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Episode 58: Always Tomorrow

12.21.2022

A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing more than 100 books about her first romance. Find out more about Brenda Jackson’s books here. This episode contains adult material. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and ...

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12.21.2022 Episode 58: Always Tomorrow A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing more than 100 books about her first romance. Find out more about Brenda Jackson’s books here. This episode contains adult material. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and ...
12.07.2022 Episode 57: Nelson’s Camera In 1983, Nelson Sullivan picked up a video camera and started filming everything – going to nightclubs in New York City, shopping at the grocery store, even waiting for a flight at the airport. "He became the narrator of his ...
11.23.2022 Episode 56: You've Got Mail Delia Ephron has worked on some of the most famous romantic comedies of all time – like Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail – alongside her sister, Nora Ephron. In You’ve Got Mail, two people fall in love over ...
11.09.2022 Episode 55: The Rescue Last November, George Linnane found himself at the bottom of a hole, deep inside a cave. He was badly injured after falling more than two stories. And the only people who could rescue him were his friends in the caving ...
10.26.2022 Episode 54: Grace and Julia Grace Young remembers her parents were obsessed with food growing up — they went shopping every day for groceries and every night they cooked traditional Cantonese dishes for dinner. She started to learn to cook when she was young, but ...
10.12.2022 Episode 53: Desperate In Rockland Meredith Goldstein started giving her mother dating advice when she was a teenager, and today she offers people advice as the author of the Love Letters column for The Boston Globe. She says: “My favorite letters are breakup letters because ...
09.28.2022 Episode 52: In the Mouth of the Whale Michael Packard makes a living fishing off the coast of Cape Cod. He catches mostly tuna and mackerel. He drags for clams. And for three months every summer, he dives for lobsters. "It's an extremely dangerous profession. I think about ...
09.14.2022 Episode 51: The Pizza Maker When Margaret Dugan was 17, she ate lunch most days at a place called Little Venice where a young Domenico DeMarco would sing while he made pizza. “He would always be singing. And he had a beautiful voice,” she told ...
08.31.2022 Episode 50: A Crush As a teenager, Kendra James had a crush on the actor Orlando Bloom. She decorated her room with pictures of him, she wrote stories imagining a romance with him, and she joined a message board dedicated entirely to him. One ...
07.27.2022 Episode 49: Beneath the City Evan Woodard explores the city of Baltimore from underneath. He searches for things buried underground—things that some people might consider trash. We decided to go to Baltimore and join him on a dig. Take our survey: vox.com/podsurvey Say hello on ...
06.29.2022 Episode 48: The Freelons Nnenna and Phil met on a friend’s front porch in Carrboro, North Carolina in 1978. “It felt like I was meeting someone that I had known, but forgot that I knew,” she says. “It just was magic.” You can listen ...
05.30.2022 Episode 47: Frank Goes to the Spelling Bee A few months ago, Frank Dumas won his 4th grade class spelling bee. And then he just kept winning. We need your help. We are conducting a short audience survey to help plan for our future and hear from you. ...
04.27.2022 Episode 46: The Visitor Many years ago, Cathy Raven decided to build herself a small house on a large piece of land in rural Montana. She’s said, “I saw myself alone in the furthest future that I could imagine.” Then a red fox began ...
04.13.2022 Episode 45: Seeing and Being Seen When artist Wilfrid Wood was looking for new people to draw, he got an idea - and put a call out for models on Grindr. When Theo Adamson saw Wilfrid's profile, he says “it just caught me in the right ...
03.30.2022 Episode 44: Cain's Jawbone There’s a strange book from 1934 called Cain’s Jawbone that's "not for the faint-hearted.” It’s part puzzle, part murder mystery. And it’s only been solved three times. You can find the book here. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. ...
02.23.2022 Episode 43: The Adventures of Dillon Helbig Dillon Helbig is 8 years old. He's been writing books since he was 5. One day, he decided he wanted to see his book on the shelf in a library. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for ...
01.26.2022 Episode 42: The Brain in Love Dessa spent the better part of two decades in love with the same person. They’d broken up and gotten back together over and over again. And even once they were broken up for good, she couldn’t give up hope that ...
12.15.2021 Episode 41: Finding Joy In 2015, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with stage IV cancer. She was 35. “The chronic nature of what I had really lent itself to people wanting to openly explain why I was suffering. Was it something I ate? Was it ...
11.17.2021 Episode 40: Grandfather of the Forest “On the last day of the world, I would want to plant a tree.” A story about people coming together, willing to try something. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow ...
10.27.2021 Episode 39: Can I Speak to David? "I began to think: ‘Oh, my gosh. Everyone was against me dropping out of college, marrying a complete stranger, and moving to New York. Perhaps they may have been on to something.’” Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign ...
09.29.2021 Episode 38: Tami & Ed, Sharpie Tami is a sharpie, and Ed is her cap. After all these years, marriage has left an indelible mark. Listeners of this show know that from the very beginning, we’ve wanted to highlight unconventional stories of love. Oftentimes, not romantic ...
08.25.2021 Episode 37: What Gets Told "History was dependent upon people like me remembering." A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday. Betty Reid Soskin’s book is Sign My Name to Freedom. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our ...
07.28.2021 Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we looked at each other, eye to eye.” Shigeru Yabu’s book ...
06.30.2021 Episode 35: My Penny In October of 2006, a press conference was held at a hospital in Denver. During the press conference, a man asked if anyone watching could tell him who he was, or how he got there. Because he didn’t know. Say ...
05.26.2021 Episode 34: Lost and Found On today's episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by listening closely. Featuring a 5-year-old Sofia Coppola, and Patti Smith before she recorded her first ...
04.28.2021 Episode 33: On the Way to Dinner On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the station, he noticed something on the ground. It looked like a baby doll ...
03.31.2021 Episode 32: Among the Oak Trees One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door down the hall that had a red tarp over it, and the ...
12.23.2020 Episode 31: Something Large and Wild Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make ...
12.09.2020 Episode 30: Cheers In June of 2020, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter. He wrote, “Just giving my onions their daily inspection, a crucial time now for veg.” The tweet, ...
11.25.2020 Episode 29: The Dancer When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day, when his father decided to put Carlos in a ballet class. Say ...
11.11.2020 Episode 28: The Clearwater Monster Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something strange at the beach. Residents woke up that morning to find an odd set ...
10.28.2020 Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He’ll Return in a Storm There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she became so heartbroken that she started walking along the cliffs in ...
10.14.2020 Episode 26: The Kinseys Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters in Tallahassee. Years later, when their son Khalil was born, Bernard and Shirley made a plan ...
10.07.2020 The Most Persistent Mystery We're thrilled to announce that This is Love is coming back with our 5th season on October 14th! Tell a friend to subscribe today! Thank you for listening to our first four seasons, and we truly can't wait for you ...
06.24.2020 Episode 25: City Birds Meet a woman who decided to devote her life to the wild birds of New York City, and a Los Angeles man who formed a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, ...
06.10.2020 Episode 24: Gobi In June of 2016, Dion Leonard attempted one of the toughest races in the world—155 miles through the Gobi Desert. At the start of day two, he looked down and saw a little brown dog chewing on his shoes. Dion ...
05.27.2020 Episode 23: Into the Ice The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside. She assembled a team of the most accomplished divers in the world, and they traveled ...
05.13.2020 Episode 22: Prairie Warbler When Drew Lanham was a child, he used to lie down in a field and play dead, just so he could get a glimpse of vultures flying over him. He made binoculars out of toilet paper rolls, and wings out ...
04.29.2020 Episode 21: Antelope Island When Kayleigh Davis saw Kyler Bourgeous' profile on a dating app, she liked that he loved the outdoors as much as she did. But what really stood out is that he said he'd survived a bison attack. So, Kayleigh messaged ...
04.15.2020 Episode 20: Roselle and Michael Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that something was wrong was the sound of a muffled explosion. Then the building began ...
04.01.2020 Episode 19: The Wolves We go searching for wolves in Yellowstone, and learn about the dramatic and surprisingly relatable relationship between a powerful young wolf and the small, elderly wolf who had raised him. We’re trying something new. Two stories about the same family ...
03.25.2020 Looking for Wolves All new stories, starting April 1. Stories about animals and the wild, and what happens when we take time to look around us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
07.10.2019 Episode 18: The Memory Artist One day Franco Magnani picked up a paintbrush. You can see some of Franco’s paintings on his website. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on ...
06.26.2019 Episode 17: Anna and Massimo At 43, Anna Bonavita had given up on finding love. But sometimes it’s worth the wait. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: ...
06.12.2019 Episode 16: Everything Floats We visit a place where the “black sheep” of the Guggenheim family went to be free. Francine Prose’s book is Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, ...
05.29.2019 Episode 15: Silvia and the Cats We visit an ancient place where cats have taken over. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and ...
05.15.2019 Episode 14: The Town That Stayed Quiet We visit a city in Northern Italy where everyone decided to stay quiet to save something beautiful. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple ...
05.01.2019 Episode 13: Ugly Club We visit a place where it's good to be ugly. With Club dei Brutti's permission, we've created an Ugly Club pin for This is Love listeners. Get yours here (https://cottonbureau.com/products/ugly-club-pin) or pick one up at the club's HQ in Piobbico. ...
04.17.2019 Andiamo! We have news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
12.19.2018 Episode 12: How to Be Alone More than 40 years ago, a man moved to an abandoned mining town to be alone. He says that there are days in the winter "when it's so quiet that the noisiest thing is the snow hitting your jacket." Say ...

