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This American Life - 782: Family Dig

Two people go on excavations of their families’ pasts. Including the first episode of the new podcast, “We Were Three,” hosted by our longtime producer, Nancy Updike, and from Serial Productions and The New York Times.

782: Family Dig

A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeaped in today's episode of the show.

If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.

So Nancy Optik has been a producer making stories here at this American life, starting with

our very first episode back in the 1990s.

And when Nancy takes on a big story, it is very exciting for me and the other producers

here because nobody writes or reports a story the way that Nancy does.

She just throws you in there with the people that she's writing about and you're in so

deep, so quickly, and there's just just intimacy to it.

She made it with her co-workers who make cereal.

And today on the show, I'm going to play you the first episode of her podcast.

And you'll hear what I'm talking about for yourself.

It's going to be the first big chunk of today's show.

And then after that, we have another story for you of somebody who is digging around to

their family's past, like the woman who's at the center of Nancy's story.

I think actually saying more about Nancy's story will not add to the listening experience

Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it’s like to be alive right now. It’s the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.

0:00.0	A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeaped in today's episode of the show.
0:05.4	If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.
0:10.6	I'm WB Easy Chicago.
0:12.8	It's this American life from our Agost.
0:15.4	So Nancy Optik has been a producer making stories here at this American life, starting with
0:20.6	our very first episode back in the 1990s.
0:24.2	And when Nancy takes on a big story, it is very exciting for me and the other producers
0:28.0	here because nobody writes or reports a story the way that Nancy does.
0:32.7	She just throws you in there with the people that she's writing about and you're in so
0:36.5	deep, so quickly, and there's just just intimacy to it.
0:40.6	It's such a feeling to it.
0:43.4	And she has a new podcast.
0:45.2	It is called We Were Three.
0:46.8	She made it with her co-workers who make cereal.
0:50.1	And today on the show, I'm going to play you the first episode of her podcast.
0:53.1	And you'll hear what I'm talking about for yourself.
0:55.5	It's going to be the first big chunk of today's show.
0:59.2	And then after that, we have another story for you of somebody who is digging around to
1:02.6	their family's past, like the woman who's at the center of Nancy's story.
1:07.4	And let's just get to it.
1:09.1	I think actually saying more about Nancy's story will not add to the listening experience
1:12.7	of it.
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782: Family Dig

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