Ira Glass

This interruption is happening right now.

I have to say something else that hearing this recording reminds me of, and that is that when I look at pictures of my mom, I just feel a sense of fondness for my mom.

But when you hear somebody's voice,

it's so much more powerful.

I feel like she's alive talking to me again, and I'm having all the feelings that I had when she was alive.

Really, as this tape is playing, beat by beat, moment by moment, I feel like I'm experiencing this conversation the same way I did 30 years ago.

Pictures cannot do that.

The theme for this week is New Beginnings.

And we have several stories of people telling about various ways in which their life began anew at some point.

I'm just going to stop the tape again.

This is my online.

I call my mom for an interview, and it's not even her first interview of the day.

Like, I was lucky to get a booking.

She's a therapist, and sometimes she gets called by the papers and stuff.

Which means what?

All right, listen, all of you in the audience right now, let's just agree right now.

It's the very beginning of our relationship.

It's the very beginning of our radio relationship right now.

This is our little first little radio date.

And I just don't want any idealizing.