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Is that subject line too obtuse? It seems there's a underlying CUF pressure to come up with witty thread titles. Hopefully Triplet approves.
I love good story telling and few do it better than Ira Glass. I'm a big This American Life fan and wanted to get some discussion on here to see if anybody else listens to the program and to swap favorite/recommended episodes.
Given our families propensity for being late to everything, we tend to travel late at night and I use the This American Life app on my phone to entertain myself while driving, as everyone else sleeps. So it was at 1 a.m. on our way to Salt Lake for Christmas, I pulled up one of my favorite holiday traditions and listened to David Sedaris' reading of The SantaLand Diaries. This is a 20 minute reading of Sedaris' experience of working a seasonal job as an elf in Macy's SantaLand in New York City.
Another episode that I listened to that night was called "Last Man Standing" and highlighted stories about people who felt compelled to standing true to something, even though everyone around them didn't. The Act 3 story is from an LDS girl who compares the First Vision to the story behind Fire in the Sky, which was a supposed UFO abduction in Arizona. I found this whole story fascinating.
I love good story telling and few do it better than Ira Glass. I'm a big This American Life fan and wanted to get some discussion on here to see if anybody else listens to the program and to swap favorite/recommended episodes.
Given our families propensity for being late to everything, we tend to travel late at night and I use the This American Life app on my phone to entertain myself while driving, as everyone else sleeps. So it was at 1 a.m. on our way to Salt Lake for Christmas, I pulled up one of my favorite holiday traditions and listened to David Sedaris' reading of The SantaLand Diaries. This is a 20 minute reading of Sedaris' experience of working a seasonal job as an elf in Macy's SantaLand in New York City.
Another episode that I listened to that night was called "Last Man Standing" and highlighted stories about people who felt compelled to standing true to something, even though everyone around them didn't. The Act 3 story is from an LDS girl who compares the First Vision to the story behind Fire in the Sky, which was a supposed UFO abduction in Arizona. I found this whole story fascinating.
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