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October 12, 2020 15 mins

Wu and Botsplainer welcome Fear on to deconstruct Little Orphan Annie and point out the broken promises inherent in her hit song The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow. With special guest appearances by Google Dictionary and an AI Genii!

As promised, more info from the episode items!

  1. Go here to find This American Life episode 713: Made to Be Broken and here to learn more about Kimberlé Crenshaw: 
    • “I'm going to stop the recording for a second and just read you the quote so you can sit with it during this last part. It goes, "Treating different things the same can generate as much an inequality as treating the same things differently.”
  2. Find the two famous Tomorrows in song
    • Here (There’s Always Tomorrow—courtesy MCA Special Products (Copyright: © 1969 MCA Records Inc.) and
    • Here (Alicia Morton's rendition of The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow courtesy SME c/o Sony Classical).
  3. For some deeper insight into the Jinn or Jinni or Genni, visit our friend Britannica!
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