Lina Misitzis tells Ira Glass about this one video game character from the 90s who consistently brings men to tears.

A 22-year-old woman has been going to protest in Hong Kong for more than four months. She’s got packing her bag for a protest down to a science.

Back in the 1990s, a bipartisan team led by the charismatic Barbara Jordan came up with a solution to the immigration debate that would have fixed a lot the things we’re arguing about today.

On his deathbed, a wealthy man in Toronto decides to make some trouble. Hundreds of babies are involved. Stephanie Foo tells the story.

Our regular host Ira Glass talks to some Hasidic Jews who also live in the neighborhood to get a different take on the parade.  (10 minutes)

Lilly Sullivan tells the story of the writer Robert Walser, who moved into a mental hospital and then seemed to disappear from the world. Until people looked more closely.

We start with someone getting up the nerve to do something that really, it would be nice to see more often — an apology. And not just any apology.

One of our producers Bim Adewunmi explains her obsession with a certain baby on television.

Ira and Emanuele go to a protest and get tear gassed in front of a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. (6 minutes)

Host Ira Glass talks about our fascination with small things.

The Amsterdam Fire Department has a very surprising sensitivity training video called “The Incident with the Helmet." (5 minutes)

Producer Ben Calhoun recalls a weighty moment from childhood and thinks about how the words from that encounter have come up again.

A reality show contestant tries to game the system. (20 minutes)

Producers Marlon Bishop and Nadia Reiman go inside a heated steel pan competition and meet a mother and daughter who could be competing together for the last time.

Producer Dana Chivvis picks up the story of Dave and Chris and their show “Dopey.” (27 minutes)

Producer Emanuele Berry and her dad only talked about basketball. But they never talked about a game that her dad had botched.

Mike Wise tells Ira about a run he went on one winter night with his dog, years ago along the C&O Canal in DC. It was late.

A government agent steals a suit that’s supposed to make her invisible. It does more than that.

Guest host Neil Drumming wonders what it would be like to know exactly where he’s from.

Producer Lina Misitzis travels to Greece with her family to exhume the bones of her dead grandmother. (20 minutes)

Host Ira Glass talks to producer Zoe Chace about what she learned about the President and conspiracy theories at a Trump rally.

Ira goes to a crowded singles bar where it wasn’t hard to find serial ghosters — people who kiss and disappear.  (8 minutes)