Otis Brown's Podcast
Interesting Stuff: reflections on the American place with side trips into literature, art, music, culture and language.Otis Brown's Podcast is a weekly 20 minute monologue podcast often addressing current issues through the lens of personal anecdotes and American Art and Culture--think of it as a radio show you can listen to whenever you want. With free-ranging stories built around cultural figures from John Lewis to Dolores Huerta, musicians from Little Richard to Dolly Parton and painters from the cave painters of Chauvet to living artists like Wayne Thiebaud, Otis Brown's Podcast attempts to construct literary narratives that try and make sense of the beautiful American mess we walk with in the world.
Otis Brown's Podcast
Bezos Buys Moon: Let's All Eat Cake
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Otis
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Season 2
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Episode 9
Hey, what do you do if you get a tax break? Pay down your credit card? Go out to eat? Bezos and Branson build cool rockets that the rest of us can look at on our phone! What fun! In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I offer some thoughts on the centibillionaire space race and make the (rather obvious) observation that Jeff Bezos is no John Glenn.
Key words:
Jeff Bezos
Richard Branson
John Glenn Friendship 7
Gil Scott Heron: "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," "Whitey on the Moon"
Lightnin' Hopkins: Walking This Road by Myself, "Happy Blues for John Glenn"