The episode I listened to of This American Life was called "Auto Show." I wasn't actually 100% sure that I wanted to listen to this episode, as it was all about cars. I listened to the segment about "DB Dragracing"-- a competition about making stereos so loud that you can't even sit in the car when the stereo in it is blasting. This report does a good job of describing two main competitors, though I was annoyed when, at the beginning of the report, the interviewee began with accusing a competitor of taking advantage of a technical mishap in order to win. In the middle, the technology rundown got sort of dry, but then the report began to talk about the competition itself, as one point building the suspense by playing a track of car doors slowly slamming shut in order to countdown to the start of the competition. Overall, the tone of this report was different from past This American Life reports because it was more geared toward a certain part of the population, though it was still accessible and interesting--even to a teenage girl.
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