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001 New Beginnings
002 Small Scale Sin
003 Poultry Slam 1995
004 Vacations
005 Anger and Forgiveness
006 Christmas
007 Quitting
008 New Year
009 Julia Sweeney
010 Double Lives
011 Enemies
012 Animals
013 Love
014 Accidental Documentaries
015 Dawn
016 Economy
017 Name Change / No Theme
018 Liars
019 Rich Guys
020 From A Distance
021 Factions
022 Adult Children
023 Drama Bug
024 Teenaged Girls
025 Basketball
026 Father's Day '96
027 The Cruelty of Children
028 Detectives
029 Bob Dole
030 Obsession
031 When You Talk About Music
032 Republican Convention
033 A Night at the Wiener Circle
034 Democratic Convention
035 Fall Clearance Sale
036 Letters
037 The Job That Takes Over Your Life
038 Simulated Worlds
039 Halloween
040 Lessons
041 Politics
042 Get Over It!
043 Faustian Bargains
044 Poultry Slam 1996
045 Media Fringe
046 Sissies
047 Christmas and Commerce
048 Justice
049 Animals
050 Shoulda Been Dead
051 Animals Die, People Ponder
052 Edge of Sanity
053 Valentine’s Day ‘97
054 Sinatra
055 Three Women and the Sex Industry
056 Name Change
057 Delivery
058 Small Towns
059 Fire
060 Business of Death
061 Fiasco! (1997)
062 Something for Nothing
063 One Thing
064 Summer
065 Who's Canadian?
066 Tales from the Net
067 Your Dream, My Nightmare
068 Lincoln's Second Inaugural
069 Dream House
070 Other People's Mail
071 Defying Sickness
072 Trek
073 Blame It on Art
074 Conventions
075 Kindness of Strangers
076 Mob
077 Pray
078 How Bad Is Bad?
079 Stuck in the Wrong Decade
080 Running After Antelope
081 Guns
082 Haunted
083 One of Us
084 Harold
085 Poultry Slam 1997
086 How to Take Money from Strangers
087 A Very Special Sedaris Christmas
088 Numbers
089 Sibling Rivalry
090 Telephone
091 Escape the Box
092 Leave the Mask On
093 Valentine’s Day ’98
094 How To
095 Monogamy
096 Pinned by History
097 Death to Wacky
098 Throwing the First Punch
099 I Enjoy Being A Girl, Sort Of
100 Radio
101 Niagara
102 Road Trip!
103 Scenes from A Transplant
104 Music Lessons
105 Take A Negro Home
106 Father’s Day ‘98
107 Trail of Tears (1998)
108 Truth and Lies at Age Ten
109 Notes on Camp
110 Mapping
111 Adventures in the Simple Life
112 Ladies and Germs
113 Windfall
114 Last Words
115 First Day
116 Poultry Slam 1998
117 You Gonna Eat That?
118 What You Lookin’ At?
119 Lockup
120 Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
121 Twentieth Century Man
122 Valentine’s Day ’99
123 High Cost of Living
124 Welcome to America
125 Apocalypse
126 Do-Gooders
127 Pimp Anthropology
128 Four Corners
129 Advice
130 Away From Home
131 The Kids Are Alright
132 Father’s Day ‘99
133 Sales
134 We Didn’t
135 Allure of Crime
136 You Are Here
137 The Book That Changed Your Life
138 The Real Thing
139 Ghosts of Elections Past
140 Family Business
141 Invisible Worlds
142 Barbara
143 Sentencing
144 Where Words Fail
145 Poultry Slam 1999
146 Urban Nature
147 A Teenager's Guide to God
148 The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit
149 Bedside Diplomacy
150 Kids As Adults
151 Primary
152 Crush
153 Dolls
154 In Dog We Trust (2000)
155 Hoaxing Yourself (2000)
156 What Remains
157 Secret Life of Daytime
158 Mob Mentality
159 Mother’s Day
160 Character Assassination
161 Million Bubbles
162 Moving
163 Can You Fight City Hall…If You Are City Hall?
164 Crime Scene (2000)
165 Americans in Paris
166 Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
167 Memo to the People of the Future
168 The Fix Is In
169 Pursuit of Happiness
170 Immigration
171 Election
172 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
173 Three Kinds of Deception
174 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones
175 Babysitting
176 Two Nations, One President
177 American Limbo
178 Superpowers
179 Cicero
180 Return to Childhood 2001
181 The Friendly Man
182 Cringe
183 The Missing Parents Bureau
184 Neighbors
185 Golden Calf
186 Prom
187 Father's Day '01
188 Kid Logic (2001)
189 Hitler’s Yacht
190 Living the Dream
191 I Know What You Did This Summer
192 Meet the Pros
193 Stories of Loss
194 Before and After
195 War Stories
196 Rashomon
197 Before It Had A Name
198 How to Win Friends and Influence People
199 House on Loon Lake
200 Hearts and Minds
201 Them
202 Faith
203 Recordings for Someone
204 81 Words
205 Plan B
206 Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
207 Special Ed
208 Office Politics
209 Didn’t Ask to Be Born
210 Perfect Evidence
211 Naming Names
212 The Other Man
213 Devil on My Shoulder
214 Family Physics
215 Ask An Expert
216 Give the People What They Want
217 Give It to Them
218 Act V
219 High Speed Chase
220 Testosterone
221 Fake I.D.
222 Suckers
223 Classifieds
224 Middlemen
225 Home Movies
226 Reruns
227 Why We Fight
228 You Are So Beautiful…To Me
229 Secret Government
230 Come Back to Afghanistan
231 Time to Save the World
232 The Real Story
233 Starting From Scratch
234 Say Anything
235 The Balloon Goes Up
236 My Two Cents
237 Regime Change
238 Lost in Translation
239 Lost in America
240 I’m In Charge Now
241 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
242 Enemy Camp
243 Later That Same Day
244 MacGyver
245 Allure of the Mean Friend
246 My Pen Pal
247 What Is This Thing?
248 Like It or Not
249 Garbage
250 The Annoying Gap Between Theory...and Practice
251 Brother’s Keeper
252 Poultry Slam 2003
253 The Middle of Nowhere
254 Teenage Embed, Part Two
255 Our Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
256 Living Without (2004)
257 What I Should’ve Said
258 Leaving the Fold (2004)
259 Promised Land
260 The Facts Don’t Matter
261 The Sanctity of Marriage
262 Miracle Cures
263 Desperate Measures
264 Special Treatment
265 Fake Science
266 I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
267 Propriety
268 My Experimental Phase
269 Someone to Watch Over Me
270 Family Legend
271 Best Interests
272 Big Tent
273 Put Your Heart In It
274 Enemy Camp (2004)
275 Two Steps Back
276 Swing Set
277 Apology
278 Spies Like Us
279 Auto Show
280 In Country
281 My Big Break
282 DIY
283 Remember Me
284 Should I Stay or Should I Go?
285 Know Your Enemy
286 Mind Games (2005)
287 Backed Into A Corner
288 Not What I Meant
289 Go Ask Your Father
290 Godless America
291 Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
292 The Arms Trader (2005)
293 A Little Bit of Knowledge
294 Image Makers
295 Not What I Signed Up For
296 After the Flood
297 This Is Not My Beautiful House
298 Getting and Spending
299 Back from the Dead
300 What’s In A Number?
301 Settling the Score
302 Strangers in a Strange Land
303 David and Goliath
304 Heretics
305 The This American Life Holiday Spectacular
306 Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time
307 In the Shadow of the City (2006)
308 Star-Crossed Love
309 Cat and Mouse
310 Habeas Schmabeas
311 A Better Mousetrap (2006)
312 How We Talked Back Then
313 Parental Guidance Suggested
314 It's Never Over
315 The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig
316 The Cat Came Back
317 Unconditional Love
318 With Great Power
319 And the Call Was Coming from the Basement
320 What’s In A Number? — 2006 Edition
321 Sink or Swim
322 Shouting Across the Divide
323 The Super
324 My Brilliant Plan
325 Houses of Ill Repute
326 Quiz Show
327 By Proxy
328 What I Learned from Television
329 Nice Work If You Can Get It
330 My Reputation
331 Habeas Schmabeas (2007)
332 The Ten Commandments
333 The Center for Lessons Learned
334 Duty Calls
335 Big Wide World
336 Who Can You Save?
337 Man vs. History
338 The Spokesman
339 Break-Up
340 The Devil in Me
341 How to Talk to Kids
342 How to Rest in Peace
343 Poultry Slam 2007
344 The Competition
345 Ties That Bind
346 Home Alone
347 Matchmakers
348 Tough Room
349 Valentine’s Day 2008
350 Human Resources
351 Return to Childhood
352 The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
353 The Audacity of Government
354 Mistakes Were Made
355 The Giant Pool of Money
356 The Prosecutor
357 The Truth Will Out
358 Social Engineering
359 Life After Death
360 Switched at Birth
361 Fear of Sleep
362 Got You Pegged
363 Enforcers
364 Going Big
365 Another Frightening Show About the Economy
366 A Better Mousetrap (2008)
367 Ground Game
368 Who Do You Think You Are?
369 Poultry Slam 2008
370 Ruining It for the Rest of Us
371 Scenes From a Mall
372 The Inauguration Show
373 The New Boss
374 Somewhere Out There
375 Bad Bank
376 Wrong Side of History
377 Scenes From a Recession
378 This I Used to Believe
379 Return to the Scene of the Crime
380 No Map
381 Turncoat
382 The Watchmen
383 Origin Story (2009)
384 Fall Guy
385 Pro Se
386 Fine Print
387 Arms Trader (2009)
388 Rest Stop
389 Frenemies
390 Return To The Giant Pool of Money
391 More Is Less
392 Someone Else's Money
393 Infidelity
394 Bait and Switch
395 Middle of the Night
396 #1 Party School
397 2010
398 Long Shot
399 Contents Unknown
400 Stories Pitched by Our Parents
401 Parent Trap
402 Save the Day
403 NUMMI (2010)
404 Enemy Camp (2010)
405 Inside Job
406 True Urban Legends
407 The Bridge
408 Island Time
409 Held Hostage
410 Social Contract
411 First Contact
412 Million Dollar Idea
413 Georgia Rambler
414 Right to Remain Silent
415 Crybabies
416 Iraq After Us
417 This Party Sucks
418 Toxie
419 Petty Tyrant
420 Neighborhood Watch
421 Last Man Standing
422 Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special
423 The Invention of Money
424 Kid Politics
425 Slow To React
426 Tough Room 2011
427 Original Recipe
428 Oh You Shouldn't Have
429 Will They Know Me Back Home?
430 Very Tough Love
431 See No Evil
432 Know When To Fold ‘Em
433 Fine Print 2011
434 This Week
435 How To Create a Job
436 The Psychopath Test
437 Old Boys Network
438 Father's Day 2011
439 A House Divided
440 Game Changer
441 When Patents Attack!
442 Thugs
443 Amusement Park
444 Gossip
445 Ten Years In
446 Living Without (2011)
447 The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms
448 Adventure!
449 Middle School
450 So Crazy It Just Might Work
451 Back to Penn State
452 Poultry Slam 2011
453 Nemeses
455 Continental Breakup
456 Reap What You Sow
457 What I Did For Love
458 Play the Part
459 What Kind of Country
460 Retraction
461 Take the Money and Run for Office
462 Own Worst Enemy
463 Mortal Vs. Venial
464 Invisible Made Visible
465 What Happened at Dos Erres
466 Blackjack
467 Americans in China
468 Switcheroo
469 Hiding in Plain Sight
470 Show Me the Way
471 The Convert (2012)
472 Our Friend David
473 Loopholes
474 Back to School
475 Send a Message
476 What Doesn’t Kill You
477 Getting Away With It
478 Red State Blue State
479 Little War on the Prairie
480 Animal Sacrifice
481 This Week
482 Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2012)
483 Self-Improvement Kick
484 Doppelgängers
485 Surrogates
486 Valentine’s Day
487 Harper High School - Part One
488 Harper High School - Part Two
489 No Coincidence, No Story!
490 Trends With Benefits
491 Tribes
492 Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
493 Picture Show
494 Hit the Road
495 Hot In My Backyard
496 When Patents Attack... Part Two!
497 This Week
498 The One Thing You're Not Supposed To Do
499 Taking Names
500 500!
