Episode #111
2025-04-09 05:00:03
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At The Guardian newspaper, there’s a person who has to find two complete strangers to send on a blind date every week.
Episode #110
2025-03-19 05:00:33
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About twenty years ago, D’yan Forest considered getting into stand-up comedy. “People told me, no, don’t go into comedy. Everybody is going to make fun of you. They’re gonna heckle you. You’re an old woman.” D’yan ignored them.
Episode #109
2025-03-05 05:00:50
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When his older brother died of cancer, Patrick Bringley quit his New York office job and got a new one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—as a security guard. He stayed for 10 years.
Episode #108
2025-02-19 05:00:10
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On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the station, he noticed something on the ground. It looked like a baby doll wrapped in a shirt. And then he saw the doll's legs move.
Episode #107
2025-02-05 05:00:15
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When Cody Bryant suddenly stopped communicating with Haley Woloshen after weeks of hanging out, she assumed she was being ghosted. It was only later that she found out he’d forgotten about her entirely.
Episode #106
2025-01-22 05:00:21
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The day Edgardo Griffith met Heidi Ross, he asked her if she’d like to come with him to look for frogs.
Episode #105
2025-01-08 05:00:22
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Everything you didn’t know about Goodnight Moon, the book that’s put children to bed for generations — and the woman who wrote it. "She could write very well for young children because she remembered exactly what it was like to be one of them."
Episode #104
2024-12-18 05:00:27
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Stories we love about animals really going for it.
Episode #103
2024-12-04 05:00:06
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One night in 2018, Ahmed Ali Akbar rented a car and drove two hours to the Detroit airport. He was picking up a package for his cousin – over a dozen boxes of a very special fruit.
Episode #102
2024-11-20 05:00:39
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“After more than a hundred years of hard work from some of the greatest cryptological and linguistic minds on the planet, we still don’t quite know what this object is. There’s really nothing like it in the world.”
Episode #101
2024-11-06 05:00:16
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Recently, Phoebe told a personal story about her mother, who died this year. In this episode, she talks to journalist Sebastian Junger, who was rushed to the hospital one day after feeling sick – and then, he saw something strange.
Episode #100
2024-10-16 05:00:07
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For our 100th episode, a story from Phoebe about her mother, Valentine, who died this spring.
Episode #99
2024-10-02 05:00:50
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“Every spring it's one of the first birds that I look for. When I hear my first prairie warbler, it resets things for me. It gives me these memories of the past, but it also just reminds me of why I love birds so much.”
Episode #98
2024-09-18 05:00:10
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Writer Andrew Leland was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Retinitis pigmentosa when he was in high school. "It was like, 'I'm going out in the woods with my friends at night. And oddly enough, I'm bad at it.'"
Episode #97
2024-09-04 05:00:38
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When Miguel Esteban was 14 years old, he picked up the phone and called Octavia Butler.
Episode #96
2024-08-21 05:00:24
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One Saturday night in the 90s, Patrick Makuakāne and about 15 other hula dancers showed up to a club in San Francisco they called Old Dreamland.