So it'll take a million and a half dollars, I think. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Production help from JP Dukes. Just say, Joe's being with a camera crew. The future that I found so hard to give up was a much more insidious type. I don't know. All right. If you study one transcript a week, it’ll take you also almost two years to complete! Please listen to the episodes in order. And she ended up just dying. They had a curfew. OK. Let's review our program so far. And he even took the shoelaces out of my shoes, because apparently it's a very common thing when people's licenses are suspended because they hang themselves. And this was presumably the slab that commemorated the exact positioning of the crosses. More of myself and my services than my product? I could live like I'm going to die in six months and not die at all. And I think giving away those thousands of dollars was the first true act of charity I had ever done. And I went to bed that night, which was a very difficult thing to do because I was fully prepared at that point never to wake up again. Or if I choose to go to medical school, that'll be another path. It was a crutch. The show follows the plot and characters wherever they lead, through many surprising twists and turns. And to develop intrinsic security that makes optimum use of their individualized talent. 735: Bloody Feelings. Wait a second. That's it. Juan Pablo, who is The Bachelor now, the season I applied for--. [SINGING] Them that's got shall get, them that's not will lose. And he says, "Yes, I'm sure of it." About a minute. That way you're not selected on false pretenses, and-- and then you end up hating everything. [MUSIC - "SPACE TRUCKIN'" BY DEEP PURPLE]. Not looking for long-term relationships. Everyone within the sound of my voice. You know what I mean? I've been called in many times to give a sort of a Dean, the elder statesman, even though I'm still a young kid. The "StartUp" podcast is that hearstartup.com. One question, he asked. The Mets!" It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. Where are you?" He doesn't have a CD yet, but he's playing gigs in the real world. (LAUGHING) Yeah. What's happening now? But Asia knows this. And here, in the world, people are a little different. I just want to just give you a sense of scope here, just modest scope. He's there for 15 minutes, because there's a lot to do. That's not the struggle no more. I had an itch on my face. I sent out my application for The Bachelor and Mars One around the same time. All the girls, they have, like, 30 seconds to sell themselves to this dude when they walk out of the limo. Transcript. She ended up getting her teeth pulled. Then I had to have an EKG done. No idealizing. I don't know what suspended means," thinking we were having away a witty repartee. Yeah. The theme for this week is new beginnings. Sure, you evaluate the idea, you look at the numbers, kick the tires-- that's all important. For over twenty years, listeners across the country (and around the world) have tuned in to hear Ira Glass and co. share stories, essays and His 100-city comedy tour includes The Chicago Theatre and two cities in New Jersey. And yeah, you can hear on the tapes, people are charmed. Camera pulls back from behind Luke's head, sort of on a mini-crane. And they find that the past is the place that they retreat to. And she said, "I thought so, because they just bit me. I won't have to spend so much on something, then I can sell it for more. We're going to get our product. (16 minutes) Submit Your Fly. 'Wait Wait' For April 10, 2021, With Not My Job Guest Ally Love. OK, now-- It's a lot of rhythm, see? And I wandered around for a number of hours, and it was getting colder. And the name of my company is called Super Business Girl. I told him I had been accepted and that there were 1,000 of us left. Good personality. But I'm not at all in a rush to commit to anything. He was made a free man. One time we did this on Planet Money, sold $600,000 worth of T-shirts. 86 views; 20 Dec 2020; What the day-to-day business of saving the world looks like. There's no way this'll succeed. I can land that skateboard trick. Yeah, I do. "Uh-huh. Just think for a second-- how does it make you feel when you know you are the product and the world is deciding not to buy? What is that supposed to mean? But what we want to talk about is what happened to Kevin Kelly. The Podcast . When I call my little sister, she works at Disney, and so there's Disney music playing on the hold system. And he found himself photographing a lot of religious ceremonies and drawn to religious ceremonies of all sorts. And I'm blowing it. And that is, in fact, what occupied my mind as I went back to my hostel to lay down and think about. All this to say, Chris Sacca and I traditionally run in different circles. That is