501 The View From In Here
502 This Call May Be Recorded... To Save Your Life
503 I Was Just Trying To Help
504 How I Got Into College
505 Use Only as Directed
506 Secret Identity
507 Confessions
508 Superpowers
509 It Says So Right Here
510 The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About
511 Fiasco! (2013)
512 House Rules
513 129 Cars
514 Thought That Counts
515 Good Guys
516 Stuck In The Middle (2014)
517 Day at the Beach (2014)
518 Except For That One Thing
519 Dead Men Tell No Tales
520 No Place Like Home
521 Bad Baby
522 Tarred and Feathered
523 Death and Taxes
524 I Was So High
525 Call For Help
526 Is That What I Look Like? (2014)
527 180 Degrees
528 The Radio Drama Episode
529 Human Spectacle 2014
530 Mind Your Own Business
531 Got Your Back
532 Magic Words
533 It's Not the Product, It's the Person
534 A Not-So-Simple Majority
535 Origin Story
536 The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra
537 The Alibi
538 Is This Working?
539 The Leap
540 A Front
541 Regrets, I've Had a Few
542 Wait—Do You Have The Map?
543 Wake Up Now
544 Batman
545 If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS
546 Burroughs 101
547 Cops See It Differently - Part One
548 Cops See It Differently - Part Two
549 Amateur Hour
550 Three Miles
551 Good Guys 2015
552 Need To Know Basis
553 Stuck in the Middle
554 Not It!
555 The Incredible Rarity of Changing Your Mind
556 Same Bed, Different Dreams
557 Birds & Bees
558 Game Face
559 Captain's Log
560 Abdi and the Golden Ticket
561 NUMMI (2015)
562 The Problem We All Live With - Part One
563 The Problem We All Live With - Part Two
564 Too Soon?
565 Lower 9 + 10
566 The Land of Make Believe
567 What’s Going On In There?
568 Human Spectacle
569 Put a Bow on It
570 The Night in Question
571 The Heart Wants What It Wants
572 Transformers
573 Status Update
574 Sinatra’s 100th Birthday
575 Poetry of Propaganda
576 Say Yes To Christmas
577 Something Only I Can See
578 I Thought I Knew You
579 My Damn Mind
580 That's One Way to Do It
581 Anatomy of Doubt
582 When the Beasts Come Marching In
583 It’ll Make Sense When You’re Older
584 For Your Reconsideration
585 In Defense of Ignorance
586 Who Do We Think We Are?
587 The Perils of Intimacy
588 Mind Games
589 Tell Me I’m Fat
590 Choosing Wrong
591 Get Your Money's Worth
592 Are We There Yet?
593 Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee
594 My Summer Self
595 Deep End of the Pool
596 Becoming a Badger
597 One Last Thing Before I Go (2016)
598 My Undesirable Talent
599 Seriously?
600 Will I Know Anyone at This Party?
601 Master of Her Domain… Name
602 The Sun Comes Up
603 Once More, With Feeling
604 20 Years Later
605 Kid Logic
606 Just What I Wanted
607 Didn’t We Solve This One?
608 The Revolution Starts At Noon
609 It’s Working Out Very Nicely
610 Grand Gesture
611 Vague and Confused
612 Ask a Grown-Up
613 OK, I’ll Do It
614 The Other Mr. President (2017)
615 The Beginning of Now
616 I Am Not a Pirate
617 Fermi’s Paradox
618 Mr. Lie Detector
619 The Magic Show
620 To Be Real
621 Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville
622 Who You Gonna Call?
623 We Are in the Future (2017)
624 Private Geography
625 Essay B
626 White Haze
627 Suitable for Children (2017)
628 In the Shadow of the City
629 Expect Delays
630 Things I Mean to Know
631 So a Monkey and a Horse Walk Into a Bar
632 Our Town - Part One
633 Our Town - Part Two
634 Human Error in Volatile Situations
635 Chip in My Brain
636 I Thought It Would Be Easier
637 Words You Can't Say
638 Rom-Com
639 In Dog We Trust
640 Five Women
641 The Walls
642 The Impossible Dream
643 Damned If You Do…
644 Random Acts of History
645 My Effing First Amendment
646 The Secret of My Death
647 LaDonna
648 Unteachable Moment
649 It's My Party and I'll Try If I Want To
650 Change You Can Maybe Believe In
651 If You Build It, Will They Come?
652 ICE Capades
653 Crime Scene
654 The Feather Heist
655 The Not-So-Great Unknown
656 Let Me Count the Ways
657 The Runaways
658 The Unhappy Deciders
659 Before the Next One
660 Hoaxing Yourself
661 But That's What Happened
662 Where There Is a Will
663 How I Read It
664 The Room of Requirement
665 Before Things Went to Hell
666 The Theme That Shall Not Be Named
667 Wartime Radio
668 The Long Fuse
669 Scrambling to Get Off the Ice
670 Beware the Jabberwock
671 Anything Can Be Anything
672 No Fair!
673 Left Behind
674 Get a Spine!
675 I’m on TV??
676 Here’s Looking at You, Kid
677 Seeing Yourself In the Wild
678 The Wannabes
679 Save the Girl
680 The Weight Of Words (2019)
681 Escape From the Lab
682 Ten Sessions
683 Beer Summit
684 Burn It Down
685 We Come From Small Places
686 Umbrellas Up
687 Small Things Considered
688 The Out Crowd
689 Digging Up the Bones
690 Too Close to Home
691 Gardens of Branching Paths
692 The Show of Delights
693 Abdi the American
694 Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
695 Everyone's a Critic
696 Low Hum of Menace
697 Alone Together
698 The Test
699 Fiasco!
700 Embiggening
701 Black Box
702 One Last Thing Before I Go
703 Stuck!
704 Our Pulitzer-Winning Episode
705 Time Out
706 A Mess to Be Reckoned With
707 We Are in the Future
708 Here, Again
709 The Reprieve
710 Umbrellas Down
711 How to Be Alone
712 Nice White Parents
713 Made to Be Broken
714 Day at the Beach
715 Long-Awaited Asteroid Finally Hits Earth
716 Trail of Tears
717 Audience of One (2020)
718 Same Bed, Different Dreams (2020)
719 Trust Me I’m a Doctor
720 The Moment After This Moment
721 The Walls Close In
722 The Unreality of Now
723 Squeaker
724 Personal Recount
725 Turkey in a Face Mask
726 Twenty-Five
727 Boulder v. Hill
728 Lights, Camera, Christmas!
729 Making the Cut
730 The Empty Chair
731 What Lies Beneath (2021)
732 Secrets
733 Warriors in the Garden
734 The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled
735 Bloody Feelings
736 The Herd
737 The Daily
738 Good Grief!
739 Sisters
740 There. I Fixed It.
741 The Weight of Words
742 The Thing I'm Getting Over
743 Don't You Be My Neighbor
744 Essential
745 Getting Out
746 This Is Just Some Songs
747 Suitable for Children
748 The End of the World as We Know It
749 My Bad
750 The Ferryman
751 Audience of One
752 An Invitation to Tea
753 What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate
754 Spark Bird
755 The Convert
756 But I Did Everything Right
757 The Ghost in the Machine
758 Talking While Black
759 A Couple Walks Into a House
760 A City Walks Into an Investigation
761 The Trojan Horse Affair
762 Apocalypse Creep
763 The Other Mr. President
764 School's Out Forever
765 Off Course
766 Well Someone Had to Do SOMETHING!
767 Do Not Go Gentle
768 The Other Front Lines
769 The Reluctant Explorer
770 My Lying Eyes
771 The Parents Step In
772 The Kids' Table
773 The Longest Distance Between Two Points
774 The Pink House at the Center of the World
775 The Possum Experiment
776 I Work Better on Deadline
777 Name. Age. Detail.
778 Me Minus Me
779 Ends of the Earth
780 Setting the Record Straight
781 Watching the Watchers
782 Family Dig
783 Kids These Days
784 Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
785 Through the Looking Glass
786 It's a Game Show!
787 Baby's First Christmas
788 Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom
789 The Runaround
790 You're It
791 Math or Magic?
792 When to Leave
793 The Problem with Ghosts
794 So Close and Yet So Far
795 Nine Months Later
796 What Lies Beneath
797 What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking
798 Leaving the Fold
799 The Lives of Others
800 Jane Doe
801 Must Be Rats on the Brain
802 Father's Day
803 Greetings, People Of Earth
804 The Retrievals
805 The Florida Experiment
806 I Can't Quit You, Baby
807 Eight Fights
808 The Rest of the Story
809 The Call
810 Say It to My Face
811 The One Place I Can’t Go
812 The Bear at the End of the Tunnel
813 Is That What I Look Like?
814 Parents Are People
815 How I Learned to Shave
816 Poultry Slam
817 The Cavalry Is Not Coming
818 Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
819 Yousef’s Week
820 It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In Me
821 Embrace the Suck
822 The Words to Say It
823 The Question Trap
824 Family Meeting
825 Yousef’s Week
826 Unprepared for What Has Already Happened
827 All the King's Horses
828 Minor Crimes Division
829 Two Ledgers
830 The Forever Trial
831 Lists!!!
832 That Other Guy
833 Come Retribution
834 Yousef and the Fourth Move
835 Children of Dave
836 The Big Rethink
837 Swim Towards the Shark
838 Letters! Actual Letters!
839 Meet Me at the Fair
840 How Are You Not Seeing This?
841 My Senior Year
842 51 Days
843 A Little Bit of Power
844 This Is the Case of Henry Dee
845 A Small Thing That Gives Me a Tiny Shred of Hope
846 This Is the Cake We Baked
847 The Truly Incredible Story of Keiko the Killer Whale
848 The Official Unofficial Record
849 The Narrator
850 If You Want to Destroy My Sweater, Hold This Thread as I Walk Away
851 Try a Little Tenderness
852 Pivot Point
853 Groundhog Day
854 Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About You
855 That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About
856 You’ve Come to the Right Person
857 Museum of Now
858 How to Tell a Dumb American Story
859 Chaos Graph
860 Suddenly: A Mirror!
861 Group Chat
862 Some Things We Don't Do Anymore
863 Championship Window
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001 New Beginnings
002 Small Scale Sin
003 Poultry Slam 1995
004 Vacations
005 Anger and Forgiveness
006 Christmas
007 Quitting
008 New Year
009 Julia Sweeney
010 Double Lives
011 Enemies
012 Animals
013 Love
014 Accidental Documentaries
015 Dawn
016 Economy
017 Name Change / No Theme
018 Liars
019 Rich Guys
020 From A Distance
021 Factions
022 Adult Children
023 Drama Bug
024 Teenaged Girls
025 Basketball
026 Father's Day '96
027 The Cruelty of Children
028 Detectives
029 Bob Dole
030 Obsession
031 When You Talk About Music
032 Republican Convention
033 A Night at the Wiener Circle
034 Democratic Convention
035 Fall Clearance Sale
036 Letters
037 The Job That Takes Over Your Life
038 Simulated Worlds
039 Halloween
040 Lessons
041 Politics
042 Get Over It!
043 Faustian Bargains
044 Poultry Slam 1996
045 Media Fringe
046 Sissies
047 Christmas and Commerce
048 Justice
049 Animals
050 Shoulda Been Dead
051 Animals Die, People Ponder
052 Edge of Sanity
053 Valentine’s Day ‘97
054 Sinatra
055 Three Women and the Sex Industry
056 Name Change
057 Delivery
058 Small Towns
059 Fire
060 Business of Death
061 Fiasco! (1997)
062 Something for Nothing
063 One Thing
064 Summer
065 Who's Canadian?
066 Tales from the Net
067 Your Dream, My Nightmare
068 Lincoln's Second Inaugural
069 Dream House
070 Other People's Mail
071 Defying Sickness
072 Trek
073 Blame It on Art
074 Conventions
075 Kindness of Strangers
076 Mob
077 Pray
078 How Bad Is Bad?
079 Stuck in the Wrong Decade
080 Running After Antelope
081 Guns
082 Haunted
083 One of Us
084 Harold
085 Poultry Slam 1997
086 How to Take Money from Strangers
087 A Very Special Sedaris Christmas
088 Numbers
089 Sibling Rivalry
090 Telephone
091 Escape the Box
092 Leave the Mask On
093 Valentine’s Day ’98
094 How To
095 Monogamy
096 Pinned by History
097 Death to Wacky
098 Throwing the First Punch
099 I Enjoy Being A Girl, Sort Of
100 Radio
101 Niagara
102 Road Trip!
103 Scenes from A Transplant
104 Music Lessons
105 Take A Negro Home
106 Father’s Day ‘98
107 Trail of Tears (1998)
108 Truth and Lies at Age Ten
109 Notes on Camp
110 Mapping
111 Adventures in the Simple Life
112 Ladies and Germs
113 Windfall
114 Last Words
115 First Day
116 Poultry Slam 1998
117 You Gonna Eat That?
118 What You Lookin’ At?
119 Lockup
120 Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
121 Twentieth Century Man
122 Valentine’s Day ’99
123 High Cost of Living
124 Welcome to America
125 Apocalypse
126 Do-Gooders
127 Pimp Anthropology
128 Four Corners
129 Advice
130 Away From Home
131 The Kids Are Alright
132 Father’s Day ‘99
133 Sales
134 We Didn’t
135 Allure of Crime
136 You Are Here
137 The Book That Changed Your Life
138 The Real Thing
139 Ghosts of Elections Past
140 Family Business
141 Invisible Worlds
142 Barbara
143 Sentencing
144 Where Words Fail
145 Poultry Slam 1999
146 Urban Nature
147 A Teenager's Guide to God
148 The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit
149 Bedside Diplomacy
150 Kids As Adults
151 Primary
152 Crush
153 Dolls
154 In Dog We Trust (2000)
155 Hoaxing Yourself (2000)
156 What Remains
157 Secret Life of Daytime
158 Mob Mentality
159 Mother’s Day
160 Character Assassination
161 Million Bubbles
162 Moving
163 Can You Fight City Hall…If You Are City Hall?
164 Crime Scene (2000)
165 Americans in Paris
166 Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
167 Memo to the People of the Future
168 The Fix Is In
169 Pursuit of Happiness
170 Immigration
171 Election
172 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
173 Three Kinds of Deception
174 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones
175 Babysitting
176 Two Nations, One President
177 American Limbo
178 Superpowers
179 Cicero
180 Return to Childhood 2001
181 The Friendly Man
182 Cringe
183 The Missing Parents Bureau
184 Neighbors
185 Golden Calf
186 Prom
187 Father's Day '01
188 Kid Logic (2001)
189 Hitler’s Yacht
190 Living the Dream
191 I Know What You Did This Summer
192 Meet the Pros
193 Stories of Loss
194 Before and After
195 War Stories
196 Rashomon
197 Before It Had A Name
198 How to Win Friends and Influence People
199 House on Loon Lake
200 Hearts and Minds
201 Them
202 Faith
203 Recordings for Someone
204 81 Words
205 Plan B
206 Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
207 Special Ed
208 Office Politics
209 Didn’t Ask to Be Born
210 Perfect Evidence
211 Naming Names
212 The Other Man
213 Devil on My Shoulder
214 Family Physics
215 Ask An Expert
216 Give the People What They Want
217 Give It to Them
218 Act V
219 High Speed Chase
220 Testosterone
221 Fake I.D.
222 Suckers
223 Classifieds
224 Middlemen
225 Home Movies
226 Reruns
227 Why We Fight
228 You Are So Beautiful…To Me
229 Secret Government
230 Come Back to Afghanistan
231 Time to Save the World
232 The Real Story
233 Starting From Scratch
234 Say Anything
235 The Balloon Goes Up
236 My Two Cents
237 Regime Change
238 Lost in Translation
239 Lost in America
240 I’m In Charge Now
241 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
242 Enemy Camp
243 Later That Same Day
244 MacGyver
245 Allure of the Mean Friend
246 My Pen Pal
247 What Is This Thing?
248 Like It or Not
249 Garbage
250 The Annoying Gap Between Theory...and Practice
251 Brother’s Keeper
252 Poultry Slam 2003
253 The Middle of Nowhere
254 Teenage Embed, Part Two
255 Our Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
256 Living Without (2004)
257 What I Should’ve Said
258 Leaving the Fold (2004)
259 Promised Land
260 The Facts Don’t Matter
261 The Sanctity of Marriage
262 Miracle Cures
263 Desperate Measures
264 Special Treatment
265 Fake Science
266 I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
267 Propriety
268 My Experimental Phase
269 Someone to Watch Over Me
270 Family Legend
271 Best Interests
272 Big Tent
273 Put Your Heart In It
274 Enemy Camp (2004)
275 Two Steps Back
276 Swing Set
277 Apology
278 Spies Like Us
279 Auto Show
280 In Country
281 My Big Break
282 DIY
283 Remember Me
284 Should I Stay or Should I Go?
285 Know Your Enemy
286 Mind Games (2005)
287 Backed Into A Corner
288 Not What I Meant
289 Go Ask Your Father
290 Godless America
291 Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
292 The Arms Trader (2005)
293 A Little Bit of Knowledge
294 Image Makers
295 Not What I Signed Up For
296 After the Flood
297 This Is Not My Beautiful House
298 Getting and Spending
299 Back from the Dead
300 What’s In A Number?
301 Settling the Score
302 Strangers in a Strange Land
303 David and Goliath
304 Heretics
305 The This American Life Holiday Spectacular
306 Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time
307 In the Shadow of the City (2006)
308 Star-Crossed Love
309 Cat and Mouse
310 Habeas Schmabeas
311 A Better Mousetrap (2006)
312 How We Talked Back Then
313 Parental Guidance Suggested
314 It's Never Over
315 The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig
316 The Cat Came Back
317 Unconditional Love
318 With Great Power
319 And the Call Was Coming from the Basement
320 What’s In A Number? — 2006 Edition
321 Sink or Swim
322 Shouting Across the Divide
323 The Super
324 My Brilliant Plan
325 Houses of Ill Repute
326 Quiz Show
327 By Proxy
328 What I Learned from Television
329 Nice Work If You Can Get It
330 My Reputation
331 Habeas Schmabeas (2007)
332 The Ten Commandments
333 The Center for Lessons Learned
334 Duty Calls
335 Big Wide World
336 Who Can You Save?
337 Man vs. History
338 The Spokesman
339 Break-Up
340 The Devil in Me
341 How to Talk to Kids
342 How to Rest in Peace
343 Poultry Slam 2007
344 The Competition
345 Ties That Bind
346 Home Alone
347 Matchmakers
348 Tough Room
349 Valentine’s Day 2008
350 Human Resources
351 Return to Childhood
352 The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
353 The Audacity of Government
354 Mistakes Were Made
355 The Giant Pool of Money
356 The Prosecutor
357 The Truth Will Out
358 Social Engineering
359 Life After Death
360 Switched at Birth
361 Fear of Sleep
362 Got You Pegged
363 Enforcers
364 Going Big
365 Another Frightening Show About the Economy
366 A Better Mousetrap (2008)
367 Ground Game
368 Who Do You Think You Are?
369 Poultry Slam 2008
370 Ruining It for the Rest of Us
371 Scenes From a Mall
372 The Inauguration Show
373 The New Boss
374 Somewhere Out There
375 Bad Bank
376 Wrong Side of History
377 Scenes From a Recession
378 This I Used to Believe
379 Return to the Scene of the Crime
380 No Map
381 Turncoat
382 The Watchmen
383 Origin Story (2009)
384 Fall Guy
385 Pro Se
386 Fine Print
387 Arms Trader (2009)
388 Rest Stop
389 Frenemies
390 Return To The Giant Pool of Money
391 More Is Less
392 Someone Else's Money
393 Infidelity
394 Bait and Switch
395 Middle of the Night
396 #1 Party School
397 2010
398 Long Shot
399 Contents Unknown
400 Stories Pitched by Our Parents
401 Parent Trap
402 Save the Day
403 NUMMI (2010)
404 Enemy Camp (2010)
405 Inside Job
406 True Urban Legends
407 The Bridge
408 Island Time
409 Held Hostage
410 Social Contract
411 First Contact
412 Million Dollar Idea
413 Georgia Rambler
414 Right to Remain Silent
415 Crybabies
416 Iraq After Us
417 This Party Sucks
418 Toxie
419 Petty Tyrant
420 Neighborhood Watch
421 Last Man Standing
422 Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special
423 The Invention of Money
424 Kid Politics
425 Slow To React
426 Tough Room 2011
427 Original Recipe
428 Oh You Shouldn't Have
429 Will They Know Me Back Home?
430 Very Tough Love
431 See No Evil
432 Know When To Fold ‘Em
433 Fine Print 2011
434 This Week
435 How To Create a Job
436 The Psychopath Test
437 Old Boys Network
438 Father's Day 2011
439 A House Divided
440 Game Changer
441 When Patents Attack!
442 Thugs
443 Amusement Park
444 Gossip
445 Ten Years In
446 Living Without (2011)
447 The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms
448 Adventure!
449 Middle School
450 So Crazy It Just Might Work
451 Back to Penn State
452 Poultry Slam 2011
453 Nemeses
455 Continental Breakup
456 Reap What You Sow
457 What I Did For Love
458 Play the Part
459 What Kind of Country
460 Retraction
461 Take the Money and Run for Office
462 Own Worst Enemy
463 Mortal Vs. Venial
464 Invisible Made Visible
465 What Happened at Dos Erres
466 Blackjack
467 Americans in China
468 Switcheroo
469 Hiding in Plain Sight
470 Show Me the Way
471 The Convert (2012)
472 Our Friend David
473 Loopholes
474 Back to School
475 Send a Message
476 What Doesn’t Kill You
477 Getting Away With It
478 Red State Blue State
479 Little War on the Prairie
480 Animal Sacrifice
481 This Week
482 Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2012)
483 Self-Improvement Kick
484 Doppelgängers
485 Surrogates
486 Valentine’s Day
487 Harper High School - Part One
488 Harper High School - Part Two
489 No Coincidence, No Story!
490 Trends With Benefits
491 Tribes
492 Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
493 Picture Show
494 Hit the Road
495 Hot In My Backyard
496 When Patents Attack... Part Two!
497 This Week
498 The One Thing You're Not Supposed To Do
499 Taking Names
500 500!
