Episode 273: Zoe Chace

Published: Dec. 6, 2017, 3:42 p.m.

b'Zoe Chace is a reporter and producer at This American Life.\\n\\n \\u201cRadio is a movie in your head. It\\u2019s a very visual thing. It\\u2019s a transporting thing\\u2014when it\\u2019s done well. And it\\u2019s louder than your thoughts. It is both of those things. It would just take me out of the place that I was, where I was lost and couldn\\u2019t figure things out. ... They had a very personal way of telling the story to you, so that you kind of felt like you\\u2019re there with them. Like it\\u2019s less lonely, it\\u2019s literally less lonely to have them there. And that felt really good.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Mubi, Squarespace, and Casper for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@zchace\\n[02:30] Chace\'s Archive at This American Life\\n[02:30] Chace\'s Archive at Planet Money\\n[04:00] Longform Podcast #239: Brian Reed\\n[05:50] S-Town\\n[16:10] Weekend Edition Saturday\\n[25:45] "Donald Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S." (Jeremy Diamond \\u2022 CNN \\u2022 Dec 2015)\\n[28:55] "I Thought I Knew You" (This American Life \\u2022 Jan 2016)\\n[33:35] "Sex, Boyhood and Politics in South Carolina" (This American Life \\u2022 Feb 2016)\\n[41:35] "The Believer" (Julia Ioffe \\u2022 Politico \\u2022 June 2016)\\n[43:00] "Will I Know Anyone at This Party" (This American Life \\u2022 Oct 2016)\\n[43:30] "Party in the USA" (This American Life \\u2022 Oct 2016)\\n[50:25] "Flake News" (This American Life \\u2022 Oct 2017)\\n[55:10] "Fighting Donald Trump Cost Jeff Flake His Job. But He\'s Not Going Quietly" (Nash Jenkins \\u2022 Time \\u2022 Nov 2017)\\n[55:20] Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle (Jeff Flake \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 2017)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'