this american life fiasco transcript

So we are not yet at fiasco. And my partner is going, let's get out of here. Ron's latest book is Return to Oakpine. Seriously? 734. It was about five minutes away. And we do hear an animal upstairs scratching away, just kind of scuttling around the floor. We are at a sort of normal level of mishap. And sometimes that's OK. What happens immediately after this, they disappear to Never Never Land. And the audience is totally in his pocket. We hear from all aggrieved parties, including the Car Talk guys — Tom and Ray Maggliozi. The Financial Crisis Uncovered: This American Life Explains How We Got Here. So I just threw my arm back into this guy's chest, into my partner's chest. I am happy and proud to report that the oil hit its target with an accuracy and completeness I could have only dreamed of. There is much, much to learn about fiascoes in this hour. Yeah. --just blowing that horn. But I sort of kept staring at it. And so what happened was Moon told me a joke. We need to put the oil on soon. And so the audience, I think, was very forgiving and very understanding of this moment. As damage control, I go to the locker room to iron my own pants. She was beautiful. The actors, actually, you could sense their lack of confidence, shall we say--, --in the people running the machines in the back. And there is a volunteer fire and ambulance department. Today's show, Fiasco, our own inquiry into the nature of what makes a fiasco, when you have left the world of mishaps, stumble, human error, and you enter into the much more rarefied realm of fiasco. They're up there-- they're embarrassing themselves for us. And I'm trying not to hurt it. See, I think the old theater critics, the ancients, would say that the reason you go to the theater and to see a great production is to be-- I think the word they used to use is "transported," the idea being that you would be lifted away from your animal nature and into these higher, more spiritual realms or get in touch with these greater tragic emotions. A live episode of the radio program, including stories told on stage by Dan Savage and Mike Birbiglia. Well, of course, the kite is attached to the flying apparatus line. He left the stage itself. One of the great things about audiences, especially in a live theater production, is that they're very forgiving. Put your arms up. This American Life. This American Life is distributed by Public Radio International. So the squirrel, when it bolted down the staircase, took off into the living room and ran underneath the couch for cover. And then at a certain point, as he gestures, his hook and the entire black casing up to his elbow flings off of his hand and flies into the audience, and punches an old lady in the gut. This is American Fiasco. Oh, this is not good. He used to walk into the studio at the end of each and every episode to grimly assess the damage. See, but I wonder, when you think about what people go to theater for, what kind of release people want, people want an experience that will take them out of themselves. [MUSIC - "DAMAGE CONTROL" BY THE IDLE HANDS"]. And the social structure of the moment completely changes. Wait, wait. Were we tired? Well, there was a split in the audience. And Joe and I were like, yeah, who do you think our celebrity is going to be? All I'll say now is watch your step as you come and go. Well, that did not happen in this case. And we go upstairs. And the first speaker comes on the stage, and he's an 11-year-old boy who survived leukemia. And this woman who lived in the building opened the front door for me with her key. And I'll be honest, Ira, I might have been one of those first people to laugh. And I have to say that it was a very embarrassing experience, and it completely made me feel close to them. Narrator: It was the worst epidemic this country has ever known.It killed more Americans than all the wars this century — combined. It was my decision and my decision alone to do what we did, and that was to pour the warm oil on our enemies as they milled about the front gates, hammering at it with their truncheons. I'm Ira Glass. We got them all. And Tinker Bell is essentially a light bulb on an extension cord. So I'm moving it along, and everything's going very well. It was on fire. And I pancake him. But my wife really insisted I call. They're embarrassing themselves for us. And Peter Pan sort of sprinkles this magic dust in the air. It's a very neat thing. Yeah, this is act two. The rumors of all this crew, and the painting, and everything that was going on, and all this construction all worked towards this one moment. So I'm not beaten yet. I also happened to be team leader on the roof last month when we had occasion to try the system during the Visigoth attack about which so much has been written. Oh, I'm trying-- at this point, I'm sort of at that rock bottom level that everyone can get at in an interview, where you're just saying, what's your favorite color? So just before I stuck my head through this black hole, I just paused. 