You guys, you are up against Lexie Gore. Your presence this evening honors and uplifts our entire Nation, President Trump said. American Queer Life: Notes on "Notes on Camp" November 20, 2020 Rick Kitzman Rick Kitzman is a Colorado native and a survivor of What Do You Need Right Now? Then anything can happen. Any parent who sends their kids to camp should listen to this podcast! It's unreal that we have to leave. Perfect summer listening. Learn . Homosexual taste had always been an undercurrent in art, but it had rarely been. Stay with us. He has his own fan club of four thirteen-year-old girls. It is encouraging, then, to realize that if you get them living in the woods a few weeks, they can be entertained by some of the most stupidly primitive forms of entertainment available since the dawn of civilization. It might seem strange, standing in the middle of a hundred crying girls, that most of them will tell you this is the best day of camp. And I must have been, I don't know, nine and a half, 10. He and I are walking around camp one day when a group of 13-year-old girls comes up to us. After the flag raising on the first morning, the vow of silence is lifted. People who love summer camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about it . (11 minutes)Act Four: Chicago playwright Beau OReilly talks about how he reconciled with his estranged father years ago by becoming an alcoholic just like him. He endured beatings when he was caught stealing potatoes from the kitchen. And it just felt so macho crouching on top of the seat and showering in this freezing cold water. Submitted by julie on July 11, 2022 - 8:28am . Certain things are clear. He would beat them and everything, and his campers were so afraid of him. They cheer while standing around and waiting for their events to begin. He was 95. View episode details Next week preview Featured Announcement May 17, 2023 In his childhood home, Joshua found his father, who had returned from a Siberian labor camp. Soon after, his father was arrested and deported to a labor prison in Russia. The two camps share facilities and activities and. Notes On Camp. That's why--. He's cool. I was in my element. I did my job because I got food and I want to see what is going on. So after posting yesterday and getting loads of great recommendations for the next couple of days, I found among the suggested the episode 'Notes on Camp'. (5 minutes)Act Three: A species of massive, mysterious, highly intelligent beings have recently been making contact with humanity. Show me do it. Onboard, the pilot steers based on these instructions with a modified video game controller. NPR's Adam Davidson tells a true story from his own childhood. It is impossible to overstate what a big deal Color Days is at the camp in Michigan Julie Snyder and I visited. And I wasn't showing myself to be macho even though there were so many opportunities in a given day to prove yourself macho. We just talked the whole night. The veteran campers are dressed entirely in white-- white shoes, shirts, socks, bandannas. ago "The film follows Dr. Phil Loder, a low-level, adjunct professor of economics at Harvard, whose grand dream of owning a home is tragically out of reach until an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes his way when a lonely, childless, near-death widow offers Phil her sprawling estate for pennies. She talks to a couple of pet sitters to find out. Counselors with torches lead 120 girls. Margaret died in 2021 after a long illness. Now, he's a counselor and a sailing instructor, a college sophomore, a boy with clear, blue eyes who actually has no trouble getting a girlfriend. They knew I was already over, and yet they still felt that they needed to trip me. It's very funny, that's all. Learn more or listen again to this week's episode, which originally aired August 28, 1998! The first pile of sticks to become like a real fire is the White team's, and the moment it catches, tears start streaming down Carley and Dana's cheeks on the Blue team. He's a quiet kid. Their hair is painted white. Well, of course, he just looked at me like I was nuts. But after a while, it was just so weird. I was like a movie star. Every camp has a camp ghost story. We hear a selection. He coaches one of the boys in his cabin when the boy wants to try and kiss a girl he likes. Most of this hour takes place at a pair of camps in MichiganLake of the Woods, a girls camp, and Greenwoods, a boys camp. Oh, I am so scared right now. And I mean, it is a disappointment because it's something that you're eligible for. Turn off the lights. And he was real, real mean to all the campers. When people died, Joshua searched the corpses for food, and took their clothing to wrap around his feet to protect him from the cold and the chafing of his wooden shoes. And it's so weird. Little girls stumble out onto the sidewalks, rubbing their