All right, so we are on to guest number two now. And we'll see you next time, if we're not all fleeing a wildfire or hurricane on You Bet Your Planet's Life. "I'm just responding to your recent request for health coverage, just trying to reach out to you and see how we can help you today." That's more like it. This, of course, is my colleague Tobin Low. Well, congratulations, Melissa, for winning round one. 786: It's a Game Show! from This American Life - Podbay So fast forward a year later. And then the two versions after that are basically identical to Brian's. And nobody knows where he went. He laughed. I was volunteering to become an audiobook recorder at the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. That's interesting. So George, maybe you should explain exactly what that's about. Something we've never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show. And the very end, where the friends see the TikTok video and ask themselves the question. But the friends are like, he's definitely talking about Elliot. But then this man starts talking about this terrible, toxic relationship that he was in. 780: Setting the Record Straight - This American Life Its called They're Made Out of Meat. Its performed by actors Maeve Higgins and H Jon Benjamin. Could you tell that story? It turns out he's not theonly onelooking for an answer to that question. So anyone who lived in China my age or above would know that's the age of the material from the BBC. Do you remember? OK, you can't see that I am squirming in my seat, because unfortunately you went the wrong direction. And the irony of it is that I grew up in-- I was born in '84. Everything that's not in the Bible is wrong type of person. I mean, so you hear yourself as B-plus? Only a handful of people in the world would understand what it means, of course. If you don't remember something, that's fine. The app includes a "Best of This American Life" section with different acts from the show broken down into bite-size clips, so you can enjoy the show even if you don't have a lot of time. Coolidge won reelection by a landslide in 1924. (6 minutes)Act One: Among the big items in DeSantis's run for president is medical freedom. Here you go. Would you like to talk to Larissa a little bit more before locking in your answer? In Chinese, that was really going to throw me for a loop. Left the cat, no explanation, ghosted his fiance. And I'll just tell you right now. Glass may well be suited to manipulate his audience into convulsive laughter or tears, but I have never finished broadcast feeling as though I were duped into feeling anything. Right. (10 minutes)Act Two: Ian Brown explains the lengths a normal dad will go to give his daughter a memorable birthday party, including a birthday stunt so crass that he and his wife shocked all of their friends. That really makes sense. But also, my aspiration for self acceptance. What do you do? Is there any chance at all, any chance, that the United States is going to make the goals? Perinatal Palliative Care | ACOG I'm good with 15%, right in the middle. And my mom and some of her peers had said, oh, you have this very narrow window in which your tongue can adjust to the new language or not, because Chinese is so different than English. If you enjoyed this episode, you may like these. OK. What's going to keep us from maybe getting there as fast as we want is all the non-technical stuff. No, no, if we were-- I think if it were aspirational, Tobin has achieved that last 2% to get to 100. (7minutes)Act Four: Many of us, especially when were young, feel like were the alien, trying to understand and fit in with the humans on this planet. Around June, Elliot mentions that he's going home for a bit, doesn't mention Kyle. And you're just kind of like, what the heck? And when she herself had little twinges of like, oh, maybe I sound different, she shrugged it off as being too hard on herself. But I can't really verbalize exactly what that difference is. And I said what, I don't have an accent. The big one here is methane. Melissa Lott, our contestant in the climate game show-- she has a podcast of her own, The Big Switch, about the transition to a net zero world. By the way, Tobin Low, who was in Act 1, happened to be a guest on Normal Gossip when they did this. But just like the juiciest gossip, maybe it would spread. Our managing editor is Sarah Abdurrahman. And then I took him for all he's worth. And she explained all this to me and told me how since coming on our show, she was feeling self-conscious about her English in a way that she hadn't for years. It's tax credits supporting clean electricity. He's suddenly super religious, but also still very much queer. His head wasn't full of Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and Sartre and Proust; he was a blank slate. So what's it like in Florida?Prologue: Florida is now the fastest growing state, and DeSantis says people are moving there from all over because of him. Now he's with women at the end. They started dating sometime before the pandemic. We got a cat together, Mr. Mistoffelees. Oh, that's so frustrating, because that's the age I came here. Because this surprised me. A This American Life Christmas Playlist. It's sort of like all of us are playing the game, all the time. Alex didn't really expect anything interesting to happen. The apartment is empty. The friends are-- one of them, at least, is on their TikTok page on their FYP--, And on the FYP is a video of an evangelical TikTok influencer who is apparently extremely religious, extremely fundamentalist, has really problematic opinions--, And is like, here's my lifestyle. 