I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be working for NPR. I didn't need anything to be cool. I just wanted something to do that would be interesting. It was fun. I didn't think of it as anything else but fun. Ira Glass coolfuninterest share on social
I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal. Ira Glass animalballoonbig share on social
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime. Ira Glass meetpeopleshow Change image and share on social
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern. Ira Glass browndislikefellow Change image and share on social
My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school. Ira Glass 70sbaltimoreboy Change image and share on social
The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast? Ira Glass billcomputefast share on social
Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me. Ira Glass cooldistancefeel Change image and share on social
I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air. Ira Glass airheadquartershear Change image and share on social
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium. Ira Glass behalfeventfeel Change image and share on social
