Ska Boom - An American Ska & Reggae Podcast is hosted by Marc Wasserman, author of Soul Salvation: A Gen-X Love Letter To The English Beat and Ska Boom: An American Ska & Reggae Oral History published by DiWulf Publishing. Wasserman helped to found Bigger Thomas -- the first ska band from New Jersey -- in 1988 and had a front row seat to watch the growth of American ska. Ska Boom is the audio companion to his books. The podcast explores the impact of ska and reggae on popular music and featu ...
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A podcast devoted to talking about the records we love. History, context, analysis... it's all here. Hopefully. Or maybe we're just fawning over stuff we like. talkingrecords@outlook.com
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Join host Isaac Levin as he has great conversations with folks in the technology and Open Source Community Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coffeandopensource/support
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The Marc Steiner Show meets you at the intersection of politics and culture. We produce dynamic conversations and visual productions with activists, actors, artists and authors to creatively get to the root of the social, political and cultural issues that we and our world face. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-marc-steiner-show--4661751/support.
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Elevate with Tyler Chesser - The Real Estate Podcast for Investing, Mindset and Personal Development
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Mindset, mind expansion and personal development for high-performing real estate investors. Join Tyler Chesser, a successful real estate entrepreneur and personal growth thought leader, as he sits down for mind expanding conversations with influential authorities in real estate, as well as top experts in other industries and disciplines. In these discussions, Tyler distills the mindset, habits, routines and tactics from the experts which will support you in your own quest to Elevate to a lif ...
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#159 The English Beat (Special Beat Service) with Marc Wasserman
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My guest this week is Marc Wasserman who wrote the amazing book Soul Salvation: A Gen X Love Letter to the English Beat. Marc joins us to talk about the band's third album Special Beat Service. https://www.diwulf.com/products/soul-salvation-a-gen-x-love-letter-to-the-english-beat-by-marc-wasserman
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Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: Special Beat
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Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast! This season is called Soul Salvation and its the companion to my new book “Soul Salvation – A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat." Through the book and this podcast I’m telling the story of the Special Beat Service album which embodies both the brilliance and the bittersweet end of the English Beat whose son…
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Chris DeMars is a Senior Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean. He has over 20 years of technical experience and speaks globally on various frontend topics and has received accolades for his community contributions, including the prestigious Microsoft MVP and Progress Champion awards. Chris is passionate about enhancing web development and helping dev…
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What the Chicano Movement can teach us about organizing Latinos today
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With Donald Trump continuing to demonize immigrants, especially immigrants from Latin America, and with Republicans calling for "Mass Deportation Now," Latinos in the US find themselves in the crosshairs of a national debate over immigration, border policy, racism, and economic justice. What can the Chicano Movement of the 20th century teach us abo…
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Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: Go Feet
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Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast! This season is called Soul Salvation and its the companion to my new book “Soul Salvation – A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat." Through the book and this podcast I’m telling the story of the Special Beat Service album which embodies both the brilliance and the bittersweet end of the English Beat whose son…
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Remembering the Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War
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On August 29, 1970, the Chicano Moratorium Against the Viet Nam War mobilized the largest Chicano protest and the largest anti-war protest led by a community of color at the time. Combining a critique of US imperialism abroad and racism at home, the Chicano Moratorium was the result of years of organizing and consciousness raising by Chicano libera…
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Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: Blockhead
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Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast! This season is called Soul Salvation and its the companion to my new book “Soul Salvation – A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat." Through the book and this podcast I’m telling the story of the Special Beat Service album which embodies both the brilliance and the bittersweet end of the English Beat whose son…
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The view from '68: Bill Ayers on the Chicago DNC
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It's a presidential election year, and a deeply divisive imperialist war has split the public. As the Democratic National Convention gathers in Chicago, anti-war organizers vow to be in the streets to protest US responsibility for a genocide overseas. No, this isn't 2024. It's 1968. And the police riot that follows in the city of Chicago has effect…
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Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: Saxa
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Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast! This season is called Soul Salvation and its the companion to my new book “Soul Salvation – A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat." Through the book and this podcast I’m telling the story of the Special Beat Service album which embodies both the brilliance and the bittersweet end of the English Beat whose son…
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April is a senior developer advocate and DevOps practice lead at GitHub, specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps practices. In April’s spare tim…
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Appalachia uprising: Why MAGA doesn't have answers for America's poorest region
