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This American Life - 786: It's a Game Show!

Something we’ve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show.

786: It's a Game Show!

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.

Okay, so we're going to try something different today, something we have never tried on our

And I got the idea for this from a conversation that I had with Jayong Phan.

Jayong did a story for our show a little while back, and she's not somebody who's normally

And so when time came for her to record her script, she sat in the studio with one of our

And it's a weird thing to sound, like, relaxed and natural while reading words off a page.

It totally sounds proof-room, hearing your voice on headphones.

And Diane did with Jayong what we always do, she'd tell her, you know, like, go back and

do that sentence a little looser or, you know, underline this word or whatever.

And that just hit something in Jayong in this way that doesn't usually happen.

Having a fellow Asian-American who looks exactly like me coach me through that process,

hearing exactly how much more American she sounded than me, it made me think a new about

First of all, this idea that you and Diane look exactly the same.

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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.
0:10.3	Okay, so we're going to try something different today, something we have never tried on our
0:15.5	show.
0:16.5	And I got the idea for this from a conversation that I had with Jayong Phan.
0:21.2	Jayong did a story for our show a little while back, and she's not somebody who's normally
0:25.1	on the radio, she's a magazine writer.
0:27.9	And so when time came for her to record her script, she sat in the studio with one of our
0:32.4	producers, Diane Woe, who had her read.
0:36.3	And it's a weird thing to sound, like, relaxed and natural while reading words off a page.
0:41.8	It totally sounds proof-room, hearing your voice on headphones.
0:47.4	And Diane did with Jayong what we always do, she'd tell her, you know, like, go back and
0:51.4	do that sentence a little looser or, you know, underline this word or whatever.
0:56.0	And that just hit something in Jayong in this way that doesn't usually happen.
1:01.8	Having a fellow Asian-American who looks exactly like me coach me through that process,
1:13.2	hearing exactly how much more American she sounded than me, it made me think a new about
1:24.3	my voice in the way I speak English.
1:27.7	Okay.
1:29.1	I have a bunch of things to say to that.
1:31.5	First of all, this idea that you and Diane look exactly the same.
1:36.7	That's racist.
1:39.0	You do not.
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786: It's a Game Show!

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