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This American Life Show Feed
730: The Empty Chair
January 24, 2021
Things we’ve lost in the past year — since the first American coronavirus case — that we haven’t talked about so much. Gossip. The chance to make new friends. And much larger stuff.
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694: Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
January 17, 2021
People looking everywhere to find a place—any place—where, for once, they don't have to be the odd man out.
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729: Making the Cut
January 10, 2021
There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.
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692: The Show of Delights
January 3, 2021
In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: a show made up entirely of stories about delight.
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728: Lights, Camera, Christmas!
December 27, 2020
This holiday season, we bring you a show filled with stories of people going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families.
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727: Boulder v. Hill
December 20, 2020
What the day-to-day business of saving the world looks like. We visit with one group of people who are trying to rescue us from something very large, and another group trying to rescue us from something very small.
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726: Twenty-Five
December 13, 2020
To commemorate our show’s 25th year, we have a program about people who were born the year our show went on the air.
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725: Turkey in a Face Mask
November 29, 2020
For Thanksgiving weekend, stories about food, and people who set out on very particular missions with food. 
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724: Personal Recount
November 15, 2020
Stories of people changing their minds.
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723: Squeaker
November 8, 2020
People grappling with an endless presidential election.
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