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884: The Idiot
Mar 27Tap to summarizeM. Gessen returns to our show with a true-crime story that takes place entirely within their own family. This story comes to us from the producers at Serial Productions—who invented the true-crime podcast more than a decade ago—and from The New York Times.
Transcribe →883: Call Your Parents
Mar 20Tap to summarizeIn the early days of the radio show, Ira did a series of interviews with his parents that completely changed his relationship with them. This week, he returns to those interviews.
Transcribe →882: Give a Little Whistle
Mar 6Tap to summarizeTwo lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now.
Transcribe →881: I Want What I Want
Feb 20Tap to summarizePeople deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.
Transcribe →880: What Is Your Emergency?
Jan 30Tap to summarize911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
Transcribe →879: A Christian and a Muslim Walk Into a Bar
Jan 16Tap to summarizeWhen a joke could get you killed, should you say it anyway? A group of Syrian comedians test the limits of their newfound freedom, a year after the fall of the brutal Assad regime.
Transcribe →878: New Lore Drop
Jan 9Tap to summarizePeople discovering information about their own lives that they did not know, and suddenly everything looks very different.
Transcribe →877: The Making Of
Dec 19Tap to summarizeHow one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.
Transcribe →224: Middlemen
Oct 25, 2002Tap to summarizeIn this week's show, we celebrate the oft-beleaguered and misrepresented middleman. "Cut out the middleman! Death to the middleman!" the angry hordes cry. Not us. We say, "Hi, middleman. Here are three splendid acts to toast your subtle virtues."
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