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That stuff is gripping. Really. Every Saturday at around 3PM it has me frozen still, no matter what I am doing.

Ira Glass is a top notch story-teller, in that he doesn't get between his subject and the microphone.

Wanted to mention that (at least for me) the iTunes Store feed for This American Life is usually messed up. The RSS feed from their website works a lot better:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast

Have you tried the iPhone app instead of the iTunes feed? It sends a nice push notification whenever a new episode is ready.

They are hurting for money:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2010/05/a-message-from-...

It's public radio.Asking for money is pretty much the norm.

and the current episode starts with a tech founder bit about the garage myth. see my first HN submission ever, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1566128