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This American Blindspot

February 26 2005 | 1 min read

Tonight I heard a chunk of This American Life that was a repeat I had previously listened to. I usually love the show, but this one I didn't like very much. I realized that pretty much every episode I don't much like has something in common - lots of Jonathan Goldstein. Not to disparage the man, but I think I'm just not his target audience. His tales of his personal neuroses and daily humiliations leave me cold, mostly because I just can't really empathize that much. He seems to spend a lot of time agonizing about what the least important random people in his life think of him. Why not, like, just not care?