Logo Tote. Well, this is a plot twist. It really happened. All right. And let's just jump in. The fact of Kyle now being straight. Yeah, sentence one. If the judges think your plan is bogus, malarkey, impossible, you will hear this sound. PLAY 786: It's a Game Show! This American Life Society & Culture Something we've never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show. They move in together. The only parts of the story that didn't change practically at all were the very beginning. (2minutes), Many Americans have dreamy and romantic ideas about Paris, notions which probably trace back to the 1920s vision of Paris created by the expatriate Americans there. Well, the better you can swim, kind of-- I better get a few different kinds of strokes under my belt. Another 7% or so is locked in and ready to roll by the end of the decade. And certainly no mention of multiple victims of same. How do you explain everyone's actions, so that that makes sense and lands really hard? He's actually like a very religious, conservative person. He's suddenly super religious, but also still very much queer. It would come out in the stringing together of certain words. It's This American Life, I'm Ira Glass. He may have won the latest season of American Idol, but Iam Tongi is still getting used to be on the big stage . So this means three buckets to me. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Got my hands up. Our Senior Editor David Kestenbaum thinks that even though theres been a ton of coverage, theres one thing people havent talked much about: have these machines gotten to the point that theyre starting to have something like human intelligence? Play 1 hr 5 min . You know? So we've already built a lot of wind turbines, a lot of nuclear power plants, a lot of solar panels. I am Tobin Low. And they're an emblem, they're like a memory of that. He deigned to consent to an interview for this story. Sorry, Tobin. Thanks, Ira and Gang!! Our senior editor is David Kestenbaum. However, in psychoanalysis the concept does not play a central role. And I think to some degree, we were all reverse engineering to that moment. And so the places he's found as his favorites tend to be places where the people aren't mean to him when he speaks French, or places where very unusual and fascinating objects are sold, or place that are unlike anywhere in the States. Each week we choose a theme. I don't know if-- I don't know if that helped or confused, because clearly he is someone--. A huge part of how I sound different is I'm so afraid that if I don't make the sound explicit, I won't be understood. Then anything can happen. It ends with sort of a Dear Abby conundrum type question there. Here it goes. Almost everything else became completely unrecognizable. Building more solar, more wind, more nuclear, storing more electricity. In Chinese, that was really going to throw me for a loop. Some people describe it as like a wartime effort. I was pumped for this, but now that the date has arrived, my Asian fear of failure is kicking in. So I'm talking about extreme events that flood Houston, or you know, swing across Florida. The Brief, Dry Life of Burger King's All-Cheese 'Burger' This is how I would feel, I guess, if a friend of mine did this to me. So I'm talking about solar and wind and nuclear, all the stuff we need to produce zero carbon electricity. That's George Gray, who agreed to take a little time out from his day job as the announcer of The Price Is Right to help us with this next game. thisamericanlife.org 41 62 comments Just listened to the first act, and I thought it was so interesting! In the hours that followed, some of the women called the clinic to report their pain but most of the staff members who fielded the patients reports did not know the real reason for the pain, which was that a nurse at the clinic was stealing fentanyl and replacing it with saline. Everyone is very curious, like who's Kyle? Do you tell Elliot? Melissa Lott, our contestant in the climate game show-- she has a podcast of her own, The Big Switch, about the transition to a net zero world. They ask where he is. No, really, you didn't. But I think I've been given all the information that is permissible. It is not this race to be accentless, the way that I fear I have conceived of my journey in English. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Let's create fewer monster Kyles. I'm viral for these horrible opinions. Coolidge won reelection by a landslide in 1924. It seemedlike the family just vanished one day, leaving salt and pepper shakers on the table, notes on the bedroom mirror, and a walletwith money still inside. Adam Beckman/This American Life This Week: 199 July 21, 2023 House on Loon Lake This episode will be available Sunday 7 p.m. CT. Glass may well be suited to manipulate his audience into convulsive laughter or tears, but I have never finished broadcast feeling as though I were duped into feeling anything. 