eyes, wearing mismatched shoes and looking confused. (See the exhibit online.). It is really hard to get in on it, because I'm telling people to be louder because I know they're not being loud enough, but yet, I can't do it myself. And this is kind of dumb, but I get a kick out of it. I loved the fact that we would go to the bathroom, and the toilets wouldn't have a seat because that's a place where terrorists could put a bomb. Rebecca Stern rules the pie eating contest. And the Ouija board also picked Jamie Stream, another favorite, and Lindsay Sayowitz, who, coincidentally, had her hands on the Ouija pointer at the time. Because she didn't-- well, I could have made a move, I guess. How immigrants fare will determine LAs future, says USC researcher. He joined HaShomer HaTzair, and learned self defense with the youth group. I mean, I have transgressed every boundary that the Israeli man sets for himself, and they are loving the other side. We got a D-A-V-E-Y. Hotel workers can't afford to live in LA, consider July 4 strike, BenDeLaCreme: Drag community is uniquely suited to fight political hate, 11 terrific places to eat in Anaheim's Little Arabia, LAs iconic Mexican restaurant El Cholo turns 100, Mexicos red peppers shortage means not enough Sriracha in US. I just had fun listening to one of their shows, "Notes On Camp". She talks about it in-depth for the first time. What weve posted here is the version of "Notes on Camp" that ran in 2022. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. Can you eat really fast? People who love camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about camp. The spirit for the Blue team, another counselor in a toga, appears before the fire and talks about blue and blueness. Joshuas touching reunion with the American soldier who liberated him at Dachau was captured in the 2015 History Channel documentary The Liberators: Why They Fought. Last year, first session, they took powwow away from us because it was politically incorrect or something. (8 minutes)Act Four: Producer Dana Chivvis follows the night zookeeper at the Denver Zoo as she doles out snacks and tucks the animals in. Thanks to everybody who wrote. His daughters, featured in his Visual History Archive testimony, say Joshua, who was the primary caregiver because his wife was frequently ill, created a loving, happy home for them. State legislators talked about how proud they were of their ability to do the right thing so quickly. And all I could think was, if you have to say something like that, you know there's going to be trouble. We were just talking the whole night about really nothing. She invites the band and her father into the studio to discuss it. We hear one. So Rambo comes to kiss me, and what we had worked out is he put his hand in front of his mouth, and I put my hand in front of my mouth, and we just touched hands. We go to Lake-um of the Woods-um Camp-um. OK. (SINGING) And even Hitler had a girlfriend who he could always call. You like him? Trying your best is the most important thing right now. In that hair thing, she's got three beads that says, A heart D. Amanda loves Dan. Bloody--. But more than that, there's a way that Americans can be very free that Israelis can't be, precisely because they have to be macho. Lexie starts high school this year, and for her, this isn't just the last day of camp, her last day living in this safe little bubble. And everyone is freaking out, just laughing like mad, like maniacs. And we were at summer camp. Soon the White team starts on their fire. WBEZ management oversight for our program by our boss, Mr. Torey Malatia, who calls our contributor Adam Davidson at least once a day to demand--. It was a few days later, on April 30, 1945, that he spotted American tanks, and soon, American soldiers busted open the cattle car doors. 2023 KCRW All Rights Reserved. Our website, thisamericanlife.org, where you can get our free weekly podcast or listen to any of our old shows online for absolutely free. And I would be Steve White, this fabulous gay man who lives with these seven dwarfs, and the prince who comes to rescue me would be Rambo. But supposedly, there was this counselor, and he was dishonorably discharged from the military. 0:00. (IMITATING AMANDA) Oh, he's fine. This American Life Promo This Week: 803 June 23, 2023 Greetings, People Of Earth This episode will be available Sunday 7 p.m. CT. GPT-4, courtesy of Sebastian Bubeck Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them. And I told my sister, Tracy, isn't that Dad? And so I'm lying there, and I hear a knock on the door. The boys' cabins are all named after Indian tribes, the girls' cabins are all named after women's colleges. Thank you!This episode really tells the truth and I don't feel so alone in my thoughts. After arriving at Dachau, Joshua was sent to the Muhldorf subcamp, carrying cement for the construction of an underground runway for a German aircraft factory. His father remarried, and in 1949, facing postwar antisemitism in Communist Hungary, Joshua moved to the newly established State of Israel. Made in L.A. Streaming music, news & culture from KCRW Santa Monica, Live streaming music, news & culture from KCRW Santa Monica. