Episode 518: Jonathan Goldstein
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Ira: What's the Common Noun?
Ira Glass: It took me a while to realize that there was a certain kind of common denominator that there were certain stories that I gravitated towards. Most of the stories were like a return to some distant past, something that's been eating away at the person, something that has stakes. He says if you're still hanging onto something after decades and decades, there's something inherently compelling about that. The first episode where we set off is when my father Buzz and his brother Sheldon talk about what went wrong.
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