I really miss the Savvy Traveler, and I have been looking for another show to fill the void. I recently rediscovered This American Life on my way home from Evansville one night. It is a show I had heard a few times many years ago, but it didn’t come on at a time I was typically driving and so I never thought much about it. While listening to the show on my way home I decided to see if they had a website and whether or not they published the shows. It turns out the answer is yes to both of those questions. I have listened to a few shows and I must say it is a really good program. I would highly recommend trying it out.

The first program I listened to recently was called My Experimental Phase, and one of the people they talked to (among others) was a Hasidic Jew who had gone a-wall for a while. It was interesting to me because until living in New York I hadn’t had any experience with them. It turns quite a few Hasidic families come to Fleischmanns for the summer. They keep to themselves and so they only things I really know about them are what Ali’s family has told me, and they don’t typically have good things to say about them. The show was interesting because it provided a little in sight into their world, although not a lot since the guy was going a-wall after all.

There was another show called Propriety that is also very good; part of it deals the recent changes in enforcement of decency policies the FCC has decided to pursue.