This American Life Podcast

Stories of people who try simple mind games on others, and then find themselves in way over their heads.

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media, and distributed by Public Radio International. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

© Copyright 1995-2016 Ira Glass

[Audio Talk] This American Life Show Podcast September 19th, 2016 - #562 The Problem We All Live With Full Show.
Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there's one thing nobody tries anymore, despite lots of evidence that it works: desegregation. Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at a district that, not long ago, accidentally launched a desegregation program.

The way people talk about being fat is shifting. With one-third of Americans classified as overweight, and another third as obese, and almost none of us losing weight and keeping it off, maybe it’s time to rethink the way we see being fat. A show inspired by Lindy West’s book Shrill.

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media, and distributed by Public Radio International. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

© Copyright 1995-2016 Ira Glass

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media, and distributed by Public Radio International. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

© Copyright 1995-2016 Ira Glass

This American Life Show Podcast 9/26/2016 - #597 One Last Thing Before I Go Full Show.
Words can seem so puny and ineffective sometimes. On this show, we have stories in which ordinary people make last ditch efforts to get through to their loved ones, using a combination of small talk and not-so-small talk

Stories of people trying to make sure they get what they paid for, from political change to bedroom slippers. We follow a donor as he vets presidential candidates, and go inside a company wrestling with the consequences of its no questions asked,” lifetime return policy.

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media, and distributed by Public Radio International. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

© Copyright 1995-2016 Ira Glass

Some information is so big and so complicated that it seems impossible to talk to kids about. This week, stories about the vague and not-so-vague ways to teach children about race, death and sex - including a story about colleges responding to sexual assault by trying to teach students how to ask for consent. Also, a story about how and when to teach kids about the horrors of slavery and oppression in America.

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media, and distributed by Public Radio International. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

© Copyright 1995-2016 Ira Glass

This American Life Show Podcast 10/24/16 - #599: Seriously Full show.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/24/16 - #599: Seriously Full show.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/24/16 - #599: Seriously Full show.

This American Life Show Podcast 10/02/2016 - #460 Retraction Full Show - Episode Special Reupdate.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/02/2016 - #460 Retraction Full Show - Episode Special Reupdate.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/02/2016 - #460 Retraction Full Show - Episode Special Reupdate.

[Audio Talk Show] This American Life Show Podcast September 14th, 2016 - #596 Becoming a Badger Full Show.
This week, stories about people trying their best to turn themselves into something else—like a badger. Or a professional comedian, in a language they didn’t grow up speaking..

This American Life Show Podcast 2016 - #577 Something Only I Can See Full Show.
When you’re the only one who can see something, sometimes it feels like you’re in on a special secret. The hard part is getting anyone to believe your secret is real. This week, people trying to show others what they see—including a woman with muscular dystrophy who believes she has the same condition as an Olympic athlete.

Serial Podcast Season 2 Episode 3 - Escaping | This American Life
Bergdahl’s first year in captivity starts with an escape and ends with an escape. In between, he learns necessary, twisted lessons of survival.
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Serial Podcast Season 1 Episode 2 The Breakup | This American Life
Their relationship began like a storybook high-school romance: a prom date, love notes, sneaking off to be alone. But unlike other kids at school, they had to keep their dating secret, because their parents disapproved. Both of them, but especially Adnan, were under special pressure at home, and the stress of that spilled over into their relationship. Eventually Hae broke up with Adnan. And then, depending on who you ask, Adnan was either understandably sad and moping around, or full of rage and plotting to kill her.
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Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, and suspects the beloved, chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter—and sets out to prove it. This and other stories about the pitfalls of making snap judgments about others.

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media, and distributed by Public Radio International. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

© Copyright 1995-2016 Ira Glass

This American Life Show Podcast 10/11/2016 - #598: My Undesirable Talent Full Show.
San Francisco’s Spider-Man burglar was remarkable. He dropped into buildings from skylights, leapt 10 feet from one roof to another. But mostly, his talent got him into trouble. This week, his story, and stories of other undesirable talents.

