This is Love
Love is more than you think. From the creators of Criminal. New episodes twice a month. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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October 7, 2026 • 42 mins
“You are the next contestant on The Price Is Right!”
A behind-the-scenes look at the longest-running game show on TV and the people who love it.
Tickets for our brand new live show, Don't Worry with Phoebe Judge, are on sale now! Learn more and see all of our tour dates at thisiscriminal.com/live.
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September 16, 2026 • 33 mins
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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September 2, 2026 • 37 mins
People set fire to the land they call home. “If we can turn it black, it can't burn again in August.”
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August 19, 2026 • 43 mins
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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August 5, 2026 • 36 mins
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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July 15, 2026 • 38 mins
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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July 1, 2026 • 34 mins
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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June 17, 2026 • 43 mins
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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June 3, 2026 • 49 mins
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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May 20, 2026 • 33 mins
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.’”
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May 6, 2026 • 57 mins
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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April 15, 2026 • 37 mins
One morning, Cathy found a takeout bag on her porch. It had the name “Rodolphe” on it, and contained one half-eaten order of french fries. The next morning, she found another bag. And then another. That’s when her neighbor Harley got involved: “We need to take this to the next level.”
Harley Rustad wrote an article about the french fry mystery for Toronto Life.
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April 1, 2026 • 37 mins
One night, a stranger came up to comedian Dan Perlman and told him he looked just like the singer Michael Bublé. She asked Dan if he would impersonate him for one night. He had six days to get ready.
Dan Perlman's short film is called Being Bublé.
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March 18, 2026 • 45 mins
Delia Ephron has worked on some of the most famous romantic comedies of all time – like Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail – alongside her sister, Nora Ephron. In You’ve Got Mail, two people fall in love over email. Decades after writing that screenplay, Delia Ephron found herself in the middle of a very similar story. “I really did think I’d fallen into my own romantic comedy.”
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March 4, 2026 • 33 mins
A dog went missing in a park in Brooklyn. A local Facebook group decided to help.
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February 18, 2026 • 43 mins
“It felt like a magical experience. It felt like some sort of spell. I was living a childhood fairytale, of the comings and goings of this extraordinary animal that didn't need me, but seemed to be comfortable and willing to rest alongside me.”
Chloe Dalton’s book is Raising Hare: A Memoir.
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February 4, 2026 • 34 mins
In 2010, a man named Forrest Fenn took a bronze box filled with treasure into the Rocky Mountains and hid it. He told one treasure hunter, “You just need to put the clues together and go get it.”
Justin Posey’s book is called Beyond the Map’s Edge.
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January 21, 2026 • 36 mins
The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside. She assembled a team of the most accomplished divers in the world, and they traveled for 12 days through the rough waters of the Southern Ocean. Attempting to dive into cracks in the iceberg, her life was in very real danger three times. And the third time, she would be saved by an an...
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January 7, 2026 • 30 mins
Heather Lende has written nearly 500 obituaries for people in her small town in Alaska. She’s known just about everyone she has written about.
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December 17, 2025 • 40 mins
When Emma Gatewood was 67, she told her children she was going on a walk. “The next they would hear from her would be via postcard… And it said, ‘By ‘walk’ I mean I'm thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.’”
Ben Montgomery’s book is Grandma Gatewood’s Walk.
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