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List_of_1995_This_American_Life_episodes
In 1995, there were seven new This American Life episodes; all were broadcast under the original name of the program Your Radio Playhouse.
- Episode 1 – "New Beginnings"
- Air Date: 1995-11-17
- Description: Our program's very first broadcast
- Prologue – Ira Glass seeks advice from long-time talk show host Joe Franklin. (6 minutes)
- Interlude: Dinah Washington – "Destination Moon"
- Act 1 – Kevin Kelly (23 minutes)
- Kevin Kelly has a sort of religious experience in Jerusalem and decides to live the next six months of his life to the fullest. This plot was revisited for episode 50 – Shoulda Been Dead
- Act 2 – Ira Glass (7 minutes)
- Ira calls his parents in for advice about broadcasting.
- Act 3 – Lawrence Steger (13 minutes)
- Steger recounts a road trip he and a friend took after hearing about Steger's HIV diagnosis.
- Interlude: The Treniers – "(Uh-Oh) Get Out of the Car"
- Act 4 – Ed Ryder, interviewed by Ira Glass and Nancy Updike (9 minutes)
- Ryder was wrongly imprisoned for twenty years and recently released, and he discusses dream of playing music. Ryder performs "God Bless the Child"—this performance was re-broadcast in episode 119 – Lock-Up.
- Interlude: Django Reinhardt – "I've Had My Moments"
- Episode 2 – "Small Scale Sin"
- Air Date: 1995-11-24
- Description: Small-scale stories on the nature of small-scale sin
- Prologue – Ira Glass visits the Hackers On Planet Earth conference and talks to three teenagers who committed credit card fraud tell their stories. (16 minutes)
- Act 1
- Playwright Jeff Dorchen writes a play about the previous act. (10 minutes)
- Act 2 – Ira Glass interviews Michael Warr
- Poet Warr discusses his childhood as a Jehovah's Witness. (8 minutes)
- Act 3
- Episode 3 – "Poultry Slam"
- Air Date: 1995-12-01
- Description: Stories decrying the wonders of turkeys, chickens, and other fowl
- Act 1
- Danielle explains why her family calls chicken "fish" at the dinner table. (20 minutes)
- Interlude: Louis Jordan – "Saturday Night Fish Fry"
- Act 2
- Julie discusses life on a turkey farm (8 minutes)
- Act 3 – Luis Rodriguez
- Rodriguez reads a poem about poultry. (4 minutes)
- Interlude: Cab Calloway – "A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird"
- Act 4 – Verda Mae Cosgrove
- The hostess of NPR's Seasonings explains how to cook a chicken. (6 minutes)
- Interlude: Charles Mingus – "Eat That Bird"
- Act 5 – David Sedaris
- Sedaris buys a taxidermied turkey. (3 minutes)
- Act 6 – Ira Glass
- Glass presents the first new episode of the WCFL radio program "Chickenman" since 1969. (8 minutes)
- Episode 4 – "Vacations"
- Air Date: 1995-12-08
- Description: Stories about vacations gone awry—or perhaps vacations that never should have happened
- Prologue – Ira Glass
- Ira discusses his family photos from a trip to Hawaii. (9 minutes)
- Act 1 – Sandra Tsing Loh
- Loh reads a story about her family vacation in Ethiopia. (22 minutes)
- Act 2 – David Sedaris
- Sedaris discusses hitchhiking. (25 minutes)
- Interlude: Ozark Mountain Devils – "If You Wanna Get to Heaven"
- Episode 5 – "Anger & Forgiveness"
- Air Date: 1995-12-15
- Description: Stories that reveal the societal "trend" toward anger and away from genuine forgiveness
- Prologue – Ira Glass
- Glass reads a list of words that Newt Gingrich advised Republicans use when referring to Democrats. (7 minutes)
- Act 1 – Jack Hitt
- Hitt is confronted by someone who read an article he wrote about Susan Smith. (15 minutes)
- Act 2 – Iris Moore and Larry Steeger
- Moore and Steeger give monologues about forgiveness. (9 minutes)
- Interlude: Unknown artist – "I Blame God"
- Act 3 – Darrin Bowden
- Bowden explains the effects of harsh criminal sentences on minors. (6 minutes)
- Interlude: Johnny Cash – "The Wall"
- Act 4 – Ira Glass
- Glass interviews Glen Fitzgerald, a Christian missionary who works with gang members. (9 minutes)
- Interlude: Johnny Cash – "Folsom Prison Blues"
- Act 5 – Cheryl Trykv
- A story read before a live audience about someone who doesn't want forgiveness. (14 minutes)
- Episode 6 – "Christmas"
- Air Date: 1995-12-22
- Description: Several Christmas-themed performances
- Prologue – David Sedaris
- A Christmas radio play with Sedaris and the Pinetree Gang. (28 minutes)
- Act 1 – Beau O'Reilly
- A Christmas tree story. (14 minutes)
- Act 2 – Reginald Gibbons
- A story about Christmas at juvenile court. (10 minutes)
- Act 3 – Peter Clowney
- Christmas at the Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church, whose choir provides music for the entire episode. (9 minutes)
- Episode 7 – "Quitting"
- Air Date: 1995-12-29
- Description: Stories of people who quit everything in their lives that they hated—and what happened to them afterwards
- Prologue – Ira Glass
- Evan Harris starts the magazine Quitter Quarterly with Shelley Ross (22 minutes)
- Interlude: Ella Fitzgerald – "Don't Fence Me In"
- Act 1 – Sandra Tsing Loh
- Loh reads a story about quitting. (10 minutes)
- Interlude: Brave Combo – "Do Something Different (Disappear)"
- Act 2 – Ira Glass
- Glass plays excerpts from Shut Up, Little Man! (9 minutes)
- Act 3 – Lisa Buscani
- A story about being unable to quit. (13 minutes)
- Interlude: Robert Metrick – "The Calendar Song"
- Act 4 – Dwight Okita and Ira Glass
- Okita reads the poem "Farewell Samba" from his book Crossing with the Light and Glass reads Philip Larkin's "Poetry of Departures". (3 minutes)
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List_of_1996_This_American_Life_episodes
In 1996, there were 40 original This American Life episodes; the first nine were broadcast under the original name of the program Your Radio Playhouse.
- Episode 8 – "New Year"
- Air Date: 1996-01-03
- Description: Stories that reflect back on 1995
- Episode 9 – "Julia Sweeney"
- Air Date: 1996-01-10
- Description: When comedian Julia Sweeney and her brother both got cancer, she decided to tell the story the best way she knew how: in a comedy club. It might seem like a strange choice, but what resulted is halfway between standup comedy and true-life diary entries.
- Prologue
- Act 1: Julia's Brother Gets Cancer – Julia Sweeney
- Act 2: Julia Gets Cancer – Julia Sweeney
- The Kinks, Complicated Life
- Willie Nelson, These Are Difficult Times
- Episode 10 – "Double Lives"
- Air Date: 1996-01-17
- Description: Susan Bergman's father was a family man, head of the church choir, and, secretly, having sex with men. He died before his children had a chance to really talk to him about what they should make of his hidden life. When Bergman wrote a book about her family's experience, other gay men tried to explain her father's actions to her. That, and other stories of parents deceiving their children.
- Episode 11 – "Enemies"
- Air Date: 1996-01-24
- Description: A story of a friendship between two adolescent boys that was destroyed through the manipulative acts of one of them.
- Act 1: Dave's Love
- Act 2: Dave's Hate
- Act 3: Dave Today
- Act 4: Another Dave – David Sedaris
- Episode 12 – "Animals"
- Air Date: 1996-01-31
- Description: Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human.
- Prologue
- Act 1: Food Chain in a New York Apartment – Paul Tough
- Shonen Knife, Insect Collector
- Act 2: More Animals Eating Other Animals
- Kathleen on the Carpet, a radio play by David Sedaris, performed by the Pinetree Gang
- Lena Horne, Rocky Raccoon
- Act 3: The Moment Humans Stopped Being Animals – Scott Carrier
- Louis Prima, I Wanna Be Like You, from Disney's The Jungle Book
- Episode 13 – "Love"
- Air Date: 1996-02-07
- Description: Explorations of the dream of true love ... and the difficulties with achieving and maintaining that dream.
- Prologue
- Al Green, Love and Happiness
- Act 1: Yearning
- Act 2: Sex
- Madonna, Forbidden Love
- Act 3: A Wedding
- Ready, an original song performed by kids at Daniel J. Nellum Youth Services in Chicago
- Episode 14 – "Accidental Documentaries"
- Air Date: 1996-02-21
- Description: Stories made from old tapes found in various places, including a "letter on tape" found in a Salvation Army thrift store. Host Ira Glass with tapes of his father on the radio, circa 1956. And radio producer Nora Moreno with tapes of her father, a Spanish broadcasting pioneer in America. Her mother fell in love with him over the radio, with tragic results.
- Prologue
- Act 1: Berrian Springs Michigan, Circa 1967 – Davis family tapes
- James Brown, It's a Man's World
- Act 2: Baltimore, Circa 1956 – Ira Glass plays tapes of his father, Barry Glass, as a radio deejay in the 1950s
- Nat King Cole, Personal Possession
- Act 3: Chicago, in the 1960s – Nora Moreno
- José Alfredo Jiménez, El Rey
- Episode 15 – "Dawn"
- Air Date: 1996-02-28
- Description: Writer Jack Hitt goes on a search for a mysterious neighbor from his childhood in Charleston, South Carolina, and stumbles onto an epic story of the Old South, the New South, gender confusion, Chihuahuas, and changing values in American journalism.
- Prologue
- Digital Underground, ?
- Act 1: Dawn – Jack Hitt tells the story of Gordon Langley Hall, a.k.a. Dawn Langley Hall Simmons
- Marlene Dietrich, ?
- Act 2 – from the 1998 rebroadcast of this episode, Jack Hitt discusses his new conclusions two-and-a-half years after his first report of the story
- Episode 16 – "Economy"
- Air Date: 1996-03-14
- Description: Stories of politics, the economy, and the big picture.
- Episode 17 – "Name Change/No Theme"
- Air Date: 1996-03-21
- Description: First show as This American Life.
- Episode 18 – "Liars"
- Air Date: 1996-03-28
- Description: April first is the one day of the year when we're allowed to enjoy deceiving others. But April Fools' Day is for amateur deceivers. The real pros are the people who can't control their lying, who lie without even knowing what the truth is. Everyone's known someone like this, but it's a topic that's only rarely studied or discussed publicly. Journalist and TAL contributing editor Margy Rochlin co-hosts.
- Episode 19 – "Rich Guys"
- Air Date: 1996-04-12
- Description: Men who had comfortable decent lives, yet decided to do something wild and eccentric with their lives instead.
- Episode 20 – "From a Distance"
- Air Date: 1996-04-19
- Description: Stories of hero worship, of people admiring someone from afar, and trying to get closer to them.
- Episode 21 – "Factions"
- Air Date: 1996-04-26
- Description: A show about something most people have gone through. Friends get together to start a business, start a church, do political action together. And after a while, they start fighting and split up. We hear three true stories.
- Episode 22 – "Adult Children"
- Air Date: 1996-05-03
- Description: Stories of the difficult relationships between parents and their grown children, including two long stories from Sandra Tsing Loh about her father.
- Episode 23 – "Drama Bug"
- Air Date: 1996-05-10
- Description: Stories of the people who fall for a life in the theater.
- Episode 24 – "Teenaged Girls"
- Air Date: 1996-05-24
- Description: Stories of girls who have to figure out how they're going to act when the ground rules are constantly shifting.
- Episode 25 – "Basketball"
- Air Date: 1996-06-07
- Description: A set of documentary stories, radio essays and monologues about basketball, the Chicago Bulls, and their grip on Chicagoans' hearts and lives during the NBA Playoffs. These are unusual stories about people in the throes of love for basketball, including a story about the dreams about the Bulls Chicagoans have while sleeping.
- Episode 26 – "Father's Day '96"
- Air Date: 1996-06-14
- Description: Ira's own father Barry Glass co-hosts this special father's day edition of the show.
- Episode 27 – "The Cruelty of Children"
- Air Date: 1996-06-21
- Description: Stories about kids being mean to each other.
- Episode 28 – "Detectives"
- Air Date: 1996-07-12
- Description: Writer David Sedaris recalls the days when his mother and sister played armchair detective—until a very odd crime wave hit within their own home. Plus, host Ira Glass goes out on surveillance with a real-life private eye.
- Episode 29 – "Bob Dole"
- Air Date: 1996-07-19
- Description: Unusual perspectives on the presumptive Republican nominee.
- Episode 30 – "Obsession"
- Air Date: 1996-07-26
- Description: Stories of obsession and compulsion. What happens when a little idea starts to control you. Co-hosted by Paul Tough.
- Episode 31 – "When You Talk About Music"
- Air Date: 1996-08-09
- Description: Stories of people whose lives are transformed by music.
- Episode 32 – "Republican Convention"
- Air Date: 1996-08-16
- Description: More campaign diaries from The New Republic's Michael Lewis.
- Episode 33 – "A Night at the Wiener's Circle"
- Air Date: 1996-08-23
- This episode is about the unique culture in a Chicago fast food restaurant.
- Prologue – New introduction recorded in 2006, saying this show was never broadcast nationally – Ira Glass
- Ira records various colorful personalities at the Wiener's Circle.
- Act Two: "The Customer" by Beau O'Reilly.
- Act Three: "A Parable of Politics" by Shirley Jahad.
- Act Four: "Fast Food Heart" by Cassandra Smith.
- Episode 34 – "Democratic Convention"
- Air Date: 1996-08-30
- Description: Unusual stories from the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago, with scenes and moments not documented elsewhere.
- Episode 35 – "Fall Clearance Sale"
- Air Date: 1996-09-06
- Description: Evocative, funny emotional stories collected over the last few months that haven't fit into any of our regular "theme" shows.
- Ira Glass at the Navy Pier
- David Sedaris recollections from the nudist camp
- "Haiku stories" by Scott Carrier
- Zoofilia, the stallion
- Carmen Detzell Her grandmother's beliefs and the guitar player
- Episode 36 – "Letters"
- Air Date: 1996-09-20
- Description: Open Mic at the Lunar Cabaret. Host Ira Glass and playwright David Hauptschein took out advertisements in Chicago inviting people to come to a small theater with letters they've received, sent or found. People came for two nights and read their letters onstage. Some were funny. Some were poignant. They told a wide range of stories: a heartfelt letter from prison, a hilariously pretentious job letter sent to the New Yorker magazine, a ringingly sincere teenage "should we be more than friends" letter. Four hours of letters were recorded in all. These were edited down to an hour of letters, with a few unusual songs about letters thrown in.
- Episode 37 – "The Job That Takes Over Your Life"
- Air Date: 1996-09-27
- Description: Radio producer Scott Carrier quit his job at a low moment in his life. His wife left him and took the kids. And he got a job interviewing schizophrenics for some medical researchers. After doing it a while, he began to wonder if he was a schizophrenic himself. And more stories.
- Prologue – Ira Glass; his job.
- Act 1: The Test – Scott Carrier (later published in his book Running After Antelope); interviewing individuals with Schizophrenia.
- Merle Haggard, Workin' Man's Blues
- Act 2: Tribe – Peter Clowney interviews cast members of a production of Hair.
- Act 3: The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History – Dan Collison interviews Albert Williams, Freddy Meeks, Joseph Small, Percy Robinson, and Robert Routh, survivors of the Port Chicago disaster; unsafe conditions working with ammunition.
- Josh White, Uncle Sam Says
- Act 4: Orientation – Matt Malloy reads Daniel Orozco's short story [1]
- The Company Way (from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser)
- Episode 38 – "Simulated Worlds"
- Air Date: 1996-10-11
- Description: Simulated worlds, Civil war reenactments, wax museums, simulated coal mines, fake ethnic restaurants, an ersatz Medieval castle and other re-created worlds that thrive all across America.
- Act I: Travels in Hyper-Reality; a Quick National Tour.
- Act II: Simulated Dinosaur Worlds.
- Act III: Ira Glass and Michael Camille, a scholar from the University of Chicago, attend Medieval Times.
- Episode 39 – "Halloween"
- Air Date: 1996-10-25
- Description: This week: A show for Halloween. Stories of things that are supposed to be scary, but aren't.
- Act 1: Dark Shadows
- Act II: A Scientist in a Haunted House.
- Act III: Vampire Girl.
- Act IV: Discovering Evil.
- Act V: Gang Girl.
- Act VI: (Your) Screams.
- Episode 40 – "Lessons"
- Air Date: 1996-11-01
- Description: Stories from acclaimed storyteller Spalding Gray and others.
- Act I: Ski Lessons.
- Act II: Swimming Lessons; Harvard instructor.
- Act III: Shooting Lessons; spud gun.
- Act IV: Lessons for men on how to have an affair.
- Episode 41 – "Politics"
- Air Date: 1996-11-08
- Description: More stories of the election you can't hear anywhere else.
- Episode 42 – "Get Over It!"
- Air Date: 1996-11-15
- Description: Three stories of people trying to forget the past and move on.
- Episode 43 – "Faustian Bargains"
- Air Date: 1996-11-22
- Description: Inspired by a spate of new Chicago stage adaptations of the Faust story, This American Life brings you stories of people who made a deal with the devil.
- Act I: Dangerous Minds; author and teacher LuAnne Johnson
- Act II: Satan's telemarketer; voice artist pastor
- Act III: Voyager; Peabody violinist Mendelssohn
- Act IV: Carmen becomes Faust
- Act V: First Contact; the story of the kid and the devil
- Episode 44 – "Poultry Slam '96"
- Air Date: 1996-11-29
- Description: In the midst of the five biggest poultry-consumption weeks of the year — the five weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when Americans consume one-fourth of all the turkey they eat in a year — This American Life presents stories about turkeys, chickens, ducks and fowl of all kinds.
- Ducky
- Chicken Man
- Growing in a Turkey Farm
- David Sedaris an excerpt from his diaries: A turkey head.
