The Sunday Digest 073
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Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you. Or, if podcasts are more your speed on Sundays, we’ve got that too.
Sunday Read › How FOX Sports’ Resident Deadheads Brought Jam Bands To Big Games
by Eric Renner Brown for Billboard
Some people spend their fall Sundays watching football. Others spend their fall Sundays listening to Jerry Garcia Band on Sirius during a nice autumn drive. But others, well, they enjoy both.
This week’s Sunday Read is an explanation as to why you’ll randomly hear jam bands taking you into commercial during NFL games on FOX. Last year, Goose’s “Hungersite” was featured during the Super Bowl, but it’s no rare occurence anymore.
Here’s an excerpt:
For many viewers, the first clue that the FOX Sports edit bay might be tie-dye-friendly came during 2017’s Super Bowl LI, in a produced pregame video narrated by actor Ving Rhames introducing the competing New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons. Jolivette used Audioslave’s “Cochise” for the Patriots — and Phish’s exuberant “Tweezer Reprise” for the Falcons. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio and the band’s former longtime road manager, Brad Sands, watched the show, and a screenshotted text thread between them circulated on jam-loving corners of the internet. (Sands said, “Falcons have to win now right?” and Anastasio agreed.) “I love ‘Tweezer.’ I love how it builds,” says Jolivette before adding with a chuckle, “Mind you, my editor hated the song — but I still got it in.”
Read in full here.
New Episode › Retail Therapy 065: Caesar Salad Martinis & Millennial Mortality
Breaking down the elements of a Caesar Salad Martini, a look at the existential crisis Gen-Z has put on millennials online, and the internet's reaction to Jacob Elordi choking a radio producer. We also touch on some articles of interest including the Snoopy Omega watch, Gen-Z bedtimes, the surge of high-end fragrance sales, the dwindling of fringe friends, and the potential demise of Soho House.
Listen to Retail Therapy on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube (see above), and anywhere else podcasts are found.
The Sunday Haiku: That’s why you wait until Wednesday to check your bank account.
It’s fine, squint your eyes,
I mean, how bad can it be?
…shit, that bad, I guess.
Things I Saved This Week
Supplemental Reading
Last week’s edition of Sunday Confessions.
On appropriation vs. representation from The Serpent Club.
My sister, who is clearly cooler than me based on what I’m about to type, recently completed a biathlon in Montana.
I wrote about 11 Things I Consumed Last Week on Washed Weekly.
This week’s edition of Lunch Reads went absolutely crazy.