Hey everyone, Jody Avergan here with a little Sunday context.

First off, let me say that next Sunday we are going to mark five years of this podcast, if you can believe it.

We're going to talk about some of our favorite episodes, look at some trends about topics and years and themes that we've covered.

If there's anything you want to add to that conversation

about your favorite episodes or kinds of episodes or anything else to help us mark five years,

go ahead and email us ThisDaypod at gmail.com. And we're also going to put some polls and prompts

and other stuff in our next newsletter. So be sure to subscribe to that, which you can do on our

website, thisdaypod.com.

Anyway, today's episode, it's Sunday. Now, you may have heard me mention that I am hosting a new

music show, total passion project, something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's called

Summer Album, Winter Album, and I thought I'd play you a bit of a recent episode that does

have a little bit of a historical tie-in. But look, I'd play you a bit of a recent episode that does have a little bit of

a historical tie-in. But look, I co-host this show with the great Craig Finn, who is best known as

the frontman for the band, The Hold Steady, one of my favorite contemporary songwriters and just a very

thoughtful and charming person who I love talking about music with. And the whole premise of the show is basically

that, as I'm sure you'll agree, every album is either a summer album or a winter album. And Craig and I

debate some of our favorite albums, each of us arguing aside, summer or winter. Then we bring in a

guest and we actually try and get a verdict from the artist themselves at the end of every episode.

It has been really fun to make, and I wanted to play for all of you that this day audience

some of the recent episode we did on Paul Simon's 1986 album, Graceland.

And our special guest was Malcolm Gladwell, who I'm sure you are very familiar with.

I really love this conversation.

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