Best Of: Maggie Rogers / Kristen Wiig

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In 2021, burnt out from the intensity of her early career, Maggie Rogers considered quitting music entirely. Instead, she took a detour — to Harvard Divinity School, where she earned a master's degree in religion and public life. Her new album is Don't Forget Me.

SNL alum Kristen Wiig co-stars with Carol Burnett in Palm Royale, an Apple TV+ series about a former pageant queen who wants to break into high society. Wiig talks about working with Burnett and the rush of SNL.

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0:20.3	From W HYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Brigger. Today, singer-songwriter Maggie
0:30.0	Rogers.
0:31.0	I was walking through a wasty streams. When Rogers was at NYU studying music production, her class was
0:37.8	visited by Farrell Williams who was there to hear their work. She played him her
0:41.4	song Alaska and he was stunned by it. The moment was
0:44.8	captured on a video that went viral and propelled Rogers to stardom. But in
0:49.0	2021 she was burnt out by life on the road and took a break, enrolling in Harvard Divinity School's graduate program.
0:55.2	At its core, music has always been the most sacred and most spiritual thing that I've ever been a part of.
1:03.0	Also we'll hear from Kristen Whig,
1:05.0	she was a beloved cast member on Saturday Night Live
1:08.0	and starred and co-wrote the film Bridesmaids.
1:10.0	She's now playing a pageant queen trying to break into high society in the new TV series
1:15.1	Palm Royale. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
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1:41.0	I'm Rachel Martin. After hosting Morning Edition for years, I know that the news can wear you down.
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