shelves, quiet ones. Last night, the Night Watchman nearly fell asleep leaning against a Squishmallow— no-questions-asked softness in pastel colors. Tonight, the current drags him somewhere else. Somewhere harder. Sharper. Louder. Footstep…

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Hot Potato with a Bird 17:48

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Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum has its quiet corners— where Squishmallows wait to be hugged, and where a teddy bear smells like home. Tonight is not one of those corners. Tonight, the Night Watchman has wandered into the game aisle— the place where toys don’t just sit and get held. They demand players. They demand rules. They dema…

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Conversations with Teddy 22:54

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Send us a text Ebenezer is back. This is the second night for Ebeneezer Smith as the new night watchmen at the Metropolitan Museum of toys and childhood artifacts KEY in lock. DOOR opening.] EBENEZER (muttering to himself): Well, I’m here. Again. This time I doubt I’ll meet any human beings I can talk with… The toys might be a different story. But …

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Conversations with Slinky 21:28

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Send us a text Hello my name is Ebeneezer Smith Thank you for staying with me.(mutters to himself) All right. Let’s see what kind of neighbors I’ve got. There is a set of plastic building bricks. There is a board game whose box I remember arguing over with my cousins. And in the “Comfort and Companions” section, a bear that looks suspiciously like …

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Museum Interview 18:10

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Send us a text Our story tonight doesn’t start in a toy store. No bright aisles. No sales. No blinking “Buy One, Get One Free” signs. Instead, we begin on a quiet city street, just after closing time, in front of an old stone building most people walk past without ever truly seeing. During the day, it’s a respectable institution: The Metropolitan M…

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Pre Conversations with Toys 26:19

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Send us a text Now today’s episode is a little different. Usually, we spend our time tracking the lives of composers, musicians, and artists—people whose names end up in history books, or on album covers, or carved into theater walls. We talk about how they changed the sound of a century, or rewired what pop music could be, or turned their lives in…

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Ryan’s Rocket Man 30:14

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Send us a text In this series, we’ve been spending time with artists who didn’t just make hits — they rewired popular music itself. Some of them crashed. Some of them burned out. Some of them never got old enough to figure out who they might have become. In the previous episode, we talked about Michael Jackson — a man whose genius was wrapped in pr…

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The Price of Being Michael 24:44

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Send us a text Today, we’re going to spend some time with a figure who shaped pop music, dance, music videos, and the idea of celebrity itself—only to become a tragic warning about what happens when that level of fame collides with a fragile human body and mind. Michael Joseph Jackson was born August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana—a working-class steel…

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The Carter Code 19:34

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Send us a text Today, I want to put two lives—and two mythologies—side by side. Not as gossip. Not as tabloid spectacle. As a question: What happens when two Black artists rise from a Houston salon and a Brooklyn housing project to a place where they can rewire the business, the sound, and the story of popular music—and do it as a partnership? Let’…

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Radical Control 21:44

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Send us a text In this current series, we’ve been living in the neighborhood of giants—artists who didn’t just have hits, but re-wired what popular music could be. Today… someone different again. A man who refused categories, ignored rules, blurred gender lines, shredded guitars, whispered falsettos, wrote anthems for other people in his spare time…

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Divine Miss Moment 22:50

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Send us a text In this series, we’ve spent time with giants—singers, songwriters, bands, entire movements. Some of them changed my life from a distance, through vinyl and radio and the accidental sacrament of a TV set in the living room. Today’s subject changed my life at arm’s length. Not in a stadium, not in a Broadway theater, not on a movie scr…

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The Jersey Gospel 16:41

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Send us a text This is the story of Bruce Springsteen—“The Boss”—a kid from a working-class town who turned everyday American lives into epic songs, who built a career on sweat, loyalty, doubt, faith, and three-hour marathons onstage that left entire arenas wrung out and grinning. Let’s walk through where he came from, what shaped him, how he broke…

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American Mirror 19:14

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Send us a text Today we are stepping straight into four decades of controversy, choreography, and calculated control. Madonna. Not just “the Queen of Pop,” but an artist who has treated her own life as a long, shape-shifting performance about power—who gets it, who’s allowed to keep it, and what happens when a woman refuses to sit down, shut up, or…