501 The View From In Here
502 This Call May Be Recorded... To Save Your Life
503 I Was Just Trying To Help
504 How I Got Into College
505 Use Only as Directed
506 Secret Identity
507 Confessions
508 Superpowers
509 It Says So Right Here
510 The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About
511 Fiasco! (2013)
512 House Rules
513 129 Cars
514 Thought That Counts
515 Good Guys
516 Stuck In The Middle (2014)
517 Day at the Beach (2014)
518 Except For That One Thing
519 Dead Men Tell No Tales
520 No Place Like Home
521 Bad Baby
522 Tarred and Feathered
523 Death and Taxes
524 I Was So High
525 Call For Help
526 Is That What I Look Like? (2014)
527 180 Degrees
528 The Radio Drama Episode
529 Human Spectacle 2014
530 Mind Your Own Business
531 Got Your Back
532 Magic Words
533 It's Not the Product, It's the Person
534 A Not-So-Simple Majority
535 Origin Story
536 The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra
537 The Alibi
538 Is This Working?
539 The Leap
540 A Front
541 Regrets, I've Had a Few
542 Wait—Do You Have The Map?
543 Wake Up Now
544 Batman
545 If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS
546 Burroughs 101
547 Cops See It Differently - Part One
548 Cops See It Differently - Part Two
549 Amateur Hour
550 Three Miles
551 Good Guys 2015
552 Need To Know Basis
553 Stuck in the Middle
554 Not It!
555 The Incredible Rarity of Changing Your Mind
556 Same Bed, Different Dreams
557 Birds & Bees
558 Game Face
559 Captain's Log
560 Abdi and the Golden Ticket
561 NUMMI (2015)
562 The Problem We All Live With - Part One
563 The Problem We All Live With - Part Two
564 Too Soon?
565 Lower 9 + 10
566 The Land of Make Believe
567 What’s Going On In There?
568 Human Spectacle
569 Put a Bow on It
570 The Night in Question
571 The Heart Wants What It Wants
572 Transformers
573 Status Update
574 Sinatra’s 100th Birthday
575 Poetry of Propaganda
576 Say Yes To Christmas
577 Something Only I Can See
578 I Thought I Knew You
579 My Damn Mind
580 That's One Way to Do It
581 Anatomy of Doubt
582 When the Beasts Come Marching In
583 It’ll Make Sense When You’re Older
584 For Your Reconsideration
585 In Defense of Ignorance
586 Who Do We Think We Are?
587 The Perils of Intimacy
588 Mind Games
589 Tell Me I’m Fat
590 Choosing Wrong
591 Get Your Money's Worth
592 Are We There Yet?
593 Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee
594 My Summer Self
595 Deep End of the Pool
596 Becoming a Badger
597 One Last Thing Before I Go (2016)
598 My Undesirable Talent
599 Seriously?
600 Will I Know Anyone at This Party?
601 Master of Her Domain… Name
602 The Sun Comes Up
603 Once More, With Feeling
604 20 Years Later
605 Kid Logic
606 Just What I Wanted
607 Didn’t We Solve This One?
608 The Revolution Starts At Noon
609 It’s Working Out Very Nicely
610 Grand Gesture
611 Vague and Confused
612 Ask a Grown-Up
613 OK, I’ll Do It
614 The Other Mr. President (2017)
615 The Beginning of Now
616 I Am Not a Pirate
617 Fermi’s Paradox
618 Mr. Lie Detector
619 The Magic Show
620 To Be Real
621 Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville
622 Who You Gonna Call?
623 We Are in the Future (2017)
624 Private Geography
625 Essay B
626 White Haze
627 Suitable for Children (2017)
628 In the Shadow of the City
629 Expect Delays
630 Things I Mean to Know
631 So a Monkey and a Horse Walk Into a Bar
632 Our Town - Part One
633 Our Town - Part Two
634 Human Error in Volatile Situations
635 Chip in My Brain
636 I Thought It Would Be Easier
637 Words You Can't Say
638 Rom-Com
639 In Dog We Trust
640 Five Women
641 The Walls
642 The Impossible Dream
643 Damned If You Do…
644 Random Acts of History
645 My Effing First Amendment
646 The Secret of My Death
647 LaDonna
648 Unteachable Moment
649 It's My Party and I'll Try If I Want To
650 Change You Can Maybe Believe In
651 If You Build It, Will They Come?
652 ICE Capades
653 Crime Scene
654 The Feather Heist
655 The Not-So-Great Unknown
656 Let Me Count the Ways
657 The Runaways
658 The Unhappy Deciders
659 Before the Next One
660 Hoaxing Yourself
661 But That's What Happened
662 Where There Is a Will
663 How I Read It
664 The Room of Requirement
665 Before Things Went to Hell
666 The Theme That Shall Not Be Named
667 Wartime Radio
668 The Long Fuse
669 Scrambling to Get Off the Ice
670 Beware the Jabberwock
671 Anything Can Be Anything
672 No Fair!
673 Left Behind
674 Get a Spine!
675 I’m on TV??
676 Here’s Looking at You, Kid
677 Seeing Yourself In the Wild
678 The Wannabes
679 Save the Girl
680 The Weight Of Words (2019)
681 Escape From the Lab
682 Ten Sessions
683 Beer Summit
684 Burn It Down
685 We Come From Small Places
686 Umbrellas Up
687 Small Things Considered
688 The Out Crowd
689 Digging Up the Bones
690 Too Close to Home
691 Gardens of Branching Paths
692 The Show of Delights
693 Abdi the American
694 Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
695 Everyone's a Critic
696 Low Hum of Menace
697 Alone Together
698 The Test
699 Fiasco!
700 Embiggening
701 Black Box
702 One Last Thing Before I Go
703 Stuck!
704 Our Pulitzer-Winning Episode
705 Time Out
706 A Mess to Be Reckoned With
707 We Are in the Future
708 Here, Again
709 The Reprieve
710 Umbrellas Down
711 How to Be Alone
712 Nice White Parents
713 Made to Be Broken
714 Day at the Beach
715 Long-Awaited Asteroid Finally Hits Earth
716 Trail of Tears
717 Audience of One (2020)
718 Same Bed, Different Dreams (2020)
719 Trust Me I’m a Doctor
720 The Moment After This Moment
721 The Walls Close In
722 The Unreality of Now
723 Squeaker
724 Personal Recount
725 Turkey in a Face Mask
726 Twenty-Five
727 Boulder v. Hill
728 Lights, Camera, Christmas!
729 Making the Cut
730 The Empty Chair
731 What Lies Beneath (2021)
732 Secrets
733 Warriors in the Garden
734 The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled
735 Bloody Feelings
736 The Herd
737 The Daily
738 Good Grief!
739 Sisters
740 There. I Fixed It.
741 The Weight of Words
742 The Thing I'm Getting Over
743 Don't You Be My Neighbor
744 Essential
745 Getting Out
746 This Is Just Some Songs
747 Suitable for Children
748 The End of the World as We Know It
749 My Bad
750 The Ferryman
751 Audience of One
752 An Invitation to Tea
753 What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate
754 Spark Bird
755 The Convert
756 But I Did Everything Right
757 The Ghost in the Machine
758 Talking While Black
759 A Couple Walks Into a House
760 A City Walks Into an Investigation
761 The Trojan Horse Affair
762 Apocalypse Creep
763 The Other Mr. President
764 School's Out Forever
765 Off Course
766 Well Someone Had to Do SOMETHING!
767 Do Not Go Gentle
768 The Other Front Lines
769 The Reluctant Explorer
770 My Lying Eyes
771 The Parents Step In
772 The Kids' Table
773 The Longest Distance Between Two Points
774 The Pink House at the Center of the World
775 The Possum Experiment
776 I Work Better on Deadline
777 Name. Age. Detail.
778 Me Minus Me
779 Ends of the Earth
780 Setting the Record Straight
781 Watching the Watchers
782 Family Dig
783 Kids These Days
784 Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
785 Through the Looking Glass
786 It's a Game Show!
787 Baby's First Christmas
788 Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom
789 The Runaround
790 You're It
791 Math or Magic?
792 When to Leave
793 The Problem with Ghosts
794 So Close and Yet So Far
795 Nine Months Later
796 What Lies Beneath
797 What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking
798 Leaving the Fold
799 The Lives of Others
800 Jane Doe
801 Must Be Rats on the Brain
802 Father's Day
803 Greetings, People Of Earth
804 The Retrievals
805 The Florida Experiment
806 I Can't Quit You, Baby
807 Eight Fights
808 The Rest of the Story
809 The Call
810 Say It to My Face
811 The One Place I Can’t Go
812 The Bear at the End of the Tunnel
813 Is That What I Look Like?
814 Parents Are People
815 How I Learned to Shave
816 Poultry Slam
817 The Cavalry Is Not Coming
818 Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
819 Yousef’s Week
820 It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In Me
821 Embrace the Suck
822 The Words to Say It
823 The Question Trap
824 Family Meeting
825 Yousef’s Week
826 Unprepared for What Has Already Happened
827 All the King's Horses
828 Minor Crimes Division
829 Two Ledgers
830 The Forever Trial
831 Lists!!!
832 That Other Guy
833 Come Retribution
834 Yousef and the Fourth Move
835 Children of Dave
836 The Big Rethink
837 Swim Towards the Shark
838 Letters! Actual Letters!
839 Meet Me at the Fair
840 How Are You Not Seeing This?
841 My Senior Year
842 51 Days
843 A Little Bit of Power
844 This Is the Case of Henry Dee
845 A Small Thing That Gives Me a Tiny Shred of Hope
846 This Is the Cake We Baked
847 The Truly Incredible Story of Keiko the Killer Whale
848 The Official Unofficial Record
849 The Narrator
850 If You Want to Destroy My Sweater, Hold This Thread as I Walk Away
851 Try a Little Tenderness
852 Pivot Point
853 Groundhog Day
854 Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About You
855 That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About
856 You’ve Come to the Right Person
857 Museum of Now
858 How to Tell a Dumb American Story
859 Chaos Graph
860 Suddenly: A Mirror!
861 Group Chat
862 Some Things We Don't Do Anymore
863 Championship Window
Third Pick
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Choose
001 New Beginnings
002 Small Scale Sin
003 Poultry Slam 1995
004 Vacations
005 Anger and Forgiveness
006 Christmas
007 Quitting
008 New Year
009 Julia Sweeney
010 Double Lives
011 Enemies
012 Animals
013 Love
014 Accidental Documentaries
015 Dawn
016 Economy
017 Name Change / No Theme
018 Liars
019 Rich Guys
020 From A Distance
021 Factions
022 Adult Children
023 Drama Bug
024 Teenaged Girls
025 Basketball
026 Father's Day '96
027 The Cruelty of Children
028 Detectives
029 Bob Dole
030 Obsession
031 When You Talk About Music
032 Republican Convention
033 A Night at the Wiener Circle
034 Democratic Convention
035 Fall Clearance Sale
036 Letters
037 The Job That Takes Over Your Life
038 Simulated Worlds
039 Halloween
040 Lessons
041 Politics
042 Get Over It!
043 Faustian Bargains
044 Poultry Slam 1996
045 Media Fringe
