This American Life

人们踏上了他们本无意——或不同意——的旅程。 请访问 thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners 订阅我们的高级会员。 序言：一名女子在夜间巴士上醒来，发现司机正载着乘客前往一个他们都不想去的地方。（8分钟） 第一幕：有时，你身不由己被困住的这趟巴士，其实是你脑海中不断盘旋的思绪。（13分钟） 第二幕：来自古巴的报道，那里目前没有多少巴士在运行，因为整个国家都缺油。（11分钟） 第三幕：有时，整个国家可能会被迫踏上意想不到的旅程。这发生在英国，那里发生了一起令人困惑、荒谬至极的罪行，人们完全无法理解。（15分钟） 第四幕：莱蒂西亚16岁时，从她居住的圣保罗飞往德国。她坐在一位年长女士旁边，这位女士在飞行中做了一件非常出人意料的事，以至于莱蒂西亚至今仍会向人提起。（9分钟） 文字记录可在 thisamericanlife.org 获取。 《美国生活》隐私政策。 了解更多关于赞助商信息的选择。

这个国家有些人认为Antifa是一个危险的国内恐怖组织。也有人认为这完全是子虚乌有。本周，我们走进一场联邦审判——这是政府首次试图证明Antifa真实存在。佐伊·切斯带来报道。 请访问thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners订阅我们的高级会员服务。 序幕：主持人艾拉·格拉斯讲述德克萨斯州阿尔瓦拉多市草原地拘留中心发生的事件。政府声称这是Antifa小组发动的袭击，而辩方则称这是一场失控的抗议活动。这场争论将在首次此类审判中对簿公堂。（7分钟） 第一幕：记者佐伊·切斯带我们回顾辩方最艰难的日子之一——所有那些枪支。（5分钟） 第二幕：佐伊带我们聆听政府Antifa专家的证词。辩方团队对事态进展持乐观态度。（8分钟） 第三幕：佐伊前往监狱，与检方合作证人之一——前教会女士琳内特·夏普交谈。她对自己人生中导致接受认罪协议并出庭指证朋友的所有经历有诸多感慨。（24分钟） 第四幕：判决结果出炉。（12分钟） 文字记录请访问thisamericanlife.org 《美国生活》隐私政策。 了解更多赞助商信息选择。

在这个国家迎来250岁生日之际，我们为您带来关于最具美国特色的人物、地点、物品和社会规范的故事——正是这些元素塑造了今日的美国。 访问 thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners 订阅我们的高级会员服务。 序章：艾拉与巴勃罗·托雷讨论美国职业棒球大联盟的新挑战系统，以及该系统如何被优化以制造最大戏剧性。（10分钟） 第一幕：作家方家阳纠结于一个她从未真正理解的常见问题。（5分钟） 第二幕：人们从全国各地赶来，只为走下密歇根州最高的沙丘之一，然后立刻转身艰难地爬回去。阿维娃·德科恩菲尔德与那些将有限假期投入这项自虐活动的美国人交谈。（8分钟） 第三幕：埃马努埃莱·贝里与艾拉讨论真人秀《幸存者》第13季——被粉丝称为"种族战争"季。（8分钟） 第四幕：在诺亚·韦伯斯特编纂那本著名词典的许多年前，他写了一本拥有独立生命并发挥意外作用的书。（8分钟） 第五幕：埃马纽埃尔·佐齐调查一种美国特有的音乐现象：歌手在国歌结尾处添加装饰音。（9分钟） 文字记录可在 thisamericanlife.org 获取 《美国生活》隐私政策 了解更多关于赞助商信息的选择。

我们在第四节最后两分钟里度过了一个小时，落后且绝望，人们尝试着任何他们能想到的疯狂办法。 请访问 thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners 订阅我们的高级会员服务。 序曲：在奥拉首次出现神秘且令人衰弱的健康问题五年后，她决定尝试一种她很清楚可能会要了她命的治疗方法。主持人伊拉·格拉斯与她谈论了这段经历。（9分钟） 第一幕：两位律师只有三个月时间来阻止他们的客户被执行死刑。在这个故事发生的得克萨斯州，这类试图让人免于死刑的上诉有94%都以失败告终。（38分钟） 第二幕：在圣地亚哥的奥泰梅萨拘留中心，移民们想出了一种巧妙的方式，与聚集在拘留中心墙外的活动人士进行沟通。（13分钟） 文字记录可在 thisamericanlife.org 获取。 《美国生活》隐私政策。 了解更多关于赞助商信息的选择。

