This American Life
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#840 - How Are You Not Seeing This?
www.thisamericanlife.org How Are You Not Seeing This? - This American LifePeople trying and struggling to see what another person sees.
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#837 - Swim Towards the Shark - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org Swim Towards the Shark - This American LifeIn a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond?
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#838 - Letters! Actual Letters! - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org Letters! Actual Letters! - This American LifeWhen the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.
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#836 - The Big Rethink - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org The Big Rethink - This American LifePeople rethinking some of the most important relationships in their lives.
- www.newyorker.com Ira Glass Hears It All
Three decades into “This American Life,” the host thinks the show is doing some of its best work yet—even if he’s still jealous of “The Daily.”
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#834 - Yousef and the Fourth Move - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org Yousef and the Fourth Move - This American LifeYousef is forced into a move he is not sure he can make.
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#832 - That Other Guy - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org That Other Guy - This American LifePeople tethered to one particular other person, whether they want to be or not.
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#831 - Lists!!! - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org Lists!!! - This American LifeHow they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.
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#830 - The Forever Trial - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org The Forever Trial - This American LifeThe trial for the men accused of orchestrating the September 11 terrorist attacks still hasn’t started yet.
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#829 - Two Ledgers - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org Two Ledgers - This American LifeMajid believed that if he could testify in court about what happened to him at a CIA black site, he would be given a break. Was he right?
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#828 - Minor Crimes Division
www.thisamericanlife.org Minor Crimes Division - This American LifePeople taking it upon themselves to solve the tiny, overlooked crimes of the world.
- www.thisamericanlife.org Seth Finally Pledges - This American Life
The other day, longtime This American Life staffer Seth Lind told Ira Glass something that blew his mind. So he took Seth into the studio.
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#827 - All the King's Horses
www.thisamericanlife.org All the King's Horses - This American LifeThe things we break and the ones we can't fix.
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#826 - Unprepared for What Has Already Happened - This American Lif
www.thisamericanlife.org Unprepared for What Has Already Happened - This American LifePeople waking up to the fact that the world has suddenly changed.
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#825 - Yousef
www.thisamericanlife.org Yousef - This American LifeA series of phone calls to a man in Gaza about what he and his family are experiencing.
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#824 - Family Meeting
www.thisamericanlife.org Family Meeting - This American LifeYour mother and I have something we want to talk with you about.
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#791 - Math or Magic?
www.thisamericanlife.org Math or Magic? - This American LifeWhen it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go about it.
This episode was originally posted on February 10, 2023.
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#823 - The Question Trap
www.thisamericanlife.org The Question Trap - This American LifeAn investigation of when and why people ask loaded questions that are a proxy for something else.
- www.theglobeandmail.com Ira Glass on American politics, Joe Rogan, and the secret to finding a great story
Ahead of his appearance at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto on Feb. 10, Glass spoke to The Globe over Zoom about being a ‘podfather,’ the state of the American Dream and the secret to finding a great story
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#821 - Embrace the Suck
www.thisamericanlife.org Embrace the Suck - This American LifePeople finding themselves in situations that are worse than they thought and deciding to really go with it.
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#567 - What’s Going On In There?
www.thisamericanlife.org What’s Going On In There? - This American LifeGetting inside a situation and finding out just how interesting it is.
This episode was originally broadcast on September 18th, 2015. .
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#205 - Plan B
www.thisamericanlife.org Plan B - This American LifeThere's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing.
This episode was originally broadcast on February 1st, 2002.
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#241 - 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
www.thisamericanlife.org 20 Acts in 60 Minutes - This American LifeAll kinds of little stories that we ordinarily can't use on the radio show because they are just too short.
This was originally broadcast on July 11th, 2003.
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820 - It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In Me
www.thisamericanlife.org It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In Me - This American LifeA political party in a major swing state bets on a total outsider.
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#819 - Special Bonus Podcast
www.thisamericanlife.org Special Bonus Podcast — Yousef’s Week - This American LifeA series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week that were so particular to a particular moment in the war, that we published them outside of our regular schedule.
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#818 - Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
www.thisamericanlife.org Stand Clear of the Closing Doors - This American LifeNew York City has scrambled to try and provide shelter and services to over 150,000 migrants. We take a look at how that’s going.
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#786 - It's a Game Show!
www.thisamericanlife.org It's a Game Show! - This American LifeSomething we’ve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show.
This episode was originally broadcast on December 2nd, 2022.
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#817 - The Cavalry Is Not Coming
www.thisamericanlife.org The Cavalry Is Not Coming - This American LifeWhen you realize that help is not on the way, what do you do next?
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#816 - Poultry Slam
www.thisamericanlife.org Poultry Slam - This American LifeTurkeys, chickens, geese, ducks, fowl of all kinds—real and imagined—and their mysterious hold over us.
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#815 - How I Learned to Shave
www.thisamericanlife.org How I Learned to Shave - This American LifeThings our dads taught us, whether they intended to or not.
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#814 - Parents Are People
www.thisamericanlife.org Parents Are People - This American LifeWhat happens when you realize the people in charge don’t have the answers.
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#813- Is That What I Look Like?
www.thisamericanlife.org Is That What I Look Like? - This American LifeWhy does it often take an outsider to see things about you that are obvious?
- nofilmschool.com Why Ira Glass Hates Producing and Mike Birbiglia Cut Witty Lines in Improv Comedy 'Don't Think Twice'
Taking the "improv movie" to the next level, Don't Think Twice is an inside look at the meaning of friendship in the shadow of success for an improv comedy troupe in NYC.
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#319 - And the Call Was Coming from the Basement
www.thisamericanlife.org And the Call Was Coming from the Basement - This American LifeScary stories that are all true—zombie raccoons, haunted houses, and things that go "EEEEK!!!" in the night.
This episode was originally broadcast on October 27, 2006.
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#812 - The Bear at the End of the Tunnel
www.thisamericanlife.org The Bear at the End of the Tunnel - This American LifePeople 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.
- www.insidehook.com Neil Patrick Harris Interviews Ira Glass for Wondercade
For the 100th issue of Wondercade, Neil Patrick Harris interviews Ira Glass, podcast host and executive producer of "This American Life."
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#477 - Getting Away With It
www.thisamericanlife.org Getting Away With It - This American LifeStories of people breaking the rules fully, completely, and with no bad consequences.
This was originally broadcast on October 19, 2012.