Terry Gross
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Nov 5, 2026
Terry GrossHOST
This is Fresh Air.
Terry GrossHOST
I'm Terry Gross.
Terry GrossHOST
Our guest today is internationally acclaimed novelist Min Jin Lee, who's best known for the novel Pachinko.
Terry GrossHOST
She spends a decade researching and writing each of her books.
20 MINS LATER
Terry GrossHOST
We're listening to the conversation guest interviewer Aarti Shahani recorded with best-selling novelist Min Jin Lee about her new novel, American Hogwan.
Terry GrossHOST
We'll hear more of their interview after a break.
Terry GrossHOST
I'm Terry Gross, and this is Fresh Air.
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Billy CorganGUEST
For me, this is everything.
Leah RoseHOST
Do you think as an interviewer, I've heard Terry Gross talk about this, that in every interview she does, she's motivated by learning something new about herself.
Leah RoseHOST
Do you find that through these conversations you're trying to learn about yourself or are you truly trying to learn about that specific person, the person in front of you's inner life and their, you know, their creative process?
Billy CorganGUEST
One of my great weaknesses is I like to be right.
Connor RatliffGUEST
The regrettable part of it is, is that I did an hour long, like one of the best interviews that you're ever going to find.
Connor RatliffGUEST
The full Terry Gross interrogation of Tony Hale.
Connor RatliffGUEST
And none of that made the cut.
Connor RatliffGUEST
It's just the parts of me making myself sick.
Jed PropsHOST
All right, Zoe?
Zoe PropsHOST
in my head I'm Terry Gross and I'm like awesome at it but I'm also a little manic depressive so on the other side I'm not you're a second guesser and I don't believe in myself so we'll just say middle of the road kind of good probably better at being interviewed because I'm good at lying nice there you
Joe AdyHOST
go Good quality to
Chris AdyHOST
be a
Lotus of DoomHOST
You have to eliminate NPR.
Vinny OHOST
Terry Gross, watch your back.
Vinny OHOST
That's an NPR joke, a terrible
Lotus of DoomHOST
one.
Terry GrossHOST
This is Fresh Air.
Terry GrossHOST
I'm Terry Gross.
Terry GrossHOST
Our guest today, Jordan Firstman, is an actor, writer, and director who became known for his comedy on Instagram during the pandemic.
Terry GrossHOST
His feature film debut, Club Kid, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and will be in theaters this Friday.
Jordan FirstmanGUEST
Listening to your intro, it's a bit surreal to be here.
Jordan FirstmanGUEST
I'm like, we were a fresh air family.
Jordan FirstmanGUEST
And, you know, we'd be in the car listening to Terry Gross and I'd be like, Mom, put on something else.
Jordan FirstmanGUEST
It's so boring.
Heather BlackbirdGUEST
He also had a great interview with him on Fresh Air.
Cameron DeWhittHOST
With Terry Gross? But it's the
Heather BlackbirdGUEST
guy, Sam Ritter.
Cameron DeWhittHOST
Oh, it's not, okay.
Guy KawasakiHOST
That's funny.
Guy KawasakiHOST
I want to leave Shankar and Terry Gross in the dust, all right?
Sonja LyubomirskyGUEST
Hilarious.
Sonja LyubomirskyGUEST
No, but I was talking about friends and former romantic partners who are like the best listeners I've ever had, that kind of thing.
MeganHOST
And according to Hef, he had very little sexual experience before that relationship.
MeganHOST
In a 2003 interview with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, Hef explained that Millie was the first woman he'd ever had sex with.
MeganHOST
He wasn't the sophisticated playboy who would eventually boast about having relationships with countless women.
MeganHOST
He was a young man in love with the woman he intended to marry.
MeganHOST
But the young Hef seems to have been in a very different emotional position.
MeganHOST
He was in love with someone who had hurt him, and he couldn't imagine letting her go.
MeganHOST
In his interview with Terry Gross, he explained that ending the relationship simply hadn't seemed like an option.
MeganHOST
He still loved Millie.
Mario GabrieleHOST
You know, I've been spending time thinking, how do the best people ask questions, you know, and studying different interviewers.
Mario GabrieleHOST
One of the people I was looking at was Terry Gross from Fresh Air.
Mario GabrieleHOST
You know, she does these very warm but also very interesting interviews.
Mario GabrieleHOST
And your first question of tell us the story of your life is almost exactly the question that she often starts with or recommends as an icebreaker.
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