This American Life (Radio)

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168 - The Fix Is In
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15, 2000
We go inside the back rooms of one multinational corporation and hear the intricate workings of how they put the fix in.
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EXTRA - The One-Day Band—"Rocket Man"
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11, 2002
We played matchmaker and formed a one-day band out of musicians in the classifieds.
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VIDEO - Ira on Letterman
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23, 2007
Ira talks about our “Poultry Slam” episodes and one particular listener’s reaction. 
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EXTRA - More on You Shall Not Murder
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04, 2007
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EXTRA - More on The Center for Lessons Learned
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25, 2007
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EXTRA - Recording "The Three of Us"
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24, 2007
Some of the instruments used in recording Starlee's break-up song. 
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EXTRA - Break-Up Song Contest Winners
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24, 2007
Listener remix contest.
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EXTRA - Mapping
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22, 2007
Denis Wood creates maps that are like novels: they try to describe everyday life. 
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EXTRA - More Letters to Obama From Kids
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16, 2009
Featuring kids from Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Ann Arbor.
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VIDEO - Return to the Scene of the Crime
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23, 2009
Dan Savage, David Rakoff, and Mike Birbiglia. Plus: Joss Whedon sings! 
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VIDEO - Law And Order: BFD
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18, 2009
A video put together by David Rakoff and Dave Hill for our Spring 2009 event, "This American Life -- Live!"
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VIDEO - Ira Glass on Storytelling
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18, 2009
Ira writes: “Somehow, this interview I did with Current TV long ago became so well-known among creative types, that sometimes it feels more famous than our radio show.”  
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EXTRA - Plattekill Travel Plaza
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22, 2009
Scenes from the Plattekill Travel Plaza, a rest stop on the New York State Thruway.
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VIDEO - Chris Ware: Every Marriage Is a Courthouse
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22, 2009
The second cartoon Chris Ware and John Kuramoto made for our TV show, animating a story told by Radiolab host Robert Krulwich and his wife, Tamar.
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EXTRA - House on Loon Lake
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04, 2010
Images to go along with Episode 199: "The House on Loon Lake."
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EXTRA - Harry Brakeman University
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06, 2010
Photos from Jane's Dad's story. 
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EXTRA - We Have a Winner!
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19, 2010
Thank you to the 13,000 listeners who voted for their favorite stories.
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EXTRA - Giant Pool of Money Show ... translated into German
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20, 2010
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VIDEO - Bet Against the American Dream
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09, 2010
This is a tribute to the song "We Can Do It" from The Producers where Nathan Lane explains his unlikely get-rich-quick scheme. Written by Robert Lopez (Book of Mormon, Frozen) to describe the financial deal in our episode "Inside Job." 
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EXTRA - An original broadway song!
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09, 2010
Broadway's first ever investigative reporting musical comedy number.
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EXTRA - Our showtune featured on Bill Moyers Journal
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19, 2010
Bill Moyers played our original broadway song.
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EXTRA - Magnetar and Goldman Sachs: Connected?
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26, 2010
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EXTRA - Steve Poizner's Wild Ride to Number Five
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29, 2010
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EXTRA - Things Not Returning to the Scene of the Crime
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30, 2010
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EXTRA - Beamed Into Space
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25, 2010
In 2008, 501 images were sent from a radio telescope in Eupatoria, Ukraine, towards Gliese 581 c, a planet 118 trillion miles away. Here are some of those images.
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EXTRA - A Listener's Million Dollar Idea
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26, 2010
It's honestly pretty amazing.
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EXTRA - Elbert County
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28, 2010
Photos of Windell Cleveland. 
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EXTRA - Comic by Chris Ware
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13, 2010
Here's the comic Chris made about for the show "Superpowers."
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EXTRA - Kid Politics
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03, 2010
Photos from "Trickle Down History" and "Minor Authorities."
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VIDEO - Toxie’s Dead
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05, 2010
An animation about “Toxie,” a toxic asset that reporters from Planet Money bought in 2010. 
