Talk:This American Life

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[edit] Another Theme

I believe another reoccurring song in TAL is Deep Blue Day by Brian Eno. It can be found on the Trainspotting soundtrack. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.217.56.227 (talk) 03:49, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Random Question

Does anyone know where one can find who performed a musical piece in an episode? I'm specifically thinking about the awesome rendition of the flight of the bumble bee directly preceding the Car Talk piece in the Fiasco episode. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.81.206.105 (talk) 04:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] NPR

Although TAL is distributed by PRI, why does NPR's display TAL as if it was part of their distribution? How so?

I don't believe NPR does this. NPR's website says nothing about "This American Life". Many NPR-affiliated stations broadcast "This American Life", but they also broadcast plenty of other programs that are distributed by PRI and also American Public Media. Nizamarain 16:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Not entirely true, NPR does have a podcast page for TAL here with an informational page here. While I don't see this as NPR billing TAL as part of its line-up it is also not the other end where NPR has nothing about TAL on its web page. -- Greyed (talk) 07:40, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Julie Snyder?

I don't think the link of Julie Snyder is correct. The picture appeared in thislife.org for Julis Snyder is a different person (http://www.thislife.org/images/staff/cincinnati_promo/julie.jpeg). The Bio is also different (http://www.thislife.org/pages/staff.html). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 170.171.252.130 (talk) 17:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Yet another question.

Thanks to whomever compiled the music list, however I've searched and searched for a guitar instrumental that has been featured on the radio version of TAL and have not been able to find it anywhere. It's a very slow strumming electric guitar with, I think a slow bass along with it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.215.171.72 (talk) 00:06, 9 May 2007 (UTC).

It's probably Rumble by Link Wray, that is on the list already. 68.6.50.247 (talk) 01:39, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Running Time - 50 or 60 minutes?

The show runs 60 minutes. The podcast versions, as well as the versions available for download on Audible.com, typically run between 59 and 60 minutes, and these do not include station breaks or "whatnot".

This is different from, for example, Fresh Air, which consists of about 45-46 minutes of content, which is then stretched out to an hour by station breaks, news, etc.

This American Life runs the full hour, there is no news break in the beginning, and if there are any station breaks, they are inserted very briefly into the musical breaks between segments. This is conclusively proven by the fact that when you download the program and play it, it lasts the full 59-60 minutes. Nizamarain 16:17, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Episode list

before this section gets out of hand, i'm wondering if an unenclopaedic episode list is really necessary. the data is no more than a copy/paste job from the original site, and offers nothing to this article that an external link wouldn't provide.--emerson7 | Talk 21:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, the the same could be said for the vast majority of Wikipedia. After all, it is a tertiary source. Personally, I have no problem with the inclusion of a list, in principal. The only issue I have is that it seems entirely redundant to List of This American Life episodes. Chunky Rice 21:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
the same has been said of other articles, and it's such a shame how articles tend toward entropic devolution. since it's all gone now, i guess the question is moot. --emerson7 | Talk 22:22, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
My point was that Wikipedia, by it's own policies, should not offer anything that can't be found elsewhere, so I don't really understand your complaint. Chunky Rice 22:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Average Age

Why is there information on the average age of listeners in the 'Popular Culture' section? Miuq (talk) 02:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Is it really necessary to include a list of all of the songs and artists that have been used on TAL? Or for that matter, the entire production staff? These things seem like pretty pointless trivia to me and don't really add to a reader's understanding of the show. At the very least, they take up a disproportionate amount of space on the page compared with their importance. -Chunky Rice (talk) 17:17, 22 April 2008 (UTC)