At the time, teenagers were wearing Tommy Hilfiger and Guess. I could not kill my mom. And my dad was a heavy smoker. You're on your own. She chose it because of the location, across the street and a few doors down from our apartment. I start reading it, and it's just this ridiculous ad. ", Tamir kept staring at my mother as if he were hypnotized. He was a short man with black hair and a large nose. You're right. And that was your grandfather, declared mom with a smile, and stood up. What do I have to lose? It was routine. And she had no idea. They were kind of losing something at this moment. Because what ends up happening, the son gets the money. Protecting Marine Life Also Helps People Nearby, Study Says There were no pieces of art back there. We're trying to look busy. And after a pause, he said, almost in a whisper, "I promise you, Mrs. Keret. ", Tamir's face was barely an inch away from mine. And it's like, you're a tough guy if you can do this. She's young, 29, and she couldn't believe the course that her life had taken. In addition to 520 shops, 2/3 of which are devoted to the sale of FDNY and NYPD baseball caps, it has a chapel, and a school, and a post office, and an amusement park, called Camp Snoopy, inside of it. In one minute, I'm gone with all my smoking and stuff. I made more money than I knew what it was really. Of course, Bill could have sold his house or his van, but he didn't. One of the things we were excited to investigate when we went to Alabama was to answer the question at the heart of the immigration debate: what does it cost taxpayers when we let in millions of immigrants, documented and undocumented? I've got no money. There's Vrej Baghoomian. Not everyone can be beautiful, Mom told me once. 1 hr 4 min playlist_add May 28, 2023 800: Jane Doe Five years after the #MeToo explosion, whats happened in the lives of the women who stepped forward and The last day of the month continues and the truism is accurate: some people get great deals because its the end of the month and they have to hit their goal. And that's when I learned the dictum that disasters are good for commodity trading. And Etgar and I decided to try to adapt them here for the radio. He worked sales jobs on the phone, earning $8 an hour. But he kept stopping because he'd sort of forget. And she got to read scripts of movies before they were made, which was exciting, to look for places where characters could be drinking Budweiser or using other clients' products. And they're all ads for Mitchum. It was really impressive to me. Winning on and off the Course: Keegan Bradleys Weight Loss I know it was hard work and didn't pay much. But I didn't have a mother for long enough to learn everything, which is why I have to improvise now. The last line in her email was, I can't believe I'm that girl. I would go to Neiman Marcus and buy two Armani suits after a good day and fantasize about all the other things downtown that I would buy. John Hodgman and the alleged secret tunnels under the Mall of America. "You can have your picture taken and put on a box of Wheaties," she says. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. And the guy who was pretending to be my boss was telling them about our projects. Story number four-- "Rain Day." As the fight wore on, we all knew that no matter how plainly and painfully the other kid was winning, the second he let go, Tamir would be up in a shot and chasing him down with a rock, a metal rod, or whatever weapon he could find. And if you do that, then the chances that the world will trample you becomes lower. Namely, they hired actors to play the employees who were supposedly on the payroll. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. One time, a real estate developer had $1,000 check delivered to Marty. "In a minute, as soon as you listen to what I have to say. Etgar, I should say, writes a lot about his family. And I remember one time that a woman kind of entered the room, and she said, "Is somebody smoking here? You become a glad-hander, but you don't have a choice. Television Season One DVD. I thought you were going to say something. Amy Drozdowska-McGuire, the producer. Don't make any noise. Snail in the Coffin - This American Life Yeah, you're right. Fast forward 15 years. So I was just wondering. Producer Stephanie Foo speaks to Nasubi, a Japanese comedian who, in the 90s, just wanted a little bit of fame. Day three, The Minnesota Picnic is a stand run by three brothers, all of them Egyptian. my mother asked, and she held Tamir's face close to mine. A Marti had never actually worked in an office before, and she just thought, well, I guess this is what all office jobs are like. Tamir was a year ahead of me. That's where she lived her life and raised her kids. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. And then after a few seconds, he just kind of turned his back and left, as if he was escaping. Shakes my hand, gives me a little European hug, and walks away. And her mother bends over so their faces are very close, and says, "You're going to run as fast as you can, and then jump as far as you can. I didn't know what he was talking about. And I remember they walked past us first. Today, a program about getting and spending and the things that people will do, as in Marti's story, because they feel they have no choice. It's going to be there waiting for you in the end because it's just true, some of it. We kind of locked eyes. Suddenly, this reporter smells more than frying oil. When auditors came to check that I recognize that death is a part of life. They have never even heard of Yummy Mummy, who was a mummy that was fruit flavored. And I let it be known to