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From The Sunday Read Archive: âWeird Al Yankovicâs Weirdly Enduring Appealâ
National economies collapse; species go extinct; coronavirus upends our world. But â through it all â Weird Al keeps rocking.Produced by Kelly Prime; edited by Mike Benoist; written and introduced by Sam Anderson; and narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.
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On this episode of The Sunday Read, staff writer Sam Anderson claims Weird Al Yankovic is not just a parody singer â heâs âa full-on rock star, a legitimate performance monster and a spiritual technician doing important work down in the engine room of the American soul.â In these absurd times, Sam reaches into his childhood to explain the enduring appeal of an absurd artist.
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The Lives They Lived
Produced by Kelly Prime, Michael Simon Johnson and Eric Krupke; with help from Parin Behrooz; and edited by Mike Benoist and Lisa Tobin; and read by Wesley Morris, Jazmine Hughes, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Irina Aleksander.
After a year of bereavement, we pause to reflect on the lives of four complex and vibrant people we’ve lost.
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
wesley morris
Hello, I’m Wesley Morris. I’m a critic at The New York Times and a staff writer at The Times Magazine. And today, we’re going to do something a little different on The Daily. Every year in December, the magazine puts out an issue called “The Lives They Lived.” And it focuses on notable people who have lost their lives throughout the year. Some of the people in the issue tend to be very famous, and some of them tend to be people that very few people have heard of. But the point is to focus on the extraordinary and in some cases, vividly ordinary life that someone lived.