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"terry gross" Discussed on Fresh Air
"This is fresh air. I'm Terry gross, the new hit sitcom. Abbott elementary about the teachers in a majority black under resourced elementary school was created by my guest Quinta Brunson, who also stars on the show. Before getting her own show, she was known for her viral short videos and series on the Internet, like the girl who's never been on a nice date. She was a producer and actor for BuzzFeed video and was a cast member on the first season of a black lady sketch show. Inhabit elementary, she plays a second grade teacher in a Philadelphia school. She's pretty new at the job, and has remained fired up by idealism, but is still pretty naive. The series is a mockumentary. In this scene, from episode one, she's in front of the camera describing herself. What she says is interspersed with a scene from her classroom. She's given her students to the count of three to do what she's told them to do. She's already up to 8 when this scene begins. I'm Janine teagues, I've been teaching second grade here at ebit elementary for a year now. 8. 9. As a product of the Philadelphia school system, I'm proud to say I survived and now teach here today. All right guys, so there have been three presidents since this one, okay? It's an old book, so here's where I taped in the others. I'd say the main problem in the school district is, yeah, no money. The city says there isn't any, but they're doing a multi-million dollar renovation to the eagle stadium down the street from here. But we just make do. I mean, the staff here is incredible. They're all amazing teachers. I really look up to.
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"terry gross" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"This week's on the media the pitched cries to pull books from school libraries and curricula are for who exactly It's not about the kids It's about creating such havoc in public schools that they're able to say why are we paying tax money to this institution that isn't doing its job Meet the parents on this week's on the media from WNYC Tomorrow morning at ten on WNYC It's all things considered on WNYC and tonight on fresh air weekend Terry gross speaks with screenwriter and director Guillermo told del toro about his film nightmare alley and science journalist Florence Williams investigates the biological reasons why the heartbreaker for divorce literally made her sick You can tune it at 7 on 93.9 FM AMA 20 or you can join us online at WNYC dot org Mostly clear skies tonight with a low of around 16 sunny conditions on Sunday with a high of 33 Monday rain and snow showers in the morning that rain and snow will change to rain showers by the afternoon how to gain up to around 41° partly cloudy conditions for Tuesday with a high of 46 and looking like a nice sunny day for Wednesday with a high near 44° Right now here at our studios and Lower Manhattan is 26° under partly cloudy skies This is WNYC Support for.
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"terry gross" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Do you feel like there's I could be an alternative comic. I could be that really dark. I was. I was very dark comic to begin with. I could be that guy. And the only reason I didn't is that I wanted to make money. I wanted to be popular. I wanted to be liked more than I wanted to be admired. Does that make any sense? Sure. You know, and my mom, and my family, you know, I was trying to, that was my audience. I really, I think I've always been trying to heal families and here's why. I did a cartoon about my family. All my specials are about my family, and I wrote all that stuff with the intent that you and your children if you have any and your parents. Could sit in a room. And all get something out of the performance. Or the jokes or whatever. That was my goal. But I think the world's changed a lot. I mean, I think I could go to another level, but I don't know, what am I going to, am I going to betray my audience? Is that a betrayal? You know? You have to allow yourself to grow as a performer if that's what you want to do to change. I think performance shouldn't let audiences hold them back from becoming the artist that they're ready to be. But you know you get so much criticism from it. You know that, right? Sure. I mean, you know, the press is relentless, but your fans are manager. But I mean, you do have to take that chance. I mean, I'm not afraid to do it. Louis Anderson speaking with Terry gross in 2016, he died last week at the age of 68..
NEWS 88.7
"terry gross" Discussed on NEWS 88.7
"Air. I'm David Bianculli in for Terry. Gross. I know place, you know. Cry. We conclude our summer of soul series with Also Gladys Knight, her Motown hits with the Pips included. I heard it through the Grapevine, neither one of us in the end of our road. She had one of her biggest hits after leaving Motown. Oh, person. I'll take you that first the news Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Jack Spear. The US secretaries of state and defense are in Qatar, the Gulf nation and has become a hub for international diplomacy on Afghanistan. Their first stop at dinner with the Amir more from NPR's Michele Kelemen, Secretary of state Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin are traveling separately, but both are in Qatar. They're taking part in joint meetings to thank local officials for helping in a massive evacuation effort from Afghanistan. Lincoln is trying to build up an international consensus on how to deal with the Taliban, though he's not planning any meetings with Afghanistan's new rulers, even though the Taliban do have an office in Doha from here, Blinken travels to Germany and, along with his German counterpart will co host a virtual meeting with about 20 other foreign ministers to discuss the way forward. Michele Kelemen. NPR NEWS. Doha Cruise in Louisiana say they have restored power to nearly 70% of New Orleans and Baton Rouge after Hurricane Ida over outside those large cities. Thousands remain in the dark more than a week after the storm made landfall there. Officials with energy, a major power companies say. In some cases, crews are using airboats to get into swamps and marshes to string lines repair some of the remote power poles. I did knock down when it roared ashore August 29th. More than half a million people in Louisiana still don't have power in five parishes west and south of New Orleans, 98% of homes and businesses remained without electricity. Court ruling last week cleared the way for Virginia officials to take down a massive statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond. Jod Khalil of member station V. TF reports They aren't waiting long to get started. The massive bronze statue of Robert E. Lee stands six stories tall and weighs 12 tons. It's going to take awhile to remove it, but Virginia officials have now announced their plans to start on Wednesday. City officials took down the other Confederate monuments along the wealthy street last summer, but the Lee statue stayed up as court cases proceeded. The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled last week that the state could remove the statue. Least 40 ft. Pedestal will stay, though protesters last summer graffitied much of it, and it became a symbol of resisting white supremacy to protesters in Richmond and the Black lives matter protest nationwide. For NPR News. I'm Jad Khalil and Richmond across the country, a variety of Labor Day events today Commemorating the holiday union leaders successfully rallied for at the end of the 19th century to honor the contributions of American workers. In Buffalo, New York today, Governor Kathy Hoco visiting her hometown signed a number of workplace laws, including whether it helps pandemic worry. Americans working part time get partial benefits from their employers if they aren't yet ready to return full time local also announced a new law mandating a prevailing wage for office cleaning staff another building workers and signed a measure that creates speed zones around construction sites. U. S. Financial Markets are closed today. This is NPR. Actor Michael K. Williams, who starred in the HBO series like Lovecraft, Country in the Wire, has died at age 54 NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says Williams excelled at playing characters who explored the challenges facing black man in society. He's nominated for an Emmy this year, playing a closeted father on Lovecraft country, and he played 19 twenties era gangster Chalky White on Boardwalk empire. But Williams may be best known as the Robber of Drug Dealers. Omar little on the wire, who told police The only mug people who were in the drug gang. I don't get it twisted. I do some dirt, too, but I ain't never put my gun on Nobody who wasn't in the game. A man must have a code. Don't no doubt. Born in Brooklyn, Williams started off appearing in music videos before earning multiple Emmy nominations. Playing tough black men, smarter and savvier than the world expected. He was found dead in his Brooklyn home. No cause of death has been announced. Eric Deggans NPR NEWS European Medicines agency says it is speeding up its review of whether recommended Covid 19 booster shot using the Pfizer biontech vaccine. Statement today you regulators, saying they're looking at whether a third dose should be given six months after people 16 and over have received two doses to restore protection after it waned. The enemas. Experts say they are carrying out an accelerated access mint of data submitted by the vaccine makers, including results of a research trial in which 300 healthy animals were given an additional dose of vaccine following their first two doses. Cattle futures prices extended their losses and holiday trading oil fell 6/10 of a percent the below $69 a barrel in New York. I'm Jack Spear, NPR news in Washington. Support.
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"W A. B E. This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. One of my favorite things lately has been watching Schmid, a dune, the series that is both a tribute to and a satire of musicals of the 19 forties and early fifties like Oklahoma Carousel, the sound of music, the music man and, of course, Brigadoon. My guest single. Paul wrote all the songs he also co created and co wrote the series Along with his writing partner, Candelario, He wrote the animated films Despicable Me the Secret Life of Pets and their Doctor Seuss adaptations. Horton Hears a Who and the Lorax. Mega dune is streaming on Apple TV. Plus it stars Cecily Strong and Keegan Michael Key as a couple who tried to repair the relationship by taking a hike in the woods. To get lost in the woods cross over a bridge, and suddenly they were in a small town called Schmid, a dune that looks like a stage or movie set from the early 20th century. The women are wearing prairie dresses with long petticoats. Men are dressed like they're in a barbershop quartet. It turns out in this town. Life is a musical, and it's a musical set at the turn of the century, people sing their feelings and dance to This is initially charming for the Cecily strong character. But Keegan Michael Key's character hates musicals. Soon they realize they're trapped in this musical, and like it or not, Their conversations will be interrupted by townspeople breaking out into song. In this scene. The couple has just entered Shamika dune and they are totally disoriented. Then the townspeople break out into song. See if you can recognize what inspired.
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"terry gross" Discussed on Fresh Air
"This is fresh air. I'm terry gross. America's colleges have always been unequal rights. My guest adam harris his new book. The state must provide explains how slavery segregation and continuing. Racism prevented or stymied black education. He examines some of the turning points. When higher education could have been made equal and centuries of discrimination could have been remedied. He also writes about the important role. Historically black colleges and universities have played and the reasons why they have remained. Underfunded harris went to hp cu alabama am university..
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"terry gross" Discussed on Fresh Air
"We don't see him and hear him every day the way we used to And i'm wondering if you think. Republicans feel they need trump anymore or whether they've adapted enough of his style that they can carry it on without him and still get the support of his base. That's a great question. look i think. Trump's personal power is still substantial the larger power. is this what we call the trump. Ace is the republican coalition at this point. And that's why. I think the twenty twenties one of the reasons why i think i've written. I think the twenty twenty s will be the most difficult decade for the country in many ways since the eighteen fifties because the weather or not trump himself is personally leading this parade. This is a reality. You know something like thirty five thirty. Maybe forty percent of the country is so alienated from the way. America is changing that it is willing to undermine the basic pillars of our democracy. If that's what it takes to keep power that's not going away. Even if trump never runs again others will in in various ways in the party. Pick up that. It's it's a. It's a demand side phenomenon as much as a supply side phenomenon. there is a portion a majority. I think of the republican base. That want something trumpian and someone will step in to do that now. Having said that. I just have one caveat. The one thing republicans don't know is whether they can get the super heated turn out. The trump personally inspires among these voters. There's no question that a republican delivering. This message is going to win. Three quarters or four fifths of white evangelical 's and is gonna win sixty two to sixty seven percent of non college whites but will they get the extraordinary level of turnout pulling people off their couch into the voting booth. That trump did. They don't know that. And i think that in many ways is residual power and the party the fear that his voters will not turn out in the same numbers unless he is enthusiastically encouraging them to do so. Well let me reintroduce you here if you're just joining us. My guests is ronald brownstein a senior editor at the atlantic and senior. Political analyst for cnn. We'll talk more after we take a break. I'm terry gross and this is fresh air. This message comes from..
