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And if you go there, you'll see a mix of audience favorites, but also some deep cuts I bet you have never heard or you probably don't remember if you did hear. She's religious in her own way. 759. It has the very easy to remember address, thisamericanlife.org/25years. Yes, and his voice is so beautiful. I found him to be reasonable. But in that moment, one on one, Yoel thought he might turn out to be more reasonable. And fine, if you don't, well, never mind. She had fought hard to get out of that home. She's strict with them sometimes when the house gets messy. I just remember being up at 1:30 in the morning, and the TV in the bedroom-- I didn't really know how to use the remote because I never really watched it. She just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I'm Ira Glass. That's how I talked back then on the radio. The elder McMichael, Gregory, climbed into the bed of his son's truck, the one with the Confederate decal toolbox, armed with his .357. This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. You should be grateful. 796: What Lies Beneath Summoning up stuff that's usually hidden down deep. As soon as the news broke, Yoel's employees started asking what it meant for them. And it started early. He'd run in a tank top and hoop shoes. Once I realized that, I didn't feel as stressed about every little thing. Pretty soon afterward, Yoel gets summoned over to the part of headquarters where Elon and his team had set up shop. At first, Yoel said that Twitter still had enough content moderators to keep the site safe. As his day-one homeboy, Keem, sums it, he could run in anything. In trading on Tuesday, shares of American Equity Investment Life Holding Co's 5.95% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series A (Symbol: AEL.PRA) were yielding above the 7% mark . And my hands are so weak. When it came time to take action, only a handful of people at Twitter had the power to do it. A beloved drawing goes missing from Mr. Ablaos third grade classroom. No. There were balloons and face painting. And that's because the woman who I've been involved with for the past three years-- her name is Cary LaCheen-- has these sorts of experiences with strangers on the street. As I was getting dressed, she reminded me of all the things I couldn't do. It's so unlike Max, too, to not claim that, claim the credit of it and say, no, I did that. And I try to bite it with my teeth and my teeth are just so weak. Her left arm stops at the elbow. He showed up in black, a rented black tuxedo. Call into This American Life. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the . I felt really weird leaving the city. Our program was produced by Sean Cole with Zoe Chace. My husband turned to me one day and said, I've seen you through a lot of being targeted and being harassed. This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. And I pause and blink and say, you don't. She'd stay there until around 10:00 or later, only to drive back and do it all over again. I just wanted to get home. Again, thisamericanlife.org. And there it was, a call for a tow, July 17, 2010, charged to our membership under Max's name. I was photographing and interviewing the women who were competing to be on the first-ever Olympic team for women's boxing. On one hand, I felt relieved. I don't know. Ask, what are the sanctions for asserting their right to live and run or, goddamn-you-me, to even exist in the world? And when it rains, something about this bike on the city streets-- a metal grate, a slippery patch of any sort at all, can make the bike slip out from under me. With Ira Glass and Lilly Sullivan, 184 episodes, 245 ratings & reviews. So that's not great for me. Our producer, Ike Sriskandarajah, tells the tale-- though, for the purposes of today's story, call him Ishmael. Yoel Roth did a lot of jobs at Twitter over the years, but it was always the same kind of job. And always, we fight about the fact that I am not yet married. Maud fled for minutes that must have felt like an eon. Maud's family home in Brunswick, the one where he lived at the time he was killed, is a mere 2 miles from Satailla Shores. It's only two chairs. And that was a breaking point for me. You're an adult, but you're new enough to it that it still can feel like you have a long way to go to turn yourself into the person you want to be. Suddenly, without warning, the engine died, the children cried, and the ship filled up with water. And then we come over here where I have my trophy case, which I only got one more drawer to fill. The guy I was engaged to was charming, but so controlling that he was adamantly opposed to me interviewing men, which is hard when you're a journalist. But we didn't know that and Max denies ever saying it. I'd be fixing my hijab in the kitchen, and she'd sneak up behind me. He's gay. Special thanks today to Kendra Stanton Lee, Devin Pacholik, Emma Laz-Hirsch, Shawn Allee, Jeremy Butman, Imran Ahmed, and the Sea Tow captain who rescued the Marjorie and spoke with Ike, who would like to remain unnamed. John Booy is a close friend of Betsy DeVos, one of a handful of people she brought to her confirmation hearing. It turned out to be a hired performer. