Jay Cowit, Technical Director, The Takeaway
Jay Cowit is the technical director for The Takeaway. He started as a board operator in 2008 and has been with the show ever since.
Two themes in today's bumper music: Venus coming directly between Earth and the Sun, and an audio essay by co-host John Hockenberry about how The Beach Boys, who released "Surfin' Safari" fifty years ago.
Folk Implosion – Insinuation
Phenomenal Handclap Band – All of the Above
Tallest Man on Earth – 1904
Beach Boys – Wouldn’t It Be Nice, I Get Around, Surfing USA, Good Vibrations
Papercuts – White are the Waves
Brothers Past – Heroes
Dengue Fever – Ocean of Venus
The Police – King of Pain
John Phillip Sousa – Transit of Venus
Jay Cowit is the technical director for The Takeaway. He started as a board operator in 2008 and has been with the show ever since.
Alex Johnson is The Takeaway's digital editor, based out of The World newsroom at WGBH in Boston.
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