Episode 155 || Time‘s Up

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

There's a lot happening in the news lately, and it's hard to know where to turn sometimes when it seems like everyone has hard opinions and no one wants to give. We like being a cozy place for you, but that's honestly kind of difficult sometimes, especially when we're passionate about something. This week, Chris and Annie talk about that difficulty. Also, check your tire pressure. Mentioned this week: + This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel + We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie + Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie + Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin + Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty + Dumplin' by Julie Murphy + The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak + The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood + Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg + If I Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down My Blouse by Gina Barreca + You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein + Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit + Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay + Difficult Women by Roxane Gay + Shrill by Lindy West + This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins (on sale January 30) + Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer (on sale February 8) + Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo + Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like our side-podcast Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	Do you still listen to this American life?
0:04.7	I don't.
0:06.1	Okay.
0:07.0	So I don't listen to it with regularity anymore.
0:10.1	But when we go out of town, I'll still like search for episodes.
0:12.8	They did a great two-parter on the, I think it was the school system.
0:18.1	No, this small town in Alabama and immigration in this small town. It was fascinating. I highly recommend that. What I really want to talk about is their new logo. Oh. Have you seen this? No, I'm going to look it up. Yeah. I need opinions. Like they're so proud of their revamped website and their new logo. It's not this. No, that's their old logo. I think if you go, yeah. Oh. Yeah. It's very different. It's very... It looks like a bank. Okay. Kate and I both agreed it feels like a conservative news magazine. Yeah. No, it looks like... With Like the New Republic or something. Yes. We said, is it... Yeah. Interesting. Because that's not their brand. Not really. Not really. Like, I don't know if they're... I haven't listened to, like, recent episodes. I don't know if they're moving more than a new... That screams news to me yeah well and like that's part
1:12.0	of the reason i like i didn't like boycott the show but i like kind of just lost interest in
1:17.0	2016 yeah because it was all politics all the time always and i don't listen to that show for news
1:22.4	yeah um i listen to it for human interest stories and for, like, I don't know, sometimes funny
1:27.5	memoir pieces and stuff.
1:29.7	And I didn't need every episode to be about politics.
1:32.4	Yeah, I appreciated a lot of their coverage in 2016.
1:35.1	Yeah, no, they did a good job.
1:36.3	But anyway, their new logo just, when I opened up the podcast app, we did inventory
1:42.3	this past week and we decided to listen to some episodes while we did inventory.
1:44.9	Good.
1:45.9	And I could not, I was like, what, what is this?
1:49.8	And then he talked, Ira Glass talked about it.
1:52.5	And I thought, I wonder if they've gotten backlash from this new website logo situation.
1:57.6	Also, why do people change things just to change them?
2:00.6	I don't know. That's a good question. Are you going to go see him? Yeah. Also, why do people change things just to change them?
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