27 . And so what I'm looking at doing is saying where do we already have momentum? And they have been given up to three sentences to read aloud. So each sentence contains phrases like urban and rural America. I mean, it's so interesting to talk to you, because I do feel like I'm talking to a version of myself that brings up all my anxieties about how I speak. But it comes down to supply and demand not matching up. And then the friends are like, wait--, Wait, I have another twist. This was when I lived in Seattle. So this is two. So I think that President Biden's big climate and energy law is going to actually get us all the way to that 15%. Well, stay tuned, because today we find out and win valuable prizes. There's no micropause of anxiety when he says urban and rural America. Larissa, if you would, could you read sentence number one? And probably very anti-trans, anti anti-racism, anti-everything good. from This American Life on Podchaser, aired Sunday, 4th December 2022. Or to be very precise about this, our country's goal for the Paris Agreement is to cut 50 to 52% of where our emissions were back in the year 2005. I think this one is a bit challenging. But first, you need to hear the original version of the story, so that you can appreciate when we get there how different it was by the end of the game. It is a huge, huge undertaking. Hi, Frank. Since Audible will be refunding this year's subscription price, I plan to send the money to my local public radio affiliate. He was so warm, genuine, thoughtful. And why don't we bring on today's contestant? $25.00. His whole thing is that he pretends to be gay. Well, welcome, Melissa. No, Really. And I would give myself like a 91. Jiayang, welcome. And I've wondered for a while now. Something weve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show. And Elliot's really the main character of the story. Please welcome Larissa. All right. And I am very tempted to give you the point, because of some of the reasoning you gave. And how are you going to get that 15%? Is this a thing of like-- the solar energy gets made, but there's no way to store it and there's no way to get it to the homes where it's needed? He talks with scientists at Microsoft whove been trying to figure that out. And you have to audition for it. Thank you, George. This American Life. All right. "This American Life" 786: It's a Game Show! (Podcast Episode 2022 Let me hear some studio audience, please. As you're saying this sentence, I feel so aware of how every final T and every final D, you're actually enunciating. Because you don't have an ABC like me just mangling your name left and right. OK, so I should say right off the bat that what I have is a whole hodgepodge of stuff. I don't know if we're going to get over the 50% line in time, though. Jiayang has thought a lot about the way that she speaks English and the way that others do, going back to when she was seven years old and she came to the United States from China. And if you guess two of them correctly, you're going to win our prize, which is a brand new car. So squeeze a couple more percentage points out of the things that are already working for us. Universal Pictures. Thank you, Larissa. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Only a handful of people in the world would understand what it means, of course. Here you go. And so they come across a TikTok of a very evangelical, like born-again Christian, very strict. 786: It's a Game Show! She kind of swallows the G in a way that I don't think a native ever would. But yes, I accept. For instance, the jeh che tse distinction, you don't really try to make that clear. But they can't tell where. OK. Maybe this is the time I should tell you, you will not be winning the brand new car. And then I spoke to my boyfriend at the time who is American, grew up in America. (2 minutes)Act One: In this past year weve witnessed a revolution in A.I. And just being like, OK, thanks, I guess. (10 minutes)Act Two: Ian Brown explains the lengths a normal dad will go to give his daughter a memorable birthday party, including a birthday stunt so crass that he and his wife shocked all of their friends. And you're just kind of like, what the heck? This American Life Not just making more buildings more energy efficient. I'm hoping that I can channel my anxiety for success. BEEPED VERSION. And I said what, I don't have an accent. It's like, we already paid for it. People who put together today's show include Elna Baker, Chris Benderev, Zoe Chace, Sean Cole, Michal Comite, Aviva DeKornfeld, Valerie Kipnis, Stowe Nelson, Katherine Rae Mondo, Nadia Reiman, Ryan Rumery, Charlotte Sleeper, Lilly Sullivan, Frances Swanson, Christopher Swetala, Matt Tierney, Julie Whitaker, and Diane Wu. Listen to this episode from This American