After twenty-three films and twelve years, Nick and Jacob sit down for the longest conversation they’ve had on the podcast — a genuine reckoning with what the work has been and what it’s done to them.
They talk about the musicians who stayed with them, the ones who didn’t make it to the film, the ethical questions that never fully resolve, and whether the series has changed how they hear music in their daily lives (yes, but not in the ways they expected).
This is also a conversation about attention — about what it means to spend a week or two weeks with one musical tradition, to try to understand it from the inside, and then to leave. What gets lost? What gets preserved? What’s the difference?
No easy answers. But a long, honest attempt to sit with the questions.