Most of the time, the updates we share about our lives are small and inconsequential. This week, status updates that interrupt daily life. We hear two friends talk about how one of them has become rich and famous. And an entire town gets a status update on itself.
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Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. BEEPED VERSION.
Finding the Self in Selfie
Mon Ami Ta-Nehisi
Producer Neil Drumming talks with his friend Ta-Nehisi Coates about Ta-Nehisi’s newfound fame and their friendship. (19 minutes)
There Owes the Neighborhood
The story of an entire town that gets a status update. Producer Chana Joffe-Walt talked to Paul Kiel of Pro Publica, the man who gave the town its status update. You can read Paul’s story about this on Pro Publica. (18 minutes)
76-Year-Old Quarterback Throws Hail Mary Pass
We have an update on a man in his 70s who planned to propose to a woman. We first spoke with him for time in our episode The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants. (4 minutes)
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