{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Re:sound #194 The Driving Show","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61009a3631fd81f125b34e75/61009acb121e70001399e41d.jpg?height=200","description":"This hour we buckle up and hit the road.\n\nDon't Drive Like My Brother\nby Jonathan Menjivar (This American Life [WBEZ], 2005)\nCharles Johnson was living in St. Louis, married with a young daughter, and he had no job. He looked around, and decided he'd try trucking. There was this company offering to train and hire drivers, so he signed up. The only problem was, he couldn't read.\n\nStories and Driving\nby Sophie Townsend with Jesse Cox and Louis Mitchell (Radiotonic [ABC RN], 2014)\nSophie Townsend and her husband used to go on long driving trips, taking the back roads and scenic routes, with a cup of hot coffee between them and a constant supply of Fellini soundtracks on the stereo. Sophie no longer drives those routes though, and she's slowly losing those memories because it’s another story, one that keeps forcing it's way up to the surface, that keeps eclipsing those earlier recollections.\n\nDrive Straight Ahead \nby Mira Burt-Wintonick (Wiretap [CBC], 2014)\nA driver enlists the help of her car's GPS system to help her navigate her own emotional loss. \n[NOT AVAILABLE ON PODCAST]\nListen online — bit.ly/W6QSeD\n \nRoute Talk\nby Chris Garcia and Nancy Updike (This American Life [WBEZ], 2013)\nChris Garcia and his dad were driving home, listening to oldies, sharing a bag of chips. A totally familiar scene for them. They’d driven this route probably hundreds of time, but something odd was happening in the car, so Chris started recording their conversation on his phone. He tells producer Nancy Updike what happened.\n\nBus To Mexico\nby Linda Lutton (WBEZ, 2014)\nEvery week, hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico. Linda Lutton used to live in Mexico, and has taken the 2,000-mile trip nearly a dozen times to and from Zamora, Michoacán. On her most recent trip, she brought a tape recorder along.\n\nPhoto\nRachel\nhttp://bit.ly/1mx1LOc
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