this american life

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anyone else like this radio show? i didnt know till recently it was a tv show too. they just added it to netflix play instant. the visuals aren't really needed it works best on the radio.

you can listen on their website: http://www.thisamericanlife.org which just got updated

can't find a link but a recent favourite was the one about the kids who find abandoned house and the mystery of its contents.

Best of the Left is better

Love this show! Ira came through and did some one man show type thing a few weeks ago. I didn't make it due to lack of funds though...

NPR FTW!

Heard the exact show you speak of with the abandoned house. The fact that the neighbors cared was weird, but ya... This is a good show. One of my fav. episodes is about the teachers in new york that get "transferred" due to their actions (one teacher threw a chair) but actually just go sit in a room in some building and never do anything. There are teachers that have done this for over a year, and they still get paid wtf? waste of $

I find the spots interesting, but seldom tune in due to Ira's whiny bitchass voice.

I don't like anything with american in it, fucking hate yanks

this american life is one of the best things to ever hit radio.

personal favorites:

anything Jack Hitt has ever done i.e.

Fiasco (the one about the peter pan show)

and

The Super (about his insane brazilian superintendent)

both are fucking lol all over

other good ones:

24 Hours at the Golden Apple

Testosterone

The Story of Bobby Dunbar

What I learned from Television

The Allure of a Mean Friend

Recordings for Someone

but everyone needs to listen to the super

i heard the one about the preacher who became a heretic. it was awesome.

Yeah, I get pretty angry when I miss it. it's one of my favorite things about living.

I love this american life, almost every night i listen to past episodes of it while i go to sleep. that abandoned house one is really good. Although the past few nights I have been listening to radio lab http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/ which is somewhat more consistent, also a really good show in the same vein.

It's a good show.

I rarely listen to it, unless I'm driving somewhere when it's on.

By chance I did hear the abandoned house one.

streaming on their website init if you miss one

thanks to this thread I just watched the first couple episodes of the TV show on Netflix. Thankfully, it's pretty much the same as the radio show only with visuals (obviously) and in a more condensed form. I thought it was pretty enjoyable.

This is not exciting, but I rode an elevator with Ira Glass once (the show is taped in Chicago). I didn't know who it was at the time, but when we got out, my friend said "that was Ira Glass." He appeared pretty normal.

I definitely like it, although some of their shows are depressing and heartbreaking.

You can stream the tv version on Netflix, which is cool!

  On 3/15/2010 at 5:42 PM, LOL Alzado said:

thanks to this thread I just watched the first couple episodes of the TV show on Netflix. Thankfully, it's pretty much the same as the radio show only with visuals (obviously) and in a more condensed form. I thought it was pretty enjoyable.

 

This is not exciting, but I rode an elevator with Ira Glass once (the show is taped in Chicago). I didn't know who it was at the time, but when we got out, my friend said "that was Ira Glass." He appeared pretty normal.

avoid the episode with the story about the guy who poses as jesus for oil paintings. we were waiting for the point and it never came.

here's the only interesting thing about that episode:

the guy paints jesus and his disciples using hobos as models. he makes the point that during his life jesus was an outcast.

the most interesting thing about that episode was just the weirdness of the people that were assembled. it was funny how many people bailed on him.

  On 3/15/2010 at 8:07 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 3/15/2010 at 5:42 PM, LOL Alzado said:

thanks to this thread I just watched the first couple episodes of the TV show on Netflix. Thankfully, it's pretty much the same as the radio show only with visuals (obviously) and in a more condensed form. I thought it was pretty enjoyable.

 

This is not exciting, but I rode an elevator with Ira Glass once (the show is taped in Chicago). I didn't know who it was at the time, but when we got out, my friend said "that was Ira Glass." He appeared pretty normal.

 

avoid the episode with the story about the guy who poses as jesus for oil paintings. we were waiting for the point and it never came.

 

here's the only interesting thing about that episode:

 

the guy paints jesus and his disciples using hobos as models. he makes the point that during his life jesus was an outcast.

I kept waiting/hoping for them to show more of his wife. Yeah, that episode was pretty useless.

it wasn't my favorite, but i liked what the artist said about the conclusions you can draw from the style of a person's beard:

that guy likes to hunt, that guy likes camping, that guy is a hobo.

i lolled

i guess i was just confused why he hadn't used essines yet

this weeks is a great show. about parasites

I always loved that show. Radiolab is pretty good too, or at least it used to be.

They play Trs-80 sometimes

and while its only for a short little clip

its still the only time they'd ever be on the radio

I have heard Dntel and Aphex Twin clips used as background music on the local NPR station here. Also, I took an english class in college where we emulated This American Life. I used Autechre in my spots.

  On 4/7/2010 at 5:19 AM, tysen said:

I have heard Dntel and Aphex Twin clips used as background music on the local NPR station here. Also, I took an english class in college where we emulated This American Life. I used Autechre in my spots.

ya i remember hearing some analord track on npr.

i laughed.