Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 17 segments
Sayre Quevedo’s invented a way to do a podcast that feels completely new. He’s been recording nearly all his conversations for years, and the result is something that captures a person’s life in a raw…
Connor QuevedoGuest
Ira GlassHostSayre's ConfidantGuestSayre's AuntGuestSayre's MotherGuestOn February fifteenth, twenty twenty, Connor calls you to ask if you want to look for your birth father.
[gentle music] You do not record this conversation.
This is notable if only because so much of your life has been recorded.
Moments far less consequential than this.
You're on Connor's fourth birthday.
Hand me a rubber nose.
Can you guys say that?
Then hand me a rubber nose.
A school performance.
You play a scared rabbit.
Your only line-
Don't worry.
We'll just go back through the canyon.
A house party when you were sixteen when you first began to record yourself.
There are a few people, and I, um, talk to them about whatever I want to talk about.
And since it's about, like, me, and it's about things I do, like, I figure I should record this.
[gentle music] There is a price for what we choose to remember and what we choose to forget.
If you had known how this would all turn out, maybe you would have recorded everything.
Or if you'd known the cost, maybe you would not have recorded anything at all.
On February fifteenth, twenty twenty, your brother calls you to ask if you want to look for your birth father, but there is no record of that call.
There is, however, a recording of the call you make a few days later.
[phone ringing]
On February fifteenth, twenty twenty, Connor calls you to ask if you want to look for your birth father.
[gentle music] You do not record this conversation.
This is notable if only because so much of your life has been recorded.
Moments far less consequential than this.
You're on Connor's fourth birthday.
Hand me a rubber nose.
Can you guys say that?
Then hand me a rubber nose.
A school performance.
You play a scared rabbit.
Your only line-
Don't worry.
We'll just go back through the canyon.
A house party when you were sixteen when you first began to record yourself.
There are a few people, and I, um, talk to them about whatever I want to talk about.
And since it's about, like, me, and it's about things I do, like, I figure I should record this.
[gentle music] There is a price for what we choose to remember and what we choose to forget.
If you had known how this would all turn out, maybe you would have recorded everything.
Or if you'd known the cost, maybe you would not have recorded anything at all.
On February fifteenth, twenty twenty, your brother calls you to ask if you want to look for your birth father, but there is no record of that call.
There is, however, a recording of the call you make a few days later.
[phone ringing]
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