This American Life Show Podcast #567 September 13th, 2016 - What’s Going On In There By Ira Glass Full Show.
Often we see someone’s situation from the outside and think we know exactly what’s going on. This week we get inside and find out just how much more interesting the reality of it is. Including a teenaged girl who records a remarkable story about the boyfriend who abuses her, and why it’s so hard to break up with him.
Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass

[Audio Talk Show] This American Life Podcast #595 September 13th, 2016 - Deep End of the Pool by Ira Glass Full Show .
Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass

Serial Podcast Season 2 Episode 11 - Present for Duty | This American Life
The Season Two finale: What is Bowe’s fault, and what isn’t?
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Serial Podcast Season 2 Episode 1 - DUSTWUN | This American Life
In the middle of the night, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl grabs a notebook, snacks, water, some cash. Then he quietly slips off a remote U.S. Army outpost in eastern Afghanistan and into the dark, open desert. About 20 minutes later, it occurs to him: he’s in over his head.
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A captain’s log is a simple thing: the date, the time, maybe the weather — and the current status of a long journey. You wouldn’t know from the cryptic notations what weird worlds lurk beneath. On this week's show, stories behind those cryptic notations — including a concentration camp in China that housed groups of Girl Scouts. Also, Aziz Ansari explains the significance of a Thanksgiving text message, and Etgar Keret destroys a marriage piece by piece.

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media, and distributed by Public Radio International. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

© Copyright 1995-2016 Ira Glass

Serial Podcast Season 1 Episode 9 - To Be Suspected | This American Life
New information is coming in about what maybe didn’t happen on January 13, 1999. And while Adnan’s memory of that day is foggy at best, he does remember what happened next: being questioned, being arrested and, a little more than a year later, being sentenced to life in prison.
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This American Life Show Podcast 10/03/2016 - #560 Abdi and the Golden Ticket Full Show.
A story about someone who's desperately trying – against long odds – to make it to the United States and become an American. Abdi is a Somali refugee living in Kenya and gets the luckiest break of his life: he wins a lottery that puts him on a short list for a U.S. visa. This is his ticket out. But before he can cash in his golden ticket, the police start raiding his neighborhood, targeting refugees.

Serial Podcast Season 1 Episode 1 - The Alibi | This American Life
It's Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He says he's innocent - though he can't exactly remember what he was doing on that January afternoon. But someone can. A classmate at Woodlawn High School says she knows where Adnan was. The trouble is, she’s nowhere to be found.
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Serial Podcast Season 1 Episode 11 - Rumors | This American Life
Almost everyone describes the 17-year-old Adnan the same way: good kid, helpful at the mosque, respectful to his elders. But a couple of months ago, Sarah started getting phone calls from people who knew Adnan back then, and told her stories of a different kind of boy.
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This American Life host Ira Glass and his friend Mary Ahearn explain how to get a podcast. Our new podcast is Serial:

Video shot and edited by Seth Lind.

Ira Glass, host and executive producer of This American Life and Editorial Advisor of Serial, joined our NewFront to discuss the Power of Podcasts, finding human stories and why audiences connect so powerfully to podcasts like Serial.

Exclusive post-show interview on Periscope:

This American Life Show Podcast 10/06/2016 - #585: In Defense of Ignorance Full Show.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/0/2016 - #585: In Defense of Ignorance Full Show.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/0/2016 - #585: In Defense of Ignorance Full Show.

We return to Greece with stories of people trying to move on with their lives in whatever way they can. We meet a couple who fell in love even though they weren't expecting anything like that to happen, and even though her family didn't approve. We also meet a shopkeeper in a camp who's running what amounts to a cigarette charity. INTERACTIVE TOUR

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media, and distributed by Public Radio International. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

© Copyright 1995-2016 Ira Glass

Serial Podcast Season 2 Episode 2 - The Golden Chicken | This American Life
On the move with Bergdahl, the Taliban slip past the U.S. Army’s massive effort to find him. During those days and weeks, each side is asking, what is Bergdahl worth to us?
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his American Life Show Podcast 10/02/2016 - #550Three Miles Full Show - Episode Special Reupdate.
his American Life Show Podcast 10/02/2016 - #550Three Miles Full Show - Episode Special Reupdate.
his American Life Show Podcast 10/02/2016 - #550Three Miles Full Show - Episode Special Reupdate.
his American Life Show Podcast 10/02/2016 - #550Three Miles Full Show - Episode Special Reupdate.

Serial Podcast Season 1 Episode 5 - Route Talk | This American Life
Adnan once issued a challenge to Sarah. He told her to test the state’s timeline of the murder by driving from Woodlawn High School to Best Buy in 21 minutes. It can’t be done, he said. So Sarah and Dana take up the challenge, and raise him one: They try to recreate the entire route that Jay said he and Adnan took on January 13th, 1999.
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This American Life Show Podcast 10/26/16 - #588: Mind Game Full Show.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/26/16 - #588: Mind Game Full Show.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/26/16 - #588: Mind Game Full Show.

