Unhung heroes

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Why is contemporary culture obsessed with how well-endowed men are and yet in classical art men are so small? Kurt Andersen unravels the mystery with a classics scholar, Andrew Lear. Stacey Rose is a playwright, but when she’s not working to take audiences’ breath away on stage, she’s doing the opposite in her day job: she’s a respiratory therapist. And finally, a Studio 360 holiday tradition in the making — a Christmas-themed radio drama based on a short story by Kurt Andersen.

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.4	I'm Karen Anish.
0:11.2	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.5	This first level of garden.
0:14.8	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.7	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:18.3	Very well done.
0:19.5	Editing is all about timing.
0:21.2	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.8	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:26.2	Studio 360.
0:28.2	With Kurt Anderson.
0:36.8	Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool, and the water was cold.
0:42.3	Ah.
0:43.3	You mean shrink it?
0:46.3	Yes.
0:47.3	Men's anxiety about genital size is a staple of modern comedy, like this famous Jerry and George bit on Seinfeld.
0:56.9	So you feel you were short change?
0:59.1	Yes.
1:00.5	I mean, if she thinks that's me, she's under a complete misapprehension.
1:03.6	And that anxiety, with a bit of comedy, insanely, also moved into presidential politics
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