This American Life
By This American Life
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I can't do it anymore American Life. your stories are well done and extremely touching but they're always so sad and I find after listening to them at the end of the podcast the rest of my day is kind of bummed out. so it's not you it's me but I can't do it anymore thank you for all the episodes you've done you do great work
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729: Making the Cut
01:04:37
There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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692: The Show of Delights
01:04:14
In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: a show made up entirely of stories about delight.
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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728: Lights, Camera, Christmas!
01:00:15
This holiday season, we bring you a show filled with stories of people going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families.
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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727: Boulder v. Hill
01:07:13
What the day-to-day business of saving the world looks like. We visit with one group of people who are trying to rescue us from something very large, and another group trying to rescue us from something very small.
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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726: Twenty-Five
01:00:28
To commemorate our show’s 25th year, we have a program about people who were born the year our show went on the air.
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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619: The Magic Show
01:00:16
Just a few years before he got the internship at NPR that started him in radio, our host Ira Glass had another career. He performed magic at children's birthday parties. A powerful sense of embarrassment has prevented him from ever doing an episode on the subject, but when he learned that producer David Kestenbaum was also a kid conjurer, they decided to dive in together.
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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725: Turkey in a Face Mask
01:05:28
For Thanksgiving weekend, stories about food, and people who set out on very particular missions with food.
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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682: Ten Sessions
01:01:16
What if someone told you about a type of therapy that could help you work through unhealed trauma in just ten sessions? Some people knock through it in two weeks. Jaime Lowe tried the therapy—and recorded it.
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Americans In Paris
00:59:55
For our 25th Anniversary, a favorite episode from 2000. Many Americans have dreamy and romantic ideas about Paris, notions which probably trace back to the 1920s vision of Paris created by the expatriate Americans there. But what's it actually like in Paris if you're an American, without rose-colored glasses?
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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24 Hours at the Golden Apple
00:58:05
For our 25th Anniversary, a favorite episode from 2000. We document one day in a Chicago diner called the Golden Apple, starting at 5 a.m. and going until 5 a.m. the next morning. We hear from the waitress who has worked the graveyard shift for over two decades, the regular customers who come every day, the couples working out their problems, assorted drunks, and, of course, cops.
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Act V
01:01:07
For our 25th Anniversary, a favorite episode from 2002. We devote this entire episode to one story: Over the course of six months, reporter and This American Life contributor Jack Hitt followed a group of inmates at a high-security prison as they rehearsed and staged a production of the last act—Act V—of Hamlet.
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Break-Up
01:00:22
For our 25th Anniversary, a favorite episode from 2007. Writer Starlee Kine on what makes the perfect break-up song and whether really sad music can actually make you feel better. Plus, an eight-year-old author of a book about divorce, and other stories from the heart of heartbreak.
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Switched at Birth
01:00:16
For our 25th Anniversary, a favorite episode from 2008. On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went home with the wrong families. One of the mothers realized the mistake but chose to keep quiet. Until the day, more than 40 years later, when she decided to tell both daughters what happened. How the truth changed two families' lives—and how it didn't.
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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129 Cars
01:15:29
For our 25th Anniversary, a favorite episode from 2013. We spend a month at a Jeep dealership on Long Island as they try to make their monthly sales goal: 129 cars. If they make it, they'll get a huge bonus from the manufacturer, possibly as high as $85,000 — enough to put them in the black for the month. If they don't make it, it'll be the second month in a row. So they pull out all the stops.
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Three Miles
01:01:49
For our 25th Anniversary, a favorite episode from 2015. There’s a program that brings together kids from two schools. One school is public and in the country’s poorest congressional district. The other is private and costs $43,000/year. They are three miles apart. The hope is that kids connect, but some of the public school kids just can’t get over the divide. We hear what happens when you get to see the other side and it looks a lot better.
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Rom-Com
01:03:19
For our 25th Anniversary, a favorite episode from 2018. The one thing you know for sure when you're watching a romantic comedy is that it's going to turn out okay in the end. When you're living one? Not so much.
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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724: Personal Recount
01:03:37
Stories of people changing their minds.
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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723: Squeaker
01:08:46
Stories of people grappling with this endless presidential election.
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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722: The Unreality of Now
01:05:14
Ahead of the election, we have stories about people trying to live in the unreality that defines this moment. Election officials combat a contagion among their very own workers; people who've never owned guns suddenly go buy them; and two women who allege they were sexually assaulted by the president compare notes.
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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721: The Walls Close In
01:00:02
Stories of people who find themselves stuck in small spaces—an elevator, an attic, an orchestra pit—trying to make sense of their new surroundings.
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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720: The Moment After This Moment
00:58:49
Stories about people who are worried — or not worried enough! — about what's hurtling unstoppably towards them.
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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719: Trust Me I’m a Doctor
00:59:44
A doctor who breaks the law might go to jail like anybody else. But who decides if that doctor gets to keep their medical license? On today’s show, the not-often-talked-about realm of licensing boards, and the disturbing decisions they sometimes make.
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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718: Same Bed, Different Dreams
01:02:16
In this moment when our country is so deeply divided, we have stories of people who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures. In one case, a movie star and her ex-husband plot against Kim Jong-Il. In another, a woman stalks her doppelgänger. And sometimes, one bed is the basis for an entire relationship, even for a man who almost never sees the person who shares his bed.
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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717: Audience of One
01:12:44
At a time when going to the movies is mostly out of the question, we bring the movies to you.
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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716: Trail of Tears
01:00:43
For the holiday weekend, a roadtrip through history. In this moment when Americans are tearing down monuments and rethinking how to address the shameful parts of America’s past, we return to a story from the early days of our radio show that took that on, in a vivid and complicated way. Sarah Vowell and her twin sister Amy headed out on the road to retrace the Trail of Tears – the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land – and reflected on the question, what are we supposed to do with the mix of good and bad that is this country?
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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715: Long-Awaited Asteroid Finally Hits Earth
01:07:22
Teachers, students and parents around the country have been bracing themselves all spring and summer long for the start of this unprecedented school year. This week, it's here.
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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714: Day at the Beach
01:04:40
It’s the last few weeks of summer, so we’re going to the beach! This week, stories from the surf and sand.
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Aug 16, 2020 |