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.Mike Birbiglia on the sleepwalking that nearly killed him. bit.ly/43cBFMY

Joel explains why, as an 11-year-old, he trained himself not to fall asleep — and how that had some unintended consequences. bit.ly/3GSftjO

Become our Life Partner! Support the show and you’ll get ad-free listening, bonus content, and access to hundreds of archive episodes hand-picked by Ira. bit.ly/3Zz0W3u

Buried beneath the statistics and headlines giving shape to the atrocities suffered in Gaza, the texture of the individual human experience tends to go overlooked. This American Life's Chana Joffe-Walt's collection of stories captures the direct experiences of people working through

On the radio this weekend: Boen Wang goes back to a day before he was born, a day that changed the course of his family's story. bit.ly/3zuU8sS

Boen Wang has a theory that a lot of the misery in his life can be traced to a single moment that happened years before he was born. So he makes a pilgrimage to see if he’s right. link.podtrac.com/rlbnw675

NYC: Join our own Emanuele Berry along with podcast host Nichole Hill for a live taping of the Black history comedy show, "Our Ancestors Were Messy." Friday, June 13. Tickets: bit.ly/4jX2fko

Join Ira Glass in conversation with writer Etgar Keret at Symphony Space on June 3, as they delve into the surreal, poignant, and darkly comic worlds of Keret’s newest short story collection. symphonyspace.org/events/thalia-…

Bonus content: Ira and producer Emmanuel Dzotsi revisit an episode from 1998. Emmanuel shares how the episode feels so weird and different from anything the show would do now. Subscribe to hear it. thisamericanlife.supercast.com/?utm_campaign=…

On the radio this weekend: A show about people who are suddenly confronted with who they are. bit.ly/3FrNcjC

Some people are great in a crisis. Others, not so much. Does that mean anything about who we really are? bit.ly/43eyaa7

Leisha Hailey was certain she had the next million-dollar idea: pet wigs. link.podtrac.com/nrffzqxs

This week: people catching surprising reflections of themselves, and what they do with that information. link.podtrac.com/nrffzqxs

.Mike Birbiglia shares the questions his daughter asks him, and how trying to answer them revealed surprising reflections of himself. lnk.to/8CtVtV

This week on This American Life: I reported on Gaza’s severe food shortages and what it means to live through starvation. Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now. thisamericanlife.org/861/group-chat…

This week: Group Chat — Palestinians who are outside Gaza check in with family, friends, and strangers inside. link.podtrac.com/skv18h7r

When Yousef left Gaza a year ago, his sisters decided to stay behind. We hear about the toll that separation has taken on Yousef and his sister, Aseel. thisamericanlife.org/861/group-chat

.Mohammed R Mhawish, who left Gaza with his family a year ago, talks to a young woman in Gaza about how she manages her hunger. thisamericanlife.org/861/group-chat…

In our show this week, Chana Joffe-Walt gives a short update on Banias, the 9-year-old girl in Gaza she's been speaking with for months. thisamericanlife.org/861/group-chat…