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Excerpts from McSweeney’s Quarterly: Damn You, Ira Glass and Your Perfect Male Vocal Fry - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

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Young reader in your life? Subscribe to Illustoria magazine today. Recognized by The New York Times as a best gift for kids! This piece originally appeared in McSweeney’s 55, as a letter to the editor. Get 15% off with the promo code issue55. Dear McSweeney’s, Please for the love of God and/or Terry Gross, can we all agree to just stop making podcasts? Ira Glass, this is mainly your fault. Damn you and your perfect male vocal fry. Well, it’s your fault, yes, but also the fault of the big money and/or venture capitalists that turned you from a Chicago wonk into a Chelsea “creative,” like actually, with the divorce and the condo board disputes and all. Podcasts, we all know, are in. Your dead grandma (read: my dead grandma) listened to the radio. Now, we’re all streaming “on demand audio content” straight to our Apple or Android (lol) device. Yes, for my own hipster cred, I used to listen to This American Life (TAL for those in the know) back when it was on the radio. When I’m on a road

May 6, 2019 McSweeney’s Quarterly Damn You, Ira Glass and Your Perfect Male Vocal Fry by Joseph Osmundson This piece originally appeared in McSweeney’s 55 , as a letter to the editor. Get 15% off with the promo code issue55 . - - - Dear McSweeney’s, Please for the love of God and/or Terry Gross, can we all agree to just stop making podcasts? Ira Glass, this is mainly your fault. Damn you and your perfect male vocal fry. Well, it’s your fault, yes, but also the fault of the big money and/or venture capitalists that turned you from a Chicago wonk into a Chelsea “creative,” like actually, w

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