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"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
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