Bassem, when you were doing the Q&A on your last live show, and the audience was heckling you, basically, at one point, saying, why aren't you doing this?
Bassem, thanks for being a beacon of revolution and the things that you do.
Basses are often tall and lean.
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really recognize the Basse the instrument and um it's something I always played around with anyway and if
Everybody likes the basset hound, so he's back, too.
So that Bassem is our guest, of course, today.
And that was Bassem was still doing at the time.
So I talked to Bassem to ask his opinion, and he said, look, I'm going to be there.
hounds like your bassets which hit the ground while while they're sniffing that's probably not accidental design
Now tenors and basses , you sing something that sounds like,
can spin the basses .
Please join me in welcoming Bassem Youssef and Sarah Taksler.
And less than a mile away from Bassem's office, people were killing each other in Tahrir Square to be heard.
Here's "Al-Bernameg" and Bassem Youssef, he's always back and everything is good.
But once you become friends with Bassem and the team-- that's more important.
AVERY*SUNSHINE: Any tenors and basses ?
All the pieces that we spun basses in -- John Williams is a great guy.
He didn't want me spinning the basses on this tour in Japan.
Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yes, so great to be here.
DANI S. BASSETT: So yes, for a little bit of the history-- so Perry and I are twins.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, exactly.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, absolutely.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, and I also think that it's important to dig deeply and say, what does that connectional account afford to a human?
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, that's a really great question.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yes, absolutely.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, so there are different parts of the brain that have been shown to become activated when people are curious or when they are even
DANI S. BASSETT: I think I'm really interested more in the curiosity that is present in people who are
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, it actually makes me think-- oh sorry, Sanders, were you about to say something?
DANI S. BASSETT: It makes me think about the way that we model our curiosity to other people or might notice the curiosity of somebody else
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, OK.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yes.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah, it's interesting.
DANI S. BASSETT: I think maybe one key difference is going to be the time involved, though.
DANI S. BASSETT: Yeah.
But beagle, basset hound.
And in the distance I see this closet of upright basses .
And it's Reed and Ellery again and the basset hound Speed Bump.
Which is the Committee to Protect Journalists awarded Bassem the International Press Freedom Award, I think, in 2013.
When you've got high tenors and low basses , when you've got a beat boxer, when you've got gorgeous ballad singing sopranos and raspy soulful altos, you've got
I get paid the same money whether I spin the basses or not so I'm having fun.
The promoters are upset because they thought we'd spin the basses .
So, I get the basses together and we have a little talk about it and I get the percussion section involved in a little extra punch and