Episode 518: Jonathan Goldstein
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Do You Have a Day Job or Night Job?
I was doing spoken word in Montreal, sending my poetry to wherever I could and not even like big places like the New Yorker. A producer from the CBC found it funny and invited me to do an essay on a local show. And I did that and it led to getting a summer radio show on the CBC. But once he told me about this American life, I started listening to it. They had a really good website and I just loved it so much. So I sent a couple of these episodes into this American life after hearing they shared something that you know, there is a kind of vacuum out there for people who are able to do it too. It must have been a leap of
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