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The hosts discuss how institutional money and corporations like Adidas hide the "puppet strings" of control. They embrace their own position on the "podcasting chitlin circuit," arguing that staying small and maintaining creative control is more valuable than being a "big" controlled artist.
Adam Curry and Mo discuss the importance of independent funding in media to avoid the sanitization required by corporate test audiences. They relate Robert Townsend's struggle to fund Hollywood Shuffle to their own "Value for Value" podcast model. They argue that true artistic and intellectual freedom is only possible when creators are not beholden to the "powers that be."
