There was something you felt like there's must have been something in what you were doing, these road trip recordings that was similar to what this American life was doing and trying to do. Can you at all pinpoint what that something is or was? I think it had something of the personal self-deprecating comedy or something,. You know, it was like seed of something that I would end up expanding into a lot of assays for the show. And eventually I realized that it was my forte.
Jonathan Goldstein is an audio producer and the host of Heavyweight.
“I wasn’t taking myself very seriously, initially. I liked working with my friends and family because I think I was a little more comfortable with them. Then in the second season people were writing in with real problems, and they were looking at me as a kind of expert. It was terrifying to meet with these people and see the look of hopefulness in their eyes. ... I realized I need to step it up and even if I didn’t feel like an expert—an expert in an invented field that doesn’t really exist—that I’d really have to take that on with seriousness.”
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