This American Life
564: Too Soon?
It can be hard to know the right moment for something to happen. Prologue: When Jordan was going into his senior year of high school in small town U...
828: Minor Crimes Division
People taking it upon themselves to solve the tiny, overlooked crimes of the world. Prologue: Host Ira Glass bikes around Manhattan with Gersh Kuntz...
587: The Perils of Intimacy
Mysteries that exist in relationships we thought couldn't possibly surprise us. Prologue: Ira talks to Rachel Rosenthal, who spent years trying to f...
827: All the King's Horses
The things we break and the ones we can't fix. Prologue: Ira tells the stories of three things that broke–two of them in his own family. (8 minutes)...
826: Unprepared for What Has Already Happened
People waking up to the fact that the world has suddenly changed. Prologue: Jackson Landers tells the story of a very strange decision he made one s...
825: Yousef
A series of phone calls to a man in Gaza named Yousef Hammash, between early December and now. He talks about what he and his family are experiencing,...
824: Family Meeting
Your mother and I have something we want to talk with you about. Prologue: A family sits down to discuss one thing. But then the true purpose of the...
823: The Question Trap
An investigation of when and why people ask loaded questions that are a proxy for something else. Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks with producer Tobin...
822: The Words to Say It
What it means to have words—and to lose them. Prologue: Sometimes we don’t want to say what’s going on because putting it into words would make it r...
821: Embrace the Suck
People finding themselves in situations that are worse than they thought and deciding to really go with it. Prologue: A Boston woman takes her dog f...