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Cross-Cultural Casting: Noteworthy for Hollywood, but Not Exactly New
"About unconventional casting choices in film and TV. Mindy Kaling playing Velma and Scooby Doo spinoff Black Jamaican actress Jodie Turner Smith playing the doomed wife of Henry, the eighth and the British miniseries and Berlin. My dear sister No holds a loose tongue in her head. So does this sort of diverse casting violate some unspoken rule about realism critic Bob Mondello takes a long view, he says. Cross cultural Casting has always raised eyebrows, even though it's as old as casting itself in the fifth century BC When the Greek playwright escalates, needed a defense attorney for his leading man in the tragedy, the Oresteia he picked the God Apollo choice You do not make if you're worried about verisimilitude in casting. Live theater has always assumed the audience can make imaginative leaps. Whether it's depicting warrior kings who rant my kingdom for a horse or founding fathers who rap. I am not throwing away my shot. Hamilton, of course, is a special case. Just like my country. I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm Shot. It's a Broadway musical, famous not just for putting hip hop in the mouths of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington but for matching black and brown faces to those historic white characters. Every time I write a piece of theater, I'm trying to get us on the board Latino composer lyricist Lin Manuel Miranda, speaking with fresh air's Terry Gross, black and Brown artist. This is a story of America, then told by America Now it's our country to with inclusion as Hamilton's calling card, diverse audiences made it a worldwide phenomenon, an outcome that seems natural. In retrospect, but that flew in the face of decades of theater practice in 1986. When the stage union actors equity convened the first national symposium on nontraditional casting. It noted that more than 90% of actors hired in the U. S were white and presented scenes designed to help theatre makers consider other possibilities. In Tennessee Williams's
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Cross-Cultural Casting: Noteworthy for Hollywood, but Not Exactly New
"The conventional criticism of diverse casting is that it violates some unspoken rule about realism. It's utterly one way traffic. He will not be getting any white people. Playing fellow lay anytime soon. If there's a bio-pic nelson mandela will not be played by a white actor. This is gum. That's the view on one british. Talk show anyway. But as npr's film critic bob mandela explains cross cultural casting has always raised eyebrows even though it's as old as casting itself in the fifth century bc when the greek playwright escalates needed a defense attorney for his leading man in the tragedy or sta he picked the god apollo choice. You do not make. If you're worried about vera similitude in casting live theater has always assumed. The audience can make imaginative leaps whether it's depicting warrior kings who rant or founding fathers who wrap shots. Hamilton of course is a special case. It's a broadway musical famous. Not just for putting hip hop in the mouths of thomas jefferson and george washington but for matching black and brown faces to those historic white characters. Every time i write a piece of theater. I'm trying to get us on the board. Latino composer-lyricist lin-manuel miranda's speaking with fresh air's terry gross black and brown artists. This is a story of america then told by american now. It's our country to talk with inclusion. Hamilton's calling card. Diverse audiences made it a worldwide phenomenon and outcome. That seems natural. In retrospect but that flew in the face of decades of theatre practice in nineteen eighty-six when the stage union actor's equity convened the first national symposium on nontraditional casting. It noted that more than ninety percent of actors hired in the us were white and presented scenes designed to help theater makers consider other possibilities
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"Weekend. I'm Terry Gross. My guest. Ashley Ford is the author of the new bestselling memoir Somebody's Daughter about growing up black and Poor in Indiana. Her father was imprisoned in 1988. When she was only one year old. By the time he got out, she was around 30. She didn't know what crime he was convicted of. Until she was in her teens. His crime was rape, and it was especially upsetting to hear that because she had been raped by a boy from her school and a left her traumatized The book is also about her relationship with her mother, who could be charming or brutal her relationship with her grandmother who was very religious and warned about the devil. And her relationship with her own body, having gone through early puberty, starting at age nine and thinking her body was the cause of her suffering. Ford has written for many publications and was named in Forbes 30 under 30 in media and in Varieties New power of New York. Ashley Ford. Welcome to fresh air. I think your memoir is so good. Thank you so much for having me, Terry. It's truly a pleasure to be here. So you were about one year old when your father was sent to prison, So you really have no direct memory of him at home outside prison. How did your mother And your grandmother described him. When they spoke about him. They usually described him as funny or a dreamer. Um, a scaredy cat. Sometimes, my dad Has a pretty notorious fear of bugs or anything that flies, birds, bees, hummingbirds, He just he flips out like he's scared of them, Um and always has been And there were things about me that they thought reminded them of him. So when they talked about my dad, it was usually like, you know, you're so you daydream all the time. Just like your dad. Or, you know, you have really good timing. Or, you know, Ashley can tell a good joke, you know? Oh, she must get that from her dad. Even though I think my sense of humor much more so mirrors my mother's Did it make you feel good when people said Oh, you must have gotten that from your dad. It did because you know, without his presence. My connection to him didn't feel very clear. So when someone would say You look like your dad or, you know you dream like your dad or, you know you like you don't like air conditioning like your dad. Um, those things made me feel like Oh, I really have a dad out there. I have someone I'm really connected to. And even though he's not here, our connection is still evident. People can see him in me and that made me feel special. It made me feel like Was not necessarily in the situation that I was actually in. Your mother and grandmother didn't tell you why he was in prison, and you didn't ask until you were older. What prevented you from asking what was holding you back? When those when I was very young, and I asked my mom, you know well why her reaction to that was so big. And so sad that it became very clear to me as a kid that that's just not a question. I got to ask. It was a question that caused a reaction. And my mom that you know, worried me and scared me. And then you know my brother. He asked more often than I did, but he would get the same response from my mother or my grandmother, which was that big, emotional, outsized response or when we got a little older and he would ask it would become You know, my mom would say I shouldn't have to tell you that he should have to tell you that. And so we were just trying to figure out what had happened between the two of us. Um and that wasn't really working out because you know we were 89. What were some of your guesses? Did you think maybe he murdered somebody? I did. I absolutely did. That was my number. One guess was that that was what had happened. Um, no idea who? No idea how obviously but I just assumed because of how long he was away how long he was expected to be away. No one really talked about except for my dad saying, you know, one day I'll get out and I'll be there. No one else ever talked about my dad getting out. How did you learn? Why your father was in prison. I had gotten into an argument with my mother before my grandmother and I went to the mall together, which we did all the time, Catch the bus to the mall and just walk around and My grandmother was really curious about the argument. And I didn't want to talk to her about it because my mom didn't like me to talk to my grandma about the arguments that we had, so I was just trying to shut it down. And my grandma very uncharacteristically told me I needed to be nicer to my mom and that I needed to be more compassionate with her, like kinder to her and that she had been through a lot. And I was just like, okay, You know very why is she saying this right now? And then? She said you don't know why your dad is in prison. Do you want to know why your dad is in prison? And I said, Yes, I do want to know even knowing that, like I was terrified to know. I was terrified to have anything confirmed and have this not be a question anymore. I still said I wanted to know And she told me, she said your dad. Is in prison because he raped two women. And I just froze. I just numbed out. How do they compared to murder in your mind? Because you were afraid that the worst would be murder. But maybe there'd be a reason to explain why he murdered somebody. Yeah, I mean, like the ability to rationalize as a child is unmatched. And I was trying to find so many rationalizations for why he may have taken someone's life by accident or to protect someone, or, you know, like there were these reasons why it might not have been his intention to harm With rape..
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"terry gross" Discussed on WBEZ Chicago
"You know, as many of these these issues nearly as many and the government did a good job of sending a very clear signal that the Prime minister Narendra Modi, He has plenty of critics trust me, but he also was not ambiguous about what to do at the beginning. At the beginning. This is last year. It's different. And he said, where masks maintain social distance. Take this seriously. It's going to be hard, but we can get through it. And the first wave passed without a huge crisis. But then he and many others in India got overconfident. I thought, you know what we beat this. He even declared victory earlier this year, and he said it a big international conference. We saved humanity from the coronavirus and his officials said. It's basically over. We're at the endgame of the pandemic. This was like in February and March. And meanwhile this huge second wave was was looming toward us and the country just dropped its guard. I saw it myself. People weren't wearing masks. They were socializing. There was there was this sense and and I was guilty of a to that, like, maybe things here will go back to normal, and we can kind of enjoy your life's again. And at that same time these cases were slowly climbing. And these variants new versions of the virus were spreading, and by April, it just exploded. You know, As you say that I think about what's happening here with people being told by the CDC. You fear vaccinated. You don't need a mask and things there, you know, stadiums are opening up restaurants. Um, And the difference is, I mean, so many Americans have been vaccinated in India. The vaccination rate is very low, and also the people who have been vaccinated have mostly gotten. I think the AstraZeneca vaccine, which isn't nearly as application, says. Moderna and Fizer or even I think the Johnson and Johnson That's exactly it. The biggest difference is vaccinations. So in the West and in the U. S. They have gotten this vaccine out to lots of people. Of course, there are those who don't want to take it. And that's gonna be a problem because we you need everybody to take it to really stop this virus from spreading. But in India, it's not so much a vaccine hesitancy problem. It's that they don't have the doses. And right now in a country of 1.4 billion people, you have less than 3% who've been fully vaccinated. So that's 97% of 1.4 billion and I'm sorry. I can't do that math off the top of my head, but it's a lot of people. They are vulnerable. And at the same time you have these new variants because India is like the perfect laboratory for mutations. It's you got lots of people in close quarters, the virus can spread very fast. It can evolve and adapt and adapt very fast. And so these new variants have emerged from India that may be more contagious. Maybe deadlier. And that is is part of the problem and the country just doesn't have the resource is or the capacity or the distribution to get this vaccine out that fast and it's actually even going down. There was they were giving out three million doses a day of the vaccine, which which would be a lot in any country except it's 1.4 billion people. So that's a very small percentage. But now it's dropped because of all these lockdowns. And and supply complications. There's something like just a million doses being given a day, and that means it would take years to fully vaccinate this entire country. We need to take another break here. Jeffrey. I'm sorry. So let's just take a break, and then we'll continue our conversation. If you're just joining us. My guest is Jeffrey Gettleman. He's The New York Times South Asia Bureau chief. Who's based in New Delhi, India, where he's speaking to us from will be back after a break. I'm Terry Gross, and this is fresh air..
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Introducing Ronald Young Jr., Solvables Newest Host [TEST]
"Listeners. I want to introduce you to ronald young junior. You might be familiar with his name from other work. In podcasting leading shows like time well spent and leaving the theater. He's sometime guess contributed around. Npr's pop culture happy hour. We are really excited to make it. Official that ronald is going to be the newest host of solvable. Thank you thank you for having me. I'm so so excited to be here so publicly on the team. Believe it or not hosting solvable is not my main job. My main job is being. Ceo pushing in and pushkin over the last year in lockdown has like doubled in size. We have almost fifty people now. And it's exciting. There's a lot going on But it's sort of crowded out the time that i like to spend preparing and figuring out gas that also i'm not really a host. I don't know if you noticed that. I think i am trade. I'm an Host i have certain hosts qualities that i'm really interested in talking to the guests on the show And i have a lot of drive to learn. But i don't have that quality of hosting which i hear your voice and i really wanna know how that is done. Well first of all. I don't know if that's that's the message like we got hosted coaster said coming on all star show. I've always found it easy to talk to people. I've always founded easy to connect with folks and ask questions. And i'm curious about and mostly because as a child i was always encouraged to ask whether it was two friends. The families the teachers. And i think that's what helps with being a good host and with conducting good interviews. Which you do a great job of thank you ronald but yeah no. I think that just that basic quality of curiosity. If if you don't wanna know you can't read someone else's questions the producers on the show do suggest a lot great questions for us but ultimately you ask the ones that are your questions that have been you want. no yes. It's funny because like you know working with the solvable team. It's certainly is a team effort. But i think what makes a good host that what makes a good interviewer is the ability to read the conversation and to know when it when it needs to take a turn when it's about the pivot or when you're curiosity might push the interviewee a little deeper into the subject matter and even more comfortable and ready to answer more questions as they go so and i really enjoy doing that so this is a very exciting role for me. You do something i mean. Since were on this this topic. I do think being a really good host goes beyond just the flow of the conversation. Asking the right questions that something about creating this this environment this kind of comfort even this sense of place. And here's what. I don't feel that. I really know how to do but i hear in your voice you know in a lot of the people who are just really good shows terry gross. You know you just feel like you're at her place like you're in her world and you know in the guest is coming into her world and you feel as a listener. You're made to feel welcome and comfortable. How do you do that route. You know wish. I could say there was a trick. I wish i could tell you. Hey do this thing. And this'll this'll work but for me. It's just it's hospitality. It's really being genuinely interested in what they have to say. It's paying attention to them. Not necessarily thinking so far ahead that you can't be president in the conversation creating that warm sensitive environment it really comes from like a genuine place inside people and i think most people talk to you. We'll tell you that this is who. I am all the time. So it makes it easier for me to just bring this be to a hosting role Whereas some people. I think are very good at being a host and then you know in the rest of their lives are not nearly as hospitable or friendly and i can't say anything about ten gross but i i know that good host is being able to create that sense of hospitality in the conversation that they're having that moment. Yeah i think of the great host of my childhood dick caveat who was on. Tv obviously long before your time but back in the days before cable there only a few channels every night cabinet was having these interesting people on his show and he's charming. He's charmed by the gas and a lot of what he's trying to do. Is of course just inject wisecracks. I've got clip here. That's a good example of that it's cabot talking to the comedian don rickles. It's hard for you to be serious but it is. I think people don't admit that deep down inside. If i may be serious for a moment that you do something on stage that all of us would like to do if we had no class the other host i think about all the time as i grew up listening on the radio growing up in chicago. Two studs terkel here just as one example is studs terkel interviewing muhammad ali at one thousand nine hundred seventy five. Why do you think it is always in this particular theater. So many different people are. Why would they rooting for you. The outsider we'll i think the masses root for me because this scuffling they've been persecuted they figure by the tat taxes and whatever they've underdogs people are basically the underdogs hole and the things that i say from my people in the free involve people and the way i speak out in the title of the have and the and now let this. Stop me from recognizing every day man that thing. This is what they whether it'd be black or white. The massive people hardworking people the amazing thing about studs terkel circle. He was so good at talking to anybody today. He would have like a janitor and then he would. Have you know an opera singer. And then he would. Have you know a former vice president or politician and he just part of what was great about him with. He would talk to everybody the same way. Yeah i mean there's a sense of empathy that comes with no matter. Who's in the room. It should be able to be extended to anyone who's sitting opposite from you whether they'd be the janitor or the president of the united states. The other thing is not being afraid to ask even a question that may not sound as smart as you think it does. I think larry king wants said He was he was on. He was talking to jesse thorn. My friend hobie. Khan who wrote you negotiate anything. We grew up together. He says to me larry. The secret of your success is your dumb dumb. Is the great road to success. Because you not afraid to. I don't know tell me help me. That's a lot of interviews help. help me that. You're you're a brain search. You got brain surgery tomorrow morning. Think about it tonight when you go in the check your hands. If they're steady. And then all of a sudden you have this. Very poignant moment because larry king asked a question that is wow. I would have even sit there. I was like ronald do you. Do i do that. Also i wanna make sure that. I i do that but having that empathy allows you to be embassy to cross from you like i said whether it's the janitor or the president of the united states. Yeah so for this show. We do interviews with a particular kind of focused. How is problem solving. And how are people who have ideas about solving problems. Making the world veteran capable of making the world better. And that's the thing that can be big range of stuff. Yeah if you look out there let's say your your houses near the water and you look out there and you're just like the water seems to be creeping closer and closer. You're only thinking about what's going to happen when the water reaches your house and all the horrible things that can happen as the water continues to rise and the flooding when you when you start to think about all that it kind of changes your posture versus if you think how do we stop the water. How do we get the people out. How do we keep my house. Dry and think in terms of This podcast i'd like that it's pivoting from us talking so much about what the issue is because in most cases we know what the issue is what we really need to know is. What's the best way forward. How can we like either neutralize whatever. This problem is or at least adjust our lives so that the problem isn't what it is. Do we need to build a bridge. Maybe we need to build our houses higher whatever that means in order to To get out of the water. I think it gives a bit of optimism to the world
