Episode 26: Syrian War Crimes, Country Music, and a Central Park Salad

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

🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show, Ben Taub shares his reporting on a group that’s gathering top-secret documents tying Bashar al-Assad’s regime to mass torture and killings, and David Remnick talks with a war-crimes expert about how to run a fair tribunal. Plus, Patricia Marx goes foraging in Central Park, and Kathryn Schulz explains her love of country music—it’s the stories, man.

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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.
0:10.7	Hello, and welcome to the Rent Stabilized Department of Todd Neasel.
0:16.4	I'm Debbie, a specialist in Todd Neasel, and I'm going to be your guide.
0:22.0	Before you begin your journey through the world of Todd Neasel and his stuff, may I ask you
0:26.9	to reduce the volume on your Acousticide player to a polite level?
0:31.3	The woman in 12A has had a B in her bonnet about me ever since I, Debbie, well okay,
0:36.3	yes, a tiny bit drunk, mistook her door for Todd
0:38.7	Neasles late one night and Jimmy did open.
0:41.4	You are standing in Todd Neasel's foyer.
0:44.6	The faux-foam marble table on your right is attributed to Todd Neasel's mother, circa last
0:49.9	Christmas.
0:51.1	Take a moment to look through the mail.
0:53.1	There should be a lot of it because Todd
0:55.0	Neesel is away skiing in Vermont with his brother. Is there a letter postmarked Milwaukee?
1:02.7	Just curious. Proceed through the foyer and into the master bedroom.
1:08.1	Examine the object in the master bedroom.
1:11.8	Here is the famous jar of pennies and the original green shag rug from Todd
1:16.7	Niesel's college days.
1:19.3	Pay close attention to the black lace brazier in the bottom drawer of Todd Niesel's
1:25.5	bureau.
1:26.8	You may be wondering what that brassiere is doing
1:29.0	in this exhibit of the world of Todd Neasel and his stuff.
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