From the first full week of NYC quarantine. A lot of news; none of it wanted to fit in the song structure this week. But it got there.

The week everything changed. Jerzy flies solo (from a few weeks in the future) to recap the events and news that we missed while the global Coronavirus pandemic took over our lives. 

No highlights this week, just the song and a quick recap.

We do this for the EIGHTH time. We keep getting better at it. There's a lot of news to cover. Sam was away on vacation but still could not escape this project.

Highlights: "Vaccine," "Heavy metal suicide," Bob's Red Mill, Wuhan students review-bomb homework app, and "grocs?"

We test out the new format. We like it. Also: confronting the songwriter's OBVIOUS Brooklyn Dodgers bias and getting even deeper into how the song works.

Our Highlights this week: Syngman Rhee, Roy Campanella, WhatsApp/Signal, BBC Africa Eye's "Sex for Grades" documentary expose. 

With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski

Episode 6: We figure some stuff out! Highlights: Where are we getting our news? Jerzy pitches Sam on a new format, the Renegade dance, Yemen, and THE PIANO MAN.

This week, we try out our new, streamlined approach. It goes well. We didn't hate doing it this week.

With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski.

What IS news? What happened to the "World's Worst Cat?" What if this song had been written during World War II? Why are we doing this?? We also get more efficient with our news gathering and our method of writing the final verse.

With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski.

We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of a hit song from 1989. Every week. 

With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski. 

Episode 3... was a slog. We discuss how to reduce major events into rhymes- and how we feel about that. We also have a VERY hard time writing the fifth verse this week.

We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of a hit song from 1989.  

With Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski.

Episode 2 covers January 13-19, 2020. We discuss what it was like to cover our first 7-day week, whether we are already getting sick of this, and the finer points of searching the Google News tab.

We recap and discuss the week's news by forcing ourselves to write it into the lyrical format of a hit song from 1989.

"Week Didn't Start" with Sam Corbin and Jerzy Gwiazdowski

First episode, covering January 1-12, 2020.