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Live events for TAL Partners?

Have you all considered hosting live events in areas where significant number of TAL Partners live? Could be great!

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Your worldview

Has any episode you’ve ever done changed your opinion on something, or made you look at the world in a different way?

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What’s the hardest part of your job?

in the writing process and beyond, what’s always the most difficult thing for you and your team?

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What’s the hardest part of your job?

in the writing process and beyond, what’s always the most difficult thing for you and your team?

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Echoes of the past?

There are episodes, from decades ago, that still ring in my head - ones like "Do-Gooders" https://www.thisamericanlife.org/126/do-gooders/act-one-0 The tale and corresponding "fall" of Canalou ring in my head everytime I hear about Rural America. I checked and the Census puts the population at 158 for the 2020, a 55% from it's 2000 count of 348(the 319 in the story was from the 1990 census) My question is how frequently you find yourself wanting to return those places and find a story - whether of hope or despair - to just document what did or didn't happen? How do you weight the desire to do that vs. trying to tell a new story and a new perspective? Extra question: Have the production staff, when picking backing soundtrack/music, just defaulted to Philip Glass because "eh - why work extra?" Also, when picking "Stage Blood is Not Enough." Which version does production staff pick?