046 Sissies
047 Christmas and Commerce
048 Justice
049 Animals
050 Shoulda Been Dead
051 Animals Die, People Ponder
052 Edge of Sanity
053 Valentine’s Day ‘97
054 Sinatra
055 Three Women and the Sex Industry
056 Name Change
057 Delivery
058 Small Towns
059 Fire
060 Business of Death
061 Fiasco! (1997)
062 Something for Nothing
063 One Thing
064 Summer
065 Who's Canadian?
066 Tales from the Net
067 Your Dream, My Nightmare
068 Lincoln's Second Inaugural
069 Dream House
070 Other People's Mail
071 Defying Sickness
072 Trek
073 Blame It on Art
074 Conventions
075 Kindness of Strangers
076 Mob
077 Pray
078 How Bad Is Bad?
079 Stuck in the Wrong Decade
080 Running After Antelope
081 Guns
082 Haunted
083 One of Us
084 Harold
085 Poultry Slam 1997
086 How to Take Money from Strangers
087 A Very Special Sedaris Christmas
088 Numbers
089 Sibling Rivalry
090 Telephone
091 Escape the Box
092 Leave the Mask On
093 Valentine’s Day ’98
094 How To
095 Monogamy
096 Pinned by History
097 Death to Wacky
098 Throwing the First Punch
099 I Enjoy Being A Girl, Sort Of
100 Radio
101 Niagara
102 Road Trip!
103 Scenes from A Transplant
104 Music Lessons
105 Take A Negro Home
106 Father’s Day ‘98
107 Trail of Tears (1998)
108 Truth and Lies at Age Ten
109 Notes on Camp
110 Mapping
111 Adventures in the Simple Life
112 Ladies and Germs
113 Windfall
114 Last Words
115 First Day
116 Poultry Slam 1998
117 You Gonna Eat That?
118 What You Lookin’ At?
119 Lockup
120 Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
121 Twentieth Century Man
122 Valentine’s Day ’99
123 High Cost of Living
124 Welcome to America
125 Apocalypse
126 Do-Gooders
127 Pimp Anthropology
128 Four Corners
129 Advice
130 Away From Home
131 The Kids Are Alright
132 Father’s Day ‘99
133 Sales
134 We Didn’t
135 Allure of Crime
136 You Are Here
137 The Book That Changed Your Life
138 The Real Thing
139 Ghosts of Elections Past
140 Family Business
141 Invisible Worlds
142 Barbara
143 Sentencing
144 Where Words Fail
145 Poultry Slam 1999
146 Urban Nature
147 A Teenager's Guide to God
148 The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit
149 Bedside Diplomacy
150 Kids As Adults
151 Primary
152 Crush
153 Dolls
154 In Dog We Trust (2000)
155 Hoaxing Yourself (2000)
156 What Remains
157 Secret Life of Daytime
158 Mob Mentality
159 Mother’s Day
160 Character Assassination
161 Million Bubbles
162 Moving
163 Can You Fight City Hall…If You Are City Hall?
164 Crime Scene (2000)
165 Americans in Paris
166 Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
167 Memo to the People of the Future
168 The Fix Is In
169 Pursuit of Happiness
170 Immigration
171 Election
172 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
173 Three Kinds of Deception
174 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones
175 Babysitting
176 Two Nations, One President
177 American Limbo
178 Superpowers
179 Cicero
180 Return to Childhood 2001
181 The Friendly Man
182 Cringe
183 The Missing Parents Bureau
184 Neighbors
185 Golden Calf
186 Prom
187 Father's Day '01
188 Kid Logic (2001)
189 Hitler’s Yacht
190 Living the Dream
191 I Know What You Did This Summer
192 Meet the Pros
193 Stories of Loss
194 Before and After
195 War Stories
196 Rashomon
197 Before It Had A Name
198 How to Win Friends and Influence People
199 House on Loon Lake
200 Hearts and Minds
201 Them
202 Faith
203 Recordings for Someone
204 81 Words
205 Plan B
206 Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
207 Special Ed
208 Office Politics
209 Didn’t Ask to Be Born
210 Perfect Evidence
211 Naming Names
212 The Other Man
213 Devil on My Shoulder
214 Family Physics
215 Ask An Expert
216 Give the People What They Want
217 Give It to Them
218 Act V
219 High Speed Chase
220 Testosterone
221 Fake I.D.
222 Suckers
223 Classifieds
224 Middlemen
225 Home Movies
226 Reruns
227 Why We Fight
228 You Are So Beautiful…To Me
229 Secret Government
230 Come Back to Afghanistan
231 Time to Save the World
232 The Real Story
233 Starting From Scratch
234 Say Anything
235 The Balloon Goes Up
236 My Two Cents
237 Regime Change
238 Lost in Translation
239 Lost in America
240 I’m In Charge Now
241 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
242 Enemy Camp
243 Later That Same Day
244 MacGyver
245 Allure of the Mean Friend
246 My Pen Pal
247 What Is This Thing?
248 Like It or Not
249 Garbage
250 The Annoying Gap Between Theory...and Practice
251 Brother’s Keeper
252 Poultry Slam 2003
253 The Middle of Nowhere
254 Teenage Embed, Part Two
255 Our Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
256 Living Without (2004)
257 What I Should’ve Said
258 Leaving the Fold (2004)
259 Promised Land
260 The Facts Don’t Matter
261 The Sanctity of Marriage
262 Miracle Cures
263 Desperate Measures
264 Special Treatment
265 Fake Science
266 I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
267 Propriety
268 My Experimental Phase
269 Someone to Watch Over Me
270 Family Legend
271 Best Interests
272 Big Tent
273 Put Your Heart In It
274 Enemy Camp (2004)
275 Two Steps Back
276 Swing Set
277 Apology
278 Spies Like Us
279 Auto Show
280 In Country
281 My Big Break
282 DIY
283 Remember Me
284 Should I Stay or Should I Go?
285 Know Your Enemy
286 Mind Games (2005)
287 Backed Into A Corner
288 Not What I Meant
289 Go Ask Your Father
290 Godless America
291 Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
292 The Arms Trader (2005)
293 A Little Bit of Knowledge
294 Image Makers
295 Not What I Signed Up For
296 After the Flood
297 This Is Not My Beautiful House
298 Getting and Spending
299 Back from the Dead
300 What’s In A Number?
301 Settling the Score
302 Strangers in a Strange Land
303 David and Goliath
304 Heretics
305 The This American Life Holiday Spectacular
306 Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time
307 In the Shadow of the City (2006)
308 Star-Crossed Love
309 Cat and Mouse
310 Habeas Schmabeas
311 A Better Mousetrap (2006)
312 How We Talked Back Then
313 Parental Guidance Suggested
314 It's Never Over
315 The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig
316 The Cat Came Back
317 Unconditional Love
318 With Great Power
319 And the Call Was Coming from the Basement
320 What’s In A Number? — 2006 Edition
321 Sink or Swim
322 Shouting Across the Divide
323 The Super
324 My Brilliant Plan
325 Houses of Ill Repute
326 Quiz Show
327 By Proxy
328 What I Learned from Television
329 Nice Work If You Can Get It
330 My Reputation
331 Habeas Schmabeas (2007)
332 The Ten Commandments
333 The Center for Lessons Learned
334 Duty Calls
335 Big Wide World
336 Who Can You Save?
337 Man vs. History
338 The Spokesman
339 Break-Up
340 The Devil in Me
341 How to Talk to Kids
342 How to Rest in Peace
343 Poultry Slam 2007
344 The Competition
345 Ties That Bind
346 Home Alone
347 Matchmakers
348 Tough Room
349 Valentine’s Day 2008
350 Human Resources
351 Return to Childhood
352 The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
353 The Audacity of Government
354 Mistakes Were Made
355 The Giant Pool of Money
356 The Prosecutor
357 The Truth Will Out
358 Social Engineering
359 Life After Death
360 Switched at Birth
361 Fear of Sleep
362 Got You Pegged
363 Enforcers
364 Going Big
365 Another Frightening Show About the Economy
366 A Better Mousetrap (2008)
367 Ground Game
368 Who Do You Think You Are?
369 Poultry Slam 2008
370 Ruining It for the Rest of Us
371 Scenes From a Mall
372 The Inauguration Show
373 The New Boss
374 Somewhere Out There
375 Bad Bank
376 Wrong Side of History
377 Scenes From a Recession
378 This I Used to Believe
379 Return to the Scene of the Crime
380 No Map
381 Turncoat
382 The Watchmen
383 Origin Story (2009)
384 Fall Guy
385 Pro Se
386 Fine Print
387 Arms Trader (2009)
388 Rest Stop
389 Frenemies
390 Return To The Giant Pool of Money
391 More Is Less
392 Someone Else's Money
393 Infidelity
394 Bait and Switch
395 Middle of the Night
396 #1 Party School
397 2010
398 Long Shot
399 Contents Unknown
400 Stories Pitched by Our Parents
401 Parent Trap
402 Save the Day
403 NUMMI (2010)
404 Enemy Camp (2010)
405 Inside Job
406 True Urban Legends
407 The Bridge
408 Island Time
409 Held Hostage
410 Social Contract
411 First Contact
412 Million Dollar Idea
413 Georgia Rambler
414 Right to Remain Silent
415 Crybabies
416 Iraq After Us
417 This Party Sucks
418 Toxie
419 Petty Tyrant
420 Neighborhood Watch
421 Last Man Standing
422 Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special
423 The Invention of Money
424 Kid Politics
425 Slow To React
426 Tough Room 2011
427 Original Recipe
428 Oh You Shouldn't Have
429 Will They Know Me Back Home?
430 Very Tough Love
431 See No Evil
432 Know When To Fold ‘Em
433 Fine Print 2011
434 This Week
435 How To Create a Job
436 The Psychopath Test
437 Old Boys Network
438 Father's Day 2011
439 A House Divided
440 Game Changer
441 When Patents Attack!
442 Thugs
443 Amusement Park
444 Gossip
445 Ten Years In
446 Living Without (2011)
447 The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms
448 Adventure!
449 Middle School
450 So Crazy It Just Might Work
451 Back to Penn State
452 Poultry Slam 2011
453 Nemeses
455 Continental Breakup
456 Reap What You Sow
457 What I Did For Love
458 Play the Part
459 What Kind of Country
460 Retraction
461 Take the Money and Run for Office
462 Own Worst Enemy
463 Mortal Vs. Venial
464 Invisible Made Visible
465 What Happened at Dos Erres
466 Blackjack
467 Americans in China
468 Switcheroo
469 Hiding in Plain Sight
470 Show Me the Way
471 The Convert (2012)
472 Our Friend David
473 Loopholes
474 Back to School
475 Send a Message
476 What Doesn’t Kill You
477 Getting Away With It
478 Red State Blue State
479 Little War on the Prairie
480 Animal Sacrifice
481 This Week
482 Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2012)
483 Self-Improvement Kick
484 Doppelgängers
485 Surrogates
486 Valentine’s Day
487 Harper High School - Part One
488 Harper High School - Part Two
489 No Coincidence, No Story!
490 Trends With Benefits
491 Tribes
492 Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
493 Picture Show
494 Hit the Road
495 Hot In My Backyard
496 When Patents Attack... Part Two!
497 This Week
498 The One Thing You're Not Supposed To Do
499 Taking Names
500 500!
