The Other Man
4/5/20261 hr 3 min
What happens when a new guy comes on the scene and changes the way everyone relates to each other?
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Prologue: Ira talks with Sarah Koenig about the first and only time a movie star came to her family's house when she was a kid. It didn't go well, for the celebrity or for her. The star was Robert Redford. He arrived and immediately stole all the attention her parents usually lavished on her, their youngest. Worse, they were nervous and strange around him, not themselves a...
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Okay, we're in.
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Digging for an old recording in a storage space with 70 boxes of old tapes.
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[laughs] Oh my God.
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And as luck would have it- I can't believe it.
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This is the one, two, three. This is the fourth box I'm opening, and literally right here. [box rustling] I think this is exactly what I was looking for.
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Ira Glass· Host1:05
Okay, I really am stunned.
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That link is also in the show notes of this episode. Thanks.
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First floor.
Ira Glass· Host1:13
[elevator dings] When Sarah was a kid, the number of movie stars who came to stay at their house was exactly one, and it was kind of a disaster. Robert Redford ended up at their house because he had heard about a book that Sarah's stepfather was writing about Leonard