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has been in the news thanks to an extra-long deployment that's taken a toll on its crew. What's life on an aircraft carrier at war really like? Back in 2002, we spent a few days on the USS John C. Stennis, which was sending bombing missions into Afghanistan. (00:00:00) Prologue: Alex Blumberg talks with sailor Crevon Scott, who stocks vending machines on the Stennis. (00:04:52) Act One: Aboard the USS Stennis, Ira Glass and Wendy Dorr talk with sailors about life on board. Off duty, people play video games, work out, or practice in one of the ship's many garage bands. Ira and Wendy also talk with sailors about how rumors travel on the ship — conversations that get back to the top brass, who give the producers heat for chasing salacious stories. Ira interviews the captain, James McDonell, and learns the ship is facing a fresh water shortage. (00:32:30) Act Two: As pilots head to their planes for a mission, they explain how hard it is to land on an aircraft carrier. Wendy talks with sailors Cynthia and David, waiting for the 8PM movie to start, and she and Alex talk with sailors in the mess hall.

Labels are powerful. They can distill you down to a single word. They can get stuck on you without your permission. And sometimes, when they get taken away, they can upend your entire life. On this episode: labels and the havoc they wreak. (00:00:00) Prologue: Sara and Ethan have been dating for 10 months. They see each other at least once a week, text pretty much every day, and have been there for each other through hard times. But they refuse to have the “what are we?” conversation. So what gives? Guest host Tobin Low looks into it. (5 minutes) (00:05:14) Act One: Last week, when Temporary Protected Status, also known as TPS, was cut off for Haitian immigrants, some 300,000 people had their lives upended. Marie, a Certified Nursing Assistant in Boston, was one of them. Producer Chana Joffe-Walt spent time last week with Marie as she tried to figure out exactly when her very last day on the job would be. (21 minutes) (00:27:57) Act Two: Comedian Janet McNamara was walking off stage 15 years ago when the club owner asked, “Hey, have you ever been tested for autism?” No one had ever asked her this before, so Janet decided to look into it. (17 minutes) (00:44:01) Act Three: When you get down to it, labels are just our way of pointing out what we think is remarkable about other people. That’s Alfred Jung Lee’s argument. He’s been thinking a lot about how we describe each other, especially as he tries to describe his wife, who passed away from cancer. (10 minutes)

We head to some of the happiest places on earth: amusement parks! Ira Glass takes us behind the scenes at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, where the young staff – coached by a funny, fun-loving boss just a little older than they are – truly seem to love their jobs. (00:00:00) Prologue: Host Ira Glass walks through a Kansas City, Missouri amusement park called Worlds of Fun with Cole Lindbergh, who had a season pass to the park as a little kid, started working there in the summers at 14, and then stayed on. Now he's a full-time, year-round employee who runs the games department. He may do this job better than anyone in the country. (9 minutes) (00:09:26) Act One: Ira continues with Cole Lindbergh and the teenagers who work for him in the games department at Worlds of Fun. We watch them compete against each other to see who can do the most business. (23 minutes) (00:32:26) Act Two: We asked for your stories about amusement parks. Three hundred of you called in, with stories of fear, floating carnies and, um, vomit. (9 minutes) (00:42:15) Act Three: Jonathan Goldstein returns to Wildwood, New Jersey, where he spent one not-fateful summer when he was sixteen. (13 minutes)

人们正在应对发生在他们居住地的新鲜、显眼、巨大的变化。 (00:00:00) 序言：加州帕萨迪纳市议员里克·科尔（Rick Cole）向艾拉（Ira）讲述了他今年六月如何应对社区内一次意外的夜间军事演习——包括直升机、枪声和闪光弹。（5分钟） (00:05:30) 第一幕：一位受过助产士培训的医生讲述了一个令人瞠目结舌的故事：在缅因州农村的一个地方，当地的产科病房不到一个月前刚刚关闭，她和其他人如何齐心协力，在一次突然出现问题的分娩中救下了一个婴儿。（26分钟） (00:34:56) 第二幕：制作人瓦莱丽·基普尼斯（Valerie Kipnis）一直无法融入家人讲述的在苏联长大的笑话和故事，直到她看了今年奥斯卡获奖纪录片《Mr. Nobody Against Putin》。该片记录了俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰后，在全国范围内推行宣传攻势时，一所学校发生的变化。瓦莱丽采访了纪录片中心的那位年轻教师，了解到了一些从未出现在影片中的事情。（21分钟）

