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wow hey y'all Sam Sanders here at KCRW thank you for listening so that voice you just heard that is David Archuleta yeah from American Idol

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gentlemen.

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Thank you so much for listening to the show today.

This show is a co-production between Sam Sanders Productions and KCRW.

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There was, uh, not really a, a gig in Big Sur waiting for me.

It was in LA that I became a regular listener to KCRW, the, uh, NPR affiliate out there, which has a, a ton of great music shows, curated, independently programmed music shows like Morning Becomes Eclectic, that I, uh, became addicted to, and that's where I heard The Thrills for the first time.

This is one of these bands that I feel like KCRW broke in America, although they didn't really become as big as some other bands they broke, like Coldplay.

But again, I digress.

The Thrills, Hollywood kids.

But first, we banter.

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From the acclaimed director of Jason Bourne comes the thrilling new movie The Uprising, starring Andrew Garfield.

In a land of kings, a man of the people will defy the most powerful empire on earth and ignite a revolution.

And so how do we embrace those manipulations, let the audience in on those things? And if we can acknowledge it, can we get to a new reality? Can we get to something that feels different but true to the people in the project itself?

Coming up after the break, Lance Oppenheim talks about placating his main subject in Ren Faire, the temperamental King George, with gifts of obscure books and vintage copies of The New Yorker.

You're listening to The Business from KCRW.

And then he had an encounter with a fireman that ultimately led him to leave journalism and become an activist.

He was interviewed about it on KCRW podcast Question Everything in an episode entitled The Journalist and the Firefighter.

How one of the most accomplished reporters of our time, Barton Gelman, lost his confidence in journalism.

And the link for that will be in our show notes.

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Sarah and Mo and I are going to come back and talk a little bit about money in that Texas Senate race next.

and then talk about an unexpected guest from the Democratic Party who showed up at that Trumpalooza in Texas.

And so that's why I think a lot of his Senate colleagues are letting him do this thing to some extent.

House Democrats are going hard at him because they all want his job.

You're listening to Left, Right and Center from KCRW.

Like What if we don't just go to dinner every time we have the opportunity to be social, but we do something else? Surely that's a gateway drug into learning other things about each other.

Case in point, this past week, a friend of mine who we've been friends, and we were roommates freshman year of college, we decided to take the path less traveled, and instead of going to dinner, which is what we normally do, we went to this, um, Summer Nights event thrown by KCRW here in LA, and it was at the Autry Museum.

Weirdly, that's the second time I've been to the Autry Museum this year, and I had never been previously.

But anyway, beautiful venue to have Elijah Wood, AKA Frodo Baggins, literally DJing for free in [laughs] the middle of this crowd.