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Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by justin66 » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 2:42 AM UTC

classicsnoot wrote: post #17

jacobolus wrote: post #12

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Terry Gross is the best regular interviewer in the US. She prepares well, is thoughtful and respectful, thinks on her feet, asks good follow-up questions, and focuses on getting the guest to talk.

I could not disagree more. She talks far too much. I think she lets her personality as a Personality get in the way. I know this is subjective, and I don't need you to agree with my opinion. I'm only responding because I listened to her for almost two decades and have never been able to tell anyone these thoughts except for an undeserving ex-gf and a hapless hitchhiker.

> I listened to her for almost two decades

Normally that would be part of an endorsement...

Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 2:48 AM UTC

18pfsmt wrote: post #26

batbomb wrote: post #5

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The Howard Stern interview is great too.

As a 25+ year NPR junkie, I can say Gross brought on the trend of hosts thanking their guests "so much" for being there. This started somewhere around 2011. I used to believe Gross was the best interviewer until I heard some Stern interviews from 2014. While Stern talks a lot more, he is able to elicit more genuine responses from the guests and his interviews are real-time, not edited. Fresh Air suffers from having t…

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Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by JohnBooty » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 2:50 AM UTC

smacktoward wrote: post #13

One that may be of particular interest to HN readers: here's Gross interviewing Steve Jobs in 1996, right before his return to Apple and the long, remarkable run of successes that would come from that, on "the future of computer technology": https://freshairarchive.org/segments/steve-jobs-future-web EDIT: And a few more blast-from-the-past interviews, for good measure... - Bill Joy, in 1989: https://freshairarchive.o…

Oh my goodness, thank you. I simply had no idea that she'd interviewed any of these folks!

Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by justin66 » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 2:55 AM UTC

18pfsmt wrote: post #26

batbomb wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Howard Stern interview is great too.

As a 25+ year NPR junkie, I can say Gross brought on the trend of hosts thanking their guests "so much" for being there. This started somewhere around 2011. I used to believe Gross was the best interviewer until I heard some Stern interviews from 2014. While Stern talks a lot more, he is able to elicit more genuine responses from the guests and his interviews are real-time, not edited. Fresh Air suffers from having t…

I believe the parent was referring to Gross's recent two part interview with Stern. It's actually reveletory to hear them discuss interview technique (for example, interviewees are physically present with Stern and are not with Gross) although it's not a major part of the interview.

One observation: Stern was not always as effective an interviewer as he has been in recent years.

Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by kja1123 » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 3:00 AM UTC

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Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by 18pfsmt » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 3:43 AM UTC

claudeganon wrote: post #27

18pfsmt wrote: post #25

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Rogan is not "right-wing," and people saying that have not listened to his views thoroughly. He is open-minded (sometimes to a flawed degree), and had Jones on and it was the funniest thing I've heard. Jones is a lunatic, and Rogan exposed that. The pseudo-architectural anthropologist was also pretty funny.

I’ve listened to many hours of his show, his interviews with far right types like Gavin McInnes and Stephen Molyneux. I had to in order to talk a friend down from some really dark thinking he was encouraged toward through Rogan’s show. But I’m sure that when I heard him denigrating Muslims or talking about how trans women are actually just confused gay men, I just needed to listen more “thoroughly.”

That's fine. HN has been inundated with far left ideas. I'll buy you a beer in Denver anytime if you want to understand the reality of America. Please carry on talking about "trans" issues that are relevant to less than 1% of the population.

Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by claudeganon » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 3:54 AM UTC

18pfsmt wrote: post #36

claudeganon wrote: post #27

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I’ve listened to many hours of his show, his interviews with far right types like Gavin McInnes and Stephen Molyneux. I had to in order to talk a friend down from some really dark thinking he was encouraged toward through Rogan’s show. But I’m sure that when I heard him denigrating Muslims or talking about how trans women are actually just confused gay men, I just needed to listen more “thoroughly.”

That's fine. HN has been inundated with far left ideas. I'll buy you a beer in Denver anytime if you want to understand the reality of America. Please carry on talking about "trans" issues that are relevant to less than 1% of the population.

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Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by killjoywashere » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 5:17 AM UTC

A small smattering of people to search for that hackers might not think as much about:

Present:

* Richard C. Holbrooke

* Zbigniew Brzezinski

* Madeleine Albright

* Lord David Owen

* Larry Page & Sergey Brin

* Norman Schwarzkopf

Absent:

* Sandy Berger

* Tony Lake

* Henry Kissinger

* Cyrus Vance

* Anthony Zinni

Some other things to search for:

* Booker Prize

* Nobel Prize

* MacArthur Fellows

And I'll stop here for fear of wandering off and forgetting to add the comment.

Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by remarkEon » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 5:44 AM UTC

colordrops wrote: post #15

batbomb wrote: post #5

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The Howard Stern interview is great too.

Joe Rogan, while not the best interviewer, is getting better. When he prepares, he can ask good questions and gets the guest to come out of their shell. He's one of the only places to go for good long form interviews.

His interview with Russel Brand is hilarious and deeply insightful, which was really surprising. I don't listen that often but will put it on when someone like that is on. Bound to be some entertaining banter.

Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

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Post by decasteve » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 4:24 PM UTC

smacktoward wrote: post #13

One that may be of particular interest to HN readers: here's Gross interviewing Steve Jobs in 1996, right before his return to Apple and the long, remarkable run of successes that would come from that, on "the future of computer technology": https://freshairarchive.org/segments/steve-jobs-future-web EDIT: And a few more blast-from-the-past interviews, for good measure... - Bill Joy, in 1989: https://freshairarchive.o…

- Buckminster Fuller, 1981: https://freshairarchive.org/segments/bucky-fuller-humanitys-...