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People immersed in chaos try to solve for what it all adds up to.

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• Prologue: A scientist who is used to organizing data starts tracking scientific meetings that seem to

For Easter weekend — and the end of Passover! — stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments.

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• Host Ira Glass reads from the Ten Commandments. Not the

A couple devises a strategy to get their daughter's killer prosecuted and to get attention for other Native families. 

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• Prologue: Mika Westwolf was killed in a hit-and

People tossing words out into the world impulsively to ignite and burn over decades.

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• Prologue: Host Ira Glass plays a strange voicemail left by a 96-year-old surgeon

Artifacts and exhibits of this particular moment we are living through.

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• Exhibit One: Ira talks to producer Emmanuel Dzotsi, who brings the first exhibit into the studio

The radio version of an episode we did live on stage and beamed to movie theaters. David Sedaris, Tig Notaro, Ryan Knighton, and the late David Rakoff in his final performance on the show. The other half of this two-hour show was visual, including

Sometimes, life’s biggest mysteries require one very specific person to answer them.

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• Prologue: 7-year-old Miles has lots of questions. More specifically, he has

Little-known and surprising stories of how all sorts of institutions began.

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• Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks to business professor Pino Audia and Fast Company magazine

Unnecessary and outrageous lies that make you wonder — why lie about that in the first place?

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• Prologue: Kasey, a woman who prides herself on her truthfulness, tries to