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Our Show Today Is Really Five Short, Little Shows

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We live in an "Everything Should Take Twenty Minutes" world. Movies are too long. SundanceTV has a show that airs in 10-minute episodes. Tierra Whack has a 15-minute album made of fifteen 60-second songs. Todd Rundgren's memoir has 183 one-page, three-paragraph chapters.

So today, we turn our hour over to five short, little shows about short, little things.

Here's a Spotify playlist of the albums reviewed on today's short, little episode of The Sam Hadelman Show: Sam Hadelman's short albums.

GUESTS:

  • Carmen Baskauf - Produces Where We Live on WNPR
  • Taneisha Duggan - Producing associate at TheaterWorks
  • Sam Hadelman - Host of The Sam Hadelman Show on WNHH and a journalist for the New Haven Independent
  • Brandy Jensen - An advice columnist and editor at The Outline
  • Jacques Lamarre - A playwright, and director of client services at Buzz Engine
  • Vince Mancini - Senior film and culture writer for Uproxx
  • Chion Wolf - Our announcer and technical producer
  • Bill Yousman - Professor of media studies at Sacred Heart University

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Colin McEnroe, Eugene Amatruda, and Matt Farley contributed to this show.

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SOMOS CONNECTICUT es una iniciativa de Connecticut Public, la emisora local de NPR y PBS del estado, que busca elevar nuestras historias latinas y expandir programación que alza y informa nuestras comunidades latinas locales. Visita CTPublic.org/latino para más reportajes y recursos. Para noticias, suscríbase a nuestro boletín informativo en ctpublic.org/newsletters.

Federal funding is gone.

Congress has eliminated all funding for public media.

That means $2.1 million per year that Connecticut Public relied on to deliver you news, information, and entertainment programs you enjoyed is gone.

The future of public media is in your hands.

All donations are appreciated, but we ask in this moment you consider starting a monthly gift as a Sustainer to help replace what’s been lost.