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. We asked Mitchell to adapt a version of his essay for our program today. It made the backlash to labeling a Trump tweet look minor by comparison. Mitchell talked to Ahmaud's closest friends and his family members to create a portrait of Ahmaud Arbery that is really unlike anything else we had seen about him. So in March, she moved from her apartment in Manhattan to a temporary place near Regeneron's headquarters and threw herself fully into the project. Ahmaud Marquez Arbery was more than a viral video. She was testing to see if her virus-like particles, the fake viruses, were infecting cells and acting like the real thing. The ad lays out so plainly the enormous gap between who I am and who I would need to be to match with someone in my community. The caller watched Maud leave the site. And she thought she could at least convince her family to move away with her, which is why it was surprising to me that she wound up with a house in Flint. The schools, restaurants, and bars started shutting down. Our friends were still in town so we tried to take them out again. It just wouldn't work out. Maud jogged past the house located a few doors down of another neighbor, Gregory McMichael, an ex-cop that had once had his power to arrest stripped for failing to attend use-of-force training. Yeah, We hope she's doing OK. Are you out there? He found this boat, named it after his mother, sold us on the dream. Before he was an all-star, though, Maud tore his ACL and meniscus in a JV game. How long can we do that for? So some of us here at the radio show read this essay back in June that really got to us that Mitchell S. Jackson wrote about a 25-year-old. It is produced by Chicago Public Media, distributed by PRX, and has won all of. Can you actually ban Donald Trump's account--, Banning somebody with that many followers is actually technically very complicated. We're in a small boat. Shortly before that Trump tweet, Twitter had explained its reasoning for adding labels to misleading information with a blog post. Honestly in the beginning, it was just sort of chatting. You can stream our archive of over 750 episodes for absolutely free. What if we get a cramp, get tired, swallow water? Beautiful, fair skin, blue eyes, veiled, beautiful. Because what's happening at Twitter right now is teaching us a lesson it's taken us way too long to learn-- that people like Yoel, they're not the enemies of free speech online. Employees brought their kids. There's also a pool in the back that she says can fit about 20 people, and a yard. She got in touch again with Claressa to ask about this latest achievement. Did people on your team show you the lists that they were making too, or talk to you about them? I'm really fully freaking out. Claressa never had a solid home for very long growing up. People are frequently caricatured and villainized in the media. This American Life. Captain Max said, I'll see you all at the bottom of the Boston Harbor, in Davy Jones's locker. I just interviewed five of our friends who had no memory of this at all. It was such a strange moment. How many do you have? We only know how to deal with the last one. And that's not a reflection of who they actually are. Today on our program, we have stories where things go very, very badly for people. So we moved into a big house together. My memory is that it was really, really fast. 25. Max had kind of done the right thing. I don't know anything about her. That one does. Yes. He removed it from the site, but for years, it haunted him. Stay with me here. Then I have the 2020 Barbie doll of the year. But what was Elon's take on this? You used to talk a lot about getting your family out of Flint, like keep them safe. Or maybe (WHISPERING) it was a curse. Whoa, oh, oh, oh, the ship fell apart in a watery mess. This is just some songs. So the SS Marjorie cost our producer Ike and his friends about $400 each. But Elon wanted more and it ended in shame. This man wouldn't even make eye contact with me. More than anyone ever talks about, it's this mostly invisible job of content moderation that makes Twitter usable for the average person. Yoel had to decide what to do. I wanted to leave on my own terms. On February 23 when Maud went jogging, he was dressed in light-colored low-top Nikes, a white T-shirt, and khaki cargo shorts. Join. It's not a cure-all, but the treatment has been shown to help some high-risk patients. I guess in the chaos, Max just forgot to tell everybody on the boat. This is Ben Ewen Campen, a moral pillar of our group, the kind of