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EXTRA - My Own Private U.F.O.
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06, 2010
Photographs from the story. 
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EXTRA - "Toxie" animation
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10, 2010
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EXTRA - Photos From Our Holiday Comedy Show
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22, 2010
At Littlefield in Brooklyn.
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EXTRA - Holiday Cheer
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04, 2011
We posited that there aren't that many holiday jokes. We stand corrected.
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VIDEO - Chris Ware: The Cameraman
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24, 2011
Chris Ware and animator John Kuramoto made two cartoons for the TV version of our radio show. This is the first. 
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EXTRA - A Note From Ira on Our "Original Recipe" Show
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11, 2011
To be clear: We are not claiming that we have found the recipe used today for Coca-Cola.
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EXTRA - The Recipe
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11, 2011
Make the "original recipe" yourself.
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EXTRA - Our Cola Recipe Story Makes International News
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15, 2011
We had no idea how big a splash the Coca-Cola recipe story would make.
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EXTRA - Our Coca-Cola Recipe Story Made Conan O'Brien's Monologue
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17, 2011
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EXTRA - Listeners Respond to our Coca-Cola Story
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01, 2011
We're astounded at how much interest this story has generated.
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EXTRA - The Georgia Rambler & The Recipe
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03, 2011
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EXTRA - A Clarification and a Correction
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12, 2011
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EXTRA - Very Tough Love: Extra Story
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12, 2011
Another interesting case.
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EXTRA - Ira Responds to Judge Williams' Press Release
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15, 2011
Judge Amanda Williams has decided to respond at length, publicly, to my story about her drug court.
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EXTRA - Two Responses to "When Patents Attack!"
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28, 2011
Our "When Patents Attack!" show has been getting a fair amount of ink.
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EXTRA - A Response To Some of The Comments From "Game Changer"
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12, 2011
Sarah Koenig responds to Penn State University's press release.
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EXTRA - Judge Amanda Williams Faces Charges
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10, 2011
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EXTRA - Tom the Turkey? No comment.
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06, 2011
We wanted to hear from the last person to see Tom alive.
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EXTRA - Judge Williams Steps Down
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20, 2011
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EXTRA - "When Patents Attack" Infographic
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11, 2012
The website FrugalDad posted this infographic inspired by our episode.
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EXTRA - Mass suicide threat at Foxconn
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11, 2012
This American Life has retracted the episode referenced here because we learned that many of Mike Daisey's experiences in China were fabricated. 
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EXTRA - From the vault: "Somewhere in the Arabian Sea"
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12, 2012
The USS John C. Stennis has been in the news a lot lately, after Iran warned the US to keep the Stennis out of the Persian Gulf. 
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EXTRA - A response to the news from Apple
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13, 2012
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VIDEO - Ira Explains How Producing Movies Sucks
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18, 2012
Ira writes: “I did this interview in the press tour for Sleepwalk with Me. Every now and then, I run into someone who makes movies – or tries to make them – who tells me how much they related to it.”
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EXTRA - News Flash: The Real Inventor of "Self-Deportation"
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31, 2012
We were reminded that Kobach was not the first person to come up with the idea of "self-deportation."
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EXTRA - "Very Tough Love" Update – Lindsey Dills
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09, 2012
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EXTRA - Retracting "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory"
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16, 2012
We've learned that Mike Daisey's story about Apple in China contained significant fabrications.
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EXTRA - McCain-Feingold Uncut
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06, 2012
The conversation left a real impression on us. Here's the extended version. 
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EXTRA - Download the live show app!
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30, 2012
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VIDEO - The Invisible Made Visible
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10, 2012
David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Tig Notaro, Glynn Washington, Terry Gross, Mike Birbiglia, Ryan Knighton, dance by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, music by OK Go (who created an app so the audience could play along with the band).
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VIDEO - Fresh Air 2: 2 Fresh 2 Furious
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10, 2012
Mike Birbiglia directed this short film — starring him and Fresh Air host Terry Gross — for our “Invisible Made Visible” live show.
