Please Advise: A Pop Up Show from WNYC
Oct 21, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
On today's episode of WNYC's popup advice show, **David Furst**, host of Morning Edition on WNYC, leads am advice call-in conversation about music, and how our ears can tune in to more deeply…
David FurstHost
If you want to join this conversation, the number once again here on Please Advise, 212-433-9692.
It's almost an absurd conversation to have, right? Because, you know, we gravitate to things that catch our ear and we listen.
But I'm also talking about challenging ourselves intentional listening perhaps as you were just saying moving out of our comfort zone out of the music that we think is the type of music that we like so you know how do we do that what's the best way to encounter new music.
music, I would say the first part of that sentence, the idea of the music that we just normally listen to, I think that it isn't always just a simple thing.
I think the act of listening... happens in very different forms depending on how you choose to engage with it.
Even a song that you hear on the radio, you're like, oh, I like this, or hey, this is even my favorite song or something.
And I think if you have time to listen exclusively, like really just listen, I think that already is an experience that most people don't have or or don't have the time or they don't think about it um but to really like sink in and give give music the sort of cinematic experience that we have when you go into a movie theater and all the lights are off and all you're doing is looking at the big screen and that you're absorbed in in that story i think the times when you can listen to music in that way is also just the best way to listen to music
It's a beautiful piece of music, and as I'm talking about intentional listening, I feel terrible about fading it out right now.
laughter But tell us about, you know, you were setting up that piece, by the way, once again, it's called Stray Dogs.
You talked about being in a movie theater where you have just undivided attention.
Is, you know, being in a live setting in a great listening room, is that the best way to hear new music?
That's certainly an exciting way to hear new music, and I think an incredibly engaging one.
If you want to join this conversation, the number once again here on Please Advise, 212-433-9692.
It's almost an absurd conversation to have, right? Because, you know, we gravitate to things that catch our ear and we listen.
But I'm also talking about challenging ourselves intentional listening perhaps as you were just saying moving out of our comfort zone out of the music that we think is the type of music that we like so you know how do we do that what's the best way to encounter new music.
music, I would say the first part of that sentence, the idea of the music that we just normally listen to, I think that it isn't always just a simple thing.
I think the act of listening... happens in very different forms depending on how you choose to engage with it.
Even a song that you hear on the radio, you're like, oh, I like this, or hey, this is even my favorite song or something.
And I think if you have time to listen exclusively, like really just listen, I think that already is an experience that most people don't have or or don't have the time or they don't think about it um but to really like sink in and give give music the sort of cinematic experience that we have when you go into a movie theater and all the lights are off and all you're doing is looking at the big screen and that you're absorbed in in that story i think the times when you can listen to music in that way is also just the best way to listen to music
It's a beautiful piece of music, and as I'm talking about intentional listening, I feel terrible about fading it out right now.
laughter But tell us about, you know, you were setting up that piece, by the way, once again, it's called Stray Dogs.
You talked about being in a movie theater where you have just undivided attention.
Is, you know, being in a live setting in a great listening room, is that the best way to hear new music?
That's certainly an exciting way to hear new music, and I think an incredibly engaging one.
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