Call Your Parents
3/22/20261 hr
In the early days of the radio show, Ira did a series of interviews with his parents that completely changed his relationship with them. This week, he returns to those interviews.
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Prologue: Ira talks about why four conversations reveal how his relationship with his parents changed. (4 minutes)Act One: Ira’s mom, Shirley, is invited to lead a discussion about how to get along with your adult children. Her adult children question her expertise. (9 minutes)Act Two: Ira asks his parents for advice on how he s...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:01
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Ira Glass· Host0:35
Okay, we're in.
Speaker 00:36
Digging for an old recording in a storage space with 70 boxes of old tapes.
Ira Glass· Host0:41
[chuckles] Oh my God.
Speaker 00:43
And as luck would have it- I can't believe it.
Ira Glass· Host0:45
This is the one, two, three... This is the fourth box I'm opening, and literally right here, [boxes rustling] I think this is exactly what I was looking for.
Speaker 00:54
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Ira Glass· Host1:04
Okay, I really am stunned.
Speaker 01:06
That link is also in the show notes of this episode. Thanks.
Barry Glass· Soundbite1:10
First floor.
Ira Glass· Host1:12
WBEZ Chicago, This American Life, I'm Ira Glass. So when I was 36 years old, the year I started This American Life, my relationship with my parents was not the greatest. I'd been working at NPR since I was 19,