This American Life Show Podcast 10/18/2016 - #502: This Call May Be Recorded To Save Your Life Full SHow.
A journalist named Meron Estefanos gets a disturbing tip. She's given a phone number that supposedly belongs to a group of refugees being held hostage in the Sinai desert. She dials the number, and soon dozens of strangers are begging her to rescue them. How can she ignore them?

This American Life Show Podcast 10/04/2016 - #581: Anatomy of Doubt Full Show.
This week, a story about doubt: how it germinated, spread, and eventually took hold of an entire community, with terrible consequences.

This American Life Show Podcast 10/05/2016 - #584: For Your Reconsideration Full Show.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/05/2016 - #584: For Your Reconsideration Full Show.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/05/2016 - #584: For Your Reconsideration Full Show.

This American Life Show Podcast 2016 - #579 My Damn Mind Full Show.
This American Life Show Podcast 2016 - #579 My Damn Mind Full Show.
This American Life Show Podcast 2016 - #579 My Damn Mind Full Show.

Serial Podcast Season 2 Episode 8 - Hindsight, Part 2 | This American Life
Woulda, coulda, shoulda…
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This American Life Show Podcast 10/27/16 - #590: Choosing Wrong Full Show.
Stories of people making the wrong choice, even though the right one is staring them squarely in the eye. Basketball players making a conscious decision to not do the thing that makes them better, pollsters refusing to see the truth of Donald Trump, and more.

Jack Hitt contributes to Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and This American Life.

“I’ve always lived more or less unemployed in these markets, and happily so. I think being unemployed keeps you a little more sharp in terms of looking for stories. It never gets any easier. That motivation and that desperation, whatever you want to call that, is still very much behind many of the conversations I have all day long trying to find those threads, those strings, that are going to pull together and turn into something.”
Thanks to MailChimp, Audible, and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode.

A weekly conversation with a non-fiction writer about how they got their start and how they tell stories. Co-produced by Longform and The Atavist.
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Serial Podcast Season 2 Episode 5 - Meanwhile, in Tampa | This American Life
CIA, FBI, YouTube, the Portland PD? There was no handbook for getting Bergdahl back.
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Serial Podcast Season 2 Episode 9 - Trade Secrets | This American Life
You don’t make peace with your friends.
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Serial Podcast Season 2 Episode 10 - Thorny Politics | This American Life
Are you hearing what I’m hearing?
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Serial Podcast Season 1 Episode 8 - The Deal with Jay | This American Life
The state’s case against Adnan Syed hinged on Jay’s credibility; he was their star witness and also, because of his changing statements to police, their chief liability. Naturally, Adnan’s lawyer tried hard to make Jay look untrustworthy at trial. So, how did the jurors make sense of Jay? For that matter, how did the cops make sense of Jay? How are we supposed to make sense of Jay?
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Hi everyone! I cut out the actual part about ASMR that appeared on NRP radio in the US recently. A few whisperers are mentioned in this broadcast and me, chris, maria & darryl were actually interviewed for this broadcast but unfortunately they were not able to put that in the program. Still hope you'll enjoy it! love ilse

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A bunch of us from our show went to refugee camps all over Greece. We found people falling in love, kids mad at their parents for dragging them to Europe, women doing their laundry in a baseball stadium locker room, and hundreds of people living at a gas station—sitting next to the pumps, smoking. Also: wild pigs. 57,000 refugees are stuck in Greece, making homes in some surprising locations. We hear what that’s really like. INTERACTIVE TOUR

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show This American Life. First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media, and distributed by Public Radio International. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

© Copyright 1995-2016 Ira Glass

Serial Podcast Season 1 Episode 3 - Leakin Park | This American Life
It’s February 9, 1999. Hae has been missing for three weeks. A man on his lunch break pulls off a road to pee, and stumbles on her body in a city forest. His odd recounting of the discovery makes Detectives Ritz and MacGillivary suspicious. For instance, why did he walk so far into the woods - 127 feet - to relieve himself? And that’s just the start. A look into the man’s past reveals some bizarre behavior.
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This American Life Show Podcast 10/27/16 - #557: Bird and Bees Full Show.
This American Life Show Podcast 10/27/16 - #557: Bird and Bees Full Show.

Serial Podcast Season 2 Episode 7 - Hindsight, Part 1 | This American Life
It makes sense if you’re Bowe Bergdahl.
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