854: Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About You
This American Life
This American Life
4.6 • 88.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Zach Mack and his dad try to mend a rift between them in a very unusual way.
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- Prologue: Ira Glass introduces Zach Mack’s story. (1 minute)
- Part One: Zach and his father enter into an agreement that could change their entire relationship. (9 minutes)
- Part Two: Zach’s mother and sister weigh in on the agreement. (28 minutes)
- Part Three: With the year coming to an end, someone is going to have to say, “You were right, and I was wrong.” Will it change anything? (16 minutes)
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| 0:00.0 | A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeaped in today's episode of the show. |
| 0:06.0 | If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org. |
| 0:12.6 | I think we all have people in our lives who we love, but there's no talking to them. |
| 0:17.9 | They have the way of seeing things or doing things. |
| 0:23.5 | It's hard to take. And no matter how you try to talk it out, it goes nowhere, doesn't get solved. Even if they also want things to change. |
| 0:30.0 | We're devoting our entire show today to a story like that. Some Zach Mack, who's a reporter, |
| 0:35.5 | and the story is about him and his dad, |
| 0:41.7 | and how they both wanted to mend a rift that had grown between them. |
| 0:44.7 | They lasted for years, but they couldn't figure out how. |
| 0:51.3 | Until Zach's dad offered a very surprising way out. |
| 0:53.9 | That's going to be our whole show today. His dad's unusual solution and how it played out. That's going to be our whole show today. |
| 0:57.3 | His dad's unusual solution and how it played out. |
| 1:00.9 | That's all I'm going to say for now from WBEC Chicago. |
| 1:02.1 | It's this American life. |
| 1:02.9 | I'm Eric Glass. |
| 1:06.6 | And with that, I turned things over to Zach. |
| 1:09.1 | This all started about a year ago. |
| 1:12.0 | My father called and left me this message. |
| 1:14.0 | Hey, Zach, dad again. |
| 1:16.7 | Good conversation last week, last night. |
| 1:21.1 | Hey, I didn't remember to tell you this because I was kind of tired. |
| 1:29.1 | But they're going to shut us down again, and it's going to be a worse shutdown than 2020 because of this EMP, all the supply lines are going to be disrupted. |
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