Christmas Music Reimagined with Kirk Douglas, the Guitarist for the Roots

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Kirk Douglas, the guitarist for the Roots, plays anything and everything as part of the “Tonight Show” band, so David Remnick put him to the test on some holiday classics. Roz Chast rings a bell to collect pennies for a good cause: saving the globe from destruction by asteroid. And a religion scholar who just translated the New Testament from the original Greek explains why we’ve been getting the book wrong all these years.

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0:00.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of the New Yorker and WNYC Studios.
0:09.5	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. And here is Roz Chast.
0:16.3	Support near-earth-object research.
0:23.8	Support near-earth object research.
0:25.3	It's important, people.
0:31.4	You might know Roz's work from the pages of the magazine or from books like, can't we talk about something more pleasant?
0:34.8	Which was a finalist for the National Book Award a few years ago.
0:38.7	And if you've seen her work, you might even guess that she's someone who tends to
0:42.0	worry a little bit. And you'd be absolutely right.
0:46.1	My name is Roz, Roz Chast. I'm a cartoonist for the New Yorker.
0:51.2	And inspired by the Salvation Army, I got myself a bell. I got myself a bucket. And I made a sign
1:01.4	that explains what I think this is all about. What is that? This is near-Earth object research.
1:11.2	And what is that? Okay. near-Earth object research. And what is that?
1:12.7	Okay.
1:13.0	If you go to planetary.org, it's a grant for scientists so that they can research objects like asteroids that come close to Earth.
1:24.4	Oh, unfortunately I can't donate today.
1:26.6	I'm unemployed right now, but perhaps if your sign was a bit
1:30.8	more explicit yeah you're probably right you know new yorkers respond to terror yeah yeah probably
1:40.7	should have made the sign a little more explicit. You're right.
1:44.5	You're right.
1:44.8	Thank you.
1:46.1	I was paying a lot of attention to the lettering and the color,
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