Episode 15

UNREDACTED! Guitars and the Epstein Files

This episode is about guitars in unexpected places.

Like...the Epstein Files.

Yes. There are guitars in the Epstein Files.

There are also dishwashers.

Does this mean that Jeffrey Epstein had a thing for guitars? Or dishwashers? Nah, it doesn't. But it does mean that guitars are everywhere in our world. Even in the world of one of the most despicable people to have ever shared our world.

Some of the instances of the word "guitar" in the Epstein Files are dumb. But others seem to tell stories. Telling stories about and with guitars is what this podcast is about.

This episode is also partially about the guitar and gender. Which has a lot to do with the stories. And there's some personal editorializing. Sorry, not sorry.

It goes off the rails a bit, but it does that in under 20 minutes.

And by the end the episode, I think you'll see where I'm going with it.

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Grant Samuelsen

Grant Samuelsen has led a multimodal professional and personal life in the worlds of contemporary art and music, business, and academia, and he has degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Carnegie Mellon University. He has published essays, articles and criticism, and he's been a guitar player since he was 13. He's interested in everything, which is a problem, but the history of the guitar has held his attention for the longest period of time, so he's doing this podcast. He's originally from the Chicago area and lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his family, guitars, and a female Staffy named after one of the male members of Black Flag.

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