Its the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of The legend about TAL contributor Scott Carrier (later explored in Carriers own podcast Home of the Brave) is that he started making radio by hitchhiking, cross-country, from his home in Utah to the NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. While much of the shows first 10 years turned around the shows home base of Chicago, once in New York, the show went global. Gossip - This American Life 444 August 26, 2011 Gossip This week, Sarah Koenig hosts, as we tackle the thing we all hate to love: Gossip. Morning Edition Weekend Edition Saturday WebGet the latest celebrity news and hot celeb gossip with exclusive stories and pictures from Us Weekly. She's had four marriages all ending in divorce, because she was unfaithful. Some of these episodes The Giant Pool of Money, #1 Party School among them are so legendary that one can now forget that the shows bread and butter has always been its act-based structure. That's what a sociologist named Susan Watkins would call it. He writes like Hemingway, with brief language, quick movement, and constant grappling with the more toxic angles of masculinity. And that it carries an erotic power in fact. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes We give them prompts. The This American Life team spends the last week of the month with the salespeople of Long Islands Town and Country Jeep Chrysler Dodge Ram. It's a movie, and I'm the only one in the world with a ticket. To begin in the show we wanted Julie Snyder, our senior producer, and her husband, Jeff Melman, to tell the story about something that happened with Julie's hairdresser. The library dreamt up in The Abortion is an open-source public good, one to which any ordinary person can bring their writing, and have it archived forever. And then he says to me, "No offense, Christine. The more than 1000 journals she's collected from Malawi are being catalogued now. ARVs stands for antiretrovirals, the medication that some people with HIV take. Somehow, it felt like I had done good. So I say, "How do you feel about Leo being the only straight guy here?". If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. During this period, production of This American Life moved from Chicago to New York (on account of the shows brief experimentation with television), and the program became a force beyond itself. Sex, as any gossiper knows, is the mother of all good gossip. It's better that whenever you want sex you should select a bar girl, because one cannot think of having plain sex with a bar girl. Because that means you must be sleeping around, getting money from men. Right, nobody seems to like the condoms. It printed a lot of stuff that you can read and benefit from. "It wouldn't bother me if Leo flirted." When this episode was recorded, Showtime had recently premiered a television version of This American Life. We say, "Remember this is a job. his favorite program at the time. WebThis American Life Adam Beckman/This American Life This Week: 199 July 21, 2023 House on Loon Lake This episode will be available Sunday 7 p.m. CT. And, I think, because their houses are dark, there isn't electricity, people spend a lot of time outside. What they know, generally, about rural Malawians comes through the Malawian elites, largely, because those are the people they interact with. Not graphically, at all, but just the existence of it. So let's say, in real life you know a guy and maybe after six months something starts to happen. Neither should men be playing with women by doing sex with them. What is the sucker punch love that ruins us so completely? This 2018 collection of library stories is sweet start to finish, celebrating the most reliable free public spaces we have. Suitable for Children is an example of the shows best work on race. And they talk a lot. And super important and really good. The salespeople have an uphill battle to make their magic number for the month, the only way to stave off financial crisis for the dealership. He knows better than that. If a girl is beautiful, for example, it doesn't necessarily help her chances of finding a partner partly because of ARVs. Everything goes wrong, at least once in a while. Our program was produced today by Ben Calhoun and me with Alex Blumberg, Jane Feltes, Jonathan Menjivar, Lisa Pollak, Robyn Semien, Alissa Shipp, and Nancy Updike. She spends about two months a year in Africa. And if she has HIV, I've already got it then anyway, so what's the point of giving her up.". Retraction is such an essential episode in the This American Life canon because it called into question the narrative journalism at the heart of the program. The best casts are around 50% NPD but no more. Where nobody ever says, the problem, the driver of the epidemic, is men with money. Hear a Chick-fil-A manager attempt to drive up business by any means necessary. That people don't talk. This one's a little complicated. And then they said, "Well, maybe you've got a crack in your foreskin?" Within 20 minutes, Kine (1) gives listeners a revealing amount of personal information, (2) convinces someone more famous than you could possibly imagine to give her advice, (3) enlists a group to help her in some strangely specific goal (writing a breakup song for an ex), and (4) wraps the whole experience in a startlingly-meaningful reflection. This should be good stuff, Christine.". It became one of our best plotlines. But the people believe that. After a Marketplace reporter found Daiseys depictions of Chinese factory workers to be suspect, the loose thread quickly unraveled the factual accuracy of the episodes most affecting moments, leading to an even more affecting griller of an interview with Daisey that is the centerpiece of Retraction. As Ira Glass pulls the truth out of him, molar-by-molar, Daisey reveals a stunningly crooked vision of storytelling and its uses. Seth Lind is our production manager. Anchoring the hour is Glasss brief anecdote about seeing This American Life mentioned by name in an episode of The O.C. "Astrid is a talented glass-blower. ", "Leslie's been swaggering around like some big, silver-back gorilla, like beating her chest, and telling everyone how great she is. So there's some of