Prologue

Chris Benderev speaks with writer Georgie Codd, who went searching for someone to be the father she never had.

There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it.

For more than a decade, Boris Furman has meticulously tracked the whereabouts of his family members, averaging the latitude and longitudes to arrive at “The Family Average Location.” But nobody really knows why.

A group of 6th grade boys are bothered by their teacher’s behavior.

Margus Morrison was a school bus aide, father of six.

Host Ira Glass walks through possible next steps with a pro-life activist who worked on the Texas SB8 bill, that set a precedent for enforcement of abortion bans throughtout the country.