Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world
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Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world
#2Can anyone find a good way to browse? Closest thing I could find to an index is a alphabetical list of guests - but the formatting is made for mobile or something and you have to keep clicking 'load more' every couple of names.
https://freshairarchive.org/search/guests
In creating avenues for discovery ('collections' and 'topics') the simplest one seems to have been ignored - just listing all the segments with relevant metadata. Hopefully I'm just missing something obvious.
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#3I look forward to checking this out. Gross is a very skilled interviewer, and this looks like a filter for the better stuff. Off the top of my head, the relatively recent interviews with Philip Glass and Tara Westover are fantastic.
There are also some interviews that did not go so well. The tension when Gene Simmons came on the show (https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gene-simmons) was brutal but I've heard her say before that it's been the most listened-to online episode since it originally aired in 2002.
Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world
#4I look forward to checking this out. Gross is a very skilled interviewer, and this looks like a filter for the better stuff. Off the top of my head, the relatively recent interviews with Philip Glass and Tara Westover are fantastic. There are also some interviews that did not go so well. The tension when Gene Simmons came on the show ( https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gene-simmons ) was brutal but I've heard her…
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Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world
#5I look forward to checking this out. Gross is a very skilled interviewer, and this looks like a filter for the better stuff. Off the top of my head, the relatively recent interviews with Philip Glass and Tara Westover are fantastic. There are also some interviews that did not go so well. The tension when Gene Simmons came on the show ( https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gene-simmons ) was brutal but I've heard her…
The Howard Stern interview is great too.
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#6I don't get the Gross love. She's so very wordy. Likes to use 40 words to ask a 5 word question.
Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world
#7Can anyone find a good way to browse? Closest thing I could find to an index is a alphabetical list of guests - but the formatting is made for mobile or something and you have to keep clicking 'load more' every couple of names. https://freshairarchive.org/search/guests In creating avenues for discovery ('collections' and 'topics') the simplest one seems to have been ignored - just listing all the segments with releva…
I really wish podcasts, radio shows, &c would include archive- or collection-based torrents for those of us who want to mass-download episodes to local for offline on-demand.
RSS is wonderful for upkeep but having to perform a manual click-and-save across hundreds or thousands of episodes is a questionable use of time and it's not always easy to web-scrape the .mp3 files via a script.
Maybe I should just go get a smartphone with a monthly data plan just for podcasts, but I really shouldn't have to.
Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world
#8I don't get the Gross love. She's so very wordy. Likes to use 40 words to ask a 5 word question.
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Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world
#9I look forward to checking this out. Gross is a very skilled interviewer, and this looks like a filter for the better stuff. Off the top of my head, the relatively recent interviews with Philip Glass and Tara Westover are fantastic. There are also some interviews that did not go so well. The tension when Gene Simmons came on the show ( https://freshairarchive.org/segments/gene-simmons ) was brutal but I've heard her…
Sensationalism creates attention.
There was a sour Interview on the old show 'Q' with Billy Bob Thorton that ended worse. But brought a lot of attention to the show and the host. Been instructed to only talk about Music/The Band and not to bring up Acting etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWS6qyy7bw
Re: Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world
#10I don't get the Gross love. She's so very wordy. Likes to use 40 words to ask a 5 word question.
Her wordy elixir elicits excellent responses.