This American Life (Radio)

  • Premiered: Nov 1995
  • Episodes: 844
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Season 2008
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347 - Matchmakers
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Jan 18, 2008
Making a lasting love match isn't as simple as writing a check.
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348 -Tough Room
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Feb 08, 2008
We go into the writers' room at The Onion, where they start with over 600 potential headlines for their fake-news newspaper each week.
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349 - Valentine’s Day 2008
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Feb 15, 2008
Stories about couples that happen decades after the moment their eyes meet.
2008x350
350 - Human Resources
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Feb 29, 2008
Teachers tell us about a secret room in the New York City Board of Education building called "the rubber room."
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351 - Return to Childhood
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Mar 07, 2008
Stories of people who try to revisit their childhoods—what they find and what they do not find.
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352 - The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
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Mar 14, 2008
In 1912, a four-year-old boy went missing in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found. But two grief-stricken mothers both claimed the same boy as their own.
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353 - The Audacity of Government
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Mar 28, 2008
Stories of the Bush Administration's quest to redefine the limits of presidential power.
2008x354
354 - Mistakes Were Made
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Apr 18, 2008
Freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds.
2008x355
355 - The Giant Pool of Money
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May 09, 2008
The surprisingly entertaining story of how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis.
2008x356
356 - The Prosecutor
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May 30, 2008
Things go badly for the lead prosecutor in one of the first high-profile terrorist cases since 9/11.
2008x357
357 - The Truth Will Out
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Jun 13, 2008
Stories of concealed truths bubbling to the surface, including a new story by Etgar Keret.
2008x358
358 - Social Engineering
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Jun 27, 2008
Stories of social engineering on a small scale.
2008x359
359 - Life After Death
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Jul 18, 2008
Stories of people haunted by guilt over their role in others' deaths.
2008x360
360 - Switched at Birth
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Jul 25, 2008
Two baby girls born in a small-town hospital are accidentally switched, and go home with the wrong families. 
2008x361
361 - Fear of Sleep
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Aug 08, 2008
Mike Birbiglia talks about the sleepwalking that nearly killed him.
2008x362
362 - Got You Pegged
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Aug 22, 2008
Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, and suspects the chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter.
2008x363
363 - Enforcers
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Sep 12, 2008
Stories about people who take the law into their own hands.
2008x364
364 - Going Big
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Sep 26, 2008
Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts.
2008x365
365 - Another Frightening Show About the Economy
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Oct 03, 2008
A look at what regulators could've done to prevent the financial crisis from happening in the first place.
2008x366
366 - A Better Mousetrap 2008
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Oct 10, 2008
Stories about people trying to find new solutions to age-old problems.
2008x367
367 - Ground Game
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Oct 24, 2008
We go to Pennsylvania to figure out why both McCain and Obama think they can win there.
2008x368
368 - Who Do You Think You Are?
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Nov 07, 2008
Stories of privilege and the lengths some will go to to maintain it.
2008x369
369 - Poultry Slam 2008
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Nov 28, 2008
A man in Pakistan buys an amulet with the power to protect anyone from harm. He tests it out on a chicken.
2008x370
370 - Ruining It for the Rest of Us
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Dec 19, 2008
Stories of people who ruin things for everyone else, or who are accused of that.
2008x371 Season finale
371 - Scenes From a Mall
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Dec 26, 2008
We document life in a mall in Tennessee during the run-up to Christmas.

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