Act Three: The Run
David Kestenbaum retraces the steps of Steve Snyder, a man who found himself running for love.
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Act Two: Life Is a Coin With One Side
Producer David Kestenbaum took issue with the entire premise of today’s show, and explains why.
Act Three: A Curious Bone
David Kestenbaum tells the story of a man on the verge of one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time … right on the verge. (4 minutes)
Act Three: Dear Dr. Kestenbaum
When senior editor David Kestenbaum was still a rookie reporter, he wrote an email to a legend.
Act Two: Blue Sky Dream
David Beers explains the gorgeous, modern vision that drew his family, and tons of other families, to California, and then what happened after they arrived.
Act Two: A Brief History Of Republican Time
Writer David Brock gives us the inside story of how we got to this point of bitterness. It is not a pretty story.
Act Four: The Meaning Of A Bird
Writer David Rakoff explains how his life was changed—in a single evening—in a room of 5000 chickens.
Act Four: The Meaning Of A Bird
Writer David Rakoff explains how his life was changed—in a single evening—in a room of 5000 chickens.
Act Three: The Meaning of Basketball
Chicago playwright David Isaacson, on hating the Bulls.Then, Nancy Updike presents a sound portrait of a Philadelphia woman and her basketball trophies.
Act Two: The Meaning Of A Bird
David writes about how his life changed after a single evening spent with 5000 chickens.
Act Three: From The Audience Seats
Mark O'Brien is in an iron lung and comes out for short periods of time. What does he do with those precious moments free of the machinery that keeps him alive? He goes to the theater.
Act One: Lab Rugrats
Continuing from our prologue, host Ira Glass checks in with Lisa and her older daughter, Kennedy, to see how the experiment went. After a month, they've charted surprising results, learned that the girls aren't the only ones in the house who need to change, and found out just how much money it takes to get a twelve-year-old to play with a five-year-old.
Prologue
One day at church camp, David Maxon challenged the devil to show himself. Just then, a huge thunderstorm started, and David felt sure the devil was behind it.
Act One: Do These Genes Make Me Look Fatless?
Journalist David Epstein tells the story of Jill Viles, who has muscular dystrophy and can’t walk. But she believes that she somehow has same condition as one of the best hurdlers in the world, Priscilla Lopes-Schliep.
Prologue
Ira introduces David Kestenbaum's story with some thoughts about the challenges of parenting.
Act Three: Stiff as a Board, Light as a Feather
David Rakoff tells this story, about the invisible processes that can happen inside our bodies and the visible effects they eventually have. (15 minutes)David died three months after this performance, in August 2012.
Act One: Is This War or Is This Hearts?
David Ellis Dickerson tells the story of heading home to Tucson after six years away, having rejected the evangelical Christianity of his family. David came prepared for war, armed with new beliefs.
Act Six: Rent
A never-before-aired story about the Broadway musical Rent.
Act Two: Let’s Give ‘Em Nothing to Talk About
David Kestenbaum talks about his love of the number zero and its power to destroy. Among zero's victims: one of the most controversial laws in recent memory.
Act One: Who’s Canadian?
David on how he tried to pass as a local once he moved from Toronto to New York. He claims that there must be a chip in his head — or something like it — that automatically tells him when someone or something famous is Canadian.
Act Six: A Change In The Office Climate
Two civil servants who do not like our new President weigh their options. Quit? Stay? Stay and fight? Producer David Kestenbaum reports.