Radiolab - Colors Sneak Peek

Episode Date: May 14, 2012

Just before the curtain went up on our live show in Los Angeles, Jad and Robert carved out a little stage time for a sneak peek at next week's Colors episode.

Wait, you're listening. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. You're listening to Radio Lab. Radio Lab. Shorts!

From W. N-Y. C. See? Yes. And NPR. Well, I love the echo and it's... It's a big echoey chamber we're in. Well, sort of, yeah.

Hey, I'm Chad Aboum-Rod. I'm Robert Krollwich. This is Radio Lab. The podcast. And we're... We're coming to you on the podcast, not from our usual space, which is the studio in New York now. We're in L.A., and we're sitting on a stage.

It's Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA. We're on tour, so we have a show, a live show that we do. We couldn't get back to do our podcast in the normal way. So we're going to do it right here on stage. Yeah. And we're here. We wanted to actually just talk a little bit about what's going to be happening next week. Next week we have this awesome show.

Which we call color, because that's what it's about. It's about the nature and the peculiarities and the anecdotals and the everything of color. That's right. We're going to explore all kinds of things about the different colors, red, blue, greens, yellows, and all the shades in between.

But we're going to play cool stuff right now because here's the cool thing about this show. One of the experiments we're doing for this colors podcast is we are working with a ton of really talented musicians who are going to be playing a lot of color-themed songs

and tons of great musicians are going to be on this hour, including Reggie Watts. You may remember him from the Curious Sounds concert we aired a couple months ago. Amazing dude does this whole like a cappella looping situation.

It's just him, a mic, and a little box. And while we've actually been here on tour, he was back in New York City. And so we kind of, we could kind of miss each other. Can you guys hear me? But we call them up on our cell phones and Yeah, okay, there we go.

You know, had a little chat. Okay, can we all hear each other? Yes, I can hear. I can hear each other. So I guess you're going to do the Kermit song, right? Yeah, I'm going to attempt. Green. Yeah, I'll use those words in it.

So, Reggie, what does it mean to be green to you? Well, eco-friendly environment is very important to me, and the planet really needs help. No, I guess being green, I don't know. I guess being green is like, it's about being different. So I guess it isn't easy being green. It's not easy being yourself. Oh, we're sorry we can't be there to witness it live. in person.

I'm pretty relatively angry, but it's okay. All right, well, thanks, Reggie. They're calling for us

to go on stage. Yeah, we got to run back on there. Fine. Go do shows. Okay, well, good luck. We can't wait to hear it.

All right, guys. Bye. Thank you. Bye. That was Rick Santorum and GERF Garkin. Talking about some of the classic elements

of WNYC right here. We'll be right back. You're rolling it? Okay. Ready, you're not. That was Reggie Watts with being green. Okay, you know that Radio Lab is listener supported, right?

We rely on you guys listening, the people who listen to this podcast to chip in to help us pay for producing it. So we decided to start something a little new to make this whole relationship a little more fun. Yep. We've launched a brand new Radio Lab digital membership. We'll offer you exclusive access to a ton of MP3s that we recorded for this color show, some great online posters, behind the same. scenes videos and all kinds of things we're going to be making for this in exchange for $75.

So you'll have like several of these songs that you can just... Oh yeah, there's going to be a bunch. We record a lot of these songs and we're going to make a bunch of them available. They're really, really good. Hey, this is Soren, a senior producer at Radio Lab sitting in New York, not on tour in Sunny Los Angeles. But Chad and Robert asked me to just toss a couple of these songs in here so you could get a taste of what we're offering with the whole digital membership thing. So the first five that we're going to offer us.

up are The Flanks doing a beautiful bluegrass version of the Beatles' yellow submarine. We've got Buk and Gase tearing up New Order's Blue Monday. We've got Eric Friedlander doing a kind of classical treatment of Miles Davis's blue and green. We've got Lost in Trees doing Nick Drake's Pink Moon, and Homeboy Sandman and Jaunty doing an original song, called simply brown and that's just a few bucks. Sattel up for just 75 bucks

The water's in the camel humps Staying up with the owls Soap. And that's just a few of the songs We get tons more And you get all of them for just 75 bucks If you become a digital member So back to Jad and Robert

So please help us support the show Go to RadioLab.org And click on Become a Lab partner It's become a lab partner. The Lab. Become a partner of the lab. Yeah. Thanks for listening to this podcast.

Definitely check out our... Next week, Color. We're really excited about it. Coming very, very soon. I'm Jada Boomran. I'm Robert Krollwich. Thanks for listening. Thanks, John.

One more thing. Big thanks to John DeLure for recording and mixing the podcast on the stage in L.A. And on the way out, here's the lonesome organist doing green onions. Hi, my name is Andrew Winnett.

Oh, sorry, that's ridiculous. Hi. I'm Andrew Bennett, originally from Melbourne, Florida, currently residing in Seymri of Cambodia, and I'm a Radiolab listener. Video Lab is supported in part by the National Science Foundation and by the Alfred Keystone Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. More information about Sloan at www.s.org. Thanks a lot. You guys all have a good day.

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