Great Ira Glass interview. "It's like you want lightning to strike every week. And to do that, you have to wonder around in the rain, a lot." - Ira Glass (minute 3:45)
This American Life and got me through many road trips back and forth from CT to FL. My daughter and wife were fitted with headphones so I got the car radio. Thank you Ira, for many miles of entertainment, of various subjects.
I love this plucky young interviewer. She made it very enjoyable. She's real and seemed to unabashedly made inquiries that might have made other interviewers a little nervous.
Love the guy who joked that even if the show has an elitist hipster perspective, at least the stories are being told in depth. So true - people can’t help who they are or how they come across, but we can all aim for nuance and compassion. Love Ira 💕
Wow. Ira is so personable and real here. Also, I've listened to TAL for years but never bothered looking up a photo of him. Must be neat to be a radio celebrity - you can lay low as long as you stay quiet!
Ira Glass definitely has young sounding voice, if that makes sense. I really thought he was in his early 30s--just based on the sound of his voice alone.
+Tom Abbott That's totally what he's talking about. They were about 8 months off from that Jan 2014 launch, but I'm sure it turned out so much more amazing than he thought.
Indeed! I was about to comment on exactly that, but then saw that you'd already done so! Such a low-key introduction. Surely he would have been blown away to know what course it took and how much of a juggernaut in popular it would become!
Ira thank you so much, you've really inspired me to give storytelling a good shot. You seem to have very deep insight into the power of story and you've certainly convinced me. It is so a value to meet a master of their craft so thank you Ira!
Ira is so generous with his encouragement to story-tellers and other story podcasters and he has nothing but praise and admiration for everyone on his staff. How fun would it be to be on TAL staff!
great talk.. I'm procrastinating while watching ira glass talk and I realized that he had a very similar reaction to his name/show being on television as his 'now wife', when he mentioned her name in on letterman
The sad part is....had they done this interview on the set of Between Two Ferns, the format would have been better with whatever this was. Why are they sitting like this? Who arranged this stage?
ira was so polished considering the interviewer was seemingly uninvolved. What to learn from this is an interviewer shouldn't have a strict format to follow? She's waiting to ask her question as opposed to engage and respond to the response to her questions.
To be fair, there's a big difference between recording a conversation to be subsequently edited for broadcast and doing a live interview. When it's live, you want to make sure you keep the audience (and interviewee) engaged, and you typically have a time limit, so you want to make sure you get certain questions in, sometimes in a certain order. And it's not like she's just checked out; she does respond to some of Ira's specific remarks. Conducting a live interview is tougher than it looks.
I wanted to see what he looked like. I imagined him younger. I recently watched Harper when I was scrolling through the website. Amazing podcast. I was really surprised about the gangs. Every kid. 😢
Such a cool interview but so awkward, they need to be facing each other a little more so they can make eye contact rather than just talking out to the audience
Many people are also not aware that It's Glass is the cousin of Philip Glass. [There's a video, or at least an audio recording, of Ira interviewing his cousin Philip.]
That's what I always thought. I was quite surprised when I first looked him up on Wikipedia and saw his picture there. That was after I'd been listening to This American Life for a while. I'd always imagined him as a much younger person. (If you happen to be reading this, Ira: Sorry! ;-)) Anyway, he appears to be a really cool person.
His nasal tone and speech patterns make me think of Arnold Stang, a comedian from the early days of television. Arnold was also the voice of "Top Cat" the Hanna Barbera cartoon.
31:21 - The nearly silent audience and the blank-faced interviewer reveal the sizable age gap between Ira and the audience. Those of us who are old enough to have watched OG Star Trek instantly know what a tricorder is would undoubtedly chuckle at the joke. 🖖
I thought the best show he ever produced on "TAL" had to do with the correction of the Michael Daisy's "fabulations" (Retraction 03.16.2012) that were broadcast on a prior "TAL".
Yeah, they were very embarrassed and disappointed in themselves about the Mike Daisy thing. But the followup show was really outstanding. I wrote to them because I thought it was bound to happen at some time when you've been doing it as long as they have.
I saw about ten episodes of this boring show, I think the themes and topics that it covers are uninteresting and unimportant.... There are many shows that are FAR more interesting: "This is life" with Lisa Ling, or many others, literally any other show is more entertaining and informative!!
I think Ira Glass is the first person I can think of that I would actually want his autograph. Such a real, warm, funny person.
Great Ira Glass interview. "It's like you want lightning to strike every week. And to do that, you have to wonder around in the rain, a lot." - Ira Glass (minute 3:45)
Eduardo Briceño yeah. Haha
This American Life and got me through many road trips back and forth from CT to FL. My daughter and wife were fitted with headphones so I got the car radio. Thank you Ira, for many miles of entertainment, of various subjects.
I love this plucky young interviewer. She made it very enjoyable. She's real and seemed to unabashedly made inquiries that might have made other interviewers a little nervous.
Love the guy who joked that even if the show has an elitist hipster perspective, at least the stories are being told in depth. So true - people can’t help who they are or how they come across, but we can all aim for nuance and compassion. Love Ira 💕
"... Most journalism doesn't achieve anything." Strong words from Ira Glass!
Love 'This American Life' and definitely loving Ira after this interview!
He still sounds 20 years old. Timeless
Wow. Ira is so personable and real here. Also, I've listened to TAL for years but never bothered looking up a photo of him. Must be neat to be a radio celebrity - you can lay low as long as you stay quiet!
I genuinely pictured Ira Glass as a middle aged black woman....
