Posted on 03/14/2025 4:20:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
'Everybody's Live With John Mulaney' featured Joan Baez alongside Michael Keaton, Fred Armisen and Cypress Hill
Netflix continues to lean into live programming with the new talk show “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.” And although the show takes much inspiration from its home base in Los Angeles, including a performance from hip hop group Cypress Hill, the first episode had a surprisingly big Bay Area presence.
The title of the episode was “Lending People Money,” and most of the conversations revolved around financial matters, with San Francisco Chronicle personal finance columnist Jessica Roy earning a place on the couch alongside Fred Armisen, Michael Keaton and Bay Area folk legend Joan Baez. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)
Baez, who recently performed a star-studded concert in San Francisco, has lived in the San Mateo County town of Woodside for many years. She rose to prominence as one of the most popular political voices in the folk music scene of the 1960s, and her music was recently featured prominently in the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown.”
Mulaney began the conversation with her by bringing up the iconic concert at the March on Washington in 1963 in which Baez played for 250,000 people — and how much she might’ve earned if they had charged tickets. Then he asked about how she knew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and how she’d reportedly said he had a great sense of humor. Before answering, she made her thoughts known on our current political landscape.
“First I have to set a context I’m here in. You said I could say anything I want out here,” Baez said. “We’re all here to be silly and have fun, as long as we recognize that our democracy is going up
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[[[ Joan Baez is still living? ]]]
I thought she got run over by a reindeer.
What is she about 125 years old now?
Joanie used to make a huuuuge deal, on April 15th, of holding back a part of her tax return payment. She always stated “I hold back the part of my taxes that goes to fund war/Pentagon.”
While she received plenty of kudos from the anti-American left, the dirty little secret was she eventually paid the full tax bill each year. The IRS will get your $$$$.
I was a bit surprised too.
Diamonds and Rust! Her best. Thanks for reminding me of it to put on my favorites play list. 👍
Mine, too. What a voice.
Good for him.
Along with Klaus Schwab and the rest of the world enslavement forum.
Are you referring to that recent movie?
I worked front desk at a nice hotel in the mid-90’s. She had a concert the next evening and was staying there. My mom (definitely NOT a liberal) was always a big fan of her music, so I went a grabbed a CD and saw her the next morning and asked her to sign it for my mom. She was unfailingly polite and even personalized it to my mom. Obviously, she’s not my cup of tea politically, but she was very nice when I met her.
The initial “Lethal Weapon” movie circa 1987. That is the best part of the movie. I do not know if you consider 1987 as being recent. ;-)
now now...
She’s over rated.
Yeah, one of my Alinskyite relatives had that album way back in time, put it on the turntable and wandered wtf?
My childhood was living outside Camp Pendleton and military family so I’ve never been partial to pro communists.
To hell with little Joan and her friends.
You would have to give me a link to each one before I would consider a word of it.
Here’s one:
https://english.radio.cz/joan-baezs-iconic-1989-concert-which-featured-vaclav-havel-a-roadie-8128415
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