Icons David Byrne and Judy Woodruff on Staying Positive

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Talking Heads. American Utopia. Singular creative David Byrne talks with Kelly about how he stays just cheerful enough to keep making art in a world of chaos. Then, Kelly sits with Judy Woodruff on the set of PBS NewsHour to talk about holding on to the positive on even the very hardest days and how she processes the news as both an American, a special needs mom and a media professional. To watch the full Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan series, go to PBS.org/kelly.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan, and this week I'm wondering what
0:09.6	makes a person unstoppable and how staying positive might factor in. David Byrne of Talking
0:16.2	Heds of American Utopia is also the spirit behind something called Reasons to Be Cheerful,
0:21.9	a stream of positive, true, and replicable advancements that I find invaluable. Judy
0:28.4	Woodruff is a broadcasting icon who has been at the PBS NewsHour Desk for decades, operating
0:35.0	above the fray to give us a grounded verified story of what's happening. She's also a special
0:41.0	needs mom who finds terrific inspiration in her son, Jeff. These conversations, recorded
0:47.5	on the set of my PBS show Tell Me More, are downright regenerative. We'll be right back
0:53.2	starting with the singular, David Byrne.
1:06.8	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Thanks to PBS and the team of producers behind my show
1:12.5	there Tell Me More, I got to go to New York City and spend a couple hours in the company of David Byrne.
1:19.3	I love Talking Heds. I have since college and I love to David's Tony winning show American Utopia,
1:25.9	which is this smart, weird, surprising look at human nature and 21st century America.
1:33.6	It's appropriately challenging and have youlessly buoyant at the same time.
1:39.2	So here is my conversation from PBS's Tell Me More with David Byrne.
1:44.8	So one thing that didn't work out in middle school is that you didn't make the choir because they
1:52.9	said they were off key. Do you remember that? Yes, I remember getting kicked out of school choir.
1:57.6	At that point, did you think I'm going to be a musician like this? Oh no, absolutely not.
2:02.0	No, absolutely not. I thought music was something I loved to listen to, to play in the kind of
2:09.4	rudimentary way that I could. No, I never thought that I would be a way to make a living or anything
2:15.8	like that. I thought, no, there's professionals that do that. So if I asked you the day that you got
2:21.9	cut from the middle school choir, what are you going to be when you grow up? What would you have said?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kelly Corrigan Show, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Kelly Corrigan Show and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.