Pushkin.

Hey, this is Sam. I want to drop in midweek to share an original new audio book produced by our colleagues at Pushkin Industries.

It's entitled, So Many Steves Afternoons with Steve Martin.

The book is an engrossing audio biography centered around a series of conversations recorded

at Martin's home with his longtime friend and neighbor, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnick.

In this preview you're about to hear, they discuss Steve's pivot from stand-up comedy to acting in movies. His early films including Carl Reiner's The Jerk and

John Hughes's planes, trains, and automobiles in the franchises that later shaped his career,

from Father of the Bride to cheaper by the dozen.

To hear the full audio book,

So Many Steve's Afternoons with Steve Martin,

visit Pushkin.

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That's Pushkin. We.M. That's Pushkin dot F. M. We'll be back on Sunday with a new episode

featuring Padma Lakshmi. Until then I'm going to turn it over to Adam Gopnik

and Steve Martin. Enjoy.

By the way, it's a new law now I have to do this. I don't like to but it is by law all

comedians must make a financial disclosure. This is a clip from Steve's second

album which was released in 1978 and was called a wild and crazy guy. Then I figured out a potential concert income.

If you fill a 3,000 seat hall at $3 per ticket, if you gross is $9,000.

If you fill a 3,000 seat hall at 750 per ticket, the gross is $22,500. And just for fun, I figure out if you

fill a 3,000 seat hall at $800 a ticket.

Gross is $2,400,000.

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