Ira Glass

I do not think she's going to get a tape.

All right.

Well, next on our little playhouse tape.

I'm pretty sure I actually did send her a tape.

Anyway, okay.

So that is the first episode of our show from November 1995.

So my dad did come on the show also.

It wasn't just my mom.

And I'm going to play you some of that.

including an old story about his very brief and very doomed career in radio.

After a quick break, stay with us.

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