This American Life | New Beginnings

This American Life is a brilliant radio program. I have enjoyed every episode I have heard. Its hard to define what the show is about. They pick a topic and then interview people or read essays by people who have something to do with that topic. The link can be fairly obscure and its usually fairly touching in someway. Please, just listen yourself to the first show. Ira interviews Kevin Kelly of the Cool Tools website.

After he goes to Jerusalem and sleeps on what is supposedly the very spot where Jesus was crucified, Kevin Kelly has a revelation: that he should live the next six months as if he would die at the end of them. So he gives away nearly everything he owns, and tries to live each day as if his death is imminent – which turns out to be a great challenge. This story was eventually used in a much later program, Shoulda Been Dead. At the time of this interview, Kevin Kelly was executive editor of Wired magazine. Now he’s a contributing editor there, and also runs the Cool Tools website. (22 minutes)