- Chicken Rustler, South African Chicken Blood.
- Chicken Man Like The Phoenix - New Episode since 1969
- Episode 45 – "Media Fringe"
- Air Date: 1996-12-06
- Description: Four stories about people struggling at the fringes of our nation's media/music/infotainment industry.
- Act I: How to Get Famous; Sandra Tsing Loh
- Act II: Whoring in Commercial Radio News; Scott Carrier and The Friendly Man;
- Act III: Doing a personal act for money; Sarah Vowell; analog love
- Act IV: Lifestyles of the rich and famous; Cheryl Trykv
- Episode 46 – "Sissies"
- Air Date: 1996-12-13
- Description: Though being gay no longer has much of a stigma in some parts of the country, being a sissy still does—even among gay men. In this show we have a number of surprising and unusual stories of sissies, their families, and why people still get so upset about them.
- Act I: Anti-Oedipus
- Act II: Instruction For Sissies; John Conners reads from: "How to Improve Your Personality"
- Act III: Pancy Kings Sing Songs Of love; Dave Awl
- Act IV: Dan Savage; Who Loves a Sissy? The Other Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name
- Episode 47 – "Christmas and Commerce"
- Air Date: 1996-12-20
- Description: Stories about the intersection of Christmas and retail, including David Sedaris's story "Santaland Diaries", which was first broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition several years ago in a much shorter version. The diaries are about David's two Christmas seasons working as an elf in Macy's department store on New York's Herald Square. When it was first broadcast, it generated more requests for tapes than any story in Morning Edition's history except the death of Red Barber. Also, David Rakoff on playing Freud in the windows of Barney's department store. And other stories.
- Act I: Toys R Us
- Act II: Davis Sedaris; Full Time Elf
- Act III: Christmas Freud
Reruns broadcast in 1996
[edit]- 1996-02-14 – Episode 4: Vacations
- 1996-03-07 – Episode 7: Quitting
- 1996-04-05 – Episode 9: Julia Sweeney
- 1996-05-17 – Episode 10: Double Lives
- 1996-06-28 – Episode 21: Factions
- 1996-07-05 – Episode 9: Julia Sweeney
- 1996-08-02 – Episode 20: From a Distance
- 1996-09-13 – Episode 22: Adult Children
- 1996-10-04 – Episode 4: Vacations
- 1996-10-18 – Episode 15: Dawn
- 1996-12-27 – Episode 20: From a Distance
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In 1997, there were 40 new This American Life episodes.
- Episode 48 – "Justice"
- Kitty Felde shows a side of the Yugoslav War Crimes Trials that hasn't been discussed anywhere: a portrait of Americans at the International Tribunal. And other stories. 1997-01-03.
- Act I. International Justice.
- Act II. Juvenile Justice.
- Act III. Everyday Justice; Apology Hot Line.
- Episode 49 – "Animals"
- Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human. 1997-01-10; This is a repeat of episode 12 which originally aired 1996-01-31.
- Prologue
- Act I. Staging the Food Chain in a New York Apartment.
- Act II. Animal Court, written by David Sedaris.
- Act III. The Moment Humans Stop Being Animals.
- Episode 50 – "Shoulda Been Dead"
- Kevin Kelly was in Jerusalem. For reasons too complicated to go into here, he ended up sleeping on the spot where Jesus was supposedly crucified. After Kevin awoke, the thought came into his head: Live as if you'll die in six months. So he did. He got rid of all his possessions. He visited his parents and brothers and sisters for the last time. That, and other stories of starting life over, including a visit to a courtroom in Los Angeles where people go to change their names. 1997-01-17
- Prologue. Sandra, a gang girl, almost died at the age of fourteen.
- Act I The Day After Kevin Slept on the Spot Where Jesus was Crucified.
- Act II The Day Lawrence Left the AIDS Clinic for the Big Road Trip.
- Act III The Day Claudia Asked Her Brother Some Questions.
- Act IV The Day Sheryl Got the News.
- Act V. The Day Matthew saw Bridgette. On the Edge of the World.
- Episode 51 – "Animals Die, People Ponder"
- Stories of people who handle dead animals. Don't worry — it's not as gross as it sounds. In fact, not disgusting at all. A story by George Saunders about an animal control man who falls in unrequited love. A woman who studies illuminated manuscripts, whose pages look like paper but are in fact animals. And other stories. 1997-01-24
- Act I. I'm Fernand, I'm Glad to be Your Stake Tonight.
- Act II. The 400lb CEO; a story by John Saunders.
- Act III. Dead Animal Man.
- Act IV. Redemption.
- Episode 52 – "Edge of Sanity"
- Stories about the border between mental health and mental illness. 1997-01-31
- Prologue; Mental Health and Romance.
- Act I. Girl Interrupted; based on Susanna Kaysen's story.
- Act II. Guided by Voices.
- Act III. Plague of Tics; David Sedaris.
- Act IV. You Don't Have to be Crazy to Work Here, But it Would Help. What is like to hold the keys to the asylum, but your grip on them is not too steady.
- Episode 53 – "Valentine's Day '97"
- For Valentine's Day, stories about our parents falling in love. And troubles with their love. From Hilton Als, Scott Carrier, Julie Showalter, a magazine column called Men My Mother Dated and others. The idea for this show was inspired by Delmore Schwartz's classic 1937 work of American fiction about his parents' courtship: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories. 1997-02-07
- Prologue: Ira Glass reads from "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities."
- Act I. Men My Mother Dated. Brett Leveridge reads from: "Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly True Tales."
- Act II. Mom, Dad and Bats. Bia Lowe
- Act III. It's Not the Heat. Song: "I Got a Crush on You" Jenny Magnus.
- Act IV. Hilton Als reads from his book: "The Women"
- Act V. Scott Carrier: "Running After Antelope"; questions to a daughter.
- Episode 54 – "Sinatra"
- Stories, tributes, and attempts to understand the Chairman of the Board. 1997-02-21
- Prologue. Ira Glass's observations on performances of the time and about the performer. Writer Rennie Sparks.
- Act I: "The Death of Frank Sinatra"; Michael Ventura reads.
- Act II: A modest request to all of American television from one Sinatra fan on her knees: "One Sinatra Fan... Versus All of Network TV"
- Act III: History lesson for young people: "History Lesson."
- Act IV: "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold."
- Act V: A restaurant full of cabbies gets choked-up over Frank: "How Sinatra Affects Us."
- Episode 55 – "Three Women and the Sex Industry"
- A few months ago, radio producer Sandy Tolan was supposed to do a documentary about strippers with an aspiring writer — and stripper — named Susan. A few days before they were to begin working together, Susan disappeared, presumed dead. 1997-02-28
- Prologue: Sarah, A college student in San Francisco ventures in phone sex business and also finds a job she loves dancing naked at the club.
- Act 1: "Susan". Someone whose life comes apart working in the go-go clubs; Susan Walsh. Sandy Tolan interviews for a documentary.
- Act II. "Striptease" A guy who prefers pornography than having sex with his girlfriend changes. Therapist Lauren Slater.
- Episode 56 – "Name Change"
- Stories of people changing their name — some to create a new identity, some to con people. Name changes are particularly American stories: they're the dream of starting over with a clean slate. They're Ellis Island and 12-step programs, the move westward and self help, Marilyn Monroe and Malcolm X and the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, all rolled up in one. 1997-03-07
- Episode 57 – "Delivery"
- Stories about the delivery business and the people in it. UPS men, bike messengers, FedEx dispatchers. Includes a new radio play by David Sedaris, in which we give him one sound effects record and this assignment: His radio play can only use sound effects from this record, and it must use all the sound effects on the disc. 1997-03-14
- Episode 58 – "Small Towns"
- Stories of small town life: the claustrophia and freedom people feel in small towns, the yearning people feel in small towns. And three teenagers in one of the harshest urban environments explain how the public housing projects are like a small town. 1997-04-04
- Episode 59 – "Fire"
- Stories about people who are not afraid of fire, though perhaps they should be. 1997-04-11
- Episode 60 – "Business of Death"
- Usually we talk about death as a tragedy, a mystery, a hard-to-comprehend fact of life. But in addition to all that, for all sorts of people it's also ... a job. Stories of undertakers, homicide detectives, slaughterhouse workers, enunculators, autopsy pathologists, exterminators, and others. Does their contact with death teach them something we should learn? 1997-04-18
- Episode 61 – "Fiasco!"
- Stories of when things go wrong. Really wrong. When you leave the normal realm of human error, fumble, mishap, and mistake and enter the territory of really huge breakdowns. Fiascos. Things go so awry that normal social order collapses. This week's show is a philosophical inquiry in the nature of fiascos — perhaps the first ever. 1997-04-25
- Episode 62 – "Something for Nothing"
- Stories of people trying to get rich quick or otherwise make something for nothing. As everyone knows, there's no such thing as something for nothing. You always pay a price. 1997-05-02
- Episode 63 – "One Thing"
- People whose lives are organized around one thing. 1997-05-09
- Episode 64 – "Summer"
- Stories for the start of summer. We want summer to be this wonderful break, but so often it fails to deliver. We hear Ron Carlson's short story about a summer job delivering tanks of oxygen to the infirm, Scott Carrier takes a river vacation, and more. 1997-05-23
- Episode 65 – "Who's Canadian"
- Notes and stories about the Canadians among us. Are they in fact any different from red-blooded Americans? They claim they're not. Skeptical Americans put their position to the test. 1997-05-30
- Episode 66 – "Tales from the Net"
- Are people having experiences on the Internet they wouldn't have anywhere else? Several weeks ago, This American Life invited listeners to help answer that question. 1997-06-06
- Episode 67 – "Your Dream, My Nightmare"
- Could it be more obvious? Stories in which someone's dream is someone else's nightmare. All of us get into these situations with strangers, with the people we love most, with our own parents, with our children. 1997-06-27
- Episode 68 – "Lincoln's Second Inaugural"
- A show for July 4th weekend. We begin with perhaps the most moving, poetic inaugural speech in American history, and look at its legacy today. In his second inaugural address, Lincoln wondered aloud why God saw fit to send the slaughter of the Civil War to the United States. His conclusion: that slavery was a kind of original sin for the United States, for both North and South, and all Americans had to do penance for it. 1997-07-04
- Episode 69 – "Dreamhouse"
- How many of our parents move to some place — some dream house — with some vision of a new life in the new place, and move the family with them, hoping it works out for the kids. Three stories on this theme. 1997-07-18
- Episode 70 – "Other People's Mail"
- When you read other people's mail, you can't help but try to fill in between the lines. You try to decipher the stories of the people who wrote the letters. We hear four stories of people who read other people's mail, and what happens to them once they get caught up in these other lives. 1997-07-25
- Episode 71 – "Defying Sickness"
- Stories of people trying to do exactly what the doctors say they can't — or shouldn't. 1997-08-01
- Episode 72 – "Trek"
- An idiosyncratic first-person travelogue about race relations and tourism from radio producer Rich Robinson and television producer Josh Seftel. Their radio story is about a trip they took to the new South Africa. Rich Robinson is black. Josh Seftel is white. The interracial pair travel through the still mostly-segregated society and have very different opinions about what they see, especially when it comes to some distant relatives of Josh's in South Africa. 1997-08-08
- Episode 73 – "Blame it on Art"
- The darker side of the art world: petty jealousies, competitiveness, failure. And also what's so great about art. 1997-08-15
- Episode 74 – "Conventions"
- What happens when people with one common interest gather in monstrous, fluorescent -lit halls for the weekend? Sometimes they drive each other crazy, sometimes they fall in love. 1997-08-30
- Episode 75 – "Kindness of Strangers"
- Stories of the kindness of strangers and where it leads. Also, the unkindness of strangers and where that can lead. All of today's stories take place in the city most people think of as the least kind city in America: New York. 1997-09-12
- Episode 76 – "Mob"
- The mob as portrayed in movies, and as it is in real life. And its hold over us. 1997-09-19
- Episode 77 – "Pray"
- Can the secular world and the religious world understand each other? We ask that question while visiting Colorado Springs, Colorado, where Pastor Ted Haggard at the New Life Church has put in place a project to pray in front of the home of every person in the city, systematically, block by block and house by house. He's also helped organize a 24-hour, 365-day-a-year "prayer shield" over the city; all-night prayer vigils; and more. 1997-09-26
- Episode 78 – "How Bad is Bad?"
- How bad is bad enough to count? To go to hell? 1997-10-03
- Episode 79 – "Stuck in the Wrong Decade"
- People stuck in the wrong decade — or simply carrying a lot of the props from another decade. 1997-10-10
- Episode 80 – "Running After Antelope"
- Stories of people engaged in a battle with nature — a battle they don't stand much chance of winning. Most of the show is Scott Carrier's story of trying for twelve years to chase down and catch an antelope by foot. 1997-10-17
- Episode 81 – "Guns"
- Americans who love their guns...and the Americans who love them. 1997-10-24
- Episode 82 – "Haunted by Ghosts"
- Stories of people who are haunted, not by ghosts or phantoms, but by other people. 1997-10-31
- Episode 83 – "One of Us"
- Stories of outsiders who want to be insiders, and vice versa. 1997-11-14
- Episode 84 – "Harold"
- A parable of politics and race in America. The story of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, told two decades after his death. Washington died on November 25, 1987. 1997-11-21
- Episode 85 – "Poultry Slam '97"
- Humans have turned chicken and turkey into what we want them to be. Which means that chickens and turkeys are a mirror of ourselves. 1997-12-05
- Episode 86 – "How To Take Money From Strangers"
- Three stories of how to get money from strangers. In every story, the money is made by people who make the strangers feel good about themselves and about their nation. 1997-12-12
- Episode 87 – "A Very Special Sedaris Christmas"
- Stories from David Sedaris's book of Christmas stories, Holidays on Ice, read onstage by David, Julia Sweeney and actor Matt Malloy. 1997-12-19
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In 1998, there were 31 new This American Life episodes.
- Episode 88 – "Numbers"
- Numbers lie. Numbers cover over complicated feelings and ambiguous situations. In this week's show, stories of people trying to use numbers to describe things that should not be quantified. 1998-01-02
- Episode 89 – "Sibling Rivalry"
- Stories about people who are destined to fight: brothers and sisters. 1998-01-09
- Episode 90 – "Telephone"
- Stories of who we are on the phone, of things we learn on the phone, and of things that happen on the phone that don't happen anywhere else. 1998-01-16
- Episode 91 – "Escape the Box"
- Stories of people trying to escape the box of their own lives, and create new lives. 1998-01-30
- Episode 92 – "Leave the Mask On"
- Stories about those moments when someone tries to tell you a little bit more about themselves than you'd really rather know. 1998-02-07
- Episode 93 – "Valentine's Day '98"
- Stories about couples that all take place decades after that moment their eyes first meet. 1998-02-14
- Episode 94 – "How To"
- What happens during a "how-to," and what our how-to's say about us. Most how-to's promise that you'll not only learn skills, you'll be transformed. 1998-02-27
- Episode 95 – "Monogamy"
- How should we react to people who are in non-monogamous relationships? What should we think of these struggles with monogamy? 1998-03-07
- Episode 96 – "Pinned by History"
- People who left their private lives and were seized by some huge historical moment. 1998-03-13
- Episode 97 – "Death to Wacky"
- An assault on the idea of wackiness. And then, an appreciation of wackiness, and an analysis of wackiness in American culture. Thirteen ways to describe wackiness. 1998-03-20
- Episode 98 – "Throwing the First Punch"
- Stories about what it means to be a person who throws the first punch ... and how hard it is to give up. 1998-03-27
- Episode 99 – "I Enjoy Being a Girl, Sort Of"
- Variations on what it means to be a girl and what it means to be a woman. 1998-04-10
- Episode 100 – "Radio"
- For the 100th episode of This American Life, a radio show about the pleasures of radio. About what makes radio so great ... and what makes it so terrible. 1998-04-24
- Episode 101 – "Niagara"
- During this hour, a special edition of our show: stories about Niagara Falls, half of them from documentary producer Alix Spiegel, who went to the Falls and interviewed people living there; and half from playwright David Kodeski, who grew up in the town of Niagara Falls. 1998-05-01
- Episode 102 – "Roadtrip!"
- With all the American movies and songs and books about the joy of the open road, it's hard for an American to take just a normal road trip without huge expectations. 1998-05-15
- Episode 103 – "Scenes from a Transplant"
- An NPR reporter leaves her three-year-old son and heads to Omaha — for cancer treatment — a last chance to save her life. After years of covering stories about medicine, Rebecca Perl enters the hospital as a patient. She moves from the world of healthy people into the world of sick ones. What she sees and what she learns. 1998-05-29
- Episode 104 – "Music Lessons"
- What's frustrating about music lessons, what's miraculous about them, and what they actually teach us. This show was recorded in front of a live audience at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, with help from KQED-FM, during the '98 Public Radio Conference in San Francisco. 1998-06-05
- Episode 105 – "Take a Negro Home Tonight"
- Two stories of people who try to cross the color line — and why it's still so hard. We hear the story of a failed interracial marriage and the story of a teenager from a poor inner city neighborhood (Cedric Jennings, pictured) who ends up at an Ivy League University — and how he barely survives there. 1998-06-12
- Episode 106 – "Father's Day '98"
- For this Father's Day, stories in which fathers and their kids sit down and try to have an honest moment together. And stories about fathers who aren't close with their kids. 1998-06-19
- Episode 107 – "Trail of Tears"
- For the July 4th holiday weekend, writer Sarah Vowell and her twin sister re-trace the "Trail of Tears" — the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land by President Andrew Jackson. 1998-07-03
- Episode 108 – "Truth and Lies at Age Ten"
- Two stories of children lying to themselves and others. A woman who'd been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis talks about the lies she told herself as a child. And Dan Gediman tells the story of how he was cast in the public TV show Zoom, which aired from 1972 to 1979, at the age of ten. Then he was cut from the cast before the show ever went on the air. So for years, he lied about it. He let friends believe he was on Zoom. 1998-08-07
- Episode 109 – "Notes on Camp"
- Stories of summer camp. People who love camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about camp. In this program, we attempt to bridge the gap of misunderstanding between camp people and non-camp people. 1998-08-28
- Episode 110 – "Mapping"
- Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way — by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses. 1998-09-04
- Episode 111 – "Adventures in the Simple Life"
- Two brothers set out with a friend to cross America on horseback. They take a tape recorder with them to make a kind of audio journal of their trip. What they find, who they meet, and what they learn in this experiment in 19th-century travel. Plus other stories. 1998-09-11
- Episode 112 – "Ladies and Germs"
- Germs, and how they make us leave the world of rational thinking. 1998-10-02
- Episode 113 – "Windfall"
- What happens when you suddenly strike it rich. And the power money has over our lives, for good and bad. 1998-10-16
- Episode 114 – "Last Words"
- Stories of people's last words before death. Their one last shot at figuring things out, summing things up. One last moment of asserting the fact of our existence, at the moment of our annihilation. 1998-10-23
- Episode 115 – "First Day"
- Stories of the first day on the job, the first day in a relationship, the first day in school. On the first day, any first day, we're expected to live by the rules and customs of the culture we're entering, but we don't know those rules and customs just yet. 1998-11-13
- Episode 116 – "Poultry Slam '98"
- For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, it's our annual program about turkeys, chickens, and fowl of all types. 1998-11-27
- Episode 117 – "You Gonna Eat That?"
