If you're familiar with This American Life, it's by far the best radio show out there. Well, they used to be in real audio format, but now their whole archive is available in streaming mp3!

http://www.thislife.org

If one wanted to hypothetically download said mp3s and/or get them in a podcast...

http://redjar.org/radio/tal/archive/

Enjoy.

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 11:18 PM. Reason : .]

4/25/2006 11:18:03 PM

sweet, im gonna listen to it when going to sleep

4/25/2006 11:26:17 PM

I posted a TAL audio link last month and people called me a NPR-listening-faggoty-liberal-commie-pinko-bastard.

But yea, it's usually a very entertaining show.

4/25/2006 11:37:04 PM

Anyone know the name of the show that involved an middle-eastern looking cook walking by the house belonging to Donald Rumsfeld's daughter?

4/25/2006 11:44:38 PM

Sarah Vowell is one of the ten coolest people in the world.

4/26/2006 12:01:56 AM

Quote :

"Sarah Vowell is one of the ten coolest people in the world."

4/26/2006 12:08:11 AM

i'm glad i'm not the only one...

4/26/2006 12:39:27 AM

^^^^ I remember that one!!! I'll try and find it. fyi, you can search the archives for keywords.

for the technically savvy who want to download all the eps, like I did last night, download curl here
http://curl.haxx.se/

then make a batch file like this:

@ECHO Off
SET COUNT=221
:Loop
echo downloading
echo
e:\progra~1\curl\curl.exe -o tal-%COUNT%.mp3 http://audio.wbez.org/tal/%COUNT%.mp3
SET /A COUNT=COUNT+1
ECHO %COUNT%
goto Loop

It will keep trying to download episodes past where they actually end, but you can just stop it then.

oh, and it's about 9.7 gigs, which will fit nicely on 2 dvd-rs, but have the space ready

[Edited on April 26, 2006 at 9:47 AM. Reason : .]

4/26/2006 9:41:20 AM

Yeah i was searching for it last night with no luck, even with rumsfeld in the tag line. I know they aired it last summer but I believe it was a repeat from another year. Let me know if you find it.

4/26/2006 11:16:35 PM

yeah i can't find it either. it's in there somewhere

4/27/2006 11:59:36 AM

Found it. Its the May 2005 show called "Not What I Meant."

4/27/2006 2:01:31 PM

Holy shit, this is funny. You can even stream and download the future episodes before they have it up on the website... wow.

http://audio.wbez.org/tal/221.mp3 is this week. http://audio.wbez.org/tal/222.mp3 is, I assume, the next. I have gotten all the way up to 240... I don't know if they're new or not, but I would imagine they are...

4/29/2006 12:20:53 PM

Arg, shut down by the man!

7/19/2006 3:41:16 PM

Quote :

"A note to our streaming MP3 listeners: You've probably noticed that you can no longer fast-forward or rewind our files. If you're using Windows Media Player or RealPlayer, you can still pause as you listen; sadly, if you're using ITunes, you can't. We know that this loss of functionality isn't great – in fact, it stinks. Unfortunately, we we've been forced make some changes that protect our files from unauthorized downloads, and these changes will, at least temporarily, cause you to lose some of the features you've probably grown accustomed to. While we aren't happy with this development, contractual obligations left us no choice; unauthorized downloads were beginning to get out of hand. Regardless, we are still absolutely committed to offer free streaming audio, and we're actively researching ways that we can again make it possible for you to grab your coffee and rewind to catch what you missed. We've also been thinking more broadly about our online audio future, and will keep you posted on new developments on our website and via our weekly email list."

7/20/2006 9:10:01 AM

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