Episode 36: Fear and the NRA, and a Hymn for Orlando

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

🗓️ 24 June 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, a gun blogger critiques the N.R.A., and a Presbyterian minister rewrites old hymns for new crises.

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0:00.0	From
0:07.0	I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone
0:10.0	when they have that revelation
0:12.0	It's making the show pretty huge
0:14.0	How does this work as a national story?
0:19.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:29.1	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:32.6	What is this?
0:34.9	Oh, wake up. It's a gun. That's the answer. All right? Now, how does this work? It works by putting a magazine in here, which I'm not going to do.
0:44.7	Mike Weiser is a gun guy. That's not my description. It's his. Mike, the gun guy, is the name of his blog.
0:52.9	Weiser joined the NRA when he was just 11 years old, and he
0:56.0	later worked in his uncle's gun business
0:58.0	building revolvers.
0:59.8	He sold guns wholesale to law enforcement,
1:02.2	and eventually, he opened up
1:04.0	a retail shop of his own. He's a certified
1:06.3	firearms instructor,
1:08.2	and New Yorker staff writer Evanos
1:10.2	took his course recently while
1:12.3	he was reporting a story on the gun industry.
1:15.0	Your response is, stop, I've got a gun, or stop, I'll shoot.
1:20.1	You're letting him know that he's now entering.
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