friend your mom might ask, is Ben going to be at the party? So we turn next to another 25-year-old who's already achieved some things in her life-- in fact, achieved at a level that most of us never get to, even when we're older. A Jacuzzi in the master bathroom, which was a big selling point. I'm very familiar with this move. Her parents are Palestinian with traditional values. You were there. Today's program, people whose lives were pinned in history, caught up in huge historical events, and what they made of their actions years after the fact, when it was quiet enough . It's so perfect that this is the finding. And then he leaves and comes back with Elon Musk. She still has big dreams. He said he'd never call for help, but did he anyhow? Special thanks to Lisa Pollak, Eli Hager, Chen Ying, Jing Wang, Zeyi Yang, Oliver Whang, Penina Beede, Julian Brizzi, Jeremy Willis, Gina Grotelueschen, Joe Richman, Tony Householder, Jasmine and Becca Canziani, Alex Might, Rasha Zamamiri, Alex Lee, Katrina Montanez, and DaLyah Jones. As the Halloween party had started, I was sitting in a conference room doing some work. It feels so final. Re "Daniel Ellsberg, 1931-2023: Whistleblower Who Unveiled U.S. Deceit in Pentagon Papers" (obituary, front page, June 17): Thank you for the excellent obituary recounting the life, career and . But then his mom started talking to me. Just it went from regular life, you're having fun, to all of a sudden, emergency mode. Prologue: A beloved drawing goes missing from Mr. Ablao's third grade classroom. Playing this for my girlfriend this week-- excuse me-- playing this for the woman I've been involved with for the last year and a half, she had this reaction, which was like, it's clear what you're trying to make and who you want to be, but you're not doing it right. They pull us back when we go too far. She first heard about it at work and didn't think too much of it. I am 25, and there is no one for me. Yoel laid low for a few days. From the safety of our tow boat, I can still picture him down there, alone on the Marjorie, refusing to abandon ship. But she says, this isn't the end. We have stories of 25-year-olds. Claressa calls her Mama Mickey. The TV host celebrated the birthday of a loved one on National Best Friend Day. Transcript. Noor Gill. But through the ether, Ben's voice comes through and says, is anybody else noticing that occasionally one of us will ask a question and nobody will respond? You probably hate songs, but I wanna know who I'm talking to. I remember, just really clearly, looking over at Max, sitting there in the captain's seat, with his eyes kind of downcast, frozen. Toby David is visiting from Philly. And then I also just felt deeply sad. All of this seems really self-evident to me. Captain Max died. Wait. And I'm so sorry that's the way that it happened. That's my smoke detector. Full episode 796: What Lies Beneath Act One Music of the Night after Night after Night Transcript The musicians in the orchestra for Phantom of the Opera tell reporter Jay Caspian Kang about what it's like to play the exact same music every single nightfor decades. It was so much taller than us, off the waterline. And then, almost instantaneously, the boat was thigh deep in water. His story was produced by David Kestenbaum and Davis Land. He says he actually did the one thing we were begging him to do. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. So it's just, it's hard. Weirdly, it is enough time for a bunch of thoughts to go through your head. What they're thinking reveals so much about who they are. Max knew the next step. The story of an FBI undercover operation from 2006 that went terribly, and became the heart of a case heard at the Supreme Court. Also, there's a list of favorite shows if you're looking for something to listen to, all kinds of other stuff there. Jason and his wife, Mickey. He said, the people doing these reviews are almost entirely straight women. The New York Times has officially launched its new audio app for iOS New York Times Audio and we're on there in a big way. Get This American Life a Day Early in New York Times Audio. And I was just watching. It was the end of October. It's what boxers do. Marjorie, Marjorie. (SINGING) Well, gather round and hear this tale, all you sons and daughters, of a cursed motor boat at the bottom of the Boston Harbor. We are coming apart and preparing to abandon ship. Now he reminds us he is not a good swimmer, asthmatic, and does not like cold water. You should be grateful. Suddenly, Yoel was one of the highest-ranking employees from the old Twitter who was still working at the new one. I remember a lot of things. But in reality, of course, it's the opposite. And even in these early days of the web, there was already a team of people who were deciding what you could and couldn't post there. So I knew that something special would happen at 25 in my life, but I just didn't see me buying a house. And then at the other end of the spectrum, the other extreme, was there was-- there was this one wild card. And I thought, OK, I'm about to be fired. Other guys had always expected me to give up my career and follow theirs. He wouldn't undermine an election. From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life. Everyone shouts at Max. And I said, OK, I have to go back and deal with the movers now. I got a 401(k). Our executive editor is Emanuele Berry. