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This week on their Naked Lunch podcast, hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild have a gala holiday special that they call "An Everything Everywhere All At Once Thanksgiving." As the site writes, “Happy Thanksgiving! Phil and David sat down this week to relay a few Turkey Day memories -- both sweet & sour -- from their own childhoods. Then they celebrate a holiday they both love by revisiting two new friends and one of their favorite episodes of 2022. As award season builds up steam, we put the Naked Lunch spotlight on Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie Phil & David both feel is wildly original and totally Oscar-worthy. And if you want seconds at the end, go back and enjoy the whole original Lunch." (You can find that broadcast here.)
I can’t embed the audio, but if you click on the link here, it will take you to the website, where you just click on the “Play” arrow underneath the photo.
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A couple months ago, I posted the wonderful Kukla, Fran and Ollie production of “The Mikado,” which they aired on June 7, 1950. (And I posted here.) This comes from the show the very next day – when the Kuklapolitans and Fran do a post-mortem of the operetta. It all starts full of glorious praise…but soon gets detailed in criticism of almost everything, including the camerawork and how the music director wore his hat, as well as Fletcher Rabbit’s diction, Gilbert & Sullivan’s writing, Fran forgetting some words and more, as it all devolves into a disarray of sniping.) But of course what I most loved was that it all begins with a brief scene between Kukla and my fave, the insane Cecil Bill who speaks no known language. This week hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild’ welcome their guest – Phil Rosenthal. That’s because they’re at the ATX TV Festival in Austin, and Wild talks with Rosenthal as a festival guest. They also take questions from a live audience about, as the site notes, “how his love for food and travel paved the way for Somebody Feed Phil" the joys of working with his brother on the show, as well as family, friendship and many other topics.
I can’t embed the audio, but if you click on the link here, it will take you to the website, where you just click on the “Play” arrow underneath the photo. Returning back to songs on Sesame Street that were performed by country music stars, here are husband and wife Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. Apparently this appearance together went well, because last year they were signed to appear together as regulars on the TV series, 1883, a spinoff of the show Yellowstone. For the “Mystery Guest” segment on this 1967 episode of What’s My Line?”, the contestant is a decidedly unexpected one -- though fitting for it being election season: Sen. Everett Dirksen, the U.S. Senate Minority Leader, a Republican from Illinois. The biggest question I had going in was how on earth would he disguise his voice, since it’s one of the most distinctive in Senate history – so much so that he recorded a spoken-word album that actually had a hit single from it, “Gallant Men.” (I posted it here a few years ago.) And oddly, he doesn’t really try to hide his voice, though gives very quick, one word answers. You’ll get a slight sense of his basso profundo during the conversation afterwards, though host John Daly does most of the talking. The full appearance is a lot of fun. Watching this, I harken back to the time in grade school when I did a project and chose my home state of Illinois. In doing research, I wrote to Dirksen’s office, since he was my senior senator, and got a packet of information back and a signed letter, which I still have. And will post below. Whether he actually signed it himself, it seems unlikely, but, hey, the dream lives on.., If you want to jump directly to the segment, it starts at the 13:45 mark.  Live today from Boston, on this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest is Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author, professor, and director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University – and winner of a MacArthur Genius Grant. In his conversation with host Peter Sagal, he’s low-key and extremely soft spoken, yet the talk is very amusing – both from the panelists participating more than usual, and him getting a lot of mileage out of short answers.
This the full Wait, Wait… broadcast, but you can jump directly to the “Not My Job” segment, it starts around the 18:30 mark. |
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