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Happy. Happy Friday, everyone.

Welcome to New Music Friday for October 17th, 2025.

I'm Anna Maria Sayer sitting in for the vacationing Stephen Thompson.

Very jealous.

Each week on New Music Friday, we speak to a DJ from the NPR Music Network of Public Radio Stations. And today, we're very lucky, I'm very lucky, to be welcoming

back Travis Holcomb of the world-renowned KCRW in Los Angeles, also my home station. Welcome, Travis.

Thank you. It is great to be here on the mothership with you,

Anna Maria. I'm honestly really excited and I feel like I'm in the room with an expert, so let's get

it going. So the music you're hearing right now is from a Chilean children's TV show called

30 Minutes, and it's one of our most recent tiny desks. It's something I want to start the show talking about

today because it has actually set the record for the most views within nine days of any tiny

desk we've ever published and yet people in the U.S. aren't really talking about it. So we're

going to talk about it here today. Did you watch it, Travis? I did watch it and it was incredible.

If that wasn't the record

for the most people to be on a tiny desk, it's definitely... It's not the record. It's not the record. Well, they have the record for the most puppets on a tiny desk. Is that accurate? I feel like I feel comfortable without having fact checked with that statement. That feels good to me, No, but it was a lot of fun seeing that session,

and I feel like anyone, especially if you

have any little ones, they're absolutely going to love it. So definitely make some time to check

it out.

It's a super deeply important cultural institution for Chileans and also a lot of people across Latin America.

So it's a huge part of why the hype, it's thoughtful, it's critical, it's smart, it's funny.

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