74: Conventions. American Dad! It just scared the heck out of me. Well, there was a split in the audience. And then I just stop in mid-sentence. At the same time, I was choking. But then I get worried because I'm like, sometimes jazz sucks. And the box is long enough, and it fits across the entire short side of the couch where the armrest would be. And they did take every stick of furniture left in the village, including the pews from the church, every chair in the great hall, and four milking stools, the last four from the dairy. Oh, it would have been a grave disappointment had there not been just one more mistake after another, one more embarrassment after another. When it comes right down to it, it's not even a story about a play. Why, with just a little magic dust, one can fly." And now the lights come up. And it sounds like this production, even though it was a fiasco-- in fact, because it was a fiasco-- was more successful at that than any conventional play could be. I mean, it wasn't, like, flaming or anything. See, but this, in fact, is one of the criteria for greatness, that everyone is just about to reach just beyond their grasp, because that is when greatness can occur. And she's trying to help me along. That is, when social order breaks down, that could be a force not just for chaos and for entropy and for evil, but in fact, that could be a force for good. I've never seen a production like this. So I'm ironing my pants. Your entire motivation as a character is the fact that you're--, --is that your arm was eaten off by an alligator and that you have to have a--. And there's his wife, who was just beautiful. And Peter Pan comes in and has the little speech where he says, "Anybody can fly. Towards act three, the director had decided that she wanted to break down the fourth wall. So the place is pretty much packed. And this call came over for unknown animal in a house. Do ya? And then with about eight inches to go, I took one more swipe, and the thing just bolted out from underneath the couch. There were lots of things being painted. This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1940. He was really, really hurt. Yeah. We squinted at the horizon all day long. Because, like I say, audiences are forgiving. 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 major broadcasting awards. Don't even ask. We just grab the couch, heave it upside down, and now there's plenty of oxygen now for the fire to really get going. Jack Hitt. She is one of your people. I'm Ira Glass. Transcript; Paint-by-number squirrel on fire. If she had said, eat this broken glass, I just would have said, OK, broken glass it is. By Ken Stewart. I'm on his stomach on my back, scuttling around like a beetle trying to get up in this really narrow hallway. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Now, I have this big, heavy flashlight, your cop flashlight, the four D-cells, the metal case, the whole thing. Our interviewee, who asked not to be named on the radio, had been on the force for 18 years when he spoke with me. He looks like a broker or a lawyer, just really well put together, nice guy, wearing glasses. Somehow that's how this entire play ended. Our interviewee, who asked not to be named on the radio, has been on the force for 28 years. I'd never been sent out under these kind of circumstances before. Well, there was some excitement. It's just batter up. And so we ask him what the problem is. And I think that they didn't know what was going on. And it was on my post. Adrianne Mathiowetz runs our website. This next fiasco falls into that second category. It's like this smoking piece of gristle underneath the couch, latched on there with its claws. Several times, this show has covered true stories of those affected by Huntington’s disease. So I was going to be, like, Galahad. (SINGING) I started a joke, which started the whole world crying. I'm like, I'm really sorry I'm your celebrity. They come down basically like-- I don't know-- lead sinkers on a line and crash to the floor, and then are sort of just dragged across the floor like mops, and wipe out all of the mushrooms. And so now, have we arrived at a turning point in our fiasco? I don't want to hurt it, really. That's just part of that job. Then the lights come up, and we are in Never Never Land. I don't think she'd ever directed. First, the very concept of oil on the roof upset many of our villagers. That's right, or something like that, or nothing at all, and people just address the invisible sprite. Opening night comes and, you know, well, almost everybody in the area in the 10-mile radius of this theater knows somebody in this production, so the place is pretty much packed. Something has been lost, some sense of decorum, that little bit of forgiveness that the audience has for the actors. He had the worst ad lib I've ever heard. And at a certain point, she got behind me, and she gave me the Heimlich maneuver. So myself and another car were assigned the call. Well, little darling, [INAUDIBLE]. And I think Tinker Bell-- Tinker Bell must have had an appearance in the first act, but it was somewhere in here that people just started laughing at this. The couch is upside down. And she says, sure, we've got boxes. So I'm apologizing the whole day. And right before she told me the joke, I had taken a big swig of the coffee, which was now cold. So we're seated in the den. --white bulb just hangs around. We covered them with a lustrous layer of oil. 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