501 The View From In Here
502 This Call May Be Recorded... To Save Your Life
503 I Was Just Trying To Help
504 How I Got Into College
505 Use Only as Directed
506 Secret Identity
507 Confessions
508 Superpowers
509 It Says So Right Here
510 The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About
511 Fiasco! (2013)
512 House Rules
513 129 Cars
514 Thought That Counts
515 Good Guys
516 Stuck In The Middle (2014)
517 Day at the Beach (2014)
518 Except For That One Thing
519 Dead Men Tell No Tales
520 No Place Like Home
521 Bad Baby
522 Tarred and Feathered
523 Death and Taxes
524 I Was So High
525 Call For Help
526 Is That What I Look Like? (2014)
527 180 Degrees
528 The Radio Drama Episode
529 Human Spectacle 2014
530 Mind Your Own Business
531 Got Your Back
532 Magic Words
533 It's Not the Product, It's the Person
534 A Not-So-Simple Majority
535 Origin Story
536 The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra
537 The Alibi
538 Is This Working?
539 The Leap
540 A Front
541 Regrets, I've Had a Few
542 Wait—Do You Have The Map?
543 Wake Up Now
544 Batman
545 If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS
546 Burroughs 101
547 Cops See It Differently - Part One
548 Cops See It Differently - Part Two
549 Amateur Hour
550 Three Miles
551 Good Guys 2015
552 Need To Know Basis
553 Stuck in the Middle
554 Not It!
555 The Incredible Rarity of Changing Your Mind
556 Same Bed, Different Dreams
557 Birds & Bees
558 Game Face
559 Captain's Log
560 Abdi and the Golden Ticket
561 NUMMI (2015)
562 The Problem We All Live With - Part One
563 The Problem We All Live With - Part Two
564 Too Soon?
565 Lower 9 + 10
566 The Land of Make Believe
567 What’s Going On In There?
568 Human Spectacle
569 Put a Bow on It
570 The Night in Question
571 The Heart Wants What It Wants
572 Transformers
573 Status Update
574 Sinatra’s 100th Birthday
575 Poetry of Propaganda
576 Say Yes To Christmas
577 Something Only I Can See
578 I Thought I Knew You
579 My Damn Mind
580 That's One Way to Do It
581 Anatomy of Doubt
582 When the Beasts Come Marching In
583 It’ll Make Sense When You’re Older
584 For Your Reconsideration
585 In Defense of Ignorance
586 Who Do We Think We Are?
587 The Perils of Intimacy
588 Mind Games
589 Tell Me I’m Fat
590 Choosing Wrong
591 Get Your Money's Worth
592 Are We There Yet?
593 Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee
594 My Summer Self
595 Deep End of the Pool
596 Becoming a Badger
597 One Last Thing Before I Go (2016)
598 My Undesirable Talent
599 Seriously?
600 Will I Know Anyone at This Party?
601 Master of Her Domain… Name
602 The Sun Comes Up
603 Once More, With Feeling
604 20 Years Later
605 Kid Logic
606 Just What I Wanted
607 Didn’t We Solve This One?
608 The Revolution Starts At Noon
609 It’s Working Out Very Nicely
610 Grand Gesture
611 Vague and Confused
612 Ask a Grown-Up
613 OK, I’ll Do It
614 The Other Mr. President (2017)
615 The Beginning of Now
616 I Am Not a Pirate
617 Fermi’s Paradox
618 Mr. Lie Detector
619 The Magic Show
620 To Be Real
621 Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville
622 Who You Gonna Call?
623 We Are in the Future (2017)
624 Private Geography
625 Essay B
626 White Haze
627 Suitable for Children (2017)
628 In the Shadow of the City
629 Expect Delays
630 Things I Mean to Know
631 So a Monkey and a Horse Walk Into a Bar
632 Our Town - Part One
633 Our Town - Part Two
634 Human Error in Volatile Situations
635 Chip in My Brain
636 I Thought It Would Be Easier
637 Words You Can't Say
638 Rom-Com
639 In Dog We Trust
640 Five Women
641 The Walls
642 The Impossible Dream
643 Damned If You Do…
644 Random Acts of History
645 My Effing First Amendment
646 The Secret of My Death
647 LaDonna
648 Unteachable Moment
649 It's My Party and I'll Try If I Want To
650 Change You Can Maybe Believe In
651 If You Build It, Will They Come?
652 ICE Capades
653 Crime Scene
654 The Feather Heist
655 The Not-So-Great Unknown
656 Let Me Count the Ways
657 The Runaways
658 The Unhappy Deciders
659 Before the Next One
660 Hoaxing Yourself
661 But That's What Happened
662 Where There Is a Will
663 How I Read It
664 The Room of Requirement
665 Before Things Went to Hell
666 The Theme That Shall Not Be Named
667 Wartime Radio
668 The Long Fuse
669 Scrambling to Get Off the Ice
670 Beware the Jabberwock
671 Anything Can Be Anything
672 No Fair!
673 Left Behind
674 Get a Spine!
675 I’m on TV??
676 Here’s Looking at You, Kid
677 Seeing Yourself In the Wild
678 The Wannabes
679 Save the Girl
680 The Weight Of Words (2019)
681 Escape From the Lab
682 Ten Sessions
683 Beer Summit
684 Burn It Down
685 We Come From Small Places
686 Umbrellas Up
687 Small Things Considered
688 The Out Crowd
689 Digging Up the Bones
690 Too Close to Home
691 Gardens of Branching Paths
692 The Show of Delights
693 Abdi the American
694 Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
695 Everyone's a Critic
696 Low Hum of Menace
697 Alone Together
698 The Test
699 Fiasco!
700 Embiggening
701 Black Box
702 One Last Thing Before I Go
703 Stuck!
704 Our Pulitzer-Winning Episode
705 Time Out
706 A Mess to Be Reckoned With
707 We Are in the Future
708 Here, Again
709 The Reprieve
710 Umbrellas Down
711 How to Be Alone
712 Nice White Parents
713 Made to Be Broken
714 Day at the Beach
715 Long-Awaited Asteroid Finally Hits Earth
716 Trail of Tears
717 Audience of One (2020)
718 Same Bed, Different Dreams (2020)
719 Trust Me I’m a Doctor
720 The Moment After This Moment
721 The Walls Close In
722 The Unreality of Now
723 Squeaker
724 Personal Recount
725 Turkey in a Face Mask
726 Twenty-Five
727 Boulder v. Hill
728 Lights, Camera, Christmas!
729 Making the Cut
730 The Empty Chair
731 What Lies Beneath (2021)
732 Secrets
733 Warriors in the Garden
734 The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled
735 Bloody Feelings
736 The Herd
737 The Daily
738 Good Grief!
739 Sisters
740 There. I Fixed It.
741 The Weight of Words
742 The Thing I'm Getting Over
743 Don't You Be My Neighbor
744 Essential
745 Getting Out
746 This Is Just Some Songs
747 Suitable for Children
748 The End of the World as We Know It
749 My Bad
750 The Ferryman
751 Audience of One
752 An Invitation to Tea
753 What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate
754 Spark Bird
755 The Convert
756 But I Did Everything Right
757 The Ghost in the Machine
758 Talking While Black
759 A Couple Walks Into a House
760 A City Walks Into an Investigation
761 The Trojan Horse Affair
762 Apocalypse Creep
763 The Other Mr. President
764 School's Out Forever
765 Off Course
766 Well Someone Had to Do SOMETHING!
767 Do Not Go Gentle
768 The Other Front Lines
769 The Reluctant Explorer
770 My Lying Eyes
771 The Parents Step In
772 The Kids' Table
773 The Longest Distance Between Two Points
774 The Pink House at the Center of the World
775 The Possum Experiment
776 I Work Better on Deadline
777 Name. Age. Detail.
778 Me Minus Me
779 Ends of the Earth
780 Setting the Record Straight
781 Watching the Watchers
782 Family Dig
783 Kids These Days
784 Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
785 Through the Looking Glass
786 It's a Game Show!
787 Baby's First Christmas
788 Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom
789 The Runaround
790 You're It
791 Math or Magic?
792 When to Leave
793 The Problem with Ghosts
794 So Close and Yet So Far
795 Nine Months Later
796 What Lies Beneath
797 What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking
798 Leaving the Fold
799 The Lives of Others
800 Jane Doe
801 Must Be Rats on the Brain
802 Father's Day
803 Greetings, People Of Earth
804 The Retrievals
805 The Florida Experiment
806 I Can't Quit You, Baby
807 Eight Fights
808 The Rest of the Story
809 The Call
810 Say It to My Face
811 The One Place I Can’t Go
812 The Bear at the End of the Tunnel
813 Is That What I Look Like?
814 Parents Are People
815 How I Learned to Shave
816 Poultry Slam
817 The Cavalry Is Not Coming
818 Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
819 Yousef’s Week
820 It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In Me
821 Embrace the Suck
822 The Words to Say It
823 The Question Trap
824 Family Meeting
825 Yousef’s Week
826 Unprepared for What Has Already Happened
827 All the King's Horses
828 Minor Crimes Division
829 Two Ledgers
830 The Forever Trial
831 Lists!!!
832 That Other Guy
833 Come Retribution
834 Yousef and the Fourth Move
835 Children of Dave
836 The Big Rethink
837 Swim Towards the Shark
838 Letters! Actual Letters!
839 Meet Me at the Fair
840 How Are You Not Seeing This?
841 My Senior Year
842 51 Days
843 A Little Bit of Power
844 This Is the Case of Henry Dee
845 A Small Thing That Gives Me a Tiny Shred of Hope
846 This Is the Cake We Baked
847 The Truly Incredible Story of Keiko the Killer Whale
848 The Official Unofficial Record
849 The Narrator
850 If You Want to Destroy My Sweater, Hold This Thread as I Walk Away
851 Try a Little Tenderness
852 Pivot Point
853 Groundhog Day
854 Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About You
855 That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About
856 You’ve Come to the Right Person
857 Museum of Now
858 How to Tell a Dumb American Story
859 Chaos Graph
860 Suddenly: A Mirror!
861 Group Chat
862 Some Things We Don't Do Anymore
863 Championship Window
Fourth Pick
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Choose
001 New Beginnings
002 Small Scale Sin
003 Poultry Slam 1995
004 Vacations
005 Anger and Forgiveness
006 Christmas
007 Quitting
008 New Year
009 Julia Sweeney
010 Double Lives
011 Enemies
012 Animals
013 Love
014 Accidental Documentaries
015 Dawn
016 Economy
017 Name Change / No Theme
018 Liars
019 Rich Guys
020 From A Distance
021 Factions
022 Adult Children
023 Drama Bug
024 Teenaged Girls
025 Basketball
026 Father's Day '96
027 The Cruelty of Children
028 Detectives
029 Bob Dole
030 Obsession
031 When You Talk About Music
032 Republican Convention
033 A Night at the Wiener Circle
034 Democratic Convention
035 Fall Clearance Sale
036 Letters
037 The Job That Takes Over Your Life
038 Simulated Worlds
039 Halloween
040 Lessons
041 Politics
042 Get Over It!
043 Faustian Bargains
044 Poultry Slam 1996
045 Media Fringe
