Tom Maier and Anthony Sifert wrap up season 4 on Johnny Cash talking about redemption and the song Hurt (originally by Nine Inch Nails). They discuss the redemptive qualities included and absent in the song with minimal biographical context. Tom has a war of nostalgia vs Anthony's war of poetry.

Hurt Music Video

Thomas Maier and Anthony Sifert are back at it with a new discussion on several ballad-type songs from the "dark ages" of Johnny's career (according to Thomas). They cover the songs Ghost Riders in the Sky, The Baron, and The Ballad of Ira Hayes. They get sidetracked quickly into Paradise Lost and a multitude of subjects that are not Johnny Cash.

Thomas Maier and Anthony Sifert continue season 4 on

Johnny Cash. They discuss Folsom Prison Blues, I Walk the Line, Hey Porter, Big River, and Give My Love to Rose. This is the last episode for the next several months as well so enjoy!

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Thomas Maier and Anthony Sifert open up season 4 on Johnny Cash with the song Sunday Morning Coming Down from the Johnny Cash Show Live Album in 1970. They discuss Johnny's story of redemption and the role that the song played.

Kakutani, Michiko. “The High Times, and the Hard Ones, of a Gritty Musical Outlaw.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 1 Dec. 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/books/johnny-cash-the-life-by-robert-hilburn.html

Hilburn, Robert. Johnny Cash: The Life. Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company, 2014.

New Season about country legend Johnny Cash

Hilburn, Robert. Johnny Cash: The Life. Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company, 2014.

Thomas Maier, Sam Davis, and Aharon Dubovin revisit an episode from season 1 on the controversial book 'The Closing of the American Mind' by Alan Bloom. They discuss raising children in a highly degenerate world of gang music and the evils of the internet. They also discuss the merits of political control over the "pursuit of happiness".

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Schaff, Jon D. “I Can Hear Music.” Front Porch Republic, 21 July 2024,

www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/07/i-can-hear-music/

Thomas Maier and return guest John Maier finish season 3, Radiohead: An Airbag Saved My Life. They discuss electioneering, politics according to Machiavelli, I.M.F., and propaganda.

Lyrics to Electioneering by Radiohead

Thomas Maier and a round table of guests; Aharon Dubovin and Sam Davis (Connor Sayger was missing unfortunately) deviate from the usual Radiohead banter to discuss the origin of music, how music was, and how it was supposed to be. They discuss the aims of 'The Arts' and whether they are good by nature or not.