This American Life

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An illustration of someone swinging from a tree by a vine that's all wrapped up in the branches — Pete Ryan

Small human plans that run into much larger obstacles.

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Lists!!!

How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.

“When I’m trying to explain our program to someone who doesn’t know it, I stammer a bunch of words like ‘entertaining,’ ‘funny,’ ‘surprising plot twists,’ ‘true stories but not boring I swear’ … and then I just give them this list.” — Ira Glass

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