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"I don't know that. I've ever had such a bonding feeling. Is listening to you on terry. Gross years ago. Promoting your book and you said you got to a point in high school where i looked in the mirror and i said look. This isn't going to be your thing. I'm not gonna run with these lose because unlike you. I'm like you kinda say i apologize in advance so excited to be doing this right now. I'm such a fan. I kind of feel like a one fan contest. I'm going to do a lot of this both of you. Which is i'm going to be like. I'm like you. But i like to do things. I'm good at so in the beauty race i bury thankfully an early on realize. I'm not gonna win here. I'm not going to get a lot of wins here and so it felt good. Just pretend like. I was self selecting out but also the beauty racist changed. When you're in high school it was one thing and now it's not so you are winning beauty race in many ways. Well i wonder if winning it is like not racing exactly. I think that might be the new way to win it. Yes but you know. Markets his constant boring. Disappointing thing that we just keeping like. I can't believe i'm still being so rough in my own. Mind about my face like this is going to be my face. When are we going to become friends. When is it going to happen. And the answer is no right before you. Die the minute before you
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"Plummer and julie andrews scene from the sound of music people have such strong feelings about that movie the either love it or they hate it and they think it's really insipid. Where do you stand on this issue of our time I'm very fond of julie. That's the nicest thing that came out of that film for me. We we have a true in great friendship. She's an extraordinary woman professional. I'm grateful to the film in many ways because it was such a success. It is not my favorite film. Of course because i do think it's borders on mawkishness but we did our damned best not to make it too. Mawkish and robert wise kept a very tight control on it Much was difficult enough. The the sound of the music is quite wonderful. Christopher plummer speaking with terry gross recorded in two thousand seven plumber died last friday at the age of ninety
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"I'm Terry Gross. My guest. Rashida Jones stars with Bill Murray in the new movie on the Rocks, which was just nominated for a critics Choice award for best comedy. It was written and directed by Sofia Coppola and draws on Coppola's relationship with her famous father, Francis Ford Coppola. Jones made a Grammy Award winning documentary about her famous father, Quincy Jones, Her mother, Peggy Lipton, starting the serious The Mod squad. She did. Jones co starred in seven seasons of the NBC comedy, Serious Parks and Recreation As Ann Perkins. She had a recurring role for two seasons of the office as Jim's girlfriend. Jones now co stars with Kenya. Barris in the Netflix series, Black AF and co hosts a podcast with Bill Gates and on the rocks. She plays Laura, a successful writer who's been unable to complete her latest book. He's been at home in Manhattan, raising her two young daughters and during the cooking and housework while her husband has been traveling a lot, getting his new business off the ground, she feels stuck and taken for granted, which is eating away at her self confidence. Although she can't even admit it to herself. She thinks her husband may be having an affair with his new co worker. She starts to confide in her father, Felix, a successful art dealer. It seems to know everyone important in Manhattan and constantly talks with his daughter about what men are really like. As if you were some kind of anthropological scholar of masculinity. He offers that in part as an explanation for his many affairs, which was the reason Laura's mother divorced him. When Laura tells her father Felix, about her husband's constant travel and his latest trip. Felix comments that the hotel are husband stayed in is not a place you would stay. If you were on a business trip and suggests it would be a good place for an affair. Lord denies that possibility at first Here's Bill Murray and Rashida Jones. There was something What? Never mind. What There were some There were some of his co workers toiletries in his luggage sloppy more, but she couldn't put them in her carry on through security. So he offered to put them in his luggage. That's it. Raise your hand if that sounds fishy. You know, I shouldn't have said anything. Forget it. Let me check his phone. No. Do yourself a favor. Check his text messages. It's I mean, and they come to nothing but You know, miss will make sure Dean is not like you. He's a nerd is a good guy. A great dad. He's a man. It's nature males. Forced to fight to dominate and to impregnate all females. I remember the first time I saw your mother. It was a beach party back then. All the girls or bikinis, your mother. Walked out of the ocean in a white one piece swimming suit. That was it for me. I was done. Staying on track. What does Dean have planned for your birthday? He's not gonna be here for my birthday. What kind of guy forgets his wife's birthday? He didn't forget He has a work trip, but we're going to celebrate When he gets back. It's not the same. I traveled. Never missed a birthday, right? But you had some other shortcomings. Like what? Yeah. Appreciated Jones. Welcome to fresh air. Um, it's a pleasure to have you on our show. It's a pleasure to be here as a father. And as a man, Bill Murray's character is is often really charming and charismatic. He's kind of insufferable and out of touch when it comes to anything related to gender. What do you say to him? I like that of another generation who's in your life? Whether it's a father or an uncle or a friend of your father's or whatever. I mean, you're found of them in with your father. You love him. You don't want to kind of lecture him on a Njenga. Er or do you mean I had had issues with my father, who Grew up in the generation of like women drivers s O a lous. Ridiculous s O, You know, how do you deal with it? Yeah, That's a good question. I mean, I think I think what's so lovely about this movie is it doesn't really answer that question because the truth is I think it's OK to live in the middle where you love somebody who has a completely different perspective on the world because they just grew up at a completely different time. And I think there's way there's kind of tender ways and ins where you can Talk to them about it. And then there's times that you just can't and you have to sort of let it be background noise because the truth is at a certain age people probably don't change and won't change but You know, I think in this film she has had enough. And, you know, the kind of climax of the film is She just lets it all spill out because she has held her tongue for so long as she's rolled her eyes. She's you know, just look the other way And eventually, there's just a couple of theories that she just just don't sit well with her, and she has to let him know that and let him have it a little bit. So I think you know it is, is that kind of thing? It's like, What did the one of the non negotiables like? If you can. If you could just decide like that's something that I literally can't hear anybody say, including my father. I won't let him say that I'm going deaf to women's voices. That's just not something that's acceptable in my presence. And then the other things like I could just I just have to let them roll off because they're never going to change. So you never say to your father. You're part of the patriarchy. Oh, you mean in the movie or in real life in real life? It really know when I talked to my dad. Sometimes I'm like, Don't say that. You can't say that. But I also love him and I, You know it's followed up with a hug and a kiss. You made this film shortly after your mother died and your son was born. To lose a mother and become a mother. So close together must have been Such an emotional experience. Yeah, This has been a thistles been very emotionally intense couple of years. I know obviously for a lot of people this past year, but even Right before this movie, you know, I mean, it was sort of like back to back to back to back, just wrenching pulling my heart and all different directions..
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"Bianculli, editor of the website TV worth watching in for Terry Gross and figures and bring planning engine each night of his job. Bed won't get Tonto. Some critics considered Dusty Springfield, the best British female rock singer of the sixties. She had many hits in England and America, including wishing and hoping I only want to be with you and the look of love. Springfield, died of cancer in 1999. Just before 60th birthday. A new anthology collects her recordings for Atlantic Records from 1968 to 1971. Her hit son of a preacher man comes from those sessions. Today We listen to Terry's 2000 to interview with Dusty Springfield's longtime friend and manager, Vicki Wickham, who wrote unauthorized biography of Springfield called Dancing with Demons. It describes the personal life that few of her fans knew about, including that Springfield was a lesbian. Wickham also co wrote one of Springfield's hits. You don't have to say You love Me! Vicky Wickham first met Dusty Springfield when Springfield made a guest appearance on Ready, steady go. The British pop music program, which Wickham co produced It was a chaotic show, which went out every week on Associated Re diffusion television, which was the independent channel and it was subtitled The Weekend starts here. And we were mixture of music fashion thing. Celebrities of the time pop art and you have to remember this was 1963. It was the WHO. The Beatles later Jimi Hendrix at the Animals. We started bringing in American artists. I continue Turner, James Brown, Otis Redding, and it was live. It started officer Mind show, but within a year went live and every single week we never quite got it right. It was a live in studio with an audience. And the cameras. I mean, literally would go between dances between the audience and it just caught people's imagination and kids would literally run home from school to see the show. It was kind of like American Bandstand, but with fashion and more interviews and things like that, Yes, exactly. It's exactly what it was. I mean, it's amazing like in, uh, in the early days of ready, steady, go, you know the Beatles would come on, and then Ringo would dance in the audience with the other dancers. Exactly which you know was it was amazing because they were huge at the time. Right? This is Springfield is really an extraordinary singer. And, you know, I grew up listening to her records and you know, I always liked her. But it was as an adult that I could really appreciate what a truly good singer She is what struck you about her singing when you were auditioning people for ready, steady, go. She had a sound, and they're very few people that have a real sound to their voice. And dust is just one of those lucky ones that you know she's recognizable anywhere that she had impeccable choice of material. She knew exactly what was right for her voice. Her first hit. I only want to be with you came out in 1964 and debuted on. Ready. Steady. Go. And this was while you were producing the program. What did you think of the record that did you think that was the right choice for her? Yes, absolutely. It was a wonderful song and a great way to launch her. Why don't we hear it? So stop it. You know what Right there. Wanna be with you. My guest is Vicky Wickham, who co.
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"Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's getting a well deserved week off. There are a lot of things we take for granted. And among them are our voices. We sing, We laugh. We yell it ballparks and we talk all the time on the phone in the office on street corners in noisy bars, and in doing so we can damage our voice is our guest writer John COLUMN Pento has his own experience with that which will soon hear about He became interested in the voice, which is the subject of his new book. It's an exploration of the astonishing complexity of our vocal apparatus and of how we form words How babies learn to speak, how accents arise and how different kinds of voices affect us, which one sound authoritative for sexually appealing or politically persuasive. And call A Pinto argues that the development of our prehistoric ancestors vocal structures may have been the key to humans becoming the dominant species on the planet. Giancarlo Pinto is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. He's the author of the bestselling nonfiction book. As Nature made him In the novel about the author. He joins me from his home in New York City to talk about his new book. This is the voice. John Colapinto. Welcome back to fresh air. Thank you so much. I thought we would begin with the story that you tell in the book early when you're 41 years old, I think working at Rolling Stone magazine and the publisher Yahn winner is putting together a sort of an ad hoc rock band for a Big Staff party and Asks you to be the lead singer had you done any singing? I had. Actually, I've been singing since high school, just kind of casually. I sang in my school choir, and so on. I played piano in coffee houses and college. S o. I was, you know, Somehow I could carry a tune. I even knew what projection was, Um You sort of making the voice big and filling a room with it, but I had never done any proper vocal warm ups. And that's how I got into trouble When I was singing with you on winners Rock band with Rolling Stone magazine I was at the time finishing a book, actually, as nature made in which you just mentioned And I was being silent All day long. I would jump up at the end of the day. Take the subway to our rehearsal space and then just start wailing over there cranked up guitars and drums. I mean 0 to 60 with my voice. Just crazy Any anyone that knows anything about singing proper singing knows you don't do that. And I quickly developed a rasp and sort of hoarseness, which I'd had in the past and it had cleared up. This didn't and in fact, we rehearsed for weeks and then we had the performance itself, which was Highly nerve racking, and when you're nervous muscles tense up, you strain extra hard, so I was sort of Tripoli damaging my voice. I later learned that it was a vocal by a half a vocal polyp, which is a Started by a bleeding vocal cord, right? Yeah, describe it in one of the rehearsals. I mean, Rolling Stone was a pretty hot commodity then and The lead singer for the J. Geils Band drops by and Here's You singing in rehearsal and gives you a little advice. Yeah, he pulled me aside and said, Hey, man, you don't have to sing full out in rehearsal, save something for the show. And I know and he was actually doing a guest song with us, and I saw how he was doing it. I mean, just you know, he was kind of quarter power. Very, very smart. I've never forgotten it. Right, but it was new to you and so You get to the concert, and you don't quite have the range that you did You said. It's kind of painful to listen to the tape from that, Uh, we had deeply terrifying. I mean, there's nothing quite like the seconds and minutes ticking down. Who are performance in front of 2000, people that include Yoko Ono and her son, Sean. And Paul Shaffer and Val Kilmer and countless others and knowing that, you know, and and knowing that there's something wrong with your voice. I mean, my poor wife. I mean, I was just saying, I think something's not going to go right here. Um, a certain high note in one of the songs Miss you by the Rolling Stones. Have been really, really hard to get over the preceding days, and it was just terrifying. I mean, I remember getting up in the spotlight and thinking Oh, Lord, I just hope this all happens and, you know, somehow I kind of got through the performance. But, yeah, it's painful to listen to the CD because I can hear the tentativeness and This is one of the things about the voice and performing with a voice. We hear all of us actually tentativeness just anyone slightly holding back. You can't get away with those types of things without people recognizing something's slightly amiss. So it makes me wonder how professionals do it. Especially people, like opera singers who are being listened to so closely by people with acute critical skills. Terrifying, right? It is an instrument which is, I guess what your book is about? Yeah, yes. You have terrible laryngitis after the concert, and then you have this encounter in an elevator with a woman who? Yes. Catches this right away. What'd she tell you? It was amazing. We were brand new in the building. I said to her What floor is one does in New York you? You're going to push the button for someone. And those two words, she said. Oh, you've got a serious voice injury, and I said all that, you know it's nothing and it'll clear up and she said no, no, no. You know, I work with Broadway singers and so on and She said. I know what I'm hearing and she read me like a book. She said. You know, I bet you get kind of tired of the end of the day because you're using all your muscles you having to work harder with your back and your abs and your hip flexors. All of these muscles we use in order to actually push the air out when we speak. She even said, You know, I bet your neck gets pretty sore and it had been burning I almost as if I had liked scolded the skin. I mean, it was amazing, but the last thing she said to me, Woz, you should at least get a layer oncologist toe. Look at that, because it could be something else. I grew up in a medical family. Something else is the Approved euphemism for cancer or some kind of dangerous growth, so I immediately made an appointment with one of the top vocal surgeons in the World Peak. Woo He looked in my throat with a glaring geology instrument and said, You've got a pretty major polyp, which is a bump on the edge of my vocal chord. Yeah, well, let's go into that Had you had is a problem like that developed? How did it develop in your case? Yeah, you know, E. Amazingly, This is one of the mysteries of the voices. So so we still know so little about it. But as far as doctors understand, these polyps really begin with bleeding within the vocal cord itself, which which is effectively a bruise. And if you bleed, you know, without any staunching of that of that bleeding You could develop this scar tissue in this bump. The thing that Z critical about that, though, for the voices that are vocal cords don't produce sound like a violin string or a guitar string, a plucked guitar strength..
