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• 800: Jane Doe

  Five years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who stepped forward and went public with their stories? We tell the story of a teenager who spoke out against one of the most powerful people in her state,...

  29 mei 2023 4537 sec.

• 508: Superpowers

  We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can real people become superheroes? (Maybe.) And which is better: flight or invisibility? (Depends who you ask.)  Host Ira Glass talks to comic...

  22 mei 2023 3559 sec.

• 799: The Lives of Others

  Looping thoughts about people you barely know, or don't know at all.  Prologue: We get a tip that an entire town is consumed by a huge, elementary-school-style crush on a local veterinarian. Guest host Lilly Sullivan goes to Utah to...

  15 mei 2023 3910 sec.

• 798: Leaving the Fold

  A week after Jerry Springer’s death, we go back to a story we first broadcast years ago, about a side of Springer most people don’t know and can’t imagine: his years as an idealistic politician in the mold of Bobby Kennedy. Plus other...

  8 mei 2023 3797 sec.

• 797: What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking

  It's funny the things that go through your head during a disaster. Prologue: Host Ira Glass has fallen off his bike a number of times at this point. He reflects on what goes through his head as he’s going down. (2 minutes) Act One:...

  24 apr. 2023 3779 sec.

• 796: What Lies Beneath

  Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep. Prologue: A beloved drawing goes missing from Mr. Ablao’s third grade classroom. The class holds a funeral for the drawing, which accidentally unleashes a much bigger feeling than...

  17 apr. 2023 3725 sec.

• 795: Nine Months Later

  It’s been nine months since Roe v. Wade was overturned. We talk to people who wanted abortions right when the laws were changing in their states. They had to wait for appointments, for money to travel or abortion pills. And during that...

  10 apr. 2023 3787 sec.

• 794: So Close and Yet So Far

  People ​so close to each other, ​in ​extremely intimate situations​,​ who are also a million miles apart. Prologue: Valerie Kipnis tells Ira about riding the subway, shoulder-to-shoulder with someone she knows quite well, pretending...

  27 mrt. 2023 3823 sec.

• 793: The Problem with Ghosts

  The ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us. Prologue: Chaunte Vaughn’s mother recently died of Parkinsons. Even though Chaunte doesn't believe in ghosts, she is visited by her mom's ghost...

  13 mrt. 2023 3798 sec.

• 792: When to Leave

  People staring down that hardest of questions: Is now the time? To leave? Prologue: Russian forces have besieged the town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. Shelling is constant. Most residents have fled. But there are holdouts who...

  6 mrt. 2023 3710 sec.

• 774: The Pink House at the Center of the World

  The Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade began with a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi abortion clinic. On the day Roe was overturned, we were there. Stories from the center of this moment of history, the day it...

  4 jul. 2022 4257 sec.