Hey, this is Katia on the media's executive producer with something for the OTPTISTS out there.

Jesse Thorne, host of Bullseye, has just launched a new podcast called The Turnaround.

It's a series of long-form interviews with interviewers about interviewing,

with people ranging from Ira Glass to Larry King to

Mark Marron, and this week with Brooke. Jesse really wanted to get into how on the media is made

and why it sounds the way it does. Here's what Brooke told him. Your show has always been

so tightly edited.

I mean, like, it's like the worst you could say about it probably would be that it would be too tightly edited sometimes.

Oh, yeah.

In fact, when asked about the program during some survey or other, one word that came up frequently was dense.

And I think dense, in this case, meant really concentrated to the point where if you cough or something,

you might miss something. And that's not really conducive necessarily to the best listening experience.

I mean, if you can't breathe or burp, then maybe you need to put a little air into the show, right?

We've been trying to do that.

Our interviews have gotten longer, I won't say languorous.

They're still full of ideas and they're still pretty dense, but we give things more time to play out.

One of the things about doing radio specifically as a medium is that it is both typically a secondary activity for people, which is to say that they're listening when they're driving

or doing the dishes, and also completely linear,

and there's only one input.

So if you space out listening while you're watching,

first of all, when you're watching the television,

it's probably the main thing you're doing. But also, if you space out listening while you're watching. First of all, when you're watching the television, it's probably the main thing you're doing. But also, if you space out listening while you're watching the television,

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