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"I'm Terry Gross with fresh air. The new movie news of the world is a Western set five years after the end of the Civil War and stars Tom Hanks as a former Confederate captain who now travels from one small, poor Texas town to another. Reading aloud from newspapers to townspeople who gathered to be informed and entertained by these stories. Today we talk with the director Paul Greengrass, who also directed Hanks and Captain Phillips. Ingress started his career making documentaries in war zones and conflict zones. He's made several feature films based on real terrorist attacks, including United 93. He also directed. Three Jason Bourne movies. Later. Ken Tucker reviews the new HBO documentary about the BG's on a new album by BG Berry, Gib. First news. Life from NPR News. I'm Laxmi saying this hour. The country is on high alert and is expected to remain so heading into the presidential inauguration because of ongoing security threats. After the world watched in shock is pro Trump riders stormed the U. S Capitol last week. Highly unusual security measures air going into effect that could include a total shutdown of the National Mall next Wednesday, MPR's Windsor, Johnson explains. Traditionally, the National Mall is crowded with thousands of people for inauguration festivities. But this year, the area between the Lincoln Memorial and Capitol building could be closed to the public. Federal authorities continue to monitor potential threats on social media and have warned of armed protests in Washington, D C and all 50 US capitals. A state of emergency is now in effect in D. C and a large number of National Guard troops have been stationed inside and around the perimeter of the Capitol Building up to 20,000 troops are expected to be in place on Inauguration Day. Windsor Johnston. NPR NEWS Washington Before he became the first president in U. S history to be impeached twice because of the role he played in the insurrection. Donald Trump Sought to burnish his immigration record this week during a visit to Alamo, Texas, But today his legacy is further tarnished by new hard hitting report from the inspector general's office of the Department of Justice. As NPR's John Burnett reports. The IG accuses former Attorney General Jeff Sessions of mishandling the zero tolerance immigration policy, a policy that led to more than 3000 family separations at the southern border. 2018 the chaos on the inside was Justus bad is the chaos on the outside? That's the conclusion of a blistering self critique by the DOJ watchdog for a period of 2.5 months and 2018 the Trump administration arrested migrant parents and took their Children away is a way to discourage illegal border crossings. But the top leadership at DOJ had not thought it through. They didn't realize the separations would be so traumatic that Children would be kept in cages for many days and that family reunifications would be so difficult. Moreover, the report says border prosecutors were overwhelmed by all the new arrests and U. S marshals had no place to hold them. John Burnett, NPR NEWS McAllen, Texas. Escalating infections and deaths from Cove it 19 are prompting tougher restrictions in France. Or at least two weeks. Starting Saturday, the nation will be under a 6 p.m. to 6 A.m. curfew, and on Monday, France will start requiring all travelers from outside the European Union. To provide documentation showing they have tested negative for the virus. Even so, new arrivals, including those from the United States, will still be required to self isolate for a week. At last check on Wall Street. The Dow was up 87 points of 31,000 won 49 this is NPR. U S government's opening up covert 19 vaccines to more people with major hospitals across the country getting to the point of having to decide which patients get medical help. Cage's Katherine Davis. Young says. Arizona's almost there We have record cases, record deaths, record ICU bed use, and hospitals say they're close to the point where they're going to need to ration care. So the governor and the Health Department are really focused on these vaccine efforts and really want to accelerate that as much as possible, but will humble is the former director of the state's health department, he says. Even if we're vaccinating thousands of people a day Viruses so out of control. We really need other mitigation measures in place Katherine Davis Young reporting now to Uganda, where votes have begun to be counted in that country's presidential election. NPR's ADA Peralta, with details at the polling station closest to opposition leader Bobby Wines House, Ivan Jacobs was watching as poll workers counted votes. He voted for the opposition. Then he worries that when results are finally announced, they will show a landslide victory for President Yoweri 70. I'm sure both one thing.
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"Y Y in Philadelphia. This is fresh air. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross on today's show Historian carry, Greenwich tells the story of an African American weekly newspaper editor who was a forceful crusader for civil rights in the early 20th century. Will Bill Monroe Trotter is little known to Americans today, but he built a national following in his time as a fierce advocate for the full citizenship rights promised former slaves. After the Civil War, Trotter organized mass protests who confer Wanted presidents and openly challenged leaders such as Booker T. Washington who took more cautious approach to black empowerment. Granted, his new book is called Black Radical. Also, Justin Chang reviews promising young woman and pieces of a woman. Two new movies available for streaming first news. Live from NPR news. I'm Jack Spear on this boat, the eyes or 2 32 the nays Air 1 97. Resolution is adopted without objection. The motion to reconsider is laid upon the Speaker Nancy Pelosi, reading the final vote tally today, formally impeaching outgoing President Donald Trump for a second time. Democrats, along with 10, Republicans voting to impeach Trump after several hours of debate on a single resolution of incitement of insurrection connection with last week's right at the U. S. Capitol. Island. Democratic Congressman Steny Hoyer said the event pulled back the curtain on Trump's presidency. Donald Trump Trump has constructed a glass palace of lies fear, Marjorie. And sedition. Republicans, meanwhile, largely avoided talking about the right of the capital that claimed five lives instead focusing on the damage to the nation. Impeachment would bring Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio. This doesn't unite the country. There's no way this helps the nation deal with the tragic and terrible events. Last week that we all condemn Senate, meanwhile, seems to be indicating no impeachment trial be called there until after the president leaves office next week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he's not yet decided how he'll vote on the matter. This house Lawmakers debated whether we impeach him for a second time over his role in last week's violent right at the U. S. Capitol left five dead President Trump issued a statement today saying he opposes violence. Thing from the president read on the house floor as members debated impeaching him for helping to incite the right of the capital by quote, ordering his followers to fight like hell and March on the Capitol Building. Trump has taken no responsibility for the riot, including the five dead, including a police officer and one of the mob writers. Some health departments in the South are being overwhelmed by demand for covert vaccines. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports frustration There is mounting. Alabama home health worker Thomas Barfield tried 40 times before he got through to the state vaccine hotline on Lee to be told no appointments were available. The whole process is just kind of chaos, State health officer Scott Harris says. There's just not enough vaccine to go around. So there's just.
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"Air. I'm Terry Gross. My guest is CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr Sanjay Gupta. He's written a new book about the brain that explains some of the latest research. Debunks myths about brain function and offers practical advice on improving cognitive function. It's called Keep sharp build a better brain at any age. Dr. Gupta has been a practicing neurosurgeon for about 20 years and is an associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He's performed brain surgery in war zones and disaster zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan. We're also going to talk about the Corona virus, which he's been covering for CNN. He got his first dose of the vaccine. Live on CNN in December. Dr Sanjay Gupta, welcome to fresh air thesis a difficult time with the virus. You know, people are many people are working at home. While schooling their Children and doing more housework than ever be before cause everybody's home, and the people who are working have to work in places where they don't necessarily feel safe. How do you think our brains are being affected by all of the stress of the virus? It's it's been really challenging. You know, I think that there is a thing about stress and the brain that has long been documented. And the headline is that stress is not necessarily the enemy. In fact, we need a certain amount of stress. That's what gets us out of bed in the morning. Makes us perform well on tests. Hopefully all that sort of stuff. But it is that second adjective he used unrelenting. That is really problematic Here. We don't We need these breaks from stress. You need that constant sort of ebb and flow, and that's what's missing again. You don't want it to all be good all the time, but you need to have that that's sort of up and down to some extent. With things sort of the way that they are. We're sort of in this in this whiplash sort of time frame with regard to the brain. On one hand, things were getting worse. We see that the numbers continue to get worse over the last few months, and you know, going into the spring. It's likely to continue that trajectory. On the other hand, we also hear that there is a vaccine that is rolling out. It is happening, and that is going to be a significant impact in terms of bringing this pandemic to an end, so it's challenging for the brain right now, but it's important to constantly find Times when you can either dramatically reduce your stress, either by thinking about the future with the vaccine and things like that or other things in your life, But I will say in this really came out in the book the idea of eliminating stress. I'm just going to eliminate my stress. It is not obtainable, nor isn't necessarily a good idea for the brain. One of the things to people are learning to do now is to live with new routines because you're working at home or teaching your Children or getting to work in a different way. Having to wear a mask for so many new routines that most of us have had to learn. Is that stressful on the brain having to, like, reorganize your life and Not follow all the predictable patterns that you were used to. I would argue that it's actually very good for your brain to find new patterns, new new routines and to, you know, mix it up a little bit shocked the brain shock the body a little bit, not a bad way, but just in terms of trying different things here. Here's the thinking is that when you start to do procedural things over and over again, you can get very good at them. And that's important in a lot of jobs, including, you know, in the operating room, right? Spend a lot of time but but I think for our brain we want to constantly be using new paths and trails and roads within our brain. And that could be a simple as as just doing something a little differently. Eating with your left hand instead of your right hand if you're right handed Um, you know, if you put a tie on in the morning like I do, sometimes closing your eyes and doing it in the dark. The reason being, you're just the more you can recruit different parts of your brain to do even simple activities. The better. It is for your brain now and the better It is for your long term brain health. A lot of people are multitasking, trying to do two things at once. We fooling ourselves when we're multitasking. I was surprised by this one. Even even though I've been studying the brain for a long time. Um, there was a lot that I learned and the issues around multitasking were one of them. You know the idea that you move from one task to another sounds great and very efficient. The issue was that they found you actually divert a fair amount of attention each time you do that, you may not notice it yourself. But when you start to objectively measure this with different types of brain scans Scans that are measuring the function of the brain or particular parts of the brain. At any given millisecond. You find that you actually expend quite a bit of energy just to switch from one task to another. So you think you're doing both simultaneously, But you're probably doing neither as well as you could be, and you're probably going to take more time. And if you just did them linearly in some way you write the two things that have stirred a revolution in neuroscience and are thinking about the brain are One, the fact that brain cells can regenerate through our lifetimes. And to that we can change the brain circuitry through neural plasticity. What does it mean that brain cells can regenerate through our lifetimes? We long believed that brain cells neurons would only sort of continue to develop or go through this narrow genesis, you know, new brain cell development process. At two different times, Really, when you were very young and still developing your brain as a baby, or if you've had some sort of injury, And at that point, the brain may start to either recruit.