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Episode 58: Always Tomorrow

Episode 57: Nelson’s Camera

Episode 56: You've Got Mail

Episode 55: The Rescue

Episode 54: Grace and Julia

Episode 53: Desperate In Rockland

Episode 52: In the Mouth of the Whale

Episode 51: The Pizza Maker

Episode 50: A Crush

Episode 49: Beneath the City

Episode 48: The Freelons

Episode 47: Frank Goes to the Spelling Bee

Episode 46: The Visitor

Episode 45: Seeing and Being Seen

Episode 44: Cain's Jawbone

Episode 43: The Adventures of Dillon Helbig

Episode 42: The Brain in Love

Episode 41: Finding Joy

Episode 40: Grandfather of the Forest

Episode 39: Can I Speak to David?

Episode 38: Tami & Ed, Sharpie

Episode 37: What Gets Told

Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain

Episode 35: My Penny

Episode 34: Lost and Found

Episode 33: On the Way to Dinner

Episode 32: Among the Oak Trees

Episode 31: Something Large and Wild

Episode 30: Cheers

Episode 29: The Dancer

Episode 28: The Clearwater Monster

Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He’ll Return in a Storm

Episode 26: The Kinseys

The Most Persistent Mystery

Episode 25: City Birds

Episode 24: Gobi

Episode 23: Into the Ice

Episode 22: Prairie Warbler

Episode 21: Antelope Island

Episode 20: Roselle and Michael

Episode 19: The Wolves

Looking for Wolves

Episode 18: The Memory Artist

Episode 17: Anna and Massimo

Episode 16: Everything Floats

Episode 15: Silvia and the Cats

Episode 14: The Town That Stayed Quiet

Episode 13: Ugly Club

Andiamo!

Episode 12: How to Be Alone

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