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Episode 57: The Live Fast, Die Old Generation

If you listened to our last show, we talked about either starting a new podcast or reformatting this one, and we settled on … reformatting this one. By which we just mean that we’re going to expand the topics we talk about.

With that in mind, this week’s episode focuses primarily on the music we’re listening to now. I Jennifer’s case, it’s Lollapalooza sensation Chappell Roan, and in David’s case its Jesse Malin, who suffered a rare spinal stroke in 2023 and is working his way back to the stage.

Along the way, we talk about an interesting phenomenon in music these days, namely: older artists reflecting back on their lives and contemplating where they’re headed now. We’re used to the live fast, die young mentality, but were we prepared for the live fast, die old generation?

You’ll have to listen in to find out more, but we have to give a shout out the the Jesse Malin benefit album, Silver Patron Saints, featuring 35 artists collaborating with him on 27 of his best songs, including Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Cait O’Riordan, Susanna Hoffs, Billie Joe Armstrong, Spoon, the Wallflowers, Graham Parker, and Alejandro Escovedo. Read more about it here, and please consider supporting Sweet Relief.

Side note: If you’re listening to this on Apple Podcasts or other podcasting platforms, check out our website (intheshadowoftheeveningtrees.com) links to the artists we talk about on this week’s show.

We hope you enjoy the show, please feel free to follow us on Instagram (@jenn_and_dave), and tune in to our next episode for a discussion of the great Netflix documentary, Will and Harper.

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Episode 28: We’ve Become a Sports Podcast

On this week’s episode, we talk about podcasts past and present, including our good friend Tim Corrimal’s show and the now-defunct Sportsball podcast, which leads to a discussion about hockey, the current sad state of Chicago sports … and the possibility that the Bears might become our neighbors?

And that leads to an even longer digression about the successes and failures of our local teams, from the White Sox threatening to leave Chicago for St. Petersburg in the late 1980s (and the political shenanigans that kept them here), to the down years of the 1960s and ’70s (with a few near misses along the way, including the Blackhawks’ appearance in the 1971 Stanley Cup Final), to the thirty year span from 1986 to 2016 when we won twelve championships across the four major sports with five separate teams: the Bears in 1986, the Bulls in 1991, ’92, ’93, ’96, ’97, and ’98, the White Sox in 2005, the Blackhawks in 2010, ’13, and ’15, and the Cubs in 2016.

Meanwhile, on a more serious note, we also talk about New York singer/songwriter/legend Jesse Malin, who recently suffered a rare form of stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Jesse’s a huge supporter of the Clash (somebody’s favorite band), and he’s done a lot work raising money for other musicians and folks in the hospitality industry impacted by the pandemic. Now is the opportunity help him: if you can, please donate to the Sweet Relief Fund for Jesse, here. 

So, please enjoy this week’s episode, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments, and, as always, support the rights of LGBTQIA people everywhere! And if you’re new here, you can also follow our Twitter account, @itsotetPodcast.

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