Many podcasters, including Ira Glass, record in closets where clothes absorb sound. Rob Greenlee built his own booth in the early 2000s using hollow doors and shipping blankets to treat acoustics cheaply.
You would be shocked at how many people in the podcast industry record their podcast. Not every time they do, but on occasion in a clothes closet. Some of the clothes closets are bigger than others. This appears that Ira Glass is using here is rather small. A lot of them are like walk-in closets, things like that, have a lot of clothes around them. As you can see, he's actually recording into clothes that are hanging right in front of him. And what that is, is a terrific sound buffer. Back when I started, this was back in the early 2000s, I rented an office in an office building to do my radio show, and I was offering services. It was called Loudvox back in those days. And I built a little enclosure in an office space that was made out of wood doors, hollow wood doors from like Home Depot. And then I hung shipping blankets over, over the doors to create a sound-buffered room for the recording
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