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EXTRA - Oscar Ramirez Castaneda and His Family
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13, 2012
Photos of Oscar Ramirez Castaneda and his family, and also Tranquilino Castaneda.
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EXTRA - Live Show Redux
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18, 2012
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VIDEO - Commencement Speech at Goucher College
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19, 2012
Ira gives a commencement speech denouncing the very idea of commencement speeches. He also tries to give helpful pointers to the grads. 
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EXTRA - "Dos Erres" updates
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01, 2012
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EXTRA - Spanish transcript of "What Happened at Dos Erres"
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22, 2012
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EXTRA - Dakota War of 1862
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27, 2012
Historic photos from John Biewen's story. 
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EXTRA - Listener Sightings of Cindy Sherman!
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09, 2012
We invited listeners to write us if they believe they've spotted Cindy Sherman or someone claiming to be her at her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
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EXTRA - Updates about Journatic
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17, 2012
Several papers have dropped Journatic, and there's some strife internally at the company as well.
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EXTRA - "The Convert" Update
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16, 2012
On Tuesday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that was filed against the FBI as a result of Operation Flex.
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VIDEO - Sleepwalk With Me
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24, 2012
When an aspiring stand-up fails to express his true feelings, his anxiety comes out in increasingly funny and dangerous sleepwalking incidents.
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EXTRA - Two "Dos Erres" Updates
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25, 2012
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VIDEO - Balloon Animals: A Video Tutorial by Ira Glass
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22, 2012
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VIDEO - Ira Gives Teens Advice and Makes Balloon animals
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22, 2012
As part of its Ask a Grown series, Rookie Magazine had Ira shared some of his children’s-entertainment skills while answering reader questions.
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EXTRA - Follow-Up to This Weekend's Story about New Hampshire
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07, 2012
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EXTRA - Download Our Live Show For $5!
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15, 2012
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EXTRA - When America Asked Household Dogs to Serve in World War II
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30, 2012
Photos and documents from our Animal Sacrifice show.
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EXTRA - This Week on Instagram
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07, 2012
We sifted through thousands of images on Instagram and chose a selection of events, big and small, that people captured over the course of this week.
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EXTRA - Fred Armisen Co-Hosts With Ira Glass
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10, 2013
He'll be imitating a public radio personality, one familiar to This American Life listeners.
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EXTRA - "Dos Erres" Update
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14, 2013
ProPublica, our partner in the story, has uncovered information about one of the soldiers who is wanted by authorities for participating in the massacre.
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EXTRA - Harper High School
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15, 2013
We spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year alone 29 current and recent students were shot. 29. Here are photos of the school. 
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EXTRA - Donations for Harper High School
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20, 2013
The school's administrators have set up a donation page.
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EXTRA - Photos: Listeners Coincidence Stories
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01, 2013
Extra coincidence stories from you that all involve your photographs.
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EXTRA - "Trends With Benefits" Web Extra
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22, 2013
Trying to understand what disability means for American workers.
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VIDEO - Fred Armisen as Ira Glass on SNL
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06, 2013
When Fred co-hosted our “Doppelgangers” show, he mentioned that he’d once played Ira in a sketch that never made it onto TV. This is that killed sketch. 
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EXTRA - First Lady Michelle Obama to visit Harper High School
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10, 2013
She will meet with students and counselors to hear about their experiences.
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EXTRA - Images of Anthony's Art and Collaborations
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19, 2013
Here are some of the pieces of art that Anthony and artists traded — and collaborated on. 
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EXTRA - Note about "Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde"
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14, 2013
"I did not mean to imply that Huntington's is what made Vince do this violent thing."
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VIDEO - Ira Talks About Michael Jackson at the Academy of Arts and Letters
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23, 2013
When the Academy of Arts and Letters gave Ira a medal for spoken language, he gave this speech.
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EXTRA - Episode #499 Extra: "Emails From a Dead Man"
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29, 2013
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EXTRA - Update about "Omar" from Taking Names
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09, 2013
His family has finally left Iraq.
