# A Life Well Wasted - This American Life for Gamers... **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 2, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-life-well-wasted-this-american-life-for-gamers/501686 "2009-07-02T12:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-life-well-wasted-this-american-life-for-gamers/501686/1 "2009-07-02T12:49:46Z")
Why didn’t anyone tell me about this before? I just found a podcast titled [A Life Well Wasted](http://alifewellwasted.com/). It borrows heavily from the format of This American Life but rather than just feeling like a copy it makes it a breath of fresh air in gaming media. Unfortunately he seems to be pacing himself to one episode every two months and there’s only three episodes so far. I think the second episode was his best but there’s good stuff in all three. Why can’t more gaming media be this good (okay, besides the obvious working as a marketing arm for the industry and pandering to a 13 to 17 year old audience).