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January 01, 1990 - February 11, 2013 + This American Life
Back to Penn State
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We revisit the show we did two years ago at Penn State, with new interviews, as fans try to make sense of the actions of...
Petty Tyrants
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A school maintenance man works his way up the ranks for 30 years, until he's in charge of the maintenance department. That's when he starts...
Right to Remain Silent
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Stories about people who just can't seem to keep quiet, including a police officer who begins recording his supervisors to prove they're manipulating crime statistics...
Auto Show
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Stories about people who love their cars, for better or for worse....
Adventure!
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Sometimes you choose the adventure. Sometimes the adventure chooses you. Stories that pinpoint when people's boring old lives turn into something wildly unfamiliar....
Cat and Mouse
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Stories about the kinds of chase games that just never end. From the high California desert to a high-end furniture showroom...
Living Without
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Stories of people living without. Nubar Alexanian explains what fish can do for him that his own ears cannot. Sarah Vowell explains the cheerful journalism...
Ten Years In
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People who've been on TAL in the last ten years, whose lives were drastically altered by 9/11, including a woman who escaped from the WTC's...
20 Acts in 60 Minutes
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Instead of the regular "each week we choose a theme, and bring you three or four stories on that theme" business, this week we throw...
Gossip
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Guest host Sarah Koenig tackles the thing we all hate to love: Gossip. We've got rumor and innuendo, and a beauty queen kidnapping a Mormon...
Amusement Park
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This week we head to some of the happiest places on Earth: Amusement Parks! Plus listeners' stories about your fondest, or more often, weirdest amusement...
Million-Dollar Idea
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Back in the 1980's Michael Larson made the most money ever on the game show Press Your Luck -- and it was no accident. Larson...
Thugs
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Like a lot of Mexican towns, Florencia has had its share of problems dealing with drug gangs. That is until recently, when new narcos rolled...
When Patents Attack!
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Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty...
Break-Up
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The world is not divided into two types of people—unless you've just
been through a horrible break-up, in which case it's divided between
people who understand and...
