We have a are. We have a new we want what should we say disc converted to religious zealot Maybe something along those lines in this this demon is trying to capitalize on that time the self-righteousness of the recently discovered. This is part 2 of salt in the workings of the earth READY READY READY READY READY. Jesus that was close. You. READY READY READY READY READY READY READY 2 READY READY. Thank you thank. You thank you for the 1st final moment of thought in the morning. Ok it's me live from here cast member might be hard to suddenly 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. Thank you honestly the 1st black personally on all of public radio period. Not really accurate but it sounds true. But I'm really I'm like the Jackie Robinson of sketch could mean young new affirmative maxim was gone cats are t. At some point. That says John is not only good for me to be funny but for me to be . Broaden the audience of public radio a bit 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. But 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. Presently I don't know one person who celebrates that. As with myself about Christmas baby with the decorations and getting gifts specially from our fans. Also a lot of my friends are confused about when to use the term African American and when to use the term black Actually I'm not going to play that one up. This is way too much fun to watch you guys stumble around. Again I did vote for Barack Obama twice. Because he was black 2nd time because he was African American. So thank you for your time leave job it is great meeting you guys I truly love this I love that your get this good is possible . Thank you. Well it's going to have to wait for musicians birthdays starting with Sarah Burrell as Sarah. Oh boy what a writer from Head songs that remind you that you have a heart to hit musical that reminds you that everyone else does too here's one that absolutely destroy me. Thanksgiving how Barry Gordy Barry Gordy founder of Motown Records at the helm of which changed the course of popular music history extraordinary. Years on 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 just named a couple it all started in 1057 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. In Was going to. Be All I asked him to do that like 5 minutes before we went on today thank you for that Joey and thank you for everything Mr Berry Gordy. Imogen Heap image in. A woman who generates so much beauty and emotion via the marriage of music and computers that one forgets it's a relatively recent coupling this song for instance introduced many of us to the vocoder Here's live from here's merry band of vocoder imitators featuring Miss Maggie Rogers on the edge of. Hide and Seek. 'd not to become necessary later. Than did. To. Sing. She. So. Just. She said. Of course she did. She said RINGBACK. It's stink 2 2. There are those like I was on the ground. By. Saying no John's the Bailey is so nice. This appeal is protocol on lockdown meaning the 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 bell for crying out 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 Clara so sorry. Are you coming out today to play with. All through the night. RINGBACK Thank you both agree. On the cause of his book a segment with the man the myth the legend Tom Wait. You don't need me to tell you anything about Tom Waits everyone loves Tom Waits for no man you love Tom Waits right oh man huge Shannon you know as a matter of fact I sing a Tom Waits song to my son when he was in utero and. It was what was that song misery is the River of the world I 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 DROs at the Telluride bluegrass festival many years ago take a song up to the house won't you say. Good to. See . Is all that you. Told it. Was. C So we're joined this week by a fairly frequent musical comrade banjo player No one pick Kilmer. I thank. Some of you know that know him or pickles as we like to call him the county pickles but Kelly is a member of my band punch from the thank you I'm a thank you I think that's true I haven't checked their website 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 so the 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 seek greater meaning in your life as well as a father you'll never know well never really know the answer to that question unfortunately because you know when someone comes to you and says pickles. We're having a baby the proper response is not why I think you can't really ask that question civil never really know the answer to it and I said when you told me that you had a son the way I just I just played it cool it and asked and asked your motivation and I let it ride I think I said congrats and I hope I said congrats. Where men were good don't worry about it so how's it been going on down 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 this album is a universal favorite and that's for fans in critics alike it almost seems like any time this this record comes up in conversation or in press without fail I'm I'm hearing or reading those 2 words universal favorite and as an artist it's just so incredibly encouraging hearing words like that to describe my music. Pickles the the title of your record isn't it isn't universal favorite I know that's literally the title of the record yeah that is 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 and critical acclaim Wow. That's a great question. That's a great question I'm not going to answer that. Never mind. What you've picked out to play tonight. A string banjo and kind of this incredible detail and intimate and stark setting and it was a real opportunity to exploit some of the unexpected sounds and textures banjos capable of when it's not competing for the 1st sonic state from with other instruments. So. From this record it's called More town hop just pure and unadulterated. On the mandolin. Anyone wants to grab a tambourine. I 'd Tell. Them to. Do you plan. To. See. Poll. Soon. Stung. Some. Day write a Christmas cheer That's right. Side. To Christmas. Christmas. Let them know. We. Plan to say. 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 House tonight 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 for bids right now all right. Just put them up to 3 this side repeat after me you're going to like this. Let me hear you know when I point you here we're going to go 3 for. You keep that in the middle you're going to Melody you're going to go like this. Keep. Part we go to here we go. Very nice to meet some of those are you going to this you're going to go. Up to the balcony Ok here we go 34. Was pretty close audience spike up for the folks at home here we go. To the big shows and it's Christmas where. It is a little bit with a whizzing in the. Chris I. Thank. You. Ah. Leave them to me. For years to find Hermione and if they're not can you tell I'm not a Mrs available everywhere Please welcome. Yes I'm Chris I'm the guy who has to follow that I used to see you 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 how. Pleasure to be here a 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 too cold it's officially at that point where New York is. Going to help everybody planning their vacations because my wife and a few years ago my wife and I we went on a vacation to escape to 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 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. 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 have 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 away but 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 underlying It's 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 right now at gator Lee and 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. Dead bang for your buck right there what they call bang for your buck Disney World all about fantasy everything's all fantasy all the time come get lost in the fantasy gator line. And nothing but reality. My wife paid a guy 3 extra dollars he put a 14 foot long albino pipe over her shoulders you want to talk about real emotion but 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 and he goes anywhere you see it. So I was allowed to just wander around just pulling up dogs at alligators. And I got the feel good they were turkey hot dogs man gator lands health conscious no red meat for their gators messes with their digestion here's where 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. Where I was. Far as I can tell it early and 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 Land 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 I think the trip never even happened and my wife goes oh I bought a souvenir I forgot maybe that will 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 and joy you know like Chester's whole thing is he eats dogs that's. 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 close I saw there was the small print on the bottom and to this day I can't believe what it's a real small print 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've got better things to do. With it gentlemen 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 Kether thank you so much. Less. Us This is Chris. Rogers. Space. Shuttle. Did. You see this game. Going to want. Me. To get. Some. Sleep Thank you thank. You. 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