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J.D. Vance's rise to the GOP ticket has opened up scrutiny into the junior senator's past and roots. Before he entered politics, Vance entered the public spotlight as the author of a best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. While often marketed as an authentic glimpse of Appalachian working class life, what Elegy really offers is a portrait of a man w…
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Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: Everett Morton
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Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast! This season is called Soul Salvation and its the companion to my new book “Soul Salvation – A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat." Through the book and this podcast I’m telling the story of the Special Beat Service album which embodies both the brilliance and the bittersweet end of the English Beat whose son…
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David is a software engineer who spent most of his career in the Seattle area, working at Microsoft and Google. He has contributed to a range of products over the years, including ASP.NET, NuGet, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Microsoft Office and Google Cloud infrastructure. He now lives in Paris, near where he grew up, and is currently takin…
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#158 Shelter (Here We Go Again) Talking Records singles with Brian
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Another one song mini episode. Talking Records singles! This time around we look at Shelter's Here We Go Again.
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A Palestinian and an Israeli fight together—for peace
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The images of members of US Congress giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu multiple standing ovations during his recent visit to Washington DC are certain to go down in history. While Netanyahu spoke of "finishing the job" in Gaza, to raucous applause, peace activists Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon also recently addressed members of Congre…
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Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: General Public
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Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast! This season is called Soul Salvation and its the companion to my new book “Soul Salvation – A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat." Through the book and this podcast I’m telling the story of the Special Beat Service album which embodies both the brilliance and the bittersweet end of the English Beat whose son…
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'We will return': A look back on University of Toronto's People's Circle for Palestine
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At the University of Toronto, students, faculty, and community members successfully staged one of the longest-standing encampments on any campus, holding out for a total of 63 days. While the People's Circle for Palestine ultimately dismantled itself in response to a court injunction, the movement successfully brought the issue of divestment to the…
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#157 Chaser (Small Victories) with Mike LeDonne
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Chaser vocalist Mike joins the show to discuss the band's new album Small Victories. https://thousandislandsrecords.com/
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Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: FYC
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Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast! This season is called Soul Salvation and its the companion to my new book “Soul Salvation – A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat." Through the book and this podcast I’m telling the story of the Special Beat Service album which embodies both the brilliance and the bittersweet end of the English Beat whose son…
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Emily Freeman believes the greatest challenges we face aren’t technical, but human. She is a bestselling author of two books, DevOps for Dummies and 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, and a prolific speaker, traveling across the globe to educate executives and engineers on the best approaches to AI, DevOps, and cloud engineering. Emily has…
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David Giard is a former accountant and a former biochemist, who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies for over three decades. Currently, David helps people design and build solutions in his role as a Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft. David has been very active in the developer community, speaking at numerous major confer…
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Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: Covers
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Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast! This season is called Soul Salvation and its the companion to my new book “Soul Salvation – A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat." Through the book and this podcast I’m telling the story of the Special Beat Service album which embodies both the brilliance and the bittersweet end of the English Beat whose son…
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The Trump assassination attempt changes everything
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John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and now Trump. America is no stranger to attempted and successful political assassinations, but something feels different about this time. On July 13, former President Donald J. Trump survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, PA, that left one bystander dead and two othe…
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#156 Less Than Jake (Hello Rockview) with Girth Control
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Bob, Jay, and Mark from Girth Control join the show to talk about Less Than Jake's 1998 album Hello Rockview. The fellas are also here to promote The Pioneer Valley Ska Festival on July 27, at Hawks & Reed in Greenfield MA linktr.ee/413ska for tickets
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Soul Salvation - A Gen X Love Letter To The English Beat: The End
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Hi! It’s Marc Wasserman! It’s been a minute. But I’m glad to be back. Welcome back to the Ska Boom podcast and welcome to Soul Salvation, a limited edition series about the English Beat and their third and final album Special Beat Service that was released in 1982. I have a question for you? Can music save your life? I believe it can. Not surprisin…
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France's elections: Can the NFP hold its ground against the right?
