I don't recommend this over the version that's been on YouTube for a long time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U

I don't recommend this over the version that's been on YouTube for a long time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY The kinetic typography gives me a headache, possibly because nobody should be forced to read text that is jiggling around at Ira Glass's speaking speed. It is also redundant, obviously. Ira Glass is one of the world's most famous narrators; we can understand him just fine. It's also necessarily abridged, and while I agree that they captured some of the best sentences in the clip, there's more to a work of art than just its topic sentence. (Woody Allen: "I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.") In this case, it's a shame to leave out the part where Glass pulls out a tape of his younger self to show how awful his work used to be.