Joshua Johnson

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384 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 12 Sep

Joshua Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Never quite clicked for him, even after I became a storyteller.

He knew I was a journalist, very proud of my work, but couldn't quite get like, no, I don't need what you can provide for me.

I need

And when he passed, I was supposed to, like, write his obit.

Still haven't.

Yeah.

Because I don't know what to write.

an interviewer for a living, so I've had way too many.

I think the biggest collection of transformational conversations I ever had was when I was a national host on NPR.

I got to interview Eric Holder, the former U.S.

Attorney General under Barack Obama.

And I was really excited to interview him because it was one of the first people of his echelon that I had ever talked to.

I was really excited.

Then after a while, I could kind of hear my goofy family in the background.

Because we're not highfalutin.

We're not fancy people.

Very together, but not like we don't put on airs and attitudes.

And something about it felt weird, especially because I wasn't thinking anything about the guest after him.

It was nobody famous.

And so I decided to like, okay, I'm just going to talk to him like he's any other guest.

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