Best Of: David Byrne's Xmas Playlist / Nicolas Cage

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🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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It's a David Byrne Christmas. The cofounder and frontman of Talking Heads has put together a playlist of his favorite Christmas songs for us.

Also, we'll hear from actor Nicolas Cage. In the new movie Dream Scenario, he plays a college professor who becomes a star on the internet after he mysteriously appears in the dreams of millions of people. He talks about how that relates to his own experience of becoming an internet meme.

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0:17.6	From W.HyY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. Today it's a David Byrne Christmas.
0:25.6	The co-founder and frontman of the band Talking Heads has put together a playlist for us of his favorite Christmas songs.
0:39.0	He'll play those recordings and tell us why he chose them.
0:42.0	We'll also play a great Christmas song written and
0:44.7	performed by David Byrne.
0:47.0	Everybody knows that the fat man's coming.
0:51.0	His hair is white as the snow. And we'll hear from actor Nicholas Cage. He's starred in Moonstruck,
0:58.0	Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, and countless action films. In the new movie Dream Scenario he plays a
1:05.7	college professor who becomes a star on the internet after he mysteriously
1:10.0	appears in the dreams of millions of people.
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