anybody who cared or anybody in the art world that eventually I was going to catch up with Vrej Baghoomian. Like my friend Marty Oberman. "That's insane," I say. But over time, I began to notice that when she touched me, it was always with the back of her hand, never the palm. And yeah. Our Managing Editor is Sarah Abdurrahman. Act Three, Mall Rat. 774: The Pink House at the Center of the World. Well, first of all, I think that she was inherently the hero in fighting for things. Bottom line, if anyone had asked me when I was 10 years old what I was most afraid of in the world, I definitely would have said Tamir. Dr. Alex McFarland and America's Bible Roots of Life, Liberty And she looks at me, and she goes, "don't be ridiculous." He's Etgar Keret, has lots of books. Five years ago, I'm on Green Street in New York with my buddy Mickey [? He died from smoker's cancer. You know, she would usually get bread and then put it in the backpack. They're holding knives and forks. Although I have to say, it's a little embarrassing. Somebody's carrying a grandfather clock with them as they're fleeing? Then turning to my boyfriend, let's go in and see what it's like. I was had by a minister, a man of God. So it makes the stories tricky to figure out how to tell. Please, could you spring me another $10? I need some money. But while there was this yearning to appear prosperous, what was also clear is that for those without money, a little cash-- and I'm talking $10, $20, $50-- can go a long way to making life bearable. But then he lost his job, and he didn't bounce back. You kind of have to choose between describing the reality of the war-- the menacing reality-- and his mother's reality, when she often doesn't understand or notice any of that. Or better yet, I could show up at a Sunday service and expose him to his parishioners. When my friend Etgar was a kid growing up in Israel, his mom would tell him a story every night before he went to sleep. And you're my secretary. "Why are you crying?" That's bad. The rest of the family received this news with indifference, but I took it really hard. Then they admit they are sad, sad like the Incas are sad. The only good advice I could give her about Tamir was not to mess with him. It also apparently shocked my magazine, which refused to publish it on the pretense that quote, "Most of it was made up," and that quote, "It did not involve perfect abs, or sea kayaking, or the best hamburgers ever, or incredible sex tips for having sex with Jessica Alba, or the fighting of polar bears," unquote, which I knew was their nice way of saying, overly gay. I like to have an idea of what you're trying to borrow. And so I leave. It's close. I said, well, aren't these people supposed to do what you say when you're robbing a bank? I'm looking for something where I can pay the bills for a couple of months instead of $150 to go down and buy groceries. The movie was a lot more real than anything I'd seen. One Saturday, when I was about six, we went to Victor's Place for my mother's birthday. There is a reason. All mothers hug their kids a lot, I know. Sorry. Then one sunny day, at the ripe age of 26, driving down my street past a condo for sale, I spotted an open house sign. You don't have to ask anybody. She said that to you in that conversation. We had to be polite to our parents. So I haven't entirely given in. I check in with one of the Egyptian brothers on my way out of the Mall of America. Emanuele came to This American Life from Gimlet Media. It was very embarrassing, you know? He works in the maintenance department at public schools. It's during the war, and her mother, my grandmother, is holding her hand while carrying mom's baby brother. I liked it. We were there to covet what they had, and we didn't. This is not where the story ends. But the hardest thing has been trying to rebuild his relationship with his children. Can't leave it at home. It exposes us. And so I'm just totally shocked. And with nothing to read, he turns his attention to an ad on the train. It wasn't as if he decided to leave. He felt that this would be something that could save her life. Story number two-- "Razor." He finds his son's plastic toy pistol, which he and his wife had taken away from him because they didn't want him playing with guns. And so within seconds, I stopped being scared that Tamir would break free and beat us up and started being scared that he'd die. But physically, it was a very simple thing to do. And my mom went back to a flatmate, and she said, "That's just my luck. So when I was a baby, she quit and opened a fabric store. One day, on a break, we heard a strange howl. Here's Alex. And when you would meet her, it would be kind of, I don't know, super energy, super compassion, super aggression. And the woman left the room and returned after five minutes. And my mom looked at her with ice-cold eyes and said to her, in English, "Go to hell," and kind of slammed the door in her face. It's just completely and utterly embarrassing because I'm not that guy. But Ted figured he'd always be able to keep his perspective. And they started kind of taunting her, not giving her the bag back. Because I wanted to believe this was it. The second my mother heard this peculiar sound, she tossed her cigarette on the sidewalk, and started quickly marching uphill in the direction the noise was coming from. But my mother hugged me more than a lot. I'd start jumping in and going, bu-- ah-- ge-- and no, that's a Spike Lee project and stuff like that. It happened 11 years ago. But I am surprised to learn that they have never even heard of Fruit Brute, which featured a werewolf. The blade didn't touch me, but I knew it