my business. All right. They criticize anything you do. That's a $10 billion business today that I'm not an investor in. She's a therapist, and sometimes she gets called by the papers and stuff. That happened when he was 27. And basically, we contacted Lawrence, and we told him the story that you heard over the course of the last half-hour, Kevin Kelly's story, this guy who believes he only has six months to live, goes on this cross-country road trip. And so that was the assignment. This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. We will not attempt to answer these questions, by the way, in this hour. They have a thing internally called G-Drive, and it's going to absolutely crush Dropbox. So I had submitted my application to Mars One probably a few months prior to submitting my video. [GIGGLES] Um-- [GIGGLES] I just act like me. How are you making us feel better? Because it's a very scary and alarming idea. So the Bible said, and it still is news. You come outside from under the public radio veil, and you have to worry about whether people are going to be a little bit jaded and feel like they don't necessarily need to donate to a for-profit company to make for-profit content for guys who are doing this for equity and hoping to get rich. Strauss's four last songs, particularly "Ruhe, meine Seele!" It was like I just-- I don't know. If nobody's actually looked at the website, I think it kind of sounds crazy. I had gotten everything arranged. When I told my dad, I was in Whistler, and he had been watching Game of Thrones, which I got him for Christmas. Car is pulling onto entrance ramp of highway. And and then he took a mug shot of me. And they were scattered all across the country. So it's probably really important to be completely authentic. [LAUGHS]. Seth Lind is our operations director. And I was going to have to make it the best way that I could. Who says that? I'm stopping the tape. You know the strong get more, while the weak ones fade. I start again. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. Do you want me to get into television still? Contact Us Today. I came out here thinking I could build a nice profitable business, but Chris isn't looking for profitable. "I hate thinking I'm in a novel," he thinks to himself. Cut to interior of car pulling out of parking lot. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. I think there are a lot of people who have trouble staying in the present. And as part of the show, we were thinking about having me call around to different people and get advice from them. I know just for years, you were urging me to just get out and get, basically, any job in TV that I possibly could. And my hands were freezing on the bicycles, and there was ice on my tents in the morning when I got up. They look to be about 10, 11-ish. With the rising sea levels, we're all forced to live so close to each other, and disease is spreading rampantly. He can't read the hitchhiker's sign. So Zoe tracked her down. The audience is there. And we're all just kind of like standing around, wondering what's going to happen. God bless the child that's got his own. Car interior. And at that very moment, I believed that Jesus Christ had, indeed, risen from those tombs. You have this hyper sense of reality. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. This is the longest shot. We've got no drinking water left. Or, in my case, the Steve Jobs of 20- to 40-minute weekly podcasts. And when the guest is sitting with you, you've got to look into his eyes. I'm talking-- we did this T-shirt experiment at Planet Money where we got $600,000 coming in, where people actually gave us money to buy a t-shirt with our logo on it as part of the content. Not that we would charge for podcasts, but for those of you who don't obsessively read everything written about the future of media, there's this concept called freemium. I take a step back and I see them, and I'm like, wow, you're lucky, man. I remember this particularly low point for me when I was performing in a comedy club in New Jersey, and I was driving back down the ramp into the Lincoln Tunnel, and towards my air mattress in Queens. And if we were trying to not ignore him, what would we do? And then I'm sort of writhing around in circles in the back of the cruiser like a dog trying to shake his medical cone. Enter Name (*) Enter Email (*) Enter Phone (*) Select Program (*) Select State (*) Select your age (30+ only) Confirm over 30 years old (*) Yes: Confirm USA Resident? Eventually, I found myself at the one place that was still open, which was some of the churches. And I reach my face over. Dad is a little too busy to talk. I was a cute girl who knew about business and who liked what I did. The name of my company is called--, (TOGETHER) Super Business Girl. I'm Ira Glass. And she has this little gap between