Audio is now up for Terry’s interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone about The Book of Mormon. (There are a lot of songs from the musical on here, with explanations.) Enjoy!

I have religious friends, and they’re like, ‘Well if you look, it’s proven.’ And you’re like, ‘No, it’s not proven.’ Don’t try to tell me that you can prove this stuff. Just say ‘I believe it,’ and I’m down with you. Don’t mix the two together. Because you can’t logically say, ‘We know that Jews came from Jerusalem and settled in America and turned into Native Americans.’ That just doesn’t make any sense. But at the same time, if you say ‘I believe this,’ I say ‘Okay. Cool man.’ Because at the end of the day, we all have certain beliefs and deeply held things that probably don’t make a lot of sense to anybody else.

— Trey Parker, on religion. [full interview here]

“The official Church response was something along the lines of ‘The Book of Mormon the musical might entertain you for a night but The Book of Mormon,’ — the book as scripture — ‘will change your life through Jesus. Which we actually completely agree with. The Mormon Church’s response to this musical is almost like our q.e.d. at the end of it. That’s a cool, American response to a ribbing — a big musical that’s done in their name.”

“Before the Church responded, a lot of people would ask us, ‘Are you afraid of what the Church would say? And Trey and I were like, ‘They’re going to be cool.’ And they were like, ‘No they’re not. There are going to be protests.’ And we were like, ‘Nope, they’re going to be cool.’ We weren’t that surprised by the Church’s response. We had faith in them.”

— Matt Stone talks about the feedback his musical The Book of Mormon has gotten from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone talk to Terry Gross about their hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon: “I don’t think anybody would want to see a two-hour-long Mormon-bashing, and we wouldn’t want to see that either. We love the goofiness of Mormon stories. Some of them are incredulous, and we loved almost all the Mormons that we had ever met. So this was sort of this conundrum that we like to talk about — we think what they believe is really, really ridiculous, and yet they seem like pretty happy people.” [full interview here]

Tomorrow: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, on The Book of Mormon musical. 

Previously: Trey Parker and Matt Stone: Celebrating 14 Years of Fart Jokes

vinylqueen:

I’m a little biased with the TONYS this year!

Can’t say why yet, but the soundtrack for this musical is playing throughout the office…perhaps the tags on this post may clarify things.

More Music For Your Monday: The Complete Cast Recording, The Book of Mormon.

PS: There’s a good chance you will hear more about this musical on Fresh Air at some point in the near future….