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866: Watch Out for That Tree

Date
Sunday, September 07, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

Small human plans that run into much larger obstacles.

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  • Prologue: Angela's dad, an accountant, made a spreadsheet to prepare for their family trip to a national park. But

233: Starting From Scratch

Date
Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

People starting over—sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.

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  • Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks to Jorge Just, who thought he'd started over

865: The Other Territory

Date
Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

Since October 7th, while the world has focused its attention on Gaza, the Israeli government has tightened the screws on the three million Palestinians in the West Bank in all sorts of dramatic ways. We travel to the West Bank to see these changes in

831: Lists!!!

Date
Sunday, August 17, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.

  • Prologue: Ira interviews David Wallechinsky, who wrote a wildly popular book in the 1970s called The Book of Lists, full of trivia and research, gathered into lists like "18 Brains" and

838: Letters! Actual Letters!

Date
Sunday, August 10, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.

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  • Prologue: Ira goes out with a letter carrier, ‘Grace,’ as she delivers mail on her route. He

839: Meet Me at the Fair

Date
Sunday, August 03, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

Iowa has three million people and a million come to their State Fair, each with their own goals and dreams for the fair. We hang out with some of them, to see if they get what they hoped for.

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245: Allure of the Mean Friend

Date
Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

What is it about them, our mean friends? They treat us poorly, they don't call us back, they cancel plans at the last minute, and yet we keep coming back for more. Popular bullies exist in business, politics — everywhere. How do they stay so popular

864: Chicago Hope

Date
Sunday, July 20, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

The story of the most commonly performed surgery, and what goes wrong with it – terribly wrong – 100,000 times a year in the United States. We’re excited to bring you the first episode of The Retrievals, Season 2, the new show from longtime This

Bonus: Nancy's Deep Cuts

Date
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 12:00 AM
Description

Ira Glass talks with longtime producer Nancy Updike about the most personal stories they have put on the radio. This is a sample of the bonus episodes we regularly release to our This American Life Partners.

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577: Something Only I Can See

Date
Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

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