Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.
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What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.
We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other people in the world that could do radio shows.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.
When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
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