Prologue: Some powerful and well known men lost their jobs after #MeToo. (9 minutes)Īct Five: What happens when a dealer of delight gets depressed? Podcast host Tracy Clayton talks to Bim Adewunmi about the road back. (17 minutes)įive years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who stepped forward and went public with their stories? We tell the story of a teenager who spoke out against one of the most powerful people in her state, and what happened next. (8 minutes)Īct Four: Producer Dana Chivvis follows the night zookeeper at the Denver Zoo as she doles out snacks and tucks the animals in. (4 minutes)Īct Three: Producer Miki Meek speaks to Noriko Meek, her 72-year-old mother, about discovering delight late in life. (8 minutes)Īct Two: Producer Robyn Semien captures a special morning for her five-year-old son, Cole, who is doing something delightful for the very first time: he’s getting to ride the school bus. Ira then hands the show over to Bim as guest host. (10 minutes)Īct One: Bim talks to poet Ross Gay, whose book inspired today’s show, about the discipline and rigor of seeking and holding onto delight. Prologue: Ira Glass talks to Bim Adewunmi about her understanding of delight through American pop culture and the summer she spent in the US as a 19-year-old. In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: a show made up entirely of stories about delight. (11 minutes)Īct Four: Chicago playwright Beau O’Reilly talks about how he reconciled with his estranged father years ago by becoming an alcoholic just like him. (12 minutes)Īct Three: Audio artist Jay Allison and writer Dan Robb present an audio montage on the moment Robb’s parents divorced. (10 minutes)Īct Two: Ian Brown explains the lengths a normal dad will go to give his daughter a memorable birthday party, including a birthday stunt so crass that he and his wife shocked all of their friends. She invites the band and her father into the studio to discuss it. They think he’s a free spirit she believes he’s a worried, miserly grump. (3 minutes)Īct One: LA writer/performer Sandra Tsing Loh discovers that a local rock band has recorded a song about her own father, wildly misinterpreting who he is. Prologue: Ira talks with his father and co-host for this show, Barry Glass, about his own early days working in radio. Ira's own father, Barry Glass, co-hosts this special Father's Day show. ![]() Producer Diane Wu spent some time recently with a teenage humanoid who feels that way. Producer Chris Benderev wondered if that was true. (7 minutes)Īct Four: Many of us, especially when we’re young, feel like we’re the alien, trying to understand and fit in with the humans on this planet. Many people seem convinced they are seeking revenge for past injustices. It’s called “They're Made Out of Meat.” It’s performed by actors Maeve Higgins and H Jon Benjamin. (5 minutes)Īct Three: A species of massive, mysterious, highly intelligent beings have recently been making contact with humanity. (30 minutes)Īct Two: A short piece of fiction from the perspective of aliens who’ve been scouting Earth, from writer Terry Bisson. Our Senior Editor David Kestenbaum thinks that even though there’s been a ton of coverage, there’s one thing people haven’t talked much about: have these machines gotten to the point that they’re starting to have something like human intelligence? Where they actually understand language and concepts, and can reason? He talks with scientists at Microsoft who’ve been trying to figure that out. (2 minutes)Īct One: In this past year we’ve witnessed a revolution in A.I. ![]() Prologue: Ira has some thoughts about our country’s long history of alien invasion movies. Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them.
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