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Ira remembers the time when his older sister, Randi, asked his mother where babies come from.
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Host Ira Glass talks to Eyal Levin, who says his neighbor has been propagating a lie for years about one of the most contentious issues in New York: street parking.
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Chase Friedman was in an accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Ira Glass talks to him about the unusual goal he set for his recovery.
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What does God get out of us praising him? Or is it actually for us? (7 minutes)
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Ira Glass talks to Sam Ashner, whose debilitating fear of spiders was ruining his life. So he opted for an extraordinary treatment — the nuclear option — to deal with it.
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Ira talks with comedian Rob Delany, who suffered the worst kind of loss a parent can endure — the death of his two-year-old son, Henry. Rob describes what his grief has been like and what he’s learned from it.
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Host Ira Glass goes to a block in New York City where, over a year into the pandemic, neighbors are still clapping for health care workers every night at 7 p.m. (7 minutes)
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You can’t get herd immunity until you deal with the herd, and get enough of them moving together in the same direction. That’s been difficult this past year, in a way it’s never been during any other epidemic in our history.
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Host Ira Glass talks to writer Mitchell S.
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Host Ira Glass takes us on a tour of the various ways the pandemic has affected going to college this year.
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A beloved drawing goes missing from Mr. Ablao’s third grade classroom.
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A woman’s dog has an unexpected reaction to the pandemic, and a mother has to re-think how to teach her son to drive.
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Linda Lutton and her eleven year old daughter Pirecua explain what happened the year Pirecua begged for a gift that she turned out to be allergic to. Linda is a reporter at our home station, WBEZ Chicago.
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Host Ira Glass plays a recording of a rookie, try-hard, 25-year-old radio reporter.
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Vertamae Grosvenor, shows Ira how to tell a chicken is done simply by listening to the sound of the grease.
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There is a lot of disinformation surrounding the 2020 presidential election. A few conspiracy theories in particular have gained traction.
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Host Ira Glass talks with Georgia Democrats who went out to “cure” ballots in a state with some of the closest results in the country.
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Ira gives us a recent shortlist of things that feel almost too unreal to believe as we head into the national election.