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The twists and turns of France's recent election have ended with a surprise majority for the New Popular Front, a hastily cobbled together left coalition running the gamut from the Communists to the Greens. The NFP's unexpected triumph turned the early success of the far-right National Rally in the first round of the election on its head. But the r…
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In the West Bank, a rabbi fights to defend Palestinian land
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In the West Bank, the Palestinian struggle to defend land from the clutches of settlers is a daily battle. Rabbi Arik Ascherman is one of the few Israeli Jews who has dedicated his life to assisting Palestinians in defending their land. Ascherman returns to The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the work of his organization, Torat Tzedek, and the increas…
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Zach is a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and cofounder of Fleet, where he works to unlock the full potential of osquery for enterprise and open-source customers. He brings the vision and experience of co-creating and working with osquery since the earliest design documents at Facebook in 2014. He has served as a member of the Linux Foundation osque…
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'I don't...consider Israel a real place': Upstart candidate challenges arch-Zionist Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Jen Perelman challenged incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz once before for Florida's 25th congressional seat in the 2022 Democratic primary. Now, Perelman is back, and this time her staunch anti-Zionism is front and center in her campaign to unseat Wasserman Schultz, one of the most dedicated Zionists in Congress. Perelman sits down with The Marc S…
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'It was petrifying': An aid worker's account of life in the West Bank under apartheid
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The genocide in Gaza has captured the attention of the world, but nowhere in Palestine is safe from Israel's onslaught. Israeli repression, land grabs, and deadly raids in the West Bank have increased dramatically since Oct. 7. Long subjected to a brutal apartheid system and routine attacks from settlers and the IDF, Palestinians in the West Bank n…
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AMLO, Sheinbaum, and the legacy and future of Mexico's Morena
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The June 2 election of Claudia Sheinbaum made history for two reasons: Sheinbaum will be Mexico's first woman president ever, and the progressive Morena party will now control the executive and both houses of the national legislature. Morena's rise to power has brought an enormous historical shift to Mexico, which for more than a century prior was …
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Marc is a Sr Developer Advocate at Diagrid with a strong focus on event-driven architectures. He loves helping developers to achieve more every day. You might have seen Marc at a developer meetup or conference, since he's a regular speaker and event-organizer in the area of Dapr, Azure cloud, and serverless technologies. From 2019 to 2024 Marc rece…
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Uni. of Toronto's People's Circle for Palestine holds for a month with community solidarity
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On May 2, students at the University of Toronto organized under the banner of UofT Occupy for Palestine seized King's College Circle at the university's St. George Campus, establishing what has come to be known as the People's Circle for Palestine. The People's Circle has now held its ground for over a month, withstanding threats from university ad…
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Vote Uncommitted’s plan to push Biden on Gaza ceasefire
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Across the country, Democrats are organizing campaigns to vote uncommitted in the primary elections. Yet the aims of this movement are to do more than simply register dissent against Biden's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza. The Uncommitted Campaign will pick up delegates in every state and congressional district where more than 15% of voters …
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Joe Guadagno is a currently Vice President of IT for RT². He has been writing software for over 20 years, has been an active member of the .NET community, serving on the .NET Foundation Board of Directors, as President, and has been a Microsoft MVP in .NET for more than 15 years. He has spoken through the United States and international events on t…
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#155 Foo Fighters (The Colour & the Shape) with Jay Young
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My buddy Jay and I dive into the Foo Fighters' second album The Colour & the Shape.
