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Recording this week’s show (well, I closed the closet doors while I read my narration).
@ThisAmerLife
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Thrilled that
@thisamerlife
just won the very first
#Pulitzer
Prize ever given to audio journalism. For this episode:
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The
@PeabodyAwards
were established in 1940 partly because the Pulitzers wouldn’t give out prizes to this newfangled medium called radio. Today, finally, the
@PulitzerPrizes
corrected that, and gave out their first award to audio journalism. Thrilled we got it.
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A stroke of a pen just made me the greatest comedic genius of all time.
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Ten days in quarantine since I shook hands with someone who's tested positive with
#covid19
. So far no symptoms. Feeling hopeful I don't have it. CDC says symptoms can still arrive on day 14, but 5-6 days is average.
@thisamerlife
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Idea for short story: guy asks his girlfriend to take that omnipresent "I'm not a robot" test and she fails and that's how he learns she's a robot.
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Obama on Terry Gross: Her patient, persistent questioning in 1000s of interviews ....revealing simple truths that affirm our common humanity
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Wait - Are murder and shopping the only things we use the word "spree" for?
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I've been staring at this over and over, totally hypnotised, for minutes now.
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I've been sitting in on edits for months - which is basically just Sarah reading to a bunch of us (and playing quotes) over Skype - and even in that form, it's thrilling. And makes your blood boil. I love how ambitious it is.
@serial
This season, we’re tackling the whole criminal justice system. Hear the trailer and subscribe today to get the first episode the moment it drops.
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Steven Hawking: “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.”
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No denying, "This American Carnage" would in fact be a kickass name for a radio show.
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Ok no joke. My sister and brother-in-law - on their 1st anniversary today - bought each other the same gift.
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This makes that fancy prize seem very very real. Which is helpful because three days later I'm still pinching myself.
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Hey
@cher
- I have a quick and friendly question or two for my radio show
@ThisAmerLife
. Any chance you know us? DM me!
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Q: Why do we all call the Republican candidates by last names -Trump, Cruz, Kasich - but the Dems by first names - Hillary & Bernie?
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The Two Popes - am I the only one who missed the memo on how spectacularly good it is? Such great scenes, so much feeling. Knew nothing about it and loved it.
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In my 20s I worked the overnight at NPR and wrote intros for Bob Edwards. He had a very specific wry way of delivering a funny line. Masterful. So fun to write, imagining it in his voice and then he'd nail it every time. Raising a bourbon to you today,Bob.
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Update: Because of the Washington judge's order, the Somali refugees in the open of this week's show will be rebooked to fly here.
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Just heard. Donald Hall died. Former poet laureate. Who's been publishing such fiercely clear-eyed essay lately. This poem about his wife's death, from 1998, is one of my favorite things we've ever aired. I'm sad.
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The mic placement in this podcast they’re making is a crime against podcasts.
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Ok the film Lady Bird a) is NOT a sequel to Jackie like I thought and b) completely real and maybe my fave film this yr.
#ILoveLadybird
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Remembering Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron at a bar after a Q&A: their perfect opposites love made them one of the sweetest, most inspiring couples I've ever known,
@marcmaron
all complicated growlery, Lynn empathetic sunny light. This is fucked up. Dead?
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Three years in the making, our new podcast just launched! All seven chapters! We're really proud
#STown
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"It's as true today as it ever was: he who seeks beauty will find it." Bill Cunningham
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The
@nytimes
asked me to suggest some
@thisamerlife
episodes for holiday listening. Kind of a fun assignment, to find stories that do NOT have to do with the news.
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Didn't know these things about Joe Arpaio.
We've been covering Joe Arpaio for more than 20 years. Here's a couple of things you should know about him... 1/many
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Well, the world turned upside-down.
@Lin_Manuel
Good morning!
Bahahaha I didn't sleep.
But the sun is up and the world still spins.
Let's go.
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I guess the geezers at
@MPAA
haven't noticed: shootings are a big problem while weed's being decrimininalized.
Suicide Squad has machine gun killings and bombings and got a PG-13 rating.
@Dontthinkmovie
gets an R because adults smoke pot. Confusing?
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Ok scientists I mean this as a sincere no kidding question. With no masks available would this old Halloween mask work? Plastic! Virus wouldn’t penetrate. Of course if everyone did it, it’d be feel like a dark comic-book movie or something. But...would it work?
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Well, to be clear
@NRA
, he said maybe there is something.
.
@RealDonaldTrump
is right. If
@HillaryClinton
gets to pick her anti-
#2A
#SCOTUS
judges, there’s nothing we can do.
#NeverHillary
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He waited till now, of course, because he wanted it to be Biden who appoints the new head of
@Radiolab
.
Hey everybody. I have some big personal news. I am stepping aside as host of Radiolab. This show that I started in 2002 - in my basement - is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary, and this feels like the right time.
(1/6)
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Hey world! Our brand new podcast! As good as
@Serial
but different. All the episodes drop 14 days from now!
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Wow.
@tanehisicoates
argues: Hillary claims 1/2 of Trump supporters are racist, islamophobic, etc data's on her side
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No offense, Berkshire Bank, but that’s not what I’m looking for in a bank.
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Guy who looks like me, but a lot younger, at London protests ... who are you?
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Number of my co-workers who've told me they choked up at the end of the story that Daniel Radcliffe read for us on this week's show: three. I did too. That story:
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1st weird thing about doing our show at the
@SydOperaHouse
: squeezing past the 6,000 Pokémon Go players to get in.
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.