046 Sissies
047 Christmas and Commerce
048 Justice
049 Animals
050 Shoulda Been Dead
051 Animals Die, People Ponder
052 Edge of Sanity
053 Valentine’s Day ‘97
054 Sinatra
055 Three Women and the Sex Industry
056 Name Change
057 Delivery
058 Small Towns
059 Fire
060 Business of Death
061 Fiasco! (1997)
062 Something for Nothing
063 One Thing
064 Summer
065 Who's Canadian?
066 Tales from the Net
067 Your Dream, My Nightmare
068 Lincoln's Second Inaugural
069 Dream House
070 Other People's Mail
071 Defying Sickness
072 Trek
073 Blame It on Art
074 Conventions
075 Kindness of Strangers
076 Mob
077 Pray
078 How Bad Is Bad?
079 Stuck in the Wrong Decade
080 Running After Antelope
081 Guns
082 Haunted
083 One of Us
084 Harold
085 Poultry Slam 1997
086 How to Take Money from Strangers
087 A Very Special Sedaris Christmas
088 Numbers
089 Sibling Rivalry
090 Telephone
091 Escape the Box
092 Leave the Mask On
093 Valentine’s Day ’98
094 How To
095 Monogamy
096 Pinned by History
097 Death to Wacky
098 Throwing the First Punch
099 I Enjoy Being A Girl, Sort Of
100 Radio
101 Niagara
102 Road Trip!
103 Scenes from A Transplant
104 Music Lessons
105 Take A Negro Home
106 Father’s Day ‘98
107 Trail of Tears (1998)
108 Truth and Lies at Age Ten
109 Notes on Camp
110 Mapping
111 Adventures in the Simple Life
112 Ladies and Germs
113 Windfall
114 Last Words
115 First Day
116 Poultry Slam 1998
117 You Gonna Eat That?
118 What You Lookin’ At?
119 Lockup
120 Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
121 Twentieth Century Man
122 Valentine’s Day ’99
123 High Cost of Living
124 Welcome to America
125 Apocalypse
126 Do-Gooders
127 Pimp Anthropology
128 Four Corners
129 Advice
130 Away From Home
131 The Kids Are Alright
132 Father’s Day ‘99
133 Sales
134 We Didn’t
135 Allure of Crime
136 You Are Here
137 The Book That Changed Your Life
138 The Real Thing
139 Ghosts of Elections Past
140 Family Business
141 Invisible Worlds
142 Barbara
143 Sentencing
144 Where Words Fail
145 Poultry Slam 1999
146 Urban Nature
147 A Teenager's Guide to God
148 The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit
149 Bedside Diplomacy
150 Kids As Adults
151 Primary
152 Crush
153 Dolls
154 In Dog We Trust (2000)
155 Hoaxing Yourself (2000)
156 What Remains
157 Secret Life of Daytime
158 Mob Mentality
159 Mother’s Day
160 Character Assassination
161 Million Bubbles
162 Moving
163 Can You Fight City Hall…If You Are City Hall?
164 Crime Scene (2000)
165 Americans in Paris
166 Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
167 Memo to the People of the Future
168 The Fix Is In
169 Pursuit of Happiness
170 Immigration
171 Election
172 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
173 Three Kinds of Deception
174 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones
175 Babysitting
176 Two Nations, One President
177 American Limbo
178 Superpowers
179 Cicero
180 Return to Childhood 2001
181 The Friendly Man
182 Cringe
183 The Missing Parents Bureau
184 Neighbors
185 Golden Calf
186 Prom
187 Father's Day '01
188 Kid Logic (2001)
189 Hitler’s Yacht
190 Living the Dream
191 I Know What You Did This Summer
192 Meet the Pros
193 Stories of Loss
194 Before and After
195 War Stories
196 Rashomon
197 Before It Had A Name
198 How to Win Friends and Influence People
199 House on Loon Lake
200 Hearts and Minds
201 Them
202 Faith
203 Recordings for Someone
204 81 Words
205 Plan B
206 Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
207 Special Ed
208 Office Politics
209 Didn’t Ask to Be Born
210 Perfect Evidence
211 Naming Names
212 The Other Man
213 Devil on My Shoulder
214 Family Physics
215 Ask An Expert
216 Give the People What They Want
217 Give It to Them
218 Act V
219 High Speed Chase
220 Testosterone
221 Fake I.D.
222 Suckers
223 Classifieds
224 Middlemen
225 Home Movies
226 Reruns
227 Why We Fight
228 You Are So Beautiful…To Me
229 Secret Government
230 Come Back to Afghanistan
231 Time to Save the World
232 The Real Story
233 Starting From Scratch
234 Say Anything
235 The Balloon Goes Up
236 My Two Cents
237 Regime Change
238 Lost in Translation
239 Lost in America
240 I’m In Charge Now
241 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
242 Enemy Camp
243 Later That Same Day
244 MacGyver
245 Allure of the Mean Friend
246 My Pen Pal
247 What Is This Thing?
248 Like It or Not
249 Garbage
250 The Annoying Gap Between Theory...and Practice
251 Brother’s Keeper
252 Poultry Slam 2003
253 The Middle of Nowhere
254 Teenage Embed, Part Two
255 Our Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
256 Living Without (2004)
257 What I Should’ve Said
258 Leaving the Fold (2004)
259 Promised Land
260 The Facts Don’t Matter
261 The Sanctity of Marriage
262 Miracle Cures
263 Desperate Measures
264 Special Treatment
265 Fake Science
266 I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
267 Propriety
268 My Experimental Phase
269 Someone to Watch Over Me
270 Family Legend
271 Best Interests
272 Big Tent
273 Put Your Heart In It
274 Enemy Camp (2004)
275 Two Steps Back
276 Swing Set
277 Apology
278 Spies Like Us
279 Auto Show
280 In Country
281 My Big Break
282 DIY
283 Remember Me
284 Should I Stay or Should I Go?
285 Know Your Enemy
286 Mind Games (2005)
287 Backed Into A Corner
288 Not What I Meant
289 Go Ask Your Father
290 Godless America
291 Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
292 The Arms Trader (2005)
293 A Little Bit of Knowledge
294 Image Makers
295 Not What I Signed Up For
296 After the Flood
297 This Is Not My Beautiful House
298 Getting and Spending
299 Back from the Dead
300 What’s In A Number?
301 Settling the Score
302 Strangers in a Strange Land
303 David and Goliath
304 Heretics
305 The This American Life Holiday Spectacular
306 Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time
307 In the Shadow of the City (2006)
308 Star-Crossed Love
309 Cat and Mouse
310 Habeas Schmabeas
311 A Better Mousetrap (2006)
312 How We Talked Back Then
313 Parental Guidance Suggested
314 It's Never Over
315 The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig
316 The Cat Came Back
317 Unconditional Love
318 With Great Power
319 And the Call Was Coming from the Basement
320 What’s In A Number? — 2006 Edition
321 Sink or Swim
322 Shouting Across the Divide
323 The Super
324 My Brilliant Plan
325 Houses of Ill Repute
326 Quiz Show
327 By Proxy
328 What I Learned from Television
329 Nice Work If You Can Get It
330 My Reputation
331 Habeas Schmabeas (2007)
332 The Ten Commandments
333 The Center for Lessons Learned
334 Duty Calls
335 Big Wide World
336 Who Can You Save?
337 Man vs. History
338 The Spokesman
339 Break-Up
340 The Devil in Me
341 How to Talk to Kids
342 How to Rest in Peace
343 Poultry Slam 2007
344 The Competition
345 Ties That Bind
346 Home Alone
347 Matchmakers
348 Tough Room
349 Valentine’s Day 2008
350 Human Resources
351 Return to Childhood
352 The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
353 The Audacity of Government
354 Mistakes Were Made
355 The Giant Pool of Money
356 The Prosecutor
357 The Truth Will Out
358 Social Engineering
359 Life After Death
360 Switched at Birth
361 Fear of Sleep
362 Got You Pegged
363 Enforcers
364 Going Big
365 Another Frightening Show About the Economy
366 A Better Mousetrap (2008)
367 Ground Game
368 Who Do You Think You Are?
369 Poultry Slam 2008
370 Ruining It for the Rest of Us
371 Scenes From a Mall
372 The Inauguration Show
373 The New Boss
374 Somewhere Out There
375 Bad Bank
376 Wrong Side of History
377 Scenes From a Recession
378 This I Used to Believe
379 Return to the Scene of the Crime
380 No Map
381 Turncoat
382 The Watchmen
383 Origin Story (2009)
384 Fall Guy
385 Pro Se
386 Fine Print
387 Arms Trader (2009)
388 Rest Stop
389 Frenemies
390 Return To The Giant Pool of Money
391 More Is Less
392 Someone Else's Money
393 Infidelity
394 Bait and Switch
395 Middle of the Night
396 #1 Party School
397 2010
398 Long Shot
399 Contents Unknown
400 Stories Pitched by Our Parents
401 Parent Trap
402 Save the Day
403 NUMMI (2010)
404 Enemy Camp (2010)
405 Inside Job
406 True Urban Legends
407 The Bridge
408 Island Time
409 Held Hostage
410 Social Contract
411 First Contact
412 Million Dollar Idea
413 Georgia Rambler
414 Right to Remain Silent
415 Crybabies
416 Iraq After Us
417 This Party Sucks
418 Toxie
419 Petty Tyrant
420 Neighborhood Watch
421 Last Man Standing
422 Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special
423 The Invention of Money
424 Kid Politics
425 Slow To React
426 Tough Room 2011
427 Original Recipe
428 Oh You Shouldn't Have
429 Will They Know Me Back Home?
430 Very Tough Love
431 See No Evil
432 Know When To Fold ‘Em
433 Fine Print 2011
434 This Week
435 How To Create a Job
436 The Psychopath Test
437 Old Boys Network
438 Father's Day 2011
439 A House Divided
440 Game Changer
441 When Patents Attack!
442 Thugs
443 Amusement Park
444 Gossip
445 Ten Years In
446 Living Without (2011)
447 The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms
448 Adventure!
449 Middle School
450 So Crazy It Just Might Work
451 Back to Penn State
452 Poultry Slam 2011
453 Nemeses
455 Continental Breakup
456 Reap What You Sow
457 What I Did For Love
458 Play the Part
459 What Kind of Country
460 Retraction
461 Take the Money and Run for Office
462 Own Worst Enemy
463 Mortal Vs. Venial
464 Invisible Made Visible
465 What Happened at Dos Erres
466 Blackjack
467 Americans in China
468 Switcheroo
469 Hiding in Plain Sight
470 Show Me the Way
471 The Convert (2012)
472 Our Friend David
473 Loopholes
474 Back to School
475 Send a Message
476 What Doesn’t Kill You
477 Getting Away With It
478 Red State Blue State
479 Little War on the Prairie
480 Animal Sacrifice
481 This Week
482 Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2012)
483 Self-Improvement Kick
484 Doppelgängers
485 Surrogates
486 Valentine’s Day
487 Harper High School - Part One
488 Harper High School - Part Two
489 No Coincidence, No Story!
490 Trends With Benefits
491 Tribes
492 Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
493 Picture Show
494 Hit the Road
495 Hot In My Backyard
496 When Patents Attack... Part Two!
497 This Week
498 The One Thing You're Not Supposed To Do
499 Taking Names
500 500!