- The family table is stage on which many family dramas are played out. We hear three stories...of three families...at three meals. 1998-12-11
- Episode 118 – "What You Lookin' At?"
- Stories about seeing and being seen. Taped before a live audience in Town Hall in New York City in December 1998, this was a co-production with WNYC New York, featuring live music by the pop band They Might Be Giants and the This American Life Orchestra. 1998-12-18
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In 1999, there were 30 new This American Life episodes.
- Episode 119 – "Lockup"
- Episode 120 – "Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be"
- Episode 121 – "Twentieth Century Man"
- The story of Keith Aldridge, who repeatedly reinvented himself over the course of his life to coincide with the major cultural events of the late 20th century, until he died in 1993. Gillian Aldridge tells his story by interviewing her half-siblings.
- Episode 122 – "Valentine's Day '99"
- Episode 123 – "High Cost of Living"
- Episode 124 – "Welcome to America"
- Episode 125 – "Apocalypse"
- Episode 126 – "Do-Gooders"
- Episode 127 – "Pimp Anthropology"
- Episode 128 – "Four Corners"
- Episode 129 – "Advice"
- Episode 130 – "Away From Home"
- Episode 131 – "The Kids Are Alright"
- Episode 132 – "Father's Day '99"
- Episode 133 – "Sales"
- Episode 134 – "We Didn't"
- Episode 135 – "Allure of Crime"
- Show description: Through our crimes, we express who we are.
- Act 1: Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad – Ira Glass interviews Julia Sweeney.
- Act 2: You'll Pay – Marilyn Snell reports on a former bank robber.
- Act 3: Grandma Takes a Fall – Documentary filmmaker Jean Finley talks with an elderly shoplifter.
- Episode 136 – "You Are Here"
- Episode 137 – "The Book that Changed Your Life"
- Episode 138 – "The Real Thing"
- Episode 139 – "Ghosts of Elections Past"
- Episode 140 – "Family Business"
- Episode 141 – "Invisible Worlds"
- Episode 142 – "Barbara"
- Episode 143 – "Sentencing"
- Episode 144 – "Where Words Fail"
- Episode 145 – "Poultry Slam '99"
- Episode 146 – "Urban Nature"
- Episode 147 – "A Teenager's Guide to God"
- Episode 148 – "The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit"
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In 2000, there were 26 This American Life episodes.
- Episode 149 – "Bedside Diplomacy"
- Episode 150 – "Kids as Adults"
- Episode 151 – "Primary"
- Episode 152 – "Crush"
- Episode 153 – "Dolls"
- Episode 154 – "In Dog We Trust"
- Episode 155 – "Hoaxing Yourself"
- Episode 156 – "What Remains"
- Episode 157 – "Secret Life of Daytime"
- Episode 158 – "Mob Mentality"
- Episode 159 – "Mother's Day"
- Episode 160 – "Character Assassination"
- Episode 161 – "Million Bubbles"
- Episode 162 – "Moving"
- Episode 163 – "Can You Fight City Hall... If You Are City Hall?"
- Episode 164 – "Crime Scene"
- Episode 165 – "Americans in Paris"
- Episode 166 – "Nobody's Family is Going to Change"
- Act 1: So a Jew, a Christian, and a Recording Crew Walk into This Bar
- Act 2: Matching Outfits Not Included
- Act 3: The Artist Formerly Known as Dr. Sarkin
- Episode 167 – "Memo to the People of the Future"
- Episode 168 – "The Fix Is In"
- Episode 169 – "Pursuit of Happiness"
- Episode 170 – "Immigration"
- Episode 171 – "Election"
- Episode 172 – "24 Hours at the Golden Apple"
- The TAL production staff interviewed patrons at the Golden Apple Diner in Chicago during one 24-hour period. This episode consists of vignettes of these interviews connected by Ira Glass's narration. If you are in Chicago, Ira recommends the diner's feta cheese omelette.
- Episode 173 – "Three Kinds of Deception"
- Act 1: Self-Deception
- Act 2: Deceiving Others
- Act 3: Accidental Deception – David Sedaris performs a version of his story "Picka Pocketoni," from his collection Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Episode 174 – "Birthdays, Anniversaries and Milestones"
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In 2001, there were 28 This American Life episodes.
- Episode 175 – "Babysitting"
- Act 1: What Big Teeth You Have – Hillary Frank
- Act 2: In the Event of an Emergency, Put Your Sister in an Upright Position – Susan Burton
- Act 3: Yes There Is A Baby – Ira Glass
- For their segment Yes There Is A Baby Jonathan Goldstein, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass won the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival Gold Award for Best Documentary
- Episode 176 – "Two Nations, One President"
- Episode 177 – "American Limbo"
- Act 1: The Family That Flees Together, Trees Together – Alex Blumberg
- Act 2: What's French for 'Strike Three'? – Adam Gopnik
- Act 3: It's Julie Andrews' World, Sylvia Just Lives In It – Sylvia Lemus and Ira Glass
- Episode 178 – "Superpowers"
- Act 1: Invisible Man vs. Hawkman – John Hodgman
- Act 2: Wonder Woman – Kelly McEvers
- Act 3: The Green Team of Boy Millionaires, Beppo The Amazing Supermonkey from Planet Krypton, and The Man from Sram – Ira Glass and Jonathan Morris
- Act 4: The Wonder Twins – Ira Glass and Jason Bleibtreu
- Episode 179 – "Cicero"
- Act 1: Untouchables
- Act 2: The Inevitable
- Act 3: War By Other Means
- Act 4: They Say Our Love is Here to Stay
- Episode 180 – "Return to Childhood"
- Act 1: Once More, With Feeling – Jonathan Katz
- Act 2: Punk in a Grey Flannel Suit – David Philp
- Act 3: Ich... Bin... Ein .. Mophead – Alex Blumberg
- Act 4: Every Day I Forget Something Else – Nicholson Baker
- Episode 181 – "The Friendly Man"
- Act 1: The Test – Scott Carrier
- Act 2: The Friendly Man – Scott Carrier
- Act 3: Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here? – Scott Carrier
- Act 4: The Day Mom and Dad Fell in Love – Scott Carrier
- Episode 182 – "Cringe"
- Act 1: What We Cringe About When We Cringe About Love – Nancy Updike
- Act 2: The Growing Aesthetic of Cringe – Adam Sternberg
- Act 3: M*A*S*H Notes – Ira Glass
- Act 4: Cringe and Purge – Bruce Jay Friedman
- Episode 183 – "The Missing Parents Bureau"
- Act 1: Better Left to the Imagination – Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Tell it to the Void – Miriam Toews
- Act 3: I'm an Orphan; Don't Tell My Mom – Starlee Kine
- Act 4: Runaway Mom – Dan Savage
- Episode 184 – "Neighbors"
- Act 1: Mr. Rothbart's Neighborhood – Davy Rothbart
- Music interlude: Bing Crosby, Dear Hearts and Gentle People
- Act 2: The Girl Next Door – Cheryl Wagner
- Act 3: The Ratman Cometh – Katie Davis
- Music interlude: Big Mama Thornton, I Smell a Rat
- Music interlude: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, New Kind of Neighborhood
- Episode 185 – "Golden Calf"
- Act 1: Bowing Before the Famous – Ann Hepperman
- Act 2: Thou Shalt Worship No Other Trousers Before Me – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Don't Have a Golden Cow – Iggy Scam
- Episode 186 – "Prom"
- For her segment Tornado Prom Susan Burton won the 2001 Third Coast International Audio Festival Best New Artist award
- Act 1: Tornado Prom – Susan Burton
- Act 2: Save the Last Dance for Me... Again – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Only Two Things Are Certain in Life: Death and Tuxes
- Act 4: Only One Thing Missing – Wendy Dorr – Prom in Racine, Wisconsin
- Episode 187 – "Father's Day '01"
- Act 1: Driving the Divorcemobile
- Act 2: And If That Diamond Ring Don't Shine – Ian Brown
- Act 3: Legend of a Bankrobber's Son – Nick Flynn
- Episode 188 – "Kid Logic"
- Act 1: Baby Scientists with Faulty Data
- Act 2: The Game Ain't Over til the Fatso Man Sings – Howie Chackowicz
- Act 3: Werewolves in Their Youth – Michael Chabon
- Act 4: One Brain Shrinks, Another Brain Grows – Julie Hill
- Episode 189 – "Hitler's Yacht"
- Act 1: Part One – Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Part Two – Alix Spiegel
- Episode 190 – "Living the Dream"
- Act 1: Girls Girls Girls – Cris Beam
- Act 2: Agent to the Stars – John Hodgman
- Act 3: Airel Sharon, Shimon Peres, David Ben Gurion, and Me! – Ira Glass and Adam Davidson
- Episode 191 – "I Know What You Did This Summer"
- Act 1: Just Three Thousand More Miles to the Beach – Scott Carrier
- Act 2: It's Not the Heat, It's the Humility – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 3: You Can Have Your Cave and Eat It Too – Sarah Vowell
- Episode 192 – "Meet the Pros"
- Act 1: Crispy with the Rock – Joel Lovell
- Act 2: Know When to Walk Away, Know When to Run – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Martha My Dear – David Rakoff
- Episode 193 – "Stories of Loss"
- Act 1: The Disappearance – Genevieve Jurgensen
- Act 2: Look for the Union Label – Adrian LeBlanc
- Act 3: Ashes – David Sedaris
- Episode 194 – "Before and After"
- Act 1: In the After of Before and After – Lynn Simpson
- Act 2: Watching from the River's Edge – David Rakoff
- Act 3: Notes from the Underground – Haruki Murakami
- Act 4: Far From Home – David Sedaris
- Act 5: U.S.A., Me-S.A. – Ira Glass and Shirley Jahad
- Episode 195 – "War Stories"
- Act 1: The Situation in the Field – Ira Glass and Tom Gjelten
- Act 2: Letters to Home – Andrew Carroll and Estelle Lynch
- Act 3: What Peacetime Forgets About Wartime – Lee Sandlin
- Act 4: Are You Ready? – Scott Carrier
- Episode 196 – "Rashomon"
- Act 1: 1001 Arabian Nightly Newscasts – Julie Snyder
- Act 2: Bombs over Baghdad – Issam Shukri
- Act 3: Toto, I don't Think We're in Vietnam Anymore – Alex Blumberg
- Episode 197 – "Before It Had a Name"
- Act 1: Mr. Boder Vanishes – Carl Marziali
- Act 2: Of Course I Remember Your Name – Heather O'Neill
- Act 3: A Bad Day for Plates – Laura Tangusso
- Act 4: You Call That Love? – Jonathan Goldstein
- Episode 198 – "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
- Act 1: To Make a Friend, Be a Friend – David Sedaris
- Act 2: Stay in Touch – Tami Sagher
- Act 3: People Like You If You Put a Lot of Time Into Your Appearance – Luke Burbank
- Act 4: Just Be Yourself – Jonathan Goldstein
- Episode 199 – "House on Loon Lake"
- Act 1: Part One – Adam Beckman
- Act 2: Part Two – Adam Beckman
- Episode 200 – "Hearts and Minds"
- Act 1: Don't Believe Anything You Hear on the Radio – Nancy Updike
- Act 2: Live on Stage by the Sword, Die on Stage by the Sword – Margy Rochlin
- Episode 201 – "Them"
- Act 1: My Friend the Extremist – Jon Ronson
- Act 2: Don't They Know It's Christmas After All – David Sedaris
- Act 3: Newfies – Chris Brookes
- Episode 202 – "Faith"
- Act 1: Adventures in Turning the Other Cheek – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Does Size Matter If You're Talking About a Cross? – Josh Noel and Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: The Epiphany Biz – Bill Lychak
- Act 4: First Be Reconciled to Thy Brother, and Then Come and Offer Thy Gift – Susie Putz-Drury
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In 2002, there were 25 This American Life episodes.
- Episode 203 – "Recordings for Someone"
- Act 1: Love Story – Ira Glass
- Act 2: War Story – John Brasfield
- Act 3: Special Effects Story – Kevin Murphy
- Act 4: Buddy Picture – Jonathan Goldstein
- Episode 204 – "81 Words"
- Show description: Devoted entirely to Alix Spiegel's feature on the removal of homosexuality as a form of mental illness from the DSM-II during the 1973 meeting of the APA. Spiegel won the 2002 Livingston Award for National Reporting for this episode.
- Act 1: Untitled – Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Untitled – Alix Spiegel
- Episode 205 – "Plan B"
- Act 1: It's Another Tequila Sunrise – John Hodgman
- Act 2: Why Talk? – Starlee Kine
- Act 3: Kidnapping as Plan B – Ira Glass
- Act 4: A Fate Most of Us Fear – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 5: The Accursed Items – J. Robert Lennon
- Episode 206 – "Somewhere in the Arabian Sea"
- Act 1: Untitled – Wendy Dorr, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass
- Episode 207 – "Special Ed"
- Act 1: Get on the Mic – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Black Hole Son
- Act 3: Walkout – Veronica Chater
- Episode 208 – "Office Politics"
- Act 1: Hang In There Kitty Cat, It's Almost Friday – Starlee Kine
- Act 2: Sheetcakes in the Conference Room, Whiskey After Dark – David Rakoff
- Act 3: When the Job That Takes You Off the Streets Is On The Streets – Julie Snyder
- A story about the culture and politics of street vendors and panhandlers in New York City
- Episode 209 – "Didn't Ask to Be Born"
- Act 1: The chronicle of a family that unravelled – Debra Gwartney and Sandy Tolan
- Act 2: Untitled – Brent Runyon
- Episode 210 – "Perfect Evidence"
- Act 1: Hawks and Rabbits – Shane DuBow
- Act 2: Snitch
- Episode 211 – "Naming Names"
- Act 1: How Britain Nearly Saved America – Jon Ronson
- Act 2: One Crucible Leads to Another – Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller
- Act 3: Beating the Erasers – Susan Drury
- Episode 212 – "The Other Man"
- Act 1: Psychic Buddha, Qu'est-ce Que C'est – Davy Rothbart
- Act 2: The Jackson Two – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Mr. Fun – Jonathan Goldstein and Heather O'Neill
- Episode 213 – "Devil On My Shoulder"
- Act 1: It's Fun to Make Hell on Earth – George Ratliff
- Act 2: Sixteen Candles Can Lead to a Lot of Fire – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Devil in Angel's Clothing, or Is It the Other Way Around? – Sarah Koenig
- Episode 214 – "Family Physics"
- Act 1: Occam's Razor – Cris Beam
- Act 2: The Trajectory and Force of Bodies in Orbit – Jon Ronson
- Act 3: Conservation of Energy and Matter – David Sedaris
- Episode 215 – "Ask An Expert"
- Act 1: An Epidemic Created by Doctors – Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Not Stella Adler, Just Stellllaaah – Jod Kaftan
- Episode 216 – "Give the People What They Want"
- Act 1: Let Them Eat Cake, Wedding Cake – Ira Glass
- Act 2: God Shed his Grace on Thee – Jack Hitt
- Act 3: Have Paint, Will Travel – Alex Kotlowitz and Amy Dorn
- Act 4: Handing People Their Dreams – Ali Davis
- Act 5: What Daddy Wants – Curtis Sittenfeld
- Episode 217 – "Give It to Them"
- Act 1: Life Indoors – Nancy Updike
- Act 2: Here and There in the Land of Israel – Ira Glass
- Act 3: What's a Moderate? – Nancy Updike
- Episode 218 – "Act V"
- Episode 219 – "High Speed Chase"
- Act 1: Cowboys and Indians, Part 1 – Susan Burton
- Act 2: Cowboys and Indians, Part 2 – Susan Burton
- Episode 220 – "Testosterone"
- Act 1: Life at Zero – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Infinite Gent
- Act 3: Contest-osterone
- Act 4: Learning to Shut Up – Miriam Toews
- Episode 221 – "Fake I.D."
