This American Life
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The doomed project of trying to translate what’s in your head into someone else’s head. (00:00:00) Prologue: A while back, Ira woke up with double vision and learned that he had cataracts. After his cataract surgery, he…
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It’s the midterms! This week’s show is about people changing their minds and not changing their minds — and the people trying to do the persuading. (00:00:00) Prologue: In Detroit, Rose Johnson tries to convince other…
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A bank robber on an undercover mission. A teenage girl with the powers of a tiger. A vigilante seeking vengeance in Ciudad Juárez. All have secret identities — but not all of them chose those identities for themselves.…
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We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions! There were so many good ones that we decided to make a whole show about them. From a chance encounter at a bus…
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We discover what we believe might be the original recipe for Coca-Cola…and share it with you! When this episode first aired in 2011, it made international headlines. This, and another story about telling copies from…
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Sayre Quevedo’s invented a way to do a podcast that feels completely new. He’s been recording nearly all his conversations for years, and the result is something that captures a person’s life in a raw and complicated…
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Nikole Hannah-Jones made an argument 10 years ago in The New York Times Magazine that became famous. She wrote about choosing a public school for her daughter, Najya, in one of the most racially and economically…
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People braving the true final frontier — the gap between people born at slightly different times. (00:00:00) Prologue: Last fall, some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to…
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Cryptic messages on a cell phone and a teeter-totter at a construction site: these are clues people found, trying to make sense of a death. (00:00:00) Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks to a guy about a crazy experiment he…
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As the new school year begins, we have stories from all over the country about people lurching their way through their middle school years – the years when you're figuring out so much. We go to school dances,…
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- 10/2024 · over 2 years
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- 50 min
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