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Live Wire 223: Monsters of Public Radio Special - Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich, Garrison Keillor, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside

Live Wire with Luke Burbank

CHAPTER

Authenticity and Friendship in Radio

Exploring the value of genuine connections versus artificial camaraderie in radio, discussing the impact of real friendships on creating engaging content.

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Speaker 1
I can't think of a better place to to end this conversation. That's that's really that's really beautiful. You know, I think that radio is so much about particularly commercial radio where I've been working recently is about fake outrage and people pretending to be buddies. There's this radio show in Seattle where the guys say that their childhood friends, I guess they went to the same school. I think one of them beat the other one up. I mean, honestly, one bullied the other when they were younger and then somehow they ended up working in radio together years later. It's totally contrived. And you know, David Foster Wallace said he did this amazing piece about talk radio and he said that anger is the easiest and least at least authentic emotion to create in the listener. Like just by saying look at the toilet paper budget for the governor's mansion and then you get mad because it sounds like a lot of money. But so to hear you guys talking and to hear two people who have actually like there's this really big thing which is Radio Lab, this huge hit radio show podcast. But then there's this friendship between you guys and not to get hokey. But it's like it seems like that is equally important if not more important than a radio show. Ultimate more important. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3
I mean, I filter everything we're doing through the picture in my mind of those early breakfasts. And I think how can this sound like some weird surrealist version of two guys just having coffee, you know, and just sort of put it strain it through that image. And hopefully it sounds like that. And you get the feeling on the other end of that. Because otherwise, I mean, what else? Why would you want to put anything else out in the world? You know
Speaker 1
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