David Sedaris Can't Wait To Watch You Panic Shop This Week

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🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Humorist and author David Sedaris is a public radio regular – his 'Santaland Diaries' first aired on NPR's Morning Edition in 1992 and has gone on to become a holiday staple. He also is a regular Fresh Air guest, and in a first, we're sharing an exclusive bonus episode with Sedaris – normally only available for our Fresh Air+ supporters – with everyone. If you're not already a Fresh Air+ supporter, enjoying weekly bonus episodes like this and sponsor-free listening on all our episodes, you can find out more at https://plus.npr.org.

You can hear all of Sedaris' 1997 interview here https://n.pr/4agJKmN. Sedaris' 'Santaland Diaries': https://n.pr/3TswxkO. Sedaris in 2022: https://n.pr/3Tm2qvf. Sedaris in 2018: https://n.pr/3Tsevz0. Sedaris in 2017: https://n.pr/48jrebn. Sedaris in 2013 https://n.pr/3GNj937. Sedaris in 2008: https://n.pr/3GL1wks. Sedaris in 2004: https://n.pr/47TsaDA. Sedaris in 2000: https://n.pr/48lw8oy. Sedaris in 1996: https://n.pr/41nfz98. Sedaris in 1994: https://n.pr/3Nw7V6W. Sedaris in 1993 https://n.pr/3Nv0FIf. Hear all 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives: https://FreshAirArchive.org.

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0:00.0	With Barbinheimer and both Taylor Swift and Beyoncée on tour, it was a lot of cultural news to keep up on this year.
0:08.3	Hollywood actors have gone on strike.
0:10.5	The Prince's memoir's spare is out.
0:12.8	I'm Andrew Limbong, an art and cultural reporter for NPR.
0:15.3	Coverage that keeps you in the know is made possible from donations by people like you.
0:20.5	Make your gift at NPR.org.
0:22.2	Or slash donate.
0:24.0	I'm Fresh Air's Anne Marie Baldinato.
0:28.0	It's the season of giving and in that spirit here at Fresh Air we thought we could give you a little
0:34.5	something special. It's a bonus episode of our show, the kind we share each week
0:40.0	with our Fresh Air Plus supporters. Today, we're giving everyone a chance to hear it.
0:45.0	And if you are a Fresh Air Plus supporter,
0:48.0	we want to say thank you for your ongoing support of Public Radio.
0:52.0	Which brings us to this episode. ongoing support of public radio.
0:52.8	Which brings us to this episode.
0:55.4	If you're a long time public radio listener, and let's face it, if you're listening to
1:00.0	this you just might be, you've likely heard author David Sedaris speak about his time
1:06.2	as a Macy's Christmas elf.
1:11.6	The woman at Macy's asked, would you be interested in full-time elf or evening and weekend elf?
1:17.0	I said full-time elf.
1:19.0	I am a 33-year-old man applying for a job as an elf.
1:23.8	Sedaris first read his Santo Land diaries on NPR's Morning Edition in 1992
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