Producer Emanuele Berry has a day at the mall unlike any other. (7 minutes)

Shamyla always loved books. Like lots of other eleven-year-olds back in 1989, she loved The Babysitters Club.

Producer David Kestenbaum explains how teachers at his sons’ preschool installed a “tattle phone” where kids could register their complaints about each other. David rigged it up to record those complaints and document the unfairnesses of preschool.

Host Ira Glass gets his grandmother Frieda’s college files, which reveal a whole other side of this person he thought he knew so well.

Jaime Lowe begins CPT.

Producer Lilly Sullivan reports out that voicemail. (13 minutes)

Jerry Nadler and other democrats in the House Judiciary Committee were anticipating their first major public appearance – and show of power – since winning back the house in November. As Nadler and his staff prepared to get some answers from then-acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker about his role and conduct as interim AG, producer Zoe Chace follows them behind the scenes for weeks in the run-up to the hearing, to see if their strategies work, or don’t.

After a difficult first week in therapy, Jaime starts to see progress. (21 minutes)

Ira questions the motives of overly ambitious scientists and inventors. (2 minutes)

Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells the story of a woman who wants to know why she was taken away from her mom as a kid. A version of this story is in Eleanor’s book Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds.

An endocrinologist wrote the show about a wave of parents coming to her to treat their short (but otherwise healthy) children with human growth hormone. Contributor Scott Brown investigates.

What does God get out of us praising him? Or is it actually for us? (7 minutes)

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.

Host Ira Glass follows presidential hopeful Julián Castro as he prepares for the first debate of the Democratic primary. His goal is just to let people know he’s in the race! By, possibly, interrupting somebody onstage.

A protestor who thinks the Hong Kong police are terrible has a chat with his dad — a police officer.  Alan Yu reports. (12 minutes)

Sean Cole guest hosts. He was attacked in the street and happens to have a recording of the moment right afterwards.

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) 

Ira remembers the contentious family gatherings of holidays past - and how things have changed.

Ira tells the story of Dave, a former heroin addict who, with his friend Chris, launches a podcast inspired by the Howard Stern Show. Except it’s all about heavy drug use.

When Jessica Hopper was inappropriately groped by an anesthesiologist, during labor, she tries to out him that same day, to a roomful of hospital staff who don’t believe her. That sets her on a many year mission to get someone to take up her cause.

A whole country gets obsessed with rescuing a missing girl. Aviva DeKornfeld tells what happens.

Ira and producer Robyn Semien go behind the scenes with some of the Obama staffers to hear what it felt like in the days leading up to the infamous Beer Summit of 2009.