Episode 25: The Ballad of a Trump Fan, and the Little Mermaid Gets Dumped

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

🗓️ 8 April 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, we look into the lives and careers of two giants of soul—Aretha Franklin and the late James Brown. From the campaign trail, Michael Friedman’s musical ode to a South Carolinian Trump supporter, and Jesse Eisenberg, along with his sister Hallie, performs the humor piece “Why I Broke Up with the Little Mermaid.”

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0:00.0	From WNYC Studios and The New Yorker with an apology to Walt Disney,
0:07.3	this is why I broke up with The Little Mermaid by Jesse Eisenberg.
0:12.3	Up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun wandering free
0:21.0	wish I could be
0:23.0	part of that world
0:26.3	Look at this stuff
0:29.6	Isn't it neat?
0:31.2	Not really, what is it?
0:32.7	They're whosem what, silly?
0:33.8	I got them from a yard sale.
0:35.2	Yeah, we don't need more stuff.
0:36.3	I can barely walk through the house. You want thingumabob's? What, you mean those vintage corkscrews? I got 20 from a yard sale. Yeah, we don't need more stuff. I can barely walk through the house.
0:37.7	You want thingumabobs? What, you mean those vintage corkscrews? I got 20s. Yeah, where did you even
0:41.6	find those? Estate sales. You've just been going around to estate sales? And sometimes eBay. Okay, you can't keep buying this stuff. Oh, it's no big deal. It is a big deal. You put 17 washing machines on Layaway at Sears. And I want more. Three Vitamix's were just delivered from Amazon.
0:54.1	The blend ofals arrived?
0:55.0	How splendid!
0:56.0	Yeah, they were $600 each. But they're the only kind of blend of marl that can mix up my who'sets and what's-sits. Yeah. Did you read that book I got you about the Easterland paradox? No, but I used the pages to make an origami bird. Right. Mr. Listerland posits that happiness isn't derived from the accumulation of material goods.
1:12.1	In fact, newer studies show that amassing possessions will likely make you feel almost counterintuitively deprived.
1:17.6	Stop reprimanding me.
1:19.6	You sound just like daddy.
1:20.6	Can you please not say daddy?
1:21.6	It sounds weird coming from an adult.
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