- Act 1: Pole Vault – Ira Glass
- Act 2: This Blessed House – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Act 3: The Lie that Binds – David Sedaris
- Episode 222 – "Suckers"
- Act 1: No Receipt, No Surrender – "Jen"
- Act 2: The Stereo Type – Shane DuBow
- Act 3: Suckers in the Promised Land – Adam Davidson
- Act 4: Mother Sucker – Heather O'Neill
- Episode 223 – "Classifieds"
- Centered on classified ads appearing on the same day in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Reader
- Act 1: Lost and Found Ads – Todd Bachmann
- Act 2: Help Wanted – Joe Richman
- Act 3: Musicians Classifieds – Starlee Kine
- Act 4: Personal Ads – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 5: For Sale – Jay Allison
- Episode 224 – "Middlemen"
- Act 1: Show Me the Monet – Alex Blumberg and Davy Rothbart
- Act 2: Stuck inside of Memphis
- Act 3: What it Takes to Tromp Through the Desert – Wendy Dorr
- Episode 225 – "Home Movies"
- Act 1: The Big Night – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: The Kids Stay in the Picture – Ira Glass
- Act 3: A Half-Million Home Videos Can't be Wrong – Ira Glass
- Act 4: The Cinema of Upward Mobility – Susan Burton
- Act 5: Untitled – David Sedaris
- Episode 226 – "Reruns"
- Act 1: Action! Action! Action! – Starlee Kine talks about Trent Harris' Beaver Trilogy
- Act 2: Marriage as Rerun, featuring John Hodgman and Robert Krulwich – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Reruns at the back of the Bus – Sarah Vowell
- Episode 227 – "Why We Fight"
- Act 1: Senator's Proxy – Ira Glass
- Act 2: When Firas Comes Marching Home Again – Adam Davidson
- Act 3: Realism 101 – Ira Glass
- Act 4: Who Cares?
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In 2003, there were 28 This American Life episodes.
- Episode 228 – "You Are So Beautiful... To Me"
- Act 1: Polly Wants More Than a Cracker – Veronica Chater
- Act 2: On the Border Between Good and Bad – Russell Banks
- Episode 229 – "Secret Government"
- Act 1: Until the End of the War – Jack Hitt
- Act 2: Secret Trials and Secret Deportations – David Kestenbaum
- Act 3: Secret Wiretaps from a Secret Court – Blue Chevigny
- Episode 230 – "Come Back to Afghanistan"
- Susan Burton and Hyder Akbar won the Third Coast Festival Silver Award for Best Documentary for this episode
- Act 1: Teenage Embed – Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton
- Episode 231 – "Time to Save the World"
- Act 1: The Rundown – Starlee Kine
- Act 2: Heather Help Me – Jessica Riddle
- Act 3: Fools Rush In, Where Mommies Fear to Tread
- Act 4: The Science of Good and Evil – Susan Drury
- Episode 232 – "The Real Story"
- Act 1: Jarhead – Anthony Swofford
- Act 2: What's the Truth Good For, Anyway? – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Jar Jar Head – John Hodgman
- Episode 233 – "Starting from Scratch"
- Act 1: Puppy Love – Molly FitzSimons
- Act 2: Making Money the Old Fashioned Way – Mary Beth Kirshner
- Act 3: The First Starting from Scratch – Jonathan Goldstein
- Episode 234 – "Say Anything"
- Act 1: How to Write a Note – Jake Warga
- Act 2: The Battle of Words vs Fear – Michael Bernard Loggins
- Act 3: When a City Opens its Big Mouth
- Act 4: Wedding Bells and Door Bells – Elizabeth Gilbert and Jonathan Goldstein
- Episode 235 – "The Balloon Goes Up"
- Act 1: Bombs over Baghdad – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Tice Ridley is a first Lieutenant in the Army
- Act 3: What's French for French Fries? – David Sedaris
- Act 4: Fighting the Previous War – Sarah Vowell
- Act 5: What Peacetime Forgets about Wartime – Lee Sandlin
- Act 6: Lessons from Ancient Wars – Mary Zimmerman and Ira Glass
- Episode 236 – "My Two Cents"
- Act 1: Dave Knows – Susan Drury
- Act 2: Stock Making Sense – Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: A View from the Mop – Greg Tate
- Episode 237 – "Regime Change"
- Act 1: Unconquerable – Katie Davis
- Act 2: Or Give Me Death – Sarah Koenig
- Act 3: The Heart is a Lonely Junta – Ira Glass and Jeffrey Brown
- Episode 238 – "Lost in Translation"
- Act 1: The Chasm Between Comedy and Music – Jonathan Goldstein and Starlee Kine
- Act 2: Star of Bethlehem – Nancy Updike
- Act 3: Translating for the Very, Very, Very, Very Tall – Jesse Hardman
- Episode 239 – "Lost in America"
- Act 1: Losing It – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: Teacher Hit Me With a Ruler – Sarah Vowell
- Act 3: I Found Your Letter – Davy Rothbart
- Episode 240 – "I'm In Charge Now"
- Act 1: It's Not Just the Aces That Are Wild – David Sedaris
- Act 2: Playing Clinton in the Bush Leagues – Katy Vine
- Act 3: You Talkin' to Me? – Adam Davidson
- Episode 241 – "20 Acts in 60 Minutes"
- Act 1: Don't I Know You? – Tate Donovan and Starlee Kine
- Act 2: No of Course I Know You – Scott Carrier
- Act 3: It's Commerce that Brings Us Together – Susan Drury
- Act 4: The Sound of One Hand Waving – Patty Martin
- Act 5: The Sound of No Hands Clapping – Viki Merrick, Eric Kipp, and Jay Allison
- Act 6: Reaching Out with Radio – "Joey" and "Jake" with Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Act 7: Up Where the Air is Clear – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 8: The Greatest Dog Name in the World – Valion Loetz, Paris Loetz and Katie Adone
- Act 9: Of Dogs and Men – Elaine Boehm and Jim Sultzer
- Act 10: Untitled – Neo-Futurists
- Act 11: Etiquette Lesson – David Sedaris
- Act 12: To Tell the Truth – Brent Runyon
- Act 13: More Lies – Catharyn and Ira Glass
- Act 14: Call in Colonel Mustard or That's What Happens when you Don't Use a Condoment Kids – Ira Glass
- Act 15: Mr. Prediction – David Rakoff
- Act 16: That One Guy at the Office – ?Drewdanna Gustafson?
- Act 17: You Can't Choose Your Gift – ?Richard Carry? and Jim Sultzer
- Act 18: Party Talk – Chuck Klosterman
- Act 19: The Hard Life at the Top – David Lipsky
- Act 20: The Greatest Moment I Saw On Stage – Ira Glass
- Episode 242 – "Enemy Camp"
- Act 1: Confession – Carl Marziali
- Act 2: Blood Agent – Ira Glass
- Act 3: And I Love Her – Etgar Keret
- Act 4: Yet another ineffective road map for world leadership – Blue Chevigny
- Episode 243 – "Later That Same Day"
- Act 1: The Hiker and the Cowman Should be Friends – Scott Carrier
- Act 2: Scrapbook, the Verb
- Act 3: Slingshot – John Hodgman
- Episode 244 – "MacGyver"
- Act 1: Bolt of Lightning, Pro and Con – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Files in Cakes, Ha! – Angelo
- Act 3: So Crazy It Just Might Work – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Act 4: A Girl's Guide to Mending the Unmendable – Susan Burton
- Episode 245 – "Allure of the Mean Friend"
- Act 1: Return to the Scene of the Crime – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: Does Niceness Pay? – Ira Glass
- Act 3: And What's Going on With You? – Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan
- Act 4: Keeping It in the Family – Bernard Cooper
- Episode 246 – "My Pen Pal"
- Act 1: Who Put the "Pistol" in "Epistolary"? – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Pen Pal Husband – Janice Powell
- Episode 247 – "What Is This Thing?"
- Act 1: Inside the Romance Industry – Robin Epstein
- Act 2: View from the Other Half – Griffin Hansbury
- Act 3: A Love Story – Sarah Vowell
- Episode 248 – "Like It Or Not"
- Prologue – David Rakoff
- Act 1: If It Drives, Go Live – Starlee Kine follows up on a 2001 low speed car chase in Los Angeles
- Act 2: Don't Just Stand There – Sheila Peabody
- Act 3: Hello, Baby – David Rakoff
- Act 4: On the Eighth Day, God Created Tartar Sauce – Curtis Sittenfeld on a Mobile Bay jubilee
- Episode 249 – "Garbage"
- Act 1: Oh, Mr. San Man – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Except for the Smell, I Think I Have a Crush on You – Luis Urrea
- Act 3: "I'm a Legitimate Businessman ... Waste Management."
- Episode 250 – "The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice"
- Act 1: Rock, Paper, Computer – Jack Hitt
- Act 2: Detroit Is In the House – Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: Zero Divided By Zero Is Still Zero – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Episode 251 – "Brother's Keeper"
- Act 1: Whatever Happened to Baby Cain? – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: This Land is Your Land, This Land Is My Land – Nancy Updike
- Act 3: Neighbor's Keeper – Robert Kurson
- Episode 252 – "Poultry Slam '03"
- Episode 253 – "The Middle of Nowhere"
- Act 1: No Island Is An Island – Jack Hitt
- Act 2: On Hold, No One Can Hear You Scream – Julie Snyder
- Episode 254 – "Teenage Embed, Part Two"
- Act 1: Part One – Hyder Akbar
- Act 2: Part Two – Hyder Akbar
- Episode 255 – "This American Life's Holiday Gift-Giving Guide"
- Act 1: Make a Joyous Noise Unto Your Mom – Ian Brown
- Act 2: A Christmas Memory
- Act 3: Secret Santa – Caitlin Shetterly
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In 2004, there were 24 This American Life episodes.
- Episode 256 – "Living Without"
- Act 1: Do You Hear What I Hear? – Nubar Alexanian
- Act 2: The Journalism of Deprivation – Sarah Vowell
- Act 3: The Call of the Great Indoors – Chelsea Merz
- Act 4: Tin Man – Judith Budnitz
- Episode 257 – "What I Should've Said"
- Act 1: Freeze Frame – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: In the Bush Leagues – Charles Monroe-Kane
- Act 3: A Can of Worms – David Sedaris
- Act 4: Life Sentence – Mike Miller
- Episode 258 – "Leaving the Fold"
- Act 1: I've Got a Secret I've Been Hiding From You – Alex Blumberg
- Act 2: God and Hockey – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Nuns Amok – Susan Drury
- Episode 259 – "Promised Land"
- Act 1: Across the Street from Heaven – Starlee Kine
- Act 2: Life in the Fast Lane – David Rakoff
- Act 3: Mystery Train – Hillary Frank
- Episode 260 – "The Facts Don't Matter"
- Act 1: Straight Eyes on the Quirin Guys – Chris Neary
- Act 2: Mush Polling – Sarah Koenig
- Episode 261 – "The Sanctity of Marriage"
- Act 1: What Really Happens in Marriage – Ira Glass
- Act 2: The Defense of Marriage Act – Adam Felber
- Act 3: I Want to be a Statistic – Starlee Kine
- Episode 262 – "Miracle Cures"
- Act 1: Changing the Channeler – Davy Rothbart
- Act 2: The Entities Known as The Food and Drug Administration – Ira Glass
- Episode 263 – "Desperate Measures"
- Act 1: Hasta La Vista, Arnie – Scott Miller
- Act 2: We Built This City on Rock and Coal – Ira Glass
- Act 3: The Router Less Taken
- Act 4: The Rocks at Rock Bottom – Hillary Frank
- Episode 264 – "Special Treatment"
- Show description: On the ethics and reality of preferential treatment
- Act 1: Lunchtime with the King of Ketchup – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: Except for that One Problem, it's Perfect – Gregory Warner
- Act 3: Mommie's Psychic Helper – Aimee Phan
- Act 4: The Way to a Boy's Heart Is Through His Stomach – Lisa Carver
- Episode 265 – "Fake Science"
- Show description: On cranks, distortions of science, and the application of pseudo-scientific methods to questions outside the realm of science
- Act 1: Spook Science – Jake Warga
- Act 2: Government Science – Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: Beauty Science – Adam Sternbergh
- Act 4: Radio Science – Brent Runyon
- Episode 266 – "I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help"
- Show description: On the work of private defense contractors in post-invasion Iraq
- Act 1: Airport – Nancy Updike
- Act 2: Hank – Nancy Updike
- Act 3: Green Zone – Nancy Updike
- Act 4: Electricity – Nancy Updike
- Act 5: Karen – Nancy Updike
- Act 6: Cops – Nancy Updike
- Act 7: Hank Redux – Nancy Updike
- Episode 267 – "Propriety"
- Show description: On civility, profanity, and the Federal Communications Commission
- Act 1: Government Says the Darnedest Things – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Dems Gone Wild! – Ken Kurson
- Act 3: Swiss Near-Miss – Samantha Hunt
- Episode 268 – "My Experimental Phase"
- Act 1: That's Funny, You Don't Look Jewish – David Segal
- Act 2: Miami Vices – Sascha Rothchild, Mortified
- Episode 269 – "Someone to Watch Over Me"
- Act 1: Doctoring the Doctor – Jo Giese
- Act 2: The Over-Protective Kind
- Act 3: Are You a Man or a Mouse? – Aimee Bender
- Episode 270 – "Family Legend"
- Act 1: Take My Cheese, Please – Ira Glass
- Act 2: We Don't Talk About That – Kevin O'Leary
- Act 3: Admissions – Katia Dunn
- Episode 271 – "Best Interests"
- Act 1: I'd Rather Not – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Exodus of One – Alex Kotlowitz
- Episode 272 – "Big Tent"
- Show description: On the Republican Party during the campaign season preceding the U.S. presidential election, 2004
- Act 1: Pink Elephant – Patrick Howell
- Act 2: Right and Righter – Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: Indecent Proposal – Shane DuBow
- Act 4: It's My Party
- Episode 273 – "Put Your Heart In It"
- Show description: On motivation and passion, especially regarding career choices
- Act 1: Farm Eye for the Farm Guy – George DeVault
- Act 2: Diary of a Long-shot – Teal Krech
- Act 3: Contrails of My Tears – Brett Martin
- Episode 274 – "Enemy Camp '04"
- Show description: On the Iraq war and the War on Terrorism (a discussion with James Fallows and Richard Perle), the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, and parasites
- Act 1: Our Own Worst Enemy? – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Confession – Carl Marziali
- Act 3: Blood Agent – Ira Glass
- Act 4: And I Love Her – Etgar Keret
- Episode 275 – "Two Steps Back"
- Show description: On the decline of Washington Irving Elementary School in Chicago, once a model for success in public education reforms
- Act 1: 1994 – Ira Glass
- Act 2: 2004 – Ira Glass
- Episode 276 – "Swing Set"
- Show description: On swing voters, who were thought to play an important role in the U.S. presidential election, 2004, which took place a few days after the episode first aired
- Act 1: My Buddy, Hackett – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Cold-Cock the Vote – Jack Hitt
- Act 3: One Son, One Vote – Sarah Koenig
- Act 4: He's Got Legs – Lisa Pollak
- Episode 277 – "Apology"
- Show description: On apologizing
- Act 1: Repeat After Me – David Sedaris
- Act 2: Dial "S" for Sorry – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Two Words You Never Want to Hear From Your Doctor – Starlee Kine
- Episode 278 – "Spies Like Us"
- Show description: On surveillance and eavesdropping by private citizens
- Act 1: The Lobbyist – Burt Covit
- Act 2: Life With the Haters – Beth Lisick
- Act 3: Mystery Shoppers – Lisa Pollak
- Act 4: Stop Bugging Me – Jane Feltes
- Episode 279 – "Auto Show"
- Show description: On dB drag racing, vehicle theft, car salespeople, and elderly drivers
- Act 1: Crunk in the Trunk – David Segal
- Act 2: Baby You Can't Drive My Car – Jamie Kitman
- Act 3: Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Be Alarmingly Familiar – Curtis Sittenfeld
- Act 4: Not Your Father's Chevrolet Salesman – Sarah Koenig
- Act 5: End of the Road – Lisa Pollack
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In 2005, there were 26 This American Life episodes.
- Episode 280 – "In Country"
- Show description: On the experiences of United States National Guard reservists and Marines in post-invasion Iraq
- Act 1: When Weekend Warriors Work on Weekdays – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Marine Life – Jack Hitt
- Episode 281 – "My Big Break"
- Show description: On personal struggles leading to unexpected success or failure
- Act 1: Take My Break, Please – David Segal
- Act 2: What Happens in Baghdad, Stays in Baghdad – Jen Banbury
- Act 3: Oedipus Hex – Shalom Auslander
- Episode 282 – "DIY"
- Show description: An entire episode of a story about the wrongful murder conviction of Collin Warner. After 21 years in prison, Warner's friends managed to prove Warner's innocence and free him from jail.
- Act 1: Untitled – Anya Bourg
- Act 2: The story of Collin Warner continues
- Episode 283 – "Remember Me"
- Act 1: Thinking inside the box – David Wilcox
- Act 2: Where's Walter? – Starlee Kine
- Act 3: Giving up the ghosts – Shalom Auslander
- Episode 284 – "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?"
