is fucking incredible.

And NC-related to boot.

I'm listening to it at work and I still teared up.

3/15/2008 12:41:55 PM

[ntlb]


I caught a few minutes of it here and there,

about a kidnapping of some family's son, but something more than that......?

3/15/2008 4:10:35 PM

It was an entire show on one topic...the story was that this kid was raised as someone he wasn't, and one of his supposed descendants went searching for details and found out the truth. The emotional core, however, was the fallout in the family when the truth came out, and the way the family dynamics changed and, more importantly, stayed the same.

3/15/2008 4:17:45 PM

<3 tal

3/15/2008 4:20:02 PM

Ira Glass sort of annoys me

3/15/2008 4:25:02 PM

HILARITY

the boring part of being an astronaut
john hodgman
lump sum negotiator vs. video poker in strip clubs
etc.

3/22/2008 12:31:43 PM

good show

is there a web stream?

3/22/2008 12:32:36 PM

There's a podcast at thisamericanlife.org

3/22/2008 12:35:27 PM

go to http://thisamericanlife.org/ and you can listen to all of their shows for free

3/22/2008 12:36:24 PM

nice

3/22/2008 12:43:16 PM

omf sarah vowell

not hot, but smart and funny

3/22/2008 12:45:15 PM

ira glass making gwb look like an arse today

3/29/2008 12:22:44 PM

he always does

3/29/2008 12:50:11 PM

Today's show:

Mistakes Were Made

It's the late 1960s, and in the new technology of cryonics, a California TV repairman named Bob sees an opportunity to help people cheat death. But freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds. Harder still was admitting to the family members of people Bob had frozen that he'd screwed up. Badly.

Act I: You're as Cold as Ice

Act II: You're Willing to Sacrifice Our Love

4/19/2008 1:08:05 PM

i have to stop listening to this shit at work

i'm crying at the counter

OH SNAP...shit just got real

4/19/2008 1:33:54 PM

THE PROM from 2001.

I remember this one.

Good stuff.

Ira hadn't reigned in his prologue cadence yet.

5/24/2008 1:03:27 PM

add to my topics


i'm a few weeks behind on the podcasts. I just listened to the cryonics one last.

It confirms my belief that people from california are batshit crazy.

5/24/2008 1:21:41 PM

listening now. is this on NPR?

5/24/2008 1:39:03 PM

Yep.

This episode resonates much differently than it did when I was 17.

5/24/2008 1:39:39 PM

<3 this american life.

got to see david sedaris last year, too.

5/24/2008 2:11:41 PM

that story was fantastic

6/14/2008 1:24:11 PM

TAL on showtime is pretty good. I've been watching season 1 on netflix instant watch

6/14/2008 1:31:49 PM

Quote :

"got to see david sedaris last year, too."

i'm jealous

6/14/2008 1:42:56 PM

I'm not tickets were $european_union

6/14/2008 2:14:13 PM

we got free david sedaris/sarah vowell tickets from the scholars program back in the day

6/14/2008 2:18:33 PM

You think that is good salsa? You've obviously never been to Ecuador.

6/14/2008 3:15:47 PM

I must confess, I have been out of the TAL loop for too long.

6/14/2008 4:47:59 PM

anybody watching it on showtime? new episodes started a few weeks ago. the tv version isn't as good as the radio version imo...plus it's only .5 hour long so they don't have enough time to really get into the story. the last 2 topics weren't so great either.

6/14/2008 5:04:35 PM

Celebrity Deathmatch:

Ira Glass

vs.
Ira Flatow

6/14/2008 7:08:33 PM

Quote :

"Today's show: Mistakes Were Made "

That episode was AWESOME!

6/14/2008 9:55:45 PM

as "i can't believe what our/their lives have turned into" episodes go, this one was kinda weak

6/21/2008 2:06:44 PM

Tearing up again.

"You tell us what to do. You can label your daughter as 'mildly mentally retarded' and she can keep her services. If you don't, she'll lose them. You have to decide today."

Jesus, this shit is heartwrenching.

6/28/2008 1:54:36 PM

you ever play any Ladyhawke at that DJ gig you got?

6/28/2008 2:06:27 PM

nah

never really thought of it, though

ladytron yes

6/28/2008 2:10:45 PM

play that shit, I've been wearing her shit out



[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 2:14 PM. Reason : s]

6/28/2008 2:13:01 PM

heartbreaking today

but not in the teary way

7/19/2008 1:26:47 PM

I love this American Life

Last weeks show was pretty good.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=293

Here is one of my favorites: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1203

This one is about a guy in raleigh who mapped his neighborhood in all sorts or ways. Jack-o-lanterns, power lines, mailboxes etc: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1211

7/19/2008 2:47:12 PM

I just recently listened to the episode vb was originally talking about, and it was fucking amazing. Particularly the letter written to the family that took the kid, that just killed me.

"I hope you are real sad for a long time. Not too long, though." (paraphrasing)

7/19/2008 3:25:14 PM

totally awesome today

8/30/2008 1:40:57 PM

rerun from last week because they couldn't find the tape

9/6/2008 1:35:08 PM

Which episode was the one this thread was originally about?

9/6/2008 2:37:40 PM

352, "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar"

9/6/2008 2:56:01 PM

this is my favorite one

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=322

a Muslim family gets torn apart when the daughter is harassed at school (mostly by a teacher) for her religion

9/6/2008 3:40:09 PM

joey kocur talking about hockey fights now

ira glass understands fighting!

9/13/2008 1:00:58 PM

i <3 IRA!

9/13/2008 1:02:43 PM

i saw the thread title and knew you made this thread, lol

9/13/2008 1:18:58 PM

isnt joey kocur the guy who was a fighter, fell out of the league, then played beer league only to be pulled out of beer leagues by the redwings?

9/13/2008 2:08:07 PM

correct

9/13/2008 2:12:02 PM

probably the only player to win a stanley cup before and after playing beer league

9/13/2008 2:20:11 PM

set

em

up

9/13/2008 2:26:59 PM