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. It's also little stories you tell, and you think they're so funny and everybody in your cabin understands them. And there's the dance where the girls choose a boy who they'll marry for one day. We attempt to bridge this gap of misunderstanding between camp people and non-camp people. Here then, our findings. ago No. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. This American Life. What is the message you bring, O white spirit? I can so agree with all the people you interviewed at one point I was actually crying. And it seems pretty simple, but everybody here will tell you, no one back home understands it. It is still a big part of camping all across America. Pinterest. So it's cool. It's so exciting because you really feel-- I mean, you know-- that at that age, when you're 15, and you're in Israeli Army summer camp, there is no one in the history of the world who is cooler than an elite army unit soldier. I had been an actor all through my childhood. Counselors who were once named as captains, if you talk to them about it, they get all choked up when they tell you about the moment they were chosen. And he ran into the lake on fire. James Davis-Massey's 8 Tips for a Healthy Mind Camp is like porn: I know it when I see it. In the 1920s, at the height of the Spiritualism movement, a friendship blossomed between two men with opposing views on the topic: Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. No, you guys don't know it. And of course, throughout it all, I'm making jokes about the camp members themselves, like saying, oh, I think Commander Oloney is just the thing. In 1943, the Nazi-allied Hungarian police took Joshua and his brothers as slave laborers to clean the streets after Allied bombings. Of course, it's also really fun. And so then you tell that, and they'll be like, camp? Youll never believe what happens next. Down by the lake, some of the Bryn Mawr girls explained it all to me. We are here tonight to usher in our three days of competition known as Color Days. They all buy into this. I sit next to Dave at lunch one day. And as we walked to our cabin, we saw counselors with flashlights and bullhorns proclaiming it was only a play. He shot an M-16, sure, but in other ways, army life was amazingly similar to other summer camps: It was all about loyalty to your group, loyalty to your team. Jamie, you want to try that? And I just loved my guys, and I would look in the lunchroom at the other bunk and just-- I just didn't understand how you could even live in that bunk. And several men dressed in black holding machine guns entered the chapel at different areas. It's OK, she says, we won. All along the way, the girls are yelling for their teams, jumping up and down, and trying to control their nerves. Notes on Camp. We picked things and tried to figure out whether they were edible. I come back for the traditions. And you just do weird talents, and you challenge other teams. One of these is the sensibilityunmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with itthat goes by the cult . This kind of fake Native American-ness has been a part of camping in America since organized camping began a century ago. It's time to do this Bloody Mary bloody thing. A few years back Alex Kotlowitz wrote a book called, A Camp Story: The History of Lake of the Woods & Greenwoods Camps, How The Israeli Army Is Just Like Summer Camp. Posted in podcasts, tagged notes on camp, podcast, summer, summer camp, this american life on July 5, 2012| 1 Comment One of my favorite "This American Life " episodes. One of the cofounders of the Boy Scouts of America ran a camp in 1901 in which he organized boys into a make-believe tribe called the Sinaways. And when he was 15, he went to a camp run by the Israeli Army in Israel on their own training facilities. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. What happens when of a group of public school students in the Bronx goes to visit an elite private school three miles away. OK, for those who don't know yet, I'm Jamie. "Notes on 'Camp'" was part of a broader movement to overthrow established hierarchies. (8 minutes)Act One: We do the thing the people in town would rather die than do spill the crush to the legendary Dr. Artz himself. One camp summer has never meant so much to me now that we're getting older. You can't treat me like this. You guys, it is not normal if you don't lose your voices. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.
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