Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat

Middle schoolers, apt blocked from different apps and societal networks, seemingly turned the Spotify remark conception nether an occurrence of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu radical chat. In a new occurrence of This American Life, big Ira Glass digs into however the kids landed determination and why. But it mostly boils down to kids getting originative to enactment astir the restrictions placed connected them.

When Glass asked 1 of the kids wherefore they picked this peculiar podcast, they said, "We just, like, looked for podcasts that didn't person galore comments." Which, obviously, wounded Glass's feelings a bit.

Initially, showrunner Dave Blanchard thought the comments were a …

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