What TAL episode is this?

September 9, 2012 9:25 AM

I'm looking for a This American Life episode about a bunch of adolescent geeks/nerds hanging out in NYC. They go around pulling simple scams and social engineering pranks. I tried searching all the titles and descriptions on the TAL website but nothing rings a bell. It might have been a short segment in one of their 3 part episodes
posted by laptolain to media & arts (4 answers total)

Search for "improv anywhere"... That is the group they were covering.
posted by pazazygeek at 9:31 AM on September 9, 2012 [1 favorite]

It's not improve everywhere. The story was from a long time ago, one of the '90s episodes. From what I remember the kids were a bunch of geeks/nobodies.
posted by laptolain at 9:35 AM on September 9, 2012

I think it's episode 78, How Bad is Bad. The kids in the episode were "hackers."
posted by mrsshotglass at 9:39 AM on September 9, 2012 [6 favorites]

Yup that's it!

Thanks mrsshotglass.
posted by laptolain at 9:46 AM on September 9, 2012