Jason Lee Guthrie

The US remembers July 4, 1776 as its birthdate. 50 years later a boy was born in Pittsburgh who would forever change American popular culture. Stephen Foster at 200 deciphers the coded history of US popular music. Visit stephenfosterat200.com/subscribe to find it wherever you listen to podcasts!

In episode 17, Jennie talks with Deane Root, a name that will be familiar to many scholars of music history. Dean is professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the founding director of the Center for American Music. youtu.be/nbhPqdar1Bc

Raskin: "When historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump."

If we are going to be forced to live under the political logic of “Originalism” then we must insist on bringing back the tar and feathering of public officials. Just as the Founders intended.

In episode 16, Jennie talks with Emily Bingham, author of My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song. Emily shares about the career of The Foster Hall Quartet & we hear a recording of the Quartet performing Foster’s “My Brudder Gum” youtu.be/ELE2ONB8gUc

In ep 15, Jason talks with Joanna Smolko about a Foster song entitled “Hard Times Come Again No More” that has enjoyed a unique afterlife. Joanna’s research explores how covers of Foster’s songs by artists like Bruce Springsteen continue to shape our collective memory of him. youtu.be/8NmMs5oxd9A

In episode 14, Jason talks with Cody Ebright-Jones about The Stephen Foster Story, an outdoor drama in Bardstown, KY. Cody relates the history of how the show has evolved over time, and what it reveals about the intersections of music, race, history, and pop culture in America. youtu.be/QzP80iOHGBA

Sen. Ossoff to a confused Mike Collins: "You are getting Medicaid and the ACA mixed up despite reading from your notes."

Iron & Wine Maiden

Make that cackle my ringtone…

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

The Purge: It’s A Beautiful Life

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“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

That’s my Senator

Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."

Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

Given his wife's political advocacy for Barack Obama, it's outrageous that Jack Smith was ever entrusted with the legal fate of Donald Trump. by Ginni Thomas

In ep 13, Jennie talks with Renee Lapp Norris about the history of America’s first popular culture form – blackface minstrelsy. Foster is sometimes credited with originating the genre, but Renee covers the history of minstrelsy before Foster began his career in the late 1840s. youtu.be/KkPp_OEihe4

Cheato at the Tenn / Texas game picking out his next shade of spray tan

In episode 12 Kazuko Miyashita talks about Stephen Foster’s music in Japan. Jennie also shares some of her experiences with Foster’s music while in China. The episode ends by playing “Oh! Oksana” in full, adapted and performed by Dan Veksler. youtu.be/9I5-B0f_xpY

In episode 11 Esther Morgan-Ellis talks about Foster’s memory in the state of Florida. She offers unique insight into how a chance lyric in a famous Foster song created an annual singing competition in the mid-twentieth century that still reverberates in Florida today. youtu.be/QKi6cZ4yx2Y

Pete Hegseth went to the A&M game and they lost to Kentucky for the first time in over 70 years. THERE IS NO BATTLE HE CANT LOSE.

Copyright law is “in no way rooted in abstract justice or the nature of things.”

Playing in our faces

In ep 10 Jennie Lightweis-Goff explores Foster’s enduring influence on American popular culture. Through figures like Al Jolson and Elvis Presley, she argues Foster may be “the father of American music” but only if we grapple with the complexity and contradictions that carries youtu.be/i8wW1r_IquE

I was talking last week with a colleague from Hungary involved in academic restoration. He said he was exhausted and overwhelmed by all the choices they had to make, trade offs and interests to weigh, ambiguity about who decided. Authoritarian compliance is easier that the hard work of democracy.

You say hippocratic, I say hypocritic…

"This does seem to be an extreme case,” in terms of how far a doctor went to pursue debt. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

The reign of this mad man must end

Pegged me for sure #ENC

In episode 9, I get to talk about some of my own research on Stephen Foster and popular music copyright in early America. Jennis and I also talk a bit about what motivated this project as a whole… youtu.be/qZ_jS1cHrrs

Alt headline: Silicon Valley partners with GOP to profit from destroying Democracy

Me rushing to the polls to vote 🔵 this November

My Scots-Irish ancestors did not fight and win a revolution 250 years ago against Y’ALL’S punk ass king for me to have to see this shite on Dolly Parton’s internet three days after she died. Have some damned respect.