The Trumpet Guy Interview "You're Nothing!" - H3 Show #305

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How does the episode open and introduce the New York trumpet‑player guest?

Ethan Klein 0:02

Hello, everybody's eating fine. Coming at ya from funny beevah da right here. The day is nine eleven. Which is my personal nine eleven. Even after all these years, nine eleven is my nine eleven. You know. But that's what it is. It's today. It's uh we have a show episode. We have an episode today. It's actually gonna be quite a good one. And we're sponsored today by Omaha Steaks. Oh my goodness, we love Omaha Steaks. It is literally frozen sod. Gabe is here, it's Friday, baby. Can we get some woo woo woo?

Douglas Levinson 0:54

It's Friday, baby. It's Friday, baby. It's Friday, baby. It's Friday, baby.

Ethan Klein 1:01

We gotta send you to a juggalo meeting because their thing is they go woo woo right. He could fit in there.

Unknown 1:09

Woo woo hoo. Hoodoo!

Ethan Klein 1:13

Um we got so much to get to, so much fun stuff, but actually one thing we gotta not really waste any time. Um we wanted to connect with Yes, I did, Dan. I wanted to uh to more memorialize nine eleven, talk to uh one of the most famous New Yorkers that was there at the time who had a first sound account and a really somber kind of remembrance of it. And that of course is someone that I've never had the pleasure of talking with before, but I've been Wanting to connect with for so dang long. It's of course you know him maybe know him as the trumpet guy, uh, but we're

Douglas Levinson 1:55

far beyond that that's far beyond.

Ethan Klein 1:57

But we but this is Douglas Levinson. Oh wow, what a pleasure. What a pleasure to finally connect with you. How are you?

Douglas Levinson 2:10

Uh, very, very well. Today of course is a monumental day. Uh here in New York. And uh it's twenty five years, and for those of us who renewed and move forward, this is a time to observe but also to celebrate. The fact that life indeed does go on. And we'll always, you know, learn from the event because there's always more to learn. But it was remarkable to see this uh in. It's such an amazing milestone to join you guys today.

Ethan Klein 2:40

Yeah, thank well I appreciate it. I'm I'm really glad to um to join you. Are you I are you Jewish? I I think you are, that's why I ask. I am too. Sorry if you're not. Well, I don't hear you, Dan. Oh, wow, my name's Ethan. I'm the host of the show here. Hi, Ethan. Yeah. And um are you are you Jewish? I don't mean that I'm Jewish too. Uh

Douglas Levinson 2:59

no, no, no, no. It's a fair question. I I will tell you.

Ethan Klein 3:02

Okay.

Douglas Levinson 3:03

Uh I was at Trimont Temple.

Ethan Klein 3:05

Oh I asked 'cause it's Rosh Hashanah today also.

Douglas Levinson 3:08

Yes, I know. Yeah. So you are good yuntif, good Yontif good Yuntiv. Um my my accountant is very devout. So

Ethan Klein 3:17

your accountant is cool.

Douglas Levinson 3:19

Shimon Temple which was a reform.

Ethan Klein 3:21

Okay.

Douglas Levinson 3:21

And reform was a lot more light and easy than it has now become. And the rule was when my parents Headed to the divorce. that I would have to see through the Saturday instruction And that culminated in my Bourmets flow. And at my boy mitzvah, I had. Uncle Henry Shaw from the Conservative down the Concourse from us at Tremont Temple and my own.

Ethan Klein 3:47

So that's a yes. Sounds like a yes.

Douglas Levinson 3:50

So I had a stereo barbisfer. So

Ethan Klein 3:53

it's a yes, it sounds like

Douglas Levinson 3:54

the bar misphere. Ан і вакци. Амін, фликлі, а динасі. uh western religion and I have been practicing Transcendental meditation, January for me. will be fifty four years. Wow. And the difference between Western religion.

Ethan Klein 4:12

So just to confirm you are Jewish. Uh my mother was Jewish, yes. Yeah, your mother's Jewish. But you're a bar mitzvah, so you got the whole uh the whole shebang. Sounds like and and and let's be honest, the temperament of a New York Jew as well, am I right?

Douglas Levinson 4:26

Well, I'm a New Yorker and and a New Yorker transcends That particular side of it. I mean, I'm not just a Jewish guy from New York. No,

Ethan Klein 4:35

though my

Douglas Levinson 4:36

background is such. But I learned a TM Transcendental meditation. They say January will be fifty four years.

Unknown 4:45

Mm-hmm.

Douglas Levinson 4:45

And the difference is in Western religion The idea is that you behave well to find the almighty, okay? Mm-hmm. And and there is no God. There is a physics. Physics is what it is and when they found the Higgs boson

Ethan Klein 5:06

Oh here we go the Higgs boson scale.

Douglas Levinson 5:09

That is the unifying that they've been looking for now.

Ethan Klein 5:12

Now I'm actually I'm uh I'm also a student of uh physics and astrophysics. I know all about the Higgs bosons.