As promised, I've put together a "This American Life"
MP3 archive, as well as a podcast of the most recent episodes.
The episode downloads are restricted to three per day --- I don't mind folks
with wget fetching them all, but it was just too much of a bandwidth drain.
I hope not to have to limit the podcast downloads --- at the moment they're
not, and 250g of traffic isn't _easily_ eaten up.
A few points:
- Yes, the RSS feed works fine in iTunes. PLEASE don't submit it to Apple as a list that you'd like to see on their service. I can't afford the traffic or attention.
- The podcast will be updated regularly with new episodes, but if I haven't fetched it yet, its cause I haven't gotten around to it yet. If I'm a week behind (as in the Real file was made available a week before, then feel free to email me.
- I'm not accepting donations. At all. WBEZ Chicago deserves the cash - they make content, I simply re-encode it.
- If you're not a starving student, or someone who makes less than ... say ... $30,000 a year, get off this site. Subscribe to the Audible downloadable version. Its not [too] expensive, its updated often, and is legal. You can afford it.
- Somehow poor, but still wanting to give me money? Go here and donate.
- More amazing to me is that apparently, TALs are made available through the iTunes Music Store! $3.95 isn't fair, IMHO, but thats not for me to decide. You can buy it from there too.
- This site is still up by the good graces (or lack of awareness) of the folks that make the show. They ask, it goes down.
- How to rip/encode these shows on your own? I'll have a guide up later, but for those looking to learn something : Google it
So, the archives. They are sorted by year....