@Sethrogen
sure brings a ton of school spirit to this new podcast he’s doing. At every turn he and his team go the extra mile, piling one fun, inventive moment after another. The sound production during the movie theater scene: so good! Storytime!!!!
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Rerun, bro.
@ThisAmerLife
My infuriating attention to detail brain would really love to know why this was labelled episode 165 when the ones before and after are 679 and 680 respectfully. Love your podcasts by the way 😎
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Those spaces are still blank! Pacing stays the same. It's just ... faster.
Just heard that ira glass listens to podcasts at 1.5x or 2x speed. That's interesting because the spaces left intentionally blank is one of the things I admire most about the
@ThisAmerLife
style.
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Wait! "Cold brew" means they actually brew the coffee differently? It's doesn't mean "coffee that's cold"? And everyone knew this but me?
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1st person in crowd outside the closed-for-snow Whole Foods in NY: "We're trying to start a riot" 2nd person: "It's a white privilege riot."
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Ok I stayed in bed for an hour this morning on Twitter instead of going to the gym. So it begins. Twitter is starting to erode my real life.
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Me and my Grandma Frieda, who I wrote about in this week’s show.
.
@iraglass
looks through his grandmother Frieda’s college files, which reveal a whole other side of a person he thought he knew so well.
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Didn't Malcolm Gladwell say you need to do 10,000 tweets before you've nailed it?
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Nothing to add to this. This story is too rare in our world.
We don't see this often. A young father is reunited w/ his son after reports he was killed in a regime attack
#Syria
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Yes this week for the first time ever we’re putting out an extra podcast. It’s not a full show. It’s a story about things happening right now that we worried might not hold for a few weeks, and it seemed better to get it out now.
Our producer,
@chanajoffewalt
, had a series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week. They're so immediate – and particular to this moment in the war in Gaza – that we're bringing them to you now, outside of our regular schedule.
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Some days the New York Times seems better at journalism than any place out there.
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Terry Sawchuk: hockey goalie before they wore masks.
http://t.co/8ICUfRT92I
http://t.co/5ofnRGZgUg
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Me and my friend Mary, who I talk about on this week's show, who died on Tuesday.
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We’ve been working on this for years now and it’s great and very different from S-Town or Serial or our other shows.
We have a new show! “The Trojan Horse Affair” is about a mysterious letter that shocked Britain. Hosted by
@BriHReed
of “S-Town,” and
@HamzaMSyed
. Coming Feb. 3.
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Two days later still can't get that moment "What's my name? Alexander Hamilton" outta my head damn you
@Lin_Manuel
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Nice quote, Julie Snyder. 40 million
@stownpodcast
downloads! Thanks everyone for sticking with us for something new
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In Melbourne I said "blowjob" onstage and was informed after that the term for that here is "headjob." Headjob! Makes so much more sense!
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Stopped by Golden Apple this weekend: dessert display not rotating. Waiter told me he’s NEVER seen it work. What is becoming of our world?
@thisamerlife
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Our ep featuring Michael Phillips, who died today at 39, is on iTunes, Showtime and Amazone Prime. Michael asked us to have
#johnnydepp
be his voice for the story, and - astonishingly - Depp returned our email within minutes, saying yes.
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It's been so long since Michael Lewis wrote about
@SenJohnMcCain
acting on his principles in 1996, but I've this story has always been part of how I saw Sen McCain, thru so much that transpired after.
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So much I admire about ep2 of
#1619podcast
. Overall lucidity, the repeat and long pause and
@nhannahjones
handling after "the combined value of all slaves exceeded the value of all the railroads and factories in all the nation"....
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I'm looking to talk to people in GA or NC who are helping voters fix – or "cure" – their ballots so they can be counted. My DMs are open!
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Tonight try any of Lynn Shelton's perfect movies. I esp. love the emotional realness of Your Sister's Sister, the elegant storytelling of Humpday, the weird funny adventure of Sword of Trust and that gorgeous moment in Outside In when Jay Duplass gets on the kid's bike and rides.
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Okay my first tweet! It's to say: watch this clip!
http://t.co/Zejj4UNUt5
God, I have so many characters left! Want to use every single one.
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I don't have words to describe the pleasure it gives to see characters we've known for yrs get to know each other.
#GameOfThrones
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Marine Captain, talking about Gilmore Girls, casually drops reference to the Bechdel Test.
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People who save lives who were also kind enough to talk to us for hours for the radio.
This is us. The voices you heard in
@ThisAmerLife
podcast The Reprieve. Evan, Geneva, me, Sarah, Anthony, Stan and Erin. Today we binged on treats from
@AvalonBakery
and suffice it to say (in solidarity with Stan) no one will be making their “summer body goals.”
#MedTwitter
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Just listened to The NY Times podcast The Daily for the first time and so impressed.
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I agree. I've been listening and have been blown away by the stories, the interviews, the writing.
@heavyweight
. My new favorite.
Is it possible that I have found a podcast that I love as much as
@ThisAmerLife
? Yes.
@heavyweight
Episode 2:awesome
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Favorite thing anyone's written about Serial: “Who do you think did it?” I asked my friend. “MailKimp,” he answered.
http://t.co/ttgsiCTWB8
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Maybe the most breathtaking story about Ricky Jay. Takes 5 mins starting @ 34:40. He talks, then reporter tells it.
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Other titles they considered:
Pennies from Kevin
Kevin Help Us!
I'm in Kevin
Kevin Knows I'm Miserable Now
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I thought it was great. Captured something real and worth documenting.
I haven’t read that NYT Nazi piece yet. Is literally everyone against it?
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This story is amazing.
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I guess when they decided to change the name, "pet-o-phile" was taken.
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