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How to Tell a Dumb American Story - This American Life
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A couple devises a strategy to get their daughter's killer prosecuted and to get attention for other Native families.
on Mon, 2AM
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Museum of Now - This American Life
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Artifacts and exhibits of this particular moment we are living through.
on Apr 5
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Exhibit Two - This American Life
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Producer Aviva DeKornfeld talks to Ranjani Srinivasan, who tells the story of how her life was transformed over five days via a series of events that started out confusing and escalated to frightening. (25 minutes)
on Mar 31
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Reap What You Sow - This American Life
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Alabama's new immigration law aims to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will "self-deport."
on Mar 22
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Alien Experiment - This American Life
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Last Summer, Alabama passed HB56, the most sweeping immigration bill in the country.
on Mar 22
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Origin Story - This American Life
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Little-known and surprising stories of how all sorts of institutions began.
on Mar 12
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That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About - This American Life
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Unnecessary and outrageous lies that make you wonder — why lie about that in the first place?
on Mar 10
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Bully Pulpit - This American Life
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Host Ira Glass talks with M.
on Mar 9
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Ten Things I Don't Want To Hate About You - This American Life
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Zach Mack and his dad try to mend a rift between them in a very unusual way.
on Feb 24
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Talking While Black - This American Life
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Stories about Black people who found themselves caught in the middle of the country's shift away from diversity, equity, and inclusion.
on Feb 20
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Will You Still Slug Me Tomorrow? - This American Life
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Producer Aviva DeKornfeld speaks with a father and daughter who have been playing the same game for 25 years.
on Feb 4
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The Big Nap - This American Life
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A hardened PI works the toughest case of his very young life. (18 minutes) ALL IN: COMEDY ABOUT LOVE is written by Simon Rich and stars John Mulaney, Richard Kind, Fred Armisen, and Chloe Fineman.
on Feb 3
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The Prez Vs. The Commish. - This American Life
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Ira Glass tells the story of a little-known treaty dispute with far-reaching ramifications for our understanding of executive power.
on Jan 31
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Burroughs 101 - This American Life
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Ira Glass was never into William Burroughs. Then he heard this radio story that changed that.
on Jan 26
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Try a Little Tenderness - This American Life
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People try a radical approach to solving their problems.
on Jan 11
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So a Monkey and a Horse Walk Into a Bar - This American Life
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Blurring the line between animal and human.
on Dec 25
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Seasons Greetings To Our Friends And Family! - This American Life
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Julia Sweeney reads this story.
on Dec 25
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The Narrator - This American Life
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Banias is an 8-year-old kid living in Gaza. And she has a story to tell — many stories, in fact.
on Dec 14
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Doppelgängers - This American Life
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We got a tip about a meat plant selling pig intestines as fake calamari and decided to investigate.
on Dec 12
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Someone Else's Money - This American Life
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A deeper look inside the health insurance industry and the dark side of prescription drug coupons.
on Dec 5
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More Is Less - This American Life
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An hour explaining the American health care system—specifically, why it is that costs keep rising.
on Dec 5
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If I Only Had My Brain - This American Life
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Sarah Polley has always been reluctant to jump into challenging situations.
on Nov 28
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The Official Unofficial Record - This American Life
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How do you count almost 12 million votes if you’re not the government?
on Nov 27
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This Is the Cake We Baked - This American Life
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For some people, Donald Trump’s victory is a hopeful thing. For others, the opposite. This week, we talk to people who helped make it happen and some who are looking to what’s next.
on Nov 13
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A Small Thing That Gives Me a Tiny Shred of Hope - This American Life
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A wee flame, flickering in the dark.
on Nov 4
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A Tiny Thing That Gives Me Hope - This American Life
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A politically divided couple searches for a news source they both can trust. (26 minutes) The original version of this story first appeared on Question Everything, a co-production of KCRW and Placement Theory.
on Nov 4
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Let Me Be Frank - This American Life
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Frank Filocomo thinks people care too much about politics when it comes to dating.
on Nov 4
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Seriously - This American Life
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15 million people watched this on Facebook. Right before the 2016 election, we asked Sara Bareilles to imagine what President Obama might be thinking about Donald Trump, but couldn’t say publicly. Leslie Odom Jr. sang.
on Nov 1
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A Little Bit of Power - This American Life
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Abbas Alawieh, a leader in the Uncommitted movement, grapples with how to get his voters the thing they want.
on Oct 24
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My Senior Year - This American Life
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One kid comes to America as an exchange student and commits herself to the senior year experience.
on Oct 8
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Reporter Dana Ballout sifts through a very long list—the list of journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas War—and comes back with five small fragments of the lives of the people on it. (10 minutes)
on Oct 8
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Chen Almog-Goldstein tells the story of life as a hostage in Gaza.
on Oct 7
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The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra - This American Life
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An unprecedented look inside one of the most powerful, secretive institutions in the country.
on Sep 27
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Four More Years - This American Life
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After hearing from people who dread a possible second Trump term, we hear from those who are excited about it.
on Sep 25
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How Are You Not Seeing This? - This American Life
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People trying and struggling to see what another person sees.
on Sep 22
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The Hills Have Eyes - This American Life
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Some of the scariest stories happen when fluffy, innocent creatures turn murderously evil.
on Sep 22
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NUMMI (2015) - This American Life
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A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry.
on Sep 11
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Tell Me I’m Fat - This American Life
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Maybe it’s time to rethink the way we see being fat.
on Sep 11
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First Contact - This American Life
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We’ve witnessed a revolution in A.I. since the public rollout of ChatGPT. Our Senior Editor David Kestenbaum thinks that even though there’s been a ton of coverage, there’s one thing people haven’t talked much about: have these machines gotten to the point that they’re starting to have...
on Aug 23
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Running After Antelope - This American Life
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Scott Carrier with the latest installment in his 12-year quest to chase down and catch an antelope.
on Aug 11
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Greetings, People Of Earth - This American Life
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Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them.
on Aug 4
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The End of the World as We Know It - This American Life
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What happens when one family goes all in on fighting climate change.
on Jul 10
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How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.
on Jun 29
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Yousef and the Fourth Move - This American Life
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In Rafah, Yousef is out of options and faces his toughest move yet.
on Jun 25
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Come Retribution - This American Life
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Donald Trump has a plan for his second term: retribution. We check in with the people who’ve crossed him to hear how they feel about that.
on Jun 23
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That Other Guy - This American Life
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People tethered to one particular other person, whether they want to be or not.
on Jun 8
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Oh What A Hangled Web We Weave - This American Life
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Lilly Sullivan talks with former science reporter, Kelsey Padget, who’s on a mission to disabuse the world of its incorrect assumptions about an allegedly murderous creature: the black widow spider. (10 minutes) Kelsey Padgett will be hosting an upcoming weekly podcast about big history...
on May 30
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American Goth - This American Life
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There are the people who take two hours to get dressed every day, who dress primarily to be seen, and then there are most of the rest of us.
on May 22
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Pink Slip - This American Life
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One of the show's producers, Zoe Chace, tells Ira about a joke she made pretty soon after something terrible had happened.
on Apr 26