26 people holding knives, and yet not a single one of them is stabbing anyone else." She leaned over, planted a soft kiss on my forehead, and said, "Let's agree that this is a pretty good day." I don't know if we're going to get over the 50% line in time, though. We're talking about 2050. Its the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. The reasoning here is that Luke has nailed every single sentence. Daring. Click the card to flip Coolidge twice vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, a legislative priority for farmers. If you feel like tweaking a detail for fun, you can. Prologue - This American Life S202 E1 - PRESENTING ATOM EVE SPECIAL EPISODE. You basically just read some passages. And when you view that whole attitude now, like, how do you see it? Maybe the only way she could ever find out once and for all if indeed she can do this. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. And you gave me like a 93. I thought about it as the rigidity of my tongue. OK, so I should say right off the bat that what I have is a whole hodgepodge of stuff. Carter lives in Indianapolis. Special thanks today to John Bistline, Cen Qian, Justin Ellis, Kelsey McKinney, Jae Towle-Viera, and Geoff Triplett. So each guest is somebody who immigrated to the United States from China at some point in their life. IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Lubbock Deaf, INC. is an approved contractor for the State of Texas. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. 786: It's a Game Show! by This American Life | Podchaser Producer Zoe Chace wanted to understand its appeal and its growing popularity. (786) 749-5927 (631) 339-0753 . We find out. Turns out Kyle just packed up and disappeared. They like each other. And Melissa, in each of your turns that we're going to do, you will propose a number for the amount of emissions that you think we can cut. In the hours that followed, some of the women called the clinic to report their pain but most of the staff members who fielded the patients reports did not know the real reason for the pain, which was that a nurse at the clinic was stealing fentanyl and replacing it with saline. Right. You are-- I feel like I'm meeting my future self, the person that I would-- the comfort with my accent that I am aspiring to be. We've created an entire radio game show for that purpose. Yeah, sentence one. And it just-- it bums me out to see it happen so quickly, even in such a low stakes story. Let's call the cat Mr. Mistoffelees from Cats the musical, as one does. It is massive. Well, Ira, hailing from New York City and Austin, Texas, director of research at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, she's modeled parts of the climate and energy future and worked around the globe for the US government, the International Energy Agency and the Asia-Pacific Energy Research Center. Here's how Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., and more resemble the real-life characters they portray. The home turned out tobe aperfect time capsule, containing the furniture, letters and personaleffects of an entire family abandoned for decades. And you know, it's a weird thing to sound, like, relaxed and natural while reading words off a page in a totally soundproof room, hearing your voice on headphones. So it came out like sung, rather than song. Can you tell me a little bit why? The adult me doesn't necessarily endorse the goal of speaking accentless English and the need to fit into the perfect American ideal, whatever that is. So we are very excited to bring you something we have never heard of anybody trying, namely, an entire program of stories done as game shows. And it is this guy talking about how he catfishes people. I think this one is a bit challenging. I'm viral for these horrible opinions. And suddenly they see a viral video with Kyle. The only parts of the story that didn't change practically at all were the very beginning. And that process of making it explicit is what actually makes me sound really different, whereas--. Until by the fifth telling of the story, he's out and out malicious, even criminal. And they're not pretty. That version wasn't part of a game. Besides that, she casually ad libs this kind of loose dialogue in the beginning where Elliot's friends are all aflutter about meeting Kyle. Watch INVINCIBLE - PRESENTING ATOM EVE SPECIAL EPISODE | Prime Video Because you don't have an ABC like me just mangling your name left and right. So like the fact that we are both in the same ballpark kind of affirms my sense that OK, I am not crazy. BEEPED VERSION. Yeah, my name is Larissa Jo. In retrospect, I think what happened is that everyone knew that there was this thing coming in the story where Kyle was going to leave Elliot. Thank you, George. Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. And the friends see the TikTok and they're sharing it. It turns out I can tell the difference blindfolded. Funnily, this is the first iteration of the story where the detail of Kyle being previously married to a woman was left out. (12 minutes)Act Three: Audio artist Jay Allison and writer Dan Robb present an audio montage on the moment Robbs parents divorced. Ooh. Not quite, not quite. Well, Ira, the big board is at 40%, which means she needs another 10% to reach our goal of 50% emissions cut. Credit: Awashima . Our executive editor is Emanuele Berry. Let's talk about that next round, because the first goal that America set for itself with the Paris Agreement is to cut 50% of our emissions by 2030. from This American Life on Podchaser, aired Sunday, 4th December 2022. And we all take one step closer to planetary disaster. If the judges rule that that's credible, if there's reasonable evidence that your proposal could work at the scale and speed you say it could, you will hear this sound. OK, so now it is your second turn, Melissa. Then Elliot proposes and Kyle proposes back. The frilled shark usually lives in waters of a depth of 600 meters. So it's been a real pleasure to talk. There is no note. (15 minutes). And why don't we bring on today's contestant? Maybe you heard his voice in there. Yes, absolutely. So being able to actually build something, get it permitted, get it paid for in our markets. Download Transcript Getty/CBS Photo Archive Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. In your view, is there a credible path towards that that you can imagine actually happening? Larissa, can you read sentence number two? View episode details Next week preview Featured Announcement May 17, 2023 And I have to say, my Asian fear of failure is kicking in too. And do I wish that? - This American Life Full episode Transcript 786: It's a Game Show! Archive; Recommended; How to Listen; About. This American Life T-shirt. Why do I speak this way? This American Life. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. 786: It's a Game Show! | This American Life - Podpage Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago. I held on to an XM Radio subscription only because they added TAL to their lineup. This American Life: 786: It's a Game Show! on Apple Podcasts Yes. This American Life. They were playing my song. OK, you're going for 16. And last season, the producers recreated a version of-- you know that old game, telephone, where somebody whispers something to the person next to them who whispers it to the person next to them and on down the line. (25 minutes), Governor Ron DeSantis is running for president on the argument that he'll do for America what he's done for Florida. Here's what I'm going to say. Alex grabbed one of the gossip stories from their inbox and read it to the first guest that they had. Each week we choose a theme. But having said all that, I wonder if you can hear my accent. There's a bunch of different reasons. Listen Early to This American Life: The Florida Experiment And I'm not living in delusion. So we've already built a lot of wind turbines, a lot of nuclear power plants, a lot of solar panels. And then I spoke to my boyfriend at the time who is American, grew up in America. July 21, 2023. And when he said that, was that a moment of recognition? And a lot of it is just doing a lot more of what we've already been talking about. How are you feeling, Jiayang? I said, if I find let's say three people who moved to this country, could we have you come on the radio and you would guess how old they were when they arrived? And it's all a sham. And so that is what we're here to do today. So this is two. Tony Bennett, eminent stylist of American musical standards and last of the great saloon singers, dies at 96 AP Jul 21, 2023 Tobin Low is one of the editors of our show. Because in my effort to look up Jiayang's videos, I saw one of you interviewing restaurants in Chinatown. The movie stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and tells the story behind the atomic bomb. And that I could hear in their speech something that they themselves didn't even necessarily hear. And the group chat starts doing Zooms as you do. It's the way she says the word song. Having a fellow Asian-American who looks exactly like me coach me through that process, hearing exactly how much more American she sounded than me, it made me think anew about my voice and the way I speak English. But first, you need to hear the original version of the story, so that you can appreciate when we get there how different it was by the end of the game. 786: It's a Game Show! With Great Power Comes Great Pronounceability - This American Life She's a magazine writer. (25 minutes)Act Three: Among the legislation introduced by DeSantis that has passed is a ban on minors receiving transition care. This American Life. And that just hit something in Jiayang in this way that doesn't usually happen. And so with that in mind, we turn to our next game show. Reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi followed how things unfolded at one of the biggest universities there, Florida State, from the bills introduction all the way to its passage. Right. Newsy stories that try to capture what its like to be alive right now. Jiayang, welcome. 