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If you like This American Life, you'll love WIRETAP!

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If you like This American Life, you'll love WIRETAP!

Post by Mo Daviau »

If you enjoy bizarre things, radio shows, This American life, improv, and Canadians, check out the CBC radio program Wiretap.

http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/c ... o/wiretap/

Based on the idea that we're listening in on a telephone call between charismatic radio personality Jonathan Goldstein (formerly of TAL) and a number of his "friends," and the conversation usually turns into how Jonathan is a huge ass and a bad friend. Or he tries to be poignant and sometimes succeeds.

All the episodes are very different from each other, and most of the dialogue is improvised, but I think that it's partially scripted, too.

Anyway, the URL there has an archive of audio files of shows, so you don't have to listen via the CBC website.

This shit rawks.