Oddbean

I just got punk'd. I need to tell you about it. I know, I know. Plenty of warning signs. I should've known better. I should know the history of music better. But I was also intrigued. I knew *of* Jim Morrison as the lead singer of The Doors. But I didn't know the specifics of his career and life. I thought I recalled hearing there was a big drugs/alcohol angle to his story. (hint: there was) I'd never heard him on a podcast before. So when I saw Rick Rubin was hosting him on his podcast Tetragrammaton I tapped "play". And then I walked around tidying up my workspace listening intently on my Airpods. Morrison talked about growing up in the south and losing his accent, the new film projects he's working on, etc. After 29 minutes of this I was intrigued to look up Jim Morrison's wikipedia entry only to find out that he died in 1971. I listened to a half-hour podcast of Rick Rubin interviewing a dead guy. https://image.nostr.build/719abfa7eed7a3de306bcccb0b3914a47bf2f5466b696639818ff16b960267a1.jpg

@Alex Gleason 🐍🚬 I originally wrote and tried to share the above note using Ditto, but right after I clicked “post” I got some error and I think it referenced the image I had uploaded. I think it mentioned something about the timing. I had composed a few hours ago and uploaded the image at that time and then I did some other text modifications right before finalizing the post. Anyway, it looked like it kinda hung for a long time in the browser. I didn’t see any prompts requesting me to sign an event so I think I already had the correct permissions setup. Eventually I tried viewing my profile with other clients and they didn’t see the note. I finally decided to refresh the browser (after copy-buffering what I wrote) assuming it was a failed post. I ended up using the Damus MacOS app to finish publishing. Maybe I ran across an untested use-case? Just reporting a potential bug in case it’s helpful

This is what I found out about the Rick Rubin 'interview'. It was totally bogus and not good form for any sort of journalist. Jim Morrison is my favourite singer/frontman, so I am based. Rick Rubin Conducts a Weird Fake Interview with Jim Morrison For some reason, he inserted his own voice into a 1969 recording of the Doors' singer. BY Alex Hudson Published Sep 12, 2024 Producer Rick Rubin has pivoted into podcasting lately, hosting the interview show Tetragrammaton featuring musicians (Trent Reznor, John Mayer), actors (Tom Hanks, Robert Downey Jr.) and sketchy pop culture figures (wacko politician Robert F. Kennedy Jr., "trad life" food influencer Carnivore Aurelius). This week, his already strange show took an even weirder turn, as Rubin posted a fake interview with Doors singer Jim Morrison. The episode, titled "UNEXPECTED CONVERSATION: Jim Morrison" and published on September 7, features Rubin supposedly speaking with Jim Morrison (who died in 1971, when Rubin was eight years old). The 40-minute conversation sounds more or less like Rubin's other interviews, and Tetragrammaton doesn't openly cite a source for the interview, with the episode description only noting that "Rick connects with Jim Morrison." It's seemingly not AI-generated; rather, Rubin has taken Morrison's 1969 interview with The Village Voice and replaced interviewer Howard Smith's voice with his own (as well as cleaning up the background noise and making the whole thing sound a bit muffled). It's unclear why Rubin felt that he needed to insert himself into the interview, rather than simply sharing the original conversation. Kendrick Lamar used a similar trick — to much greater effect — with Tupac Shakur on his 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly.