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814: Parents Are People

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/11/10

What happens when you realize the people in charge don’t have the answers.

813: Is That What I Look Like?

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/11/03

You've been seeing yourself, getting to know what you look like, your whole life. So why does it often take an outsider to see things about you that are obvious, and set you straight?

812: The Bear at the End of the Tunnel

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/10/20

People who have a good, long time to think about what they’re doing, look hard at what’s ahead of them, and decide to keep moving forward anyway.

811: The One Place I Can’t Go

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/09/29

Spots we’re avoiding in our private maps of the world.

810: Say It to My Face

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/09/15

Friends and ex-friends finally talk about the one thing between them they've been avoiding.

809: The Call

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/09/08

One call to a very unusual hotline and everything that followed.

808: The Rest of the Story

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/08/18

Legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey had a popular show called “The Rest of the Story.” Today on our show, we do just that. We hear from people who, whether they want to or not, find themselves face-to-face with the rest of their stories.

807: Eight Fights

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/08/04

Nadia's family is split between Russia and Ukraine, which is pretty common. And when Russia invaded Ukraine, it didn’t just start fighting on the battlefield. It sparked family conflict, too. An intimate story of the war from writer Masha Gessen.

806: I Can't Quit You, Baby

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/07/28

People on the verge of a big change, not wanting to let go. And the people who give them the final push.

805: The Florida Experiment

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/07/14

Governor Ron DeSantis is running for president on the argument that he'll do for America what he's done for Florida. So what's it like in Florida?

804: The Retrievals

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/06/30

At a Yale fertility clinic, dozens of women began their I.V.F. cycles full of expectation and hope. Then a surgical procedure caused them excruciating pain. In the hours that followed, some of the women called the clinic to report their pain — but most of the staff members who fielded the patients’ reports did not know the real reason for the pain, which was that a nurse at the clinic was stealing fentanyl and replacing it with saline. What happened at that clinic? What are the stories we tell about

803: Greetings, People Of Earth

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/06/23

Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them.

802: Father's Day

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/06/16

Ira's own father, Barry Glass, co-hosts this special Father's Day show.

801: Must Be Rats on the Brain

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/06/09

The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.

800: Jane Doe

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/05/26

Five years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who stepped forward and went public with their stories? We tell the story of a teenager who spoke out against one of the most powerful people in her state, and what happened next.

799: The Lives of Others

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/05/12

Looping thoughts about people you barely know, or don't know at all.

798: Leaving the Fold

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/05/05

A week after Jerry Springer’s death, we go back to a story we first broadcast years ago, about a side of Springer most people don’t know and can’t imagine: his years as an idealistic politician in the mold of Bobby Kennedy. Plus other stories of people who try to leave some moment in their life behind, which can be hard.

797: What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/04/21

It's funny the things that go through your head during a disaster.

796: What Lies Beneath

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/04/14

Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.

795: Nine Months Later

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/04/07

It’s been nine months since Roe v. Wade was overturned. We talk to people who wanted abortions right when the laws were changing in their states. They had to wait for appointments, for money to travel or abortion pills. And during that waiting, a lot of interesting things happened. We see how much life has changed, nine months later.

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