This week's This American Life (http://www.thislife.org), a show that isn't normally this direct with its political banter, ended with Ira Glass directly taking on the Bush Administration.
12/3/2005 11:03:16 PM
This American Life is good stuff. I really enjoy Ira Glass' show.
12/3/2005 11:16:24 PM
Haven't listened to this segment, but I like Ira Glass's segments as a whole. This American Life is usually well done.I'm trying to put together a segment from some recordings I took when we paddled the Mississippi River this summer. We'll see how it goes though.
12/4/2005 8:42:09 AM
yeah well, given This American Life's normal listener base, he's most certainly preaching to the choir.
12/4/2005 9:07:01 AM
I don't know man. I probably more conservative than most here and like his stuff. The cat's funnier than hell most of the time. The guy has some talent stringing audio together.But granted, my sample n=1
12/4/2005 10:33:00 AM
^^ oh, that's not even disputable. However, he doesn't normally get that direct about it.
12/4/2005 12:25:35 PM
12/4/2005 12:52:43 PM
It's basically just a show where people tell (most of the time) true stories and stuff like that. It's my favorite NPR show by far. The stuff that's on there is really interesting. You stream old shows on the website (http://www.thislife.org) for free, you should definitely check them out.
12/4/2005 12:59:06 PM
I'm probably going to submit a story from paddling the Mississippi River last summer. Did all my jounals on a tape recorder and am wading through that now. We did an interview with MPR and Greta whats-her-face told me to look into it. Going to take awhile to get it togethter though.
12/4/2005 1:12:49 PM
johnny, you are NOT more conservative than the average t-dubber. you are a fucking hippie.btw, I liked the pun... wading through all that stuff oh, and considering that this is on NPR, remind me again how much of a bias NPR doesn't have...]
12/4/2005 9:54:28 PM
12/4/2005 10:02:12 PM
I couldn'tyou see they were running their goddamn pledge drive and I shot myself in the eardrum so I didn't have to put up with it anymore
12/4/2005 10:59:44 PM
Im a big fan of This American Life. I was surprised by the blatant anti-bush rant, but I found it difficult to argue with.
12/5/2005 1:13:17 AM
^^ i did the same thing back when i listened to commercial radio. Then after I made it through 1 or 2 NPR pledge drives, i realized I would rather listen to pledge drives 24 hours a day than 20 minutes of "Sunday Sunday SUNDAY MONSTER TRUCK RALLEY AT THE RBC CENTER!!!!" on 96.1 or 106.1 or any of that crap.
12/5/2005 4:11:29 AM
Or if you wanted AM talk radio, you could listen to pundits trying to sell you matresses and diet pills.Did anyone where the Car Talk Christmas Special where Ira Glass was Tiny Tim?
12/5/2005 8:05:02 AM
12/5/2005 9:08:55 AM
They did a lot of social commentary during the election. Homosexuality, religion, etc... It usually made the right look bad.But then again, have you ever heard someone defend a ban on gay marriage and look good?
12/5/2005 9:12:58 AM
no, they also covered so-called republican "corruption" god knows how many times - specifically addressing things like ballot stuffing, and other alleged republican election scandals from the 2000 race.now, i don't want to argue about these issues.the point is, TAL has always been, "this direct with its political banter" i guess they are like fox news for libs
12/5/2005 9:37:54 AM
hahahah yeah, mattexcept they're intelligent, funny, diversified, have david sedaris talking about people shitting in dressing rooms and sarah vowell, and there are tons of conservatives who like the showother than that, yeah, just like fox news
12/5/2005 9:55:06 AM
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12/5/2005 9:55:42 AM
12/5/2005 10:08:15 AM
was it? because they advertised it as ira glass. I haven't heard it, so i dunno
12/5/2005 10:17:17 AM
ok, i dunno. Maybe that was Ira and Tom and Ray were kidding.... it's hard to tell when they're joking sometimes, especially on parody shows like the christmas specialand other NPR stations bill it as Ira also, so maybe i misunderstood - http://www.kplu.org/jazz/christmas-specials04.html[Edited on December 5, 2005 at 10:31 AM. Reason : .]
12/5/2005 10:25:31 AM
12/5/2005 10:36:51 AM
How can you not like Sarah Vowell?and btw I've been listening to TAL since 97 or 98, and the vast majority of the shows are apolitical. It's not a politically themed show. It's a show about PEOPLE. Now, during election times, a lot of people are involved in elections, but it's not generally a political show.]
12/5/2005 10:59:25 AM
See, Ex is just trolling now.Because Sarah Vowell's hottwell, at least her personality
12/5/2005 12:03:38 PM
off topic i know- but did anyone hear the segment about the cops that tried to catch the squirrel? that was one of the funniest things i have ever heard.episode 115 act two.[Edited on December 5, 2005 at 3:15 PM. Reason : good stuff]
12/5/2005 3:04:50 PM
I buddy of mine from Gboro (cop) sent me the info on that but I haven't gotten around to digging it up. He said he 'bout shit his pants.
12/5/2005 4:25:52 PM