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Ira Glass

The Turnaround with Jesse Thorn

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What Would It Be Like to Be a Psychotic Breaker?

There's a lot of like imagining what the other persons experience is whith, which any good interviewer does. I remember my very favorite terry gross interview question is this thing we're about to probably quoting an upcoming show that we're doing about magicians. She asked ricky jay, the author an and and magician, she asked him if there ever a trick where what's going on behind the scenes is actually more interesting than what we do see? And he got really excited. Or another question i remember, she asked my cousin, philip glass, the composer, the very best question he's ever been asked in any interview. He gets really excited. And then he pauses and

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