Not a Thing to Do With Running

Bex and I went to see Ira Glass, host of "This American Life," live, Saturday night. If you haven't listened to this show yet, stop what you are doing, and go—now!

It's a hard show to explain, as the Web site itself acknowledges:

One of the problems with our show from the start has been that whenever we try to describe it in a sentence or two, it sounds awful. For instance: Each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme. That doesn't sound like something we'd want to listen to on the radio, and it's our show. In the early days of the program, in frustration, we'd sometimes tell public radio program directors that it's basically just like Car Talk. Except just one guy hosting. And no cars.

Start with "My Big Break."

If you like stories about real people who have things happen to them, you'll really like this show.