People earnestly doing what they're told, and absolutely not getting what they were promised.

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756: But I Did Everything Right

In 2006, a new convert showed up at a mosque in Orange County, California. Known as Farouk al-Aziz, the convert was actually an FBI informant named Craig Monteilh. That informant’s infiltration of the mosque is at the heart of FBI v Fazaga, a case heard at the Supreme Court last month. We return to our episode from 2012, which tells the story behind it.

755: The Convert

This bird-focused week, stories about birds and the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreak, the lives they change.

754: Spark Bird

People who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else. 

660: Hoaxing Yourself

Getting the point across — or trying to, anyway.

753: What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate

A man who was imprisoned for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay, without charges, gets out and issues an invitation to all the people who kept him there. Amazingly, three of them agree to talk.

752: An Invitation to Tea

In a world where a virus spreads across the country and most people are not going to movie theaters, we bring the movies to you.

751: Audience of One

Stories about getting from Point A to Point B—with expert assistance.

750: The Ferryman

An hour devoted to embarrassing stories. They’re not always just little moments – funny, daily stuff that we laugh about later. Some can change you for the rest of your life.

749: My Bad

What happens when one family goes all in on fighting climate change.

748: The End of the World as We Know It

Stories of people who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else does. In other words: Stories about people pulling hoaxes...on themselves.

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