# Ira Glass got married? When? Who's the lucky girl? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465 "2005-08-31T18:51:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/1 "2005-08-31T18:51:10Z")
On this morning’s pledge drive Ira Glass, host of _This American Life_, corrected himself in a remark about his “girlfriend–what am I saying? **Wife**.” Since he’s the sex god above all others to the women of the SDMB, maybe somebody knows who he married. Somebody from the show? Maybe the adorable Sarah Vowell? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/2 "2005-08-31T18:52:37Z")
It wasn’t me, so what does it matter? **gnashes teeth, rends garments** ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/3 "2005-08-31T19:02:21Z")
(patting **twickster** on the hand) There there. There there. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/4 "2005-08-31T19:04:07Z")
Ira Glass a **sex god**? Surely they have better taste than that. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/5 "2005-08-31T19:11:24Z")
Ira Glass? I’ve never even heard of him. Checked him out on imdb, no recognition. Checked him out on Google, no bells ringing. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/6 "2005-08-31T19:20:39Z")
He’s the host of a radio show called _This American Life_, which is well worth checking out. I believe you can get to their website (whence you can access various episodes) through the NPR site. **resumes gnashing, rending, etc.** ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/7 "2005-08-31T19:44:31Z")
Hmmm. I thought he played for my team. ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/8 "2005-08-31T20:02:42Z")
Yes. I, too thought he was gay. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/9 "2005-08-31T20:39:30Z")
So did I when he first came to work in Chicago but, shortly before he started TAL, he had a local show and told the long and harrowing tale of the time his buddy David Sedaris, a terminal yenta, set him up with a young lady from, IIRC, Ohio. It turned out they were not as well-matched as Sedaris thought but it wasn’t because Glass is gay. Who knew? The lesson I drew from it was to not bother trying to figure out the gender preferences of guys from the Northeast. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/10 "2005-08-31T20:52:51Z")
Didn’t he tell a story once about going shopping with an ex-girlfriend and having her toss her skirt on him as he sat in the corner of the dressing room? ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/11 "2005-08-31T21:28:46Z")
[http://www.barclayagency.com/glass.html](http://www.barclayagency.com/glass.html) That’s a picture and a bio, but no mention of the wedding. Here’s a transcript of an interview he did 2 weeks ago that mentions the wedding: [http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/stories.php?story=05/08/15/1213953](http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/stories.php?story=05/08/15/1213953) Pertinent quote: \*BM: That’s true. All right, well, as you told me over email, you’re about to get married. And I remember when you did that story about your ex-girlfriend throwing clothing on you in the changing room. You think you’ll end up doing a show about getting married, about, like, this whole process? IG: I absolutely do not think I’m going to do a show about getting married. 'Cause the whole relationship is off the record.\* Well, that explains why we haven’t heard much about it. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/12 "2005-08-31T23:03:02Z")
I, too, was listening when he said the girlfriend, I mean wife remark. And I thought he was absolutely _terrible_. I could practically feel the pledge coordinator wince every time he opened his mouth for another disparaging description of the pledge incentives. How many times does he have to make the Toyota Prius = golfcart joke? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ira-glass-got-married-when-whos-the-lucky-girl/319465/13 "2005-09-01T04:46:16Z")
I realize part of the charm of TAL is his near-extemporaneous introductions but I prefer his pre-recorded pledge bits to him doing the begging live. I suspect he’s keeping his marriage under wraps for the same reason Frank Sinatra and John Lennon did: too many fans (male as well as female, it seems) see him as potentially theirs to keep.