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"Air. I'm Terry Gross. My guest is CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr Sanjay Gupta. He's written a new book about the brain that explains some of the latest research. Debunks myths about brain function and offers practical advice on improving cognitive function. It's called Keep sharp build a better brain at any age. Dr. Gupta has been a practicing neurosurgeon for about 20 years and is an associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He's performed brain surgery in war zones and disaster zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan. We're also going to talk about the Corona virus, which he's been covering for CNN. He got his first dose of the vaccine. Live on CNN in December. Dr Sanjay Gupta, welcome to fresh air thesis a difficult time with the virus. You know, people are many people are working at home. While schooling their Children and doing more housework than ever be before cause everybody's home, and the people who are working have to work in places where they don't necessarily feel safe. How do you think our brains are being affected by all of the stress of the virus? It's it's been really challenging. You know, I think that there is a thing about stress and the brain that has long been documented. And the headline is that stress is not necessarily the enemy. In fact, we need a certain amount of stress. That's what gets us out of bed in the morning makes us perform well on tests. Hopefully all that sort of stuff. But it is that second adjective he used unrelenting. That is really problematic Here. We don't We need these breaks from stress. You need that constant sort of ebb and flow, and that's what's missing again. You don't want it to all be good all the time, but you need to have that that's sort of up and down to some extent. With things sort of the way that they are. We're sort of in this in this whiplash sort of time frame with regard to the brain. On one hand, things were getting worse. We see that the numbers continue to get worse over the last few months, and you know, going into the spring. It's likely to continue that trajectory. On the other hand, we also hear that there is a vaccine that is rolling out. It is happening. And that is going to be a significant impact in terms of bringing this pandemic to an end, so it's challenging for the brain right now, but it's important to constantly find Times when you can either dramatically reduce your stress, either by thinking about the future with the vaccine and things like that or other things in your life, But I will say in this really came out in the book, the idea of eliminating stress. I'm just going to eliminate my stress. It is not obtainable, nor isn't necessarily a good idea for the brain. One of the things to people are learning to do now is to live with new routines because you're working at home or teaching your Children or getting to work in a different way. Having to wear a mask. There's so many new routines that most of us have had to learn. Is that stressful on the brain having to, like, reorganize your life and Not follow all the predictable patterns that you were used to. I would argue that it's actually very good for your brain to find new patterns, new new routines and to you know, mix it up a little bit shocked the brain shock the body a little bit, not a bad way, but just in terms of trying different things. Here. Here's the thinking is that when you start to do procedural things over and over again, you can get very good at them. And that's important in a lot of jobs, including You know, in the operating room where I spend a lot of time, but but I think for our brain, we want to constantly be using new paths and trails and roads within our brain. And that could be a simple as as just doing something a little differently. Eating with your left hand instead of your right hand, if you're right handed, um you know if you put a tie on in the morning like I do. Sometimes closing your eyes and doing it in the dark. The reason being you're just the more you can recruit different parts of your brain to do even simple activities. The better It is for your brain now and the better. It is for your long term brain health. Ah, lot of people are multitasking, trying to do two things at once. Mm. We fooling ourselves when we're multitasking. I was surprised by this one. Even even though I've been studying the brain for a long time. Um, there was a lot that I learned and the issues around multitasking were one of them. You know the idea that you move from one task to another sounds great and very efficient. The issue was that they found You actually divert a fair amount of attention each time you do that, you may not notice it yourself. But when you start to objectively measure this with different types of brain scans, scans that are measuring the function of the brain or particular parts of the brain at any given millisecond. You find that you actually expend quite a bit of energy just to switch from one task to another. So you think you're doing both simultaneously, but you're probably doing Neither as well as you could be, and you're probably going to take more time than if you just did them linearly In some way you write the two things that have stirred a revolution in neuroscience and are thinking about the brain are One, the fact that brain cells can regenerate through our lifetimes. And to that we can change the brain circuitry through neural plasticity. What does it mean that brain cells can regenerate through our lifetimes? We long believed that brain cells neurons would only sort of continue to develop or go through this narrow genesis, you know, new brain cell development. Process at two different times, really, when you were very young and still developing your brain as a baby, or if you've had some sort of injury, And at that point, the brain may start to either recruit.
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"terry gross" Discussed on KQED Radio
"This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. Happy New Year, It seems most New Year's At least one cable channel shows The Godfather films in a weird way. I've come to think of it as a holiday film. For the 30th anniversary of Godfather three Francis Ford Coppola has released a restored and re edited version of the film that has a new title to Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Koda the death of Michael Corley own Spoiler. It's available on video on demand. Today we listen back to my interview with Coppola. We spoke in 2016 after the publication of the notebook he capped when he was making the first film in the Godfather trilogy. He told some terrific stories about how he cast it and directed it. The notebook contains his thoughts about each scene, including the pitfalls he wanted to avoid. The notebook also includes pages from the novel that the movie is based on Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, with Coppola's notes in the margins. The movie starts with these words, I believe in America. Magic has made my fortune That's the character bona Sarah, who has come to the Godfather, Don Vito Cor Leone to ask a favor bonus. Sarah's daughter was brutally beaten after she resisted two boys who had tried to take advantage of her. Bonasera says he went to the police like a good American. The boys were tried in court, but the judge gave them a suspended sentence, and they went free that very day. Now. Bonus. Sarah wants revenge against those boys. The Godfather, played by Marlon Brando offers this response. Known each other many years, but this is the first time you ever came to me for counsel for him. I can't remember the last time you invited me the.
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Novelist Donald Ray Pollock On Factory Work And Finding Fiction Later In Life
"Today's first guest is author Donald Ray Pollock, whose novel the devil all the time has just been made into a new netflix movie premiering next Wednesday. It Stars Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson, and here's a taste in this clip. A young boy has just watched his father pulverized two guys after they made lewd comments about the father's wife, the son's mother. Afterward the father gives his son some advice. You remember what I told you. On. The buzzer gave you. That's what I mean. got. To. Sir. Good sons of bitches out there. One hundred. These that many. Cannonball. In, both the movie and the novel the characters in the devil all the time are driven to extremes whether their fathers and sons, serial killers or preachers. The story begins in the small town of knock him stiff a real place in southern Ohio where Donald Ray pollock grew up. He didn't become a writer until he put in over thirty years at the local paper mill and got sober. But. Once he did start writing. He was noticed quickly receiving both awards and critical. Acclaim. Terry, gross spoke to Donald Ray pollock in twenty eleven when the devil, all the time was first published. Donald, Ray pollock welcome to fresh air. I'd like to start with reading from your new book, the Devil, all the time It's about the second paragraph from the prologue. So would you just set it up for us? What we have here is A young boy's name is Arvin Eugene Russell and he's following behind his father Willard and there and place called knock him stiff and they're going to Willard's prayer logging as a log in the woods where he Wants to communicate with God and So this is where they are. You know early in the morning and their. have finally reached this log. Willard eased himself down on the high side of the law and motion for his son to kneel beside him in the dead soggy leaves unless he had whiskey running through his veins Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse the drinking or the praying. As far back, as he could remember, it seemed that his father had faulted devil all the time. Arvin little with the damp pulled his Co. tighter. He wished he were still in bed even school with always miseries was better than this but it was a Saturday and there was no way to get around it. Through the mostly bare trees beyond the cross Arvin could see whisper smoke rising from a few chimneys, half a mile away four hundred or so people lived in, knock him stiff in nineteen, fifty seven nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken clam or another be it lust were necessity or just plain ignorance along with the tar paper shacks and Cinder Block houses the Holler included two general stores and a Church of Christ in Christian Union and joint known throughout the township as the bullpen. Three days before he'd come home with another black I I, don't condone no fighting just for the hell of it but sometimes, you're just too easy going Willard told him that evening then boys might be bigger than you. But the next time one of them starts his stuff, I want you to finish it. Willard was standing on the porch changing out of his work clothes. He handed Arvin Brown pants stiff with dried blood and Greece. He worked in a slaughterhouse in Greenfield and that day sixteen hundred homes had been butchered a new record for RJ Carol meat-packing. Those boy didn't know yet what he wanted to do when he grew up he was pretty sure he didn't WanNa kill pigs for eleven. Let's Donald Ray pollock reading from his new novel, the Devil, all the time. You know in the reading that you did the father tells the sun that the next time. So many beats him up the sun has to fight back and that seems to be. A recurring theme like in the opening story of your collection of short stories, the collections called knock him stiff. The opening sentence reads my father showed me how to hurt a man one August night at the torch in when I was seven years old it was the only thing he was ever any good at. You certainly seem interested in the idea of a father. Kind of indoctrinating a sun on the need to fight back and then egging on to do it even when it's inappropriate. so was is this a story that played out in your life? Well, not so much in my life I. Mean as far as I don't my dad really didn't push me to fight or anything like that. But you know when I was growing up my father and I had a very Uneasy relationship. You've got to understand my dad was born in one, thousand, nine, hundred, thirty he's still alive. You know he's eighty years old and he's still kicking but He was born in. Nineteen thirty grew up in the depression I went to the eighth grade. He was working on the railroad by the time he was sixteen, and then he was in the navy. And, my dad is a very tough. Hard. man Stra very strong man. As and in contrast to that, my mother is very shy kind. Small Bone woman. and. Either fortunately or unfortunately for me, I took after my mother and I believe. When I was a kid, my dad was. Maybe disappointed for not taking after him more. So. You know that's where I guess part of that comes from it and part of it also comes from. Lived in stiff. That's where I grew up and I saw a lot of other fathers who were you know drinkers and hell raisers and they didn't treat their families very well You know maybe they went and worked for a while and. I got enough money to go on another band or whatever, and pretty much left the family to take care of themselves. So, yeah father's have a pretty rough time and my work I just. It's just. You know I'm a father. You know I have a daughter WHO's I'm thirty years old now and I have always felt that I. Wasn't. As good as I could have been. Her mother and I were divorced when she was very young she was like a year old and and I wasn't around that much and. That's probably the best explanation. I can give for why treat father's like I do my work. Were you bullied in school. You said you, you took after your mother who wouldn't hurt a fly. So and if you were bullied, would you fight back? Did you know how to actually I wasn't bullied in school I? Never really had any problems with that and yeah, I. Mean a would fight back if I had to but. That situation you know didn't come about very much probably you know just. No more than any other normal kid you know might face that sort of thing. But. Yeah. I mean I wasn't really interested in Working on cars or farm or anything like that was more of A. I won't call myself a bookworm because we really didn't have that many books but you know I like to read and watch old movies and drawl and stuff like that and My Dad. Just you know he's a very practical man I mean, even today you know his idea of success is. Owning your own farm, starting your own business or something like that and I know that he probably looks on what I'm doing now is. A pretty useless way to spend your life trying to write books. Would you describe what the town of knock him stiff was like when you were growing up well, when I was growing up there it was. You know relocated for us. Ok we'll knock him stiff. is about thirteen miles west of chillicothe Theo, which is you know southern Ohio. It was its own little place. You know there wasn't much else around there but it was a community There were three small general stores and a bar and a church, and probably four hundred, fifty, five, hundred people now I probably was related to. At least half those people. So did you find this nurturing being in a town where half the people in it were related to you or incredibly claustrophobic? I think when I was a kid when I was a kid I was claustrophobic for me. You know I was one of those kids I was always unsatisfied I always wanted to be. Else and somewhere else. And so from a very early age. You know I was thinking about escaping from the hauler. I just Thought that I'd rather be somewhere else are somewhere else. But where you are as in Chile coffee which is. PHILADELPHIA, which is about thirteen miles away like you got out but you didn't go very far. I, really didn't get out I mean that's the weird contradiction of that whole thing you know i. Wanted to escape and them what I finally got my chance or whatever I. I chose to stay I'm out at knock stiff at least once a week even today Ladder parents go to visit. My parents are still alive. You know I have a brother and two sisters and they all live fairly close to there and So I. Think though as far as escape goes what happened with me was I quit high school when I was seventeen. And I went to work in a meat packing plant much like Weller work, Dan? And then when I was eighteen I moved to Florida you know that was going to be I was going to get away that you know by moving to Florida and I was down are working a job in a nursery and I wasn't making much money or anything only been there a few months my dad called and said. Hey, I can get you a job at the paper mail if you come back up here so. I chose to come back. You know the paper Mills Calling it was union job and great benefits and. And I knew you know for a high school dropout that was probably going to be the best job I. Ever got. You had that job for. How many years did you work at the paper mill? I? was there thirty two years and you didn't start writing till you were around fifty or is that is fifth well I'm fifty six now and I started writing when I was forty five. Okay. So how come it took so long did you know? When you weren't writing did you know that you had that in you? Well. You know I'd always been a big reader as I said and I love books. And I think maybe in the back of my mind, you know always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world and you know, of course, I was very naive about it. The principal reasons for me you know as far as being a writer were one, you were your own boss. To you could do it anywhere. And three, you made lots of money. Wasn't until actually began writing it. I found out. That was a real true. But I. Think you know Sorta like maybe a fantasy that? It was in the back of my mind for a long time. I had a problem with drinking and for a number of years and you know it was one of those fantasies that when you got half loaded and You started daydreaming or whatever it was. One of those things that you thought about right thought about. But it wasn't really. You know I went to school when I was in my thirties I went to college I went to Ohio University and I ended up with a degree in English and You. Know even while I was there though I wasn't thinking about being a writer I never took any writing workshops or anything like that. But then finally when I was forty five my dad retired from the paper mill. And there was just something about watching him retire and go home. and. You know that was you know pretty much the end of his career and it really. Bothered me and I. Just. decided. I had to try something else you know. To some other way to. Spend the rest of my life. So. When you decided, you wanted to learn how to write what did that mean? Any. Writers or anything in for a while I just sort of scribbled and struggled. And then I'd read an interview with a writer and I can't recall her name now or no it was a lady. But she talked about typing out other people's stories as a means of maybe getting closer to them or just learn how to put a story together. and. So I started doing that. Who did you type out? I typed out a lot of different stories I. I was typing out a story at least once a week and that went on for about a year and a half. So John. cheever hemingway. Flannery. O'Connor Richard. Yates Dennis Johnson the you know the list just goes on and on if it was a story that I really liked and it wasn't. Long I, type it out, and then I carry it around with me for a week and you look at over and you know jot notes on stuff like that, and then I'd throw it away and do another one. Typing a story out, just was a much better way for me to see how you know person puts dial together or you know. Moose from one scene to the next that sort of thing. Was it hard for you to find your subject matter as a writer? Well when I first started. Trying to learn how to write. As. I said like maybe I would copy out John cheever story. So then I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having unfair. Something like that or maybe I'd write about a re Rita Andrei debut story, and then I'd write about a Catholic priest. and. So I did that for maybe two years or so and it just wasn't working at all for me. and. Then filing maybe at about two and a half years, I wrote a story that's included in the book. Knock him stiff called back teen. And it's a very short story. and. It's about these two losers sitting in a donut shop. And that was the first thing that I had. Written that I thought wasn't too bad. And so then I increasingly started focusing on you know the people that I knew about instead of nurses, lawyers, that sort of thing that I had absolutely no idea. How to write about There's a passage in your new novel that's about a bus driver and the bus drivers father had gotten a certificate from the railroad for not missing a single day of work in twenty years and bus drivers. Mother always held this up as like what you could do. If you really you know were strive and tried to accomplish something when the bus drivers father died the bus driver hope that that certificate would be buried with his father's. We didn't have to look at it anymore, but instead his mother just like. Put It on the wall, display it in the living room. And then the bus driver thinks it wore on you after a while other people's accomplishments. I love that sentence did you ever feel that way I mean he kochman here seems. So relatively small like a good attendance record and not to knock that. But for that to be like, you know the zenith of somebody's life is. You. but did you feel that way that a war on you? Other People's accomplishments? I don't think that I paid so much attention to other people's. Successes or whatever. But I, know that I was aware you know by the time. I was thirty two or so and I've been working at the mail for about fourteen years. And I knew that all the guys that I had come in with you got hired about the same time as mayor guys even much later than that. You know they own their own home. Maybe. They owned a boat and they had two or three vehicles and they were married and had kids and on and on and on. You know in contrast to them. I've been divorced twice. I'd filed bankruptcy when I got sober I was living in this little very small apartment above this garage. Of. Motel Room and I've been living there for about. Four or five years. I owned a black and white TV that my sister had given me and I had this seventy six chevy that had the whole side of smashed in and that was it. You know for fourteen years of working there. That's what I had. And so you know there was that sense I guess of me just being a failure. Wasn't really that I wasn't jealous of those people or anything like that. I, mean I had enough sense to know that you know where I ended up was my own fault. But there was always that that idea in back of my head that. I could have done more you know I could maybe went to college or something you know. I'm sure you know if I'd wanted to go to school when I was eighteen, my dad would try to help me. and. That's not the route that I chose though how has your life changed? Now as a published writer, you have a collection of short stories. You have a new novel you got a thirty five thousand dollars cash prize, the pen, Robert Bingham Award. So, what's different about your life? well, I have a lot more time to just set on the porch and. Smoke and daydream. Think it's a legitimate. Yeah well, at least that's what I tell my wife. But my life hasn't really changed that much I. Mean I get a lot more emails. Now you know that sort of thing, but you know I still live in the same house I still pretty much. You know my daily routine is. I really can't say that it's changed that much. It's a good life and I'm thrilled that you know I've got a publisher and. You know had at least a little bit of success. You know I know a lot of writers out there a lot of writers out there who are much better than I am. And would. Probably give their left arm. To be setting, you know where I'm setting today. Well Donald Ray, pollock thing you so much for talking with us. Terry I appreciate. It. Made my day. Donald Ray pollock speaking to Terry Gross in twenty eleven. The devil all the time a new movie based on his novel of the same name.
