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- Season 1 Bono on His Dad's Final Days
- Season 1 Surfer Kelly Slater on Problems in his Perfect Life
- Season 1 Muhammad Ali On Going To Mars
- Season 1 Dave Brubeck on Fighting Communism with Jazz
- Season 1 Larry King on Getting Seduced
- Season 1 Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful
- Season 1 David Foster Wallace on Ambition
- Season 1 Beastie Boys on Being Stupid
- Season 1 Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales
- Season 1 James Brown on Conviction, Respect & Reagan
- Season 1 Maurice Sendak on Being a Kid
- Season 1 Louis Armstrong on His Chops
- Season 1 Farrah Fawcett on Stiletto Power
- Season 1 Fidel Castro: The Lost Interview
- Season 1 Janis Joplin on Rejection
- Season 1 Ray Charles on Singing True
- Season 1 Kurt Cobain on Identity
- Season 1 Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests
- Season 1 Grace Kelly on JFK
- Season 1 Tupac Shakur on Life and Death
- Season 1 John Updike on Family Affairs
- Season 1 Barry White on Making Love
- Season 1 Carol Burnett on Finding Home
- Season 1 Stan Getz on Wasted Years
- Season 1 Heath Ledger on Role Playing
- Season 1 Johnny Cash on The Gospel
- Season 1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love
- Season 1 Gene Wilder on The Truth
- Season 1 David Bowie on Stardust
- Season 1 Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness
- Season 1 Meryl Streep on Beauty
- Season 1 Jimi Hendrix on The Experience
- Season 1 Michael Jackson on Godliness
- Season 1 Bette Davis on The Sexes
- Season 1 Liberace on Peacocking
- Season 1 Maya Angelou on Con Men
- Season 1 Wayne Coyne on Living With Death
- Season 1 Robin Williams on Masks
- Season 1 Tom Robbins on Jitterbugs
- Season 1 Elliott Smith on Freaks
- Season 1 B.B. King on The Blues
- Season 1 Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo
- Season 1 Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty
- Season 1 Ray Bradbury on Madmen
- Season 1 John Coltrane on Giant Steps
- Season 1 Joni Mitchell on Illusions
- Season 1 Ayn Rand on Love and Happiness
- Season 1 Roger Ebert on Ego
- Season 1 Dustin Hoffman in 1971 on Duplicity and Famosity
- Season 1 Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws
- Season 1 Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing
- Season 1 Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt
- Season 1 Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious
- Season 1 Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys
- Season 1 Nina Simone on Shock
- Season 1 Garrison Keillor on Humor
- Season 1 Sally Ride on Dumb Questions
- Season 1 Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance
- Season 1 Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine
- Season 1 Jane Goodall on Instinct
- Season 1 Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code
- Season 1 Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life
- Season 1 Richard Feynman on What It Means
- Season 1 Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials
- Season 1 Martin Scorsese on Framing
- Season 1 Patti Smith in 1976 on Getting Bleeped
- Season 1 Cher on Kitsch
- Season 1 Rod Serling on Kamikazes
- Season 1 Frank Zappa on Fads
- Season 1 Bob Dylan at 20 on Freak Shows
- Season 1 Nora Ephron on Crazy Salad
- Season 1 Marlene Dietrich on Sex Symbols
- Season 1 Aldous Huxley on Technodictators
- Season 1 Stevie Wonder on Keys of Life
- Season 1 Ronald Reagan on Oatmeal Meat
- Season 1 Jimmy Carter on Power and God
- Season 1 Leonard Cohen on Moonlight
- Season 1 Francis Ford Coppola on Solitude
- Season 1 Stephen King on Childhood
- Season 1 Oliver Sacks on Ripe Bananas
Blank on Blank - Season 1 Episode 62 Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life
0.00 6 minutes "I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper."
- Buckminster Fuller in 1965, as told to Studs Terkel
Buckminster Fuller was kicked out of college, and booted by Harvard not once, but twice. As a young man trying out jobs, he best liked working with his hands, and was more at home with mill workers, meat-packers and sailors, than professors. Fuller’s most famous for his Geodesic Dome - think Disney’s Epcot Center. You could call him an inventor-philospher-engineer-architect-artist - but he was outside category, really - and he wanted to ‘do a lot with a little.' All to make the world a better place. The tape we found told us he also had his own deeper, more personal reasons for what he did. Fuller spoke with Studs Terkel for Studs’ Chicago radio show twice. Once in studio in 1970, and the other five years earlier. That’s when he and Studs rode around in a station wagon through the rapidly gentrifiying neighborhood Lincoln Park - see if you can hear the hum of the moving car.
A conversation with Fuller was like running through a hedge maze - he spoke in fragments, these big ideas endlessly around the corner from others, warm and charismatic the whole way. Studs is firmly there, both holding the reigns and along for the ride - addressing him with all due respect. But as you’ll hear, Buckminster Fuller wasn’t too big on formalities. Support for this series comes from PRX and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
