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This latest episode on crime scenes is pretty interesting, it's like CSI but without all the bullshit. Plus you get to hear a little kid say "maybe he got pumped in the butt...by lots of men" 
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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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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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Jan 5, 2013 02:27
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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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Jan 5, 2013 19:56
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AngryBooch posted:I was never the biggest fan of calamari in the first place but goddamn, now I pretty much can't trust anything that's deep fried. So thanks TAL for making me eat healthier! If anything that story just proves the unsung power of tartar sauce.
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Jan 15, 2013 20:03
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Am I the only one who thought the ASMR story in this week's episode was completely insane, and borderline unsettling? 
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Apr 2, 2013 13:27
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WE DOIN IT NOW posted:I've never seeked it out though or spent hours watching people whisper on youtube. That seems very much like a weird fetish and creepy and her boyfriend is right to question it. Pretty much this. Comparing women talking about their shopping trips to porn (and doing so at great length!) was pretty creepy. Also, why is her boyfriend the one telling her to watch Twilight, and not the other way around?
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Apr 2, 2013 21:03
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trollby posted:What the gently caress is wrong with all of you.
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Apr 3, 2013 18:13
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Hitch posted:...it does no good to tell someone to believe in something, they must learn it on their own. That's a good message to convey but outside of that, the episode just seemed to me like another "Democrats think like this, Republicans think like this" discussion, which I could get on any news network instead of needing TAL to tell me that. In fact I didn't really think it was a TAL episode at all, it just didn't have the same personal kind of subject or story that's normal for TAL. A valuable episode, but not really a TAL episode.
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May 20, 2013 15:43
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I know it was a rerun but the recent episode on summer camps was really good and did a good job articulating the reasons why camp people hold that time in such high regard. Also if you have a summer camp that you were particularly fond of as a kid, look into being a counselor for said camp. Some of my best high school memories were of our school's band camp, but getting to go back twice in college as a counselor for that same program was a thousand times more fun and rewarding. It's still the best job I've ever had, despite being paid almost nothing.
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Aug 6, 2013 05:50
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Sorry to sound  , but was this week's episode really "a story of this American life"? You've got an Eritrean ex-pat living in Sweden, talking to Eritrean hostages being held in Sinai, and I feel like they just aired it to say "the Middle East is hosed, guys  ". Again, it just didn't have that personal, almost local touch that I expect TAL to have.
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Aug 16, 2013 22:32
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calandryll posted:Wait wasn't that Radio Lab? I swear I just listened to that story 2 days ago. No, the latest Radiolab episode was about rabies and the Milwaukee procedure, which was nuts.
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Aug 17, 2013 04:34
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Kangra posted:The main story in How I Got Into College is pretty good (perhaps one gripe with the show is that it's really a one-story show, and not about getting into college at all). Even if it's not the greatest ever, it's a exactly the sort of thing I'd expect TAL to do. It is in some way a very American story, and it provides the opportunity for the questions that it seems the show likes to discuss. In contrast to stories about Eritreans in Sweden and lackluster repeats, it's nice to have a good one. This is exactly what ran through my head after finishing the episode. Hell, the main story wasn't even about getting into college!
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Sep 14, 2013 23:59
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I know it's not the latest episode but I got through Fiasco! earlier today and it was awesome. Except, of course, for the fictional story. Why do I always have such a hard time listening to the made-up stories on this program, and why do they keep insisting on including them?
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Nov 12, 2013 04:21
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Well, I'm glad I decided to skip this latest episode then.
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Nov 13, 2013 07:05
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I have to admit I was bummed that that the latest TAL episode featured two fictional stories, which are the usually the worst things that TAL does (in my mind) Then for the end credits they played Angels We Have Heard on High from Bad Religion's Christmas album and all was right with the world again.
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Dec 28, 2013 03:05
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Johnny Longtorso posted:That kid is going to grow up to be one obnoxious vegan. I'm thinking more just "obnoxious" in general. Maybe this means I'll be a lovely parent but no way am I letting my elementary-school kid dictate how my entire family and anyone they come into contact with lives their lives, unless that kid has some sort of physical or mental condition that necessitates such a change (like the story about the autistic kid a few weeks back). Maybe these parents aren't trying to let him control their diet but they sound like they're OK with him being the boss, which is going to bite them in the rear end when he grows up. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jan 26, 2014 |
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Jan 26, 2014 19:24
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How often does TAL recycle material? I could have sworn that I heard the "we've dated a decade, let's see other people" story from a couple weeks ago, as well as the adopted felon story from this week. Was I the only person to notice those?
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Feb 26, 2014 23:08
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The mentality of "if it's written down, it must be true!" explains so much about how this country operates that I'm surprised I've never heard it stated outright like that until now. And yes, that was a really really good episode and I'm not sure which segment struck me harder. Even the intro story about the Irish militia actually tarring & feathering a guy for encroaching on their drug turf was crazy!
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Apr 18, 2014 19:59
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zakharov posted:What did people think of the Asa Carter story? I had never heard of the book, and I thought it was fascinating. I kind of felt the exact same way. An interesting case of a maybe-fakeout but I have never heard of that book before.
