Dave Blanchard

Supervising editor at @NPR's Wild Card. Formers: @planetmoney, @npratc, @MorningEdition, @OPB. dblanchard at

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

Logging back on after years of Twitter silence to share this new show we're making with the world. Wild Card is an interview show unlike any other with a host who is the best in the business. Follow us and enjoy! First ep is out Thurs.

[Rachel Martin @rachelnpr]

Well, here it is! We made a new thing! It's an interview show like you've never heard before. First episode drops Thursday. Listen and subscribe! https://t.co/kUF8bf4Pfm

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@TeaPartyBeauty Hi @TeaPartyBeauty - I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. We're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat with us for a few min

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@ItsJacobEdward Hi @ItsJacobEdward - I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. -- we're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat with us for a few min

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@lousimprint Hi @lousimprint - I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. -- we're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat with us for a few min

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@IngaRochelle Hi @IngaRochelle I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. -- we're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@jalexws Hi @jalexws I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast in the U.S. -- we're doing a show about American pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them in the UK during the Markle interview. DM me if you want to chat

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@TaureanRoye @ArchieLawson1 Hi @TaureanRoye -- I'm a producer with the @planetmoney podcast -- we're doing a show about U.S. pharma ads and we'd love to chat with you about how weird it was to see them during the Markle interview. DM me if you're interested in talking with us.

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@siIverskyy Hi @siIverskyy -- I'm a producer with NPR's Planet Money podcast in the U.S. We're doing an episode about American pharma ads and we're interested in hearing from Brits who saw them during the Markle interview. DM me if you're interested in chatting with us!

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@mdc @CardiffGarcia @planetmoney 😂

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@BryanMVance @planetmoney It's SUCH a great team! Hope you're doing well @BryanMVance

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

@justiceputnam Beautifully said

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

I wrote this remembrance for the writer Barry Lopez, who died Friday. I think often of the lesson he took from beaver sticks he'd find on walks.

"I imagined the beaver were saying 'What the hell's wrong with you? You get back in there and do your work.'" https://t.co/oGLvrmmY4O

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

When I spoke to Lopez's friend John Luther Adams for the obit, he shared one I hadn't seen before, but is a new favorite: "If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive" /end

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

As sad as the conditions of Lopez's passing were, he also offered so much hope, lightness and grace in his work. A thread of some of my favorite Lopez-isms 1/x

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

Lopez wrote often about the threat of climate change, and, in a sad irony, he was forced to leave his home in September because of the unusually powerful wildfires in Oregon. His wife told me, "The fire was a blow he never could recover from." https://t.co/oGLvrmmY4O

[Dave Blanchard @blanchardd]

He'd be the first to say his work isn't for everyone. But if you like any of this, I found this essay (and the collection it comes from, "About This Life") an excellent introduction to his work: https://t.co/0SQsJ58shZ