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered everyone over 30 in the military to have their testosterone tested. That inspired us to rerun this classic episode where everyone at This American Life tested their testosterone and compared results. It did not lead to workplace harmony. (00:00:00) Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks with producer Alex Blumberg, who explains that he wanted to do this show because of his conflicted relationship with his own testosterone. He tells Ira that the reasons go back to a girl in his 8th-grade homeroom. We also hear from a man who stopped producing testosterone due to a medical treatment, and found his entire personality was altered. (10 minutes) (00:10:45) Act One: What’s it like to get injected with testosterone? When Griffin Hansbury transitioned, he got massive shots of it and was surprised at the effect it had on him. (17 minutes) (00:27:56) Act Two: The men and women on staff at This American Life decide to get their testosterone levels tested to see who has the most and least, and whether personality traits actually match hormone levels. (13 minutes) (00:40:16) Act Three: What happens when a man suddenly loses all of his testosterone? We return to Alex Blumberg’s interview from the top of the show with a man who that happened to. He says life without testosterone is life without desire. By that he doesn’t mean sexual desire. He means any desire. (6 minutes) (00:46:47) Act Four: Novelist Miriam Toews interviews her 15-year-old son, someone at an age when boys experience a jolt of ten or twenty times the testosterone they had as children, about all the things she doesn’t understand about what he’s going through. (11 minutes)

我们试图通过描绘全国四个不同州、四个不同角落的生活肖像，来讲述美国的生活故事。序言：主持人Ira Glass谈论亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州、犹他州和新墨西哥州交汇处的Four Corners旅游纪念碑。（2分钟）第一幕：Sarah Vowell有一个理论，认为只要站在一个街角——具体来说是芝加哥的Michigan Avenue和Wacker Drive交叉口——并描述该街角视野范围内发生的所有事件，就能讲述整个美国历史。她涵盖了从Louis Joliet到Keanu Reeves的三个世纪的历史。（21分钟）第二幕：来自肯塔基州Louisville的Scott Richer和Julie Riggs，原本应该在South Fourth Street与West End Baptist Church后面小巷交汇的街角进行他们的初吻。但事情出了差错。（7分钟）第三幕：作家Mike Paterniti讲述了一个关于狗和一群遛狗者的故事，这群人在缅因州Portland的Vaughn和Clifford街角的一个旧墓地场地上形成了社区。（14分钟）第四幕：作家Achy Obejas朗读了她书中的一篇短篇小说《We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?》（11分钟）

故事发生在20世纪60年代末，加州一位名叫鲍勃的电视修理工看到了一个机会——借助新兴的人体冷冻技术帮助人们逃避死亡。但冷冻死人并不容易。而为过程中犯下的错误道歉？更是难上加难。开场白：主持人艾拉·格拉斯谈论了大多数政治道歉的方式，并与一位名叫德里克·琼斯的男子聊了聊青春期前女孩和旧约中的大卫王类似的道歉方式。（7分钟）第一幕：20世纪60年代末，加州电视修理工鲍勃·纳尔逊加入了一群热衷者，他们相信可以通过一种名为人体冷冻的新技术逃避死亡。但冷冻死人以便科学家在未来复活他们，远比听起来困难得多。更困难的是向鲍勃冷冻过的人的家属承认他搞砸了。萨姆·肖报道。（42分钟）第二幕：有一首著名的威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯的诗，名为《这只是为了说》。这首诗，除了其他内容，还讲述了给所爱的人带来不便并做出一种非道歉式的道歉。制作人肖恩·科尔解释说，这可能是被恶搞最多的诗。我们邀请了一些常驻撰稿人参与其中。莎拉·沃威尔、大卫·拉科夫、斯塔莉·凯恩、乔纳森·戈德斯坦、沙洛姆·奥斯兰德和希瑟·奥尼尔都创作了他们自己版本的威廉姆斯经典诗句。（7分钟）

Regular people trapped inside Greek myths. (00:00:00) Prologue: When a mysterious, ripped-open package arrives on Pablo's doorstep, he takes it as a sign. (4 minutes) (00:04:47) Act One: Pablo flies closer to the sun. (14 minutes) (00:18:29) Act Two: In Greek mythology, a three-headed dog named Cerberus guards the gates to Hades, making sure only those who are actually dead get in. This story is about a real person who had that job in America — a 25-year veteran of the Social Security Administration who was asked, in a secret meeting with DOGE, to declare 6,000 living people dead. He said no. Then the list grew to 2.7 million. (24 minutes) (00:43:15) Act Three: A mortal gets the assignment of a lifetime — to go interview an actual god who is living on earth, traveling under the name of Lionel Messi. (11 minutes)

