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I thought it was kind of telling that they tried to frame the story as political differences in the broad sense dividing us but (at least from my biased perspective) nearly all of the examples were of Tea Party/libertarian hardliners basically declaring war on everyone else.
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Affably Evil posted:I loved the "Red State Blue State" episode, it was really interesting to hear about New Hampshire's situation and compare it to what's happening in the federal government. The New Hampshire story was also interesting after having recently listened to episode 330, where Steve Vaillancourt is much less the protagonist, as little as he was in the Red State Blue State story.
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fivre posted:The New Hampshire story was also interesting after having recently listened to episode 330, where Steve Vaillancourt is much less the protagonist, as little as he was in the Red State Blue State story. Oo I haven't listened to that one yet but I'll download it now. It's backwards history time!
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Nov 14, 2012 05:58
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TAL has put up its live show for sale, for only 5 dollars. Easily worth the money in my opinion. http://live.thisamericanlife.org/
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Fragrag posted:TAL has put up its live show for sale, for only 5 dollars. Easily worth the money in my opinion. I just bought this, should be perfect for a Friday night watch.
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Nov 17, 2012 04:54
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Fragrag posted:TAL has put up its live show for sale, for only 5 dollars. Easily worth the money in my opinion. I saw this in the theater when they live streamed it. Very good watch.
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Nov 17, 2012 21:33
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This is my favorite radio show ever, and if you haven't listened to 'Last Words' and 'Numbers', you should. Last Words has a part about an old couple who die at nearly the same time, because once one died, they were simply done with life, and contained the haunting line 'It's a fearful thing, to love what death can touch.' It's always stuck with me. What a great show TAL is. I hope it never stops.
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TAL is a show, to me, that has a lot of blandness to it. Neat stories but nothing that sticks with me too long. The rare times when it does have a legit haunting, beautiful, story like what Warchicken mentioned, though, make it totally worth the download every week. Also the live show is great, just got around to watching it.
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Nov 29, 2012 00:34
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Definitely one of the most well produced and consistently good podcasts out there. I can't count how many times the show has sucked me in and had me totally disregard the world around me while I listen.
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I think it is hilarious that Ira's dog is such a complicated ball of anxiety requiring exotic foods and a cocktail of drugs. Seems to suit him.
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cadenceweapon posted:Definitely one of the most well produced and consistently good podcasts out there. I can't count how many times the show has sucked me in and had me totally disregard the world around me while I listen.
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Dec 3, 2012 17:42
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Hollis Brown posted:I think it is hilarious that Ira's dog is such a complicated ball of anxiety requiring exotic foods and a cocktail of drugs. Seems to suit him. Love this. It figures Ira Glass would have an extremely high-maintenance dog.
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Dec 6, 2012 16:19
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I am listening to this from episode 1 having never listened to any of it, despite listening to lots of NPR. This goes back to 1995...it's interesting listening to an episode about hacking in 1995. Phone lines and such.
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I think the latest episode was my favorite one in a long time. Super-interesting stuff, I wouldn't mind if This American Life just turned into reporting little random new pieces from the previous week every week.
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Dec 11, 2012 21:14
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C-Euro posted:I think the latest episode was my favorite one in a long time. Super-interesting stuff, I wouldn't mind if This American Life just turned into reporting little random new pieces from the previous week every week. "This week we're talking about what happened this week!" Yaay  ..."I could see the RPG coming straight at me, then I hit a bump on the road and it struck the engine..." 
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Dec 11, 2012 21:31
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The android app for TAL just got updated. You can now download more than one episode at a time! And plenty of other improvements apparently. Reviews on the Play Store so far are glowing.
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That song that was playing when he first came under fire, holy poo poo. That's one of the most surreal firsthand accounts I've ever heard.the littlest prince posted:The android app for TAL just got updated. You can now download more than one episode at a time! And plenty of other improvements apparently. Finally!
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the littlest prince posted:The android app for TAL just got updated. You can now download more than one episode at a time! And plenty of other improvements apparently.
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The iPhone app isn't much better. It will still randomly stop playing when you lock the phone.
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dvorak posted:The iPhone app isn't much better. It will still randomly stop playing when you lock the phone. Crashes all the time. Slow as poo poo, hitting buttons and they respond roughly 10 seconds later. If you've had a podcast paused for a while and then get a phonecall it will start playing on its own after the call. Really obtuse interface about syncing with the computer, podcasts I download on the computer are not transferred sometimes, forcing me download them all over again only on the phone this time. it will stop playing, and not remember where you left off if you lose cellphone connection which happens a lot when I'm traveling which is when I really want to listen to podcasts in the first place. Not really TAL related, but goddamn I had to vent about that terrible app somewhere.
