Episode 247 – DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA

Runtime
71 minutes

Show Contents

0:00 Introduction

1:46 Know Your Enemy: Keisha Howerth

21:13 The New Slang: DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA

52:05 The Other Side: Keisha and Ryan talk further reading after Spike Lee’s new film

Thoughts From Your Host…

This episode comes with a jovial wrapping. My guest and I aren’t giddy per se, but it will be clear to anyone who listens that we were so excited to be meeting for the first time at the beginning of a new era for America.

It’s strange to feel so jovial. The world is still a huge ball of stress. Pandemic cases are climbing rapidly, people aren’t helping themselves or helping others, and that new era in America seems stuck in dry-dock because the previous captain won’t hand over the keys to the boat.

And yet, jovial it is…perhaps because things are so dark that we can begin to see flickers of light. Maybe…possibly…

We’re just seven weeks from the end of this terrible year, folks. It will be trying, it will come with stresses we wanted to be done with, but we can get through them.

Listen to the optimism and hope contained within this episode…and carry it forward for seven more weeks.

Links Mentioned on Episode 247:

Poster for THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK:

Poster for Howard Hughes’ THE OUTLAW:

Trailer for The Ross Brothers’ new documentary about a Las Vegas bar closing down, BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS:

CONTEMPORARY COLOR – also starring David Byrne, and also directed by The Ross Brothers – can be found on The Criterion Channel.

Keisha’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank you very much for listening. 

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