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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + This American Life
Will They Know Me Back Home?
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Stories of people who've grown so accustomed to wartime that the lives they've left behind no longer make sense...
Oh You Shouldn't Have
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Stories about the perils of giving and receiving gifts: ones that go over spectacularly well in spite of being in poor taste, and ones that...
DIY
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After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man out of prison, his friend takes on the case himself, and becomes a do-it-yourself investigator...
Parent Trap
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Stories about imposing a special brand of adult wisdom on those who are younger, and least likely to escape...or forget. Including a story about a...
Original Recipe
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The formula for Coca-Cola is one of the most jealously guarded trade secrets in the world. Locked in a vault in Atlanta. Supposedly unreplicable. But...
Backstage at The Onion
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They start with over 600 potential headlines for their fake-news newspaper each week, and over the course of two days, in the very tough room...
The Invention of Money
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It seems like a basic question: What is money? We go deep into the bowels of one of the most secretive and powerful institutions in...
Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special
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The holidays are stressful so we booked a holiday pick-me-up: an hour of comedy.
Scenes from a Mall
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This American Life spends several days in a mall in suburban Tennessee, not only to find out what people are buying in this grim financial...
Poultry Slam 2003
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During the period of the year with the highest turkey consumption, we bring you an annual This American Life tradition: Stories of turkeys, chickens, geese,...
Toxie
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In January 2010, two reporters from Planet Money bought a toxic asset — you know, the things that blew up wall street banks, sank the...
This Party Sucks
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A show for this year's mid-term elections. Two best friends in Michigan, both political novices, get tired of yelling at their TV's and take matters...
Iraq after US
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Operation Iraqi Freedom is over. And the next chapter of Iraq is being written now. But what actually happened there the last seven years? Producer...
Crybabies
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Crybabies are annoying. They whine, they complain, and sometimes they ruin it for the rest of us. But the thing is, being a crybaby can...
Promised Land
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For millenia, people have tried to reach a spiritual promised land by fasting. Jesus did it. The Buddha did it. Monks and saints and new...