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EXTRA - Hello, Our Name Is
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12, 2013
The notes from our brainstorm about the show name.
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EXTRA - 500th Episode Illustrations
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15, 2013
We thought it would be fun to commission some illustrations to mark our 500th episode.
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EXTRA - Harper Student Murdered
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26, 2013
Harper High has lost its first student since our shows about the school.
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EXTRA - A Prank Admissions Essay To Rick Clark
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19, 2013
After talking to us, the Georgia Tech Admissions Director got this email.
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EXTRA - Statement From the Maker of Tylenol
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20, 2013
Hear the full statement from Vice President for Medical Affairs, Ed Kuffner.
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EXTRA - Diana, Hunter of Bus Drivers
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08, 2013
Artist Alice Leora Briggs created a drawing to accompany a story from "Secret Identity."
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EXTRA - "Dos Erres" Conviction
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08, 2013
An update on episode 465, "What Happened At Dos Erres."
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VIDEO - Ira at Google
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27, 2013
Google sometimes invites people in to give little talks or Q&As. Ira was asked, while he was visiting California. 
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VIDEO - The Gap
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25, 2014
Ira writes: “Several people have taken a quote from that Current TV interview and made short videos with it. This one, by Daniel Sax, is inventive and beautiful.”
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EXTRA - We're On The Google Homepage!
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13, 2014
We made six mini-love stories for the Google team.
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EXTRA - Chocolate Box Of Love Stories
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16, 2014
We collaborated with Google on the Valentine's Day Google Doodle.
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EXTRA - "Stuck in the Middle" Update: Gital Got Her Get
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27, 2014
An update on our story about women in the Orthodox Jewish community whose husbands refuse to give them a divorce.
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EXTRA - Update: "Dead Men Tell No Tales"
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03, 2014
The Florida State Attorney released a report on the shooting of Ibragim Todashev.
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EXTRA - Update: Mike Anderson Released
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06, 2014
Mike will receive credit for the entire time that he was accidentally out of prison.
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EXTRA - Photos From "Live at BAM"
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07, 2014
Photos from rehearsals, backstage and the performance.
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VIDEO - Quimby the Mouse
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07, 2014
For our “Return to the Scene of the Crime” live show, Chris Ware and John Kuramoto created this animated short, about a mouse falling in love with a cat head. Set to a song by Andrew Bird.
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VIDEO - The Radio Drama Episode
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07, 2014
Our most ambitious live show ever! Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians, and comedians onstage including Sasheer Zamata, Stephin Merritt, Mike Birbiglia, and an original mini-musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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EXTRA - "21 Chump Street: The Musical" Original Cast Album
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23, 2014
Like a real Broadway show, our cast recorded the whole thing in one session.
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EXTRA - Ira's Backstage Speech
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25, 2014
A video of Ira talking to the cast and crew before we went onstage at BAM.
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EXTRA - LA County Sheriff’s Department, Then and Now
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21, 2014
An update on a story from episode 530, "Mind Your Own Business."
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EXTRA - Ultra-Psychonics
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06, 2014
Jonathan found the book in his apartment recently and decided to look into the magical claims the book made.
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EXTRA - East Ramapo School District
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19, 2014
Photos from "A Not-So-Simple Majority." 
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VIDEO - Brian Reed on How to Construct a Compelling Story
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20, 2014
S-Town host and This American Life Senior Producer Brian Reed spoke about the three key elements of a good story: action, reflection, and stakes.
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EXTRA - Update: "Kim Possible"
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11, 2014
Kim filed a $5-million lawsuit against Trainum and the D.C. Metropolitan PD.
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EXTRA - Our Questions for the New York Fed and Goldman Sachs
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26, 2014
Read our questions and their responses.
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VIDEO - How to Listen to a Podcast, with Ira and Mary
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03, 2014
When we launched Serial, we learned how many people still didn’t know how to hear a podcast. Ira asked an octogenarian friend, Mary Ahearn, to help him explain it.
