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Mrens posted:It's been a while since David Sedaris has been on I forgot he used to be much more regular. It's funny that someone asked if there are episodes people don't like and you mention Sedaris. I can't stand him and usually skip his bits. I can never come up with a good reason for it, but I think his voice just grates on me. That and many of his segments are live and I also don't like the audience reactions. One of my favorites is Matchmakers, which ends with a story by a woman who works in an FAO Scwartz store where parents only wants to "adopt" the white dolls. A more recent favorite was the war episode based on David Finkel's The Good Soldiers. I heard that and went out and bought the book, which was also excellent.
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soggybagel posted:I really wish they would denote that its a repeat.
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Zsinjeh posted:Can't be worse than Apples Podcast app for the iPhone, good god is that terrible.
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patricius posted:Did Apple remove podcast capability from the Music app and force everyone into Podcasts with iOS 6? I think they still worked side-by-side when I switched to Instacast.
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Yeah, that was one hosed up episode. My favorite in a while. I can't believe that woman in the middle story agreed to be interviewed, although she's clearly batshit crazy.
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dongsbot 9000 posted:One thing that the TAL coverage doesn't mention is that two thirds of the students in the East Ramapo school districts are attending yeshivas. While that fact might not justify the drastic cuts to classes and staff, it paints the story in a slightly different light. This isn't a super-rich Jewish minority oppressing the poor African-American and Hispanic immigrants attending public school; it's the just as poor Hasidic community paying most of the money for a school system they don't (and can't, for religious reasons) use.
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I have a hard time believing Jay wasn't involved in some way. In the last episode, I started to think that maybe they did it together and then Jay through Adnan under the bus afterwards.
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I gave up about a minute or two into that last segment too. The other stuff really outrages me though. The border patrol bullshit I'd heard of before, but the ATF stories drove me the most crazy. That we spent tax dollars on programs that apparently not making meaningful arrests and are arguably increasing crime... wow. Actually just the fact that they weren't keeping or were unwilling to give statistics on the costs and extent of the program is bad enough.
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Some interesting stuff on Ira's Twitter about apparent complete fabrication of the data in the study behind the recent episode on changing people's minds.
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