Of salt in the wounds of the earth. READY RINGBACK READY READY READY see. Jesus close. To you. Because. The son in the. In the name of the. Game. Turn to. Don. The. See these. 2 young son on. The. I. Thank. You for the final moment. In the. Hey it's me from here cast member my. Thank you. It suddenly occurred to me the other day this being radio you can see me. So I thought I would probably introduce myself my name is Mike yard and I'm the 1st African-American cast member on live from here. I'm actually the 1st black personality on all of public radio parea. Not really accurate but it sounds true. I'm really like the Jackie Robinson of sketch comedians Yahoo affirmative action was going to. See this job is not only did it for me to be funny but for me to broaden the audience a public radio because let's be real as we tour the show around I've noticed that you guys are some amazing audiences but you're also very white. And I want you to know that I am here to help and I stand ready for any questions you might have for instance I know it can be confusing during the holiday season but please remember not every African American celebrates Kwanzaa. Personally I don't know one person who celebrates this. As with myself about Christmas baby. Decorations and getting gifts specially for my fans. My friends are confused about when to use the term African American and when to use the term black. Actually I'm not going clear that one up. This is way too much fun to watch you guys stumble around. And yes I did vote for Barack Obama twice. Yes. Because he was black 2nd time because he was African-American. To be exactly whose job it is you guys I truly love this I love. My job. But it's going to have to weed for musicians birthdays starting with Sarah Burrell as. I want to avoid just want to write from his songs to remind you that you have a heart to hit musical that reminds you that everyone else does too is one absolutely destroys me in the sweetest way. Thank you thank you. For bringing this man happy happy Thallus coopt how Berry Gordy Berry Gordy founder of Motown Records at the helm of which changed the course of popular music used 3 extraordinary. That fellow he discovered endorsed signed the Supreme's Marvin Gaye the temptations the 4 Tops Gladys Knight and The Pips Stevie Wonder the Jackson 5 of just naming a couple it all started in $1057.00 when one of his discoveries Smokey Robinson encouraged Mr Gordy to get an $800.00 loan to start a record company that's a good friend is a little too and they released exactly 10 years later. Claimed that like 5 minutes before we went on today thank you for that Joey and thank you for everything Mr Berry Gordy. Imaging he image in. A woman generates so much beauty and emotion via the marriage of music and computers that one forgets it's a relatively recent Cup play this song for instance introduced many of us to the vocoder airs live from here is merry band of vocoder imitators featuring Miss Maggie Rogers on energy. Hide and Seek. READY to become necessary later. Is. This. Is. Their. Big. 2 for. In. Sing. Sing. She. So. She. Just. Much sin. Because she did what she said. Because it is what she say. It's just. That she said. It's still 2 2. Ah. This is a go is my son. The Bailey is my Santa showing some. Disability protocol on lockdown they named a notation software program after him one of the greatest composers of the early 20th century and perhaps Finland's favorite musical saw in his picture was on the Finnish 100 mark bill for crime. And you won't find this next bit on Wikipedia but around 3 and a half years ago his music helped me truly own my impending fatherhood you see something about becoming a dad makes it impossible to resist making up stupid lyrics to otherwise delightful melodies. My son is 3 now so my catalog has grown fast and punishing. But this phrase from the 3rd movement of Sebelius is currently a sweet was perhaps my 1st masterpiece song to my little boy Calvin every night for his last 2 weeks in the warm Claire I'm so sorry. Cat are you coming out today to play with. Thank you the great joy. In the course of this book a segment with the man the myth the legend Tom Waits. You don't need me to tell you anything about Tom Waits everyone loves Tom Waits No man you love Tom Waits right oh man huge you know as a matter of fact I think Tom Waits song to my son when he was in utero and. What was what was that song misery is the River of the world. Sounds about right we're going to do something a little more uplifting Today however the 1st time I heard this gem it was being sung by this person missing origin Rose of the Telluride bluegrass festival many years ago take a song up to the house won't you sit. Still So we're joined this week by a fairly frequent musical comrade banjo player to kill me. Thank you. So much you know that know him or pickles as we like to call him the counting Pickles the cowling is a member of my band punch from the 3rd Thank you Ana Thank you think that's