Has anybody ever heard this show? They had a hysterical show today on testosterone (http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=220).

~String

I didn't hear today's episode, but I do really like the show. Maybe I'll download it and listen to it in the car tomorrow.

PS Did you hear the one about the guy who's dad died and vowed then and there (as a ten year old kid) to build a time machine? He actually got a doctorate in physics at a time when that wasn't so easy for a black kid and, ultimately came up with a theoretical time machine. The catch was, his machine couldn't travel back further than the day it was turned on.

Anyway, it discusses his path from reading the classics illustrated comic book version of the time machine and trying to build that machine from the picture to becoming a physicist. Great story.

I didn't hear today's episode, but I do really like the show. Maybe I'll download it and listen to it in the car tomorrow.

PS Did you hear the one about the guy who's dad died and vowed then and there (as a ten year old kid) to build a time machine? He actually got a doctorate in physics at a time when that wasn't so easy for a black kid and, ultimately came up with a theoretical time machine. The catch was, his machine couldn't travel back further than the day it was turned on.

Anyway, it discusses his path from reading the classics illustrated comic book version of the time machine and trying to build that machine from the picture to becoming a physicist. Great story.

It's the first episode I've ever listened to. I'll be tuning in on Sunday's from now on.

Odd... it seemed like a show that our more liberal friends here would like.

~String

It's the first episode I've ever listened to. I'll be tuning in on Sunday's from now on.

Odd... it seemed like a show that our more liberal friends here would like.

~StringThere's no accounting for taste. It is a great show. I don't hear it live that much since it moved to its current time, but I've been a fan for years.

I adore This American Life.

• #253 — The Middle of Nowhere (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=253): The opening segment is creepy, and Act I (Nauru) is properly, humorously tragic. I'm pretty sure I missed Act II (dealing with the phone company).

• #322 — Shouting Across the Divide (http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=322): A glimpse of American shame in Act I, about the effects of bigotry on Muslims after 9/11; Act II is hilarious, about race relations and advertising.

• #328 — What I Learned From Television (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=328): From the 2007 live tour, featuring David Rakoff on watching television, Sarah Vowell on Thanksgiving, Ira Glass' reflections on celebrity, and Dan Savage about perverted television for kids. Prologue features writer Jane Espenson (BSG]) and director J. J. Abrams (Lost).

The camraderie on the show is phenominal. The way they all play off of eachother. I actually set about finding a way for my comptuer to record them... until you told me that you can download old episodes. They are so blunt and yet so easy going. I found myself laughing to tears this past sunday. I will DEFINATLY be listening to the show again.

~String

I adore This American Life.
[indent]• #253 — The Middle of Nowhere (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=253): The opening segment is creepy, and Act I (Nauru) is properly, humorously tragic. I'm pretty sure I missed Act II (dealing with the phone company).]
That story about Nauru was tragic. They completely devastated their land leaving a lunar like landscape and blew all the money. Talk about your cautionary tales. And if that story wasn't bad enought, those refugees from Australia get stranded there.

I feel like such an old man, all giddy about a radio show! I can't wait 'till Sunday to hear the next one. Then again, it ain't so odd... there's that really funny game show on NPR (can't remeber the name) on Sundays and the car talk-show with those two New Englanders that's also pretty damned hysterical.

~String

"Car Talk" and "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!" are the shows.

~String

I love Car Talk. Listen to it every week. Wait, wait don't tell me I can take or leave.

"Car Talk" and "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!" are the shows.

Car Talk is good, but I'm not as into it as other stuff. Wait, Wait is excellent, and Says You! (http://www.wbhm.org/Programs/Says_You.html) cracks me up.

Check out RadioLab (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/) if it's available in your area. I miss it most of the time, but they had a great episode on "War of the Worlds" last year, and one in which they discussed music, including ... is it Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?

On Edit: Okay, this is really trippy. The "War of the Worlds" episode is slated to be broadcast on March 7, and I can't find it it in the podcasts available on iTunes. But I know I've heard it. (Cue creepy music: ooo-eee-ooo-ooooooo.)