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Goddamn, 3 pages and no mention of the episode that got me hooked. Mothafuckin' Pimp Anthropology! From their website: This entire show is devoted to just one story. A former pimp tells how he and three childhood friends became pimps in the 1970s in Oakland, California. He explains all the elaborate "rules of the game" among pimps and prostitutes of that era. He didn't have the stomach for the violence of pimping, and failed as a pimp because of that. Tamar Brott reports. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/127/pimp-anthropology It's just... classic. Just amazing to hear this dude describe pimping in the 70's era and just... hilarious. Also I think it's called Neighbours or something but there's one episode from way back in the 90's wherein they interview Mr. Rogers and ask him how to solve a dispute between hispanic stoop-chilling youths and the local community.
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I just listened to #142 Barbara which follows the life of a black single mother in South Chicago for 7 months. They should really do a follow-up show on this family, that was a great episode.
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Nov 21, 2011 20:20
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I see what you mean soggybagel but I can't help thinking it would be worse if they just had a hard-journalism approach of maintaining neutral tone at all times. Ira should be sincere on the show, and if something amazes him I'd like to know that.
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