'It Could Always Get Worse' | feat. Jason Alexander
Circle Round
WBUR
4.5 • 16.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Whether we’re 3 or 93, we all love a good story. Jason Alexander ("Seinfeld") stars in our first episode, a classic Yiddish folktale.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Circle Round fans! Rebecca Sheer here, inviting you to join us this August at Tanglewood, |
| 0:07.7 | the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lennox, Massachusetts. Our annual live |
| 0:12.9 | recording on Sunday August 13th is all sold out, but not to worry! You can join us on Tuesday, |
| 0:18.9 | August 8th, as part of Tanglewood on Parade, the BSO's annual Family Funday. Showtime |
| 0:25.0 | is at 2.30pm in Seiji, Ozawa Hall. General seating is available in the open air hall or on the |
| 0:30.6 | lawn. Kids get in free, but require a ticket. Get yours now by visiting wbwar.org slash Circle |
| 0:37.1 | Round and clicking on events. Have you ever had trouble? Trouble making something happen? Trouble |
| 0:48.3 | getting something done? Life seemed hard, right? No matter what you did or what you said, |
| 0:54.9 | it felt like things couldn't get any worse. Has that ever happened to you? |
| 1:02.9 | Well, you're not alone. We're about to meet a man who felt exactly the same way you did, |
| 1:08.8 | and he decided to do something about it, something involving feathers and fur and one very noisy house. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to the first episode of Circle Round, where story time happens all the time. |
| 1:28.1 | Today, our story is called It Could Always Get Worse. It's an old Yiddish folktale that goes back |
| 1:34.5 | years and years. And hey, if your parents are listening right now, this story is for them too. |
| 1:40.0 | Not only will you all have a lot of fun listening, but you'll get to hear the voice of a guy your |
| 1:44.4 | parents probably have seen on TV and in the movies. His name is Jason Alexander and he's a really |
| 1:50.9 | big deal. So, Circle Round, here we go with today's story. It could always get worse. |
| 2:06.0 | Once upon a time, in a village far, far away, there lived a man. The man lived a simple life and |
| 2:13.8 | shared a tiny one-room house with his wife, their four children, his mother, his father, plus two cats |
| 2:21.0 | and two dogs. Can you imagine one tiny room with two parents, four kids, two grandparents, plus two |
| 2:28.3 | cats and two dogs? The winds were cold in the man's village and the land was covered with snow. |
| 2:35.2 | Life was not easy and the man had to work hard. His wife had to work hard too, helping him harvest |
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