![]() ![]() have created some of the most engaging narrative radio journalism you’ll find on the airwaves. That’s a slightly boring way of saying they produce great stories. Those stories are also packaged up and offered as podcasts, and you have hundreds of episodes to choose from should you wish to give This American Life a whirl. Our pick of the litter is “Cars,” an episode that first aired in 2013. “Cars” takes you inside a Long Island car dealership at the end of October 2013, when a seemingly insurmountable quota needs to be met by month’s end. What we love about the episode-and this is something you find in a lot of This American Life productions-are the characters. You meet a hot-shot salesman who closes every deal he touches. You meet the ultra-stressed dealer who’s constantly sweating bullets. ![]() You meet a lot of guys who sound like they live in Long Island. They all come together for a story with the same suspense as a summer blockbuster, only it all happens at Town and Country Jeep Chrysler Dodge Ram in Levittown, New York. This one was a tough call and we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the other episode we were considering. So before we dig into the Obama episode of WTF With Marc Maron, we want to quickly say you should also listen to the Louis C.K. episode, which plays out like a therapy session between two former friends, who decide to hash out their differences. It’s incredibly honest and will catch you off guard. While that episode is fantastic, the episode where Maron sits down with then-sitting president Barack Obama marked a milestone in the podcast world. Here was the president devoting time to a medium many didn’t view as all that relevant. While it was huge for WTF (the episode was downloaded 735,063 times in 24 hours), it was enormous for podcasting in general. Is it the best episode of WTF? Probably not. With help from Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan, the Radiolab team tackled the topic of space back in Season 2.
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