Week Didn't Start

Jerzy Gwiazdowski and Sam Corbin

Recapping the week's news using the greatest poetic form of our time.

  • 29 minutes 55 seconds
    19. “SAT won’t get you in (and neither will Lori Laughlin)” May 24, 2020

    Boxing! Grokking! Things that make us mad! We give a LOT of lyrical real estate to the Picasso raffle lady. We revisit the question "WHAT IS NEWS?" and we also tease a new format for next week... 

    Highlights: "Marciano," "British Politician Sex," Gilgamesh tablet returned from the Hobby Lobby Museum, Doja Cat saying "gang sunk that dunker" 

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    We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of Billy Joel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire." Every week. All year. 

    Week Didn't Start (the Podcast) 

    with Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski 

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    25 May 2020, 8:00 am
  • 24 minutes 25 seconds
    Bonus: The "We Didn't Start the Fire" Music Video

    What are those burning photos? Who is the baby? Why isn't Billy warning them?? Does the video predict THE FUTURE??? Bra burning! Pre-internet memes! Lucille Ball impersonations! Making up for things that aren't in the song! So many toys! Jack Ruby! The Joel-centric bias! The song is NOT in order!

    We discuss the 1989 music video for "We Didn't Start the Fire," directed by Mark Blum. 

    ----more----

    We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of Billy Joel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire." Every week. All year.

    Week Didn't Start (the Podcast) 

    with Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski 

    https://weekdidntstart.podbean.com

    https://www.instagram.com/weekdidntstart

    https://twitter.com/weekdidntstart

    https://www.facebook.com/weekdidntstart

    22 May 2020, 10:00 am
  • 22 minutes 19 seconds
    18. “Beer dump in Australia, British genitalia” May 17, 2020

    Baseball! Sh*tty people resurfacing in the news! Playing the "meta game!" How many people in this song are still alive in 2020?? 

    Highlights: Mickey Mantle, Designated Hitters in the National League, Bernie Goetz, Shkreli/Goetz/Manafort/Kabuga 

    ----more----

    We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of Billy Joel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire." Every week. All year. Week Didn't Start (the Podcast) With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski

    https://weekdidntstart.podbean.com

    https://www.instagram.com/weekdidntstart

    https://twitter.com/weekdidntstart

    https://www.facebook.com/weekdidntstart

    18 May 2020, 6:16 pm
  • 20 minutes 46 seconds
    17. “X Æ A-12, Cover shoot for Judi Dench” May 10, 2020

    The word "slog" returns! What do Billy Joel and Puck from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" have in common? What about Giannis Antetokounmpo and George Stephanopoulos? Sam has no choice but to stan Colombo! Is an octameter just two tetrameters? 

    Highlights: Cannabis laws, "Angels in Disguise," British Beatlemania, Little Rock

    11 May 2020, 7:00 am
  • 30 minutes 12 seconds
    16. “Thai king lives in luxury quar” May 3, 2020

    Trochaic Octameter! The "We Didn't Start the Fire" music video! The Google News Archive! Rib injury! Disco ball batteries! 

    Highlights: Missing great white sharks, Sudan bans genital mutilation, Ole Miss, England's got a new Queen

    4 May 2020, 9:00 am
  • 36 minutes 20 seconds
    15. “North Korea’s ailing leada, ‘Quarantine Pinot’” April 26, 2020

    We are getting INTO IT. Lowercase news words. Leslie Jamison! A unified theory of Billy Joel bias! Other songs?? Nobel Laureates! "Next Stop Greenwich Village!" 

    Highlights: Pasternak, Dylan, Mark Warner's tuna melt, Travis Scott's Fortnite concert

    29 April 2020, 5:25 pm
  • 26 minutes 55 seconds
    14. “Pope scotch, Walkout, Climate-driven mega-drought ” April 19, 2020

    Long toast! The rules of the song! Syllables! Our favorite TikTok account! How do you say "no-go" in French? And we can't take "I can't take it anymore" anymore!

    Highlights: Princess Grace, Chubby Checker, Poland protests, Chess upset

    29 April 2020, 4:48 pm
  • 37 minutes 2 seconds
    13. “'Speaking moistly,' Cats' butts, Why are people licking stuff?” April 12, 2020

    We both had a lot to say this week. We discuss the impact of c*****v***s, the lyrical artistry of B***y J**l, toying with the chronological order, syllable stress, and the camera toilet. 

    Highlights: Payola, Dacron, Cavallari Bahamas drama, Yemen Ceasefire

    27 April 2020, 10:44 pm
  • 35 minutes 4 seconds
    12. “Furloughs, Rent strikes, Can I teach my dog to drive?” April 5, 2020

    We are... really enjoying this now? This episode was recorded as a video- we're gonna keep doing that. We talk about Nixon showing up in the song twice, which makes us feel better about our repeats. Also, we are filled with terror to learn that the song is coming from inside the news. 

    Highlights: Studebaker, Stranger in a Strange Land, FDA blood donor ban, Irish PM practices medicine

    27 April 2020, 7:29 pm
  • 26 minutes 15 seconds
    11. “No California baseball / Survivors of Thalidomide” March 29, 2020

    Our first remotely recorded episode! The show was driving us insane- now it might be keeping us sane???  We discuss Cohen brothers spoilers, how we are breaking through the constant bad news, and we use the word "horny" a LOT.

     

    Highlights: Peyton Place, The King and I, Ikaria Warioota, the Kinkularity

    27 April 2020, 12:00 pm
  • 3 minutes 54 seconds
    10. “Cases grow, Cuomo, 'Imagine" vid with Gal Gadot” March 22, 2020

    From the first full week of NYC quarantine. A lot of news; none of it wanted to fit in the song structure this week. But it got there.

    27 April 2020, 10:00 am
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