Everything went fine until he realized he would have to change for gym class. He invented his own character and made a superhero costume, which he wore to school under his regular clothes. * Host Ira Glass talks to comic artist Chris Ware, who thought about superheroes a lot of the time as a kid. We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can real people become superheroes? (Maybe.) And which is better: flight or invisibility? (Depends who you ask.) (A swimmer at Stanford University named Brock Turner sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious.) She talks about how she decided to come out with her real name and who Emily Doe is to her now. She wrote a victim impact statement that millions of people read. For years, Chanel was known as Emily Doe. * Act Three: Jane Doe sent some questions for us to ask Chanel Miller. * Act Two: Jane Doe walks into a public ethics hearing at the Idaho state capitol and navigates the aftermath. She talks about it in-depth for the first time. But the story that the public knows is very different from what actually happened to Jane. State legislators talked about how proud they were of their ability to do the right thing so quickly. There was a public ethics hearing and Ehlinger resigned. * Act One: Back in 2021, a 19-year-old intern at the Idaho state legislature reported that a state Representative named Aaron von Ehlinger raped her. But what about the women at the center of all this who’ve been way less visible after they told what happened to them? We hear about big and small ways the aftermath of coming forward continues to pop up in their daily lives. * Prologue: Some powerful and well known men lost their jobs after #MeToo. Transcripts are available at įive years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who stepped forward and went public with their stories? We tell the story of a teenager who spoke out against one of the most powerful people in her state, and what happened next.

* Act Five: What happens when a dealer of delight gets depressed? Podcast host Tracy Clayton talks to Bim Adewunmi about the road back. * Act Four: Producer Dana Chivvis follows the night zookeeper at the Denver Zoo as she doles out snacks and tucks the animals in. * Act Three: Producer Miki Meek speaks to Noriko Meek, her 72-year-old mother, about discovering delight late in life. * Act Two: Producer Robyn Semien captures a special morning for her five-year-old son, Cole, who is doing something delightful for the very first time: he’s getting to ride the school bus. * Act One: Bim talks to poet Ross Gay, whose book inspired today’s show, about the discipline and rigor of seeking and holding onto delight. Ira then hands the show over to Bim as guest host. * Prologue: Ira Glass talks to Bim Adewunmi about her understanding of delight through American pop culture and the summer she spent in the US as a 19-year-old.

In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: a show made up entirely of stories about delight.

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