This American Life (Radio)

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2013
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483 - Self-Improvement Kick
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A perfectly normal guy gets rid of everything he owns, changes his name, says goodbye to his friends—and begins walking.
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484 - Doppelgängers
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We got a tip about a meat plant selling pig intestines as fake calamari and decided to investigate.
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485 - Surrogates
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The proxy battle over a woman’s honor that became a presidential obsession.
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486 - Valentine’s Day
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A couple decides to sleep with other people before they tie the knot. Plus, more stories of love making us do crazy things.
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487 - Harper High School - Part One
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We spent five months at a high school in Chicago where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.
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488 - Harper High School - Part Two
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Part two of our program on Harper High School in Chicago, where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.
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489 - No Coincidence, No Story!
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We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions!
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490 - Trends With Benefits
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The startling rise of the number of people on disability in America.
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491 - Tribes
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A white guy who only wants to date Asian women has to adjust to the reality of a real actual Asian woman in his life.
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492 - Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
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Did a beloved family doctor with no criminal history suddenly up and strangle his own father?
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493 - Picture Show
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Israeli soldiers take snapshots of Palestinian boys, one house at a time, in the middle of the night.
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494 - Hit the Road
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A man decides to take a trip from Philadelphia to San Francisco—by foot.
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495 - Hot In My Backyard
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Why has the conversation on climate change been stuck in the same place for years?
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496 - When Patents Attack... Part Two!
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Why people say our patent system may be discouraging, not encouraging, innovation.
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497 - This Week
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All of the stories in the show are things that have taken place in the last seven days.
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498 - The One Thing You're Not Supposed To Do
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People who know something's a bad idea, but convince themselves to do that thing anyway.
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499 - Taking Names
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The story of a guy named Kirk Johnson, who started a list of Iraqis who needed to get out of their country.
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500 - 500!
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Ira asks the producers to talk about their very favorite moments on the show.
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501 - The View From In Here
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An American woman suddenly trades her life for one in a place most people might think twice about: Juarez, Mexico.
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502 - This Call May Be Recorded... To Save Your Life
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A journalist gets a disturbing tip: a phone number to a group of refugees being held hostage in the Sinai desert.
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503 - I Was Just Trying To Help
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Planet Money looks at a charity that's decided to just give people money.
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504 - How I Got Into College
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How a stolen library book got one man into his dream school and changed his life forever. Or at least that's the story he tells himself.
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505 - Use Only as Directed
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More than 150 Americans die each year on average after accidentally taking too much acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol.
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506 - Secret Identity
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A teenage girl becomes a whole new person when she becomes the school mascot — a tiger — at her high school.
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507 - Confessions
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What should a person suspected of murder say?
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508 - Superpowers
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Which is better: flight or invisibility?
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509 - It Says So Right Here
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Stories of people whose lives are altered when seemingly boring documents like birth certificates and petitions are used against them.
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510 - Fiasco!
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The story of a police officer and a squirrel. Plus, a small town production of Peter Pan goes off the rails.
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511 - The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About
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Sarah Koenig's mother lives by a set of rules about conversation. We tried to prove her wrong.
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512 - House Rules
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The history of racial housing discrimination in the United States and what has been done—and hasn't been done—to rectify it.
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513 - 129 Cars
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One car dealership tries to sell 129 cars. It is way more chaotic than we expected.
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514 - Thought That Counts
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It's the thought that counts. Unfortunately, sometimes it's not always so clear what that thought was.