Fresh Air
Remembering Carl Reiner, A Legendary Writer, Producer And Performer
"This is fresh air when Carl Reiner sitcom pilot starring him, his TV writer Rob Petrie was rejected by CBS producer Sheldon Leonard rescued it by persuading Reiner to replace the entire cast, including Reiner himself. The result. The Dick Van Dyke show was a major TV hit and made a star of its then unknown leading lady Mary Tyler Moore. Terry Gross spoke with her about the show and her TV character in 1995. What were you told about the character of Laura? Just that she was going to be a wife, a television wife, and that really had its classical parameters and dimensions that they were established. And they hardly ever varied except A Sze to whether or not the wife was the star of the show. In which case she was the funny one. Or if she were the straight man for the male star, and she was then totally supportive, but all these wives We're kind of obedient and you know, a representative of the vows to love, honor and obey. They hardly varied from that, and With with Carl Reiners character the way she was written, Laura actually had opinions of her own. While she was asserting herself. She also didn't make Dick Van Dyke look like a dummy. It was ah, a matter of two people. I mean, society's expectations of that point still said, Hey, wait a minute, lady. You only go so far here, but I think we broke new ground. And and that was helped by my insistence on wearing Pants. You know, jeans and and capri pants at the time because I said, I've I've seen all the other actresses, and they're always running the vacuum in these little flowered frocks with high heels on And I don't do that. And I don't know any of my friends to do that. So why don't we try to make this real and I'll dress on the show the way I do in real life, But it wasn't that easy. The sponsors were afraid you brazen right? They pointed specifically to if they used the term cupping under And I can only assume that that meant my you know my my seat that there was a little too much definition. And so they allowed me to continue to wear them in one episode. One scene per episode. And only after we check to make sure that there was a little cupping under as possible could coming under referring to the fit of your pants, the fit of the pants on my behind, right? But within a few weeks we were we were sneaking them into a few other scenes in every episode, and they were definitely cutting under and everyone thought it was great. The funny thing is, you know. Women liked me. They were not envious of the fact that their husbands had a crush on me. It was okay with them. They they were the first to know when I would meet people. They'd say My husband loves you so much. And he thinks you're so sexy. And this was it was not thing because they were also able to identify with me as a friend as a girlfriend. There was no resentment, no fear. Yeah, well, I think that that speaks so well for the character and your your portrayal of her. Did you do a lot of rehearsing with Dick Van Dyke? Or did you just have to do it? Minutes before the actual broken? The whole show was done in what they call multiple camera technique could still done today. But back then we were maybe the sixth or seventh show to use the technique. It began with Joan Davis, not Lucille Ball as everyone thinks John Davis did a show called I married Joan. What a girl! What a world What a life! Hey for you, and then Lucy and several other shows followed. But in that show it's a little like doing theater that's captured on film. You rehearsed for five days and then Ah, On the evening of the fifth day, the audience comes in and the camera's having blocked their moves in yours lined up with them. You film it from top to bottom in continuity. So during those five days, it was at least the 1st 3 days. It was very much a matter of rehearse. And contribute and attempt things and not be afraid to fail to make a fool of yourself. Just pick yourself up. And if it didn't happen this time, then the next time the experiment maybe it will Was a wonderfully supportive creative environment. Mary Tyler Moore, speaking to Terry Gross in 1995.
Inside Podcasting
What it Was Like to Interview Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor of Ear Hustle
"If you haven't heard my interview with Nigel poor and and Earl Woods from ear. Hustle I highly recommend you. Go back and listen to that episode, which should be right behind this one in your pod catcher after you've listened to that. Come back to this episodes that you can listen to the behind the scenes bonus show so with that I will introduce my special guest and he is Paul Condo welcome to the show Paul. Thank you for having me sky. Thank you for being a guest on your show. You're welcome. So. Hall writes the Podcast Gumbo Newsletter, but polly left for you to just introduce yourself quickly and tell them a little bit about about you before we get started. I have the podcast Gumbo newsletter, which recommends three podcast episodes. A week comes out every Wednesday I've been doing it. Just over about two years now, and then just at the beginning of this year I have a podcast of the same name, and that also is where I give three podcast episode recommendations and A little different than a newsletter at it focuses on national days of the year keeping it pretty consistent, though so that yes, always God. All right, so I guess we'll just get started talking about last week's show and how it came together. Take it away, Pau. All right my hope today is really that your listeners get a little inside baseball about inside podcasting and this particular episode keeping with the sports theme I'm going to give you a softball. Start us all off How do you pick your guests and and why Nigel and airline? That's a great question. It's a couple of different things usually for most episodes. It's a show that I am personally super passionate about if I'm not passionate about the show. That's GONNA. Come through in my interview and the interview just isn't going to be as good, but there have been a couple exceptions where I think that the person behind the show is someone that I'm either fascinated with personally. I would put Jason Cal so I interviewed in season one into that category I do listen to his show, but I really wanted in that interview to get under the hood of who is he because he has well I think a lot of people would say he's sort of a piece of work. And then also you know there might be someone who I think has a long history podcasting. Who I think my listeners can learn from So there's someone this season falls into that category, but for the most part it shows that I'm listening to you. I'm a fan of or that I'm just fascinated like. How did someone make something like this And so if there isn't some combination of those things going on, I think the interview is going to be terrible and I've been a fan of ear hustle since the beginning, they were on my hit list as I was planning season one. So i. mean that's a good question. I mean good point. Is You know how easy or hard is it to get interviews with people like Nigel? And early on you know what is the process you have to go through an agent or representative, or can you go straight to them? That is also a good question. In that case, I was in touch with. I don't know if I'm saying his name. Right David Qatrana I mentioned him at the end of the episode last week I was in touch with him, because he was my contact at Pr X., and he was sort of just keeping me abreast of the news coming out of the Organization for my newsletter, and he would let me know about your stuff, so I got him, and mentioned it before season one, and he was receptive, but they were really busy and I. I hope I have this chronology right, but I think it may have been I think when I first went to him. We didn't know that early on. You know. The public did not know that governor. Governor Jerry. Brown was commuting his sentence. I think that that was going on in the background. I hope I have that right because I remember after I asked him, and he said I'll really try, but they're super busy right now, so it was kind of like a maybe kind of an answer yet, and I remember that we went back and forth a few times, and it just seemed like we were sort of kicking the can down the road, and it wasn't happening and I had to figure out like who am I gonNA, talk to this season and so I finally said you know I think I have to make a decision here like let's try for next season and. I remember then listening to them on fresh air. Terry gross had them on fresh air, and she was the focus of the interview was the commutation of sentence, and how that was you know how that happened? And all of that, but they hadn't come out with season four, which was the first season where he is finally on the outside right from the outside. They had the end of season three. Though where you find out, it's happening and. You get to hear him on the phone with his mom, telling his mom might. I'm coming home and all that, so it was right in that period and I remember thinking interesting. You know that this has happened since. I started talking to David About having them on the show in retrospect. I'm really grateful that it didn't work out that first season because. Everyone wanted to interview them right around that time I mean Terry. Gross was one of many people who talk to them. Because that was like not that was big news that was at least state level, and you know I. Think there might have even been articles in. You know more national papers with national audiences about what had happened, and so I got to have a brand new type of conversation. Now you've been out. You've recorded an entire season like they were about to launch these and five when we had that conversation, so it was sort of like. What has it been like and it was a? A new angle
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Steve Martin On His Years As A Comic — And Walking Away From Stand-Up
"But if you could hold Steve Martin has been making people laugh often with highly conceptual humor since the nineteen sixties when he was a staff writer on the smothers brothers comedy hour in the seventies he became a major stand up comedy star filling arenas with his fans he rose to fame along with his then new TV show called Saturday Night Live on which he made many memorable appearances as a wild and crazy guy a medieval barber and a fan of king tut eventually the fame that brought in huge audiences also made it impossible for him to do the kind of comedy that made him original he starred in movies from the jerk to parenthood and in recent years has also written plays essays and books and toured with both his bluegrass band and with friend and fellow comic Martin short Steve Martin won the Mark Twain prize for American humor in two thousand five in was a Kennedy center honoree in two thousand seven Terry gross spoke with Steve Martin in two thousand eight about his memoir born standing up Steve Martin welcome back to fresh AIR eleven returning her thank you I thank you very much I'd like you to open with a reading from the beginning of the book and we've we've edited the slightly to make it crystal a little shorter for the broadcast great be happy to I did stand up comedy for eighteen years ten of those years were spent learning for years were spent refining and for years were spent in wild success I was seeking comic originality and fame fell on me as a by product the course was more plodding than her ROIC I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps started with a few intuitive leaps I was not naturally talented I didn't sing dance or act the working around that minor detail made me inventive I was not self destructive though I almost destroyed myself in the end I turned away from stand up with the tired swivel of my head and never looked back until now a few years ago I began researching and recalling the details of this crucial part of my professional life which inevitably touches upon my personal life and was reminded why I did stand up and why I walked away in a sense this book is not an autobiography but a biography because I am writing about someone I used to know yes these events are true yet sometimes they seem to have happened to someone else and I often felt like a curious onlooker or someone trying to remember a dream I ignored my stand up career for twenty five years but now having finished this memoir I view this time with surprising warmth one can have it turns out an affection for the war years thanks for reading that that Steve Martin reading from his memoir born standing up which has just been published in paperback yeah I guess I didn't realize how much you closed the door on your comedy years how much there was like a before and after it ended you were done and that was it right I I I'm it was about nineteen eighty one I still had a few obligations left but I knew that hi I could not continue but I guess I could have continued if I had nothing to go to but I did have something to go to which was movies and you know the act had become so known that in order to go back I would have had to create an entirely new show and I wasn't up to it especially when the opportunity for movies and writing movies came around why would you have to create an entirely new show well like I say the the the act was really it there is a passage in the book which I caught because it was so hard to explain but the act essentially besides all the jokes and bits and everything was conceptual and once the concept was understood there was nothing more to develop it's like saying painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over once the concept is no you don't see the need to see to that and that was in the back of my head that I was really done artistically with with what I had created or pastiche to you know in the reading that you just did you describe yourself as not being naturally talented did you think of yourself as naturally funny I'm I didn't didn't think of myself in that way no although I I just love to comedy I I was raised with laurel and hardy and I Love Lucy Anne and Jerry Lewis and I just loved it and I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits and you know it's the Andy Kaufman thing over to Marty short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself and I I loved magic and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice you must practice and never present a trip before it's ready but I was just inclined toward show business but I didn't know what I just like being on stage you got your start working in Disneyland you were living in southern California and when you were ten you were selling guidebooks there then you later work for magic shop demonstrating magic tricks and I get the sense from your memoir that demonstrating those magic tricks you know hours a day and really getting them getting them down because you're doing them so much that that gave you a sense that performance required a great deal of craft that even comedy wasn't just a question of going out on stage and saying funny things that there was enormous amounts of work and practice and thought that would have to go into it well that that idea of that that you really had to work at this stuff didn't necessarily come from Disneyland it I I mean I think yes and in terms of presenting a trick but having having it so well honed in your mind was really giving me a sense of security it was I don't want to go out there half baked and you know you learn that through the years you know you're you do a magic show with a friend and you rehearse it a couple of times and yes every all the timing has to be exactly perfect but while you're out there it's it's a different world it's not your mirror you have to make on the spot adjustments but that's just you know whatever entertainer does actually working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all the jokes we did the tricks but we have all these jokes I had a friend Jim Barlow who you know he he was the the guy I worked with there but he had patter worked out you know it he would go to customers and say Medicare money I mean help you not and you know call them suckers it was really funny and and kind of friendly rude what was your patter I just took all of Jim's patter I'm I'm trying to think of other ones yeah I said it would just it would somebody would buy something it would say and because you are hundred customer today you get a free paperback it's a little silly things like that but Disneyland I'm fifteen right here at early act was a combination of banjo playing juggling magic tricks and comedy and some of that stating your later at two but it sounds like a vaudeville act yes I was very interested involved it was the only sort of discipline that was a five minute act on stage which is what I really enjoyed ins and saw myself doing and I bought books on it I went to the Long Beach pike which was off the carnival fair you know four is really a place for drunken sailors to get tattoos but there was also side shows is very interested in that but you know there is these are all in there these are short acts there was one of the employees at Disneyland that I worked with was named Steve Stewart and he worked in vaudeville and he did a sack for me one day on the floor of the magic shop and I had a couple of great gags one was that I actually used and I asked him if I could use them because I was very strict about using any material that wasn't mine or that that was taken from somebody else let's put it this way I became strict wasn't strict at first there is one trick that one joke that Dave steward did where he said are not yet a glove white glove in his hand the magicians glove any he said and now the glove into dove trick and he threw it into the air and then it hit the floor and he just looked at it and consent and set up for my next trick he went on and it was the first time I saw comedy created out of nothing of nothing happening and I Glaum don to that wait wait wait you're doing I think is not only making comedy out of nothing but making comedy out of people's expectations which you were going to fail to fulfill well yes exactly and I I really started that when I became a semi professional meaning I was working the local folk music clubs going around either working for free or for a week and I quickly decided that you know the material was you know good or weak or whatever and I decided whatever it was I was going to pretend like it was fantastic and how great am I how great is what you're seeing and I think that's what grizzly hunting it's a tune him too because they couldn't believe that someone actually was that confident