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#154 Dead Boys (Sonic Reducer) Talking Records singles with Brian
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Brian and I dive into Sonic Reducer by the Dead Boys on this second installment of Talking Records Singles.
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Eric Lippert is a designer of fine programming languages; at Microsoft he worked on Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C#. At Facebook he worked on Hack (a gradually-typed PHP) and Bean Machine (a probabilistic extension of Python for data scientists). He is at present enjoying taking a break from corporate life. You can find Eric on the following…
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#153 The Lunachicks (Pretty Ugly) with Gina Volpe
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Lunachicks guitarist Gina Volpe joins the show to discuss the band's 1997 album Pretty Ugly. We also discuss Gina's solo album and the release of the Lunachicks' book Fallopian Rhapsody.
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How surgeons remotely assisted their colleagues in Gaza
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Seven months of brutal Israeli genocide in Gaza have obliterated the local healthcare system, as the IDF has repeatedly targeted and destroyed hospitals and clinics in its military operations. When healthcare infrastructure was still standing, Gaza's healthcare workers faced the challenge of treating grave injuries requiring specialist care. To get…
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Jeremy is a Windows Developer MVP, Avalonia MVP, and Arm Ambassador who mostly focuses on all things Windows on Arm. He is a member of the .NET Foundation Project Committee and is also a member of the selection committee for .NET on AWS FOSS Fund. He enjoys making contributions to OSS to help move projects forward and to ensure that Arm support is …
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#152 H2O (Nothing To Prove) with Chris Wrenn from Bridge 9
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Chris Wrenn of Bridge Nine Records joins the show to discuss H2O's 2008 album Nothing To Prove. bridge9.com
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Anjuan Simmons has led software development teams for over two decades, and he excels at shipping features that customers love while also managing healthy teams. He’s delivered software for large global management consulting companies like Accenture and Deloitte as well as a number of startups. Anjuan’s approach to leading teams combines the rigor …
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Illegal real estate sales of Palestinian land are happening around the US
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Six months into the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, there is little use denying that what is taking place before our eyes is an intended land grab. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have called for Gaza to be "resettled" and for the Palestinian population to be expelled. And in the US, the likes o…
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Rizel Scarlett is a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD, Block's newest business unit. With a diverse background spanning GitHub, startups, and non-profit organizations, Rizel has cultivated a passion for utilizing emerging technologies to champion equity within the tech industry. She moonlights as an Advisor at G{Code} House, an organization aimed at …
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Martin is an open-source software developer and Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He specializes in cross-platform application development and loves the Microsoft technology stack. He enjoys sharing his knowledge with other developers at conferences and on-line. In spare time he enjoys sport climbing/bouldering, gaming on Xbox, reading, geocach…
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The long roots of Pakistan's political crisis
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Since 2022, the politics of Pakistan have been rocked by a struggle for power centered around former prime minister Imran Khan. Khan, who was ousted from office by a parliamentary no-confidence motion in April 2022, has alleged that his removal from office was orchestrated at the behest of the US government. This January, Khan was sentenced to 10 y…
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#151 Screw 32 (Under the Influence of Bad People) with Doug Sangalang
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Screw 32 guitarist Doug Sangalang joins the show to talk about the band's 1997 album Under the Influence of Bad People on Fat Wreck Chords.
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#150 Fugazi ("Waiting Room") Talking Records Singles with Brian
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What? A ten minute episode and it's just one song? Here's a new feature (until we get bored of doing it) where we dive into one song. A mini episode is what the cool kids call it. Enjoy this look at Waiting Room by Fugazi.
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Justin is a developer who’s helped create Oscar winning movies at Disney Animation, built infrastructure for Disney+, and worked on EKS at AWS. He is now the Director of Developer Relations at Sidero Labs and host of the Ship it! podcast You can find Justin on the following sites: Twitter Website PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcas…
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