I finally looked at pictures from the event I did two weeks ago with Neil Patrick Harris. So good! It was a live streaming event for listeners who donated to public radio stations and for readers of Neil’s @wondercade newsletter, which is a very happily amused free weekly romp thru things @NPH loves. I recommend it! (/) Thanks to @midnight.theatre.nyc for hosting us. And to our sponsor @theglenrothes for donating $10,000 to a public radio station Neil picked that night (congrats @TroyPublicRadio in Alabama!). Photos by Ibuki Tsubo.
This guy was on my Southwest flight to Oakland on Saturday, confusing little kids on the plane and basically anywhere he went in the airport. Why would Santa be flying in a plane??? How does that make sense? Show some respect for the uniform, sir.
Me and my mentor Keith Talbot, who I talk about in this week's show, in NPR's old studios, around 1980. I really would never have ended up making radio like I've made without Keith. He taught me so much, down to how to put music in a story. But the big conceptual things too. @thisamerlife
Pix from this week’s show: the first device ever used by humans to record and play back sound (note that it was built on a piece of scrap metal with holes from some other project) … and Edison’s studio for recording music - one of the three first recording studios in the world. #thisamericanlife
1986. NPR staffers Rich Harris, me, Robert Siegel and Neal Conan, who just died. I adored Neal. What a great boss and teacher-by-example. The fact that he treated me like a peer always felt like the greatest compliment imaginable. Apparently that’s how I dressed back then.