- Act 1: The Karachi kid
- Act 2: Not far from the tree – Amy O'Leary
- Act 3: Because I'm the mommy, that's why
- Episode 285 – "Know Your Enemy"
- Act 1: The Minister Meets the Martyr
- Act 2: I Am Curious, Jello – David Segal
- Act 3: Eight Percent of Nothing – Etgar Keret
- Episode 286 – "Mind Games"
- Act 1: Untitled – Ira Glass
- Act 2: The Spy Who Loved Everyone – Jorge Just
- Act 3: Invisible Girl – Scott Carrier
- Episode 287 – "Backed Into a Corner"
- Act 1: Working Class Hero Sandwich – Shirleen Holt
- Act 2: Don't Drive Like My Brother – Jonathan Menjivar
- Act 3: Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind – Brian Montopoli
- Episode 288 – "Not What I Meant"
- Act 1: Froggy Goes A-Courtin' – Gabrielle Galanek
- Act 2: Cat Got Your Tongue – David Sedaris
- Act 3: Romance Languages – Ben Karlin
- Episode 289 – "Go Ask Your Father"
- Act 1: Make Him Say Uncle – Ira Glass
- Act 2: My Favorite Martian – Paul Tough
- Episode 290 – "Godless America"
- Act 1: The Substance of Things Hoped For
- Act 2: God Said, Huh? – Julia Sweeney
- Episode 291 – "Reunited (and It Feels So Good)"
- Act 1: Not Your Parents' Parent Trap – Nazanin Rafsanjani
- Act 2: If By Chance We Meet Again – Ira Glass
- Act 3: French Kiss – Sarah Vowell
- Episode 292 – "The Arms Trader"
- Prologue – Ira Glass on the Lackawanna 6
- Act 1: Petra Bartosiewicz on the arrest and conviction of Hemant Lakhani
- Act 2: continuation of Act 1
- Episode 293 – "A Little Bit of Knowledge"
- Prologue: Ira Glass and Nancy Updike
- Act 1: Small Thoughts in Big Brains – Alex Blumberg
- Act 2: And Daddy Makes Three – Dan Savage
- Act 3: Sucker MC-Square – Robert Andrew Powell
- Act 4: The Art of Adult Conversation – Alexa Junge
- Episode 294 – "Image Makers"
- Act 1: Dewey Decibel System – Alex Blumberg
- Act 2: Goldstein on Goldstein – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 3: Hearth Shaped Box – Julie Hill
- Episode 295 – "Not What I Signed Up For"
- Act 1: The Double Whammy – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Small Fish, Smaller Pond – Nick Hornby
- Episode 296 – "After the Flood"
- Show description: Stories from survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
- Prologue: Ira Glass interviews William Nichelson about the role of state and federal authorities
- Act 1: Middle of Somewhere – Ira Glass interviews Denise Moore, a hurricane survivor
- Music interlude: Memphis Minnie, When the Levee Breaks
- Act 2: Forgotten, But Not Lost – Alex Blumberg interviews Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Debbie Zelinsky about an occurrence at the Pontchartrain Expressway bridge
- Music interlude: Fats Domino, "Walking to New Orleans"
- Act 3: Social Studies Lesson – Alex Blumberg interviews Ashley Nelson
- Ray Charles, Them That Got
- Act 4: Diaspora – Cheryl Wagner
- Act 5: Displaced Persons Camp – Lisa Pollak interviews survivors of Hurricane Charley in Florida
- Episode 297 – "This Is Not My Beautiful House"
- Show description: Stories from the Houston Astrodome and New Orleans about survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
- Act 1: Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow – Jane Feltes
- Act 2: No Place Like Dome – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Land Grab – Lisa Pollak
- Act 4: The Long Way Home – Nick Spitzer
- Act 5: Water Bed – Alex Kotlowitz
- Episode 298 – "Getting and Spending"
- Act 1: Mothers of Invention – Alex Kotlowitz and Amy Drozdowska-McGuire
- Act 2: That Guy – Diane Cook
- Act 3: Mall Rat – John Hodgman
- Episode 299 – "Back From The Dead"
- Act 1: In the Event of An Emergency – Ira Glass
- Act 2: 'P' Is For Porta-Potty – Sarah Koenig
- Act 3: Friday Night Floodlights – Lisa Pollak
- Episode 300 – "What's in a Number?"
- Act 1: Truth, Damn Truth, and Statistics – Alex Blumberg
- Act 2: Not Just a Number – Ryan Gist
- Act 3: What do we do with these numbers anyway? – Ira Glass
- Episode 301 – "Settling the Score"
- Air date: November 11, 2005
- Prologue – Ira Glass
- Act 1: One Good Deed – Erin Einhorn
- Act 2: The Things That Money Can Buy – Beau O'Reilly
- Episode 302 – "Strangers in a Strange Land"
- Air date: November 18, 2005
- Prologue – Ira Glass
- Act 1: Not Just Tourists, Tourists Who Care – Chris Tenove
- Act 2: Johnny Get Your Mouse – Amy O'Leary
- Episode 303 – "David and Goliath"
- Act 1: Lab Rugrats – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Dreams of Distant Factories – Rachel Louise Snyder
- Act 3: Adventures at Poo Corner – David Sedaris
- Episode 304 – "Heretics"
- Act 1: Rise – Russell Cobb
- Act 2: Fall
- Episode 305 – "The "This American Life" Holiday Spectacular"
- Act 1: Twas the Morning After – David Rakoff
- Act 2: No Tenenbaum, No Tenenbaum – John Hodgman
- Act 3: My So-Called Jesus – Heather O'Neill
- Act 4: An Animal Farm Christmas – David Sedaris
- Act 5: Christmas at Valley Forge – Sarah Vowell
- Act 6: What Would Joseph Do? – Jonathan Goldstein
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In 2006, there were 17 This American Life episodes.
- Episode 306 – "Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time"
- Act 1: Luck of the Irish – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Taxation Without Inebriation
- Act 3: Bad Morning America – Davy Rothbart
- Act 4: Function of the Heart
- Episode 307 – "In the Shadow of the City"
- Act 1: Brooklyn Archipelago – Brett Martin
- Act 2: The Thin Gray Line – Cheryl Wagner
- Act 3: Yes, In My Backyard – Jorge Just
- Episode 308 – "Star-Crossed Love"
- Act 1: Prisoner of Love – Shant Kenderian
- Act 2: The Diary of Mrs. Sam Horrigan – Catalina Puente
- Act 3: So a Squirrel and a Chipmunk Walk Into a Bar – David Sedaris
- Episode 309 – "Cat and Mouse"
- Act 1: El Gato Y El Ratoncito – James Spring
- Act 2: Hello Kitty – David Sedaris
- Act 3: Looking for Loveseats in all the Wrong Places – David Segal
- Act 4: Spray My Name, Spray My Name – Brian Thomas Gallagher
- Episode 310 – "Habeas Schmaebeas"
- Act 1: There's No U.S. in Habeas – Jack Hitt
- Act 2: September 11, 1660 – Jon Ronson
- Act 3: We Interrogate the Detainees – Jack Hitt
- Episode 311 – "A Better Mousetrap"
- Act 1: Mother of Invention – Karen Sosnoski
- Act 2: Everything Must Go – Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
- Act 3: What Would Fill-in-the-Blank Do? – Brett Martin
- Act 4: Squashing the Creative Spirit – Andy Raskin
- Episode 312 – "How We Talked Back Then"
- Show description: A return to two live shows from the TAL archive including show 36, "Letters" and show 66, "Tales from the Net".
- Act 1: Letters
- Act 2: Internet
- Episode 313 – "Parental Guidance Suggested"
- Act 1: Two Possibilities, Both Bad – Ira Glass
- Act 2: The Grandma Letters – Will Seymour, Mortified
- Act 3: My Angel's in the Centerfolds – Thea Chaloner
- Episode 314 – "It's Never Over"
- Act 1: Who Takes the Class Out of Class Reunion – Jon Ronson
- Act 2: Life Without Leanne – Larry Doyle
- Act 3: Deal of a Lifetime – Sarah Koenig (rebroadcast from episode 162)
- Act 4: One Word: Timing – Tami Sagher
- Episode 315 – "The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig"
- Act 1: Parrot – Ira Glass, Alex Lane, and Erik Holm
- Act 2: Pig – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 3: Combo Platter – David Sedaris
- Episode 316 – "The Cat Came Back"
- Episode 317 – "Unconditional Love"
- Act 1: Love Is A Battlefield – Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Hit Me With Your Best Shot – Dave Royko
- Episode 318 – "With Great Power"
- Act 1: Objects in Side View Mirror Are Truer Than They Appear – Alex Kotlowitz
- Act 2: Unwelcome Wagon – Ira Glass
- Music interlude: Dave Barker, I Got to Get Away
- Act 3: Waiting for Joe – Shalom Auslander
- Music interlude: Bettye LaVette, The High Road
- Episode 319 – "And the Call Was Coming From the Basement"
- Show description: Scary stories that are all true.
- Prologue: Ira Glass and Albert Donnay read a ghost story from a 1921 medical journal.
- Act 1: The Hills Have Eyes – Alix Blumberg
- Music interlude: 45 Grave, Evil
- Act 2: The Hitcher – Ira Glass
- Act 3: And the Call Was Coming from ... the Listeners!
- Act 4: Graveyard Shift – David Sedaris
- Music interlude: Gnarls Barkley, The Boogie Monster
- Episode 320 – "What's In a Number – 2006 Edition"
- Show description: Discussion about a new study by The Lancet about the number of Iraqis who have died since the US invasion.
- Prologue: Ira Glass talks with ordinary Iraqis about life after the invasion.
- Act 1: Truth, Damn Truth and Statistics – Alex Blumberg
- Act 2: Not Just a Number
- Act 3: The War This Time – Ira Glass
- Music interlude: The Roots, Somebody's Gotta Do It
- Episode 321 – "Sink or Swim"
- Prologue: a story about a German interpreter for Ford whose skills fail him
- Act 1: Mr. Central High
- Act 2: I'm Not a Doctor, but I Play One at the Holiday Inn
- Act 3: If This Ark Is A-Rockin', Don't Come A-Knockin' – Jonathan Goldstein interprets the story of Noah's Ark
- Episode 322 – "Shouting Across the Divide"
- Show description: Stories of Muslim and non-Muslim relations.
- Prologue: A depiction of Muhammad on display in the main courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Act 1: Which One of These Is Not Like the Others?—Why is it so hard for Muslims and non-Muslims to get along in the fourth grade?
- Act 2: America the Ad Campaign – Shalom Auslander
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In 2007, there were 24 This American Life episodes.
- Episode 323 – "The Super"
- Show description: Stories of the mysterious hold supers have on their buildings, or their buildings have on them.
- Prologue: Ira speaks with a super who has exclusive access to a courtyard, but does not use it
- Act #1: The Super Always Rings Twice
- Music interlude: "Theme from Superman: The Movie"
- Act #2: Super Duper
- Music interlude: The White Stripes, "Blue Orchid"
- Act #3: Please Re-Lease Me
- Music interlude: Elvis Presley, "Working on a Building"
- Episode 324 – "My Brilliant Plan"
- Act #1: Mr. Adam's Neighborhood – Nancy Updike and Adam Davidson
- Act #2: Tragedy Minus Time Equals Happily Ever After
- Episode 325 – "Houses of Ill Repute"
- Act #1: It’s Not a Crack House, It’s a Crack Home – Maherin Gangat
- Maherin Gangat interviews an old man who keeps rather unsavory guests in his New York City home.
- Act #2: The Crisco Kid
- Music interlude: Ted Nugent, "Stranglehold"
- Act #3: Bully's Pulpit – Alex Blumberg
- Music interlude: Gwen Stefani, "U Started It"
- Act #1: It’s Not a Crack House, It’s a Crack Home – Maherin Gangat
- Episode 326 – "Quiz Show"
- Act #1: Gamester of Ireland is Fine – Ronan Kelly
- Act #2: Dire Enigmas for Elite Fans – Lisa Pollack
- Music interlude: The Undertones, "Smarter Than You"
- Act #3: Girls in Need of a Safer Time – Robin Epstein
- Episode 327 – "By Proxy"
- Act #1: I'm the Decider – Davy Rothbart
- David Rothbar makes a decision that is not his to make.
- Act #2: Kill the Messengers – Ira Glass
- What it is like to be the proxy for American soldiers in Iraq.
- Act #3: Redemption by Proxy – Eve Ambrams
- A girl steps in for her dead best friend.
- Act #1: I'm the Decider – Davy Rothbart
- Episode 328 – "What I Learned from Television"
- Show description: Collection of commentaries from live shows about television. All interludes performed by a band touring with This American Life, Mates of State.
- Prologue: Ira Glass describes the effect of television on our culture.
- Act #1: 29 – David Rakoff
- David Rakoff takes the task of watching and describing the first 29 hours of television he has watched in years. (Takes its name from the average amount of time spent watching television each week by the typical person)
- Act #2: Turkeys in Pilgrim Clothing – Sarah Vowell
- Sarah Vowell talks about the ubiquitous "Thanksgiving Episode", and how writers always manage to dilute the truth.
- Act #3: Radio on the TV – Ira Glass
- Ira Glass reflects on TV, and in particular on a line from an episode of The O.C. which holds special meaning to This American Life.
- Act #4: My Other Dog's a German Shepherd – Dan Savage
- Columnist Dan Savage commentates on the portrayal of sexuality on television and what effect this can have.
- Episode 329 – "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
- Show description: Stories of sudden fame, quick riches, and the downside of the dream job.
- Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks with some real-live NASA astronauts: Cady Coleman, Chris Cassidy, and Marsha Ivins. On average, NASA schedules just a couple of space missions a year. But it employs 95 astronauts. This means that only a tiny percentage of an astronaut's career is actually spent in space, and some never get there. Ira talks with these three astronauts about how they spend the vast majority of their time: on the ground, in an office, doing paperwork.
- Act #1: I'm Not a TV Star, but I Play One on TV.
- This American Life contributor John Hodgman was unexpectedly chosen to be in a series of high-profile Apple Computer commercials (he plays a PC). He tells the story of what happens when celebrity hunts you down and finds you...on your living room couch, pushing 40, and a couple sizes larger than you want to be. John was recorded live during our "What I Learned from Television" tour, before a sold-out audience at Royce Hall in Los Angeles.
- Act #2: Show Me the Annuity.
- This American Life producer Alex Blumberg talks with Ed Ugel, who had a very unusual dream job: he bought jackpots from lottery winners. When you win the lottery, your prize is often paid out in yearly installments. And Ed would offer winners a lump sum in exchange for their yearly checks. He's talked with thousands of lottery winners, and the vast majority, he says, wish they would never won. Ed is writing a book about his years in the "lump sum industry" called Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions. It comes out in September 2007.
- Act #3: The Homesick Explorer.
- Sarah Vowell tells the story of mapmaker Charles Preuss. Preuss charted the Western Territories with John Charles Fremont and Kit Carson. Though Pruess' maps were wildly popular, he hated pretty much every minute of the expedition. Dermot Mulroney reads from Preuss's diary.
- Act #3: Just One Thing Missing.
- Reporter Douglas McGray interviews a college student in California with good grades, an excellent work ethic, but no possible way to get a legal job. She's lived in the U.S. since she was little, but her parents are undocumented; and she is, too. Most of her friends and teachers do not even know. Douglas McGray is a fellow at the New America Foundation.
- Episode 330 – "My Reputation"
- Show description: Stories of people trying to recover from damage to their reputations—sometimes caused by others, sometimes self-inflicted.
- Prologue: Robyn Forest thought she had gotten her big break when a magazine assigned her to write about a famous Japanese pop singer. Instead, Robyn ended up on Japanese television denying that she and the singer were having an affair. Host Ira Glass talks with Robyn about how she accidentally ruined her own reputation. (11 minutes)
- Act #1: Not Everybody Loves Raymond.
- This American Life producer Sarah Koenig tells a story of the rise and fall of a politician's reputation. Raymond Buckley, a Democratic operative from New Hampshire, was instrumental in his party's success in last fall's midterm elections. He set his sights on becoming the chair of the state Democratic Party. But three months before the election for party chair, one of Buckley's political rivals accused him of one of the worst things that anyone can be accused of. It threatened to destroy not only his career, but his life. Unlike most politicians at the center of a scandal, Buckley was willing to talk about what he went through and how it changed him. (35 minutes)
- Act #2: The Hole Truth.
- It is one thing to wonder what other people really think of you. It is quite another to go out and ask them. Writer Gabriel Delahaye asked his closest friends—on tape—what they really think of him, and the answers surprised him. The story of one man's brave quest to face up to his reputation. (11 minutes)
- Episode 331 – "Habeas Schmabeas 2007"
- Episode 332 – "The Ten Commandments"
- Episode 333 – "The Center for Lessons Learned"
- Episode 334 – "Duty Calls"
- Episode 335 – "Big Wide World"
- Show description: Stories of people experiencing the world from new perspectives.
- Prologue: Ira Glass sees beer for the first time in real life at a friend's house. He is in seventh grade and is forced to reconsider his view of drinking. Ira's friend from Ukraine, Valentina Filimonova, relates her dismay at the vast array of tampon choices offered at her local supermarket.
- Act #1: Teen Wolf...Blitzer – Gideon Yago
- Haider Hamsa is a professional teenager for the Iraqi Ministry of Information. He met with foreign media and dignitaries to represent Iraq. Just prior to the American invasion of Iraq, Haider leaves Bagdad with his family to hide in a farmhouse. After the invasion, Haider returns to Bagdad against the advice of his father. Haider later continues to go against his father's advice and experiences the occupation as a translator.
- Music interlude: Ala Honak, Sajada Al Ubaid
- Act #2: A Sense of Place. – Tony HIll
- Tony Hill takes his friend, Sally Goode, to an unknown location. Sally, who was born blind, describes her observations of the location as she tries to figure out where she is.
- Music interlude: Your Littlest World, The Rogers Sisters
- Episode 336 – "Who Can You Save?"
- Show description: Stories of people trying to do the right thing, with various degrees of success.
- Prologue: Tim Jaccard relates experiences of his time as a police medic. He tells of many abandoned babies – those he could save and those he could not.
- Act #1: Kill One, Save Five – RadioLab
- Would you kill one man to save five by pulling a lever? Would you kill one man to save five by pushing the one off a bridge? The vast difference between these answers leads to an interesting discussion.
- Act #2: Rescue You, Rescue Me. – Ira Glass
- Randy Frescoln volunteers to go to Iraq for reconstruction after his previous experience in Afghanistan and related experience in infrastructure in the United States. In the Sunni Triangle he meets great resistance to his presence from the populus. Kiki Munshi discusses the difficulties working on a "provincial reconstruction team" (PRT) volunteer. Strephanie Miley, head of Randy's PRT, concludes the efforts are worthwhile.
- Music interlude: Skavavars, Benni Hemm Hemm
- Act #3: The Murderer. – Brady Udall
- Brady Udall tells the story of helping a stranger. In exchange for the help, the stranger promises a favor – any favor at any time. When Brady looks up the stranger years later, he finds him rather changed.
- Music interlude: You Can't Save Everybody, Fats Kapin, Kieran Kane, and Kevin Welch
- Episode 337 – "Man vs. History"
- Show description: Stories of people taking their lives into their own hands.
- Prologue: Dal LaManga, inventor of the Tweezerman tweezers, prepares to visit Iraq.