her teeth that she puts right up into the camera and grins at it. And he was the kind of person who had always dreamt about a new beginning, where he wouldn't struggle with these questions. So the girl who's talking right now, she's wearing big black glasses, but do they have--. And I fought it day by day and tooth by tooth. And Bing Crosby. American Life – work hard to do accurate, independent reporting week in, week out. And if he was real, then how could we ignore him? That one needs to have a past, and one needs to have a future to be fully human. To say that this gamble paid off is an understatement. Who is it? So we meet up on 125th Street in Harlem. And the next morning, I woke up, and it was as if-- The next morning I woke up, and it was as if I had the entire-- my entire life again. So ultimately, you're not going to be the only guys in here, and it's going to be pretty competitive. I was a natural born talker, I guess. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. He says, "Did you know that your license is suspended? And I woke up, and I always check my email in the morning on my phone. As Asia works her way down the street, going into crowded barbershops and hair salons, they are happy to give to her. I kind of think you probably just stop being. ", Yeah. HIV clinic parking lot. This is my whole life. Well, the next story is about someone whose future was taken from him when he was wrongly imprisoned for 20 years. And I'm sure that they'll be coming to you too. She's the only one in the clinic who wears a real uniform. Alex Blumberg is not quite a businessman in New York City. Oh, no! I'm trying to put myself in social situations where I don't know people, and like, I have to learn to talk to people. My mixing station and where I do a lot of research and development is on the same bench as my computer, so I just stream The Bachelor and work on formulas. I'm sure I'll get a handle on it," end quote. That's a $10 billion business today that I'm not an investor in. I seen no way. I'm not. When I picture the launch, I picture a lot of media. But it doesn't seem to come as a surprise. Ira. What's next?". Ed Ryder joining us in the playhouse from the studios of WHYY in Philadelphia, speaking with me and associate producer Nancy Updike. But as we do more of this integration, we get people texting in to donate to this stuff, buying some of this product, doing some of these integrated episodes, I know that we're going to have on our hands here something that will ultimately scale to be a network of 12, 15 podcasts. Well, from WBEZ, in the glorious city of Chicago, Illinois. But, he says, he also looks hard at the conviction of the people who are pitching him. Isn't this starting to sound like-- this little dialogue-- isn't it starting to sound like an episode of Dr. Katz? Other adults see me, and the thought that goes through their head is not Hugh Grant. And I went out. "Ah, I arrested this guy for nuttin'!" In the world of audio right now, most people consume-- the kind of audiojournalism that I do, most people consume it over the radio. And these things were in the background, consuming me. Well, our program was produced today by Nancy Updike and myself with Alex Blumberg, Ben Calhoun, Sean Cole, Stephanie Foo, Chana Joffe-Walt, Sarah Koenig, Miki Meek, Jonathan Menjivar, Brian Reed, Robyn Semien, Alissa Shipp. [LAUGHS] And, yeah. It's just, like, wow, let me get on this thing. I'm like-- (DESPERATELY) "Will you scratch my face?" Somebody's going to get raped or murdered, and the blood is gonna be on your hands. You see, you get so confused when you have two pieces of music running at the same time. This is Ed Ryder. And actually, I found that I could think about little else for many, many months, that behind all that I was doing, there was always this unresolved question of was God real. And so eventually, I laid myself out on about the only flat area that was left, which was this marble slab underneath some pendants that had incense on them. And so I'm afraid. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. I had no one I could turn to. Now before I was in public radio, I was a teacher, and before that, a social worker. So all this now is dependent upon me and my own initiative. I and my coworkers on This American Life are not happy to have done anything to hurt the reputation of the journalism that happens on this radio station every day. And tonight's show, we thought that we would have a theme. It's stark, crisp. They all keep hanging around your door. For example, this detail. Advice from the master. Not sure they look better. And--. They have a pregnant one? Right. But before I did that, I made up a will to dispose of the little things that I had. And she is so full of confidence that she basically walks right out of the deli, turns to the group of guys that