Episode #127
2025-12-03 05:00:58
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When Minh Nguyen was in school, he didn’t ask anyone to sign his yearbooks — he says he was too uncomfortable. But twenty years later, he started reaching out to all his former classmates. He asks everyone the same questions.
Episode #126
2025-11-19 05:00:29
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In 1971, for his mother’s birthday, Alvin Ailey gave her a ballet. The dance was grueling – sometimes the women who did it bled. “I remember very well seeing my mother on her knees scrubbing these white folks’ rooms and halls. That image is in my ballet ‘Cry.’”
Episode #125
2025-11-05 05:00:28
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“He stole my watch. He stole my jewelry. I stopped wearing jewelry – just to see what else he would steal.”
Episode #124
2025-10-22 05:00:10
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A visitor to the islands of the Pacific Northwest once described seeing “a forest of totem poles.” But by the time Robert Davidson was born, there wasn't a single one left standing in his village.
Episode #123
2025-10-08 05:00:43
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People in India have been flying kites for hundreds of years – using them to predict the weather, carry love letters, and compete in the air. But they share the sky and a name with hundreds of thousands of scavenging birds: black kites.
Episode #122
2025-09-24 05:00:24
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In 1964, a landlord in Washington, DC, noticed that his tenant hadn’t paid rent and went to look for him. The tenant wasn’t in the building – but he’d left behind something strange – something that he’d been working on for 14 years.
Episode #121
2025-09-10 05:00:24
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In October of 2006, a press conference was held at a hospital in Denver. During the press conference, a man asked if anyone watching could tell him who he was, or how he got there. Because he didn’t know.
Episode #120
2025-08-20 05:00:22
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Never check a bag, always bring a journal, and consider duct tape: a conversation with Rick Steves.
Episode #119
2025-08-06 05:00:46
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In 1966, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey had been married for three years. They’d bought a house in the suburbs in the middle of England, and had jobs at the tax office and a printing press. “They're living a respectable day-to-day suburban existence — which is kind of driving them both crazy. And one rainy evening, Maralyn just says, ‘You know what? Why don't we sell this house and build a boat and go?’”
Episode #118
2025-07-16 05:00:30
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When writer Rachel Carson built a house on Maine’s Southport Island, her new neighbor, Dorothy Freeman, sent her a note to welcome her. Rachel wrote back. And when the summer was over, they kept writing to each other.
Episode #117
2025-07-02 05:00:43
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An episode all about hot dogs and the people who love them.
Episode #116
2025-06-18 05:00:19
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In 1910, a group of British men set off on an expedition to the South Pole. Over a hundred years later, in the journals and letters that survived, a writer discovered a love story.
Episode #115
2025-06-04 05:00:32
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In 1963, Jeanne and Alan Abel traveled to Washington, DC to picket in front of the White House. They said they were part of a campaign that wanted to put clothes on animals — including the first lady’s horse.
Episode #114
2025-05-21 05:00:16
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"That bear's been with them through everything.”
Episode #113
2025-05-07 05:00:21
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When money makes falling in love uncomfortable.
Episode #112
2025-04-23 05:00:43
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When The Guardian sends two strangers on a blind date, the last question they have to answer for the newspaper column is “Would you meet again?” We asked people how their dates went – and what happened next.