Reaching Out
This American Life

Reaching Out

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 20261 hr 2 min
  • Relationships & psychology

Sayre Quevedo’s invented a way to do a podcast that feels completely new. He’s been recording nearly all his conversations for years, and the result is something that captures a person’s life in a raw and complicated way that’s rarely heard. His new show Reaching Out also documents his mutually judge-y relationship with his twin brother as they set out to find their long-lost birth father. Want to watch our live show this Friday? Use free trial code LIVESTREAM when you sign up as a Life Partner. (00:00:00) Prologue: Ira Glass introduces Reaching...

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Hey there, it's Ira, with a quick message before we start. I'm going to be doing a live show on stage this Friday with Vic Michaelis, and you can watch it live for free online. What the show is going to be is basically I'm going to be telling stories on stage,

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and then after each story, Vic and this crack team of incredibly funny comedians are going to improvise scenes. Vic and I did a version of this show once at a small theater in New York. It was completely, it was so funny.

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It was wonderful. The show on Friday is gonna be in Los Angeles. We're gonna be live streaming it for everybody who is a This American Life Partner.

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