Episode 45: Father Pfleger, Larry David, and the History of Autism
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From 38. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revolution. |
| 0:11.0 | It's making sure pretty huge. |
| 0:15.0 | It means you good if you have a source for it? |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, the telegraph. |
| 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. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm David Remnick, and this is the New Yorker Radio Hour. |
| 0:32.8 | We have a lot coming up today, including, I'm very excited about this, a performance by Larry David in fine |
| 0:38.4 | form as an impossible crank venting on the Internet. So stick around for that. We're going to start |
| 0:45.0 | off, though, in Chicago, on the south side. Chicago, like much of the country, is a safer place than it was |
| 0:50.9 | 25 years ago. The murder rate is, roughly roughly speaking half of what it used to be. |
| 0:56.4 | But violence on the south side remains stubbornly, tragically high, and many neighborhoods there have been |
| 1:02.1 | dangerous for generations. Among the people trying to change the south side is a priest named Michael |
| 1:08.1 | Fleger. Father Fleger is such a well-known figure |
| 1:10.9 | that Spike Lee based a character on him |
| 1:12.8 | in his recent film, Shirek. |
| 1:16.1 | Evan Osnos has been spending a lot of time |
| 1:17.8 | with Father Flegger lately, |
| 1:19.2 | and he attended a funeral recently |
| 1:21.2 | that Flegger led for a young gang member. |
| 1:24.8 | God is able. |
| 1:26.5 | I'm just asking you right now. |
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