1 . It's absent. Newsy stories that try to capture what. Going all the way. Right. That version, the fifth one, was the one told by our very own Tobin Low. They think hes a free spirit; she believes hes a worried, miserly grump. They move in together, adopt a cat, and are teaching it all kinds of tricks. And sometimes you wont even know why youre crying, all youll know is that some sort of emotional release is needed before reintegrating yourself into the outside world.Remember how the television show The Outer Limits began with the warning, We have taken control of your TV. well, Ira Glass and Co. take control of your emotional state with full reign to raise you to dizzying heights of euphoric happiness or plung you down, down into unsettling depths of despair.So beware. Thank you, Ira. This was when I lived in Seattle. Universal Pictures. Act Three. Yeah. Unless you're me. Jeff Hinchee On This Week's Episode: Ron DeSantis is running for president on the argument that he'll do for America what he's done for Florida. OK, so between those three buckets, you're saying that adds up to 10%. (1 minute)Act One: Adam Beckman tells the first part of his story, about how, back inthe 70s, he and his friends brokeinto an abandoned house in thesmall town of Freedom, New Hampshire. When the comedian Brian Park tells it next, the guy in the TikTok video is not Kyle but one of Kyle's many unsuspecting victims, warning other TikTokers to watch out for this predator, which of course, makes a lot more sense. Frank, can you talk a little bit about learning English and that process for you? This American Life. His voice, his sound. I think it's going to be close. Yeah, that was news to me. Bobby, we're telling the story. Oh sure, This American Life almost always begins with some rollicking, humors piece directly related to its theme. Or to be very precise about this, our country's goal for the Paris Agreement is to cut 50 to 52% of where our emissions were back in the year 2005. A few weeks later, the group Zooms and Kyle doesn't show up. So I think that President Biden's big climate and energy law is going to actually get us all the way to that 15%. The Real . Jiayang is going to play that game. Published July 1, 2019 at 7:26 PM EDT Listen Text messages, calls, and voicemails selling insurance have overwhelmed some customers' phones. You're the next contestant on This American Life. And George, tell her what she's won. Just talking about the part of this that we in this country control. This American Life "A whole galaxy of alternative holiday music that I didn't know existed - songs that I'd want to listen to anyway, even if it wasn't this time of year." 787. Janet wrote the book Project Girl. Section Navigation. BEEPED VERSION. I don't want that. 776: I Work Better on Deadline - This American Life Is there any chance at all, ladies and gentlemen, that we will actually make our goals and cut our emissions to half? But they're also hewing pretty closely to the basic plot points they heard in Tracy Clayton's version. The stories within have the ability cling to you for days, weeks, month, or even a lifetime. And he's just going off and saying all of this terrible stuff. Did you hear what happened there? So to fix that, we build a lot of wires to move the stuff around. How well you can speak without an accent. Our friend of a friend is like, what the fuck? His whole thing is that he pretends to be gay. I'm with you 100% on that. (1minute)Act One: Susan Burton introduces some of the many women who went to a Yale fertility clinic for IVF treatment, and charts their experience from hopeful beginning to excruciatingly painful egg retrieval. This is the producer of Normal Gossip, Alex Sujong Laughlin. I would be loathe not to admit that it sometimes can be geekily playful, but really, my friends, if you're telling yourself you've never been a geek about anything, you need to check your pulse. Welcome to a game we are calling Date of Arrival, in which Jiayang Fan tells you when you immigrated to the United States. She hears this part. Like he's like, I was in this awful relationship, but I found God. I'm 34. And they're an emblem, they're like a memory of that. Everyone in the group chat was obsessed with Kyle. Here's a poem by Jaret Carter from his new book, The Land Itself, from Monongahela Press. 