This American Life
I love This American Life. The topics are great, the production is great, and Ira Glass’s nonchalant demeanor just makes the show. Unfortunately I don’t get to listen to it that often because our local NPR affiliate doesn’t carry it. However, TAL does offer streaming versions and a rather complete archive of all the shows on their site which I try to listen to whenever I get the chance.
Today I listened to a great one about quiz shows and things of that nature, I highly recommend it. There’s a section about a guy who was on Jeopardy, with some great commentary about the ‘quiz show’ side of his brain versus the ‘real life’ side. They have a bit on the MIT Mystery Hunt (ever take part in this Adrian?), which sounds like fun.
I also started listening to an episode called Tough Room, my favorite part being about how The Onion’s writers come up with their headlines.
The internet is awesome.
On a random note, I’m kinda upset that we didn’t get to see the lunar eclipse tonight because it was cloudy. Boooooo!
February 21st, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Yeah, I did 6 straight years of the mystery hunt, even hunting from out here, until I hung up my hunting cap.
Man, those were ridiculously hard. The number of times that I worked on a puzzle for two or more hours and got no closer to solving it than I was when I started is too numerous to mention.