Faith Salie has the most endearing voice on radio. Click below and listen to her on Fair Game, a new show aimed at a younger audience, and you’ll want to propose.
It’s not a voice or, for that matter, a personality we hear on public radio news shows, where the tones are stentorian and authoritative (hear: Nina Totenberg). Salie is relaxed and funny — though, as her radio bio emphasizes, she’s not dumbing down NPR stations; she’s a Rhodes scholar and Harvard graduate. I’ve been listening to her on my iPod, fascinated by the show’s attempt to liven up public radio (especially after visiting NPR last week). So I was delighted when a call came to appear on Fair Game and doubly delighted that it was to talk about my new endeavor, PrezVid.
Before I got on, they were talking about the Jesus bones, not afraid of rattling the cultural safety latch, doing a shtick about a Jesus Jurassic park with cloned Messiahs and speculating with a theology professor about how hard it will be to get Jesus DNA (Salie guesses that a communion wafer probably won’t do the trick).
It was daring without acting daring and what I liked best was that the intelligence comes out in the wit.
I wanted to video the interview but with Salie as a TV personality, that caused complications. So here’s just a snippet from the control room below. And here’s the interview.
Faith does indeed have a voice that could melt testosterone. Thanks for sharing the interview.
For one, I’m excited about this campaign moving beyond the pretence of offering up perfection. Now that we’re living in a post-YouTube world, we’re forced to confront the fact that we’re dealing with real people. How cool is that?
http://rwrld.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-blogs-and-youtube-will-transform.html
I absolutely love this show. I think its a perfectly simple direction for new pilots to be going. One qualm: her giggles, they’re too much and too often. I think with time she’ll get over the nervous laugh and produce some more genuine moments (ala, Ira Glass’ growth as a host.)
Nice work. It’s great to see you rolling things out left and right : )
It was daring without acting daring and what I liked best was that the intelligence comes out in the wit.
No, real daring would have been to make the same jokes about Mohammed.
Great insight and you’re absolutely right Faith Salie does have an endearing voice.
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