are just kind of hanging out outside on the street corner, and makes the pitch to them. Dropbox. This is Your Radio Playhouse on WBEZ Chicago. Vision test, colorblind, hearing, breathing, blood work, blood pressure. And I said, "I don't think so." Chris Sacca wouldn't say exactly how much he personally owns of Twitter, but at the time of Twitter's IPO, his venture fund was the single largest shareholder in the company, with a stake of roughly 15%. And so you're actually swimming upstream with that stuff. And they just book it across the street to this deli. Like, that is her branding. That is just how much I have already learned. Lawrence Steger is a filmmaker and a performance artist, just back from performing in Glasgow, Scotland. We've got the subject matter. You know, you're not going to be able to leave the planet. Learn American English and the History and Culture of the United States through this Intermediate Language Podcast. That's an important detail. [MUSIC - "(UH-OH) GET OUT OF THE CAR" BY THE TRENIERS]. That week comes, I realize I hadn't heard anything. Whatever shred of conviction I had about this process at the beginning is gone. There's no going against the grain. You know, when you start a business, it usually takes over your life, at least for a while. My parents had passed. I also dreamt of finding a very lovely lady, and I have. It's interesting that you say that because, actually, as we've approached the first show, I've realized that I am much more comfortable with the notion of every day, work-a-day radio work, and being on every week, and having pieces on the air. And I was telling them all that I had learned about them. I'm saying that you're in danger of appealing to a narrow range of listeners if it becomes a little too-- I don't know what word to use. I'm just going to stop the tape again. So here's the thing. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Luke thinks briefly about how the fingernails keep on growing even after a person dies, but he pushes that thought away with this fingers to his forehead, wonders why he is thinking about that. She said, "That's [BLEEP] awesome!". And I had that moment where I'm thinking, wait, should I preface this conversation with this key piece of information? When you had the horn up, you didn't hold it on a 45 degree angle. That's great. I guess it's kind of like if you know when you're going to die. Not surprisingly, you can read a lot on the internet about how to make a killer pitch deck. I have no evidence whatsoever. She gets mentorship there, she gets classes. Like you don't have cervical cancer or, you know, AIDS. Twitter. I was on my way out the door, and my wife Nazanin stopped me and told me to change my shoes. I've got that backwards. Those are not real glasses. I do not think she's going to get a tape. She got the full Blue Book value for the vehicle. Luke sees hitchhiker with a sign that he stands for any remote meaning to the narrative. "Well, I could do that.". Let's just review. And it's good to know that. Episode 02 . Well, Kevin Kelly is 43 now. I was reborn into ordinariness. And then I'm sweaty. She already knows what she is. You don't have to do it all at once. Yeah, yeah, yeah. At a certain point I find myself deep into an explanation of my friend's successful Kickstarter project. How is my company going to solve that problem? Go on and help yourself, but you better not take too much. This content's really hard to consume. Now I'm going to do a rap for you. I'm a little girl running my own business. Now when I was released and I heard the same song again, it still had that meaning, but now it's a different-- I'm on my own differently because I'm not in prison anymore. Pause it for a second. And let's always be in touch. Toggle Navigation. I thought I was a storyteller. I don't have no prison guards waking me up in the morning, telling me, "Hey, it's time to get up," or "It's time to go eat, " or "It's time where you guys can go to a shower." Holy [BLEEP]. I can start my own band. That's good. Once you have FOMO on your side, says Chris, you no longer have to ask people like him for money. And like screenplays, pitch decks are supposed to follow a standard three-act structure. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. Don't you think that's true? Yeah. Well, can I ask another question? In his latest rebirth, he is the executive editor of Wired magazine, a glossy magazine about the future and the present. And then when he comes back, he's a little more stern. Stephanie says, "You can cry or hold my hand. It's like watching a stage parent whose kid totally loves being on stage. Is this, like, a one-off? Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. My family, and books. Thousands of people would kill for this opportunity. 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