This American Life

803: Greetings, People Of Earth

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

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802: Father's Day

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

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801: Must Be Rats on the Brain

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

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692: The Show of Delights

In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine:...

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800: Jane Doe

Five years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who stepped...

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508: Superpowers

We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can...

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799: The Lives of Others

Looping thoughts about people you barely know, or don't know at all.  Prologue: We get a tip...

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798: Leaving the Fold

A week after Jerry Springer’s death, we go back to a story we first broadcast years ago, about a...

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352: The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar

In 1912 a four-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing in a swamp in Louisiana. Eight months...

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797: What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking

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

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796: What Lies Beneath

Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.

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795: Nine Months Later

It’s been nine months since Roe v. Wade was overturned. We talk to people who wanted abortions...

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794: So Close and Yet So Far

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

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654: The Feather Heist

A flute player breaks into a British museum and makes off with a million dollars worth of dead...

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793: The Problem with Ghosts

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

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792: When to Leave

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

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639: In Dog We Trust

Exactly how much are the animals that live in our homes caught up in our everyday family dynamics?

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556: Same Bed, Different Dreams

People who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures. 

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791: Math or Magic?

When it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go...

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542: Wait—Do You Have The Map?

Feeling lost and trying to figure out how to move ahead.

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