501 The View From In Here
502 This Call May Be Recorded... To Save Your Life
503 I Was Just Trying To Help
504 How I Got Into College
505 Use Only as Directed
506 Secret Identity
507 Confessions
508 Superpowers
509 It Says So Right Here
510 The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About
511 Fiasco! (2013)
512 House Rules
513 129 Cars
514 Thought That Counts
515 Good Guys
516 Stuck In The Middle (2014)
517 Day at the Beach (2014)
518 Except For That One Thing
519 Dead Men Tell No Tales
520 No Place Like Home
521 Bad Baby
522 Tarred and Feathered
523 Death and Taxes
524 I Was So High
525 Call For Help
526 Is That What I Look Like? (2014)
527 180 Degrees
528 The Radio Drama Episode
529 Human Spectacle 2014
530 Mind Your Own Business
531 Got Your Back
532 Magic Words
533 It's Not the Product, It's the Person
534 A Not-So-Simple Majority
535 Origin Story
536 The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra
537 The Alibi
538 Is This Working?
539 The Leap
540 A Front
541 Regrets, I've Had a Few
542 Wait—Do You Have The Map?
543 Wake Up Now
544 Batman
545 If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS
546 Burroughs 101
547 Cops See It Differently - Part One
548 Cops See It Differently - Part Two
549 Amateur Hour
550 Three Miles
551 Good Guys 2015
552 Need To Know Basis
553 Stuck in the Middle
554 Not It!
555 The Incredible Rarity of Changing Your Mind
556 Same Bed, Different Dreams
557 Birds & Bees
558 Game Face
559 Captain's Log
560 Abdi and the Golden Ticket
561 NUMMI (2015)
562 The Problem We All Live With - Part One
563 The Problem We All Live With - Part Two
564 Too Soon?
565 Lower 9 + 10
566 The Land of Make Believe
567 What’s Going On In There?
568 Human Spectacle
569 Put a Bow on It
570 The Night in Question
571 The Heart Wants What It Wants
572 Transformers
573 Status Update
574 Sinatra’s 100th Birthday
575 Poetry of Propaganda
576 Say Yes To Christmas
577 Something Only I Can See
578 I Thought I Knew You
579 My Damn Mind
580 That's One Way to Do It
581 Anatomy of Doubt
582 When the Beasts Come Marching In
583 It’ll Make Sense When You’re Older
584 For Your Reconsideration
585 In Defense of Ignorance
586 Who Do We Think We Are?
587 The Perils of Intimacy
588 Mind Games
589 Tell Me I’m Fat
590 Choosing Wrong
591 Get Your Money's Worth
592 Are We There Yet?
593 Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee
594 My Summer Self
595 Deep End of the Pool
596 Becoming a Badger
597 One Last Thing Before I Go (2016)
598 My Undesirable Talent
599 Seriously?
600 Will I Know Anyone at This Party?
601 Master of Her Domain… Name
602 The Sun Comes Up
603 Once More, With Feeling
604 20 Years Later
605 Kid Logic
606 Just What I Wanted
607 Didn’t We Solve This One?
608 The Revolution Starts At Noon
609 It’s Working Out Very Nicely
610 Grand Gesture
611 Vague and Confused
612 Ask a Grown-Up
613 OK, I’ll Do It
614 The Other Mr. President (2017)
615 The Beginning of Now
616 I Am Not a Pirate
617 Fermi’s Paradox
618 Mr. Lie Detector
619 The Magic Show
620 To Be Real
621 Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville
622 Who You Gonna Call?
623 We Are in the Future (2017)
624 Private Geography
625 Essay B
626 White Haze
627 Suitable for Children (2017)
628 In the Shadow of the City
629 Expect Delays
630 Things I Mean to Know
631 So a Monkey and a Horse Walk Into a Bar
632 Our Town - Part One
633 Our Town - Part Two
634 Human Error in Volatile Situations
635 Chip in My Brain
636 I Thought It Would Be Easier
637 Words You Can't Say
638 Rom-Com
639 In Dog We Trust
640 Five Women
641 The Walls
642 The Impossible Dream
643 Damned If You Do…
644 Random Acts of History
645 My Effing First Amendment
646 The Secret of My Death
647 LaDonna
648 Unteachable Moment
649 It's My Party and I'll Try If I Want To
650 Change You Can Maybe Believe In
651 If You Build It, Will They Come?
652 ICE Capades
653 Crime Scene
654 The Feather Heist
655 The Not-So-Great Unknown
656 Let Me Count the Ways
657 The Runaways
658 The Unhappy Deciders
659 Before the Next One
660 Hoaxing Yourself
661 But That's What Happened
662 Where There Is a Will
663 How I Read It
664 The Room of Requirement
665 Before Things Went to Hell
666 The Theme That Shall Not Be Named
667 Wartime Radio
668 The Long Fuse
669 Scrambling to Get Off the Ice
670 Beware the Jabberwock
671 Anything Can Be Anything
672 No Fair!
673 Left Behind
674 Get a Spine!
675 I’m on TV??
676 Here’s Looking at You, Kid
677 Seeing Yourself In the Wild
678 The Wannabes
679 Save the Girl
680 The Weight Of Words (2019)
681 Escape From the Lab
682 Ten Sessions
683 Beer Summit
684 Burn It Down
685 We Come From Small Places
686 Umbrellas Up
687 Small Things Considered
688 The Out Crowd
689 Digging Up the Bones
690 Too Close to Home
691 Gardens of Branching Paths
692 The Show of Delights
693 Abdi the American
694 Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
695 Everyone's a Critic
696 Low Hum of Menace
697 Alone Together
698 The Test
699 Fiasco!
700 Embiggening
701 Black Box
702 One Last Thing Before I Go
703 Stuck!
704 Our Pulitzer-Winning Episode
705 Time Out
706 A Mess to Be Reckoned With
707 We Are in the Future
708 Here, Again
709 The Reprieve
710 Umbrellas Down
711 How to Be Alone
712 Nice White Parents
713 Made to Be Broken
714 Day at the Beach
715 Long-Awaited Asteroid Finally Hits Earth
716 Trail of Tears
717 Audience of One (2020)
718 Same Bed, Different Dreams (2020)
719 Trust Me I’m a Doctor
720 The Moment After This Moment
721 The Walls Close In
722 The Unreality of Now
723 Squeaker
724 Personal Recount
725 Turkey in a Face Mask
726 Twenty-Five
727 Boulder v. Hill
728 Lights, Camera, Christmas!
729 Making the Cut
730 The Empty Chair
731 What Lies Beneath (2021)
732 Secrets
733 Warriors in the Garden
734 The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled
735 Bloody Feelings
736 The Herd
737 The Daily
738 Good Grief!
739 Sisters
740 There. I Fixed It.
741 The Weight of Words
742 The Thing I'm Getting Over
743 Don't You Be My Neighbor
744 Essential
745 Getting Out
746 This Is Just Some Songs
747 Suitable for Children
748 The End of the World as We Know It
749 My Bad
750 The Ferryman
751 Audience of One
752 An Invitation to Tea
753 What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate
754 Spark Bird
755 The Convert
756 But I Did Everything Right
757 The Ghost in the Machine
758 Talking While Black
759 A Couple Walks Into a House
760 A City Walks Into an Investigation
761 The Trojan Horse Affair
762 Apocalypse Creep
763 The Other Mr. President
764 School's Out Forever
765 Off Course
766 Well Someone Had to Do SOMETHING!
767 Do Not Go Gentle
768 The Other Front Lines
769 The Reluctant Explorer
770 My Lying Eyes
771 The Parents Step In
772 The Kids' Table
773 The Longest Distance Between Two Points
774 The Pink House at the Center of the World
775 The Possum Experiment
776 I Work Better on Deadline
777 Name. Age. Detail.
778 Me Minus Me
779 Ends of the Earth
780 Setting the Record Straight
781 Watching the Watchers
782 Family Dig
783 Kids These Days
784 Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
785 Through the Looking Glass
786 It's a Game Show!
787 Baby's First Christmas
788 Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom
789 The Runaround
790 You're It
791 Math or Magic?
792 When to Leave
793 The Problem with Ghosts
794 So Close and Yet So Far
795 Nine Months Later
796 What Lies Beneath
797 What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking
798 Leaving the Fold
799 The Lives of Others
800 Jane Doe
801 Must Be Rats on the Brain
802 Father's Day
803 Greetings, People Of Earth
804 The Retrievals
805 The Florida Experiment
806 I Can't Quit You, Baby
807 Eight Fights
808 The Rest of the Story
809 The Call
810 Say It to My Face
811 The One Place I Can’t Go
812 The Bear at the End of the Tunnel
813 Is That What I Look Like?
814 Parents Are People
815 How I Learned to Shave
816 Poultry Slam
817 The Cavalry Is Not Coming
818 Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
819 Yousef’s Week
820 It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In Me
821 Embrace the Suck
822 The Words to Say It
823 The Question Trap
824 Family Meeting
825 Yousef’s Week
826 Unprepared for What Has Already Happened
827 All the King's Horses
828 Minor Crimes Division
829 Two Ledgers
830 The Forever Trial
831 Lists!!!
832 That Other Guy
833 Come Retribution
834 Yousef and the Fourth Move
835 Children of Dave
836 The Big Rethink
837 Swim Towards the Shark
838 Letters! Actual Letters!
839 Meet Me at the Fair
840 How Are You Not Seeing This?
841 My Senior Year
842 51 Days
843 A Little Bit of Power
844 This Is the Case of Henry Dee
845 A Small Thing That Gives Me a Tiny Shred of Hope
846 This Is the Cake We Baked
847 The Truly Incredible Story of Keiko the Killer Whale
848 The Official Unofficial Record
849 The Narrator
850 If You Want to Destroy My Sweater, Hold This Thread as I Walk Away
851 Try a Little Tenderness
852 Pivot Point
853 Groundhog Day
854 Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About You
855 That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About
856 You’ve Come to the Right Person
857 Museum of Now
858 How to Tell a Dumb American Story
859 Chaos Graph
860 Suddenly: A Mirror!
861 Group Chat
862 Some Things We Don't Do Anymore
863 Championship Window
Fifth Pick
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Choose
001 New Beginnings
002 Small Scale Sin
003 Poultry Slam 1995
004 Vacations
005 Anger and Forgiveness
006 Christmas
007 Quitting
008 New Year
009 Julia Sweeney
010 Double Lives
011 Enemies
012 Animals
013 Love
014 Accidental Documentaries
015 Dawn
016 Economy
017 Name Change / No Theme
018 Liars
019 Rich Guys
020 From A Distance
021 Factions
022 Adult Children
023 Drama Bug
024 Teenaged Girls
025 Basketball
026 Father's Day '96
027 The Cruelty of Children
028 Detectives
029 Bob Dole
030 Obsession
031 When You Talk About Music
032 Republican Convention
033 A Night at the Wiener Circle
034 Democratic Convention
035 Fall Clearance Sale
036 Letters
037 The Job That Takes Over Your Life
038 Simulated Worlds
039 Halloween
040 Lessons
041 Politics
042 Get Over It!
043 Faustian Bargains
044 Poultry Slam 1996
045 Media Fringe
046 Sissies
047 Christmas and Commerce
048 Justice
049 Animals
050 Shoulda Been Dead
051 Animals Die, People Ponder
052 Edge of Sanity
053 Valentine’s Day ‘97
054 Sinatra
055 Three Women and the Sex Industry
056 Name Change
057 Delivery
058 Small Towns
059 Fire
060 Business of Death
061 Fiasco! (1997)
062 Something for Nothing
063 One Thing
064 Summer
065 Who's Canadian?
066 Tales from the Net
067 Your Dream, My Nightmare
068 Lincoln's Second Inaugural
069 Dream House
070 Other People's Mail
071 Defying Sickness
072 Trek
073 Blame It on Art
074 Conventions
075 Kindness of Strangers
076 Mob
077 Pray
078 How Bad Is Bad?
079 Stuck in the Wrong Decade
080 Running After Antelope
081 Guns
082 Haunted
083 One of Us
084 Harold
085 Poultry Slam 1997
086 How to Take Money from Strangers
087 A Very Special Sedaris Christmas
088 Numbers
089 Sibling Rivalry
090 Telephone
091 Escape the Box
092 Leave the Mask On
093 Valentine’s Day ’98
094 How To
095 Monogamy
096 Pinned by History
097 Death to Wacky
098 Throwing the First Punch
099 I Enjoy Being A Girl, Sort Of
100 Radio
101 Niagara
102 Road Trip!
103 Scenes from A Transplant
104 Music Lessons
105 Take A Negro Home
106 Father’s Day ‘98
107 Trail of Tears (1998)
108 Truth and Lies at Age Ten
109 Notes on Camp
110 Mapping
111 Adventures in the Simple Life
112 Ladies and Germs
113 Windfall
114 Last Words
115 First Day
116 Poultry Slam 1998
117 You Gonna Eat That?
118 What You Lookin’ At?
119 Lockup
120 Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
121 Twentieth Century Man
122 Valentine’s Day ’99
123 High Cost of Living
124 Welcome to America
125 Apocalypse
126 Do-Gooders
127 Pimp Anthropology
128 Four Corners
129 Advice
130 Away From Home
131 The Kids Are Alright
132 Father’s Day ‘99
133 Sales
134 We Didn’t
135 Allure of Crime
136 You Are Here
137 The Book That Changed Your Life
138 The Real Thing
139 Ghosts of Elections Past
140 Family Business
141 Invisible Worlds
142 Barbara
143 Sentencing
144 Where Words Fail
145 Poultry Slam 1999
146 Urban Nature
147 A Teenager's Guide to God
148 The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit
149 Bedside Diplomacy
150 Kids As Adults
151 Primary
152 Crush
153 Dolls
154 In Dog We Trust (2000)
155 Hoaxing Yourself (2000)
156 What Remains
157 Secret Life of Daytime
158 Mob Mentality
159 Mother’s Day
160 Character Assassination
161 Million Bubbles
162 Moving
163 Can You Fight City Hall…If You Are City Hall?
164 Crime Scene (2000)
165 Americans in Paris
166 Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
167 Memo to the People of the Future
168 The Fix Is In
169 Pursuit of Happiness
170 Immigration
171 Election
172 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
173 Three Kinds of Deception
174 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones
175 Babysitting
176 Two Nations, One President
177 American Limbo
178 Superpowers
179 Cicero
180 Return to Childhood 2001
181 The Friendly Man
182 Cringe
183 The Missing Parents Bureau
184 Neighbors
185 Golden Calf
186 Prom
187 Father's Day '01
188 Kid Logic (2001)
189 Hitler’s Yacht
190 Living the Dream
191 I Know What You Did This Summer
192 Meet the Pros
193 Stories of Loss
194 Before and After
195 War Stories
196 Rashomon
197 Before It Had A Name
198 How to Win Friends and Influence People
199 House on Loon Lake
200 Hearts and Minds
201 Them
202 Faith
203 Recordings for Someone
204 81 Words
205 Plan B
206 Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
207 Special Ed
208 Office Politics
209 Didn’t Ask to Be Born
210 Perfect Evidence
211 Naming Names
212 The Other Man
213 Devil on My Shoulder
214 Family Physics
215 Ask An Expert
216 Give the People What They Want
217 Give It to Them
218 Act V
219 High Speed Chase
220 Testosterone
221 Fake I.D.
222 Suckers
223 Classifieds
224 Middlemen
225 Home Movies
226 Reruns
227 Why We Fight
228 You Are So Beautiful…To Me
229 Secret Government
230 Come Back to Afghanistan
231 Time to Save the World
232 The Real Story
233 Starting From Scratch
234 Say Anything
235 The Balloon Goes Up
236 My Two Cents
237 Regime Change
238 Lost in Translation
239 Lost in America
240 I’m In Charge Now
241 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
242 Enemy Camp
243 Later That Same Day
244 MacGyver
245 Allure of the Mean Friend
246 My Pen Pal
247 What Is This Thing?
248 Like It or Not
249 Garbage
250 The Annoying Gap Between Theory...and Practice
251 Brother’s Keeper
252 Poultry Slam 2003
253 The Middle of Nowhere
254 Teenage Embed, Part Two
255 Our Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
256 Living Without (2004)
257 What I Should’ve Said
258 Leaving the Fold (2004)
259 Promised Land
260 The Facts Don’t Matter
