>> the opening piece and the volume is a profile of raw popeel,ro,n popeel, the king of late-night infomercialsas one of my favorite pieces and it is far away the most interesting because he is so effortlessly interesting. it happens once every beckett as a journalist, you turn on the tape recorder, the person you're talking about starts talking about, and you realize you have nothing else to do but transcribe the tape parade it was literally that way with ron. he started talking in a went to his cousin and a guy he worked with and one other guy and i transcribe the tape of literally just put blocks of text down. it was done. sometimes that happens. does america when that happens. you never forget it. >> what do you do with all those tapes? do you keep them? >> they are somewhere. i have not been organized. there somewhere in a box. >> you are not big about the future of the malcolm gladwell collection and a library? >> i am sure i will be forgotten long before anyone collect my belongings. >> you could not go to graduate school because you did not have been grazed? >> i was not a superb studen