- Act #1: Man of LaMagna. – Sarah Koenig
- Dal LaManga visits Iraq and meets with Mohammed Al-Dynee. This meeting earns him respect that leads to further meetings with Iraqis. After limited success, he returns to the United States to run for president.
- Music interlude: Overture from 'The Man of La Mancha', Original Broadway Cast Recording
- Act #2: Wenceslas Square. – Arthur Phillips
- Arthur Phillips reads his story, Wenceslas Square.
- Music interlude: Be by My Side, Barbara Acklin
- Episode 338 – "The Spokesman"
- Show description: Stories of public spokespeople in their personal and professional lives.
- Prologue: David Iserson relates his days as a high school nerd changing high schools and aspiring to be an actor.
- Act #1: What Part of 'Bomb' Don't You Understand? – Jon Ronson
- Rachel North was on the London underground during the bombing. She survived and related her experience on a blog. She relates the unexpected backlash against her blog by conspiracy theorists.
- Music interlude: Tell It Like It Is, Dirty Dozen Brass Band
- Act #2: Mr. Successful. – Doug McGray
- Anthony Pico discusses his experiences in foster care. His gift for public speaking helps him escape an otherwise discouraging situation. Despite his advantages over many other foster children, he still struggles with school and has an uncertain future.
- Music interlude: Bad Mouth, Fugazi
- Act #3: Impeachment Day. – Ira Glass
- Joe Lockhart, press secretary for Bill Clinton, tells funny stories from his time in office.
- Music interlude: Summertime, George Gershwin, with Bill Clinton on Tenor Saxophone
- Episode 339 – "Break-Up"
- Episode 340 – "The Devil in Me"
- Show description: Stories of people trying to exorcise their inner demons.
- Prologue: Ira Glass talks about traits he is not proud of but cannot seem to change.
- Act #1: And So We Meet Again. – Lisa Pollak
- The story of Sam Slaven, an Iraq War veteran plagued with hatred for Muslims.
- Act #2: Vox Diaboli. – Nancy Updike
- The inner voice that tells us to do the wrong thing.
- Music interlude: Germs, Lexicon Devil
- Act #3: The Devil Wears Birkenstocks. – Dave Dickerson
- The story of when Dave Dickerson took on a demon in his college classroom.
- Music interlude: David Karsten Daniels, Jesus and the Devil
- Episode 341 – "How To Talk To Kids"
- Show description: Stories of adults taking very different approaches to communicating with children.
- Prologue: Ira Glass asks fifth graders to explain what adults do wrong when talking to children.
- Act #1: So, Kids: A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Hooker Walk into a Bar... – Jane Feltes
- Professional comedians Sean O'Connor and Nick Maritato are used to saying things that kids are not supposed to hear but get booked on a tour of kids' summer camps.
- Music interlude: The Replacements, Kids Don't Follow
- Act #2: Age of Consent. – Ira Glass, Julie Snyder
- The teen-aged editors of Sex, Etc., talk about the mistakes parents make when talking to their kids about sex. Then, the story of an anonymous mother who learned that her daughter was having sex.
- Music interlude: Patrizia & Jimmy, Trust Your Child
- Act #3: Use Your Words.
- Dan Savage, host of the podcast Savage Love, makes the case for yelling at children, and reflects on how his views on how to talk to kids have changed over the years.
- Episode 342 – "How to Rest in Peace"
- Show description: Stories about people trying to figure out how to live normally after the death of a loved one.
- Prologue: Rachel Howard talks about coming to peace with not knowing who killed her father.
- Act #1 Dry Eyes and Videotape – Jason Minter
- Jason makes a documentary revisiting every aspect of his mother's murder.
- Music interlude: It's All Right to Cry, Moufette
- Act #2 The Good Son
- A son helps his mother commit suicide.
- Music interlude: Before You Leave – Mary Gauthier
- Episode 343 – "Poultry Slam 07"
- Episode 344 – "The Competition"
- Episode 345 – "Ties That Bind"
- Episode 346 – "Home Alone"
- Show description: Stories about what happens when people are left home alone.
- Music interlude: Hope There's Someone – Antony and the Johnsons
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In 2008, there were 25 This American Life episodes.
Link and Title | Original Airing Date | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | Act 4 | Act 5 |
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Episode 347 – "Matchmakers" | 1/18/2008 | A Good Year For Grand Gestures | Part Of Me, Why Not Take Part Of Me | Babies Buying Babies | ||
Episode 348 – "Tough Room" | 2/8/2008 | Make 'Em Laff | Bar Car Prophesy | Mission: Impossible | Tough News Room | |
Episode 349 – "Valentine's Day 2008" | 2/15/2008 | Before And After | The Over-Protective Kind | Istanbul | ||
Episode 350 – "Human Resources" | 2/29/2008 | The Rubber Room | The Plan | Almost Human Resources | ||
Episode 351 – "Return to Childhood 2008" | 3/7/2008 | Ich Bin Ein Mophead | Punk In A Gray Flannel Suit | Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres, David Ben Gurion, and Me! | When We Were Angels | |
Episode 352 – "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar" | 3/14/2008 | Part One | Part Two | |||
Episode 353 – "The Audacity of Government" | 3/28/2008 | The Prez Vs. The Commish | This American Wife | 44 | ||
Episode 354 – "Mistakes Were Made" | 4/18/2008 | You're As Cold As Ice | You're Willing To Sacrifice Our Love | |||
Episode 355 – "The Giant Pool of Money" | 5/9/2008 | Part One | Part Two | |||
Episode 356 – "The Prosecutor" | 5/30/2008 | Conviction | Retaliation | |||
Episode 357 – "The Truth Will Out" | 6/13/2008 | Lieland | The Spy Who Bugged Me | Rosa In The Study With The Atm Card | ||
Episode 358 – "Social Engineering" | 6/27/2008 | Choosers, Not Beggars | Take My Bike...Please | Educated Guess | ||
Episode 359 – "Life After Death" | 7/18/2008 | Guity As Not Charged | Soldier Of Misfortune | |||
Episode 360 – "Switched at Birth" | 7/25/2008 | Part One | Part Two | |||
Episode 361 – "Fear of Sleep" | 8/8/2008 | Stranger In The Night | Sleep's Tiniest Enemies | The Bitter Fruits Of Wakefulness | Hollywood-induced Nightmare | A Small Taste Of The Big Sleep |
Episode 362 – "Got You Pegged" | 8/22/2008 | The Fat Blue Line | Stereotypes Uber Alles | Yes, No Or Baby | Paradise Lost | |
Episode 363 – "Enforcers" | 9/12/2008 | Hanging In Chad | Now You SEC Me, Now You Don't | |||
Episode 364 – "Going Big" | 9/26/2008 | Harlem Renaissance | Lonely Hearts Club Band...Of One | Prisoner Of The Heart | ||
Episode 365 – "Another Frightening Show About the Economy" | 10/3/2008 | The Day The Market Died | Out Of The Hedges And Into The Woods | Swap Cops | What's Next | |
Episode 366 – "A Better Mousetrap 2008" | 10/10/2008 | Mother Of Invention | Financial Mousetrap | Everything Must Go | The Not-for-profit Motive | |
Episode 367 – "Ground Game" | 10/24/2008 | Scranton | State College | Union Halls | State College, Part Two | Scranton, Part Two |
Episode 368 – "Who Do You Think You Are?" | 11/7/2008 | Hard Times | What A Difference An Election Day Makes | Putting The Cart Before The Porsche | ||
Episode 369 – "Poultry Slam 2008" | 11/28/2008 | You Gotta Ask Yourself One Question: Do You Feel Clucky? Well...do Ya, Punk? | Winged Migration | A Pastor And His Flock | Twistery Mystery | Chicken Coop For The Soul |
Episode 370 – "Ruining It for the Rest of Us" | 12/19/2008 | Shots In The Dark | Tragedy Minus Comedy Equals Time | Disturbing The Peace Train | ||
Episode 371 – "Scenes from a Mall" | 12/26/2008 | Love Line | Not Dead Yet | Santa Fight Club | Job: Security |
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In 2009, there were 25 This American Life episodes.
- Episode 372 – "The Inauguration Show"
- Episode 373 – "The New Boss"
- Episode 374 – "Somewhere Out There"
- Episode 375 – "Bad Bank"
- Episode 376 – "Wrong Side of History"
- Episode 377 – "Scenes From a Recession"
- Episode 378 – "This I Used to Believe"
- Episode 379 – "Return To The Scene Of The Crime"
- Episode 380 – "No Map"
- Episode 381 – "Turncoat"
- Show description: Stories of people betraying, or perceived as betraying, their own people.
- Act 1: Code Red – Ira Glass and My Thuan Tran (The Los Angeles Times reporter)
- How San Jose City Councilwoman Madison Nguyen was first celebrated, then red-baited and demonized by the Vietnamese-American community that elected her.
- Act 2 & 3: My Way or the FBI Way – Michael May (reporter)
- How Brandon Darby, a radical activist against the United States government, became an FBI informant against his former community.
- Music interlude: Jamo Thomas – "I Spy (For the FBI)"
- Act 4: If the Shoe Fits – Matt Malloy
- Reading of Etgar Keret's short story "Shoes," about a Jewish boy and his love for German-made Adidas shoes.
- Music interlude: Run DMC – "My Adidas"
- Act 1: Code Red – Ira Glass and My Thuan Tran (The Los Angeles Times reporter)
- Episode 382 – "The Watchmen"
- Show description: Stories produced by the Planet Money team, about how the financial regulation and rating agencies, intended to prevent financial disaster, oversaw and permitted the risky activities that created the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
- Prologue: Ira Glass and Michael Perrino, law professor at St. John's University School of Law, discuss Ferdinand Pecora, lead attorney in the 1930s Senate Banking Committee hearings, who captured public and congressional attention regarding the causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
- Act 1: Investigation Report #1 – Chana Joffe-Walt (Planet Money reporter)
- While various regulatory agencies were responsible for overseeing components of AIG, there was no agency in charge of their most risky activities—or so it was said by some—despite primary Office of Thrift Supervision oversight, which was hampered by other issues.
- Act 2: Investigation Report #2 – Alex Blumberg (NPR correspondent, Planet Money reporter, TAL producer) and David Kestenbaum (Planet Money reporter)
- The story of how credit rating agencies, Standard and Poors, Moody's and Fitch, gave AAA ratings to the risky financial instruments that facilitated the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
- Episode 383 – "Origin Story"
- Show description: Stories that explain or dispute the origins of institutions, creative work, the law, and people.
- Prologue: Ira Glass, business professor Pino Audia, and Fast Company columnist Dan Heath discuss why so many corporate creation myths involve garages.
- Act 1: Mad Man – Sarah Koenig (TAL producer)
- The story of the conflict over credit between two advertising legends, Julian Koenig and his former advertising partner George Lois.
- Act 2: The Secret Life of Secrets – Ira Glass (TAL host)
- How the 1953 U.S. Supreme Court case established the controversial State Secrets Privilege by accepting dubious government claims.
- Music interlude: Nedelle – "Friends and Ancestors"
- Act 3: Wait Wait... Don't Film Me – Ira Glass (TAL host) and Peter Sagal (host of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!)
- How Sagal's original screenplay became a contrived movie sequel.
- Act 4: Bill Clinton’s 7-Year-Old Brother – Mary Wiltenburg (reporter)
- A Tanzanian boy in America struggles to decide his identity.
- Music interlude: John Lennon – "Dear John"
- Episode 384 – "Fall Guy"
- Episode 385 – "Pro Se"
- Episode 386 – "Fine Print"
- Episode 387 – "Arms Trader 2009"
- Episode 388 – "Rest Stop"
- Episode 389 – "Frenemies"
- Episode 390 – "Return To The Giant Pool of Money"
- Episode 391 – "More Is Less"
- Episode 392 – "Someone Else's Money"
- Episode 393 – "Infidelity"
- Episode 394 – "Bait and Switch"
- Episode 395 – "Middle of the Night"
- Episode 396 – "#1 Party School"
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In 2010, there were 26 new This American Life episodes.
- Episode 397 – "2010"
- Episode 398 – "Long Shot"
- Episode 399 – "Contents Unknown"
- Episode 400 – "Stories Pitched by Our Parents"
- Episode 401 – "Parent Trap"
- Episode 402 – "Save The Day"
- Episode 403 – "NUMMI"
- Episode 404 – "Enemy Camp 2010"
- Episode 405 – "Inside Job"
- Episode 406 – "True Urban Legends"
- Episode 407 – "The Bridge"
- Episode 408 – "Island Time"
- Episode 409 – "Held Hostage"
- Episode 410 – "Social Contract"
- Episode 411 – "First Contact"
- Episode 412 – "Million Dollar Idea"
- Episode 413 – "Georgia Rambler"
- Episode 414 – "Right to Remain Silent"
- Episode 415 – "Crybabies"
- Episode 416 – "Iraq After Us"
- Episode 417 – "This Party Sucks"
- Episode 418 – "Toxie"
- Episode 419 – "Petty Tyrant"
- Episode 420 – "Neighborhood Watch"
- Episode 421 – "Last Man Standing"
- Episode 422 – "Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special"
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In 2011, there were 31 new This American Life episodes.
- Episode 423 – "The Invention of Money"
- Act 1: The Lie That Saved Brazil – Chana Joffe-Walt
- Act 2: Weekend at Bernanke's – Alex Blumberg and David Kestenbaum
- Episode 424 – "Kid Politics"
- Act 1: Trickle Down History – Starlee Kine
- Act 2: Climate Changes. People Don't – Ira Glass
- Act 3: Minor Authorities – Jyllian Gunther
- Episode 425 – "Slow to React"
- Act 1: When I Grow Up – David Holthouse
- Act 2: Isn't It Slow-Mantic – Sean Lewis
- Act 3: I'm Still Here – Jonathan Menjivar
- Episode 426 – "Tough Room 2011"
- Act 1: Make 'Em Laff – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Bar Car Prophesy – Rosie Schaap
- Act 3: Mission: Impossible – Jane Feltes
- Act 4: Contrails of My Ears – Brett Martin
- Episode 427 – "Original Recipe"
- Act 1: Message in a Bottle – Ira Glass
- Act 2: Ask Not What Your Handwriting Authenticator Can Do For You; Ask What You Can Do For Your Handwriting Authenticator – Jake Halpern
- Episode 428 – "Oh You Shouldn't Have"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Act 3: Act Three
- Act 4: Act Four
- Episode 429 – "Will They Know Me Back Home?"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 430 – "Very Tough Love"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 431 – "See No Evil"
- Act 1: Blood Brothers
- Act 2: Denying the Invisible
- Act 3: I Worked at The Kennedy Center and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
- Episode 432 – "Know When to Fold 'Em"
- Act 1: Is This War or Is This Hearts?
- Act 2: Kings Do Not Fold.
- Act 3: Gin Rummy.
- Act 4: Solitaire and Everything's Wild
- Episode 433 – "Fine Print 2011"
- Act 1: One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill
- Act 2: Occupancy May Be Revoked Without Notice – David Rakoff
- Act 3: Side Effects May Include... – Nancy Updike
- Act 4: May Be Hazardous to Children
- Episode 434 – "This Week"
- Act 1: Sunday Night, State College PA
- Act 2: Monday, Cairo, Egypt
- Act 3: Monday, Tucson, AZ
- Act 4: Saturday to Wednesday: CA, NY, WI, ME
- Act 5: Wednesday, Tuscaloosa, AL
- Act 6: Thursday, Greensvile, SC
- Act 7: Saturday and Sunday, Gainesville and Coral Springs, FL
- Episode 435 – "How To Create a Job"
- Act 1: Can the Government Move My Cheese?
- Act 2: This Story May Be Recorded For Training and Quality Assurance
- Act 3: Job Fairies
- Act 4: Be Cool, Stay in School
- Episode 436 – "The Psychopath Test"
- Act 1: Underachievement Test
- Act 2: King of the Forest – Jon Ronson
- Act 3: The Results Are In
- Episode 437 – "Old Boys Network"
- Act 1: Messing With the Bull
- Act 2: Donkey See, Donkey Do
- Episode 438 – "Father's Day 2011"
- Act 1: Astro Boy Meet Robot Dad
- Act 2: I Just Called to Say Something That's Hard to Say, That I Should Really Say More Often...
- Act 3: Mister Baby Monitor
- Act 4: Bring Your Child To Work Detail
- Episode 439 – "A House Divided"
- Act 1: War of Northern Aggression
- Act 2: Split a Gut
- Act 3: Don't Make Me Separate You
- Episode 440 – "Game Changer"
- Act 1: You've Got Shale
- Act 2: Ground War
- Episode 441 – "When Patents Attack!"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 442 – "Thugs"
- Act 1: Thug Me? No, Thug You
- Act 2: Lifers
- Episode 443 – "Amusement Park"
- Act 1: Gameboy Grows Up
- Act 2: Great Adventures
- Act 3: What I Didn't Do On My Summer Vacation—with Jonathan Goldstein
- Episode 444 – "Gossip"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 445 – "Ten Years In"
- Act 1: Kabul Kabul Kabul Kabul Chameleon
- Act 2: In the Garden of the Unknown Unknowns
- Act 3: Put on a Happy Face
- Act 4: What's Arabic for Fjord?
- Act 5: Bad Teacher
- Act 6: Clutter
- Episode 446 – "Living Without (2011)"
- Act 1: Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Act 2: Yerrrrr Out!
- Act 3: The Call of the Great Indoors
- Act 4: Tin Man
- Episode 447 – "The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms"
- Act 1: A Pretty Dame Walks In
- Act 2: His Partner Drops a Dime
- Episode 448 – "Adventure!"
