Ira Glass
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12,000 appearances
762 recordings
21 series
first heard Jul 2019
last heard yesterday
Ira Glass’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it did take me a while to realize that it's basically because the monkey pressed the button.
That's right.
Because the monkey pressed the button.
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Graham grew up in a working class town in the north of England.
And when he was eleven or twelve, his family moved into one of the first houses in a new development that was being built.
And it was kind of hitting the jackpot for him at that age.
was so incredibly fun.
This is Graham.
There's actually all kinds of trouble to get into, bricks and boards to play with and wet concrete to write in.
They'd find food the workers left, and cigarettes which they would smoke.
Once I found a porn magazine.
And one day Graham was there alone and he had this great idea.
He put together a little makeshift seesaw, or as he calls it, a teeter totter, with a plank of wood balanced on a brick at the center.
He put another brick on one end of the plank.
And his idea was to drop something really heavy.
Really, really heavy.
Onto the other end of the plank, from a great height.
to find out just how far he could send that brick catapulting into space.
So to accomplish this he set up his teeter totter by some scaffolding.
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