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VIDEO - Radio Tales: Ira Glass on Jimmy Fallon
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08, 2014
Ira recounts a time that bleeping a swear word on Minnesota Public Radio went horribly wrong.
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VIDEO - Ira Glass on The Tonight Show
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09, 2014
Ira talks about tweeting and Shakespeare.
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EXTRA - Lyons Community School
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17, 2014
This school in Brooklyn is trying to avoid suspensions, detentions and basically all other forms of traditional punishment. 
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VIDEO - Maia's Boyfriend Watches the “I Love You” Video
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12, 2015
Maia surprises Alex with her Videos 4 U short where she finally says, “I love you.”
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VIDEO - I Love You
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12, 2015
Episode 1 in our Videos 4 U series: we helped Maia say three words to her boyfriend she’d never said before. This video won an Emmy!
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EXTRA - Updates: Miami Gardens Police Department
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04, 2015
Since we ran our story, there's been several developments.
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EXTRA - You Can Help Melanie
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08, 2015
How to help the young girl from our Three Miles episode.
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EXTRA - Canvassers Study Has Been Retracted
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20, 2015
Some of the data gathered by his co-author seems to have been faked.
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EXTRA - More Strange Details About That Apparently Fabricated Study
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20, 2015
Dave Fleischer believes data was being fabricated from the beginning.
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EXTRA - Update on unlicensed rehab center story
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09, 2015
The centers may be selling the identities of drug users who wind up there.
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EXTRA - Information for Listeners Inquiring About Abdi
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16, 2015
Abdi has set up a Paypal account, if you would like to donate.
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EXTRA - The Steinfels on the U.S.S. Elizabeth City
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02, 2015
See the kids at work on the ship. 
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VIDEO - Tattoos
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18, 2015
Episode 2 in our Videos 4 U series: We helped Maggie tell her parents that she had lots of tattoos, a fact she’d hidden for years. 
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EXTRA - Correspondence From the Col Angels
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30, 2015
Guys around the country signed up for a pen pal service. Here are some of those letters. 
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EXTRA - Information for Listeners Inquiring About Rainy
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12, 2015
How to help the teenager who told her story of surviving abuse.
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VIDEO - Chris Ware: Animated New Yorker cover
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30, 2015
Our collaboration with The New Yorker. This was the cover of their Dec 7, 2015, issue. Everyone who got the digital version of that issue on this iPad or phone could push “play” and the cover would come to life as an animated short. 
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EXTRA - The Totally Objective List of the 7 Best Turkey Fryer Fire Videos on the Internet
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27, 2015
Experience the magic.
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VIDEO - Sarah Koenig on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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21, 2016
Sarah Koenig, host of Serial, talked to Stephen Colbert about Season Two.
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VIDEO - Don’t Think Twice
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22, 2016
A hilarious and honest look at the lives of professional funny people.
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EXTRA - Refugee Camps in Greece: How to Help
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09, 2016
A list of groups we interacted with in Greece that are helping refugees.
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EXTRA - Do Robot Babies Make Teens Want Real Babies?
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25, 2016
“The program had the opposite effect we have hoped for.”
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EXTRA - Behind the Scenes of a Secret Interrogation Camp
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26, 2016
See photos of the WWII interrogation camp PO Box 1142.
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EXTRA - French vs. American Comedy: Gad Elmaleh on Stage
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09, 2016
See a video of his theatrical one-man show in France.
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VIDEO - Shortcut
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11, 2016
Ira explains how to use our Shortcut app to share clips from This American Life  on social media.
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VIDEO - Seriously
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03, 2016
15 million people watched this on Facebook. Right before the 2016 election, we asked Sara Bareilles to imagine what President Obama might be thinking about Donald Trump, but couldn’t say publicly. Leslie Odom Jr. sang. 
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VIDEO - Party Guy
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03, 2016
The third song we commissioned on the eve of the 2016 election. Broadway composer Michael Friedman imagined what RNC Chairman Reince Priebus might be thinking, but not expressing publicly. John Ellison Conlee sang.
