Janelle Monàe and Nate Wonder: World Happiness Day Bonus
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In recognition of this month's World Happiness Day, we are presenting one of our favorite episodes from last year with Janelle Monàe and her longtime collaborator, Nate Wonder. Janelle's latest album, The Age Of Pleasure, was created in part as a celebration of black love and community. And as Nate Wonder shares in this interview with Justin Richmond, one of his guiding principles when making the album was to make Janelle smile.
As part of Pushkin Industries' network-wide celebration of World Happiness Day, we will also be sharing an episode of The Happiness Lab from our brilliant colleague, Laurie Santos later this month.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, Malcolm Glabel here. |
| 0:11.0 | A little while back, I became obsessed with stories that fell apart. |
| 0:15.3 | Specifically, Hollywood projects that fell apart and why they did. |
| 0:18.9 | So I started calling up everyone I knew in Hollywood and asked them to pitch me their favorite idea, the one that broke their heart because it never got made. |
| 0:27.0 | These stories were so good, and we decided to turn them into a series on revisionist history. |
| 0:32.0 | We're calling it development |
| 0:34.5 | hell the dreaded phrase known in Hollywood ever wants to hear, the one that |
| 0:39.3 | describes purgatory, where once promising scripts go to die. |
| 0:45.0 | There's going to be name dropping, celebrity gossip, endless digressions, |
| 0:49.0 | a story that was way too shocking for the studios, |
| 0:51.0 | one that was told from the point of view of an exotic pet. |
| 0:55.2 | And about the wild ride we went on trying to adapt my book, Blink. |
| 0:58.6 | I can't wait to share it all with you. |
| 1:01.6 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts and as always you can listen to all |
| 1:05.5 | of Revision's History ad free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus. Hey there. It's Justin Richmond. We're revisiting an episode we recently put out with |
| 1:19.3 | Janelle Monet to celebrate World Happiness Day. |
| 1:24.0 | We're part of the Pushkin Network and one of my colleagues, Lori Santos, who hosts the |
| 1:28.0 | Happiness Lab Podcast, asked me to share an episode that makes me happy. |
| 1:31.7 | And to be honest, nothing made me happier than this episode with |
| 1:34.0 | Janelle and Nate Wonder so to celebrate World Happiness Day and the World |
| 1:39.2 | Happiness Report that the UN puts out every March in honor of my colleague Lori Santos from the |
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