Podcasts and you.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

I'm not sure This American Life is considered a "podcast," but I listen to their weekly show via streaming at work, when I have time during the week.

I <3 Ira Glass

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This American Life is a weekly hour long radio show that focuses on interesting stories about life. That's selling it short, though - I consider it to be pure audio gold, and one of the best podcasts anywhere. Some interesting stories I've heard on this show include an interview with a man who buys lottery jackpots for a living, a story that describes people starting (and failing horribly at) a business freezing dead bodies for resurrection in the future, and how a terrorist attack survivor got hounded by people from the Internets who didn't believe that the attack actually happened.

I also recommend Radio Lab, which is similar in format and tone as TAL, but is generally more focused on science and psychology. The episode about "Laughter", for example, had a great story about an epidemic of uncontrollable, convulsive laughter among young girls in Tanzania that spread through towns and forced the closure of schools.

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