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Haircut As Life Change
- Ira Glass cut his long hair to change his life and ended up photographed for a newspaper in 1991.
- He was a freelance NPR reporter then and treated the experience as a new, small experiment.
Appearance As Professional Strategy
- Ira used appearance tactics like wearing a tie to seem older while starting at NPR at 19.
- He needed small identity strategies to navigate being younger than colleagues.
Father's Old Radio Recordings
- Ira's father was a 1950s-style radio DJ and gave recordings they later played on-air.
- Hearing his father's early broadcasts offered Ira an emotional window into his parent's younger self.