Fresh Air
Author Roth weighed in on 'Plot Against America' before TV series was adapted
"This is fresh AIR let's get back to Terry's two thousand four interview with Philip Roth his book the plot against America is the basis of a new HBO mini series that starts Monday the novel has been adapted by David Simon and ed burns who worked together on the wire Roth died in twenty eighteen no no president Limburg in your novel may be anti semitic but after he's elected he knows better than to just come out and say at any initiate a program that brings young Jewish children to the quote heartland to kind of initiate them in the ways of heartland American life he initiates a homeland program that relocates Jewish families to get a quote heart heartland places of America and nobody really knows the Jewish families don't really know whether this is really meant to be a way of opening up their horizons are broadening their lives or whether it's a truly anti semitic way of removing them from safe friendly neighborhoods and putting them in in communities that might be very hostile and it also kind of breaking up the Jewish vote by breaking up a Jewish communities did you imagine that for Lindberg to really catch on in America he would have to use euphemistic language for anything that might truly be anti semitic at heart and helps in the language of the you know the heartland and just folks in mmhm mmhm you know well they are it is ambiguous to know what the intention is of for instance to begin with the first one which is called just folks that is a program in which Jewish boys from I think ten to fifteen for remember correctly volunteer if they want to to spend eight weeks in the summer on a farm somewhere my brother goes to Kentucky networks and tobacco farm they can go to any any place that's available where they can do farm work and work they ordinarily wouldn't do what's wrong with that why is it mostly Jews and that's what makes people nervous put it on the face of it there's nothing wrong with it now we move on to the next program which is called homestead forty to nineteen forty two as opposed to homes at eighteen forty two which was the original homestead act that is something else according to that piece of legislation large corporations are encouraged to transfer their Jewish employees to offices in more remote parts of the country and in the face of this legislation my father whose company is going to move us to Kentucky quits his job our lives in a way that is more because that is what there's more coercive that is I would say a bit more ominous and may be Lindbergh handy shown a little more strongly on the other hand if that's all this guy does it's not too terrible you know the limber disappears from my book before you can do anymore so you never really know what he's up to and again that's what I wanted I you never really know what he's up to he's a kind of jam heroic statue who looms over the book after after limber disappears then all hell breaks loose but I don't remember nobody can even in that that homestead act you know that in which corporations relocate Jewish employees the letter that your father gets home in the novel is so euphemistically just read a few lines from it you know if you're calling in life is proud to be among the very first group of major American corporations and financial institutions selected to participate in the new homestead program which is designed to give emerging American families a once in a lifetime opportunity to move their house sold at government expense in order to strike roots in an inspiring region of America previously inaccessible to them well doesn't that sound great but you know as the family in the novel figures out this is this is the the government and the corporation joining hands to to coerce Jewish families to move it was great fun writing that letter yeah yeah you really got that cheerful corporate PR results down found out what it was like to be Dick Cheney yeah I it's it's it's it imagine most people would not I would be impenetrable they would just take it at face value my father because he's so committed again against liberty from the start refuses to to do with aspirin Philip's cousin you know your cousin Alvin in the book get who who is something of a hood Hey Taylor and wants to fight against him and you know the United States under Lindberg is not going to join the war but he wants to wants to enter it anyway so he joins the Canadian Army and fights against Hitler but he loses half of one leg in the war and returns with a stump that's covered in ulcers boils and scabs he moves in with the Roth family and a first it's horrifying to fill up he says it was bad enough that we weren't living in a normal country now we would never again be living in a normal house a life of even more suffering was taking shape around me any praise to the housekeeping guides to protect our humble five rooms and all they contain from the vengeful fury of the missing leg in thinking about the impact that this missing leg this stump would have on the young Philip Roth's life did you have anything like it anything comparable to draw on from your own life no I didn't I didn't I I had to think my way through it I think the only thing that comes close lineages I never had as a child when I was in the army and I guess I was in my early twenties I was in the public information officer will treat hospital in Washington and my job was to go out into the wards and get information about US soldiers newly arrived who were injured or hurt or whatever and then write a little press release for the hometown paper and they had a lot of amputees at Walter Reed may be able to reverse the center I don't remember but they had many entities and so I went out on the wards and and I talked to these guys it was a sad as you can imagine is just after the Korean War or I go down to P. T. within physical therapy and watch them learning to walk on the parallel bars and so and so I sold my shares of stumps and not just of legs and the pathos was overwhelming overwhelming and so I carried this with me I think into the block and I think it's why it maybe even when I came to me that in fact I haven't thought of it till till now but I think perhaps that those experiences had a lot to do with determining how often would be would be wounded author Philip Roth speaking to Terry gross in two thousand for his alternative history novel the plot against America was published that year he died in twenty eighteen a mini series based on the novel begins Monday on HBO adapted by David Simon and
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
Adam Driver Hates Watching Himself in Movies
"It'll be interesting to see during the Oscar. TV Show exactly how Adam driver reacts when they play a clip of his best actor nominated performance because he hates seeing or hearing himself on screen so much that a few months ago he walked out on Terry Gross in the middle of an interview for fresh air when she played a clip of him which surprised me because when I talked to him in two thousand thirteen he was indulgent as we watched one scenes from the TV show girls. I did ask him why it made him so uncomfortable. I mean lots of reasons I just forgot why look like to was reminded in my God. That's what you have to go through that But mostly because I feel like If he was gonNA continue if it was going to kind of go on that You know I came from a theater background or you. Don't get to look at the end result or what what is actually being a Brosseau. You just have to do your homework than As much as you can then show up on the day and be open to something being different or not knowing the answer and I think think in things that I've watched in the past one I would just obsessed about them for months and drive myself crazy after you saw your work of things that I wanted to fix and change your or do over again in an obviously you can't and and same thing with the people around me. I just drive them nuts with like ask him quite so we would just couldn't wouldn't it be allow you to like. Oh next time and I won't do that or get better the next time. I don't think it's necessarily a good idea. Just kind of seems to be what I think. I have a natural tendency to try to make things perfect or better looking or Change it for the sake of changing at arbitrary Changing making it look better in the things that I'm interested in an watching in film theatre and television role is the imperfect or the ugly part of it. I just know it myself. Especially while we're shooting I have no interest to see what is coming
Fresh Air
China’s coronavirus - Here’s what we know
"This is fresh air I'm Terry gross the new corona virus that emerged in Wuhan China has killed almost five hundred people and prompted the Chinese government to impose severe travel restrictions within the country the virus has spread to at least twenty four other countries including the U. S. American air carriers have suspended flights to and from China the US government is barring from entering the country any foreign nationals who visited China within last fourteen days our guest science writer David Coleman says the new corona virus is just the latest example of an ominous trend humans contracting deadly contagious viruses from wild animals other examples include H. I. V. west Nile fever anthrax bola and another from the corona virus family sars severe acute respiratory syndrome which also emerged in China and killed more than seven hundred people David common has written frequently for National Geographic and is the author of several books including spillover animal infections and the next human pandemic he spoke with fresh tears Dave Davies well David common welcome back to fresh air yeah this is scary stuff this virus and it's also a very fast moving story you and I are talking on Tuesday afternoon things may change a bit by time people hear it but us a sense of how serious the threat is of this virus compared to other outbreaks we've seen well it is very serious and needs to be taken very seriously and yet it's not an occasion for panic it's an occasion for calm effective response comparing it to other viral outbreaks he is is illuminating in some ways and problematic in other ways compared say to influence every year there's a seasonal influenza sweeps around the world F. infects hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people kills something like thirty thousand or thirty five thousand people in the US every year and yet it has a very low case fatality rate case fatality rate how many diaper the number of people infected it's down I think usually around point one percent a tenth of a percent sars virus that emerged from southern China with the syndrome caused by a virus that emerged from southern China in two thousand three a severe acute respiratory syndrome it infected eight thousand people a little over eight thousand and it killed seven hundred and seventy four for case fatality rate of almost ten percent in other words a hundred times seasonal influenza the average seasonal influenza and it scared the be Jesus out of the public health and disease scientist experts that I know they told me that that was a really scary one because the case fatality rate was so high and it spread quickly but they managed to stop it and we can talk a little bit about that so here's this novel coronavirus as they're calling it to two thousand nineteen novel coronavirus and it comes in somewhere between those two case fatality rates and that is one of the most important numbers at the experts have been watching and I've been watching over the last week or two as the numbers of infected people have exploded and the number of deaths have increased steadily the case fatality rate has hovered moving downward slowly from about three percent to a little over two percent now and it it is still very unpredictable we don't know how many people it's gonna infect and therefore how many people it's gonna kill but it's in the range that that requires being taken very seriously so let's look at what's what officials are doing to try and contain this novel coronavirus and your describes what what's happened in China China was slow to react to this particularly the officials in the city of Wuhan and the province of who by and then the course got out of the barn and the national officials reacted strongly and sealed off essentially first the city of Wuhan and then a number of other cities so I think there's more than fifty million people who are essentially in locked down with no public transportation going in and out of those cities China has been cutting internal flights in and out and to other countries have been cutting flights international flights in and out of China the US in terms of flights of foreign nationals are barred from entering the U. S. if they have recently traveled to China and US citizens coming back from Wuhan or who day province are being quarantined for fourteen days which is the suspected incubation period of the virus other countries are eliminating flights in and out of China I saw this morning that Japan has eliminated flights in and out of China so there is this international curtailment of flights in and out of China and in some cases people are being screened at airports and in a limited number of cases people are being quarantined if they have been and bay province and and want to come back to the U. S. or to another country do all these seem like reasonable and appropriate steps to well the the controversial to some people but to me they do seem reasonable controlling containment is important at this point I don't think it's an infringement around do infringement on anybody's personal rights we have to control cases and monitor cases and trace contacts and any time the thirties learn that an infected person has written on an airplane and then then we headed off into the city where they've arrived medially there three hundred people roughly on that airplane who are contacts that have to be traced and have to be monitored if not