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This American Life

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Pros

  • I always recommend This American Life. It has everything - comedy, true crime, life stories, etc. And It goes back over a 10+ years.
  • And life stories like heavyweight and this American life.
  • Early podcasts like Radiolab and This American Life (which I know are radioshows), but they were well thought out and focused on getting the essential information out in 30-60 minutes.
  • I also sometimes listen to **Throughline**, **Latino USA**, **Reveal**, **The Moth**, and **This American Life**
  • This American life has a few great episodes. Going back years.

Cons

  • Dude wtf. This is really disappointing, although I guess I understand the reason behind it.
  • I was really sad to see all my "unplayed" episodes in both podcasts have gone to "subscribers only". Such a bummer!
  • I listen to a lot of Sawbones and This American Life but both of them can have profanity in them I think.
  • First I ever even heard the term was on that This American Life about it, and still couldn’t pick up exactly what they were talking about.

Sentiment

11 positive (73%) · 2 mixed (13%) · 2 negative (13%)

Trust + time weighted score: +60% · raw score 60%

What redditors said (10 of 15)

I always recommend This American Life. It has everything - comedy, true crime, life stories, etc. And It goes back over a 10+ years.
positive · u/E****0 · r/podcasts · comment · Dec 30, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
And life stories like heavyweight and this American life.
positive · u/T****e · r/podcasts · Dec 22, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Early podcasts like Radiolab and This American Life (which I know are radioshows), but they were well thought out and focused on getting the essential information out in 30-60 minutes.
positive · u/C****s · r/podcasts · comment · Aug 27, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Dude wtf. This is really disappointing, although I guess I understand the reason behind it.
negative · u/B****s · r/podcasts · comment · Aug 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I was really sad to see all my "unplayed" episodes in both podcasts have gone to "subscribers only". Such a bummer!
negative · u/F****2 · r/podcasts · Aug 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I also sometimes listen to **Throughline**, **Latino USA**, **Reveal**, **The Moth**, and **This American Life**
positive · u/B****l · r/podcasts · comment · Aug 2, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
This American life has a few great episodes. Going back years.
positive · u/G****2 · r/podcasts · comment · Jul 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
We are looking for long-form podcasts, not episodic "different story each episode" UNLESS you've got some great This American Life recommendations (big fans!).
positive · u/y****a · r/podcasts · Jul 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
“This American Life” sheds light of different people and their stories (as a European, I guess I kind of listened to this also to get insight of what’s going on there not only on the general political sense)
positive · u/i****u · r/podcasts · comment · Jul 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
And if you like Starlee Kine, listen to her This American Life episodes, which are also great for road trips!
positive · u/D****F · r/podcasts · comment · Jul 7, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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