Author Topic: My This American Life of the day (Read 1119 times)

TVC15 · « **on:** October 02, 2008, 01:18:46 AM »

http://indarktrees.com/pics/misc/%23354_%20Mistakes%20Were%20Made.mp3

It's the late 1960s, and in the new technology of cryonics, a California TV repairman named Bob sees an opportunity to help people cheat death. But freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds.

Within a few hours, I will have the complete archive of TAL episodes, minus ~10.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2008, 01:20:07 AM »

This American Life

You should come with Em and I the next time Ira Glass takes the show on the road. We saw it at The Paramount a couple years ago... it was so awesome.

drozmight · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2008, 02:43:44 AM »

I remember this one...

kinda bummed me out.

TVC15 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 02, 2008, 02:58:18 AM »

Like a full third of TALs have a part that's a total palpable bummer. It's kinda what makes it such a great show.

drozmight · « **Reply #4 on:** October 02, 2008, 03:11:04 AM »

True.

Did you hear that one about the factory owner that lured some dudes from India and basically held them hostage in this factory as slave labor?

TVC15 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 02, 2008, 03:12:40 AM »

Quote from: drozmight on October 02, 2008, 03:11:04 AM

True.

Did you hear that one about the factory owner that lured some dudes from India and basically held them hostage in this factory as slave labor?

Yes! I listened to that one today, too. I was going to post that and say this is what it would be like if libertarians had their way.

drozmight · « **Reply #6 on:** October 02, 2008, 04:41:39 AM »

Such a good podcast... I love it.

Is the radio show different from the podcast? I sometimes get the impression they just rehash things for the podcast.

TVC15 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 02, 2008, 05:13:06 AM »

Quote from: drozmight on October 02, 2008, 04:41:39 AM

Such a good podcast... I love it.

Is the radio show different from the podcast? I sometimes get the impression they just rehash things for the podcast.

They are identical. Sometimes the podcasts have Ira asking for donations at the beginning, though.

Also, they do frequently do repeats. You can go to their website and look at the radio schedule. The ones with the lower numbers are repeats.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #8 on:** October 02, 2008, 11:06:43 AM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on October 02, 2008, 05:13:06 AM

Also, they do frequently do repeats. You can go to their website and look at the radio schedule. The ones with the lower numbers are repeats.

Repeats seem more frequent since they started the TV series.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #9 on:** October 02, 2008, 12:52:08 PM »

I thought Ira Glass was a gay black dude at first.

Its a good series. I hate Podcasts generally but this is probably one of the few Podcasts that are actually worth listening to.

TVC15 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2008, 02:01:44 PM »

I thought he was gay, too, but it turns out that's just the voice he uses to let us know he's jewish.

I was heartbroken when I learned he was married

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2008, 03:15:37 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on October 02, 2008, 02:01:44 PM

I thought he was gay, too, but it turns out that's just the voice he uses to let us know he's jewish.

I was heartbroken when I learned he was married

Yeah, I was shocked when he was talking about watching The OC with his wife... I figured he was gay for some reason.

But hey, TAL has Dan Savage, David Sedaris and David Rakoff. It's all good.

border · « **Reply #12 on:** October 02, 2008, 10:47:12 PM »

Are you buying TAL from iTunes, or did you find a particularly good (and complete) torrent? I'd love an archive that's properly ID3-tagged.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #13 on:** October 03, 2008, 12:29:53 AM »

All the mp3s are still on thislife.org for free, you just have to know how to find them.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #14 on:** October 03, 2008, 12:32:51 AM »

Cybernetics was a good episode, but I was wicked fucking high when I first heard it so it scared me

TVC15 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 03, 2008, 01:42:37 AM »

Quote from: distantmantra on October 03, 2008, 12:29:53 AM

All the mp3s are still on thislife.org for free, you just have to know how to find them.

I poked around and I couldn't find them. Going through comments on other sites, it appears they've changed their scheme a few times.

I found 3 torrents, around 12 gigs total, on What.Cd. Episodes 1-362. I might upload some to one of my servers and put them behind a pwd gate or something and give the passwords to select people.

border · « **Reply #16 on:** October 03, 2008, 03:22:38 AM »

You'll have to do more than "poke around" their website. Their streaming player actually streams the old shows in an MP3 format, but the location of those files is obscured by their proprietary flash MP3 player. You can pull up the source code for the window that the flash player opens in, but that doesn't help either. I used to be able to download their files when they used RealAudio, because you could use 3rd party players that didn't obscure the source of the stream.....I suspect that's why they've switched to a custom player

I suspect you could find the MP3 file by sniffing your network connection and actually looking at where the data is coming from, but doing that for 365+ episodes is impractical at best.

I mostly just want a set of properly tagged files, that include the whole episode description in the ID3. I'm not even sure the torrents would have that.

TVC15 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 03, 2008, 03:27:34 AM »

Mine don't include full episode descriptions, but they do have all the episode titles, so you can look up the descriptions on the website if you wanted. I don't really have the patience to update 362 files with descriptions.

EDIT: Also, I could have come up with a solution to capture the eps as they streamed, but that would have been like, months slower than just nabbing a torrent.

TVC15 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 14, 2008, 01:11:05 AM »

Update, since making this thread (the day I got the full collection), I've already worked backwords to early 2005! I've listened to almost 3 years of TAL in 10 days.

TVC15 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 14, 2008, 01:14:38 AM »

How is that possible?

TVC15 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 14, 2008, 01:16:38 AM »

It's not Ira's voice, is it?

TVC15 · « **Reply #21 on:** October 14, 2008, 01:18:32 AM »

Leper this filth.

TVC15 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 14, 2008, 01:21:48 AM »

They'd never be able to finish the Evilbore episode. I'd rape Ira to death during the making of it.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #23 on:** October 14, 2008, 01:28:16 AM »

Em and I saw Sarah Vowell again tonight at Town Hall. It was pretty awesome.

Oh yeah, I love you Genghis, but leper status. NOW.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #24 on:** October 14, 2008, 12:33:24 PM »

yeah, Genghis you're definitely the first person I've known, on the internet and in real life, to say they don't like TAL.

Anyway, just listened to "Something for Nothing" a few days ago. The monologue about the hands on the car contest is amazing! That guy talking psyched the shit out of me. Unfortunately, the DVD "Hands on a Hard Body" is long OOP and sells for $80. Found a torrent and I'm gonna watch it soon. I also liked the last segment about the dumpster diving dad.

Loved "Giant Pool of Money" as well, probably the most genuinely informative piece of journalism I've heard/read in my entire life. have yet to listen to the follow up.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #25 on:** October 14, 2008, 01:55:53 PM »

Quote from: Kranz Fafka on October 14, 2008, 12:33:24 PM

yeah, Genghis you're definitely the first person I've known, on the internet and in real life, to say they don't like TAL.

I don't think Prole likes TAL either. If I remember correctly, he's made fun of me for liking it in the past.

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Author Topic: My This American Life of the day (Read 1119 times)