794: So Close and Yet So Far

This American Life

Society & Culture, News, Politics, Arts

4.6 • 88.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

People so close to each other, in extremely intimate situations, who are also a million miles apart.

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0:00.0	It's a Valerie.
0:02.0	Yes.
0:03.0	Do your producer here on our show?
0:04.0	I am.
0:06.0	Your tone of voice portrays a lack of enthusiasm for the story you're about to tell me.
0:12.0	Yes.
0:14.0	I do not find this funny.
0:16.0	I find this deeply uncomfortable.
0:18.0	Very goodness is one of our younger and newer producers here.
0:21.0	She's been working on the show for less than a year.
0:23.0	And it was other staff members who urged her to come into the studio with me and tell me
0:27.0	the story because they think it's funny, even if Valerie doesn't.
0:31.0	Okay.
0:32.0	It takes place in a subway.
0:34.0	Okay.
0:35.0	Okay.
0:36.0	So I get on the subway and I see this person I know on the same subway train.
0:40.0	Well, that's a coincidence.
0:41.0	It doesn't happen very often.
0:42.0	No.
0:43.0	I've never seen this person on the stop before.
0:45.0	No.
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