Episode Transcript: #1421 - Jim Norton

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Hi, Jimmy Norton. Hi, buddy. I do a 420 show. No headphones? You want to do headphones or

no headphones? Casual? No, I don't mind. You do that weird thing with one in and out.

I have to. I'm claustrophobic. Really? Yeah, it feels weird. You feel like the headphones are

trapping you? I don't know. I feel like I'm under water. Like, I don't like the way that

sounds. And now I know that's better. I look like an asshole, but it feels better. A lot of

people do that. Yeah. A lot of musicians do that. They do like one in, one out. It's the air. It's

feeling the air. I don't know why the pressure of the headphones. I just don't like it. I like to

be trapped. You do? Trapped in the headphones. I don't care for it at all. I like hearing the

other person's voice right next to mine so I don't talk louder than they talk. We don't talk

over each other. That's what it does. That's professional, but I can't like, how would I

heard would do it? They wouldn't even look at each other. Like, I have to be in the room

looking at the person's mouth. Like, I don't like to do it. You wouldn't look at each other. No,

meaning the way they were set up for the cameras. Sometimes you're facing both kind of the same

way because of the cameras. They weren't always, I don't think face to face. If you looked at

this old setup, wasn't like already sitting behind him at one point? Yeah, already was sitting to

the side of him. And then the guest was like over there. Yeah. Yeah, I could never do that.

Well, you know, Howard also runs a board. That's a difference. Like, he's got a bunch of shit in

front of him. He's actually a trained radio guy. He knows all the Jamie shit. He knows all