This is Love

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Love is more than you think.
From the creators of Criminal. New episodes twice a month.
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09.20.2023 Episode 74: Beatrix Potter and Her Sheep “It's all about finding the place that makes you happy, finding the life that makes you happy, and not worrying that other people make different choices.” Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on ...
09.06.2023 Episode 73: A Really Terrible Orchestra In the Really Terrible Orchestra of the Triangle, it's perfectly good to sound bad. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign ...
08.23.2023 Episode 72: The Wolves We go searching for wolves in Yellowstone National Park, and learn about the dramatic and surprisingly relatable relationship between a powerful young wolf and the small, elderly wolf who had raised him. This month, we're bringing you two of our ...
08.21.2023 The Other Phoebe Judge A preview of what we’re making over on Criminal Plus! Hear me and Criminal co-creator Lauren Spohrer taking your questions, telling stories, and talking with other producers and special guests. We’re having a lot of fun making these bonus episodes. ...
08.09.2023 Episode 71: Telling the Bees For a long time, beekeepers have told bees their news. They’ve told their bees about weddings, and when people they know have died. It’s said that if they don’t, the bees will leave their hives, or stop making honey, or ...
07.19.2023 Episode 70: Sun-Man In 1984, Yla Eason’s three-year-old son told her he couldn’t be a superhero because he wasn’t white like his He-Man action figures. So she looked for a Black action figure for him. When she couldn’t find one anywhere, she decided ...
07.05.2023 Episode 69: Wimbledon in a Cornfield Mark Kuhn grew up in Iowa in a family of corn farmers. When he was 10 years old, he heard a BBC broadcast of the Wimbledon finals. He couldn’t stop thinking about it — he would daydream about tennis while ...
06.21.2023 Episode 68: At Brown’s Barbershop Brown’s Barbershop in Athens, Georgia, has been in business for more than 60 years. One day, Everett Long went in for a haircut. Fred Smith was getting his hair cut in the next chair. All of a sudden, Everett’s barber ...
06.07.2023 Episode 67: Fajita, Tamale, Clarence, and Blague “Our Sydney. Died Sept 4, 1902. Born a dog. Lived like a gentleman.” A story about the oldest pet cemetery in the country. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 ...
05.24.2023 Episode 66: Museum of Broken Relationships When Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić broke up, they had a hard time dividing up their belongings – there were items that felt too painful for either of them to keep. “We were kind of imagining the space where these ...
05.10.2023 Episode 65: The Weatherman “He loves the clouds, the wind, the sky. He wants you to love them too.” Meteorologist Tom Skilling has been forecasting on TV in Chicago for the past 45 years, and has been called the “undisputed king of Chicago weather.” ...
04.26.2023 Episode 64: Punch the Moon Growing up, Albert Samaha knew his uncle Spanky Rigor had been a musician in the Philippines. Spanky had helped start a band called VST & Company in the 1970s. But it wasn’t until Albert was an adult that he realized ...
04.12.2023 Episode 63: Sampson and Baylor A story about two golden retrievers. Aynsley Floyd’s short film about Sampson and Baylor is called The Mountain Dogs. You can watch it here. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: ...
03.22.2023 Episode 62: The Shelter Alex Borovenskiy and Anabell Ramires run a theater in Kyiv, Ukraine. It's called ProEnglish Theatre, and was used as a bomb shelter during World War II. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Alex and Anabell decided to leave their apartment and go ...
03.08.2023 Episode 61: "The show is coming back!" As a kid, Josh Dela Cruz used to watch Blue’s Clues with his little sister. The show was entirely animated except for a single human - Steve - who talked to the audience and asked for their help to solve ...
02.22.2023 Episode 60: How Have You Been? Five years ago, on Valentine's Day, we started a show about the ways we’re connected to each other. Today, we’re catching up with some of the people we’ve met. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and ...
02.08.2023 Episode 59: Bill Russell, King of the Court When Bill Russell joined the NBA in the 1950s, he was the only Black player on the Celtics. He went on to win 11 championships, more than any player in basketball history. When President Barack Obama awarded him the Medal ...
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 ...

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This is Love episodes:

Episode 74: Beatrix Potter and Her Sheep

Episode 73: A Really Terrible Orchestra

Episode 72: The Wolves

The Other Phoebe Judge

Episode 71: Telling the Bees

Episode 70: Sun-Man

Episode 69: Wimbledon in a Cornfield

Episode 68: At Brown’s Barbershop

Episode 67: Fajita, Tamale, Clarence, and Blague

Episode 66: Museum of Broken Relationships

Episode 65: The Weatherman

Episode 64: Punch the Moon

Episode 63: Sampson and Baylor

Episode 62: The Shelter

Episode 61: "The show is coming back!"

Episode 60: How Have You Been?

Episode 59: Bill Russell, King of the Court

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

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