"The only time he speaks gently about what he does is on sales calls." - NANCY UPDIKE, Crime Scene, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #NancyUpdike

"Their strategy was public pressure." - SIERRA CRANE MURDOCH, How to Tell a Dumb American Story, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #SierraCraneMurdoch

"Absolutely." - MAUREEN O'CONNOR, Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #MaureenOconnor

"There was that island just offshore called Isla Mujeres, which sounded great to me because I knew mujeres meant women." - KEVIN, Wait, Do You Have the Map?, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript

comments #thisamericanlife.org

So many things to take away from the NHJ #thisAmericanlife episode…

One for me is honoring that adolescents are education policy actors with real thoughts on how schools do and should function. Their voices should be a key part of policy conversations.

I love Kate Philliippos writing on this

"He's wearing a hat, gloves, scarf, and coat, but no pants." - JORGE JUST, Mind Games, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #NationalScarfDay #JorgeJust

"Flight versus invisibility: this question is only for you." - JOHN HODGMAN, Superpowers 2013, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #JohnHodgman

"Or do they just plan things out better?" - IRA GLASS, Can You Fight City Hall... If You Are City Hall?, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #IraGlass

"People love these." - COLE LINDBERGH, Amusement Park, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #ColeLindbergh

My mother: I’ve never had Calamari before.

Me: (wanting to argue that she surely has but knows that way lies the feeling of being gaslit) Maybe it isn’t calamari- there’s an episode of #ThisAmericanLife that has this facinating conspiracy theory that calamari is actually pig intestinal tract.

"He actually eats less pizza than I would expect for the amount he talks about pizza." - ANNIKA BARBER, Chaos Graph, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #NationalCheesePizzaDay #AnnikaBarber