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Blank on Blank
by Quoted Studios
Blank on Blank turns lost audio interviews with cultural icons into a regular podcast and an animated series on YouTube with PBS Digital Studios. Created by Quoted Studios.
Episodes
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Innocence, Innovation and Future Shock
Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead, an author and an anthropologist who endeavored to understand the impact of scientific invention. In this episode of our series, The Experimenters, we hear from two visionaries who believed that while we’ve started a technological revolution, we don’t quite know...
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Peanuts, Atlantis, and Colorblindness
Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and George Washington Carver. Our podcast returns with lost interviews featuring this trio on self, sight, and deep-sea diving. The three icons had the imaginations and daring to go where none had gone before. They overcame indifference and bigotry, exploring the...
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Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials *
“The evolutionary record is clear that extraterrestrials would be very different from us” – Carl Sagan in 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The incomprehensible vastness of the universe, the wonder of our own place in it all… Carl Sagan was able to explain the science of space in a way everyone…
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Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code *
“I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last” – Dame Steve Shirley in 2010 Dame Stephanie Shirley might be the most successful tech entrepreneur you have never heard of. In the early 1960s, Shirley started a barrier-breaking, all-woman software company...
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Temple Grandin on Search Engines *
“Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function.” – Temple Grandin in 2008 This rarely heard oral history with the autism activist, author, and professor of animal science, was uncovered at Colorado State University. In this conversation, Temple Grandin is at her…
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Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance *
“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” – Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as told to Mike Wallace Architect Frank Lloyd Wright did something new when he made buildings that somehow became one with the landscape. Long, low lines, and interiors that brought the...
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Sally Ride on Dumb Questions *
“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” – Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, shortly after her historic launch in 1983. Interviewed by Gloria Steinem. At the time of this interview, as far as the public – and it turns out […]...
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Garrison Keillor on Humor *
“My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction.” – Garrison Keillor in 1994 In this new episode we have a conversation with a true storyteller, the humorist, Garrison Keillor. This interview was recorded in front a...
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Nina Simone on Shock *
“It’s a good time for black people to be alive. It’s a lot of hell. A lot of violence, but I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.” – Nina Simone in 1968, from a rare interview that’s never been heard before. […] Blank on Blank
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Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys *
“Nothing means anything — except the artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole, though no such holes exist.” – Kurt Vonnegut in 1970 Kurt Vonnegut walked into a class room at NYU in November 1970. He was a guest speaker that day. He’d prepared some handwritten…
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Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious *
“I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.” – Bill Murray in 1988 as told to T.J. English This previously unheard interview was recorded at Bill Murray’s house in New Jersey. T.J. was writing a profile for Irish America magazine. Bill’s dog was…
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Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt *
“I‘m a coward, I didn’t want to die” – Patty Hearst in 1982, as told to Larry Grobel. Larry Grobel told us the story about a time back in the early 80s when he borrowed a swimsuit at the Playboy mansion. It seems that back then, Hugh Hefner kept spare trunks at the ready whenever his guests […]...
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Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing *
“I don’t know what the ‘big time’ is” – Tom Waits in 1988 as told to Chris Roberts Imagine what would happen if you sat down on a couch next to Tom Waits? Here’s the tape. Watch the animated version of this episode from our series with PBS Digital Studios: blankonblank.org/tom-waits Blank on Blank
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Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws *
“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” – Hunter S. Thompson in 1967 with Studs Terkel. The interview was recorded shortly after the release of Thompson’s book, Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. He spent more than a year living, drinking and riding with the...
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Dustin Hoffman on Duplicity and Famosity *
“I carried a knife taped to my leg. I never used it but it was there.” – Dustin Hoffman in 1971. Listening to this interview tape from the Pacifica Radio Archives, we were drawn to this idea of the struggles that pop up between different generations and the internal questions one confronts as he…
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Ayn Rand on Love and Happiness
“I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.” Blank on Blank
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Joni Mitchell on Illusions
“I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.“ Blank on Blank
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John Coltrane on Giant Steps
“I want to be the force which is truly for good.” Blank on Blank
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Ray Bradbury on Madmen
“If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.” Blank on Blank
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Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty
“Mama just always said, 'you be what you are and you don’t have to worry about nothing.'” Blank on Blank
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Richard Feynman on What It Means
"The key was somehow to know what was important because I can’t learn everything." Blank on Blank
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Jane Goodall on Instinct
”When I was about 10, 11, I fell in love with Tarzan.“ Blank on Blank
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Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life
“I was sure things were just not being done in logical ways.” Blank on Blank
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Lou Reed on Guns and Ammo
“I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope” Blank on Blank
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B.B. King on The Blues
“I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.” Blank on Blank
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Elliott Smith on Freaks
“A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.” Blank on Blank
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Tom Robbins on Jitterbugs
”If I knew how it was going to end, I probably wouldn't write it.” Blank on Blank
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Robin Williams on Masks
“Comedy is there to show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.” Blank on Blank
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Wayne Coyne on Living with Death
“I‘m pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.” Blank on Blank
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Maya Angelou on Con Men
“The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing.” Blank on Blank
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Liberace on Peacocking
“Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff.” Blank on Blank
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Bette Davis on The Sexes
“I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.” Blank on Blank
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Michael Jackson on Godliness
“My singing… I’ll just say it simple as possible: It’s just godly.” Blank on Blank
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Meryl Streep on Beauty
“The thing that was relentless for me was how you look... It just drove me crazy.” Blank on Blank
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Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness
“Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live” Blank on Blank
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David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust
"If it’s wearing a pink hat and a red nose, and it plays a guitar upside down, I will go and look at it." Blank on Blank
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Gene Wilder on The Truth
“When you please your mother, it gives you confidence you can please other people” Blank on Blank
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John Lennon on Love
“It’s no good being with people you can dominate all the time” Blank on Blank
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Johnny Cash on The Gospel
“I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on” Blank on Blank
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Heath Ledger on Role Playing
“My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.” Blank on Blank
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Stan Getz on Wasted Years
“I’ve done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?” Blank on Blank
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Jimi Hendrix on The Experience
“When things get too heavy just call me helium--the lightest known gas to man.” Blank on Blank
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Barry White on Making Love
“When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.” Blank on Blank
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John Updike on Family Affairs
“There is the fear you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.” Blank on Blank
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Tupac Shakur on Life and Death
“I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play.” Blank on Blank
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Grace Kelly on JFK
“The President turned to me and asked: ‘Is that a Givenchy you‘re wearing?‘” Blank on Blank
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Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests
“When we fell in with the acid tests we a started having the most fun we had ever had.” Blank on Blank
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Kurt Cobain on Identity
“I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem.” Blank on Blank
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Ray Charles on Singing True
“If somebody don’t like something that I do, that’s his or her prerogative. Just like it’s mine.” Blank on Blank
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Janis Joplin on Rejection
“In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.” Blank on Blank
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Blank on Blank turns lost audio interviews with cultural icons into a regular podcast and an animated series on YouTube with PBS Digital Studios. Created by Quoted Studios.
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