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Happy Wednesday, everyone.
Lets get to it.
As always, tell me what youre listening to.
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If you are familiar with Abdurraqibs work in any way, you probably know what youre getting here.
The essays are also, of course, gorgeously written.
It can summon low-stakes experimentation with high-stakes results.
Kicking Abdurraqibs lyrical deliveries up to a higher gear is some excellent scoring and sound design by Raj Makhija.
What good timing, too.
Furthermore, the apologies we do get rarely feel consequential.
Such pronouncements hardly ever transcend suspicion of being mere exercises in image management.
Its a sorry state of sorries, enough to make one wonder why we even bother at all.
Into this muck stepsSay Youre Sorry, a new Audible Original that dropped earlier this month.
(Alptraum, by the way, also hosted the second season ofNew YorkMagazines audio-documentary series,Tabloid.)
Say Youre Sorryis built as a survey of case studies from a few different apology arenas.
Its nine episodes execute the gamut.
(you’ve got the option to headhere for my full reviewof the podcast.)
There are, in fact, several.
(See also:the internet focus on the Gabby Petito story.)
Podcastings democratic nature cuts both ways, after all.
Was that too niche?
Did one of her co-stars tip the Feds off to her location?
Are they only filming the show in the winter to play up the Salt Lake City aesthetic?
One that doesnt seem to be listed in any of the major podcast players at this point in time?
(Id listened to a British gardener discussing a garden show somewhere in England.
Imagine someone with her apron and secateurs meandering about.
)Epic Gardeningis short and sweet, five to ten minutes each, dropping daily Monday through Friday.
Im not quite sure where Kevin broadcasts from.
Christi C.
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