Life on Spotify. Our program was produced today by Tobin Low. But wait, there's more. Listen Early to This American Life: The Florida Experiment Season 1. And he said for example, he slurs things. So it's been a real pleasure to talk. Our website, where right now you can find all kinds of merch-- onesies, t-shirts, sweatshirts, Public Radio tattoos for your holiday shopping-- thisamericanlife.org. Joshua Robinson. And it just-- it bums me out to see it happen so quickly, even in such a low stakes story. So in the original, Kyle was with a woman in the beginning of the story. Also, this new, somewhat more sinister version of Kyle took even more from the apartment than he did before. David Kestenbaum tells the story of a man on the verge of one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time right on the verge. This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Then anything can happen. They started dating sometime before the pandemic. (2 min) PARISSepp Kuss rolled slowly across the finish line of Saturday's stage, nearly 21 minutes after the leaders, bruised and . Got my hands up. Let's call the cat Mr. Mistoffelees from Cats the musical, as one does. Unless you're me. Because in the original, there is no explanation. Yes. (6 minutes)Act Three: Is Paris still the racially tolerant place that Richard Wright and James Baldwin discovered in the 1940s? And I'm going to go for sentence number three as well. And I got the idea for this from a conversation that I had with Jiayang Fan. We challenge climate researcher Melissa Lott to get us to that number. No one should ever play this game ever again. But really, it's the biggest energy and climate legislation we've ever passed. I'm Ira Glass. That's all we're asking is just say her name. Sure. I think I have a sense of the ballpark. So bucket two is about working with just a few big industries. 786: It's a Game Show! by This American Life | Podchaser What's going to keep us from maybe getting there as fast as we want is all the non-technical stuff. 786: It's a Game Show! No, I moved to the States at one month before I turned nine. Credit: Awashima . Two plane tickets to-- ugh. I know I'm going to be OK. Yeah, it's a party in the USA. I could hear the way that he really lingered on urban and rural. Sure, there was some willy-nilly embellishing here and there. And Melissa, in each of your turns that we're going to do, you will propose a number for the amount of emissions that you think we can cut. This American Life Apple Podcasts Dec 4, 2022. The second person, Kalyn Kahler, who writes about sports-- when she heard Danielle say that Kyle packed up everything, seems to have taken that to mean everything. I think it comes from making sure I am understood in English by my parents and other immigrants, wanting them to understand me. July 21, 2023. Could you tell that story? But Fan Jiayang, what you said about my accent is what I think most native speakers and other people have said, which is there doesn't seem to be a discernible accent. I'm doing lovely. An entire program of stories presented not the way we usually do, but as game shows, radio game shows. - This American Life 786 December 2, 2022 It's a Game Show! I'm 35. So if I were to put it on a spectrum, I feel like the way Tobin speaks, to me, is like native beyond native. 16+. Then Elliot proposes and Kyle proposes back. Are you unsure where to turn next? So in my view, you have less of an accent in English than your accent in Chinese. And we all take one step closer to planetary disaster. OK, great. She's a magazine writer. IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Hi, everyone. They start dating. Larissa, can you read sentence number two? This American Life - 786: It's a Game Show! - Google Podcasts (14 minutes). Newsy stories that try to capture what its like to be alive right now. He's like, I'm straight. So we are very excited to bring you something we have never heard of anybody trying, namely, an entire program of stories done as game shows. Infographic transcript (doc) copyright American Heart Association 2022 Please see AHA/ASA Multimedia Materials Usage Policy. "A whole galaxy of alternative holiday music that I didn't know existed - songs that I'd want to listen to anyway, even if it wasn't this time of year." 787. It's all good. And we'll see you next time, if we're not all fleeing a wildfire or hurricane on You Bet Your Planet's Life. Our managing editor is Sarah Abdurrahman. Its the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. And we're not using all that at zero carbon electricity. Maybe don't. This was in the '90s in a mostly white part of New Haven. