Posts tagged “ira glass”
How should I live my life
Ira Glass, in an interview with Marc Maron: There’s this thing that Keith, my mentor, used to say, where he says, “A story, if it’s working, is always an answer to the question, ‘How should I live my life?’” What an interesting lens.
Video: Ira Glass at the Gel Conference
It’s about surprise and humour. It’s a bit of Storytelling 101 (event leads to event leads to event leads to universal truth). But it’s mostly about craft, and if you tell stories, it’s totally worth 32 minutes of your time. From 2007, here’s Ira Glass at the Gel Conference: Present again is Ira’s familiar “taking [...]
“You are sombody that needs pledge drive justice”
Via the latest This American Life newsletter, some very, very funny pledge drive spots from Ira Glass. Click to listen: Megan.mp3 Paul.mp3 Kathleen.mp3 Though they’re funny, I don’t think these as effective as Ira’s twice-yearly, straight-up, arithmetic-based podcast promos.
How to download old This American Life episodes as MP3s
Once upon a time, you could download old episodes of This American Life by grabbing MP3 file locations from the M3U files posted on their website. The MP3 files lived here: http://audio.wbez.org/tal/SHOWNUMBER.mp3 But that stopped working. These days, though you can still listen to TAL archives, downloading them has become a bit trickier because the [...]