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The number of repeats and segments from other podcasts in the last year has soured my opinion of This American Life.
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bad day posted:The number of repeats and segments from other podcasts in the last year has soured my opinion of This American Life. Honestly I get producing some of their long form investigative episodes takes time, but for fucks sake I wish they'd just say "Yo this is a repeat." up top.
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Nov 18, 2015 23:14
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I just listened to #565 Lower 9 + 10. I was kind of skipping this one because I didn't want to be super depressed, and no doubt there was some truly tragic sad stuff in this episode. However when they re-united those 2 friends via phone, Samuel and Terrence it made me smile. "Not to caught you off, but you still talk the same." 
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Nov 23, 2015 06:44
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soggybagel posted:I just listened to #565 Lower 9 + 10. I was kind of skipping this one because I didn't want to be super depressed, and no doubt there was some truly tragic sad stuff in this episode. Maybe I'M the soggy bagel because all I could think of that one was that one person was waaaaay happier than the other to be reunited. I got uncomfortable. Maybe that's my poo poo.
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Nov 24, 2015 23:24
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Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:Maybe I'M the soggy bagel because all I could think of that one was that one person was waaaaay happier than the other to be reunited. I got uncomfortable. Maybe that's my poo poo. Yeah I kept thinking about how I would feel if all of a sudden I was on the phone being recorded while I spoke to somebody I hadn't seen since I was a child and that sounds incredibly awkward to me. But yeah, maybe a more well adjusted person wouldn't feel that way.
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Nov 24, 2015 23:28
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I'm listening to "Status Update" now. It's interesting but do NOT listen to the first segment unless you can handle two teenage girls talking about likes on Instagram for 20 minutes.
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Nov 30, 2015 16:44
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zakharov posted:I'm listening to "Status Update" now. It's interesting but do NOT listen to the first segment unless you can handle two teenage girls talking about likes on Instagram for 20 minutes. I always find these analyses of high school psychology fascinating, so I would say default listen unless you hate teenage girls  .
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Nov 30, 2015 22:29
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zakharov posted:I'm listening to "Status Update" now. It's interesting but do NOT listen to the first segment unless you can handle two teenage girls talking about likes on Instagram for 20 minutes. That whole thing made me pretty depressed that I brought a girl into this world that's going to have to deal with that. Thankfully, by the time she gets there that poo poo will be as dated as Live Journal is now. (and replaced by something worse)
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Dec 1, 2015 03:55
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Yeah that segment was pretty amazing to me. I was just glad we got an update on the proposal. I thought it would never come.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:17
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zakharov posted:I'm listening to "Status Update" now. It's interesting but do NOT listen to the first segment unless you can handle two teenage girls talking about likes on Instagram for 20 minutes.
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Dec 2, 2015 19:19
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Anyone happen to know what Depeche Mode song is playing in the last video clip of act four?
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Dec 7, 2015 18:24
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Anyone happen to know what Depeche Mode song is playing in the last video clip of act four? New Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFnEhwmpjXI
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Dec 7, 2015 18:26
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I'm talking about the one she's playing in the home movie clip, not the bumper. It's too slow to be New Life.
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Dec 7, 2015 18:58
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Maybe it's because I don't have kids, but I have a real aversion to people trying to present their average suburban childhood experiences as some poignant snapshot of Americana, I just don't give a poo poo if your family used to gather round the TV and watch sitcoms or whatever. So I'm really struggling with this Home Movies episode. I can enjoy it if they're great storytellers, but I'm on the third of these now and it's the same droney voice each time.
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Dec 7, 2015 19:38
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Anyone happen to know what Depeche Mode song is playing in the last video clip of act four? Behind the Wheel from Music for the Masses
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Dec 8, 2015 08:12
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axolotl farmer posted:Behind the Wheel from Music for the Masses Thank you!
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Dec 8, 2015 15:37
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Hoops posted:I can enjoy it if they're great storytellers, but I'm on the third of these now and it's the same droney voice each time.
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Dec 8, 2015 23:54
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Sarah Vowell has the worst voice though. I even agree with people who complain about people complaining about women's voices; she has the most annoying voice ever. She and David Sedaris should make horrible chalkboard nail babies and unleash them upon the world.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:40
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i think if i was on a radio show it would be fun to try and build a demographic profile of the people who wrote in to complain about my voice. once i was fairly certain that a big percentage of them were interested in subject X, i would do a story on it and deliberately not do the "annoying" things that the whiners always complain about. until about halfway into the piece, where I'd turn them back on and crank em up to 11 
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Dec 11, 2015 20:13
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In the case of Sarah Vowell it is not anything in particular she does, just the nature of her voice in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr2nGLhZcuE But I like her books.
