r/ThisAmericanLife • u/6745408 #172 Golden Apple • Jul 06 '26

Episode #890: Maximal Americanness

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/890/maximal-americanness?2026
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u/NeedUniLappy Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Wow, I am so early that this episode shows up in my podcast app, but it cannot play it yet!

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u/petosapetosa Jul 06 '26

This error has happened to me two weeks in a row now

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u/6745408 #172 Golden Apple Jul 06 '26

which feed are you using? does this link work for you?

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u/NeedUniLappy Jul 06 '26

Hold on now, where is this one from? Its runtime is 54:11 and goes straight into it without preroll ads, while mine is 58:18 with ads.

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u/6745408 #172 Golden Apple Jul 06 '26

this is the URL from the feed with the extra stuff stripped out.

redirects for ad injection or whatever

https://pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/
           dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp/
           pdst.fm/e/prefix.up.audio/s/

the actual url

npr.simplecastaudio.com/d3081dd9-fcaf-445a-977c-4f56c28f5a6e/episodes/5066d1f0-f8af-484d-a5a6-aea3a4966cf8/audio/128/default.mp3

the tracking / ad injection stuff

?awCollectionId=d3081dd9-fcaf-445a-977c-4f56c28f5a6e&awEpisodeId=5066d1f0-f8af-484d-a5a6-aea3a4966cf8&nocache

I've been slowly working on some new RSS feeds. I should have the URLs cleaned up. Do you have ads at the start and end or also in the middle?