Full episode 263: Desperate Measures Act Three The Router Less Taken Share a clip Transcript ByIra Glass A man tries to unload a piece of junk he bought by selling it on eBay...not by concealing its many terrible properties...but by bragging about them. Which gets results. (8 minutes) Song:“Piece of Crap” by Neil Young More in Personal FinanceView all 523: Death and Taxes Apr. 25, 2014 Act Two: Taxes Al Drucker used to work for the IRS doing tax enforcement. 503: I Was Just Trying To Help Aug. 16, 2013 Act One: Money for Nothing and Your Cows for Free Planet Money reporters David Kestenbaum and Jacob Goldstein went to Kenya to see the work of a charity called GiveDirectly in action. 412: Million Dollar Idea July 16, 2010 Act Four: Don't Hate The Player Shawn Allee tells a story of the oldest kind of million dollar idea, the scam. More by Ira GlassView all 757: The Ghost in the Machine Dec. 31, 2021 Act Two: Father of Invention There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it. 756: But I Did Everything Right Dec. 10, 2021 Act Two: Brian and Peg Brian and Peg disagree over a very important thing. 754: Spark Bird Nov. 26, 2021 Act One: Don’t Chicken Out Carmen Milito tells Ira the story of a date she went on as a teenager, and the bird her mom brought to the occasion.
523: Death and Taxes Apr. 25, 2014 Act Two: Taxes Al Drucker used to work for the IRS doing tax enforcement.
503: I Was Just Trying To Help Aug. 16, 2013 Act One: Money for Nothing and Your Cows for Free Planet Money reporters David Kestenbaum and Jacob Goldstein went to Kenya to see the work of a charity called GiveDirectly in action.
412: Million Dollar Idea July 16, 2010 Act Four: Don't Hate The Player Shawn Allee tells a story of the oldest kind of million dollar idea, the scam.
757: The Ghost in the Machine Dec. 31, 2021 Act Two: Father of Invention There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it.
756: But I Did Everything Right Dec. 10, 2021 Act Two: Brian and Peg Brian and Peg disagree over a very important thing.
754: Spark Bird Nov. 26, 2021 Act One: Don’t Chicken Out Carmen Milito tells Ira the story of a date she went on as a teenager, and the bird her mom brought to the occasion.
