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Leonard Cohen's Legacy with Adam Cohen: Thanks for the Dance

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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Puppets

On this album, there's a song called Puppets where it boldly starts with German puppets, burnt the Jews. He seems to be saying we're all puppets. So puppets for sure, but even smaller than puppets. You would often say you can read every word on the page, you just can't change any of them in the script of your life. That's a kind of fatalistic, but without the oppressiveness of the word fatalist. This idea that it's all written by some program. Let's listen to that. It's a pretty wacky one. Jewish puppets did not choose. Puppet cultures eat the dead. Puppet corpses, they are fed

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