Blank on Blank — Season 1, Episode 15: Janis Joplin on Rejection

Episode synopsis

"In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly." - Janis Joplin Howard Smith interviewed Janis Joplin by phone on September 30, 1970. This turned out to be the last interview Janis ever did. She died on October 4, 1970. Howard was writing for the Village Voice.

About Blank on Blank

Vintage interview tapes. New animations. The mission is simple: curate and transform journalists' unheard interviews with American icons. The future of journalism is remixing the past.

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• E3Muhammad Ali On Going To Mars
• E4Dave Brubeck on Fighting Communism with Jazz
• E5Larry King on Getting Seduced
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• E7David Foster Wallace on Ambition
• E8Beastie Boys on Being Stupid
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• E10James Brown on Conviction, Respect & Reagan
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