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794: So Close and Yet So Far

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/03/24

People so close to each other, in extremely intimate situations, who are also a million miles apart.

793: The Problem with Ghosts

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/03/10

The ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us.

792: When to Leave

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/03/03

People staring down that hardest of questions: Is now the time? To leave?

791: Math or Magic?

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/02/10

When it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go about it. One says, wait for that lightning-strike magic. The other says, make a calculation and choose the best option available. Who has it right?

790: You're It

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/01/27

Sometimes you raise your hand. Other times you’re just the only one left.

789: The Runaround

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/01/20

People being dodged, delayed, and evaded—and what they do to put an end to it.

788: Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2023/01/06

Writer Etgar Keret tries to come up with the stories that capture his late mother, Orna Keret—but it’s hard, he says, because she’s like Maria in West Side Story and she’s also like Thanos from the Avengers. He ends up with a series of very short stories — most just a few paragraphs long — that give glimpses of different sides of her.

787: Baby's First Christmas

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/12/23

People experiencing Christmas in brand new ways, giving the holiday even more meaning.

786: It's a Game Show!

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/12/02

Something we’ve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show.

785: Through the Looking Glass

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/11/25

People trying to coax each other across the line, from one side to the other.

784: Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/11/04

Not long ago, Republicans in Ohio passed a constitutional amendment to end gerrymandering in the state. And then a funny thing happened. The same Ohio Republicans drew electoral maps that violated their own constitutional amendment. They’ll be using them in this week’s midterm elections. We try to understand how that could happen.

783: Kids These Days

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/10/28

We hear from kids who are dealing with some of the country’s most contentious debates. Debates that are supposedly about them.

782: Family Dig

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/10/14

Two people go on excavations of their families’ pasts. Including the first episode of the new podcast, “We Were Three,” hosted by our longtime producer, Nancy Updike, and from Serial Productions and The New York Times.

781: Watching the Watchers

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/10/07

People taking it upon themselves to keep an eye on those in charge.

780: Setting the Record Straight

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/09/30

Getting to the facts can be difficult, but it’s always the right thing to do. Except when it isn’t.

779: Ends of the Earth

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/09/16

An exploration of the very upper limits of what you do for someone you love.

778: Me Minus Me

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/08/26

When a fundamental part of yourself changes dramatically, are you still who you thought you were?

777: Name. Age. Detail.

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/08/12

Ten people were killed at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY. Their stories, as you’ve never heard them.

776: I Work Better on Deadline

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/07/29

Stories of people racing against time to solve a problem. Will they make it?

775: The Possum Experiment

This American Life (Unofficial) ·

2022/07/08

An investigation into a very basic question about people: Are most of us bad or good?

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