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854: Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About You

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2025/02/21

Zach Mack and his dad try to mend a rift between them in a very unusual way.

853: Groundhog Day

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2025/01/31

People stuck in a loop, trying to find their way out.

852: Pivot Point

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2025/01/17

People living in that in-between moment before everything changes.

851: Try a Little Tenderness

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2025/01/10

In the new year, stories of people trying a radical approach to solving their problems.

850: If You Want to Destroy My Sweater, Hold This...

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/12/20

The tiny thing that unravels your world.

849: The Narrator

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/12/13

Banias is an 8-year-old kid living in Gaza. And she has a story to tell — many stories, in fact.

848: The Official Unofficial Record

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/11/22

How do you count almost 12 million votes if you’re not the government? This week, we bring you the extraordinary story of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who created the only verifiable public record of votes in their presidential election — and other stories of people trying to correct the official record with their own versions.

847: The Truly Incredible Story of Keiko the...

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/11/15

Keiko was a hugely beloved adventure park attraction. He was also captured in the wild and taken away from his mother when he was just a calf. When Hollywood learned about him, a colossal effort began to un-tame him and send him back to the ocean.

846: This Is the Cake We Baked

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2024/11/08

With Donald Trump’s victory this week, many people looked at the election results and thought, yeah, this is the country I thought it was. For some people, that was a hopeful thing. For others, kind of the opposite. This week, we talked with people who helped make it happen and some who are looking to what’s next.

845: A Small Thing That Gives Me a Tiny Shred of Hope

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/11/01

A wee flame, flickering in the dark.

844: This Is the Case of Henry Dee

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/10/18

Thirteen parole board members decide whether or not one man should be released from prison.

843: A Little Bit of Power

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/10/11

So much of the fight for the presidency is coming down to battles for small slices of voters who can help throw swing states to one candidate or another. Abbas Alawieh, a leader in the Uncommitted movement, grapples with how to get his voters the thing they want.

842: 51 Days

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/10/04

Chen Almog-Goldstein was kidnapped by Hamas along with her three youngest children on October 7, 2023. This week, she tells the story of their life as hostages in Gaza.

841: My Senior Year

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/09/20

One kid comes to America as an exchange student and commits herself to the senior year experience.

840: How Are You Not Seeing This?

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/09/13

People trying and struggling to see what another person sees.

839: Meet Me at the Fair

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/09/06

Iowa has three million people and a million come to their State Fair, each with their own goals and dreams for the fair. We hang out with some of them, to see if they get what they hoped for.

838: Letters! Actual Letters!

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/08/16

When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.

837: Swim Towards the Shark

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/08/09

In a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond?

836: The Big Rethink

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/07/19

People rethinking some of the most important relationships in their lives — with their sister, their political party, and the nominee for president.

835: Children of Dave

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2024/06/28

Boen Wang has a theory that a lot of the misery in his life can be traced to a single moment that happened years before he was born. So he makes a pilgrimage to see if he’s right.

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