Everything Is Fake

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View this email in your browser Good morning! You're all being so cute, sharing your clumsy 2009 selfies — even those of you who went through a My Chemical Romance phase. The problem is, we're a radio show, and there aren't any cute pictures of us from 2009. (Luckily, our My Chemical Romance phase went undocumented.) What we do have, though, are The Archives. And so we present, in no particular order, A Few Gems from 2009: Bob spoke with a Netflix big-wig about their latest idea — to stream movies directly to its customers' computers.  We examined the origins of the ACORN story, in which fringe conservative blogs drove real-world change. It felt new then. Does it sound familiar now?  We did a segment? about whether? we're being?? too nice??? on the web???? Obama's comms director Anita Dunn told CNN that Fox News was "the communications arm of the Republican Party." Gasp! We did a segment about it!  And — as we pointed out on twitter a couple days ago — whereas in 2009 we asked, "What is cloud computing?", this past week, we asked "Is the Internet Mostly Fake?" Time marches on! (Okay, fine, we found this too............) Listen To The Latest Show: Everything Is Fake [ In Case You Missed It ] When the Internet is Mostly Fake Towards the end of last week's program, New York Magazine journalist Max Read introduced us to a dizzying concept: The Inversion, a theoretical moment when the internet as we understand it — that is, as a space inhabited by people — ceases to be. We've already had an sour taste of what might replace the human-run-web, and it includes everything from bots to fake businesses to entirely fake economic and political systems. Click here to confirm that you're a human, not a robot, and also to listen to the segment. [ Listen To This ] The Slowdown When you crawl out the front door tomorrow morning, before you put on your daily news podcast of choice, try Tracy K. Smith's new daily poetry podcast. She muses for a few minutes on some subject, and then she reads a poem on the same subject. The episodes are short enough to repeat — even a few times — and, obviously, the poetry is good. (She's the mf poet laureate, after, all.) Hear here.  [ Speaking Of Daily Podcasts ] The Daily's Theme Song But With Words In case you missed it............. [ Check This Out ] "Not Great, Bob!" Does it ever feel like we've all died together and this is actually hell? No? Just us? Anyway, we were intrigued to see this deep read/book review in The New Yorker this week about popular visions of hell for no reason at all that we can think of. It examines ideas of not-heaven ranging from Odysseus to William Blake, all collected in The Penguin Book of Hell just out. "A Hell doesn't exist," Pope Francis reportedly said earlier this year. Read this piece anyway.  [ Podcast Extra ] That Time Brooke Met Rosanne Cash Last week Brooke sat down with the legendary American singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash for an evening of talk and music at WNYC's very own performance space, The Greene Space. If you missed the show, you're in luck! You can listen to their conversation here. [ From the Archives ] State of the State of the Union Yesterday Nancy Pelosi suggested that President Trump may have to deliver his upcoming State of the Union address in writing, citing shutdown-related security concerns. It would be a turn away from recent precedent — and a return to at least a century of SOTU practice. Back in 2006, Xeni Jardin — sitting in for Brooke — spoke with John Dickerson about the evolution of this sometimes–media spectacle. Listen to it here. [ Coming Up... ] Bhangra boogies, diss tracks, eleven-year-olds, and the future of Youtube.  Thanks for listening, and for reading. We love feedback, so please contact us with any questions or comments. We're busy, but we read them all, promise.  DONATE TO OTM

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