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Jun 26, 2014 04:32
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Is it me, or was the editing on the last story from this week (Selling Yourself) completely insane? First she's talking about working in a nursing home, then she talks about being "accepted" and talks for two minutes before saying what's she accepted to, then suddenly she's a chemist and we keep cutting out and coming back in mid-conversation. Who listened to that and said "Nah, this is good to put on the radio"?
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Sep 10, 2014 19:07
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Johnny Longtorso posted:It seemed like just an excuse to plug his new podcast, which is the second time TAL has done that in recent months. The recent Radiolab was a semi-plug for a new book by Jad's brother-in-law so maybe it's an NPR thing in general?
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Sep 11, 2014 22:14
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I'm a few episodes behind on TAL, does WakeUpNow sound as insane to the rest of you as it did to me? The episode defines the legal language of what a pyramid scheme is, but I'm pretty sure that fits the bill as well.
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Jan 14, 2015 15:24
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I have a friend at work who swears by Kirby vacuum cleaners (but never tried to push one on me), I didn't know they were associated with this business model. Also now that I think about, I'm pretty sure my fiancee was in a vitamins- & supplements-oriented MLM group the summer we first started hooking up, though I think she was aware of it too because she bailed as soon as she made enough money to buy a beater car to use for our remaining three years of college. She even had some of their supplements lying around as late as last year, and yes they were mostly crap. The episode had an interesting point about a secondary benefit to these things though- because the guy they interviewed worked from home on all of this stuff, he was able to better raise his kids. My fiancee wants to start her own company someday and a couple people have asked me if I'd be a stay-at-home dad if it goes well. I have a chemistry graduate degree and there aren't many careers where I can work from home with one of those, but if the option comes up and lets me work from home so I can have more time to raise my kids, then it's a tempting proposition. Though, I did laugh when after the segment they said "a few weeks after taping, he left WakeUpNow and is much happier in his new job" 
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Jan 15, 2015 13:03
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I liked it, even if for no other reason than someone else saying what I've thought for a long time, that Twitter needs to go. Also "I don't know if he's being honest, but if he was still trolling me I don't think he'd have spent $50 to keep it going" Obviously she's not a goon.
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Jan 28, 2015 20:17
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Wait, did a TAL episode go up for this week? My phone's podcast feed doesn't show anything.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:16
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She was the stewardess from Airplane!, right?
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Mar 6, 2015 15:59
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Danger posted:Planet Money itself's sole sponsor, unless it's changed recently, is Ally Bank; probably one of the worst offenders of the toxic subprime loan bullshit. Planet Money sucks and Joffe-Walt is not a good journalist. I haven't heard them claim sponsorship by Ally Bank in a while, now it's just your standard podcast sponsors like Squarespace.
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Mar 21, 2015 16:06
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Did anyone else listen to the latest ep about amusement parks? Am I the only one who thought the manager in the first story was completely mental? I mean, good on you for finding a job you love, but THAT'S your calling? And you dropped out of college and alienated everyone around you to work an amusement park? Admittedly some of the best "work" experiences I've had were the two summers I was a camp counselor, but I knew it was a temporary thing and I moved on. E: Oh thank gently caress, it turns out he quit that and finished college. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Jul 29, 2015 |
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Jul 29, 2015 15:36
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The TAL entry on my podcast app is busted, is anyone else experiencing this? I unsubscribed and re-subscribed but it just has a dummy entry and won't actually refresh.
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Aug 5, 2015 03:27
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Yeah I got my TAL feed working again and boy was that episode rugged. My favorite was the one woman who had to put a full stop in her dramatic buildup speech to keep from accidentally dropping a racial slur. Also, is it bad that I couldn't remember who Michael Brown was until they mentioned St Louis? We need to stop shooting each other, I can't keep track of all these names.
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Aug 7, 2015 20:23
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Strange Matter posted:Normally I'd be upset about another rerun but Petty Tyrant is a Top 5 episode so I am totally on board. Yeah I listened to that at the end of a 10-hour road trip on Monday and it was equal parts and . First time hearing it too.
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Aug 26, 2015 16:45
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soggybagel posted:Honestly I think some of you over react towards Planet Money. The majority of episodes were fine little capsules that were decently interesting. It's OK in the little 15-20 minute bursts they do now, if it was TAL-length episodes I would lose interest pretty quick. The perceived political leanings never really got to me either until their most recent episode glorifying some guy who declared himself a sovereign citizen and stopped paying taxes for several years. Then the lawyer who told him how to do it died and he quickly fled the country, only to be extradited and forced to pay up
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Feb 23, 2016 15:29
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blue squares posted:The PI story was amazing I'm halfway through it now, it's pretty nuts.
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Aug 23, 2016 15:57
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As a white dude married to a non-white woman I can't wait to dilute my race with my eventual offspring. More serious question- why send these immigrants to the Midwest anyway? I saw a map in one of the election threads showing that the areas of the country receiving the most immigrants through federal programs are some of the whitest parts of the country- Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Iowa if I remember correctly. Do those areas just need the extra population or something? Or is it just that they can accommodate more people?
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NAT-T Ice posted:Third because Minnesota has a desperate shortage of native flavorful spicy food. The real purpose of bringing immigrants in is to make the population of Saint Cloud understand the joys of kitfo. Oh yeah, forgot about that one guy's love of bland food. Reminds me of when I was working in northern IL and I had a co-worker who said she wouldn't eat anything that was "spicier than ketchup". Ketchup isn't spicy ya dingus 
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