- Act 1: Chinese Checkmate
- Act 2: Oh, the Places We'll Go
- Episode 449 – "Middle School"
- Act 1: Life in the Hormonal Lane
- Act 2: Stutter Step
- Act 3: Mimis in the Middle
- Act 4: Anchor Babies
- Act 5: Blue Kid on the Block
- Act 6: Grande with Sugar
- Episode 450 – "So Crazy It Just Might Work"
- Act 1: Mr. Holland's Opus
- Act 2: Benny Takes A Jet
- Episode 451 – "Back to Penn State"
- Act 1: Say It Ain't So, Joe
- Act 2: Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's 2009
- Episode 452 – "Poultry Slam 2011"
- Act 1: Witness for the Barbecue-tion
- Act 2: Murder Most Fowl
- Act 3: Latin Liver
- Episode 453 – "Nemeses"
- Act 1: Solidarity for Never
- Act 2: A Tale of Two Jerseys
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In 2012, there were 29 new This American Life episodes.
- Episode 454 – "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory"
- This American Life retracted this episode two months after it was originally broadcast, after learning that Mike Daisey exaggerated or fabricated various claims about his experiences in China. The investigation behind the retraction is the subject of episode 460, "Retraction."
- Act 1: Mr. Daisey Goes to China – Mike Daisey
- Act 2: Act One – Ira Glass
- Episode 455 – "Continental Breakup"
- Act 1: Currency of Dreams
- Act 2: Eurotopia
- Act 3: Ooh, I Shouldn't Have Done That!
- Act 4: Do-Over
- Act 5: What's a Greek Accountant Got to Do with Me?
- Episode 456 – "Reap What You Sow"
- Act 1: Alien Experiment
- Act 2: Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens – Danny Lobell
- Episode 457 – "What I Did for Love"
- Act 1: Best Laid Plans
- Act 2: 21 Chump Street
- Act 3: Cold Stone Dreamery – Ben Loory
- Act 4: Fantastic Mr. Fox – Jeanne Darst
- Episode 458 – "Play the Part"
- Act 1: The Audacity of Louis Ortiz – Ryan Murdock
- Act 2: Wife Lessons
- Episode 459 – "What Kind of Country"
- Act 1: The Sound of Sirens
- Act 2: Dream Come True
- Act 3: Do You Want a Wake Up Call?
- Episode 460 – "Retraction"
- The entire episode is spent retracting and examining Episode 454, including further investigation of claims made by Daisey by Glass, Rob Schmitz, the Shanghai correspondent for Marketplace, and New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg.
- Act 1: Cathy's Account
- Act 2: Mike's Account
- Act 3: News That's Fit to Print
- Episode 461 – "Take the Money and Run for Office"
- Act 1: The Hamster Wheel
- Act 2: Pac Men
- Act 3: The O.G.S.
- Episode 462 – "Own Worst Enemy"
- Act 1: Aces Are Wild
- Act 2: The Conversation
- Act 3: Just as I Am
- Episode 463 – "Mortal Vs. Venial"
- Act 1: The Postcard Always Rings Twice
- Act 2: The Disenchanted Forest – Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 3: The Geeks Come Out at Night
- Episode 464 – "Invisible Made Visible"
- A rebroadcast of portions of the live show broadcast into movie theaters on May 3, 2012.
- Act 1: Does a Bear Hit in the Woods?
- Act 2: Groundhog Dayne – With Special Guest Taylor Dayne
- Act 3: Stiff as a Board, Light as a Feather – David Rakoff
- Act 4: Turn Around Bright Eyes – David Sedaris
- Episode 465 – "What Happened At Dos Erres"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 466 – "Blackjack"
- Act 1: Render Unto Caesar's Palace What Is Due to Caesar's Palace
- Act 2: Harrah's Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Episode 467 – "Americans in China"
- Act 1: Why Do You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated?
- Act 2: Beautiful Downtown Wasteland
- Episode 468 – "Switcheroo"
- Act 1: Healthy Start
- Act 2: Forgive Us Our Press Passes
- Act 3: Runaway Groom
- Episode 469 – "Hiding in Plain Sight"
- Act 1: There's Something About Mary
- Act 2: Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear
- Act 3: Seven Year Snitch
- Episode 470 – "Show Me The Way"
- Act 1: Just South of the Unicorns
- Act 2: Oh the Places You Will Not Go!
- Episode 471 – "The Convert"
- Act 1: Gym Rat
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 472 – "Our Friend David"
- A special episode devoted to the late David Rakoff. The episode consists of stories and interviews over the course of years with the radio show.
- 65. Who's Canadian?
- 116. Poultry Slam 1998
- 241. 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
- 156. What Remains
- 208. Office Politics
- Interview with Terry Gross
- "Rent" Monologue
- 12. Animals
- 470. Show Me the Way – with Jonathan Goldstein
- 389. Frenemies
- Excerpts from "Love Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish...A Novel by David Rakoff"
- A special episode devoted to the late David Rakoff. The episode consists of stories and interviews over the course of years with the radio show.
- Episode 473 – "Loopholes"
- Act 1: Death Takes a Policy
- Episode 474 – "Back to School"
- Act 1: No, These Things Will Not Be on the Final Exam
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 475 – "Send a Message"
- Act 1: The Motherhood of the Traveling Pants
- Act 2: Message in a Bottle
- Act 3: Soul Sister
- Act 4: Worst Mixtape Ever
- Episode 476 – "What Doesn't Kill You"
- Act 1: Too Soon?
- Act 2: Just Keep Breathing
- Act 3: A Real Nail Biter
- Act 4: The Year After
- Episode 477 – "Getting Away With It"
- Act 1: Take Your Kid to Work Day
- Act 2: Get Away with It After the Beep
- Act 3: Crime and Tutus
- Act 4: Pre K-O
- Episode 478 – "Red State Blue State"
- Act 1: I Know You Are, but What Am I?
- Act 2: Nothing in Moderation
- Episode 479 – "Little War on the Prairie"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 480 – "Animal Sacrifice"
- Act 1: Semper Fido
- Act 2: Run Rabbit. No, Really, Run!
- Act 3: Human Sacrifice
- Episode 481 – "This Week"
- Act 1: Kabul, Afghanistan
- Act 2: Tucson, Arizona
- Act 3: Washington, D.C.
- Act 4: New Orleans, LA
- Act 5: Cairo, Egypt
- Act 6: Boston, Logan Airport; Chicago, IL; Springfield, OR
- Episode 482 – "Lights, Camera, Christmas!"
- Act 1: Christmas in 3-D
- Act 2: Deer in the Footlights
- Act 3: Piddler on the Roof
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In 2013, there were 32 new This American Life episodes.
- Episode 483 – "Self-Improvement Kick"
- Act 1: Is That a Compass, a Map, a Toothbrush, and a Bottle of Purell in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
- Act 2: Some Like It Dot
- Episode 484 – " Doppelgangers"
- Act 1: Dead Ringer
- Act 2: In Country, in City
- Episode 485 – "Surrogates"
- Act 1: Petticoats in a Twist
- Act 2: Maul in the Family
- Episode 486 – "Valentine's Day"
- Act 1: Best Laid Plans
- Act 2: 21 Chump Street
- Act 3: Cold Stone Dreamery
- Act 4: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
- Episode 487 – "Harper High School, Part One"
- Act 1: Rules to Live By
- Act 2: A Tiny Office on the Second Floor
- Act 3: Game Day
- Episode 488 – "Harper High School, Part Two"
- Act 1: The Eyewitness
- Act 2: Your Name Written on Me
- Act 3: Get Your Own Gun
- Act 4: Devonte, Part Two
- Act 5: Reverse Turnaround Backflip
- Episode 489 – "No Coincidence, No Story!"
- Act 1: Grandmas
- Act 2: In God We Trust
- Act 3: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- Act 4: Act Four
- Act 5: What Are the Chances?
- Episode 490 – "Trends with Benefits"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 491 – "Tribes"
- Act 1: I Know I Am But What Are You?
- Act 2: A Tribe Called Rest
- Act 3: I Am Curious Yellow
- Episode 492 – "Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 493 – "Picture Show"
- Act 1: Photo Op
- Act 2: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand... Dollars
- Episode 494 – "Hit the Road"
- Act 1: The Slowest Distance Between Two Points
- Act 2: Car Pool
- Act 3: Let's See How Fast This Baby Will Go
- Episode 495 – "Hot in My Backyard"
- Act 1: The CO2 in CO
- Act 2: The Right Man for the Job
- Act 3: Find an Enemy
- Episode 496 – "When Patents Attack... Part Two!"
- Act 1: 2011
- Act 2: 2013
- Episode 497 – "This Week"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Act 3: Act Three
- Act 4: Act Four
- Act 5: Act Five
- Act 6: Act Six
- Act 7: Act Seven
- Episode 498 – "The One Thing You're Not Supposed To Do"
- Act 1: Breaking the Ice
- Act 2: The Gun Thing You're Not Supposed to Do
- Act 3: Out of the Woods
- Episode 499 – "Taking Names"
- Act 1: Reluctant Sailor
- Act 2: Emails from a Dead Man
- Episode 500 – "500!"
- A special retrospective episode featuring the producers' favorite segments from the previous 499 episodes.
- Act 1:
- #107, "Trail of Tears"
- #220, "Testosterone"
- #296, "After the Flood"
- #232, "The Real Story"
- #266, "I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help"
- #334, "Duty Calls"
- #314, "It's Never Over"
- Act 2:
- #27, "The Cruelty of Children"
- #188, "Kid Logic"
- #94, "How To"
- #241, "20 Acts in 60 Minutes"
- Episode 501 – "The View From In Here"
- Act 1: Weeds of Discontent
- Act 2: The Real Housewife of Ciudad Juarez
- Act 3: Movin On Up
- Episode 502 – "This Call May Be Recorded... To Save Your Life"
- Act 1: Act One
- Act 2: Act Two
- Episode 503 – "I Was Just Trying To Help"
- Act 1: Money for Nothing and Your Cows for Free
- Act 2: Nipped in the Bud
- Episode 504 – "How I Got Into College"
- Act 1: The Old College Try
- Act 2: My Ames Is True
- Episode 505 – "Use Only As Directed"
- Act 1: Act 1
- Act 2: Act 2
- Episode 506 – "Secret Identity"
- Act 1: You Can't Handle The Truth
- Act 2: Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright
- Act 3: The Blonde Avenger
- Episode 507 – "Confessions"
- Act 1: Kim Possible
- Act 2: You Don't Say
- Episode 508 – "Superpowers 2013"
- Act 1: Invisible Man Vs. Hawkman
- Act 2: Wonder Woman
- Act 3: The Green Team Of Boy Millionaires, Beppo The Amazing Supermonkey From Planet Krypton, And The Man From Sram
- Act 4: Villain And Able
- Episode 509 – "It Says So Right Here"
- Act 1: Doe-ppelgangers
- Act 2: What Are You Doing For The Test Of Your Life?
- Act 3: There's A Signed Line Between Love And Hate
- Episode 510 – "Fiasco! 2013"
- Act 1: Opening Night
- Act 2: What We Wanted To Do
- Act 3: Squirrel Cop
- Act 4: Fiascos As A Force For Good In The World
- Episode 511 – "The Seven Things You're Not Supposed To Talk About"
- Act 1: Period
- Act 2: Diet
- Act 3: Health
- Act 4: Sleep
- Act 5: Dream
- Act 6: Route Talk
- Episode 512 – "House Rules"
- Act 1: Rental Gymnastics
- Act 2: The Missionary
- Episode 513 – "129 Cars"
- Act 1: Act 1
- Act 2: Act 2
- Act 3: Act 3
- Act 4: Act 4
- Act 5: Act 5
- Act 6: Act 6
- Act 7: Act 7
- Act 8: Act 8
- Act 9: Act 9
- Act 10: Act 10
- Episode 514 – "Thought That Counts"
- Act 1: Replacement Claus
- Act 2: It's Your Junk In A Box
- Act 3: Christmas Or Bust
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In 2014, there were 29 new This American Life episodes.
- Episode 515 – "Good Guys"
- Act 1: Takes One to Know One
- Act 2: Heels on the Bus
- Act 3: No Man Left Behind
- Act 4: Deep Dark Open Secret
- Episode 516 – "Stuck in the Middle"
- Act 1: Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Act 2: Sunrise, Sun-Get
- Act 3: They Love a Man in a Uniform
- Episode 517 – "Day at the Beach"
- Act 1: Mexican Beach Doctor
- Act 2: Long Talk on a Short Pier
- Act 3: The Beachcomber
- Act 4: Now We Are Five
- Episode 518 – "Except for That One Thing"
- Act 1: Not Okay Cupid
- Act 2: Hungry Hungry People
- Act 3: Start Me Up
- Act 4: Run on Sentence
- Act 5: Happy Accident
- Episode 519 – "Dead Men Tell No Tales"
- Act 1: Act 1
- Act 2: Act 2
- Act 3: Act 3
- Episode 520 – "No Place Like Home"
- Act 1: Flight Simulation
- Act 2: Phone Home
- Act 3: The Hostess With the Toastess
- Episode 521 – "Bad Baby"
- Act 1: The Road To Badness
- Act 2: The Devil Went Down To Jersey
- Act 3: This is Gonna Hurt Me a Lot More than It's Gonna Hurt You
- Act 4: We Are Fine Parents
- Episode 522 – "Tarred and Feathered"
- Act 1: The Hounds Of Blairsville
- Act 2: Help Wanted
- Episode 523 – "Death and Taxes"
- Act 1: Death
- Act 2: Taxes
- Episode 524 – "I Was So High"
- Act 1: High On The Corporate Ladder
- Act 2: You Were So High
- Act 3: Bottom Of The Eighth
- Act 4: Straight Man
- Act 5: DEA Agent Takes A Hit
- Episode 525 – "Call For Help"
- Act 1: When May Day Falls In April
- Act 2: Government Assistance
- Act 3: Horse Of A Different Color
- Episode 526 – "Is That What I Look Like?"
- Act 1: Blunt Force
- Act 2: One Life To Live
- Act 3: The Blunder Years
- Episode 527 – "180 Degrees"
- Act 1: Seeing The Forrest Through The Little Trees
- Act 2: Unsafety Exit
- Act 3: I'm The One Who Knocks
- Episode 528 – "The Radio Drama Episode"
- Act 1: 21 Chump Street: The Musical
- Act 2: Of Mice And Men
- Act 3: How Do You Slow This Thing Down (Podcast Only)
- Act 4: Bus! Stop!
- Episode 529 – "Human Spectacle"
- Act 1: I Am The Eggplant
- Act 2: I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me
- Act 3: I Am Iraq, I Am An Island
- Episode 530 – "Mind Your Own Business"
- Act 1: Jill House Rules
- Act 2: Cop Versus Cop
- Episode 531 – "Got Your Back"
- Act 1: Absolutely Stabulous
- Act 2: By the Waters of Haggle-On
- Act 3: One Woman Show
- Episode 532 – "Magic Words"
- Act 1: I Believe I Can Fly
- Act 2: Rainy Days and Mondys
- Act 3: Pescatarian
- Episode 533 – "It's Not the Product, It's the Person"
- Act 1: I Got 99 Problems and a Pitch Is One
- Act 2: The Business of Show
- Act 3: The Other Real World
- Episode 534 – "A Not-So-Simple Majority"
- Act 1: A Not So Simple Majority, Part 1
- Act 2: A Not So Simple Majority, Part 2
- Episode 535 – "Origin Story 2014"
- Act 1: Mad Man
- Act 2: Silent Partner
- Act 3: Wait Wait... Don't Film Me
- Act 4: Bill Clinton's 7-Year-Old Brother
- Episode 536 – "The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra"
- Act 1: Act 1
- Act 2: Act 2
- Episode 537 – "The Alibi"
- Act 1: Presents Series 1, Episode 1 of the spin-off podcast Serial, also titled The Alibi.
- Episode 538 – "Is This Working?"
- Act 1: Time Out
- Act 2: The Guinea Pig Becomes the Scientist
- Act 3: The Talking Cure
- Episode 539 – "The Leap"
- Episode 540 – "A Front"
- Episode 541 – "Regrets, I've Had a Few"
- Episode 542 – "Wait, Do You Have the Map?"
- Episode 543 – "Wake Up Now"
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In 2015, there were 33 new This American Life episodes.
- Episode 544 – "Batman"
- air date: 2015-01-09
- Act 1: Batman Begins.
- Act 2: The Dark Knight Rises.
- Episode 545 – "If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS"
- air date: 2015-01-23
- Act 1: Ask Not for Whom The Bell Trolls; It Trolls for Thee.
- Act 2: Freedom Fries.
- Act 3: Words of Prey.
- Act 4: Mailer Demon.
- Episode 546 – "Burroughs 101"
- air date: 2015-01-30
- Act 1: Burroughs, Part One.
- Act 2: Burroughs, Part Two.
- Episode 547 – "Cops See It Differently, Part One"
- air date: 2015-02-06
- Act 1:
- Act 2:
- Episode 548 – "Cops See It Differently, Part Two"
- air date: 2015-02-13
- Act 1: Inconvenience Store.
- Act 2: Comey Don't Play That.
- Episode 549 – "Amateur Hour"
- air date: 2015-02-27
- Act 1: Theater of War.
- Act 2: And Baby Makes 0011.
- Act 3: Commander In Brief.
- Episode 550 – "Three Miles"
- air date: 2015-03-13
- Act 1:
- Act 2:
- Episode 551 – "Good Guys 2015"
- air date: 2015-03-20
- Act 1: Takes One To Know One.
- Act 2: Heels On The Bus.
- Act 3: No Man Left Behind.
- Act 4: The Test.
- Episode 552 – "Need To Know Basis"
- air date: 2015-03-27
- Act 1: Full Disclosure.
- Act 2: Total Eclipse of the Son.
- Act 3: The Favorite.
- Episode 553 – "Stuck In The Middle (2015)"
- air date: 2015-04-03
- Act 1: Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Act 2: Sunrise, Sun-Get.
- Act 3: Contrails of My Tears.
- Episode 554 – "Not It!"
- air date: 2015-04-10
- Act 1: Como Se Dice "Not It"?
- Act 2: Last But Not Least.
- Act 3: The Big Crapple.
