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This show needs its own thread. For new listeners, I am going to steal some of the about us text from their web site: quote:If you've never heard This American Life, our staff's favorites page provides a great introduction to what we do. You might want to start there. After a few episodes, we're sure you'll figure it out. Or, if you're looking for a written introduction, here goes: One of our problems from the start has been that when we try to describe This American Life in a sentence or two, it just sounds awful. For instance: each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme. That doesn't sound like something we'd want to listen to on the radio, and it's our show.  quote:Episode 447: The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms - What do you get when you take a P.I. firm, then add in a bunch of sexy soccer moms, official sponsorship from Glock, a lying boss, and delusions of grandeur?
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About halfway through this week's episode, and holy poo poo, the program in Act 2 sounds like just an incredible waste of time and money. Hey, we spent 3+ months of multiple police officer salaries to catch a bunch of high school kids with a small amount of pot and stick them with felonies. Keeping the streets safe!
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TAL has removed it, but I still have it: http://loudnoises.org/misc/tal454.mp3
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Undeclared Eggplant posted:I am not upgrading to iOS 6 just so I can avoid that piece of poo poo app. I'm going to give Downcast a try. Podcasts were always totally terrible in the Music app on iOS. In addition to Downcast, you guys should also try Instacast: http://vemedio.com/products/instacast3
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Dec 13, 2012 21:10
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Eating a gyro is probably the worst time for the first act of this episode to come on my headphones. It could be anything!
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FYI, there's a thread on D&D on all this: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3540117
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Mar 25, 2013 18:15
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fivre posted:I'd think it be hard to now--what's actually going on isn't entirely clear. Yeah, the story was breaking throughout the week they were reporting on, and it's too big a deal to fit in one segment of a show anyway. They touched on it a bit, anyway.
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Jun 19, 2013 21:46
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They only have one episode in the feed because they'd like you to buy access to the rest of them through their app, or to buy them individually from various places. The episode this week is a rerun, so that's what's in there right now. It's a bit of an antiquated model these days. I wish they had a no-reruns feed.
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Oct 15, 2014 01:44
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From what we know right now, Jay's motive is not super compelling? He would also have to be the luckiest dumb murderer around to hang this on Adnan and not have him come up with an alibi.
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Nov 9, 2014 05:22
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Serial is crazy popular, we should probably get the discussion in this thread split out, or start a new thread.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:05
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Yeah, just so we're clear, your theory is that Lindy West hired a highly convincing voice actor to portray her harasser and interact with the TAL fact checking team, and has also been building up years and years of timestamped emails, tweets and comments from this harasser in preparation for faking this whole thing?
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life is a joke posted:ps - I think that Elnas convo w her boyfriend was weird, but tbh i think if i told my girlfriend that we were recording for a nationally syndicated program we'd be brainstorming ideas on how to make it compelling, including asking "the tough questions" that normally wouldnt come up. I wonder if TAL employees just record all kinds of poo poo in case it might be useful one day, and their families just get used to it.
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