261 The Sanctity of Marriage
262 Miracle Cures
263 Desperate Measures
264 Special Treatment
265 Fake Science
266 I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
267 Propriety
268 My Experimental Phase
269 Someone to Watch Over Me
270 Family Legend
271 Best Interests
272 Big Tent
273 Put Your Heart In It
274 Enemy Camp (2004)
275 Two Steps Back
276 Swing Set
277 Apology
278 Spies Like Us
279 Auto Show
280 In Country
281 My Big Break
282 DIY
283 Remember Me
284 Should I Stay or Should I Go?
285 Know Your Enemy
286 Mind Games (2005)
287 Backed Into A Corner
288 Not What I Meant
289 Go Ask Your Father
290 Godless America
291 Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
292 The Arms Trader (2005)
293 A Little Bit of Knowledge
294 Image Makers
295 Not What I Signed Up For
296 After the Flood
297 This Is Not My Beautiful House
298 Getting and Spending
299 Back from the Dead
300 What’s In A Number?
301 Settling the Score
302 Strangers in a Strange Land
303 David and Goliath
304 Heretics
305 The This American Life Holiday Spectacular
306 Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time
307 In the Shadow of the City (2006)
308 Star-Crossed Love
309 Cat and Mouse
310 Habeas Schmabeas
311 A Better Mousetrap (2006)
312 How We Talked Back Then
313 Parental Guidance Suggested
314 It's Never Over
315 The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig
316 The Cat Came Back
317 Unconditional Love
318 With Great Power
319 And the Call Was Coming from the Basement
320 What’s In A Number? — 2006 Edition
321 Sink or Swim
322 Shouting Across the Divide
323 The Super
324 My Brilliant Plan
325 Houses of Ill Repute
326 Quiz Show
327 By Proxy
328 What I Learned from Television
329 Nice Work If You Can Get It
330 My Reputation
331 Habeas Schmabeas (2007)
332 The Ten Commandments
333 The Center for Lessons Learned
334 Duty Calls
335 Big Wide World
336 Who Can You Save?
337 Man vs. History
338 The Spokesman
339 Break-Up
340 The Devil in Me
341 How to Talk to Kids
342 How to Rest in Peace
343 Poultry Slam 2007
344 The Competition
345 Ties That Bind
346 Home Alone
347 Matchmakers
348 Tough Room
349 Valentine’s Day 2008
350 Human Resources
351 Return to Childhood
352 The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
353 The Audacity of Government
354 Mistakes Were Made
355 The Giant Pool of Money
356 The Prosecutor
357 The Truth Will Out
358 Social Engineering
359 Life After Death
360 Switched at Birth
361 Fear of Sleep
362 Got You Pegged
363 Enforcers
364 Going Big
365 Another Frightening Show About the Economy
366 A Better Mousetrap (2008)
367 Ground Game
368 Who Do You Think You Are?
369 Poultry Slam 2008
370 Ruining It for the Rest of Us
371 Scenes From a Mall
372 The Inauguration Show
373 The New Boss
374 Somewhere Out There
375 Bad Bank
376 Wrong Side of History
377 Scenes From a Recession
378 This I Used to Believe
379 Return to the Scene of the Crime
380 No Map
381 Turncoat
382 The Watchmen
383 Origin Story (2009)
384 Fall Guy
385 Pro Se
386 Fine Print
387 Arms Trader (2009)
388 Rest Stop
389 Frenemies
390 Return To The Giant Pool of Money
391 More Is Less
392 Someone Else's Money
393 Infidelity
394 Bait and Switch
395 Middle of the Night
396 #1 Party School
397 2010
398 Long Shot
399 Contents Unknown
400 Stories Pitched by Our Parents
401 Parent Trap
402 Save the Day
403 NUMMI (2010)
404 Enemy Camp (2010)
405 Inside Job
406 True Urban Legends
407 The Bridge
408 Island Time
409 Held Hostage
410 Social Contract
411 First Contact
412 Million Dollar Idea
413 Georgia Rambler
414 Right to Remain Silent
415 Crybabies
416 Iraq After Us
417 This Party Sucks
418 Toxie
419 Petty Tyrant
420 Neighborhood Watch
421 Last Man Standing
422 Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special
423 The Invention of Money
424 Kid Politics
425 Slow To React
426 Tough Room 2011
427 Original Recipe
428 Oh You Shouldn't Have
429 Will They Know Me Back Home?
430 Very Tough Love
431 See No Evil
432 Know When To Fold ‘Em
433 Fine Print 2011
434 This Week
435 How To Create a Job
436 The Psychopath Test
437 Old Boys Network
438 Father's Day 2011
439 A House Divided
440 Game Changer
441 When Patents Attack!
442 Thugs
443 Amusement Park
444 Gossip
445 Ten Years In
446 Living Without (2011)
447 The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms
448 Adventure!
449 Middle School
450 So Crazy It Just Might Work
451 Back to Penn State
452 Poultry Slam 2011
453 Nemeses
455 Continental Breakup
456 Reap What You Sow
457 What I Did For Love
458 Play the Part
459 What Kind of Country
460 Retraction
461 Take the Money and Run for Office
462 Own Worst Enemy
463 Mortal Vs. Venial
464 Invisible Made Visible
465 What Happened at Dos Erres
466 Blackjack
467 Americans in China
468 Switcheroo
469 Hiding in Plain Sight
470 Show Me the Way
471 The Convert (2012)
472 Our Friend David
473 Loopholes
474 Back to School
475 Send a Message
476 What Doesn’t Kill You
477 Getting Away With It
478 Red State Blue State
479 Little War on the Prairie
480 Animal Sacrifice
481 This Week
482 Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2012)
483 Self-Improvement Kick
484 Doppelgängers
485 Surrogates
486 Valentine’s Day
487 Harper High School - Part One
488 Harper High School - Part Two
489 No Coincidence, No Story!
490 Trends With Benefits
491 Tribes
492 Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
493 Picture Show
494 Hit the Road
495 Hot In My Backyard
496 When Patents Attack... Part Two!
497 This Week
498 The One Thing You're Not Supposed To Do
499 Taking Names
500 500!
501 The View From In Here
502 This Call May Be Recorded... To Save Your Life
503 I Was Just Trying To Help
504 How I Got Into College
505 Use Only as Directed
506 Secret Identity
507 Confessions
508 Superpowers
509 It Says So Right Here
510 The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About
511 Fiasco! (2013)
512 House Rules
513 129 Cars
514 Thought That Counts
515 Good Guys
516 Stuck In The Middle (2014)
517 Day at the Beach (2014)
518 Except For That One Thing
519 Dead Men Tell No Tales
520 No Place Like Home
521 Bad Baby
522 Tarred and Feathered
523 Death and Taxes
524 I Was So High
525 Call For Help
526 Is That What I Look Like? (2014)
527 180 Degrees
528 The Radio Drama Episode
529 Human Spectacle 2014
530 Mind Your Own Business
531 Got Your Back
532 Magic Words
533 It's Not the Product, It's the Person
534 A Not-So-Simple Majority
535 Origin Story
536 The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra
537 The Alibi
538 Is This Working?
539 The Leap
540 A Front
541 Regrets, I've Had a Few
542 Wait—Do You Have The Map?
543 Wake Up Now
544 Batman
545 If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS
546 Burroughs 101
547 Cops See It Differently - Part One
548 Cops See It Differently - Part Two
549 Amateur Hour
550 Three Miles
551 Good Guys 2015
552 Need To Know Basis
553 Stuck in the Middle
554 Not It!
555 The Incredible Rarity of Changing Your Mind
556 Same Bed, Different Dreams
557 Birds & Bees
558 Game Face
559 Captain's Log
560 Abdi and the Golden Ticket
561 NUMMI (2015)
562 The Problem We All Live With - Part One
563 The Problem We All Live With - Part Two
564 Too Soon?
565 Lower 9 + 10
566 The Land of Make Believe
567 What’s Going On In There?
568 Human Spectacle
569 Put a Bow on It
570 The Night in Question
571 The Heart Wants What It Wants
572 Transformers
573 Status Update
574 Sinatra’s 100th Birthday
575 Poetry of Propaganda
576 Say Yes To Christmas
577 Something Only I Can See
578 I Thought I Knew You
579 My Damn Mind
580 That's One Way to Do It
581 Anatomy of Doubt
582 When the Beasts Come Marching In
583 It’ll Make Sense When You’re Older
584 For Your Reconsideration
585 In Defense of Ignorance
586 Who Do We Think We Are?
587 The Perils of Intimacy
588 Mind Games
589 Tell Me I’m Fat
590 Choosing Wrong
591 Get Your Money's Worth
592 Are We There Yet?
593 Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee
594 My Summer Self
595 Deep End of the Pool
596 Becoming a Badger
597 One Last Thing Before I Go (2016)
598 My Undesirable Talent
599 Seriously?
600 Will I Know Anyone at This Party?
601 Master of Her Domain… Name
602 The Sun Comes Up
603 Once More, With Feeling
604 20 Years Later
605 Kid Logic
606 Just What I Wanted
607 Didn’t We Solve This One?
608 The Revolution Starts At Noon
609 It’s Working Out Very Nicely
610 Grand Gesture
611 Vague and Confused
612 Ask a Grown-Up
613 OK, I’ll Do It
614 The Other Mr. President (2017)
615 The Beginning of Now
616 I Am Not a Pirate
617 Fermi’s Paradox
618 Mr. Lie Detector
619 The Magic Show
620 To Be Real
621 Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville
622 Who You Gonna Call?
623 We Are in the Future (2017)
624 Private Geography
625 Essay B
626 White Haze
627 Suitable for Children (2017)
628 In the Shadow of the City
629 Expect Delays
630 Things I Mean to Know
631 So a Monkey and a Horse Walk Into a Bar
632 Our Town - Part One
633 Our Town - Part Two
634 Human Error in Volatile Situations
635 Chip in My Brain
636 I Thought It Would Be Easier
637 Words You Can't Say
638 Rom-Com
639 In Dog We Trust
640 Five Women
641 The Walls
642 The Impossible Dream
643 Damned If You Do…
644 Random Acts of History
645 My Effing First Amendment
646 The Secret of My Death
647 LaDonna
648 Unteachable Moment
649 It's My Party and I'll Try If I Want To
650 Change You Can Maybe Believe In
651 If You Build It, Will They Come?
652 ICE Capades
653 Crime Scene
654 The Feather Heist
655 The Not-So-Great Unknown
656 Let Me Count the Ways
657 The Runaways
658 The Unhappy Deciders
659 Before the Next One
660 Hoaxing Yourself
661 But That's What Happened
662 Where There Is a Will
663 How I Read It
664 The Room of Requirement
665 Before Things Went to Hell
666 The Theme That Shall Not Be Named
667 Wartime Radio
668 The Long Fuse
669 Scrambling to Get Off the Ice
670 Beware the Jabberwock
671 Anything Can Be Anything
672 No Fair!
673 Left Behind
674 Get a Spine!
675 I’m on TV??
676 Here’s Looking at You, Kid
677 Seeing Yourself In the Wild
678 The Wannabes
679 Save the Girl
680 The Weight Of Words (2019)
681 Escape From the Lab
682 Ten Sessions
683 Beer Summit
684 Burn It Down
685 We Come From Small Places
686 Umbrellas Up
687 Small Things Considered
688 The Out Crowd
689 Digging Up the Bones
690 Too Close to Home
691 Gardens of Branching Paths
692 The Show of Delights
693 Abdi the American
694 Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
695 Everyone's a Critic
696 Low Hum of Menace
697 Alone Together
698 The Test
699 Fiasco!
700 Embiggening
701 Black Box
702 One Last Thing Before I Go
703 Stuck!
704 Our Pulitzer-Winning Episode
705 Time Out
706 A Mess to Be Reckoned With
707 We Are in the Future
708 Here, Again
709 The Reprieve
710 Umbrellas Down
711 How to Be Alone
712 Nice White Parents
713 Made to Be Broken
714 Day at the Beach
715 Long-Awaited Asteroid Finally Hits Earth
716 Trail of Tears
717 Audience of One (2020)
718 Same Bed, Different Dreams (2020)
719 Trust Me I’m a Doctor
720 The Moment After This Moment
721 The Walls Close In
722 The Unreality of Now
723 Squeaker
724 Personal Recount
725 Turkey in a Face Mask
726 Twenty-Five
727 Boulder v. Hill
728 Lights, Camera, Christmas!
729 Making the Cut
730 The Empty Chair
731 What Lies Beneath (2021)
732 Secrets
733 Warriors in the Garden
734 The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled
735 Bloody Feelings
736 The Herd
737 The Daily
738 Good Grief!
739 Sisters
740 There. I Fixed It.
741 The Weight of Words
742 The Thing I'm Getting Over
743 Don't You Be My Neighbor
744 Essential
745 Getting Out
746 This Is Just Some Songs
747 Suitable for Children
748 The End of the World as We Know It
749 My Bad
750 The Ferryman
751 Audience of One
752 An Invitation to Tea
753 What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate
754 Spark Bird
755 The Convert
756 But I Did Everything Right
757 The Ghost in the Machine
758 Talking While Black
759 A Couple Walks Into a House
760 A City Walks Into an Investigation
761 The Trojan Horse Affair
762 Apocalypse Creep
763 The Other Mr. President
764 School's Out Forever
765 Off Course
766 Well Someone Had to Do SOMETHING!
767 Do Not Go Gentle
768 The Other Front Lines
769 The Reluctant Explorer
770 My Lying Eyes
771 The Parents Step In
772 The Kids' Table
773 The Longest Distance Between Two Points
774 The Pink House at the Center of the World
775 The Possum Experiment
776 I Work Better on Deadline
777 Name. Age. Detail.
778 Me Minus Me
779 Ends of the Earth
780 Setting the Record Straight
781 Watching the Watchers
782 Family Dig
783 Kids These Days
784 Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
785 Through the Looking Glass
786 It's a Game Show!
787 Baby's First Christmas
788 Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom
789 The Runaround
790 You're It
791 Math or Magic?
792 When to Leave
793 The Problem with Ghosts
794 So Close and Yet So Far
795 Nine Months Later
796 What Lies Beneath
797 What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking
798 Leaving the Fold
799 The Lives of Others
800 Jane Doe
801 Must Be Rats on the Brain
802 Father's Day
803 Greetings, People Of Earth
804 The Retrievals
805 The Florida Experiment
806 I Can't Quit You, Baby
807 Eight Fights
808 The Rest of the Story
809 The Call
810 Say It to My Face
811 The One Place I Can’t Go
812 The Bear at the End of the Tunnel
813 Is That What I Look Like?
814 Parents Are People
815 How I Learned to Shave
816 Poultry Slam
817 The Cavalry Is Not Coming
818 Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
819 Yousef’s Week
820 It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In Me
821 Embrace the Suck
822 The Words to Say It
823 The Question Trap
824 Family Meeting
825 Yousef’s Week
826 Unprepared for What Has Already Happened
827 All the King's Horses
828 Minor Crimes Division
829 Two Ledgers
830 The Forever Trial
831 Lists!!!
832 That Other Guy
833 Come Retribution
834 Yousef and the Fourth Move
835 Children of Dave
836 The Big Rethink
837 Swim Towards the Shark
838 Letters! Actual Letters!
839 Meet Me at the Fair
840 How Are You Not Seeing This?
841 My Senior Year
842 51 Days
843 A Little Bit of Power
844 This Is the Case of Henry Dee
845 A Small Thing That Gives Me a Tiny Shred of Hope
846 This Is the Cake We Baked
847 The Truly Incredible Story of Keiko the Killer Whale
848 The Official Unofficial Record
849 The Narrator
850 If You Want to Destroy My Sweater, Hold This Thread as I Walk Away
851 Try a Little Tenderness
852 Pivot Point
853 Groundhog Day
854 Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About You
855 That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About
856 You’ve Come to the Right Person
857 Museum of Now
858 How to Tell a Dumb American Story
859 Chaos Graph
860 Suddenly: A Mirror!
861 Group Chat
862 Some Things We Don't Do Anymore
863 Championship Window
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