She eventually decided to try her hand at it, hitchhiking to a pornography convention in search of a story and ultimately starting a podcast called Get Me On This American Life.
[5] Foo was an intern then a producer at Glynn Washington's Snap Judgment, based in Oakland, then moved to This American Life.
CBC's Lindsay Michael named Pilot to a 2016 list of five best recent podcasts, saying Foo has "created her own playground...A place where she can try things out and see how they go.
"[12] Foo served as the project lead on the development of an app from This American Life, launched in October 2016, called Shortcut.
[15] Writing at The New York Observer, Brady Dale called Foo's project "the number one innovation in podcasting" in 2016, saying, "If anything can ever make audio go viral, it’s a solution like this.
"[19] At Current, Adam Ragusea praised it as "frank and funny"[20] and Neiman Lab's Nicholas Quah called the piece "fantastic" and Foo "a force of nature.