This American Life + Johnny Depp = I need to lie down

The LA Times caught Ira Glass on the West Coast leg of what must be a campus tour. Luckily this anecdote didn't come up when I saw him speak last week at UNC because I might have passed out.

"The episode eschews what Glass calls "the typical crip story" by addressing Phillips, 27, as a full human, struggling to maintain a measure of independence and to carry on a romance with his able-bodied girlfriend.

Phillips fantasizes that Johnny Depp could fill in his computer-animated voice. In a happy pivot point in the story, we learn that "This American Life" has gotten the actor to do just that. He reads Phillips' words through much of the piece."

LATimes: Ira Glass, Storyteller