On September 11, 2005, I heard this program on my way back from some rabble-rousing/consciousness-raising activities, en route to another one (papering SUV windshields at a church service with this flyer) and had to stay in the car and listen to the whole of it, before going on.
Usually, if you're not familiar with the show, it's a gentle, wry take on human foibles and quirks, not at all savage even when satirical, nor terribly socially conscious - or rather, it is, but in a low-key, leave-the-moral-to-the-listener way.
So for "This American Life" and its gently-wry host Ira Glass to go radical is almost like Kermit storming the Student Union and organizing a sit-in. Since I couldn't convince enough people to listen to it, just by telling them, and because I thought this was important enough to get out there, I worked for several days in my copious free time to transcribe the interviews.
One of these stories was already circulating on the 'net, but this is it firsthand, corroborated, and with more detail.
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