One family faces the Trump administration’s ban on trans people serving in the military, and responds with a surprising secret weapon. (00:00:00) Prologue: Geirid and Chrissy are extreme planners. But about a year ago, they were confronted with a situation that even they had no idea how to plan for. (4 minutes) (00:04:20) Act One: Geirid and Chrissy make an “in case of emergency, break glass” spreadsheet and get some big news. (14 minutes) (00:18:22) Act Two: Geirid and Chrissy have less than a month to make a life-changing decision. The government gives them two options, and they try to find a third. (21 minutes) (00:40:48) Act Three: A short story from Rachel Khong: Two people have a very consequential choice to make, given to them by God. (15 minutes)

Since the war began in Iran, we've heard very little from people inside the country — and there's a reason for that. The entire country has been under an internet blackout. We worked with reporters Roxana Saberi and Fatemeh Jamalpour to get voice memos out of the country. Even though it was dangerous and difficult, people wanted to be heard. (00:00:00) Prologue: Shirin's parents suddenly disappear into the blackout. (5 minutes) (00:06:37) Act One: It’s a war and a blackout. People want to talk about both. (17 minutes) (00:16:26) Act Two: What happened before America and Israel went to war with Iran. (9 minutes) (00:26:48) Act Three: Iranians have many opinions about the war, and about each other. (12 minutes) (00:37:25) Act Four: What happened inside Iran the night President Trump threatened that "a whole civilization could die." And a clue about where the internet blackout is headed. (19 minutes)

Ira一直讨厌毕业典礼演讲。然后他觉得自己必须发表这一篇。

At a time when the U.S. government is trying to make American history tidier, we try to learn from the mess. Including the untold, messy story of Paul and Essie Robeson. (00:00:00) Prologue: Guest Host Emanuele Berry talks to Nichole Hill about the Black movie characters Nichole was curious about as a child. (7 minutes) (00:07:18) Act One: A giant of the Harlem Renaissance, Paul Robeson was the most famous American of his day. Until he wasn’t. Nichole Hill tells the messy, complicated story of Paul and his wife, Essie Robeson. (38 minutes) (00:48:21) Act Two: In 1865, a formerly enslaved man named Jourdan Anderson received a letter from his former enslaver, asking Jourdan to return to the plantation and work. Actor Laurence Fishburne reads Jourdan’s response.

M. Gessen returns to our show with a true-crime story that takes place entirely within their own family. This story comes to us from the producers at Serial Productions—who invented the true-crime podcast more than a decade ago—and from The New York Times. Act One: M Gessen tells Ira Glass about the surprising events that prompted them to begin reporting on their own family for their new podcast, The Idiot. They play the first episode of the series. (14 minutes) Act Two: Ira Glass and M Gessen continue to talk through the story of M’s cousin, Allen Gessen. They play more clips from the podcast, and we finally hear about the big, shocking thing that snapped their family apart. (20 minutes) Act Three: M Gessen tells Ira Glass about Allen’s trial, and we hear a recording of his conversation with the undercover agent. (21 minutes)

在电台节目早期，艾拉与父母进行了一系列采访，彻底改变了他与父母的关系。本周，他重新回顾了这些采访。序言：艾拉谈论为何四段对话揭示了他与父母关系的变化。（4分钟）第一幕：艾拉的母亲雪莉受邀主持一场关于如何与成年子女相处的讨论。她的成年子女质疑她的专业能力。（9分钟）第二幕：艾拉向父母请教如何打造这档电台节目。父母直言不讳。（9分钟）第三幕：艾拉与父亲巴里谈论巴里短暂且失败的电台生涯。（21分钟）第四幕：对艾拉母亲的采访，至今仍让艾拉感到不寒而栗。（13分钟）

人们发现关于自己生活的未知信息，一切突然变得截然不同。

艾拉·格拉斯分享关于《美国生活》的一些消息。

艾拉·格拉斯与南希·厄普代克谈论他们曾在电台播出过的最私人的故事。

艾拉·格拉斯有关于《美国生活》的一些新动态要分享。