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This American Life
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Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it’s like to be alive right now. It’s the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.
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836: The Big Rethink
People rethinking some of the most important relationships in their lives — with their sister, their political party, and the nominee for president.
* Prologue: Ira observes that we are in a moment of national reconsideration. (2 minutes)
* Act One: Zoe Chace reports on a surprising guest at the Republican National Convention: Teamsters president Sean O’Brien. (18 minutes)
* Act Two: Ira talks to Representative Seth Moulton about what it was like to be among the first members of Congress to call for President Joe Biden to step aside. (18 minutes)
* Act Three: Two adult sisters revisit old rivalries when they compete for a world record in typing with their pinkies. (16 minutes)
Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/836/transcript]
21. Juli 2024 - 59 min
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794: So Close and Yet So Far
People so close to each other, in extremely intimate situations , who are also a million miles apart.
* Prologue: Valerie Kipnis tells Ira about riding the subway, shoulder-to-shoulder with someone she knows quite well, pretending she doesn’t see him. (8 minutes)
* Act One: How much can you trust whether somebody who you think is close to you really is close to you? Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.’s been thinking about that question since a recent visit with some of his childhood friends in Sierra Leone. (37 minutes)
* Act Two: Comedian Tig Notaro has the story of someone as close as her actual bedside yet who, in another way, is impossibly far away. (9 minutes)
Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/794/transcript]
14. Juli 2024 - 1 h 3 min
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835: Children of Dave
Boen Wang has a theory that a lot of the misery in his life can be traced to a single moment that happened years before he was born. So he makes a pilgrimage to see if he’s right.
* Prologue: Ira talks about what it’s like to go back to 1119 Bayard Street in Baltimore. (6 minutes)
* Part One: Boen visits Norman, Oklahoma, where he was born, to meet the man he thinks changed his parents’ lives—and his life, too. (31 minutes)
* Part Two: Boen’s friend, Andrew, and his parents take what he learned in Part One, throw it into a blender, and push puree. (20 minutes)
Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/835/transcript]
30. Juni 2024 - 1 h 1 min
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797: What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking
It's funny the things that go through your head during a disaster.
* Prologue: Host Ira Glass has fallen off his bike a number of times at this point. He reflects on what goes through his head as he’s going down. (2 minutes)
* Act One: Producer Ike Sriskandarajah revisits a maritime disaster that left an impact on a group of friends from his youth. What he learns forever changes their impressions of that day. (23 minutes)
* Act Two: When to leave Twitter is a question lots of executives faced when Elon Musk took over the company — those who weren't immediately fired, anyway. We hear an insider’s account from the man who ran Trust & Safety at the company, until he couldn’t stand it anymore. (28 minutes)
Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/797/transcript]
23. Juni 2024 - 1 h 2 min
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834: Yousef and the Fourth Move
In Rafah, Yousef is out of options and faces his toughest move yet.
* Prologue: Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, Yousef Hammash has decided where to go next and when. In Rafah, he is out of options and faces his toughest move yet. (5 minutes)
* Act One: Yousef does not even want to think about leaving Gaza. (18 minutes)
* Act Two: The actual price — in cash — of getting out of Gaza. (31 minutes)
Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/834/transcript]
16. Juni 2024 - 58 min
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