Springsteen's New Song

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Through the winters, ice and cold down the gleneaven a
city of flame, fought fire and dice beath. Then occupier's boots,
King Trump's private Army from the DHS, gun's belted to

(00:23):
their coats, came to minneaplus to enforce the lawn or
so their story coat against smoking rubber foolts.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
In the dawns Angine and my chevrol lan I peeled
out into the night. I've written the song since seventy seven.
I'll write it till the day I die. I haven't

(01:02):
written in anything new in decades.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Why would I.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm pretty good at joke to my I like it,
I mean melodically. I mean, I've just heard it. We've
been here, heard it when Dylan did it, and I
heard it with Bruce's spin on it. It's hard to
you know. I mean, I'm not a whack job like
so many people that I mean, I am, but not
in the same way as all of you. So I

(01:32):
straddle the line between you know, protest anthem and you
know street poets, and you know, I appreciate such a
thing and exploiting discontented, exploiting a tragedy. You know, That's

(01:52):
why I wrote in my poem Oh the More. And
he's just a guy with one eye on his Spotify.
You know. I like to think at the best of
intentionentary and this is kind of what he's always done.
He's always committed, you know. And that's why you don't
get the saber rattling in between songs. He lets the
music do the talking. I'm believering in that. That's why

(02:15):
I don't. I'm always like, I don't need you guys
delivering dissertations from podiums. When you win awards. Put it
into music. Put it in a song. You know, Sunday,
Bloody Sunday, Great Dune, you too love it. It's hard, though,
to listen to streets of Minia, Streets of Minia. It
feels exploitative. It feels like, Wow, the movie with Jeremy

(02:40):
Allen White playing me didn't resuscitate my relevance. Perhaps this
will want to cut the boss some slack and think, nah,
this is what I do. And I grab my guitar
and I sit down. And it's rage and frustration that
propels me to do this. But as I watched him

(03:01):
perform this yes day a clip and I saw his
face pulled back tight on his skull fresh from a
tanning bed, his plastic surgeon on a yacht in the background,
his mansion in the distance, even though yes, it is
in the great state of New Jersey, because yeah, you

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can take the Boy out of New Jersey, but you
can't take the New Jersey out of the boy. Sounds
a little like Mickey Rooney. When Micky Rooney played Santa Claus,
he it'll be no Christmas this year. Ma, Yeah, I
never knowdiced that before. Mickey Rooney was playing Santa Claus
as if he were a sick Bruce Springsteen