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. And he only had to tweet once. She's-- of course not. We climbed off the boat to safety. And I just turned it on, and it was on PBS. I've definitely shown up late, and it made no difference. But still, somehow, he's optimistic about what the internet could be in a way you almost never hear anymore. I'm just completely confused. That he signed the cards he bought for his mother, "Baby Boy." He also writes the newsletter Platformer. I couldn't-- I couldn't tell you what the dog looked like or what the video was. And then at one point, somebody leaned over and said to me, Sophie, this is a wooden lake boat. Stop, shouted Gregory. They would hoop or work out for six or seven hours straight before bopping over to the Glynn Place Mall for the fries and wing combo at American Deli, and heading right back for beaucoup hours more of playing and training. The company has been sort of famously foundering in the water since then. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. Now I don't know if you believe in curses, and we didn't know it right away, but Max invoked roughly three curses in that moment. They were making a drug to treat people who got COVID and help them recover. Yeah, it was like teachers from high school, teachers from college, every single one of my ex-boyfriends' moms. And then, just like the American munitions that rebelled British ships in these very waters-- cannonball! Susan Burton. Yeah, that's actually a really good way to put it. And I get--. "This American Life" 796: What Lies Beneath (Podcast Episode 2023) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. And I think that's really a good way to put it. Travis fired his shotgun a second time, grazing Maud's hand. But the guy isn't saying anything, so Baba jumped in, acting like my stand-in. They clean the place up, make it feel good to be there. There is no power except in Allah. And very quickly and quietly, but quite definitively, you said, I'm not going to do that. Here's Casey Newton. And you can scan the whole plate, and it's like 3,000 images. What you should know about Maud is that he adored his nephews, Marcus III and Micah Arbery, that when they were upset as babies, he'd take them for long walks in their stroller until they calmed. So that means there's a good chance that on his run, he passed homes flying a Confederate flag or the "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag, and hella homes warning "No Trespassing.". So she made the transition from the amateurs to the pros, started earning a steady living as a boxer. I think-- the internet's power to bring people together and help folks all over the world find connections that matter to them is magical and is one of humanity's greatest achievements. And I just want to note, before we go to the next story, that the one other thing that we have done to mark our 25th year is that we set up a web page with a list of favorite episodes from over the years. That was one of the reasons why you wanted to get the gold medal, so that you and your family could get out of Flint, is you wouldn't have to live there. This is how the supreme court could transform American life today. And moved out from with my mom and moved in with my coach, Jason. Linah Mohammad. And Max saying no. Now, if you're an able-bodied person listening to this, I don't want to leave you now with fear somehow or leave you scared that you'll say the wrong thing to some disabled person. Cath-- oh, my god. We turn our heads to our captain, Max. She was with a friend. And it just gave me this whole sense of just like, you really grown now. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. He was actually kind of cute in person, but it was awkward. The day after the launch, Yoel and Elon got on the phone. Who has the right? Well, you know, you're parked in the middle of a regatta. And some are hit with a lightning bolt of inspiration and figure out how to save themselves. It was clearly a violation of our policy. She's filled her house with a bevy of kids like she wanted, just not in the way she expected, which is true generally for her at the moment. I came into that conversation expecting him to fire me, and instead, he jumps ahead of me to say that he is sensitive to the risks of offline violence in the context of the Brazilian election and wants to make sure that we don't interrupt Twitter's content-moderation capabilities. It's such a particular age. It was in Runner's World. I remember the goal that you had was to get out of Flint. This is a couple of months into the pandemic. It's a neighborhood of waterfront properties, of upper and middle-class families, of retired folk and fresh transplants. "I will not break the law." I just started hysterically crying, which is really dramatic, but I think that was probably the lowest moment. Shares of American Equity Investment Life Holding ( AEL 17.21%) were on the rise Tuesday, as the stock price was up about 17.2% as of the closing bell. I have a therapist now, just to help me deal with the stress of not being able to fight. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. Our mothers arranged for our first date, with both sets of parents, in my family's living room. Get personalized recommendations, and learn where to watch across hundreds of streaming providers. But when I got the keys to my house, it was this overwhelming feeling of joy and internal happiness of knowing that I'll never be homeless ever again in my life. But I don't want to spend the rest of my life bailing out a sinking ship. Coming up, a woman at 25 who decides, after years of saying no to her parents about something, to try it their way for once. The idea was to make a cocktail of different antibodies to neutralize the virus. She was moved out of her mom's place when she was five. But there are two. I just want to know. And I just gave him the life vest. A small motorboat pulled up to us. When we were all wondering what to do, one element of it was everyone saying, should we call for help? They make fun of each other. Well, how did you lose your sight? The essay was published in Runner's World magazine. We can tread water for a while. Also, because this is how life goes, Yoel and his husband were moving houses the day all this happened. Elon was his name, commandeering his game. What? He found himself running toward a red-faced Travis McMichael who stood inside the door of his truck with his shotgun aimed. I fucking levitated to that ladder to get off that boat. His mother jumped in. IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. But for me, I was like, but it worked when I did it. The final curse on the Marjorie had the longest fuse and a devastating payload. And something-- there was a switch that flipped in me. None of us have. This was 2015. But soon after that first label showed up on Trump's tweet, his name was everywhere. The people who put together today's show includes Bim Adewunmi, Elna Baker, Susan Burton, Ben Calhoun, Dana Chivvis, Aviva de Kornfeld, Noor Gill, Damien Graef, Chana Joffe-Walt, Miki Meek, Lina Misitzis, Stowe Nelson, Katherine Rae Mondo, Ben Phelan, Nadia Reiman, Robyn Semien, Lilly Sullivan, Christopher Swetala, and Matt Tierney. I clicked the button. Baba started grilling him. At 1:04 PM on February 23, a security camera shows 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery wandering up a sunny patch of narrow road and stopping on the lawn of a sand-colored, under-construction bungalow addressed 220 Satilla Drive. Yeah, there was a technical question about whether it would work or whether Twitter would crash. I remember that--. And so once again, they moved. "I am no longer able to perform the responsibilities of my job and resign it as of today at 5:00 PM." Musk himself has warned repeatedly that the site might go bankrupt. The buckshot hit Maud in the chest, puncturing his right lung, ribs, and sternum. Actually, I can't. With filmmaker Maisie Crow, we recorded the day Roe v. Wade was overturned in the . The plan-- to let anyone get a blue "verified" badge for their profile for $8 a month. Now this is where the story really begins. 21 days ago. Our producer, Ike Sriskandarajah, tells the tale-- though, for the purposes of today's story, call him Ishmael. But suddenly, it's like one of those nightmares where none of your limbs work. There's a Black male running down the street, Gregory told dispatch. And so you do that with content moderators. I burst out laughing. I tried not to show her that I was clearly surprised, but in my head I was like, what the fuck is this woman talking about? And she said, well, I just want to know. And there were guys on deck, kind of looking down and almost chuckling at us, making light of the situation. The ship we're going to talk about next is significantly more expensive by $44 billion. Yeah, it was just like a pretty huge undertaking. And we start hearing rumors that not only has the deal closed, but also the company's executives have been fired. How do you like them apples? Also, too, moving back in with my mom abusing alcohol. I said, OK, I'll meet him, partly to please her and get her off my back and partly because I realized, if I was so bad at choosing for myself, who's to say my parents couldn't do better? And so Yoel stayed. Anyway, Twitter's policies prohibited