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very bravely aging woman • This American Life/Oh, Hello/The Last Days of August/The Butterfly Effect • Pulitzer, 2020
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in any case, let's journey forth with the same zeal as my friend's grandfather who, on his death bed, self-published an autobiography titled "It's Been Fun!"
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forgive my loan debt!
Congratulations to Lina Misitzis (
@lmisitzis
), BFA Writing ’11! Misitzis produced an episode of the public radio program
@ThisAmerLife
that won the 2020
#Pulitzer
Prize for Audio Reporting, the first ever given for audio journalism. 🏆🎙📻
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“refresh your feeds” to hear the season finale of Oh, Hello. Special thanks this week to Joe Rogan and Bill Simmons. Here is a screenshot from our final production meeting. Making a podcast is hard and we were all so sleepy.
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just like Game of Thrones before us, our penultimate episode is our most explosive. go listen.
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just in time for podcast listenership‘s significant falloff, Episode 1 of our very topical* show is out, and I couldn’t be prouder. Unrelated:
@mulaney
and
@nickkroll
are two of the smartest, kindest people, and I adore them.
*tone-deaf
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a HEAVILY curated consignment shop in LA is charging $48 for this shirt that lists all of The Daily’s staff from like 2018
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EPISODE 6: IT’S A FINE LIFE
Starring Gil & George &
@Lin_Manuel
It’s a day late and that’s my fault. Apologies to all, especially
@mulaney
and
@nickkroll
x
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as a Greek person who speaks Greek, I am pleased to announce: it’s pronounced “omicron”
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life has its ups and downs, like yesterday, when Varys had diarrhea and vomited on the floor of my car, and today, when a story I produced w/
@emilytgreen
for
@ThisAmerLife
won a pulitzer
Congratulations to
@thisamericanlife
,
@mollymotoole
,
@emilytgreen
,
@latimes
and
@vicenews
.
#Pulitzer
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I love making this thing w/
@mulaney
and
@nickkroll
as much as I hate when comedy fans call comedians “sir” on twitter
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called
@Chase
to ask what’s wrong with my new ~indie~ business checking account & the lady said “we just need to confirm that your work doesn’t fall under the adult entertainment umbrella?” & I said “why does that matter?” & she said “to be honest, I dunno. I just have to ask.”
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btw ten years ago I applied to be an intern at This American Life and went with this banger of a closer
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hello, hi -- This American Life is looking for plot-driven stories about songs, albums or mixtapes. Have any of those things ever set off an unusual chain of events for you? are you bruce springsteen? DM me.
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I've officially left New York and am now leaving This American Life! A job I've loved so much, at a show that's defined so much of what I love. And I'll miss it a lot. But now that I live in LA, I'll be focusing on things like this (“incognito”) google search from last night:
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there’s only one reason! and it’s “because that’s how we sound”
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spent the last night of curfew w/
@dianemwu
at Mr. Mango, 8PM-5AM, patronized by protestors, hospital workers, NYPD, and one god amongst men who, after Diane asked if she could record the sound of him pouring coffee, said, “they pay you to do this?”
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E4, REVIEWING THE SITUATION: this one’s about how democracy dies in darkness.
@nickkroll
and
@mulaney
are golden gods.
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we did it again! with a special nod to america’s Nancy Grace.
@nickkroll
and john
@mulaney
have nothing on us.
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@EricMennel
@lindaholmes
I brought my smartest friend into this conversation that specifically isn’t about me
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my advice to banks: if you want it to seem plausible that you profile people just in case they’re victims of bad actors, you may wanna let your staff in on the story
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today's my one-year anniversary at
@ThisAmerLife
, and even though I do think we're all in the bad place right now, I'm incredibly grateful to have a small good place to call my office, beside the smartest, most supportive colleagues I've ever known
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in an effort to take personal inventory of my net worth, I had my car appraised, and I’m so pleased to report that she’s been valued at $103, which is less than it costs to take a cab to Newark
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my local rapid covid tester ushered me behind this door to await my results
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ira and I were on last week’s high maintenance just LAUGHING
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I literally said “are you worried that I’m being trafficked?” & she said “I don’t know”
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something I think about at least once a day is what an incredible job Meryl Streep did of losing to
@Cher
at the 1988 Oscars
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they should make an Oscar for best production company dabbling in podcasting in order to cheaply attain intellectual property that’s then shelved!
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for some reason like 18 months ago I agreed to help two very irritable men make a podcast
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my dad just called to make sure I know about pornhub donating face masks to new york city, I love him so fucking much
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I’m so proud of this story. not because it’s extraordinary; specifically because it isn’t. porn can be pretty dark and twisty! but much more often, it’s kind of boring. that’s what I like about it. the thing itself matters a LOT less than its backdrop.
Lana has a problem lots of mothers have right now during the pandemic, but a more extreme version of it. Lana makes porn—at home. It’s hard to do her job with schools closed.