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago. Not to be all didactic and stuff, but we're talking the night before election day. And that's what made it sort of magical to me. And I will give you my explanation. This American Life: 786: It's a Game Show! on Apple Podcasts And I said, well, it's so different than the other one. Many people seem convinced they are seeking revenge for past injustices. She hears this part. It's about plugging abandoned oil and gas wells, stopping putting methane into the atmosphere. 26 people holding knives, and yet not a single one of them is stabbing anyone else." She leaned over, planted a soft kiss on my forehead, and said, "Let's agree that this is a pretty good day." Well, yes. I'm good with 15%, right in the middle. Jiayang, hearing sentence one, are you ready to make a guess? You Didn't. Transcript; . She also-- I think inadvertently-- leaves out a pretty important detail at the end, the fact that Kyle is still gay. And you know, it's a weird thing to sound, like, relaxed and natural while reading words off a page in a totally soundproof room, hearing your voice on headphones. And then I say, well, if I don't want an accent, the way to not have it is to wish I hadn't lived in China. This, of course, is a huge change. We're talking about 2050. And he said yes, you speak very good English. It's like he never lived there. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. (16 minutes), With Great Power Comes Great Pronounceability. So some people are saying 10%. I think I'm going to go for it and put up a whole 10%. I thought that I told it exactly as it was told to me. And I hope you're ready to play. 788: Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom - This American Life OK, so we are ready to jump in. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. And then it's interesting to me that you perceived it as--. Kyle has millions of views, tons of followers. What do you got? Let's turn to our judges and see what they say. We speak with a teen whose family has since had to flee the state in order to access the care they needed. It's funny. (786) 749-5927 (631) 339-0753 . And the very end, where the friends see the TikTok video and ask themselves the question. More Episodes Copyright 1995-2023 This American Life Top Podcasts In Society & Culture Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast This American Life Ghost Herd KUOW News and Information Steel's a good example. So that you recreate the same gasp that you had when you heard it. He says most people go to the Louvre because they think they should. She invites the band and her father into the studio to discuss it. That's just eight years from now. And his friends are assumedly like, who? And it is this guy talking about how he catfishes people. Alex didn't really expect anything interesting to happen. And they ran off and got a bunch of different ones for me to try. Section Navigation. I think we're going to get close. I speak really good English. That and the missing detail of Kyle still being gay leads to this ending from Tracy. That version, the fifth one, was the one told by our very own Tobin Low. Jeff Hinchee On This Week's Episode: Ron DeSantis is running for president on the argument that he'll do for America what he's done for Florida. Like how do you explain the beats of what happened? There is Elliot and there's Kyle, right? I mean, we could overshoot it, honestly. Come on down. Is that what you mean? But that was what my parents thought was necessary to protect me in a foreign country. And more and more, Kyle is becoming a villain. Where are you calling in from? With the first couple of folks, the changes are relatively small. But I do have to say your score was zero for three. 786: It's a Game Show! from This American Life - Podbay Right. Like he's like, I was in this awful relationship, but I found God. One year. Sentence number three. Or our boats, anyway. How are you feeling, Jiayang? And do I wish that? comment sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment . The friends never saw a photo of this person. Janet McDonald talks about whether African-Americans are still welcomed in Paris so warmly, even after a half century of African migration to the city. Something we've never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show. The adult me doesn't necessarily endorse the goal of speaking accentless English and the need to fit into the perfect American ideal, whatever that is. They just know their name is Kyle. Watch with a free Prime trial. )Act Two: Adam Beckman continues his story. I would say until that experience which was maybe seven, eight years ago with the recording book, I thought I was camouflaged. I asked Alex to read it to me. No gaps in understanding. This, of course, is my colleague Tobin Low. This is the producer of Normal Gossip, Alex Sujong Laughlin. Why do I speak this way? But you don't speak like an American. AA786 (AAL786) American Airlines Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware
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