This week: Three stories about the strange power inanimate objects can hold over us. https://bit.ly/42XL9wq | This American Life
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This week: Three stories about the strange power inanimate objects can hold over us. https://bit.ly/42XL9wq | This American Life
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A classic episode, back in your feed this week. David Rakoff. Starlee Kine. And an office so chaotic that they hired a psychic. Link in bio to listen. | This American Life
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A classic episode, back in your feed this week. David Rakoff. Starlee Kine. And an office so chaotic that they hired a psychic. Link in bio to listen. | This American Life
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For Lilly, there’s one story about her parents that defines how she sees them, their family, and their history. Then she finds out it might be wrong. https://link.podtrac.com/8eypl1qp | This American Life
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For Lilly, there’s one story about her parents that defines how she sees them, their family, and their history. Then she finds out it might be wrong. https://link.podtrac.com/8eypl1qp | This American Life
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This week: the one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to. https://link.podtrac.com/t1ji19uw | This American Life
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This week: the one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to. https://link.podtrac.com/t1ji19uw | This American Life
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The Family Photographer Problem | Ira Glass, This American Life
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The Family Photographer Problem | Ira Glass, This American Life
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Two Days Before Air, We Still Don't Know What's Going in the Show | This American Life
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Two Days Before Air, We Still Don't Know What's Going in the Show | This American Life
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On the radio this weekend: Stories of people who try simple mind games on others, and then find themselves way in over their heads. https://bit.ly/3VzsXFl | This American Life
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On the radio this weekend: Stories of people who try simple mind games on others, and then find themselves way in over their heads. https://bit.ly/3VzsXFl | This American Life
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Our Holiday Gift-Giving Guide: Stories about the vexing difficulty of finding the perfect gift, including an original recording of Truman Capote reading a holiday story about his childhood growing up in rural Alabama. | This American Life
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On the radio this weekend: A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside. | This American Life
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A guy on a NYC subway platform starts walking up to strangers one by one: "You're in" or "You're out." What happens when it's your turn? 🎧 This week, we revisited a classic from our early days—Kindness of Strangers. Listen: https://link.podtrac.com/fgbbimf7 | This American Life
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On the radio this weekend: What happens when people create alternate versions of themselves and release them into the wild? https://bit.ly/4he0KOo | This American Life
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Parole board hearings are a part of the judicial system that doesn't get a lot of scrutiny. This week, we listen in as 13 people decide whether or not one man should be released. https://link.podtrac.com/9prb7j5l | This American Life
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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 are being made up as she plays. Listen: https://link.podtrac.com/1gubj37x | This American Life
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On the radio this weekend: A million people come to the Iowa State Fair, each with their own goals and dreams. We hang out with some of them to see if they get what they hoped for. https://bit.ly/3ZdkaMc | This American Life
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On the radio this weekend: People starting over—sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to. | This American Life
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Free bonus content: Ira on the most personal stories he's made for the show. If you enjoy listening, we hope you'll consider subscribing! Listen: https://lnk.to/UVyLz3 Subscribe: https://bit.ly/4fZtxou | This American Life
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For our show this week celebrating daily rituals, we talked to this woman's neighbor to find out why he was playing the Pink Panther theme song every day, over and over again. Come with us to the other side of the apartment wall to meet him and find out: https://bit.ly/3yrLNS2 | This American Life
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The moment when a small town production of Peter Pan goes from mishap to fiasco. tal.fm/61 | This American Life
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