Stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being here tonight. cheers and applause welcome to the report, good to see you. Folks, i got to tell you, its not just the energy in this room. I feel it too. You know, i love going i love going on vacation. It is great to be back after two weeks. I spent the fourth of july holiday celebrating a steamy anniversary with my lover, america. laughter i got him the same present as every year, scrap meat and explosives. But sadly it wasnt all party time. You see, before vacation i was swept up in world cup fever riding high riding high on team usas thrilling series of winning, tying and losing. laughter but then we faced our h he eternal enemy, belgium. Or as i call it europe rhode island. laughter and those wafflesucking sort of frenchies. Crushed us like we were then in every world war. laughter and with america out of the picture it all came down to a death
Life or radiolab or whatever, that is part of their selfdefinition, it now feels in the culture, generally, i think, like this is the big leagues, because what used to be the big leagues have shrunken a lot. So now were kind of on not only in audience terms at an equivalent place, but public radio and everybody in it, sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail, but they are all trying to make stuff that they think is great and they think their audience will think is great without any other imperatives getting in the way. A lot of listeners to the American Life have told me, like, theres a wave of shows that when they heard them for the first time they didnt realize radio could do the things that we do. You know, like, im told often, like, by people the first time they heard this American Life, like, they didnt think a radio story could be good, could have characters and emotion and you stick around because you want to find out you get caught up in it you know, that you would get caugh
Life or radiolab or whatever, that is part of their selfdefinition, it now feels in the culture, generally, i think, like this is the big leagues, because what used to be the big leagues have shrunken a lot. So now were kind of on not only in audience terms at an equivalent place, but public radio and everybody in it, sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail, but they are all trying to make stuff that they think is great and they think their audience will think is great without any other imperatives getting in the way. A lot of listeners to the American Life have told me, like, theres a wave of shows that when they heard them for the first time they didnt realize radio could do the things that we do. You know, like, im told often, like, by people the first time they heard this American Life, like, they didnt think a radio story could be good, could have characters and emotion and you stick around because you want to find out you get caught up in it you know, that you would get caugh
cheers and applause cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report. Good to have you with us. Stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being here tonight. cheers and applause welcome to the report, good to see you. Folks, i got to tell you, its not just the energy in this room. I feel it too. You know, i love going i love going on vacation. It is great to be back after two weeks. I spent the fourth of july holiday celebrating a steamy anniversary with my lover, america. laughter i got him the same present as every year, scrap meat and explosives. But sadly it wasnt all party time. You see, before vacation i was swept up in world cup fever riding high riding high on team usas thrilling series of winning, tying and losing. laughter but then we faced our h he eternal enemy, belgium. Or as i call it europe rhode island. laughter and those wafflesucking sort of frenchies. Crushed us like we were t
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