Ira talks with his father and co-host for this show, Barry Glass, about his own early days working in radio.

At the start of the year, Warren Carpenter was a Kristina Karamo supporter; helped her get elected.

Ira talks about the time his dad taught him to shave, and how unusual that was.

Chicago playwright Beau O’Reilly talks about how he reconciled with his estranged father years ago by becoming an alcoholic just like him.

Valerie Kipnis tells Ira about riding the subway, shoulder-to-shoulder with someone she knows quite well, pretending she doesn’t see him.

Jane Doe walks into a public ethics hearing at the Idaho state capitol and navigates the aftermath. (23 minutes)Song: “Here We Have Idaho”  Fiona Apple (vocals) Amy Wood (drums and percussion) David Garza (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, vocals) Sabastian Steinberg (bass, electric autoharp, vocals) John Would (tremolo guitar) Engineered by John Would, Amy Wood, Fiona Apple Mixed and mastered by John Would

DeSantis has passed law after law about what can and can’t be taught in Florida classrooms. Reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi followed how things unfolded at Florida State.

Megan Tan never felt close to her father. For years they’ve been distant.

Dr. Amelia Huntsberger loves everything about her rural town in northern Idaho.

Writer Tamsyn Muir spent her childhood craving a world that she could not find on earth. So as an adult, she just created it.

Alex Blumberg tells the true story of Jerry Springer's life before he was a talk show host.

We get a tip that an entire town is consumed by a huge, elementary-school-style crush on a local veterinarian.

Guest host Nancy Updike talks about learning something new, and unpleasant, about herself in, where else, a makeup store. She also talks with other people about moments where someone made an observation about them that was shocking.

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

Calvin is an 11 year old who is learning what love is all about, the hard way. (7 minutes)

Susan Burton introduces some of the many women who went to a Yale fertility clinic for IVF treatment, and charts their experience from hopeful beginning to excruciatingly painful egg retrieval.

American criminals who flee to Mexico to evade law enforcement discover it's not so simple as crossing the border.

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.

In the middle of the night, host Ira Glass meets a woman on a mission at Port Authority bus station. (13 minutes)

Simon Rich reads his short story "History Report," in which a father explains the sex robots of the future.

Ira talks to producer Sean Cole about a nightmarish runaround he’s been caught in. It all started when Sean thought: I'd like a new bed.

Someone writes into the advice column Dear Sugar to ask whether or not they should quit a relationship, and gets a strange but very persuasive response. (9 minutes)An adaptation of some of Cheryl Strayed’s columns is now streaming on Hulu.