was there. And I don't care if Nazis like them. I'm Ira Glass. And I remember he was talking and fumbling his way through some explanation and looking at all these guys-- there was probably two or three men and this one woman-- and this one woman was looking at me. I could kill my mom. I vowed to myself I'd never be the kind of person who did this. I think I got $180. The note says, this is a bank robbery, I have a gun, put the money in the bag. He's a vengeful God and a merciful God. I've been talking to a lot of people lately who thought money exposed them. My mother, sensing my frustration, asked me if everything was all right. We'd stop at each crumpled vehicle and try to guess how it had ended up there-- trampled by an elephant, shot out of a cannon, or just driven too quickly and rammed into a stoplight. Yeah. She didn't seem to understand who she was dealing with. "I knew you were a smart boy. Etgar's wife, Shira, and his son, Lev, show up in a story. You could tell I was nervous. Every time I went by the Minnesota Picnic Stand, the Egyptian brothers were smiling, waving at Elaine and her fast-walking elderly cronies as they walked by, or getting some cheese curds ready for a regular, or gossiping with one of their favorite customers, an Hispanic gentleman in a puffy jacket with epaulets, who stopped working here years ago, but later told me he drove here once a week just to hang out with his old friends at the food court. $25.00. I'm going just down to a funeral down in Kentucky. And you're not allowed to smoke in the hospital. Sometimes they pawn the same item 20 times. When I was a kid, I absolutely loved eating at restaurants. So the cattle price went sky high. I'm want to go buy her some bookbags, one of the roller caddies that you put the books in. If I get caught, I get away from this terrible situation I'm in. I know that there is somebody smoking in this room." And I knew that my mom thought that they were better. And she would tell them, I'll tell you what you should tell your wife. WebPodcasts & Shows Expand/collapse submenu for Podcasts & Shows. So as soon as they make this whole Mitchum man campaign, all of a sudden, you cannot help, but be like, anybody you see buying Mitchum is just going to instantly be like, hey, they must love those Mitchum man ads. That Guy - This American Life (4) Tag. Things were going pretty well. "Am I the only one here who finds this a little creepy," I ask aloud. Though I have to say, the person who did this story, one of our producers, Diane Cook, hates it when I say that that's what this story is about. And they're running as fast as they can. Here we were with the worst domestic attack in the United States history, and the traders were running around as happy as could be. Mom used to take me with her to work every day and put me on the counter in a bassinet. And I guess from a perspective of five years old, she really, really felt that her family, in this battle, was able to win against the Nazis. The bottom had fallen out of everything in my life. Until then. He didn't want to disappoint his wife. Our only chance is if we go into a cabbage field-- there was a cabbage field on the side of the road-- and hide there until they pass. he asks. Even there, the local gang's car of choice was a Chevrolet Suburban Blazer. And he puts on his Burberry raincoat and a Chicago Cubs cap. The people who have wheeled luggage are assistant sales managers going to conferences someplace or old ladies, and they're not real travelers. Jew! Nobody stops me. I can carry everything. And so it's only about four blocks away from the police station or five blocks or whatever. As soon as I got in the action, all of that sadness disappeared. I'm Ira Glass. And my mother said that this moment where her mother breastfeeds her kid brother, she said that the sky were kind of blue. Elaine says, this is all that remains of their once-great civilization. It was scary. And she was not only fluent with Polish as a first language, and not with Yiddish like many other Jews. Did she end up in a concentration camp? And I didn't. Bigger bottles keep champagne bubbly for decades - American We have to run. I ask her if she's tried the deep-fried cheesecake on a stick that the Egyptians serve at The Minnesota Picnic. The Stuff was made of dried, shriveled up soybean flakes that looked a bit like pet kibble. And she just smiles in a sort of sinister way that makes me think she knows that their days are numbered, and soon, she will be the cheesecake queen. 2023. The soy flakes had the texture of pigeon droppings and no flavor whatsoever. And I saw my neighbor in there. That distinction belongs to the West Edmonton Mall in Canada, which contains 7,000 baseball cap shops, and a sausage factory, an entire medieval castle, 12 monorails, and the entire township of East Edmonton, preserved like Pompeii at the exact moment it was devoured by the West Edmonton Mall. After the Germans forced all the Jews to move to the Warsaw ghetto, Mom and their family no longer saw this neighbor, although they continued to hear horrific stories about his informing on people. At 18 or so, she married a professional soccer player and divorced him a few months later. Thanks, as always, to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia. I don't think that. Again, ThisAmericanLife.org. You may be familiar with his work. she asked sharply. My mom put her face right up to Tamir's, and he looked at her, wide-eyed. I have to try.". It's in a pretty rough neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. No. And he took her address and the phone number. Web298: Getting and Spending Prologue Transcript Marti Noxon used