Apocalypse Creep

This American Life

社会与文化

2022-02-11

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A woman wakes up and discovers her backyard has disappeared, and other stories from places slowly coming apart. Prologue: Ira talks with a radio announcer in Truckee, California, about the increasingly alarming content of his fishing reports. (10 minutes) Apocalypse Now-ish: Producer Alix Spiegel reports on the city of Pacifica, California. A huge fight erupted there after it was asked to start planning for sea level rise. Some in town think it’s time to face the future, others say it’s far too early. (37 minutes) Resilience is Futile: Miami writer Mario Alejandro Ariza on how his city is trying to beat back the impacts of climate change. He says it’s going about as well as the playground brawls he endured as a kid. (8 minutes)
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  • A quick warning.

  • There are curse words that are unbeeped in today's episode of the show.

  • If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.

  • From WBEZ Chicago, it's this American Life from Ira Glass.

  • And let me just I'm just going to reach out and retune your signal here a little bit from whatever public radio station or podcast streaming service you're listening to.

  • And where we're going to is 101.5 Truckee Tahoe radio in Northern California near Lake Tahoe.

  • And I'm going to retune from today to April of last year.

  • It's springtime and the opening weekend of fishing season, and that means it's time for the return of the 101.5 fishing report, brought to you every week by Mountain Hardware and sports in Truckee.

  • 101.5 is the 1 radio station in Truckee, and the fishing report runs Friday, Saturday, Sunday every week, three times a day during the summer, which is about right for a mountain town filled with lots of people who are there because they love the outdoors.

  • Now let's talk fishing.

  • The Truckee river has great flows for springtime.

  • Right now it's not too high and minimal snow melt is happening.

  • Please be sure to wade carefully near the shorelines.

  • That's where the fish are hanging out, so be sure not to scare them.

  • Each fishing report has lots of helpful information about how much water is flowing through the Truckee and Little Truckee rivers, various spots which affects fishing.

  • And then there are long sections that I have to admit, even though I grew up fishing on the Chesapeake Bay, are complete gibberish to me.

  • Indicator and Euro nymphing are producing the best results for anglers.

  • Dry Fly favorites include E.C.

  • caddis, Parachute Adams and crippled March Browns.

  • Live Fishing a listener to 101.5 Emily McAllister sent us fishing Report and a bunch of others because this past summer as she listened, she noticed that the 101.5 fishing report, this steady, sturdy, unflappable piece of angling boosterism, seemed to be telling the kind of story that hadn't ever shown up there before in the fishing report.