About this episode

Carrie Tart attempts to pivot her career from entertainment news to producing a show about real stories on her last day.

Carrie Tart is tired of reporting entertainment news, but with one last day to save the show, she's determined to follow her dream: Producing a show about real people telling real stories. Will she create the next This American Life, or will she live to regret her career pivot? All that, plus Mr. Rogers returns to a post-Trump world, and a confrontation with the Spoiler Police, in the seventh chapter of The Fakist: One Last Day, a standalone story set in the world of The Fakist.

Topics covered

• entertainment news
• career pivot
• real stories
• comedy
• fiction

Keywords

• Carrie Tart
• Mr. Rogers
• This American Life
• Spoiler Police
• career change

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: This American Life

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