Hot on the heels of me sharing something from Emily Scott Robinson about country music’s refusal to do better, here is another musician you should know.

Per my post about Robinson, I vet my musical recommendations for character.

Joy Oladukon is great.

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I saw @joyoladokun open for Jason Isbell this fall. My entire crew were instant fans. She was fantastic.

Find her on streaming platforms. See her live.

And hats off to @JasonIsbell. He showcases diverse, amazing talent on his tours.

2/
Country/Americana are at a crossroads. The culture will either evolve toward new relevance or devolve into the backwards, hickish stereotype that has held it back for decades.

The industry must choose: does it want to be no bigger than a soundtrack for small-minded bigotry?

3/
There is nothing unique, different, interesting or special about whoever is the Beers, Babes, and Bibles poster boy du jour.

The people with something to say are artists like @MickeyGuyton, @RhiannonGiddens, @amythystkiah, @joyoladokun, et al.

Choose your fighter.

4/
I actually love Country and Americana. I always have. And I have to couch it with that exact phrasing because the culture of those genres has made it very hard to say out loud without qualification or excuse.

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Country/Americana will move past its bigoted past or we will move on from Country/Americana.

We’ll splinter off into a new and different genre. Neo Country/Americana.

It will be a diverse community of marginalized voices and proud allies.

And the shows will be epic.

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9 Jan
Ya gotta listen to this guy…

A music discovery that’s gonna have ya all “Wut? Who? Whoa! Wow!”

Goes by the name Hajaj.

This dude is gonna blow you away.

Think: Ed Sheeran meets John Legend meets Black Pumas meets Michael Buble.

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World, meet Hajaj.

This dude is a treasure. Largely undiscovered singer-songwriter from Riyadh.

This video has 65 views.

Let’s put this guy on the map.

He is fantastic.

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Ya gotta listen to his album Last Call for Coco.

It is silky-smooth and tasty as tacos.

20 perfect minutes.

Listen and hit me back so I can enjoy this with someone.

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Immediately after Garland’s speech, I said it was empty of reasons to be comforted.

500 people unfollowed me in an hour.

As the dust settled, the reviews from ex-DOJ folk shifted from raves toward the realization the evidence doesn’t support what people think they heard.

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People think they were told Trump, et al, are already under investigation.

A growing number of ex-DOJers, having thought about it, don’t think it’s possible that a meaningful investigation could possibly be ongoing there in total darkness.

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Even if nothing leaked out of the DOJ, the witnesses would leak.

People would get subpoenaed and talk about it. The press would hear SOMETHING.

We’ll see. The point is, given time to think about it, the speech has now amped up experts’ concerns rather than calmed them.

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Is this a thing?

Madison Cawthorn’s mom had Bibles sealed into the walls of their home above every lightswitch.

Is that… do people do that?
Y’all, this kinda gives me the creeps - and by kinda, I mean entirely.

Cawthorn’s mom wrote all kinds of Bible quotes and messages inside the walls of their house during renovation which are now sealed in along with the lightswitch Bibles.

This feels psychosis-ish.
Okay, I think I understand the lightswitch thing - although it’s very “magical thinking”.

When Cawthorn was in the hospital after his accident, his mother alleges *he* held on by thinking if he could make it to daylight, he’d live another day.
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Texas conservative calls public educators “otherwise unemployable adults.”

Sullivan’s father was a high school football coach who moved the family all-around Texas chasing coaching jobs.

Every one of these guys is a broken child pretending to be a strong adult.
For real, it is so automatic that there is some kind of emotionally stunted childhood behind every one of these semi-sociopathic blowhards, it has become a game to go find it.

Trump, Tucker Carlson, whoever… you pick the conservative, I’ll tell you what made them this way.
Sullivan’s childhood was one destabilizing episode after another as his dad did what he loved as a coach but made little money and frequently relocated the family.

The original post is about his own childhood. It isn’t about teachers. It’s about his dad.
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Okay, let’s come back to this one.

If you haven’t read this thread and want to play along, read that first before reading further in this one…

Ok, let’s go.

So, you’re in a boat with a leak and can neither go all out without sinking or just sit there without moving.

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This was a strategic challenge, not a riddle. It was a question to see how people would attack a problem.

It’s the kind of annoying question management consultancies ask interviewees to see how they think.

That’s kinda why I asked too.

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I wanted to see how people would approach a metaphorical challenge with a set of known parameters.

Most people answered it in that spirit.

A minority treated it like a riddle and offered answers that were extraneous. eg use your phone.

Reasonable thoughts but not inbounds.

3/
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I’m starting my own currency. It’s called Hypto.

It’s like crypto and NFTs had sex in a Pets Dotcom warehouse and then had a virtual Beanie Baby.

Once in a lifetime opportunity.

Here’s how it works…

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For every $5 investment, I will purchase one Guinness. You will own the idea of that unique Guinness. I will then drink that Guinness to protect you from digital piracy.

You retain the rights to the CBU in perpetuity.

For novices, CBUs are Conceptual Beer Units.

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Oldthink is “Why don’t I just buy actual beer rather than sending Hoarse money for him to buy beer through the link in his bio?”

Do you even hear yourself?

How much beer have you bought in your lifetime? How much of it is left?

3/
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