This American Life
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This American Life
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 pop...
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60 epizod
886: Blackout
Since the war began in Iran, we've heard very little from people inside the country — and there's a reason for that. The entire country has been under...
Ira (Reluctantly) Gives a Graduation Speech
Ira always hated commencement speeches. Then he felt like he had to give this one.
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466: Blackjack
The casino game everyone thinks they can beat.
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393: Infidelity
Stories of cheating, cheaters, and the cheated.
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885: Bless This Mess
At a time when the U.S. government is trying to make American history tidier, we try to learn from the mess. Including the untold, messy story of Paul...
212: The Other Man
What happens when a new guy comes on the scene and changes the way everyone relates to each other?
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884: The Idiot
M. Gessen returns to our show with a true-crime story that takes place entirely within their own family. This story comes to us from the producers at...
883: Call Your Parents
In the early days of the radio show, Ira did a series of interviews with his parents that completely changed his relationship with them. This week, he...
628: In the Shadow of the City
Stories that take place on the edge of civilization, just out of sight.
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882: Give a Little Whistle
Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now.
208: Office Politics
Stories of high drama from America's workplaces — surprising, emotional places full of the greed, jealousy, and ambition of real politics.
881: I Want What I Want
People deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.
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605: Kid Logic
Kids using perfectly logical arguments and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
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75: Kindness of Strangers
An episode from our show's early days: Stories about what happens when strangers are kind — and when they're not.
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880: What Is Your Emergency?
911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
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851: Try a Little Tenderness
In the new year, stories of people trying a radical approach to solving their problems.
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879: A Christian and a Muslim Walk Into a Bar
When a joke could get you killed, should you say it anyway? A group of Syrian comedians test the limits of their newfound freedom, a year after the fa...
The Americans Outside My Window
In this special mini-episode, we hear from someone in Venezuela with a very specific take on last week's U.S. attack.
878: New Lore Drop
People discovering information about their own lives that they did not know, and suddenly everything looks very different.
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New Lore Drop
People discovering information about their own lives that they did not know and suddenly everything looks very different.
850: If You Want to Destroy My Sweater, Hold This Thread as I Walk Away
The tiny thing that unravels your world.
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801: Must Be Rats on the Brain
The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.
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Christmas and Commerce
Stories about the intersection of Christmas and retail, originally broadcast in 1996 when our show was only a year old. Including David Sedaris's "San...
877: The Making Of
How one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.
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255: Our Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
The vexing difficulty of finding the perfect gift.
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876: Bigger Than Me
When history comes knocking, you have to figure out what to do.
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513: 129 Cars
We spend a month at a Jeep dealership on Long Island as they try to make their monthly sales goal: 129 cars. If they make it, they'll get a huge bonus...
875: I Hate Mysteries
What’s in the box? What’s in the $%&ing box?!?
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874: Under One Roof
What’s great about living in a family is that everyone sees everything differently. Also, that’s what’s awful about living in a family. We go behind c...
873: Got You Pegged
Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, suspects the beloved, chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter, and sets out to prove it...
872: Winners
America loves winners—now more than ever. But how do you get to a win in 2025 America? We watch someone trying to score a win in a game whose rules ar...
871: The Thing About Things
Three stories about the strange power inanimate objects can hold over us.
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844: This Is the Case of Henry Dee
Thirteen parole board members decide whether or not one man should be released from prison.
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An Update from Ira
Ira Glass shares some news about This American Life
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870: My Other Self
What happens when people create alternate versions of themselves and release them into the wild?
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869: Harold
When Zohran Mamdani won the primary race for New York mayor, the Democratic establishment's lukewarm response echoed the treatment of another charisma...
286: Mind Games
Stories of people who try simple mind games on others, and then find themselves way in over their heads.
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868: The Hand That Rocks The Gavel
A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.
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867: College Disorientation
Things are different on college campuses this year. We see inside the drama, with students and staff.
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866: Watch Out for That Tree
Small human plans that run into much larger obstacles.
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