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January 01, 1990 - November 26, 2012 + This American Life
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...
Game Changer
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Natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. The story of two men, two calculations, and two very different consequences...
Act V
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Over six months, reporter and TAL contributor Jack Hitt followed inmates at a high-security prison as they rehearsed and staged a production of the last...
A House Divided
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Stories about people who find themselves either unexpectedly being singled out or doing the singling out...
Father's Day 2011
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Surprising stories of fathers trying to be good dads...
First Contact
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Stories of first encounters with unknown and distant beings: girls, foreigners and perhaps even aliens, including a story by comedian Mike Birbiglia about his first...
Old Boys Network
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Stories about standing up to the man — or, really, the men...
Infidelity
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Stories of cheating, cheaters and the cheated...
How to Create a Job
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It seems like every politician has a different plan for putting people back to work. Some want to cut taxes, others want to offer huge...
This Week
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An hour of stories about this week, from major news events, like what's happening in Egypt; to the most minor, like a child who's finally...
