- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
- Nov 07, 2020
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
- Fresh Air
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020