true I haven't checked our Web site in a few days but I think I'm still in the band you're still in the band but also you've started doing a one man show recently how did that come about you know it's it's hard to say whether I started doing these solo shows because you're an off from from Punch Brothers for a while to start a family or if you ran off from Punch Brothers for a while to start a family because I was doing solo shows and you were inspired to see greater meaning in your life as well as a father. Well we'll never know well never really know the answer to that question unfortunately because you know when when someone comes you and says he pickles. Were having a baby the proper response is not why. You can't really ask that question civil never really know the answer to it and. He says so when you told me that you had a son the way I just I just played it cool what an ass and that's your motivation. I let it ride I think I said congrats and I hope I said congrats or square ma'am we're going to don't worry about it so how's it been going out there with your with your new album Good responses Well I don't want to jinx myself here on national radio but I must admit that people seem to be really enjoying this project and not to toot my own horn but left and right folks keep referring to this album is a universal favorite and that's always fans in critics alike it almost seems like any time there's this record comes up in conversation or in press without fail I'm hearing or reading those 2 words universal favorite and you know as an artist it's just so incredibly encouraging hearing words like that to describe my music. Pickle's the title of your record isn't it isn't universal favorite. You know that's literally the title of the record yeah that that's the title of the record but I don't see how that changes and you know I . Really think that people just referring to the album by its title counts as high praise and in critical acclaim. That's a great question. That's a great question I'm not going to answer that. Never mind why don't you tell us which is which you picked out to play tonight so there's already focused around 5 string banjo in kind of this incredible detail and intimate and stark sitting in it was a real opportunity to exploit some of the unexpected sounds and textures the bands are capable of when it's not competing for sonic real estate for with other instruments. So tonight I'll play a track from this record it's going called More town hop just pure unadulterated. Chris Seeley on the mandolin. Thank. You want to grab a tambourine go. I am. RINGBACK READY told. Thank you. We go. This. Is. Tell. Them to. Do you plan to. Keep. C.e.o. Let it fall. Grabbed. Hold. Of me stockings have some. Christmas cheer That's right Calley. Sides here. Come the children it's Christmas. Is coming and Christmas. Is a noun. And . Ok live from here we wrote this song it's a Christmas song Ok. It's about Christmas in Los Angeles and if there's anyone from the music industry in the house night we would like to officially submit the song for the perpetual annual rotation of Christmas songs but we need your help Ok. So we're going to pull the crowd participation from her good side not all right. Let's put them up to 3 this side repeat after me you're going to like this. Mean. You know when I point you here we're going to go for. You repeat that in the middle you're going to the you're going to go like this. Part we go to. The balcony Ok here we go 3 for. Those audience for the folks here we go. To get the big children it's Christmas where. It is a little bit with a whizzing in the right. Wrist Hermione Theo if. You don't feel I'm not amiss is available everywhere Please welcome. Yes I'm Chris I'm the guy who has to follow that. Deceive the euphoric involuntary standing ovation that exploded at the quality of that base. And now here's a guy who's going to tell us some jokes and stories. Pleasure to be here pleasure to be back I hope everybody's enjoying the show what a cool show to be a part of it's nice always nice you shows here in my home of New York City. Even though it's 2 called it's officially at that point where New York is bearable going to help everybody planning their vacations with my wife and I few years ago my wife and I we went to. Vacation to escape the New York City winter we went to Orlando Florida and we went to Disney World because that's what you do right when you go to Orlando you go to Disney World but both of us had been to Disney World before so we don't want to spend our whole vacation there and that led to us saying something that doesn't always and well we said let's see what else Orlando has to offer I and that's how we discovered a place called Gator Land I don't know if anybody's for a 1000000 sounds like a few people are if you have not had the pleasure some people have been lucky enough if you have not had the pleasure of going Gator Land is a very strange place it's on the side of a highway near