This American Life (Radio)

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1999
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119 - Lockup
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Stories of the lives of prisoners in the United States, and the lives of their families
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120 - Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
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Three stories of people pretending to be something they're not, and what happens to them.
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121 - Twentieth Century Man
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What happens if you're too good at throwing everything out and starting over?
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122 - Valentine’s Day ’99
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Stories of impossible love and heartbreak.
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123 - High Cost of Living
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Stories of people who choose not to live every moment to the fullest or smell the roses.
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124 - Welcome to America
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Stories of people moving to this country: what they see and hear that those of us who were born here don't.
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125 - Apocalypse
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Fundamentalist Christians and Orthodox Jews are combining forces to breed a perfect red cow that could bring about the end of the world.
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126 - Do-Gooders
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Two do-gooders try to change things in their hometown for the better. But the more they try, the more people resent them.
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127 - Pimp Anthropology
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A former pimp tells how he and three childhood friends became pimps in the 1970s in Oakland, California.
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128 - Four Corners
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We try to tell the story of life in America through portraits of life in four different states across the nation.
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129 - Advice
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What if you asked people for advice and actually took ALL of the advice that everyone gave you? Sarah Vowell tried exactly that.
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130 - Away From Home
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Stories of people going home to places they've never been before.
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131 - The Kids Are Alright
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Stories in which young people take matters into their own hands, broadcast for the tenth anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square.
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132 - Father’s Day ‘99
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Photographer Joel Meyerowitz goes on a last big trip with his father, who has Alzheimer's, and his son.
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133 - Sales
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We accompany a Hollywood screenwriter as he tries to sell a movie idea and find ourselves asking, is the art of commerce better than the art of art?
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134 - We Didn’t
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It turns out that not falling in love, not doing our jobs, not spending time with our families is every bit as vivid and complicated an experience as doing something.
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135 - Allure of Crime
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Through our crimes, we express who we are.
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136 - You Are Here
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Three stories, three people, and three sets of maps.
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137 - The Book That Changed Your Life
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We want to believe our lives can be changed by a set of ideas contained in a book.
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138 - The Real Thing
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Stories of people drawn to some idea, some picture, some "thing" that they just want to be.
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139 - Ghosts of Elections Past
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Stories designed to provide some small sense of hope about American politics.
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140 - Family Business
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What happens when the tension of family dynamics collides with the pressure of capitalist market forces.
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141 - Invisible Worlds
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Stories of people who are trying to make invisible worlds visible.
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142 - Barbara
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We hear the story of one African-American single mother who recorded her family's life over the course of seven months.
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143 - Sentencing
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Have mandatory minimum sentences gone too far?
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144 - Where Words Fail
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People struggle to invent words adequate to cope with death.
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145 - Poultry Slam 1999
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Our annual program about turkeys, chickens, fowl of all types, and their mysterious hold over our imaginations.
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146 - Urban Nature
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David Rakoff visits Iceland, where the government is careful not to disturb certain boulders because some people believe that elves live there.
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147 - A Teenager's Guide to God
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Oh faithless and perverse generation? How long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?—Matthew 17.
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148 - The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit
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The many, many different versions of Santa Claus.