Ben Folds
speaker
250 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 May
Ben Folds’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, like they can't morally or ethically do the things that the president is is is pressuring them to do, but they don't want to be subordinate either.
So the only thing they can do is publicly resign.
But then there are like the generals that are like the adults in the room.
Like, you know, if the if you're talking about like, you know, uh we're worried that that he's gonna have a you know, a a bad day and wake up and nuke somebody, then it's good to have but that's not the that's not the case with me.
There's nothing I could do there.
I was curatorial.
So, you know, I I couldn't curate within the bounds of whatever kind of white Christian thing that they wanted to do there was another problem of it.
But people's um
kind of, you know, earnest ignorance of the way that the uh arts work in the private and public sector is too I find a little frustrating when I'm trying to explain it.
the one of the uh you know uh uh legendary uh directors and conductors at the Kennedy Center was you know, they called him Slava, his name's too too long to pronounce, but uh Slava Rostropovich, cellist uh from the USSR, and also a conductor and the right hand man essentially to uh uh Dmitry Shostakovich.
Shotkovich was like
He was, you know, it's classical music dust now, but he was a big celebrity.
Stalin really cared what this guy, you know, uh thought.
He was like Bruce Springsteen or or
Taylor Swift.
And and and Stalin would go and intimidate uh uh Shostakovich at his performances.
He would show up and he'd laugh at Shostakovich from the stage, point at him, his generals were there flanking him.
And Shostakovich was like, Oh my god, my my my family's gonna get imprisoned.
I'm gonna get imprisoned, someone's gonna get killed.
Um, and it's the same thing as tweeting out, I hate Shostakovich, right?
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