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422: Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special 12.17.10
The holidays are stressful so we booked a seasonal pick-me-up: an hour of comedy. Including comedians Wyatt Cenac, Mike Birbiglia, Julian McCullough, Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Edith Zimmerman....- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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421: Last Man Standing 12.3.10
Is it stubbornness? Tenacity? Survival of the fittest? This week, stories about people who feel compelled to keep going, especially when everyone else has given up.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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420: Neighborhood Watch 11.19.10
It’s amazing just how much drama can take place in the mini-universe of a neighborhood. This week we bring you stories of neighbors watching out for each other, for better and worse, including a...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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419: Petty Tyrant 11.12.10
In Schenectady, NY, a school maintenance man named Steve Raucci works his way up the ranks for 30 years, until finally he's in charge of the maintenance department. That's when he starts messing with...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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418: Toxie 11.5.10
In January 2010, reporters from Planet Money bought a toxic asset—you know, the things that blew up wall street banks, sank the economy and brought the global financial system to a halt—...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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417: This Party Sucks 10.29.10
A show for this year's midterm elections. Two best friends in Michigan, both political novices, get tired of yelling at their TVs and take matters into their own hands. They form a Tea Party chapter...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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416: Iraq After Us 10.15.10
Operation Iraqi Freedom is over. And the next chapter of Iraq is being written now. But what actually happened there the last seven years? Producer Nancy Updike and reporter Larry Kaplow spent a...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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415: Crybabies 9.24.10
Crybabies are annoying. They whine, they complain, sometimes they ruin it for the rest of us. But being a crybaby can be a really effective tactic. We have stories of crybabies in sports, in politics...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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414: Right to Remain Silent 9.10.10
Stories about people who have the right to remain silent... but choose not to exercise that right—including police officer Adrian Schoolcraft, who secretly recorded his supervisors telling...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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413: Georgia Rambler 7.30.10
In the 1970s a reporter named Charles Salter wrote a column for the Atlanta Journal called "Georgia Rambler." He'd get into his car, head out to some small town, and ask around until he found a story...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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412: Million Dollar Idea 7.16.10
Back in the 1980s Michael Larson made the most money ever on the game show Press Your Luck. And it was no accident—Larson had a plan to get rich that surprised everyone: The home viewers, the...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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411: First Contact 6.25.10
Stories of first encounters with unknown and distant beings: Girls, foreigners and perhaps even aliens. Including a story by comedian Mike Birbiglia about his first kiss.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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410: Social Contract 6.18.10
Richard Ravitch has helped fix three governmental crises, including when New York City nearly went bankrupt in 1975. What's changed, to make it so much harder for him to solve the state's current...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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409: Held Hostage 6.4.10
A kidnapping victim in Colombia spends his nights listening to a radio station that plays messages from the families of the kidnapped. That and other stories of people held captive—by criminals...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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408: Island Time 5.21.10
Unprecedented amounts of money have been pledged to Haitian relief in the last few months. American households have given over $1 billion and in March, 120 countries pledged over $9 billion(!) to...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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407: The Bridge 5.7.10
We bring you stories of bridges from three different countries, including one in China that's famous for its massive size and its high suicide rate. One takes it upon himself to patrol the bridge,...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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406: True Urban Legends 4.23.10
Can a rat crawl through your plumbing and end up in your toilet? Can your cell phone give you a brain tumor? Download a transcript or read much more information about our Steve Poizner...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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405: Inside Job 4.9.10
For seven months a team of investigative journalists from ProPublica looked into a story for us, the inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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404: Enemy Camp 2010 4.2.10
Living behind enemy lines, among the enemy, it's sometimes hard to remember why you're fighting in the first place.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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403: NUMMI 3.26.10
A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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402: Save the Day 3.12.10
Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong—including one man's mission to rescue two kids who were kidnapped by alleged murderers and taken to Mexico, and...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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401: Parent Trap 2.19.10
Stories about parents setting accidental traps for their children, and sometimes for themselves, including a story from WNYC's Radiolab about a chimp raised twice—once as a human child, and again as...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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400: Stories Pitched by Our Parents 2.12.10
For our 400th show, we try something harder than anything we've ever tried in the previous 399. We take the random ideas that members of our own families have told us at weddings and family...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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399: Contents Unknown 1.22.10
Stories of filling in the blank. A man finds himself in a train station in India, with no idea how he got there or who he is. His memory gone, he has no choice but to let other people—police, doctors...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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398: Long Shot 1.8.10
Stories of people betting on something with very bad odds, mostly because they have no other choice.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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397: 2010 1.1.10
At the start of a new year, journalistic outfits put out lots of mealy "perhaps oil prices will rise or perhaps they won't" predictions for the coming year. Instead of that, we asked our contributors...