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Dec 12, 2015 02:19
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bad day posted:Sarah Vowell has the worst voice though. I even agree with people who complain about people complaining about women's voices; she has the most annoying voice ever. She and David Sedaris should make horrible chalkboard nail babies and unleash them upon the world.
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Dec 12, 2015 04:13
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If you're not familiar with or don't care about Frank Sinatra, you might want to skip this week's episode. It's an update of an episode that originally ran in 1997, and it's all about Sinatra, and as someone who doesn't care much about Sinatra, I thought it was dull as poo poo.
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Dec 14, 2015 19:21
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Planet Money's report on the Sinatra family business was interesting, though.
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Dec 14, 2015 19:51
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the serial s2 thread is pretty funny to watch goons get all  and misunderstand the TAL style
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Dec 28, 2015 07:44
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How do you get used to Ira Glasses voice? Holy gently caress do I want to just punch him in the stomach
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Dec 28, 2015 18:27
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i've always wondered if glass was one of those kids who couldn't say the "arr" or "ell" sounds and either had speech therapy or just tried to figure out his own way of overcoming it
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Dec 29, 2015 00:11
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4 RING SHRIMP posted:How do you get used to Ira Glasses voice? Holy gently caress do I want to just punch him in the stomach Haha, my first thought when I started listening is, "this 24 year old kid is never gonna make it in radio".
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Dec 31, 2015 06:44
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another thing about some of the dudes on radio shows, like ira glass and kurt anderson (on studio 360), is that sometimes i swear they are trying to set a record for the number of gumballs in their mouth while being a radio host
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Dec 31, 2015 07:35
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What does that mean? Like, it sounds like something's in their cheeks, something's clicking on their teeth, is there a chewing noise, what?
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Dec 31, 2015 08:43
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are you deaf irl? ira glass sounds like he might be sucking on a couple of cough drops like at all times, how is this hard to giggle about at all
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Dec 31, 2015 14:43
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I appreciate Ira Glass' radio voice, because he's the only person in world history who looks exactly like his voice sounds.
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Dec 31, 2015 14:56
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I appreciate Ira Glass' radio voice, because he's the only person in world history who looks exactly like his voice sounds. He looks like an awkward 25 year old? Me thinks not.
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Jan 3, 2016 11:10
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UltraRed posted:He looks like an awkward 25 year old? Me thinks not. 
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Jan 3, 2016 11:35
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Hoops posted:I can enjoy it if they're great storytellers, but I'm on the third of these now and it's the same droney voice each time. doctorfrog posted:Man, you ain't kiddin. I suffered through the first, slept through the second and part of the third (which just sort of ended), and gave up on the episode altogether when I heard that king drone himself was going to wind one away for the last act.
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Jan 12, 2016 07:47
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Does anybody know where I might have previously heard the Jay Larson routine on this episode? I don't think I've seen any of his specials or TV sets, so I feel like it must have been another podcast. I found his appearance on Put Your Hands Together, but it doesn't have that same routine.
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Feb 1, 2016 22:01
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I've heard that story before too but I assumed it was on The Crab Feast. I'm guessing you don't listen to that though, because I'm sure you would have thought that too.
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Feb 1, 2016 22:24
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I appreciate Ira Glass' radio voice, because he's the only person in world history who looks exactly like his voice sounds. I dunno, I think Carl Kasell definitely qualifies.
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Feb 1, 2016 22:28
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For like the first 20 years of my life I thought Roy Blount, Jr. was a large black man
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Feb 2, 2016 05:30
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Please help me, for the last 20 years I, a person with insane right wing opinions, have told other people with insane right wing opinions what to do, and they always did, but now they want to vote for someone who's equally insane 
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cebrail posted:Please help me, for the last 20 years I, a person with insane right wing opinions, have told other people with insane right wing opinions what to do, and they always did, but now they want to vote for someone who's equally insane No see, Ted Cruz is the Real Christian in the race. As the Lord once said: "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have colossal assholery for one another."
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