isolated and the person who is to enter the city and has gone to his or her family and they're more context there that will immediately have to be traced that's what happened in Toronto early on during the sars epidemic one case got into Toronto and she spread the the infection rather widely as soon as she's gotten there right so so the steps that managed to bring the sars epidemic under control back in the early two thousands were exactly these kinds of steps exactly these kinds of steps we knew less about sars at the very beginning except that it there was some very dangerous infectious disease caused by an unknown pathogen that had come out of southern China to Hong Kong and gotten to Toronto Beijing Bangkok and one or two I think Hong Kong one or two other cities and then there was very rigorous no medical isolation and containment and contact tracing and public health officials were able to reduce the transmission rate of sars to a very low level now in terms of the average secondary cases caused by each primary case the average number of infections that each infected person cost they brought that to a very low level and essentially they stopped the sars outbreak right now they've been some rip reporting suggesting that the trump administration has over the last couple years reduced the government's ability to fight a viral epidemic do you have an opinion about that yes I think it's I think it's well documented in the trunk budgets and it's been I think disastrous for the CDC and for our preparedness my understanding is that trumps twenty twenty budget proposed cutting one point three billion from the CDC budget that's twenty percent below the twenty nineteen level in the twenty nineteen level contained cuts of seven hundred fifty million including I look this up recently including a proposed cut of a hundred and two million specifically for emerging and zoonotic diseases which is what this is so the trump administration budgets have been hamstring the CDC and our ability to react to circumstances just like this course budget proposals aren't always inactive your point is well taken that budget proposals don't necessarily translate into approve budgets but the effort has been there by the trump administration to reduce drastically the CDC and I think that they have succeeded to a very great degree there's been around understandably on protective masks and gloves should should people be trying to get them what's it's a it's a sign of panic that there has been around but there has been I went into my local drug store here in Bozeman Montana yesterday to see if I could buy some masks to take with me just in case when I fly to Australia on Thursday I thought well what if on the way back a typhoon re routes me through China or something so I thought I would carry some masks my local drug store was sold out of masks and that has happened a lot of places around the country is that called for I would say no despite the fact that I was one person trying to buy some is and you know an emergency travel precaution but masks particularly the simple surgical mask that you see on so many people specially travelers I hear the experts saying that those are very helpful in containing the spread of infected droplets from people who are infected containing costs containing CSE sneezes buy a sick person but much much much less effective in protecting a well person from the sneeze is coming out of another person so in other words where mask if you're sick if you're coughing as a courtesy to people around you don't be nearly as concerned about wearing a mask just as a preventive when you step on an airliner go to a big store right I think the CDC our recommends that ordinary civil citizens don't really need to worry about masks but health workout probably should I think this I think the CDC is also saying look ordinary people we have a shortage of masks let those masks be used by health care workers who need them most rather than wearing and when you go to the hardware store David common is a science writer and the author of the book spillover animal infections in the next human
Celeb News Ride Home
Adam Driver Walked Out in the Middle of His Interview With Terry Gross
"Do you feel that deal it. The air has changed changed. And we're now in the middle of a magical time in history. That's right Adam. Driver has somehow become one of the most famous people alive. How do I know this because it seems like? He's at the centre of different major controversy every single week. People Love Adam driver. People Hate Adam driver. I mean folks folks. This is the time to be alive. Today's Adam driver news revolves around him walking out on Terry Gross in the middle of fresh air interview that he did to promote his movie. Marriage story daily beast. Got The exclusive on this. They described the incident as follows and I quote sources at. NPR told told the daily beast. That driver walked out of an interview earlier. This month with fresh air host Terry Gross after expressing displeasure at the idea of listening to a clip of himself. Singing being alive from the musical company drivers character sings the song late. In Noah Baumbach New Netflix film marriage story and quote. Wow okay okay. So Adam driver walked out on Terry Gross. Because he didn't want to hear himself saying I mean that's kind of relatable. He also did mention before the interview. that he it doesn't watch clips of himself. Some people are calling him a diva for doing this. A lot of people are coming to Adams defense. Low calling his walking out on the interview a mental health self preservation tactic in Adam drivers October New Yorker profile. He discusses his anxiety over watching himself perform. The New Yorker wrote wrote quote. The first time driver saw himself in girls on Dunham's laptop he was mortified. That's when I was like I can't watch myself in things. I certainly can't watch this this if we're going to continue doing it. He said many actress declined to watch themselves but for driver that reluctance amounts to a phobia and quote depending on where you stand you either. Thank Adam drivers a diva shore. Like I said or you think he's someone with really intact boundaries. WHO's protecting his phobia or you don't care at all and you probably have a a really nice chill brain? That's not constantly thinking about Adam driver personally. I don't know what side of Adam drive her story. I'm on I don't know if there's a wrong or right side I mean I don't I just don't think about it. I really have to. I have to let this marinate if you are one of the people that's reluctant to make fun of Adam driver for walking out on this interview. That's totally fair. That being said surely we can all come together and make fun of Adam driver for how he used to eat. A whole rotisserie chicken back in the middle of acting class at juilliard. Right if you're behind on your Adam driver news and didn't know eater wrote about this a few days ago saying quote on an episode of the podcast. The film re Roll Drivers Juilliard Classmates Scott Yellow recalls drivers love for Rotisserie chicken to the point where he'd eat a whole one in class eater then unquote solo. WHO said quote? He would walk around school with an entire chicken in one hand and a jug of water in the other end quote. Can you just picture that a young young Adam driver walking into a black box theater with a whole chicken and a whole jug of water. I'm personally picturing the plastic jug of water that you get at the grocery store it kind of looks like it should have milk in it but it doesn't it has water and it has like the blue plastic top and listen. It's not like acting. Classes typically have desks so I'm guessing if Adam driver related eat a whole chicken in acting class he had to have eaten it on his lap the mandated chicken on his lap. Okay and we can all agree that that's funny and worth making fun of. Isn't it beautiful. How we all just came together like that I could cry?
KQED Radio Show
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing, 50 Years Later
"Tomorrow is the fiftieth anniversary of man's first steps on the moon courtesy of the NASA Apollo eleven mission which remains the most astounding and most viewed moment in the history of television today fresh air is noting that anniversary by listening to interviews with astronauts and test pilots during this hour we'll speak with pioneering test pilot Chuck Yeager one of this century's astronauts Chris Hadfield and the first American in space Alan Shephard and we'll start with one of the astronauts from that Apollo eleven moon mission fifty years ago Michael comes well Neil Armstrong and buzz Aldrin walked on the moon on July twentieth nineteen sixty nine Michael Collins was orbiting in the Apollo eleven command capsule waiting to take Armstrong and Aldrin back to earth three years before that Collins pie with a German I ten and walked in space attached to a spacecraft only by a high tech umbilical cord Michael Collins wrote an autobiography then wrote a book called lift off about the US space program lance when Terry gross spoke with Michael Collins in nineteen eighty eight she asked him about the very start of the Apollo eleven moon mission back in July nineteen sixty nine when you were strapped down in July of nineteen sixty nine waiting to head for the moon and you heard the countdown what were you thinking about when you heard the countdown I
Fresh Air
Review: Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
"Mission in Saudi Arabia. This is the official military document. You get it describes the Saudi people as indigenous tribes with some later mixture of negro blood from slaves imported from Africa. Oh, America, even boring technical manuals, you still somehow manage to be raised. This. This is still on the internet you guys, but a son, you know, it was probably written a while ago. Really? It was updated June twenty but has done these things are like an itunes user agreement. It's at the bottom. It's chapter one page five. Okay. But as negro still a bad word, dictionary dot com offensive after that program. Aired the American military subsequently apologized for that language and removed the entire sixty-nine page booklet from the internet Monagas parents are Muslim immigrants from India. Last year, he hosted the White House correspondents dinner the first one under the presidency of Donald Trump who breaking with tradition did not attend before hosting this new series Hassan. Manashe did a comedy special on Netflix called homecoming king? That's when Terry gross spoke with him about his family background growing up in California, the son of immigrants, she started with a clip in which he's telling the story of the anonymous threatening phone call his family received at home right after nine eleven just after the phone, call the windows on the family car were shattered Hassan went out into the street to see if he could find who did it. I look back in the middle of the street my dad's in the. The middle of the road sweeping glass out of the road. Like he works at like a hate crime barbershop. Like Muslim was anger. We gotta clean this zen Brown. Mr. Miaki, just like not saying a word I run up to my dad. Why aren't you saying something I've known ask you say something? He looks at me. And he goes I sent. Us at the whole thing. Wing it. These things happen in these things will continue to happen. That's the price we pay for being. And that's when I was like on, oh, we really are from two different generations like BMX bikes aside. My dad's from not generation like a lot of immigrants really feels like if you come to this country, you pay this thing like the American dream tax, right? Like, you're going to endorse them racism. And if it doesn't cost you your life. Well, hey, you lucked out pay it. There you go. San but
Fresh Air
Donald Trump, NPR and Washington discussed on Fresh Air
"Air I'm David Cooley in for. Terry gross today we continue our series of EMMY nominees Alec Baldwin who's been. Nominated for his portrayal of Donald Trump on Saturday. Night Live tells us how he created his Trump. Impression I, always say the same stupid thing, to myself I say left eyebrow up right eyebrow down stick your mouth at as far as you can try to bite. Somebody's nose off and kind. Of growl with that irritability he's also written a memoir he fell in love with movies by watching. Old black and white films. On TV with his parents I watched track fifty times listen to. Them children of the night what the music they make we'll also hear from Brian Tyree Henry who's been nominated for an EMMY for his, role as rapper paper boy on the. FX series Atlanta
All Things Considered
Tab Hunter, Star of Damn Yankees!, Dead at 86
"Tab hunter had a pop hit in nineteen fifty seven with this song young love it was at the height of his fame and while he had no dramatic training he acted in dozens of movies including the world war two drama battlecry the burning hills a western with natalie wood and the pleasure of his company a romantic comedy with fred astaire and debbie reynolds he also starred in the movie version of the musical damn yankees the story of a baseball player who sold his soul to the devil but his greatest role during those years was simply playing tab hunter he was known as arthur galina before he took that screen name and for years while he would hollywood's leading ladies he hid the fact that he was gay hunter told terry gross on whyy's fresh air that at that time he didn't mind i was a young white eyed kid thrown into the studio system and starring in motion pictures and i loved it i mean god what what young man wouldn't love all that stuff tab hunter made an unlikely comeback in the nineteen eighties he co starred with drag queen divine in john waters film polyester the role parodied has earlier onscreen image he played a love scene with divide and that was a really brave and wonderful thing that have did and revitalized his career that's jeffrey schwartz who made a feature length documentary called tab hunter confidential it was based on hunter's two thousand six memoir the first time he publicly came out is gay and the name tab hunter jeffrey schwartz says talent agent henry willson came up with it when hunter started working in hollywood henry said well we have to have you something that's how the first name came in and then taboo a lover of horses henry said well you you love horses and you love hunters and jumpers so let's call you tab hunter instead of tab jumper tab hunter died yesterday from cardiac arrest producer allan glaser his partner of thirty years said his death was sudden and unexpected tab hunter was eighty six.
Morning Edition
Take that, America. Europe's tariffs take effect
"More today to sell products like orange juice and motorboats to customers in europe npr's dustin dwyer reports the u has if officially imposed tariffs on us made products worth more than three billion dollars this is the second major round of retaliatory tariffs to take affect against the united states in what's fast becoming an all out trade war the first came from mexico earlier this month tariffs from canada are set to take effect next month the eu canada and mexico are all responding to tariffs on aluminum and steel imposed on them by the united states on june first house republicans say of haute on a compromise immigration bill won't come until next week but representative michael mccall chair of the homeland security committee says thursday's meetings dig yield progress productive member i didn't quite understand what was bill is fairly rushed process and now the members and they have veteran shane what's in this bill in the mccoll bill and also we heard from the numbers about the things they went to see in meanwhile virginia's governor has ordered state officials to investigate claims by immigrant teens that they were severely abused at the shannon doa juvenile detention facility the centers attorneys deny the allegations this is npr on the next fresh air the secret doomsday plans in case of nuclear attack to maintain the continuity of government we talked with garrett graff author of the book raven rock the story of the us government secret plan to save itself while the rest of us die it's now out in paperback join us you can join terry gross fresh air at one o'clock and then again at seven o'clock here on k q e d public radio.