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I was one of Gimlet's first hires. It was bonkers; to save time, Katilin sometimes slept at work,
@EricMennel
couldn't find an apartment that allowed dogs, & still he came to work. It was the third floor of an old building on Flatbush where I'm positive they shot snuff films
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every podcast I’ve ever encountered: “more and more these days, it’s seeming more and more like…”
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forgive my loan debt!
.
@vulture
names "The Last Days of August," which was reported and produced by alumna
@lmisitzis
, as one of the top podcasts of 2019; the podcast investigates the untimely death of an adult film actress.
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never will I ever feel as much as I felt during the summer of 2012, which I spent listening to The National on the subway, sobbing and refusing tissues from caring strangers
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everything is so much right now, but also I just saw two adults on a park bench holding one another’s gaze, each of them sipping from their own carton of whole milk
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I ran the numbers and hereby conclude that this ihop used to be a pf chang’s
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Man behind me at Hamilton last night: "Oh honey, this
@Lin_Manuel
guy made that other rap thingy we saw on Broadway in 2008!"
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@sruthiri
the luxury of spending many hours making a story is less noticeable to me than the luxury of spending many hours listening to said story on repeat, trying to figure out what’s wrong with it
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after his hamster Oreo died last month, my nephew stopped sleeping through the night. but then he went ten nights in a row without leaving his bed and my brother said he could graduate.
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my mom is on the right side of history and my proof is that when I posted this, my FIRST INTERNET NUDE, she called me with great urgency to voice her concern that I might get a UTI from bathing with Varys
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Hello! After 2 blissful* years of freelancing, it’s time to get a job. I’m a senior producer & editor with extensive reporting experience. To quote an ex boss, “Lina’s not for everyone!” To quote that same ex boss, “Lina’s my favorite former employee.” You do the math!
*passable
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this is all I care about from now on
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today is my two-year anniversary at
@ThisAmerLife
and an otherwise unremarkable day in world history, memorable for nobody
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expanding this idea to include "stop laying off everyone who's good at this, irregardless of my personal relationship to them"
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💕a flower courier just delivered these to me at my office in a box with my name on it, but the card is made to a woman named Deanna from her fiancé Paul❤️
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I live to apologize except for one time in 2012 when my coworker complained to our manager that my calling it "sportsball" felt "disrespectful to sports culture" and our manager asked me to apologize
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when I left my job at NPR in 2016 and my colleagues bid me farewell with a crop top and Snuggie was the first time I really *knew* myself (to be a cozy slut)
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🍾a toast to the 30+ people who burned to death in those same fires!🥂
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it was only the day after attending the death cab/postal service anniversary show that I realized the main guy in both bands is the same guy, and that’s only because I remarked to friends that “the two guys looked kind of the same”
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I produced this week’s show which meant tricking
@halliecantor
and Hannah Einbeinder into executing this. I love it so much.
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I lied and said I knew how to use some industry standard software, but the lady interviewing me figured it out and asked me to leave. it was for a job at Brian Williams’ news show. then Brian lost his job for lying about getting hit by a rocket.
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big year for blondes purporting to be humbled!
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thirty, flirty, and just googled "billy joel still touring?"
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MY HEART GREW THREE SIZES TODAY
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the holidays are a special time when grownups who don’t know what my job is interrupt themselves at dinner parties to point at me and suggest I “do one of [my] stories about that”
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hey!
@jonronson
and I are on this list, which is very flattering! also the photo they used for our show is of an armed forces person I’ve never seen before!
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couple things: I’m on This American Life this weekend talking to nervous Democrats in Florida AND my new plate frame arrived which I ordered because “that’d be funny” but now I’m not so sure!
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something so humanizing about me is that my vibrator got turned on in my suitcase and is very sonically rocking and rolling its way around in there but I had to sit on my suitcase to close it in the first place and am therefore refusing to address it
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The Washington Post’s hiring for a FT Audio Producer!! Benefits include:
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the lady I'm trying to hire to cut my hair keeps referring to our exchange of money for services as a "partnership in beauty"
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the Greek word for aunt is “thia” but my brother taught his kids it’s “feta” and there’s exactly nothing I’ve been able to do about it
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At the same time, I feel very connected to anyone who dreamed about working there, and especially connected to anyone whose dream was then deferred. It doesn't have to include silver lining. It can (and does) really fucking suck, and I'm thinking of all of you
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finally watched
@LastWeekTonight
’s excellent segment on sex work, trafficking, and decriminalisation (😏) and was CHUFFED (😏) to see my own work cited partway through
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YOU try bringing YOUR lynx fur coat to This American Life without exclaiming “it’s vintage so I get a pass!” whenever anyone notices
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I have a story on this week’s show about exploitation and agency and the problem(s) with dividing people up into With Us or Against Us. As ever, my colleagues had my back from go, especially
@Starecheski
.
