This week, Kate is unexpectedly back home in Alaska, Richie is melting in Los Angeles, and a suspiciously perfect Afro House track sends us into a much bigger conversation about AI, craftsmanship, Spotify, the Grammys, extractive systems, and why having an idea is not the same thing as making something.

From there, as usual, the playlists take us everywhere: early-2000s pop punk and Richie's brief frosted-tips era, the German song that became a Frank Sinatra standard, new friends and old memories in Hong Kong, Australian and Papua New Guinean voices, Alaska folk music, Jeremy Dutcher and Indigenous language preservation, Hungarian ancestral echoes, the Womack Sisters carrying a remarkable musical lineage, an electrified Turkish bağlama, Radiohead, and a rare dose of Turkmen pop.

Along the way, we wonder whether making things with our hands might become a small act of rebellion, reconstruct the deeply unfortunate voice of an ancient mummy, drink overpriced beer out of wine glasses, badly tip a Viennese waiter, meet a puppy with excellent eyebrows, and remember that sometimes the best response to an increasingly synthetic world is remarkably simple: pick up an instrument, go hear somebody play, make something badly, and get a little better tomorrow.

Also: an idea is not enough.

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Produced and edited by Kate Bass and Richard Steighner.

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7tyDJYblDY3oLEQj11Vb5f?si=RC_UdtxISGebdsW3jS5kDw

🍎 Full Playlist on Apple Music:

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/entry-points-13/pl.u-DdANrYaFLkNWVB

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🗟 Full Transcript:

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