David McCallum I pictured him a young gay hipster lol
I pictured him as a radio.
Ira Glass definitely has young sounding voice, if that makes sense. I really thought he was in his early 30s--just based on the sound of his voice alone.
In my head he still looks like he did in 2001..
I listen to this guy every week
Ira is so lovely~♡ and his show This American Life
I love the fact that at 1:00:14 he is more than likely talking about the podcast that will become Serial.
+Tom Abbott That's totally what he's talking about. They were about 8 months off from that Jan 2014 launch, but I'm sure it turned out so much more amazing than he thought.
Most def
Indeed! I was about to comment on exactly that, but then saw that you'd already done so! Such a low-key introduction. Surely he would have been blown away to know what course it took and how much of a juggernaut in popular it would become!
And you did follow your dream Ira and I am LOVING the result!
I love This American Life!!!!!
Ira thank you so much, you've really inspired me to give storytelling a good shot. You seem to have very deep insight into the power of story and you've certainly convinced me. It is so a value to meet a master of their craft so thank you Ira!
Ira is so generous with his encouragement to story-tellers and other story podcasters and he has nothing but praise and admiration for everyone on his staff. How fun would it be to be on TAL staff!
I love Ira Glass!
great talk.. I'm procrastinating while watching ira glass talk and I realized that he had a very similar reaction to his name/show being on television as his 'now wife', when he mentioned her name in on letterman
The sad part is....had they done this interview on the set of Between Two Ferns, the format would have been better with whatever this was. Why are they sitting like this? Who arranged this stage?
ira was so polished considering the interviewer was seemingly uninvolved. What to learn from this is an interviewer shouldn't have a strict format to follow? She's waiting to ask her question as opposed to engage and respond to the response to her questions.
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Maybe the purpose of this interview was to show us what not to do lol
It's so ironic because Ira is a Master Interviewer. I LOVE when he laughs with his interviewee and interjects, showing he is right with them.
To be fair, there's a big difference between recording a conversation to be subsequently edited for broadcast and doing a live interview. When it's live, you want to make sure you keep the audience (and interviewee) engaged, and you typically have a time limit, so you want to make sure you get certain questions in, sometimes in a certain order. And it's not like she's just checked out; she does respond to some of Ira's specific remarks.
Conducting a live interview is tougher than it looks.
Interesting interview... the interviewer looks so nervous or uninterested.
"What is there left to say, as a reporter?" I feel the same way as an artist.
I wanted to see what he looked like. I imagined him younger. I recently watched Harper when I was scrolling through the website. Amazing podcast. I was really surprised about the gangs. Every kid. 😢
Nice pat on the back for the Google Docs team :-)
Our Ira Hour Hour, welcome.
Such a cool interview but so awkward, they need to be facing each other a little more so they can make eye contact rather than just talking out to the audience
here! non-american listener! I pause thou sometimes realizing that I am not an american
He's so adorable!
After heading Ira Glass said the F word so many times, I feel a urge to subscribe to "This American Life" podcast.
Tony Lee do it! It’s so good
Many people are also not aware that It's Glass is the cousin of Philip Glass.
[There's a video, or at least an audio recording, of Ira interviewing his cousin Philip.]
He doesn't look like what his voice sounds like
He does to me. He has a Jewish sounding voice.
That's what I always thought. I was quite surprised when I first looked him up on Wikipedia and saw his picture there. That was after I'd been listening to This American Life for a while. I'd always imagined him as a much younger person. (If you happen to be reading this, Ira: Sorry! ;-)) Anyway, he appears to be a really cool person.
His nasal tone and speech patterns make me think of Arnold Stang, a comedian from the early days of television. Arnold was also the voice of "Top Cat" the Hanna Barbera cartoon.
In my mind I thought he looked like Ezra Klein's cousin. But did not expect him to be way older.
Did I mention that I totally fux with Ira Glass? Well, yeah... I do.
i loved the oc too!!!
Thought he was an 18 year old nerd until I saw his picture.
I thought so too. 😂
31:21 - The nearly silent audience and the blank-faced interviewer reveal the sizable age gap between Ira and the audience. Those of us who are old enough to have watched OG Star Trek instantly know what a tricorder is would undoubtedly chuckle at the joke. 🖖
In my mind I pictured that he looked like Ezra Klein's cousin. He does NOT look like what his voice sounds like.
It's disorienting.
He's... beautiful.
I thought the best show he ever produced on "TAL" had to do with the correction of the Michael Daisy's "fabulations" (Retraction 03.16.2012) that were broadcast on a prior "TAL".
Yeah, they were very embarrassed and disappointed in themselves about the Mike Daisy thing. But the followup show was really outstanding. I wrote to them because I thought it was bound to happen at some time when you've been doing it as long as they have.
I am watching the rebroadcast on RUclips. Was a suggestion from YT
Joe Biederman Out of all the useless RUclips comments this is among the most useless
I really don't think that the interviewer is human, I think it's a hologram made by Google.
The interviewer is terrible...she is so distracted and not engaged at all. It is really distracting.
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Why is pre-fame Kylie Jenner interviewing Ira Glass?
Philly Accent. ? @ #CenTicore?
Wow. She is a terrible interviewer. Almost comically bad.
Omg he has white hair ! I thought he was a fat teen ! This is awful .... ahhhh!!
I saw about ten episodes of this boring show, I think the themes and topics that it covers are uninteresting and unimportant.... There are many shows that are FAR more interesting: "This is life" with Lisa Ling, or many others, literally any other show is more entertaining and informative!!
Interviewer must get off carbs...