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just left my first LA musical theater aerobics dance class in which I was the sole student and the teacher opened class by explaining to me that mental health is an important theme in many of broadway’s greatest hits
everyone can relax as I have found a musical theater aerobics dance class to attend in los angeles
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just walked by a leather-clad man, penis in hand, pissing onto a “curb your dog” sign. he was wearing his mask.
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what my industry lacks in salaried work it makes up for in pithy observations of said lacks in salaried work
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I think the most profound thing about winning a pulitzer is I just sat down to a shrimp dinner, decided that shrimp "look too much like cockroaches," threw my dinner away, and then sobbed at the thought of eating cockroaches
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in fourth grade I found out my classmate Sarah was having a birthday slumber party without me and so I invited her to a fake slumber party at my house on her birthday which subsequently forced her to invite me to her birthday slumber party
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something very relatable about me is that a few years ago I ran into someone who really broke my heart and managed to avoid small talk by pretending to be on an important phone call when really I was just listening to "White Noise for Babies" on loop on Spotify
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have I got something ALIENATING in store for fans of public radio this coming weekend!
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my neighbor set up his patio furniture on the sidewalk and is presently blasting Frank Sinatra from a boombox while removing his mask every minute or so to take puffs of his cigar
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today is two years since August took her life. I’m thinking about her. I’m also thinking about the many resources that emerged for porn people in the aftermath of her death. there was conflict, yes, but there was (and is!) so much kindness and love, too
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the pilot on my airplane just asked a four-year-old if she wants to visit the cockpit and she said no
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porn/cam twitter! I'm looking for performers who keep getting kicked off of social media platforms. I know this is in no way new for you guys, and I'm especially interested in performers who have dealt with it over and over, in multiple places. DM me! Here is an octopus:🐙
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the utility company I give money to in exchange for electricity and the sixth worst tap water in America just emailed to wish me a happy "final day" of women's history month
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forgot my ID at home when buying wine so I said “whoops, sorry, but look — I have crow’s feet!” and the guy nodded and sold me the wine and now I’m so mad I’m reporting him to the state’s alcoholic beverage control
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sometimes I watch old Anthony Bourdain clips and feel overwhelmed by the wide expanses of this world, how much of it I’ll never know, and other times I think about how most countries’ signature cuisine is some kind of bread wrapped around some kind of milk and/or animal
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there is no emptier feeling than a podcast promising to cover “anything and everything”
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yesterday my therapist very gently informed me that, because of the global pandemic, I might be depressed
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Just in time for the holidays, I’m on the radio this weekend with a story about exhuming my grandmother’s remains. I love you.
On the radio this weekend: There's a lot that can be gained from unearthing the past -- learning about oneself, learning about others. But, it doesn't always go how you'd expect.
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I produced this week’s episode w/ fellow Real Housewives fan
@noormal_person
and my favorite part is when
@dianemwu
finds out (in her mid 20s) that there are nazis in The Sound of Music
This week: At a time when going to the movies is mostly out of the question, we bring the movies to you.
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every
@nytimes
push notification rn is like OUR DATA SCIENTIST STORYTELLERS CREATED A JIGSAW PUZZLE THAT YOU CAN MOVE INTO DIFFERENT SHAPES SO AS TO IMAGINE 683 POSSIBLE ELECTION OUTCOMES EVEN THOUGH HISTORICALLY IT’S ONLY EVER COME DOWN TO THREE THINGS
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yesterday my employer's parent company sent out an email instructing us to let HR know if we're feeling lonely
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fans of my deeply fried voice: have I got something in store for you on the radio this weekend!
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no memory of what this was about but also fully doubling down on what this was about
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on this day, 2021, my friend pranked me good by making a fake email account and offering me six figures and “the opportunity to share [my] gift -- to plant the seed and watch it grow” if I’d agree to do a masterclass about podcasting
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finally worked up the courage to confront the cashless Sweetgreen on Sunset, using words like “classist” & “legal tender” & “human rights,” except that, after I proudly finished laying down the law, the retailer gently told me, “we DO take cash”
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just asked my cab driver to turn on the radio and he said no, because he doesn’t like the radio
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so much of my life has been punctuated by trebek. playing with dad as a kid and background noise in college and what I turn on in hotel rooms on reporting trips, because it reminds me of home ❤️
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a manager at an npr show I really wanted to work at earlier in my career told me not knowing ProTools was why he couldn’t hire me. So I quit my day job to do an unpaid training program at a tiny/wonderful radio station,
@kalw
. that’s how I learned.
I love this game! I learned ProTools from
@lmisitzis
and for a year after we stopped, I would get the recurring calendar invite pop up every Thursday morning: "Anabel + Lina ProTools"
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I’ve been collecting phone numbers in a vulnerable effort to ~make more irl friends~ and I’m still getting the hang of it!
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my dentist just emailed to announce his exciting new partnership with a botox specialist and as an aside they’re both being trained to administer covid vaccines
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