Hi Jesse! I wanted to say how thankful I am to you for putting this together. I literally just finished the final episode (John Hodgman's 'listener-supported' just rang through my headphones) and it's been a joy to hear you talk to such a wealth of tremendously interesting people. As an occasional MaximumFun listener I was lured in by the Ira Glass interview, which got me hooked immediately and I listened obsessively to the rest.
I don't know why it's so great hearing great interviewers being interviewed—maybe they've just interviewed so many interesting people that it's rubbed off on them—but I feel like I've learned something sort of intangible even about the dynamics of normal conversation. Do you feel that interviewers are better conversationalists than many others?
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Hi Jesse! I wanted to say how thankful I am to you for putting this together. I literally just finished the final episode (John Hodgman's 'listener-supported' just rang through my headphones) and it's been a joy to hear you talk to such a wealth of tremendously interesting people. As an occasional MaximumFun listener I was lured in by the Ira Glass interview, which got me hooked immediately and I listened obsessively to the rest.
I don't know why it's so great hearing great interviewers being interviewed—maybe they've just interviewed so many interesting people that it's rubbed off on them—but I feel like I've learned something sort of intangible even about the dynamics of normal conversation. Do you feel that interviewers are better conversationalists than many others?
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