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Zsinjeh posted:Can't be worse than Apples Podcast app for the iPhone, good god is that terrible. Get Downcast, it's so worthwhile.
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Zsinjeh posted:Can't be worse than Apples Podcast app for the iPhone, good god is that terrible. It's so bad that I went back to just using my iPod nano for podcasts. How hard is it to just competently play an audio file?
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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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Zsinjeh posted:I liked it as well! Fun premise that turned out way more interesting than I originally thought. This dude was legit crazy and should be dead considering an RPG is made to peirce tank armor and his little Toyota's engine block somehow stopped it.
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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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I use Instacast, and other than a tendency to sometimes skip forward 30sec every once in a while when I'm resuming playback after having let it sit, it works well. I have the TAL iOS app but I almost never use it except to listen to "back catalog" stuff. I bought it mostly to toss them a few bucks. 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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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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BobTheCow posted:Get Downcast, it's so worthwhile. I prefer Podcruncher. Seems really stable, and has the few features I want.
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cbirdsong posted: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 I have the same issues with Instacast that people have complained about with the official podcast app. For that matter, I had them with Podcaster, too. Does Downcast actually run smoothly? Instacast used to but even after resetting my phone it's still often really slow to respond or it doesn't recognize taps at all or it loads the app with all the data blank until I manually close it. Or it suddenly decides a show's 10 most recent episodes are all new.
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Undeclared Eggplant posted:Yes. With iOS 5, you can choose either the Music app or Podcasts, but with iOS 6 you are forced to use Podcasts (or a third party app). I think if you never install Podcasts it still works fine.
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Sivart13 posted:I upgraded to iOS 6 and still seem to be able to play podcasts out of Music, same as ever. Am I hallucinating? So I got Downcast and haven't had a problem with podcasts since. Gio fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Dec 14, 2012 |
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Yeah the podcasts playing after a phonecall, or worse when you deny a phonecall when you're in a meeting, is seriously dumb. Especially when you had paused an episode of Nerd Poker when they were right in the middle of doing a bunch of rape jokes during a Dungeons and Dragons episode.
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I'm listening to the latest podcast episode. The guy telling the story about eating in every restaurant. What the gently caress is he talking about? It's basically impossible to actually keep track of what he's saying. This is a pretty old episode, but I've never heard a worse segment.
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Yeah I didn't quite get that either. Basically a guy decides to eat at every place on Pico Boulevard and then the story goes loving nowhere.
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Hoops posted:I've never heard a worse segment. Guess you missed the fiction piece about the sled a couple weeks back, then.
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Hoops posted:I've never heard a worse segment. I hope the segment about the guy mapping all the sounds in his life isn't included in this because that one was rad. It also let me be smug towards no one because I was able to ID all those pitches before the guy could with a tuning pipe (perfect pitch  )
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Lemmi Caution posted:Guess you missed the fiction piece about the sled a couple weeks back, then. Thank God someone else hated that. Maybe some semblance of delivery could have saved that, but I zoned out about halfway through and then I heard it was a fiction piece and ugh. Terrible.
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C-Euro posted:I hope the segment about the guy mapping all the sounds in his life isn't included in this because that one was rad. Can you imagine working in the same office with somebody who's constantly humming and tooling around on a little keyboard? "Hey Joe, do you want to know what key the coffee maker is in?" Blee-bloo, bleeeeeeeee. That guy was absolutely insufferable (well, they were all insufferable, but at least most of them keep to themselves).
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I think my least favorite are the droll fiction stories about animals doing boring human things and having uninteresting arguments, told in a nasal monotone by the author. David Sedaris and one other dude does them sometimes. I've gotten used to the occasional Sedaris story, but this other guy just should never be on radio.
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Irish Joe posted:Can you imagine working in the same office with somebody who's constantly humming and tooling around on a little keyboard? "Hey Joe, do you want to know what key the coffee maker is in?" Blee-bloo, bleeeeeeeee. That guy was absolutely insufferable (well, they were all insufferable, but at least most of them keep to themselves). Yeah that would be pretty annoying but the thought of the different machine hums and buzzes around us having the same impact on mental/emotional states as music (by nature of sharing the same pitches) is really fascinating to me. I work in a lab with a decent amount of pumps, instrumentation, and electronics buzzing around but I usually listen to podcasts at work. I wonder if I might be happier at work (or unhappier) if I just listened to those noises.
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