This interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity. I feel like the thing with WireTap was it was just sort of a space to be a little lower key, to bring it down a bit if you were in that kind of mood. It's like finding that environment where you fit in or people are on the same page as you or you share a sense of humour, and also it's just sort of a taste thing. Now people do the shows where they just want to hang out with the people and share that space with them. I also came out of that school of radio of This American Life where radio was meant to sound conversational. It was meant to sound like you were eavesdropping on private phone calls to have a little bit of that transgressive feeling, that intimate feeling. It seems to me that's where podcasts want to be right now. And now, people are "appointment listening." That's the norm, where people are setting aside time to listen to something.īut compared to all the other "broadcast"-type programming on the CBC, WireTap felt so niche and small and intimate and inside your head. You knew that you had to be introducing some new something every 40 seconds to keep people listening. Goldstein has worked on radio programs and podcasts such as Heavyweight, This American Life, and WireTap. When there weren't really podcasts 11 years ago or so, you were fighting for people's attention. Jonathan Goldstein (born August 22, 1969) is an American-Canadian author, humorist and radio producer. What have you noticed about how radio and podcasts changed over the years?
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You were a producer and contributor for This American Life. But I don't think that's going to be the name. My wife came up with the name, Jonathan Goldstein, Medicine Woman. Ostensibly I'm helping people, it's like therapy in the real world, but, you know, help them and make things probably worse for them. It's going to take me outside the studio and into the real world. Whereas WireTap was half-fiction, half-non-fiction, this is going to be firmly in the area of non-fiction. What have you been doing since WireTap ended? And I think I can only take it from people who actually like me and care about me. Wiretap From CBC Radio How The Grinch Stole Christmas With Jonathan Goldstein Audio Preview. What's come out of it is all the laughter on my end. Seusss How the Grinch Stole Christmas accompanied by a trio of jazz musicians and a chorus of 200 kids. I'm living out everybody's vicarious masochistic fantasies.
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How did it feel to be on the butt-end of WireTap's humour most of the time, which you, presumably, created?
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Goldstein joined host Stephen Quinn for a conversation on On The Coast. That show, which ran for 11 years and went off the air last summer, was a conversation - mostly on the phone - between Jonathan and a cast of characters - mostly his friends and family.Īnd if you've been missing Goldstein's humour and storytelling, you can get a dose Thursday night when he takes the stage at the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre in Vancouver as part of the Chutzpah Festival for An Evening with Jonathan Goldstein. Jonathan Goldstein is a writer, broadcaster and humourist, probably best known to CBC Radio listeners for his show WireTap.