Orlando to get inside just to walk through like a 20 foot tall concrete alligator head then you pay your admission and you go into this weird back yard that is filled with hundreds of alligators and that's it. That's Gator Land it is just a dangerous place that's all and it's not even a very sympathetic one like if you got bit and you tried to sue them I promise you the judge would be like a pro if you went to Gator Land. That is the vibe there in a big way but I'm really glad I went I'm really actually very glad I went because Gator Land for all its flaws it's kind of amazing in that it exposes a lot of ways in which Disney World is not perfect like Disney world wants you to believe it's a perfect place but cater land under license all the ways that it's not like Disney World I paid $15.00 just to park then you got to pay another $100.00 just to get inside and then you're waiting in those lines for hours to get on any of the good rides now at Gator Land I paid $20.00 total and within 5 minutes of entering I was watching a show where they hang chicken carcasses from strings and alligators leap out of a swamping get a. That's bang for your buck right there. Where they call bang for your buck Disney World is all about been to see everything's all fantasy all the time come get lost in the fantasy Gator Land nothing but reality. My wife paid a guy 3 extra dollars he put a 14 foot long albino python over her shoulders you want to talk about real emotion what your wife the person you love most in the world have a snake placed on her by a man you are almost positive is not certified to handle snakes. That's as real as it gets at Disney World I paid $6.00 for a large bottle of water. Now for $5.00 a gator lad I was given a package of turkey hot dogs and told you could use these to feed the gators. And I said cool where do I go to do that and the guy looked at me like I was an idiot he goes anywhere you see a gator. So I was allowed to just wonder around just flinging how talks at alligators. And I have to feel good they were turkey hot dogs man gator lands health conscious no red meat for their gators messes with their digestion here's what I think Gator Land wins hands down it's the effortlessness of Gator Land Disney World so many things it's not effortless even if you just look at the creation of both places Disney World Walt Disney himself used to go from California to Florida he would tell no one about these trips he bought a private jet he'd be flown over the entire state of Florida so he personally could scout out the perfect plot of land all of this was done with CIA level secrecy. Whereas. Far as I can tell Interland came into existence when some lunatic who already owned a swamp just put a fence around it it was like now it's called Gator lands this was so. That was in February that was unfair and everybody in this room knows to go from Orlando back to New York in February not good and I'm a workaholic I got right back to work and then it one point I was like Man it's like it's like the trip never even happened and my wife goes oh I bought a souvenir I forgot maybe that'll help out and she goes in her back she takes out a big postcard she puts it on our fridge with a magnet it's got a picture of this evil looking alligator on it and across the top it says Chester the dog eater. Now Chester the dog eater he's the most famous gator at Gator Land they really kind of try to push him as like the public face of the whole operation he is in many ways their version of Mickey Mouse except you know like whereas Mickey Mouse this whole thing is like he spreads mischief in joy you know like Chester's whole thing is he eats dogs that's it. His whole thing is he kills our best friend that's what he does so I was looking at this postcard because I was pretty amazed by and I leaned in closer so there's the small print on the bottom and to this day I can't believe what it's a real small print it says you can go on youtube and see footage of Chester attacking one of his handlers. And I loved that so much I loved it I loved it not just because they were using that as a promotional tool to sell tickets here's what I really love is they didn't even type out the actual youtube link man Gator Land don't care go find it yourself they got better things to do. They did gentleman I hope next time you're down there you get a chance to stop by Gator Land that's my time my name's Chris get there thank you so much. We'll. Rogers. Illinois. Was a big. Stick It was. Such was the response. a range coverage price options to choose from that's for progressive dot com or 1800. 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Adult acting under the direction of . The minutes the play will begin so in the meantime let's have a little music to get us in the mood plus we'll have an exclusive interview with the instructor at Garden City Community College an actor and a lifelong fan of. A Christmas carol. Johnson. So getting ready let's get in the spirit with.