Summary   "Everyone should feel like the star of their own life." This week we take a deep breath and dive into Nyad, a biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad's multiple attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida. Also discussed: The Greatest Night in Pop, Tracy Chapman at the Grammys, and Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé.     Show notes:

Tracy Chapman - Talkin' About A Revolution (Official Music Video) (YouTube) 

Tracy Chapman doesn't want to be bothered . . . (W. Kamau Bell's Who's With Me? newsletter)

 

Recommendations:

Lisa:  "The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave" (New Yorker)

Andrea G.:  The Greatest Night in Pop (documentary) 

Andrea W.:  Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé

Music credits 

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Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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