This American Life (Unofficial)

749: My Bad 01.10.2021 ↓

An hour devoted to embarrassing stories. They’re not always just little moments – funny, daily stuff that we laugh about later. Some can change you for the rest of your life.

748: The End of the World as We Know It 17.09.2021 ↓

What happens when one family goes all in on fighting climate change.

747: Suitable for Children 10.09.2021 ↓

Who thought that would be good for a kid?

746: This Is Just Some Songs 03.09.2021 ↓

We made you a mixtape. Don't make a big deal out of it or anything.

745: Getting Out 27.08.2021 ↓

People trying to escape all kinds of seemingly impossible situations.

744: Essential 13.08.2021 ↓

The pandemic forced jobs to change, but then the workers changed, too.

743: Don't You Be My Neighbor 30.07.2021 ↓

Bad neighbors. What can you do about them?

742: The Thing I'm Getting Over 23.07.2021 ↓

What’s recovery mean, anyway?

741: The Weight of Words 09.07.2021 ↓

Words mean things, but some words are especially meaningful.

740: There. I Fixed It. 02.07.2021 ↓

Solving problems using very extreme measures.

739: Sisters 11.06.2021 ↓

The bonds between sisters and how they get broken and fixed—or not.

738: Good Grief! 28.05.2021 ↓

So many of us, we don’t want to think about death. We avoid grieving when we lose someone, distract ourselves, look away. In this episode, at a moment when so many families are mourning, we have stories of people figuring out how they’ll grieve, and doing a pretty good job of it.

737: The Daily 14.05.2021 ↓

An ode to life's daily practices, and what you learn from doing a thing every single day.

736: The Herd 23.04.2021 ↓

What happens when your own community suddenly turns on you?

735: Bloody Feelings 09.04.2021 ↓

Stories about the power of blood.

734: The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled 19.03.2021 ↓

How the pandemic has thrown college admissions process into a kind of slow-motion chaos. One of the biggest changes: most colleges have stopped requiring the SAT. For decades, there’s been a debate over whether schools should drop the test. What’s it mean that it finally happened?

733: Warriors in the Garden 05.03.2021 ↓

This week, three men who came together to protest the murder of George Floyd. They were unified, loud, and impressive, but over time these three friends end up in three very different places.

732: Secrets 19.02.2021 ↓

Why we tell them, and what happens after we do.

731: What Lies Beneath (2021) 12.02.2021 ↓

Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.

730: The Empty Chair 22.01.2021 ↓

Things we’ve lost in the past year — since the first American coronavirus case — that we haven’t talked about so much. Gossip. The chance to make new friends. And much larger stuff.

729: Making the Cut 08.01.2021 ↓

There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.

728: Lights, Camera, Christmas! 25.12.2020 ↓

People going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families.

727: Boulder v. Hill 18.12.2020 ↓

What the day-to-day business of saving the world looks like. We visit with one group of people who are trying to rescue us from something very large, and another group trying to rescue us from something very small.

726: Twenty-Five 11.12.2020 ↓

To commemorate our show’s 25th year, we have a program about people who were born the year our show went on the air.

725: Turkey in a Face Mask 27.11.2020 ↓

For Thanksgiving weekend, stories about food, and people who set out on very particular missions with food.