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for the weekend, the sunday morning, velshi starts right now take it away, allie. a lot of folks out there are celebrating, but families are in baltimore hurting. i think tom perez put it well. this is a uniquely day that the members of the families of the people who perished would have been celebrating, and they re not. it is interesting, talking to you, michael, the fact that you are both from maryland, he is a democrat, you are a republican. one of those things that is not supposed to be partisan. dan muser from pennsylvania, republican, said, i don t know why the biden administration jumped on the idea that the federal government will pick up the tab for this. i think that s a standup or the fact that most people believe this is a tragedy, it s an infrastructure issue we need to deal with. we should and will deal with it together. i think you covered well today. thank you for that. happy easter to all three of you. happy easter. thank you, friends. velshi ....
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jimmy: okay tonight show is so hard, the pay date he is already trying to traffic at, who allegedly we don t know what the heck is going out of that story but we do have a darned good panel, tammy make sense of this fun house mirror version of the world that we are living in a fantasy comedian writer but is best known as the only black dude listen to the coldplay and he s in the house. [applause] i back, legend fox news insulation and ileum columnist of the daily maleness unforgettable of the pine tree work in films such as private ryman minute ryan pulp fiction rachel is a guardian today s. okay train kennedy is in the house soon acquitted us cummings in the country and also not afraid of all the crime new york disease will be to write say hello comedy beggar, in the house 70s will be was wearing a meeting of this battle was warding off of the rails was like the joke is on you because it s never going to be in the rails. [laughter] can we all agree but be serious for ....
i ll take myjacket off. yeah, you ll get warm. you ll get warm. what, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions? yeah. you re going to be sweating. no, stay cool. let s stay cool. tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. hi, john, how are you? you were born in northampton. yeah, can t you tell? and moved to perth in australia at a young age? yeah. musicalfamily? what sort of music was played at home? not particularly. although one quirk of my childhood is that in my house, from a very young age, was my great grandmother s pianola, which some people call a pedal piano, and a lot of people had pedal pianos and inherited them, but mostly, they sat there gathering dust. but my mum retained ours and kept it working because we had this collection of something like 300 or 400 pianola rolls, scrolls, and so that was played a lot. and so i grew up listening to all these old pre war songs like, you know, funiculi, funicula and all these weird songs and then, you know ....
tim minchin, the cabaret star who wrote matilda the musical. he grew up in western australia, started writing songs in his teens and made his name as a musical comedy performer at the 2005 edinburgh festival. mrtim minchin! after a series of live solo albums, tim was commissioned to write a stage adaptation of the roald dahl book, matilda. the show went on to win olivier and tony awards and has now been turned into a film. in this episode of this cultural life, the radio 4 podcast, he reveals his formative influences and experiences and how, despite fame and acclaim, bad reviews still hurt. no, i m not good at taking criticism. you still take it personally? 0h, hugely, yeah. i ll take myjacket off. yeah, you ll get warm. you ll get warm. what, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions? yeah. you re going to be sweating. no, stay cool. let s stay cool. tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. hi, john, how are you? you were born in northampton. yeah, can t y ....