484: Doppelgängers
Jan 11, 2013
Calamari is on one side of the plate, sliced hog rectums are on the other. Which is which? We got a tip about a meat plant selling pig intestines as fake calamari, wondered if it could be true, and decided to investigate. Doppelgangers, doubles, evil twins and not-so-evil twins, this week. Fred Armisen co-hosts with Ira Glass.
Video of Fred's impression of Ira is here.
Video of Fred's impression of Ira is here.
Fred Armisen and Ira Glass in the This American Life studio. Photo: Adrianne Mathiowetz.
Fred's impression of Ira, from a dress rehearsal of Saturday Night Live. Clip of Saturday Night Live © [2011] NBC Studios, LLC. Distributed by Broadway Video Enterprises. Courtesy of Broadway Video Enterprises and NBC Studios, LLC.
- For decades, the writer Alex Kotlowitz has been writing about the inner cities and the toll of violence on young people. So when he heard about a program at Drexel University where guys from the inner city get counseling for PTSD, he wondered if the effect of urban violence was comparable to the trauma that a person experiences from war. Kotlowitz talks to a military vet from Afghanistan and a guy from Philadelphia who’s lived in some pretty bad neighborhoods to find out if they are doubles of some sort. Alex's is the author of the book There are No Children Here and producer of the documentary film The Interrupters. (23 minutes)
Special thanks to the program Healing Hurt People at Drexel University for assistance with this story.