- Episode 555 – "The Incredible Rarity of Changing Your Mind"
- air date: 2015-04-24
- Act 1: Do Ask, Do Tell.
- Act 2: Crime Pays.
- Act 3: Glacial Change
- Episode 556 – "Same Bed, Different Dreams"
- air date: 2015-05-01
- Act 1: Dream Weevil.
- Act 2: Smell You Later.
- Act 3: The Haunter Becomes the Haunted.
- Act 4: Overnight Flight.
- Updated as Episode 718 – "Same Bed, Different Dreams".
- Episode 557 – "Birds & Bees"
- air date: 2015-05-15
- Act 1: Some Like it Not (On the Neck).
- Act 2: If You See Racism Say Racism.
- Act 3: About that Farm Upstate.
- Episode 558 – "Game Face"
- air date: 2015-05-29
- Act 1: 200 Dog Night, featuring Blair Braverman.[1][2]
- Act 2: Funny Face.
- Act 3: Who Put the Face in Game Face?
- Act 4: Frankly Miss Scarlet.
- Episode 559 – "Captain's Log"
- air date: 2015-06-26
- Act 1: Cookies and Monsters.
- Act 2: Romancing the Phone.
- Act 3: A Quiet Street in Richmond.
- Act 4: A Brief History of Us.
- Episode 560 – "Abdi And The Golden Ticket"
- air date: 2015-07-03
- Act 1:
- Act 2:
- Episode 561 – "NUMMI 2015"
- air date: 2015-07-17
- Act 1:
- Act 2:
- Episode 562 – "The Problem We All Live With"
- air date: 2015-07-31
- Act 1: The Problem We All Live With PART ONE.
- Act 2: The Problem We All Live With PART TWO.
- Episode 563 – "The Problem We All Live With - Part Two"
- air date: 2015-08-07
- Act 1: My Secret Public Plan.
- Act 2: What’s It All About, Arne?
- Episode 564 – "Too Soon?"
- air date: 2015-08-14
- Act 1: But Wait, There's More!
- Act 2: Pink Slip.
- Episode 565 – "Lower 9 + 10"
- air date: 2015-08-28
- Act 1: First Stop.
- Act 2: Second Stop.
- Act 3: Third Stop.
- Act 4: Fourth Stop.
- Act 5: Fifth Stop.
- Act 6: Sixth Stop.
- Episode 566 – "The Land of Make Believe"
- air date: 2015-09-11
- Act 1: Overboard.
- Act 2: The Lyin' Kings.
- Episode 567 – "What's Going On In There?"
- air date: 2015-09-18
- Act 1: I Can Explain.
- Act 2: RSV-Pa.
- Episode 568 – "Human Spectacle 2015"
- air date: 2015-10-02
- Act 1: I Am The Eggplant.
- Act 2: I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me.
- Act 3: The Big Break.
- Episode 569 – "Put A Bow On It"
- air date: 2015-10-09
- Act 1: The Room Where It Happens.
- Act 2: The Wedding Crasher.
- Act 3: Drivers Wanted. Really Really Wanted.
- Episode 570 – "The Night In Question"
- air date: 2015-10-16
- Act 1: The Night.
- Act 2: The Morning.
- Episode 571 – "The Heart Wants What It Wants"
- air date: 2015-10-30
- Act 1: Jesse’s Girl.
- Act 2: My Love Is Blue.
- Act 3: Unbreak My Heart.
- Episode 572 – "Transformers"
- air date: 2015-11-06
- Act 1: Optimus, Way Past Her Prime.
- Act 2: Streetwise.
- Act 3: Richard Pierce.
- Act 4: Trailbreaker.
- Episode 573 – "Status Update"
- air date: 2015-11-29
- Act 1: Finding the Self in Selfie.
- Act 2: Mon Ami Ta-Nehisi.
- Act 3: There Owes the Neighborhood.
- Act 4: 76-Year-Old Quarterback Throws Hail Mary Pass.
- Episode 574 – "Sinatra's 100th Birthday"
- air date: 2015-12-11
- Act 1: Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.
- Act 2: One Sinatra Fan ... Versus All Of Network TV.
- Act 3: History Lesson.
- Act 4: The Death of Frank Sinatra.
- Act 5: Chairman of the Block.
- Episode 575 – "Poetry of Propaganda"
- air date: 2015-12-18
- Act 1: Guerrilla Marketing
- Act 2: Not Our Town
- Act 3: The Spy Who Didn't Know She Was A Spy.
- Act 4: Party On!
- Episode 576 – "Say Yes To Christmas"
- air date: 2015-12-25
- Act 1: Christmas On A High Wire.
- Act 2: Oily Potter and The Gobble of Fire.
- Act 3: The First Noel.
References
[edit]- ^ Berry, Erica (July 18, 2016). "The Rumpus Interview with Blair Braverman". The Rumpus. Archived from the original on 19 July 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ Driver, Alice (6 July 2016). "Mush, mush, mush! How husky racing saved an author and inspired a memoir". The Guardian. London, England. Archived from the original on 10 July 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
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In 2016, there were 30 new This American Life episodes.[1]
- Episode 577 – "Something Only I Can See"
- air date: 2016-01-15
- Episode 578 – "I Thought I Knew You"
- air date: 2016-01-29
- Episode 579 – "My Damn Mind"
- air date: 2016-02-12
- Episode 580 – "That's One Way to Do It"
- air date: 2016-02-19
- Episode 581 – "Anatomy of Doubt"
- air date: 2016-02-26
- Episode 582 – "When the Beasts Come Marching In"
- air date: 2016-03-11
- Episode 583 – "It'll Make Sense When You're Older"
- air date: 2016-03-25
- Episode 584 – "For Your Reconsideration"
- air date: 2016-04-08
- Episode 585 – "In Defense of Ignorance"
- air date: 2016-04-22
- Episode 586 – "Who Do We Think We Are?"
- air date: 2016-05-06
- Episode 587 – "The Perils of Intimacy"
- air date: 2016-05-27
- Episode 588 – "Mind Games 2016"
- air date: 2016-06-03
- Episode 589 – "Tell Me I'm Fat"
- air date: 2016-06-17
- Episode 590 – "Choosing Wrong"
- air date: 2016-06-24
- Episode 591 – "Get Your Money's Worth"
- air date: 2016-07-15
- Episode 592 – "Are We There Yet?"
- air date: 2016-07-29
- Episode 593 – "Don't Have to Live Like a Refugee"
- air date: 2016-08-05
- Episode 594 – "My Summer Self"
- air date: 2016-08-12
- Episode 595 – "Deep End of the Pool"
- air date: 2016-08-26
- Episode 596 – "Becoming a Badger"
- air date: 2016-09-09
- Episode 597 – "One Last Thing Before I Go"
- air date: 2016-09-23
- Episode 598 – "My Undesirable Talent"
- air date: 2016-10-07
- Episode 599 – "Seriously?"
- air date: 2016-10-21
- Episode 600 – "Will I Know Anyone at This Party?"
- air date: 2016-10-28
- Episode 601 – "Master of Her Domain... Name"
- air date: 2016-11-04
- Episode 602 – "The Sun Comes Up"
- air date: 2016-11-11
- Episode 603 – "Once More, With Feeling"
- air date: 2016-12-02
- Episode 604 – "20 Years Later"
- air date: 2016-12-09
- Episode 605 – "Kid Logic 2016"
- air date: 2016-12-16
- Episode 606 – "Just What I Wanted"
- air date: 2016-12-23
References
[edit]- ^ "Radio Archive by Date | This American Life". www.thisamericanlife.org. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
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In 2017, there were 28 new This American Life episodes.[1]
- Episode 607 – "Didn’t We Solve This One?"
- air date: 2017-01-06
- Episode 608 – "The Revolution Starts At Noon"
- air date: 2017-01-20
- Episode 609 – "It’s Working Out Very Nicely"
- air date: 2017-02-03
- Episode 610 – "Grand Gesture"
- air date: 2017-02-17
- Episode 611 – "Vague and Confused"
- air date: 2017-03-03
- Episode 612 – "Ask a Grown-Up"
- air date: 2017-03-17
- Episode 613 – "OK, I’ll Do It"
- air date: 2017-03-31
- Episode 614 – "The Other Mr. President"
- air date: 2017-04-14
- Episode 615 – "The Beginning of Now"
- air date: 2017-04-28
- Episode 616 – "I Am Not A Pirate"
- air date: 2017-05-05
- Episode 617 – "Fermi’s Paradox"
- air date: 2017-05-19
- Episode 618 – "Mr. Lie Detector"
- air date: 2017-06-09
- Episode 619 – "The Magic Show"
- air date: 2017-06-30
- Episode 620 – "To Be Real"
- air date: 2017-07-14
- Episode 621 – "Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville"
- air date: 2017-07-21
- Episode 622 – "Who You Gonna Call?"
- air date: 2017-08-04
- Episode 623 – "We Are in the Future"
- air date: 2017-08-18
- Episode 624 – "Private Geography"
- air date: 2017-09-01
- Episode 625 – "Essay B"
- air date: 2017-09-08
- Episode 626 – "White Haze"
- air date: 2017-09-22
- Episode 627 – "Suitable for Children"
- air date: 2017-10.06
- Episode 628 – "In the Shadow of the City 2017"
- air date: 2017-10-13
- Episode 629 – "Expect Delays"
- air date: 2017-10-20
- Episode 630 – "Things I Mean to Know"
- air date: 2017-10-27
- Episode 631 – "So a Monkey and a Horse Walk Into a Bar"
- air date: 2017-11-10
- Episode 632 – "Our Town"
- air date: 2017-12-08
- Episode 633 – "Our Town - Part Two"
- air date: 2017-12-15
- Episode 634 – "Human Error in Volatile Situations"
- air date: 2017–12-22
References
[edit]- ^ "Radio Archive by Date | This American Life". www.thisamericanlife.org. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
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In 2018, there were 30 new This American Life episodes.[1]
- Episode 635 – "Chip in My Brain"
- Air Date: 2018-01-12
- Episode 636 – "I Thought It Would Be Easier"
- Air Date: 2018-01-19
- Episode 637 – "Words You Can't Say"
- Air Date: 2018-02-02
- Episode 638 – "Rom-Com"
- Air Date: 2018-02-09
- Episode 639 – "In Dog We Trust"
- Air Date: 2018-02-23
- Episode 640 – "Five Women"
- Air Date: 2018-03-02
- Episode 641 – "The Walls"
- Air Date: 2018-03-02
- Episode 642 – "The Impossible Dream"
- Air Date: 2018-04-06
- Episode 643 – "Damned If You Do..."
- Air Date: 2018-04-13
- Episode 644 – "Random Acts of History"
- Air Date: 2018-04-27
- Episode 645 – "My Effing First Amendment"
- Air Date: 2018-05-04
- Episode 646 – "The Secret of My Death"
- Air Date: 2018-05-18
- Episode 647 – "LaDonna"
- Air Date: 2018-05-25
- Episode 648 – "Unteachable Moment"
- Air Date: 2018-06-08
- Episode 649 – "It's My Party and I'll Try If I Want To"
- Air Date: 2018-06-22
- Episode 650 – "Change You Can Maybe Believe In"
- Air Date: 2018-06-22
- Episode 651 – "If You Build It, Will They Come?"
- Air Date: 2018-07-13
- Episode 652 – "ICE Capades"
- Air Date: 2018-07-20
- Episode 653 – "Crime Scene"
- Air Date: 2018-08-03
- Episode 654 – "The Feather Heist"
- Air Date: 2018-08-10
- Episode 655 – "The Not-So-Great Unknown"
- Air Date: 2018-08-24
- Episode 656 – "Let Me Count the Ways"
- Air Date: 2018-09-14
- Episode 657 – "The Runaways"
- Air Date: 2018-09-21
- Episode 658 – "The Unhappy Deciders"
- Air Date: 2018-10-05
- Episode 659 – "Before the Next One"
- Air Date: 2018-10-12
- Episode 660 – "Hoaxing Yourself"
- Air Date: 2018-11-02
- Episode 661 – "But That's What Happened"
- Air Date: 2018-11-09
- Episode 662 – "Where There Is a Will"
- Air Date: 2018-11-16
- Episode 663 – "How I Read It"
- Air Date: 2018-12-07
- Episode 664 – "The Room of Requirement"
- Air Date: 2018-12-28
References
[edit]- ^ "Radio Archive by Date | This American Life". www.thisamericanlife.org. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
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In 2019, there were 26 new This American Life episodes.[1]
- Episode 665 – "Before Things Went to Hell"
- Air Date: 2019-01-04
- Episode 666 – "The Theme That Shall Not Be Named"
- Air Date: 2019-01-18
- Episode 667 – "Wartime Radio"
- Air Date: 2019-02-01
- Episode 668 – "The Long Fuse"
- Air Date: 2019-02-15
- Episode 669 – "Scrambling to Get Off the Ice"
- Air Date: 2019-03-01
- Episode 670 – "Beware the Jabberwock"
- Air Date: 2019-03-15
- Episode 671 – "Anything Can Be Anything"
- Air Date: 2019-03-29
- Episode 672 – "No Fair!"
- Air Date: 2019-04-05
- Episode 673 – "Left Behind"
- Air Date: 2019-04-19
- Episode 674 – "Get a Spine!"
- Air Date: 2019-05-10
- Episode 675 – "I’m on TV??"
- Air Date: 2019-05-17
- Episode 676 – "Here’s Looking at You, Kid"
- Air Date: 2019-05-31
- Episode 677 – "Seeing Yourself In the Wild"
- Air Date: 2019-06-14
- Episode 678 – "The Wannabes"
- Air Date: 2019-07-05
- Episode 679 – "Save the Girl"
- Air Date: 2019-07-12
- Episode 680 – "The Weight of Words"
- Air Date: 2019-07-26
- Episode 681 – "Escape from the Lab"
- Air Date: 2019-08-16
- Episode 682 – "Ten Sessions"
- Air Date: 2019-08-23
- Episode 683 – "Beer Summit"
- Air Date: 2019-09-20
- Episode 684 – "Burn It Down"
- Air Date: 2019-09-27
- Episode 685 – "We Come from Small Places"
- Air Date: 2019-10-11
- Extra: "Drums, Oil, and Early Morning Devil Horns"
- Air Date: 2019-10-11
- Episode 686 – "Umbrellas Up"
- Air Date: 2019-10-18
- Episode 687 – "Small Things Considered"
- Air Date: 2019-11-08
- Episode 688 – "The Out Crowd"
- Air Date: 2019-11-15
- Episode 689 – "Digging Up the Bones"
- Air Date: 2019-12-06
- Episode 690 – "Too Close to Home"
- Air Date: 2019-12-27
References
[edit]- ^ "Radio Archive by Date | This American Life". www.thisamericanlife.org. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
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In 2020, there were thirty-eight new This American Life episodes.[1]
- Episode 691 – "Gardens of Branching Paths"
- Air Date: 2020-01-10
- Episode 692 – "The Show of Delights "
- Air Date: 2020-01-31
- Episode 693 – "Abdi the American "
- Air Date: 2020-02-07
- Episode 694 – "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged"
- Air Date: 2020-02-14
- Episode 695 – "Everyone's a Critic"
- Air Date: 2020-02-28
- Episode 696 – "Low Hum of Menace"
- Air Date: 2020-03-13
- Episode 697 – "Alone Together"
- Air Date: 2020-03-20
- Episode 698 – "The Test"
- Air Date: 2020-03-27
- Episode 699 – "Fiasco!"
- Air Date: 2020-04-03
- Episode 700 – "Filling in the Gaps"
- Air Date: 2020-04-10
- Episode 701 – "Black Box"
- Air Date: 2020-04-17
- Episode 702 – "One Last Thing Before I Go"
- Air Date: 2020-04-24
- Episode 703 – "Stuck!"
- Air Date: 2020-05-08
- Episode 704 – "Our Pulitzer-Winning Episode"
- Air Date: 2020-05-15
- Episode 705 – "Time Out"
- Air Date: 2020-05-22
- Episode 706 – "A Mess to Be Reckoned With"
- Air Date: 2020-05-29
- Episode 707 – "We Are in the Future"
- Air Date: 2020-06-05
- Episode 708 – "Here, Again"
- Air Date: 2020-06-12
- Episode 709 – "The Reprieve"
- Air Date: 2020-06-26
- Episode 710 – "Umbrellas Down"
- Air Date: 2020-07-10
- Episode 711 – "How to Be Alone"
- Air Date: 2020-07-17
- Air Date: 2020-07-31
- Episode 713 – "Made to Be Broken"
- Air Date: 2020-08-07
- Episode 714 – "Day at the Beach"
- Air Date: 2020-08-14
- Episode 715 – "Long-Awaited Asteroid Finally Hits Earth"
- Air Date: 2020-08-28
- Episode 716 – "Trail of Tears"
- Air Date: 2020-09-04
- Episode 717 – "Audience of One"
- Air Date: 2020-09-11
- Episode 718 – "Same Bed, Different Dreams"
- Air Date: 2020-09-25, an update of episode Episode 556 – "Same Bed, Different Dreams"
- Episode 719 – "Trust Me I’m a Doctor"
- Air Date: 2020-10-02
- Episode 720 – "The Moment After This Moment"
- Air Date: 2020-10-16
- Episode 721 – "The Walls Close In"
- Air Date: 2020-10-23
- Episode 722 – "The Unreality of Now"
- Air Date: 2020-10-30
- Episode 723 – "Squeaker"
- Air Date: 2020-11-06
- Episode 724 – "Personal Recount"
- Air Date: 2020-11-13
- Episode 725 – "Turkey in a Face Mask"
- Air Date: 2020-11-27
- Episode 726 – "Twenty-Five"
- Air Date: 2020-12-11
- Episode 727 – "Boulder v. Hill"
- Air Date: 2020-12-18
- Episode 728 – "Lights, Camera, Christmas!"
- Air Date: 2020-12-25
References
[edit]- ^ "Radio Archive by Date". This American Life.org. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
External links
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