900: Talk Me Into It
It’s the midterms! This week’s show is about people changing their minds and not changing their minds — and the people trying to do the pers...
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Do Listen Twice
To celebrate the iTunes release of Mike Birbiglia's movie Don't Think Twice, host Ira Glass presents a podcast miniseries featuring his favorite stories that Birbiglia has told on This Ameri...
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506: Secret Identity
A bank robber on an undercover mission. A teenage girl with the powers of a tiger. A vigilante seeking vengeance in Ciudad Juárez. All have...
489: No Coincidence, No Story!
We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions! There were so many good ones that we d...
427: Original Recipe
We discover what we believe might be the original recipe for Coca-Cola…and share it with you! When this episode first aired in 2011, it made...
899: Reaching Out
Sayre Quevedo’s invented a way to do a podcast that feels completely new. He’s been recording nearly all his conversations for years, and th...
898: An Argument
Nikole Hannah-Jones made an argument 10 years ago in The New York Times Magazine that became famous. She wrote about choosing a public schoo...
897: Intergenerational Space Travel
People braving the true final frontier — the gap between people born at slightly different times. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to...
646: The Secret of My Death
Cryptic messages on a cell phone and a teeter-totter at a construction site: these are clues people found, trying to make sense of a death....
449: Middle School
As the new school year begins, we have stories from all over the country about people lurching their way through their middle school years –...
896: I Know What You Need
Moments when it seems obvious what to do for someone else, so of course you jump in and try to help — and what happens after that. Visit thi...
206: Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has been in the news thanks to an extra-long deployment that's taken a toll on its crew. What's lif...
895: Label Maker!
Labels are powerful. They can distill you down to a single word. They can get stuck on you without your permission. And sometimes, when they...
443: Amusement Park
We head to some of the happiest places on earth: amusement parks! Ira Glass takes us behind the scenes at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, wher...
894: I Couldn't Help but Notice
People dealing with new, glaring, massive changes happening right where they live. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for ou...
893: Testosterone
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered everyone over 30 in the military to have their testosterone tested. That inspired us to rerun thi...
892: Trapped on a Bus
People on journeys they did not intend — or agree to. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prolo...
891: The Test Case
Some people in this country think Antifa is a dangerous domestic terror organization. Some think that’s a complete myth. This week, we go to...
890: Maximal Americanness
On this country's 250th birthday, we bring you stories about the most American people, places, objects, and social norms that make this coun...
128: Four Corners
We try to tell the story of life in America through portraits of life on four different corners, in four different states across the nation....
889: There’s Something About Hail Mary
We spend an hour in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, behind and desperate, with people trying any damn thing they can think of. V...