From Justine Harmon and Audio Chuck, this is Killed, the podcast that brings dead stories

back to life.

Episode 6 The Blueprint

You've probably heard of this American Life, the long-running, weekly public radio show

from WBEZ Chicago.

I reglass and his award-winning team practically invented that conversational, conspiratorial,

narration style thing that we're all doing now.

It is literally impossible to listen to an episode of this American Life and feel nothing.

Everyone has their favorite.

The one about coincidences or hope or breakups or the girls who were switched at birth.

I think mostly the stories that I'm driven to are about things that I care about.

I always tell people don't get mad, get tape.

That's Stephanie Foo.

She's a journalist and author whose recent memoir What My Bones Know, a memoir of healing

from complex trauma, was called A Reckoning by The New York Times.

And for five years, she was a producer at this American Life.

Stephanie's motto, don't get mad, get tape.

As in, if something pisses you off in the world, record it.

Like if there's something that's really bothering you about society life, like you have

a real issue and you're like, I remember, you know, being really mad about getting cat

calls while skateboarding.

So I like did a story on it.

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