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https://www.thisamericanlife.org/89/sibling-rivalry

Stories about people who are destined to fight: brothers and sisters.

Prologue
Two quick real life fables about the power of sibling rivalry. (2 minutes) by Ira Glass

Act One
True tales of sibling cruelty. (4 minutes) by Ira Glass

Act Two
Tamar Brott, on growing up with two music prodigies, and Sandra Tsing Loh 's sister Kaitlin, a ballet prodigy. (20 minutes) by Sandra Loh

Act Three
Deb Monroe's two daughters as they fight. (6 minutes) by Ira Glass, Deb Monroe

Act Four
Writer Donald Antrim's The Hundred Brothers , and the question: What happens when we grow up? (24 minutes) by Donald Antrim

Originally Aired: 1998-01-09

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https://www.thisamericanlife.org/262/miracle-cures

People looking for miracle cures, some from above, others from abroad. A son tries to help his mom in a faraway place defy the laws of medical science. A daughter tries to help her dad by going to a faraway place to defy the laws of the United States of America.

Prologue
Host Ira Glass talks with Dr. Stephen Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute about a cancer patient of his who spontaneously healed. The patient is now become the unwilling poster-child of miracle healing websites. (5 minutes) by Ira Glass

Act One
This American Life contributor Davy Rothbart goes to Brazil with his deaf mother to try and get her hearing back from a miracle healer called Joao de Deus, or John of God. They had trouble agreeing whether the things they witnessed down there were miracles or not. Davy Rothbart is behind the compendium of things lost and discarded: Found . (37 minutes) by Davy Rothbart

Act Two
Julia Whitty's father's cancer medication cost $47,000 a year if she bought it in the United States. It cost $1,200 a year if she bought it in a foreign country. But buying it there and bringing it here is forbidden by US law. She talks with Ira about the miraculous (and illegal) lengths she went to in order to sneak medication into the US and keep her father alive. She first wrote about her experience in the March/April issue of Mother Jones magazine. (12 minutes) by Ira Glass, Julia Whitty

Originally Aired: 2004-04-02

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https://www.thisamericanlife.org/170/immigration

We live in a big enough country that there are lots of laws too obscure for most of us to have heard of...but which actually affect tens of thousands of lives in huge ways. This show deals with one of them: A 1996 immigration law that theImmigration Serviceitself says is unfair. Most of the law's original sponsors in Congress now say they went too far, and that they were too harsh when they passed the law. And yet most of the law's key provisions still stand unchanged.

Prologue
Host Ira Glass goes to jail in Bristol County, Massachussetts, where there's a large Portuguese community, and where even a law-and-order sheriff named Tom Hodgson opposes this particular immigration law. He also talks with inmate Jorge Aruda, who's being deported for a crime he already served his sentence for. (8 minutes) by Ira Glass

Act One
Producer Blue Chevigny tells more of the story from Bristol County, where the immigration law of 1996 has a community of non-political people reluctantly going to protests, attending meetings at night, talking to politicians, and doing all sorts of other things most of us would do anything to avoid. (16 minutes) by Blue Chevigny

Act Two
Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman Bill Strassberger explains why INS opposes parts of the 1996 immigration law, even while it enforces it. Congressman Barney Frank—whose district includes Bristol County—argues that most of his colleagues in Congress had no idea what they were voting for when they voted for key portions of the law. And an advocate for the law, John Martin from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, explains why we actually should want to deport more people. (12 minutes) by Ira Glass

Act Three
What happens if the immigration service wants to deport you, but the country you came from won't take you back? Under current law, usually, you stay in jail...indefinitely. Writer Alex Kotlowitz tells the story of one legal alien from Vietnam, Trung Tran, and the unusually close and friendly relationships he and his fellow deportees have with their captors in a jail in Victoria, Texas. (18 minutes) by Alex Kotlowitz

Originally Aired: 2000-10-13

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This is pretty much what I was expecting for $18 or whatever. Swatches usually feel pretty cheap, but this is a new level of that feeling. You can see the scuff / bad pop on the knob in the second pic. That said, it isn't bad for the price, but the other moonswatches are way better.

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https://www.thisamericanlife.org/162/moving

Stories of people who did not want to move but circumstance forced their hands, and so they tried to move without really moving.

Prologue
Ben Schrank describes what it's like to work as a professional mover. He says that people often go sort of nuts when they see all their worldly possessions—all the stuff that defines them as people—packed into a van. It's a humbling experience for people, and just one of the reasons people hate to move. The other reasons: It's hard starting in a new place; it's dreadful leaving an old place; and the process of moving itself is a hardship. So today...we have stories of people who were forced to move—but who did not want to and tried to thwart it. (5 minutes) by Ira Glass

Act One
This is a story of people wanting to change and not wanting to change at all. A Minnesota family builds the same 1970s-era suburban house three times, and moves it once, just so they don't have to live in a house that's different than the house that contains all their memories. Susan Burton reports. (22 minutes) by Susan Burton

Act Two
Sarah Koenig tells the story of how her stepsister Rue bought a house and moved in—but the former owner did not move out. And won't move out, until he dies. (16 minutes) by Sarah Koenig

Act Three
Producer Blue Chevigny used to have a job that was all about Moving Day—and people who didn't want to move. She worked for an agency in New York called Project Reachout, part of Goddard Riverside Community Center, that moved homeless, mentally ill people into their own homes. She tells the story of one of her favorite clients, George, and how it took him eight years to get off the streets and into his own place. Blue records his moving day. (12 minutes) by Blue Chevigny

Originally Aired: 2000-06-23

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https://www.thisamericanlife.org/185/golden-calf

Stories of people worshiping false idols, and whether that's always a bad thing.

Prologue
Host Ira Glass talks to Bible scholars Paulene A. Viviano of Loyola University and John Spencer of John Carroll University about the story of the golden calf in the book of Exodus. It turns out that in fact there were Israelites who did pray to golden calves, and that the Bible was the scripture of their rivals in Jerusalem. (7 minutes) by Ira Glass

Act One
One way to measure the faith—the good old-fashioned faith—that people put in celebrities is to examine what people ask of them. Ann Hepperman has a story that gives a rare and vivid glimpse of what people want from celebrities...or anyway, what they want from country legend Willie Nelson. Thanks to all the people who called Willie Nelson and gave us permission to broadcast their answering machine messages to him. (18 minutes) by Ann Heppermann

Act Two
If you're in thrall to a pair of pants, is that such a bad thing? Ira talks to Kate—who invested her hopes and dreams in a pair of favorite trousers—and her husband Joel, who thought she was nuts. (12 minutes) by Ira Glass

Act Three
You can't do a radio show about worshiping false gods without a story about money...or real estate...or hipness. Fortunately for us, Iggy Scam supplies a story that's about all three. It's the story of a couple trying to cash in on the San Francisco real estate boom, without the greatest success. (17 minutes) by Iggy Scam

Originally Aired: 2001-05-25

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I think this captures them all. Enjoy! I never want to hear Arnie again :)

A few weeks ago I was telling a friend about my shitter OP and she came into town with this bad boy.

So... what's wrong with it? She doesn't know anything about it, but I assume she bought it in a market somewhere.

Its even got a hologram sticker in rough shape! The clasp has 62510D, too.

Anyway, she asked if I could replace the battery. I got it home, gave it 40 winds and it runs like a dream.

Here's the movement in action -- https://i.imgur.com/fJjE20J.mp4