to work for a company that did "product placement" for the movie industry. I thought maybe I could publicly humiliate him by writing about the episode. Also, there's videos. Ted Fishman thought he could do it differently too. The houses were so different from ours. But as for staying home from school when it rained, I was completely on board with that. But here's why I really hesitate to share this story. And when he got to writing this story about the cabbage patch, for the first time, he says, he realized just how close they all came to dying. So I go, and I find a little storefront bank. Well, our program was produced today by me and Elna Baker. But it was too late for that. Best case scenario, Tamir won, and someone ended up in the emergency room. Yeah, but when they got closer to the clock, she could start hearing the man gasping, the man who carried this clock on his back. "I'll tear you a new one.". I ain't getting paid yet. And it kind of amuses her, because, you know, she's a little child. Still, I could not bring myself to endorse death by ultra-hotness, which is perhaps why my magazine found my piece quote unquote, "overly gay.". I said, well, next time, you should stick around to get the money. And this was a job I didn't even know existed. And she didn't care. I've had the cops called on me 10 times." I need clothes for my kids to go to school. But always, Etgar says, the details and the feelings in the stories echoed whatever was going on in Etgar's life that particular day. He was a doctor's son, raised with lots of money. She calls somebody up to the front of the register that speaks English. Mine are cooler. My mom got ahold of the soy flakes from a vegan rabbi in Jerusalem, to whom she was introduced by the American sales clerk at a natural food store on the outskirts of Ramat Gan. Two or three weeks after I was elected in 1975, a neighbor of mine-- I was out walking my dog, and he came up to me. She gets more than most people do just because she's been coming here for 1,000 years, in and out. My mother smiled and kissed me on the forehead. I'm going to tell my boyfriend to come in here because he's the one who paid for them. And so here I was with my loud, screaming voice. And they ran a little bit more, and then her mother said, listen. Vrej isn't there. They're these tiny things with little glass pipes in them and star charts and sand and dolls and cutouts of birds and chicken wire. Bill's now trying to get on with his life. This next story, if it's not-- it doesn't feel kind of a bit strange that you get, like, those short pieces, and then suddenly a very long one, and there is no something before it? And your heart kind of skips, like, oh, they're coming to see us. Born on June 7, 1986, in Woodstock, Vermont, Bradley comes from a family with a rich golfing history. John Hodgman. Why would a person write a check like that? "Mom," I asked her, "how come all the other moms touch like this?" From here on in, I'm going rogue. She seemed to have saved every one. And one day, the office manager tells Marti to wear a dress the next day and show up on time because auditors from Budweiser were going to be coming to the office. You know, they're running and running and running. It was a con. "Oh, come on," I said with a grin. That's story's just amazing, that she had the presence of mind that young. How are you so sure?". Today's show, Getting and Spending, stories about what people think they have to do to make their money. Lev received this news joyfully. Danced once with the singer Jacques Brel. So for her it's fun. Desperate to calm me down, my dad replied, "No, no. But for my mom, from a distance, it just looked like a cartoon. He tried a bunch of different brands. I'm too ashamed to bring myself to actually walk through an open house. Carton. And why? When they collapse, mall security discreetly removes them and props them up in the booths at Johnny Rockets. When my mom realized that her pint-sized boy was losing weight, she swung into action. And his relationship with his wife became volatile. I squealed. I'm reading it. My mother grabbed Tamir's the arm with one hand and his hair with the other. There must be a reasonable explanation for this. And I was duly charged. The New York Times has officially launched its new audio app for iOS New York Times Audio and we're on And they gave her the backpack. Most of the stories didn't amount to much. And this was the Chernobyl disaster. There's a lot of people who use my store almost like a convenience store. The thing about my mother is that it's like-- like, God has many names, right? $32.00. "No," I say, "the mall officials are stonewalling me." What it actually says is, if you're pretty sure you could kick in a window in the event of an emergency, then you're a Mitchum man. When I think about it now, I see my mother hoisting heavy rolls of fabric around in that narrow, dank space. As I go and try to get his medical bills paid for, the insurance company says to me, it's contributory negligence, we don't owe you anything. The palm of mom's hand was so close to my face that I could feel its warmth. And we had the nicest conversation, and we hugged. So we've done it, and today on our show-- it's "This American Life," by the way, from WBEZ Chicago. And he used to smoke in this room. To make sure I understood this was a serious offer, he pulled out the appropriate bill-- green with a portrait of Albert Einstein. So OK, his deodorant has a lame ad campaign. For my fifth birthday, my father took me to see Bambi. Well, it's like a minute that we give to the radio stations to do their local stuff.
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