Franky Carrillo: Life Now
We check in with Franky who did 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit (listen to our original Franky Carrillo episode “Life” for the backstory) and find out how he’s doing now and what …
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A Brief Mea Culpa From the Land of the Danes
Where’s your episode? Where’s Lea? A short audio postcard from Denmark.
Listen — 4:00Franky Carrillo: Life
Franky spent 20 years in prison for a crime he had nothing to do with. This is his remarkable story. We first published this story four years ago and are rerunning it this week as part of the …
Listen — 36:00Dear Diary
This is not another Trump voter conversation. It’s not an end-point or a neat conclusion to the series. This is Lea crying into her iPhone at 10pm on a Tuesday because she doesn’t know what to …
Listen — 32:00Lea in Trumpland #2: Eugene
This is where the gloves come off. In this episode, Lea travels to New York to talk to a Trump supporter who defies a lot of the stereotypes: he’s coastal, young, urban, educated, Jewish, an …
Listen — 59:00Lea in Trumpland: Alicia
Lea has been traveling around interviewing Trump supporters and she’s tried to do it differently. She’s gotten drunk with them and high with them, she’s road-tripped with them and stayed overnight …
Listen — 58:00Kugel vs Khaled
In this episode we revisit the story of Alaa Khaled AKA Alec Ledd and ponder life’s big questions, such as kugel, identity, celebrity, and how far we will go to please Barbara Streisand or compete …
Listen — 39:00Claire Obscure
It starts with a murder and ends with new questions. In between there’s Claire’s story. That’s not her real name. It’s nether her old name, nor her new name, it’s the name she took to tell this …
Listen — 58:0012 Years On
In August 2004, a Somali refugee family arrived in Vermont. It was the beginning of many good things.
Listen — 35:00Pabba’s 32nd Year
Imagine if your parents had access to your online dating profile. That happened to Pabba.
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