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January 01, 1990 - January 20, 2013 + This American Life
Anachronism
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People stuck in the wrong decade, or simply in another decade than the current one. New York 90's era guys looking at women the way...
How Bad is Bad?
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Three teenage boys scam 1600 dollars of computer equipment on someone else's credit card and worry - not about getting caught - but about going...
Unfixable
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Photographer Joel Meyerwitz goes on a roadtrip with his father, who suffers from Alzheimer's. A funny, poignant story. Also, a blind man named Walt Strummer...
Utopia
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Meema Spadola's dad moves the family to Maine, to build his own dreamhouse, by hand, himself. Four years later, the house still isn't built, the...
In the Wake of Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural
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A show for July 4th weekend: we begin with perhaps the most moving, poetic inaugural speech in American history, and look at its legacy today....
Your Dream, My Nightmare
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Sarah Vowell at "Rock 'n roll fantasy camp." Meema Spadola interviews her now-divorced parents about the incident that led to their breakup: her father decided...
Stories from the Net
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A cross-media experiment. On two weekends in May, Ira Glass co-hosted live stage shows at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, in which he invited listeners...
One Thing
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People whose lives are organized around one thing. This American Life gets a return visit from Evan Harris, the woman who used to believe that...
Business of Death
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Usually we talk about death as a tragedy, a mystery, a hard-to-comprehend fact of life. But in addition to all that, for all sorts of...
Fire
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There are all sorts of risks we take everyday-- chemicals in our food. Air pollution. Stress.... The residents of Centralia, Pennsylvania have all that, plus...
Compulsive Liars
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ta/ta970329compulsive_liars
April Fools Day is approaching, the one day of theyear when we're allowed to enjoy deceiving others. But April Fools Day is for amateur deceivers....
Delivery
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ta/ta970322delivery
Stories of delivery men, in a nation of people needing things rushed to them fast..
Name Changes
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Stories of people changing their name, some to create a new identity, some to con people. Name changes are particularly American stories: they're the dream...
Two Women
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A few months ago, radio producer Sandy Tolan was supposed to do a documentary about strippers with an aspiring writer - and stripper - named...