these usual suspects. But that gossip itself is a way of like making an emotional connection with people around you. Web444: Gossip - This American Life Full episode Transcript 444: Gossip Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. Would you gossip and say, "look, I know she looks good, but she's got the virus, you should know that." Sarah even makes a compelling case that in some places, gossip could very well be saving lives. And the guy says, "Oh, I can't divorce her." Each week we choose a theme and put And then another guy chimed up and said, "You know, I think this might be gonorrhea. Inez says, "Why in the hell did you say we'd leave her alone? We'll spray some of the remaining leaves yellow, some red. David Sedaris finds out hes been duped for years. Jonathan Goldstein faces similar considerations as he deals with his unexpected success as a telemarketer. We shoot the artist's packing and leaving. And then somebody else says, no, the school girls are all infected by the teachers. There was some kind of board where people posted gossips. Kenneth is a genius. And she started describing him to me, and I knew who she was talking about. WebChicago writer Rebecca Makkai bring us the story of a reality television producer attempting to gossip love into existenceand just how complicated that gets. Brendan Mattox lives in Lansdowne, PA. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. But when I suggest, well, why don't we go after the elite men? AIDS is spread by superstitious, backward villagers. Are you? It was like that. Wherever you go, in the course of your daily life, if you hear anybody talking about AIDS just listen and then go home later in the evening and write it down. And then they go ho, ho, ho. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Right next, after they-- laboratory-- there is this room where it's written that-- ARVs. And we finish our lattes. Newsy stories that try to capture what its like to be alive right now. ", "OK," I say, "sure." His hands in her hair, her hands in his back pockets. Found. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Jeff's defense is that he doesn't have Julie's talent for understanding the contours of gossip. In 2015, Apple Podcasts declared it their first Podcast of the Year. And this has stumped Julie ever since, why Jeff would be so clueless? You were like a cat bringing home a dead mouse for her to lay at her feet. ", He slurps his coffee through the lid and then looks at the ceiling, "Yep. This fiction story originally appeared in the journal Crazyhorse. Instead of going home to Beth, I stay for the party. So while no one exactly condones gossiping where Hazel lives, everyone knows that sometimes it's required. He can sound, at times, both dangerous and uniquely tuned to an unknown rhythm. Even after all our work, by the end of the shoot Kenneth has decided to drop the love arc. Yeah, and in fact, they sometimes, when the men are gossiping or talking, they say, Timun died of AIDS, but he died because he didn't ask us. And if it is gonorrhea you better get it treated very quickly." Redirecting to /i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fthisamerlife Anyway, the women don't want to use condoms. #1 Party School contains especially potent examples of a kind of nihilism that have become the mark of millennial life; its also one of the shows most subtle episodes, revealing the conflicted relationship that America has with its young adults. And I'm wondering if you could just read that? Sarah even makes a compelling case that in some places, gossip could very well be saving lives. You really got to be careful what you say and do, I mean, because people are watching. So he chimes in, makes a connection. She thought maybe we could do a little skit to tell people that. A stranger holding a clipboard. It's only June now. Unfortunately, we don't know the end. Then when I get home, she reads me her journal. WebThis American Life Adam Beckman/This American Life This Week: 199 July 21, 2023 House on Loon Lake This episode will be available Sunday 7 p.m. CT. I was struck by the friendliness, the gangs-all-here aspect of the show. I think I'll gossip because of seeing the way she looked before. Go with that. And it's not like it went underground. Here, you can force the world to be something it's not. It's your summary of what he's written, partly your summary, and partly his words, I think. We have our own terms that we use to name someone who has AIDS, or who is on ARVs. Carrier is fiercely partisan, an outsider in every possible sense, and keenly unafraid to burn bridges. Sometimes the bus driver gets into the story. If 24 Hours at the Golden Apple explored the wealth of a single diner in Chicago, and #1 Party School would go on to discover the millennial death drive at the heart of a small college town, then Scenes from a Mall was the blockbuster shadow sequel to Giant Pool of Money, taking a national event that had ripped through everyones lives and returning it to a milieu in which it could be felt. It was a bulletin board, in fact, in the college's main library. And their prevailing wisdom was that people don't talk about AIDS. Optimism, I suppose, but I don't say that. I think, I made up some stuff maybe, possibly. In addition to his music career, Tony was known for having a loving family and was married multiple times in his life. Where a bunch of kids were, and they were all like playing, like throwing stuffed animals around. And these are all my relatives. They've struck up a friendship. So if a person is said to be on units, that's slang for taking ARVs. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. He says, "I just feel like my whole life has been just this huge struggle," and then he starts snorting and choking and holds up a finger. She says, "But I thought the point for these people was the exposure? It's sick and it's soulless, but it's one of the things I love about my job. But for some people I just meet in my neighborhood or work with, I can't really say that I know what they're positive, maybe suspect. So if someone new came to the neighborhood, maybe someone you liked, or became friends with her, or was a relative and said, "oh, look at your attractive neighbor.