This American Life

Author: This American Life

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This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.

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To be, or not to be a pirate? This week, that is the question. Hold fast, mateys! We have stories about both historical and modern-day swashbucklers who loot, pillage, and question their choices.

616: I Am Not a Pirate

2019-03-2401:08:2433

Stories from the upside-down world where conspiracy theorists dwell.

670: Beware the Jabberwock

2019-03-1701:08:46132

Can love be taught? A family uses a controversial therapy to train their son to love them. And other stories about the hard and sometimes painful work of loving other people.

317: Unconditional Love

2019-03-1000:59:18127

The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee may have to fight to protect Mueller's investigation and make his report public. Now that they’re in the majority, they have new tools they can use. Our producer Zoe Chace spent weeks behind the scenes with them as they tried out their new powers for the first time. This and other stories of people scrambling to get their footing on some challenging terrain.

669: Scrambling to Get Off the Ice

2019-03-0301:02:2685

Satan! In his many surprising manifestations, all around us.

666: The Theme That Shall Not Be Named

2019-01-2001:03:19157

We revisit those moments of calm before the storm, when things could have gone very differently, but instead, they went to hell.

665: Before Things Went to Hell

2019-01-1300:54:49118

Libraries aren't just for books. They're often spaces that transform into what you need them to be: a classroom, a cyber café, a place to find answers, a quiet spot to be alone. It's actually kind of magical. This week, we have stories of people who roam the stacks and find unexpected things that just happen to be exactly what they required.

664: The Room of Requirement

2018-12-3000:58:52173

Documents you don't normally think of, showing you things you didn't expect.

663: How I Read It

2018-12-0901:01:1189

Stories of people who believe there is always a way. And also those who don’t.

662: Where There Is a Will

2018-11-1801:01:5285

Stories of women in unsettling situations. When they try to explain what’s wrong, they’re told that they don’t understand—that there’s nothing unsettling about it.

661: But That's What Happened

2018-11-1101:01:21124

Comments (493)

Tom Grosvenor

depressin ep

Mar 26th

chris ciavs

rerun

Mar 25th

Sophie Barton

Another boring American politics segment disguised under an interesting theme. Do yourself a favour and skip to 48:30 for the first actual story.

Anil Damodaran

Can't imagine what these parents went through. Horrifying..

Alex Mercedes

fascinating and deeply troubling stories...

Mar 24th

Rick Wagner

This was terrific reporting and should have been done long ago. I know many cult members will just think the people in this piece were lying about Jones but telling the truth is always right. exposing liars is always right. I wonder if others in msm are afraid to expose people like Jones because of their followers. this explains why qanon decided being anonymous is the best way to be a liar

Lisa Edwards

Guess what? Trump wants Mueller`s report public too!

Mar 23rd

jake devlin

doea anyone know who plays the song at the end of the show?

Mar 22nd

Cosmocide

When I eat lucky charms sometimes the marshmallows get stuck under the spoon and when I eat it it surprises me.

Mar 21st

Scoutk Bartholomew

this was kind of creepy

Tia Castillo

wow. just wow

Renee Rougeaux

literally me and my big sis... 😒

Mar 20th

rjj8570

brilliant

Wendy Bruder

Wow. People are just awful. Ignorant and awful. That woman who called in? What a foul creature. scum.

Unbelievable.

E Meany

If you can't listen to the infamous baby monkey experiment where they took away all touch to see if they would die, don't listen to this episode.

Michael Johnson

Wonderful episode!

wonderless age

One of the most disturbing stories I have heard. What kind of human being would take another stab at the the heart of the parents who have lost their children? I am wondering how he would take it if something similar happened to him.

Mar 19th

Grant Mowbray

Best episode in ages.

Kristen J. Cook

When the movie Pearl Harbor was released, (2000? I was living in Southern California, with in the county of Los Angeles) I had seen the movie maybe 3 times; the last time I saw the film, when the scenes of the Japanese Kamikazes began striking the US ships, directly in front of me and my friend had been 4 AmerAsian youths, either our ages or slightly older and those POS's went and commended, with vocal excitement, as if encouraging the atrocities that had occurred on Pearl Harbor during WWII. With the explosions of US ships, these young people exclaimed without shame, laughter and cheers, never once looking behind them (we were all sitting relatively close to the front of the theater) or even remotely acknowledging how they were in an American movie theater witnessing one of America's worst war crimes in our history, amongst American's who had come. in part, parriotically and in support of our U.S. History. I, personally, was fuming angry as one of my great-grandfather's had been stationed on the U.S.S. Arizona! they were cheering on the terrors of war their ancestors had perpetuated-- albeit America has perpetuated MANY'a terrors elsewhere, we were merely civilians in a civilian theater in suburban America. nevertheless, none of this ever ended up in the newspaper and no one called any reporters and these AmerAsian young people were not shamed nor made to apologize to American's who had lost family at Pearl Harbor... on another note, I just heard a man ask, in this podcast, why the Jews didn't just pretend they were Gernan-- because their neighbors already knew who they were! on top of this, just as with any other country, census is compiled, thus, the powers that had been would've have found them eventually and at that point they'd have been hunted for trying to masquerading as German's-- true, they most likely would have been murdered anyway, but the human mind would have tormented those Jews attempting to pass for German, doubling or even tripling their fear and overall panic of being found out for something "extra" than solely being of Jewish descent. They knew everyone who was Jewish by the town and state and country censuses; if a person was a practicing Protestant, yet had 1 grandparent who had been of Jewish descent, that person was required to register with the nazi state as a Jew. The Holocaust is so surreal because it is the single most horrific historical event in modern history to result in an attempted genocide which basis was on nothing more than what is fundamentally a fairytail!