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EXTRA - This American Vote in Song
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03, 2016
Ira on how the three original songs for the 2016 election came about. 
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VIDEO - A Better Way
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03, 2016
Just before the 2016 election, we asked the Frozen songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez to imagine what Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was feeling, but couldn’t say .. show full overview
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VIDEO - Mixtape: Brian Reed on The Tonight Show
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01, 2017
As part of The Tonight Show’s Mixtape series, Brian Reed shared what podcasts he’s listening to, plus the storytelling styles that helped inspire S-Town.
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VIDEO - Brian Reed on The Tonight Show
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02, 2017
Brian Reed, host of S-Town, talked to Jimmy Fallon about how a chance email sent by a fascinating Alabama antique clock restorer led to the podcast.
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EXTRA - Update on Mohamed “Tiiceey” Aden from "I Am Not A Pirate"
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06, 2017
A Belgian appeals court delivered a verdict in his case.
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EXTRA - The Floating Ball Routine: An Excerpt from David P. Abbott’s “Book of Mysteries”
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30, 2017
See the inspiration for Teller's Red Ball trick.
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EXTRA - Photos: Ira Glass and David Kestenbaum as Kid Magicians
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03, 2017
"I really loved that cape. Felt very official."
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EXTRA - Bill and Marvin at VES
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08, 2017
See Bill Alexander and Marvin Barnard transform from freshmen to seniors. 
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EXTRA - Our Town: The Economist’s Report
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08, 2017
Jeff Sessions believes undocumented workers drove down wages in Alabama poultry plants. We commissioned a study to see if he’s right.
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EXTRA - We Deported Half a Million People to Mexico in the 1930s. Did It Create Jobs?
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21, 2017
A study by economist Giovanni Peri, who worked with us on our shows about Albertville, Alabama.
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EXTRA - "9 to 5" by Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards
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16, 2018
We commissioned an original cover of “9 to 5,” by Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards, and it’s fantastic. Chana and Robyn talk about how the song came to be. Also, now you can download the song.
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EXTRA - Walls
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16, 2018
Once a wall is built, it becomes a fact on the landscape that can totally change the logic of the world around it. In the episode “The Walls,” we have stories about people at walls all over the globe. Fly around to visit the walls in each story. 
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EXTRA - Melilla, Mexico, and Trump
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21, 2018
Footage of people rushing the fences in Melilla had appeared in Donald Trump’s first TV ad when he was running for president.
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VIDEO - Our New Movie,
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16, 2018
The film tells the real-life story of Carlton Pearson, who was a rising star in the Pentecostal church and Oral Roberts’s protégé.
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EXTRA - Videos of Carlton Pearson
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20, 2018
The screenwriter Marcus Hinchey, who spent hundreds of hours talking to Bishop Pearson, chose favorite videos of him. 
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VIDEO - Commencement Speech at the Columbia Journalism School
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17, 2018
 Ira Glass talks to the graduating journalists about the challenges they and all journalists face these days, with fewer people believing fact-based reporting.
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EXTRA - A Brick and a Seesaw
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22, 2018
Graeme told us in the interview that he’d often wondered if you could calculate how fast the brick would have been going as it whizzed past his head. Here's the problem. Do you know the solution? 
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EXTRA - On the Trail With Jeff Beals
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22, 2018
In the final weeks of the primary election in New York 19th, Jeff Beals is devoting almost all of his time to canvassing.
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EXTRA - Victorian Salmon Flies and the Birds Used to Make Them
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13, 2018
Made using some of the rarest feathers in the world.
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EXTRA - Suffolk County Police Will Look Into Treatment of Immigrant Families
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28, 2018
"To hear it out of the detectives' mouths, the complete disrespect...gut-wrenching.” 
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EXTRA - High Schools Performing the Musical Lin-Manuel Miranda Wrote for Our BAM Show
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19, 2018
It’s been thrilling to come across YouTube videos of high schools staging the show.