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Trotter, aka Black Thought, reflects on his childhood in Philly, his decades-long friendship with Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson. Trotter's memoir is The Upcycled Self. Originally broadcast Nov. 7, 2023.

A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of last Thursday's news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes.

Japan is now the fifth country to pull off a soft landing on the moon. A Japanese space agency manager earlier called the landing "a breathless, numbing 20 minutes of terror!"

Unemployment numbers released Friday by the California Employment Development Department shows the jobless rate in Monterey, San Luis Obispo, and Santa…

NPR's Phillip Davis reports on the $8-billion project to restore Everglades National Park. The effort in Florida will be the largest environmental restoration project in the nation's history, but there are serious questions about whether it can work. (6:00)

Robert Siegel talks with E.J. Dionne, a columnist for The Washington Post and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and with David Brooks, senior editor at The Weekly Standard. They discuss the highlights of last night's election results. (6:00)

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on the newest endeavor by artist James Turrell -- an exhibit featuring drawings and videos of his study of light in an extinct volcano. Check out the Roden Crater. (6:52

Host Madeleine Brand talks with the Tucson-based band Calexico, who try to capture the spirit of their region in music - a soundtrack to the Southwest. (6:30) {Calexico, Even My Sure Things Fall Through. Quarterstick Records, Chicago, IL: 1998-2001}.

Dangerfield died Tuesday at the age of 82. He recently published a book about his life, Rodney Dangerfield: It's Not Easy Bein' Me. This interview was originally broadcast on July 6, 2004.

Robert talks with Mark Johnson-Williams, one of the designers of the Tickle Me Elmo toy. Johnson-Williams tells how the FBI investigated him for 6 months as one of the UNABOMBER suspects.