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This is Love

In 2023, Bill Staubi learned he only had about 18 months left to live. There was one thing he really wanted to take care of before it was too late.

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The Collection

People set fire to the land they call home. “If we can turn it black, it can't burn again in August.”

We're going on tour - and it's a different kind of show than any we've done before. Upcoming dates in Durham, NC, and Portland, ME, are on sale now. Find ticket links and updates at ⁠thisiscriminal.com/live⁠.

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Watching for Smoke

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 to make one herself.

This episode was originally released in 2023.

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Sun-Man

An episode all about hotlines - and the people who answer the calls.

You can read more about the Foy Information Desk in "The Alabama Landline that Keeps Ringing," by Emily McCrary.

To learn more about the Center for Coastal Studies, visit https://coastalstudies.org.

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Hotline!

When Daniella Santoro and her husband started clearing their backyard in New Orleans, they found a strange stone under a satsuma tree. The stone had letters carved into it – like a gravestone. “We thought – maybe someone’s buried in our backyard.”

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Sextus Congenius Verus

In the early ’90s, a comet smashed into Jupiter with the force of 300 million atomic bombs. No one had seen anything like it before, and astronomers quickly realized that we should be monitoring asteroids and comets near Earth. Today, that’s David Rankin’s job.

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The Asteroid Hunter

In 1977, Ann Druyan was asked to help create a message from Earth that would leave our solar system and last for more than a billion years.

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The Golden Record

Bob Brigham always knew he was adopted, but growing up, he didn’t know anything about his biological parents. When he was seven years old, a social worker came for a visit and Bob heard her whisper something to his mother – something about the Vietnam War. “Within a nanosecond, I created a story in my head.”

Bob Brigham's book is This Is a True War Story. My Improbable History with Vietnam.

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The Photograph

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 doing his chores. And one day, he got an idea. “I’m looking at this cattle feedlot when I realized, ‘This is just about the right size for a tennis court.’”

This episode was originally released in 2023.

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Wimbledon in a Cornfield

Brandon and Gina hadn’t known each other long when they found themselves lost 8,500 feet high on a mountain. “We started yelling and nobody yelled back.”

Bill Donahue’s article is Lost & Found in Backpacker Magazine.

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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 day, someone on the message board had an idea to make contact with Orlando Bloom himself. 
Kendra James’s book is Admissions: A Memoir Of Surviving Boarding School.
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