misleading people about the voting process the way Trump was doing. And he has lost control. In 2008, he turned professional and began . But with Elon coming in, he wanted to write down some rules for himself. It was the President of the United States, Donald Trump. He'd been trying to return it but couldn't get anyone to respond to him. But the company had never taken action against the president's tweets before. Each week on our program, of course, we choose a theme, and bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme. At 25, I enrolled in the first of two graduate writing programs. We entered the Charles River and stopped to admire the sailboats swirling around us. We reached out to Twitter for comment but didn't hear back. Though never cock-diesel strong, Maud owned a super-hearted fearlessness on the field and often astonished his coaches with big hits, and his senior year, made the storied Florida-Georgia War of the Border all-star game. I've also used Tinder, Bumble, Minder, which is the Muslim Tinder, and Muzmatch, an unfortunately-named Muslim dating app. And when Max and I catch up for this story, it becomes clear that he has a completely different memory of how it all went down. Mama, who clearly heard this, too, acted like she didn't. If the boat sinks and all of us are in the harbor, we're no longer visible to anyone. If we don't do something, people are going to die today. You should know that he told his boys that he wanted them all to buy a huge plot of land, build houses on it, and live in a gated community with their families. But in meaningful ways, it's almost another country. Maud played football from the peewee league through high school, and ended up an undersized varsity linebacker. Most days, his job was to enforce other people's rules. Though it became a rare glimpse into what my parents are like on dates. Do it anyway. Music, maestro. Elon's aide explains that they're worried about an insider threat, someone who might try to sabotage the site on their way out. She bought a house on the outskirts of her hometown, Flint, Michigan. I think this optimism has kept me in faltering relationships. Some employees working in Trust and Safety worried that "maximum fun" might mean Elon would dismantle their whole operation. And her response was--. Right, the senior hole pic specialist at Manhunt was some poor woman. You have a chair studded with real diamonds? Importantly, the post was signed with Yoel's name. But a lot of our passive-aggressive-ass friends have never brought up this day with me. She reads the Quran daily, but has smoked weed before. And he said, no, I can't. Thanks, as always, to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia. And they do censor us. It doesn't include anything about me that I'm proud of or anything that actually mattered. You certainly don't have a very Christian attitude. I've talked to so many people who went to this party. But the cuts kept coming and the work got harder and harder. This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Near the end of the story, when I try to point out some bigger idea from the story, it could not be more didactic. The site was plagued by users harassing other users, particularly women. If he asks about any of this, change the subject. Coming up, ship gets a new captain who immediately throws half the crew overboard, he says, to save the ship from sinking. (26 minutes) The ground isn't that far. An actual rescue boat just within waving distance. The description of this Linah is so far from me, it kind of hurts to read. Act One, "Pirates of the Cari-BEAN-TOWN." He fired a third point-blank shot, this time piercing Maud in his upper chest. (20minutes). And we had instructions to fire more of our contract content moderation staff to cut costs. It gave him a career. And I can't-- I can't do anything. Her nieces and nephews are over a lot these days, playing video games, jumping in the pool. Of course we need help. Yeah. Newsy stories that try to capture what it's like to be alive right now. But by the time Yoel quit Twitter, the distinction between online and off had collapsed. She told me she knows she isn't some super genius. The website address, so easy to remember, you could probably say it along with me right now, right? He invited friends from near and far to the Charles River Esplanade and asked everyone to wear white. I wake up one morning, the third day that my husband and I are in our new home, to my phone exploding because Kellyanne Conway has just talked about me on Fox News and has said that I'm responsible for the censorship of the president's account and am responsible for censorship at Twitter, more generally. That's when some rando account reshared something Yoel had tweeted from 2010 about relationships between adults and minors. This was the good side of being home. The water is rising.
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