Ask a Grown-Up

#612 - 17 March 2017

Stories from people who need a grown-up. Featuring teenage girls asking for advice about their love lives and Ira's tribute to his very grown-up friend Mary.

Vague and Confused

#611 - 3 March 2017

A show about rules and what happens when they’re vague and randomly enforced.

Grand Gesture

#610 - 17 February 2017

This week we have stories of people going to very extreme measures to demonstrate their feelings. Elna Baker makes a questionable trip to Africa, while a man in Florida commits a series of disturbing acts in the name of love. Ira also goes to a high school to talk to kids before a dance.

It’s Working Out Very Nicely

#609 - 3 February 2017

This week we document what happened when the President’s executive order went into effect temporarily banning travel from seven countries, and we talk about the way it was implemented. A major policy change thrown into the world like a fastball with no warning. It’s hard not to ask: “What just happened? What was that all about?”

The Revolution Starts At Noon

#608 - 20 January 2017

Some people are super-stoked for the political changes that are coming. We hear from them. And others.

Didn’t We Solve This One?

#607 - 6 January 2017

We’ve fought two wars since 9/11. We got help from tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans—some were targeted or killed because they helped us. We owe these people. We’ve passed laws that say so. So why has it been so hard for us to get many of them to safety?

Just What I Wanted

#606 - 23 December 2016

Stories from people who want something desperately—for Christmas or otherwise—and then have their wishes fulfilled. Or do they?

Kid Logic 2016

#605 - 16 December 2016

Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions. An updated version of an episode from 2001, with one story swapped.

20 Years Later

#604 - 9 December 2016

Samantha Broun talks to cops, politicians, inmates, and family closest to the crime that changed policy 20 years ago for inmates serving life sentences in Pennsylvania. It's a crime Samantha knows well, because it happened to her mom.

Once More, With Feeling

#603 - 2 December 2016

Stories of people who decide to rethink the way they’ve been doing things... or try to get others to do that. Including the story of a veteran who finds a new way to talk about war.