786: It's a Game Show! We were sitting there. (30 minutes. No pressure. So he is the platonic ideal. (25 minutes), Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them.Prologue: Ira has some thoughts about our countrys long history of alien invasion movies. I appreciate it. I don't know if we're going to get all the way there. And when I heard that they could tell I didn't sound like I was from the US, I felt-- I don't know, a little disappointed or a little offended. It's like he never lived there. Like I do feel self-conscious about it. We are ready for our next guest. It really happened. But what that means is we are already halfway to our goal of 50% by 2030 before we even start our game. I'm definitely going to need the second sentence, Tobin. Tony Bennett Photos: Best Pics of the American Legend - Billboard "This American Life" 786: It's a Game Show! (Podcast Episode 2022 I think that I would have assumed that that would survive in some way in the retellings. It makes me think of the way that people become caricatures to each other. Since Audible will be refunding this year's subscription price, I plan to send the money to my local public radio affiliate. And I grew up when the only Chinese you were supposed to speak was state-mandated, like accentless Mandarin. Can I ask you in the most real way possible, do you think that's actually going to happen? I'm going to stand up for where I come from, the things that shaped me, the things that-- even the experiences that made me enunciate. First mention of Kyle taking the cat with him. So Melissa, your goal is to credibly get us the next 25% on top of that in just eight years. I'm going to go all the way to 50%. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. Friends, especially white friends, told her she didn't have an accent. I think that's right. The Brief, Dry Life of Burger King's All-Cheese 'Burger' Sure. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. One of our producers, Sean Cole, has this rundown of what happened when they did a version of that on Normal Gossip and how it revealed some interesting things about the stories that we tell each other. While they were gearing up for season two, they got to talking about how long it had taken during season one for the guests to relax and settle into the conversation. Something we've never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show. Why? And she's not somebody who's normally on the radio. Torey Malatia, come on down. That's not that long from now. The judges say yes. That's in a minute. Chapter 20 Inquizative 3.4 (24 reviews) Get a hint Identify the statements that describe President Calvin Coolidge and his administration. We are going to go ahead and have you read sentence number one. He probably took all his furniture and food and whatever. And if you haven't heard Normal Gossip, the way it works, people in the show basically dish about actual gossip. They're playing my song. This American Life is so very different from any other radio experience I've probably ever had or will have. So bucket two is about working with just a few big industries. You get the sense, listening to Bobby and Lindsey, that they know they're embellishing some of the details. And so they come across a TikTok of a very evangelical, like born-again Christian, very strict. Anyway, that's where we start. All right. And now I'm just like, why? Jiayang has thought a lot about the way that she speaks English and the way that others do, going back to when she was seven years old and she came to the United States from China. OK, great. Let's bring in some inappropriately cheerful game show music. I have complete faith in you, Jiayang. But wait, there's more. But Fan Jiayang, what you said about my accent is what I think most native speakers and other people have said, which is there doesn't seem to be a discernible accent. And my ex was toxic. Josh's family didn't play much of a role in his daily lifeuntil duty called, and they took over his life. I'm going to say-- I'm deciding between 15 and 16. 27 . And he said yes, you speak very good English. It's massive. #786: It's a Game Show! : r/ThisAmericanLife - Reddit Right. But remember, this is only round one. OK. All of the reverse engineering Tobin talked about was complete, which makes you wonder if there's a natural end to a game like this. Got my hands up. And certainly no mention of multiple victims of same. No one should ever play this game ever again. But for the most part, the changes were for a very specific reason. AA786 (AAL786) American Airlines Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware What are the stories we tell about women's pain and what happens when we minimize or dismiss it?The Retrievals, a new five-part series from Serial Productions,is hosted and reported by longtime This American Life producer and editor Susan Burton. Chapter 20 Inquizative Flashcards | Quizlet So what's it like in Florida? (11 minutes)Act Four: Chicago playwright Beau OReilly talks about how he reconciled with his estranged father years ago by becoming an alcoholic just like him. And then it gives us a lot of tax credits to bring a lot of electric vehicles on the road. Larissa, the last time we talked, you told a story about volunteering for a local library at some point.