From NPR, WBEC Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

I'm the man who will subsidize your crops this year.

I'm the Farm Bill, Bill Curtis, and here's your host, a native of the garden state, who

still thinks that means gardens are where you grow asphalt.

Peter Segal.

Thank you, Bill. It is spring at long last, and it's so exciting after being stuck inside

all winter, staring at the snow to be stuck inside, staring at the mud.

It's the cycle of life.

So we thought we'd plant some fertile material from recent shows and see what grows.

For example, musician John Batisse, the band leader for Late Night with Stephen Colbert,

was recently nominated for an Oscar. We're not saying it's because he appeared on this

show in 2018, but we're not saying it's not.

West Coast faiths, Saley, ask him to confirm a wild rumor that he made his New York debut

playing in the subway.

Oh, my goodness, you heard the news.

Tell us about that.

Well, we went to Juilliard, and we were there studying and really, really trying to come

up with a sound as a band.

And one day, we were eating in a diner, and we were talking about how everybody who plays

at Juilliard, you go into an orchestra or you play in these really, really hot, saluting

places.

And we were like, how do we play for people who may not have the money or the access or

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