The Global Pool of Money: Why Ira Glass is Sexy

Graceful Parenting — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:15:16 -0500

If you told me a few years ago that I would LOVE , LOVE, LOVE a one-hour long documentary radio show about banking, I would have said NO, NO WAY. There is NO WAY that I would listen to and enjoy and then spread the word about a one-hour long documentary radio show about banking...

But let me tell you, that was before This American Life hosted by Ira Glass and his show about the financial crisis called The Global Pool of Money. It fascinates me because he skips right past the knee-jerk conservative or liberal response, you know...

It's the fault of the evil, deceitful lenders preying on the innocent home buyers!

It's the fault of the irresponsible poor who got into houses they knew they couldn't afford!

The show says SURE, there were predatory lenders and SURE there were irresponsible home buyers, but the more interesting truth is more often somewhere in the middle.

The show talks with people who worked at each step in the process. It breaks down a series of events that seem logical, each on their own, but when you pull back and look at the big picture and how crazy it all got, you feel, with wonder and amazement, the uniqueness of the human condition which never stops being able to surprise itself.

That is why Ira Glass is sexy. Because he can see the world that way, with wonder and amazement and surprise. Well, that, and he is tall and handsome and funny, which I also find sexy. Check him out...

Photo courtesy of Tom Murphy VII.
I even love the glasses. VERY sexy.
Check out the show if you have some time. You can stream it for free or download it for 95 cents. Not bad for the world's sexiest one-hour long documentary radio show about banking.

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