FlexiLingo
Intergenerational Space Travel
- Documentary
People braving the true final frontier — the gap between people born at slightly different times. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. (00:00:00) Prologue: Last fall, some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code. (11 minutes) (00:12:00) Act One: When Courtney Maum was eighteen, her mother married a guy she despised. At their wedding, Courtney read a poem she wrote – a pretty dark poem! – which made her mother furious. More than 30 years later, they fina...
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
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- 166 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeeped in today's episode of the show. If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org. Dave Landry runs the public radio show Wild Card. And one of the less exciting and in fact, rather tedious parts of his job is that he
has to keep an eye on the comments that people post about the show online. And one day last fall on Spotify, he saw all this activity about this episode they they did with the writer Elizabeth Gilbert. And Dave thought, oh, her book was controversial,
they must have struck a nerve this episode. And then he looked at the comments. And it was just like gibberish. Like I just, there was, there's a bunch of new comments,
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