I'm not a big fan of cars. They are good for driving from place to place, getting where I need to go and whatnot. I do not, however, spend hours of my time admiring the paint jobs of cars on the street. When I listened to the radio show called "Auto Show," I didn't know what to expect. I picked it because I remember listening to the program called "Car Talk" in the car with my dad. I listened to a part of it about a man who had his car stolen when he was on vacation. He did not expect to see it again, but one day, when visiting a friend's house, he did. He followed the car until the thieves lost him, but the police later found them. No details were given to the man on the identity of the criminals who stole his car. However, he was able to deduce characteristics of the thieves, as objects like applications for a job at Red Lobster, toys for children, tubes of silly putty, and football helmet stickers were left behind. I think this was the most interesting part of this radio show. The fact that car thieves would be driving their children to school while looking for a new job, one without stealing, is fascinating to me. A purple rattle in a stolen car just seems so abnormal to me. The picture painted by the speakers gives a glimpse beyond the story of a stolen car and looks at the society pictured behind it. The use of the overlap of voices was very effective in this radio show, but at some points, in between the story he had in his mind and the next question asked of him, the discussion seemed to fade and become less relevant. At the end of this radio show, I found that I received a much different story than I thought I would. Instead of comparing the paint jobs of two nearly identical cars, I had a little story about a seemingly normal parent doing a very abnormal thing: stealing a car. Like the food essays our Nonfiction and Media class made, this show used a relevant topic to tell a deeper story.
Works Cited:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/279/auto-show
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