What happens when an emergency room nurse has an emergency? Kelsay Irby did something that landed her in the headlines. (9 minutes)

Kathie Russo's husband was Spalding Gray,  who was best known for delivering monologues onstage—like "Monster in a Box," and "Swimming to Cambodia." On January 10, 2004, he went missing. Witnesses said they saw him on the Staten Island Ferry that night.

Comedian Tig Notaro has the story of someone as close as her actual bedside yet who, in another way, is impossibly far away. (9 minutes)To read more about the kids stuck in the sewer, check out Jake Offenhartz’s story in Gothamist.

Etgar becomes a vegetarian and his mother jumps into action.

The journalist E. Jean Carroll is in court this week with her rape case against Donald Trump.

Ira asks Etgar if he has any memories where his mom is not the hero of the story.  (3 minutes)

Guest Host Chana Joffe-Walt asks her kids when they first encountered adult fallibility.

When guest host Tobin Low was looking for a husband, he got opposing advice from two of the most important people in his life, his mom and his best friend.

A beloved drawing goes missing from Mr. Ablao’s third grade classroom.

The story Etgar's mother told him, to explain what her father was like.

An EMT learns he was connected to the call, in more ways than he realized.

We’ve witnessed a revolution in A.I. since the public rollout of ChatGPT.  Our Senior Editor David Kestenbaum thinks that even though there’s been a ton of coverage, there’s one thing people haven’t talked much about: have these machines gotten to the point that they’re starting to have something like human intelligence? Where they actually understand language and concepts, and can reason? He talks with scientists at Microsoft who’ve been trying to figure that out.

Producer Alix Spiegel talks to one of her closest friends, Sarah Blust, about the time Sarah met a stranger who, unbeknownst to her, had already spent years thinking about her. (29 minutes)

Back in 2021, a 19-year-old intern at the Idaho state legislature reported that a state Representative named Aaron von Ehlinger raped her. She went by the name Jane Doe.

Doctors say one effect of the new bans is people seeking abortions much later into their second trimesters. Caroline got interested in a girl like that in Oklahoma.

Three girls, whose families traveled thousands of miles to get to New York, navigate their latest challenge: American middle school. (11 minutes)

Kristina Karamo and her camp defend themselves against Warren’s attacks that they’re bad at fundraising and bad at leading the party. (13 minutes)

Guest host Bim Adewunmi talks to her cousin Kamyl about a funny thing Kamyl did when she was small, regarding a dog named Foxy. (4 minutes)

In Israel and Gaza, children are directly facing the fact that the adults around them cannot protect them. (4 minutes)

Nadia and Karen’s son, Luka, who most of these fights are about, gets the last word. (3 minutes)

Audio artist Jay Allison and writer Dan Robb present an audio montage on the moment Robb’s parents divorced.

Comedian Gary Gulman on a choice his dad made for him when he was seven years old.

Some powerful and well known men lost their jobs after #MeToo. But what about the women at the center of all this who’ve been way less visible after they told what happened to them? We hear about big and small ways the aftermath of coming forward continues to pop up in their daily lives.