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Inner Visions 16:04

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Send us a text If you've been following this series of modern day musicians, you may remember a concert I mentioned with the Rolling Stones. It is true that the Stones were able to hold the audience and follow their hands, so to speak. But even before Mick Jagger strut out on stage, the opening act was Stevie Wonder = a living definition of a hard …

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World's Favorite Alien? 19:29

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Send us a text Today, we turn to an artist who never seemed entirely earthbound.David Bowie.For some listeners, Bowie is the sound of discovery: that first moment you realize a song, a costume, a performance can make the world feel bigger than the town you’re standing in. For others, he’s a gallery of snapshots: Ziggy Stardust in orange hair and st…

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Tears in Heaven 16:40

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Send us a text Tonight we turn to a musician whose name has become shorthand for guitar mastery, blues devotion, and, depending on who you ask, the very idea of the rock “guitar hero.” Eric Clapton. For some listeners, he is the ultimate guitarist: the Yardbirds prodigy, the “Clapton Is God” graffiti on London walls, the molten solos with Cream, th…

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Who Are You? 23:28

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Send us a text In this podcast episode, we’ll walk through where they came from, what shaped them, how they crashed into the United States—and then spend some real time inside Tommy: not just as an album, but as a story that refused to stay put, leaping from vinyl to concert halls, movie screens, and the Broadway stage. Imagine that it is Post war …

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Riffs and Myth 15:42

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Send us a text In this series, we’ve been spending time with artists who didn’t just make hits—they changed the language of modern music. Today, we turn to a group that took blues, folk, volume, and mystery… and built a sound so iconic that entire genres still live in its echo. Led Zeppelin. Not just “loud.” Not just “wild.” Four musicians who fuse…

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Both Sides Singing 23:00

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Send us a text Today we meet an artist who doesn’t blow the doors off with volume or choreography, but with something quieter—and in many ways, just as radical. A woman alone with a guitar in an open tuning. A voice that can sound like a bell, a blade, or a diary you were never meant to read. A songwriter who refuses to keep her feelings, or her ha…

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Supreme Intentions 23:00

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Send us a text Our story begins not with sequins but with a housing project. Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard both grew up in Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass projects, one of the first federally funded housing developments for Black families. Diana Ross, who grew up nearby, joined that same orbit. Detroit in the 1950s and early 60s was a complex place:…

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Feedback and Fire 22:15

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Send us a text Today, we turn to a musician whose care there were moves separations long stretches were Jimmy simply simply had to figure things out on his own no one was buying but whose shadow is so long that every electric guitarist since has had to walk through it. Jimi Hendrix. He didn’t just play louder. He didn’t just play faster. He changed…

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The Queen of Soul 23:33

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Send us a text Today we turn to a voice that has become a kind of measuring stick. A singer you can’t ignore, can’t casually imitate, and certainly can’t replace. Aretha Louise Franklin. You can line up all the adjectives: legendary, iconic, incomparable. But with Aretha, those words almost sound lazy. The real story is more interesting. It’s the s…

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Dylan and the Fall 19:36

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Send us a text If you grew up in a certain era, his name isn’t just a performer on a poster. It’s a weather system. A shift in air pressure. A bulletin from the fault line where art, politics, faith, doubt, youth, age, and trouble all collided. And at the end of this episode, I’m going to tell you about one night—one Bob Dylan concert—that coincide…

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California Counterpoints 18:16

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Send us a text Today’s pairing may look odd until you start really listening: The Beach Boys and The Grateful Dead. Two California bands. Two American institutions. Two completely different ideas of what a band is for. One built pop cathedrals in the studio and spent decades trying to bring that sound to the stage. The other built a moving city on …

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Tickets and Conscience 24:32

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Send us a text Today I want to put two names in the same frame—Joan Baez and Taylor Swift—not because they sound alike or have the same values but because they tell us how the culture around music, fandom, and accessibility to their shows have changed in less than one lifetime. Same art form. Very different worlds. This episode is about those two w…

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Enduring Stones 19:01

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Send us a text In a recent episode, we spent time with a man who changed popular culture and then became a warning about what fame, isolation, and addiction can do to a single human body—Elvis Presley. Brilliant, iconic, but ultimately tragic. Today… similar voltage. Very different story. This is about a band that came out of the same storm system …