Then a surgical procedure called egg retrieval caused them excruciating pain. The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy. * Act Four: Chicago playwright Beau O’Reilly talks about how he reconciled with his estranged father years ago by becoming an alcoholic just like him. * Act Three: Audio artist Jay Allison and writer Dan Robb present an audio montage on the moment Robb’s parents divorced. * Act 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. * Act 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. (A swimmer at Stanford University named Brock Turner sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious.) She talks about how she decided to come out with her real name and who Emily Doe is to her now. She wrote a victim impact statement that millions of people read. For years, Chanel was known as Emily Doe. * Act Three: Jane Doe sent some questions for us to ask Chanel Miller. * Act Two: Jane Doe walks into a public ethics hearing at the Idaho state capitol and navigates the aftermath. She talks about it in-depth for the first time. But the story that the public knows is very different from what actually happened to Jane. State legislators talked about how proud they were of their ability to do the right thing so quickly. There was a public ethics hearing and Ehlinger resigned. * Act One: Back in 2021, a 19-year-old intern at the Idaho state legislature reported that a state Representative named Aaron von Ehlinger raped her. But what about the women at the center of all this who’ve been way less visible after they told what happened to them? We hear about big and small ways the aftermath of coming forward continues to pop up in their daily lives. ![]() * Prologue: Some powerful and well known men lost their jobs after #MeToo. Transcripts are available at 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. Producer Diane Wu spent some time recently with a teenage humanoid who feels that way. * Act 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. ![]() Producer Chris Benderev wondered if that was true. ![]() Many people seem convinced they are seeking revenge for past injustices. * Act Three: A species of massive, mysterious, highly intelligent beings have recently been making contact with humanity. It’s called “They're Made Out of Meat.” It’s performed by actors Maeve Higgins and H Jon Benjamin. * Act 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. * Act 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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