"This American Life" is a weekly podcast that focuses on telling interesting stories to their listeners.
The process of creating the work above required listening to episod 619, "The Magic Show," which consisted of a prologue, an act one and two, totaling 55 minutes. The point of listening to the podcast was to gain a better understanding for the personality of the hosts and guests brought on the show. This episode was listened to several times.
There was a transcript available, which came in handy when placing the text in the book about, but simply reading the transcript wasn't going to provide the same experience as listening to the podcast. The goal of the book was to allow a viewer to have a better understanding of when a moment would have been filled with excitement or held great importance.
