This year marks 30 years since we first worked with teenagers to record stories about their lives.
Over the years, people have often asked us, whatever happened to them? What happened to Juan, Amanda, Melissa, Frankie, and Josh?
We’re going to find out.
In honor of three decades, we’re setting out to make a new series with our original teenage diarists. ... Show More
May 7
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
This episode includes topics and archival audio that some people will find disturbing.Seventy-five years ago, on the night of May 7th, 1951, close to a thousand people gathered around the courthouse in the small town of Laurel, Mississippi. They came to witness an execution. Will ... Show More
27m 39s
Apr 23
Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor
From ancient myths of sea monsters lurking below to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the ocean has long been both a source of fear and fascination. For Captain George Bond, a Navy medical officer in the 1960s, the deep sea was humanity's next frontier. Underse ... Show More
20m 21s
Jun 2025
The Best-Paid Woman in NYC
As J.P. Morgan's personal librarian, entrusted with building his collection, Belle da Costa Greene could ‘spend more money in an afternoon than any other young woman of 26’, as the New York Times put it in 1912. In the latest LRB, Francesca Wade reviews a new biography of Greene ... Show More
40m 30s
May 2024
People Are Shouting At The Wrong Man
Subscribe to Mamamia This week, a deadly air strike in Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least 45 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has referred to what happened as a “tragic mishap”, and yet, emerging reports indicate that such a ... Show More
32m 34s
May 2025
We Have a New Pope, the 2025 Met Gala, and New York City It Girls Are Back in the Headlines | We’re Obsessed
Icons only this week! Jodi and Nora first go through some incredible, introspective questions emailed in by listeners (2:46) before getting to our breaking story of the week: A new pope has been chosen (10:00)! Then they talk about their favorite Met Gala looks (32:44) and the my ... Show More
1h 7m
Jul 2025
A Conversation with Mahmoud Khalil: Student Activism in the US and the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom
Following their moral compass, student activists at Columbia demanded an end to the genocide in Gaza and called for a ceasefire. The response? Intimidation, suspensions, wrongful arrests, and, in Mahmoud’s case, being illegally detained by ICE and threats of deportation. How and ... Show More
32m 4s
Aug 2024
Another Take: University protests spread across the US
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on May 1st, 2024. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed. Pro-Palestine encampments and protests at universities continue to spread across the US. Students at Colu ... Show More
17m 21s
<p>Plus, who gets a quinceañera? </p><p> </p><p><strong>On Today’s Episode:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/world/middleeast/gaza-ceasefire-what-we-know.html" target="_blank"><strong>What We Know About the Proposed Gaza Cease-Fire Agreement</strong></a ... Show More
