Ira Glass
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Podcast Appearances
Each week on our show, of course, we choose a theme, bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme. Today's show, breakup, stories from inside the vortex of shockingly contradictory feelings that happen after a breakup. We've arrived at act two of our show, act two, but why? After a relationship ends, you can puzzle for years of why things went wrong and did they have to.
Each week on our show, of course, we choose a theme, bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme. Today's show, breakup, stories from inside the vortex of shockingly contradictory feelings that happen after a breakup. We've arrived at act two of our show, act two, but why? After a relationship ends, you can puzzle for years of why things went wrong and did they have to.
And you yearn for a simple story that explains it. And that's not just true for the people in the relationship. It's true for the kids. And now, with that thought, let's flip on the radio time machine.
And you yearn for a simple story that explains it. And that's not just true for the people in the relationship. It's true for the kids. And now, with that thought, let's flip on the radio time machine.
Reforming welfare in this half hour. This is Noah Adams.
Reforming welfare in this half hour. This is Noah Adams.
The welfare reform that they're talking about here is that of President George Herbert Walker Bush. The day that this aired, February 11th, 1987, I was one of the lower level producers at All Things Considered. But that day I got to work on this story about breakups that I still think about.
The welfare reform that they're talking about here is that of President George Herbert Walker Bush. The day that this aired, February 11th, 1987, I was one of the lower level producers at All Things Considered. But that day I got to work on this story about breakups that I still think about.
A story about somebody who is wanting to understand a breakup and reaching out to various people out in the world to do that. In a way, like Star Lee did. So, okay, all you need to know is it's 1987. Edward Koch is the mayor of New York City. Noah Adams is one of the hosts of All Things Considered at the time, and he does the interview.
A story about somebody who is wanting to understand a breakup and reaching out to various people out in the world to do that. In a way, like Star Lee did. So, okay, all you need to know is it's 1987. Edward Koch is the mayor of New York City. Noah Adams is one of the hosts of All Things Considered at the time, and he does the interview.
Betsy, tell me your full name, please.
Betsy, tell me your full name, please.
Betsy Allison Walter, and you're eight years old?
Betsy Allison Walter, and you're eight years old?
And you're in our studio in New York. I appreciate you taking some time to come in and telling us this story. You wrote a letter to the mayor of New York, Mayor Koch.
And you're in our studio in New York. I appreciate you taking some time to come in and telling us this story. You wrote a letter to the mayor of New York, Mayor Koch.