List of 2004 This American Life episodes

In 2004, there were twenty-four This American Life episodes.

*TAL episode|04|256|Living Without
**Act 1: "Do You Hear What I Hear?" - Nubar Alexanian
**Act 2: "The Journalism of Deprivation" - Sarah Vowell
**Act 3: "The Call of the Great Indoors" - Chelsea Merz
**Act 4: "Tin Man" - Judith Budnitz
*TAL episode|04|257|What I Should've Said
**Act 1: "Freeze Frame" - Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 2: "In the Bush Leagues" - Charles Monroe-Kane
**Act 3: "A Can of Worms" - David Sedaris
**Act 4: " Life Sentence" - Mike Miller
*TAL episode|04|258|Leaving the Fold
**Act 1: "I've Got a Secret I've Been Hiding From You " - Alex Blumberg
**Act 2: "God and Hockey" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Nuns Amok" - Susan Drury
*TAL episode|04|259|Promised Land
**Act 1: "Across the Street from Heaven" - Starlee Kine
**Act 2: "Life in the Fast Lane" - David Rakoff
**Act 3: "Mystery Train" - Hillary Frank
*TAL episode|04|260|The Facts Don't Matter
**Act 1: "Straight Eyes on the Quirin Guys" - Chris Neary
**Act 2: "Mush Polling" - Sarah Koenig
*TAL episode|04|261|The Sanctity of Marriage
**Act 1: "What Really Happens in Marriage" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "The Defense of Marriage Act" - Adam Felber
**Act 3: "I Want to be a Statistic" - Starlee Kine
*TAL episode|04|262|Miracle Cures
**Act 1: "Changing the Channeler" - Davy Rothbart
**Act 2: "The Entities Known as The Food and Drug Administration" - Ira Glass
*TAL episode|04|263|Desperate Measures
**Act 1: "Hasta La Vista, Arnie" - Scott Miller
**Act 2: "We Built This City on Rock and Coal" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "The Router Less Taken"
**Act 4: "The Rocks at Rock Bottom" - Hillary Frank
*TAL episode|04|264|Special Treatment
**Show description: On the ethics and reality of preferential treatment
**Act 1: "Lunchtime with the King of Ketchup" - Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 2: "Except for that One Problem, it's Perfect" - Gregory Warner
**Act 3: "Mommie's Psychic Helper" - Aimee Phan
**Act 4: "The Way to a Boy's Heart Is Through His Stomach" - Lisa Carver
*TAL episode|04|265|Fake Science
**Show description: On cranks, distortions of science, and the application of pseudo-scientific methods to questions outside the realm of science
**Act 1: "Spook Science" - Jake Warga
**Act 2: "Government Science" - Alex Blumberg
**Act 3: "Beauty Science" - Adam Sternbergh
**Act 4: "Radio Science" - Brent Runyon
*TAL episode|04|266|I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
**Show description: On the work of private defense contractors in post-invasion Iraq
**Act 1: "Airport" - Nancy Updike
**Act 2: "Hank" - Nancy Updike
**Act 3: "Green Zone" - Nancy Updike
**Act 4: "Electricity" - Nancy Updike
**Act 5: "Karen" - Nancy Updike
**Act 6: "Cops" - Nancy Updike
**Act 7: "Hank Redux" - Nancy Updike
*TAL episode|04|267|Propriety
**Show description: On civility, profanity, and the Federal Communications Commission
**Act 1: "Government Says the Darnedest Things" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Dems Gone Wild!" - Ken Kurson
**Act 3: "Swiss Near-Miss" - Samantha Hunt
*TAL episode|04|268|My Experimental Phase
**Act 1: "That's Funny, You Don't Look Jewish" - David Segal
**Act 2: "Miami Vices" - Sascha Rothchild, Mortified
*TAL episode|04|269|Someone to Watch Over Me
**Act 1: "Doctoring the Doctor" - Jo Giese
**Act 2: "The Over-Protective Kind"
**Act 3: "Are You a Man or a Mouse?" - Aimee Bender
*TAL episode|04|270|Family Legend
**Act 1: "Take My Cheese, Please" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "We Don't Talk About That" - Kevin O'Leary
**Act 3: "Admissions" - Katia Dunn
*TAL episode|04|271|Best Interests
**Act 1: "I'd Rather Not" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Exodus of One" - Alex Kotlowitz
*TAL episode|04|272|Big Tent
**Show description: On the Republican Party during the campaign season preceding the U.S. presidential election, 2004
**Act 1: "Pink Elephant" - Patrick Howell
**Act 2: "Right and Righter" - Alex Blumberg
**Act 3: "Indecent Proposal" - Shane DuBow
**Act 4: "It's My Party"
*TAL episode|04|273|Put Your Heart In It
**Show description: On motivation and passion, especially regarding career choices
**Act 1: "Farm Eye for the Farm Guy" - George DeVault
**Act 2: "Diary of a Long-shot" - Teal Krech
**Act 3: "Contrails of My Tears" - Brett Martin
*TAL episode|04|274|Enemy Camp '04
**Show description: On the Iraq war and the War on Terrorism (a discussion with James Fallows and Richard Perle), the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, and parasites
**Act 1: "Our Own Worst Enemy?" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Confession" - Carl Marziali
**Act 3: "Blood Agent" - Ira Glass
**Act 4: "And I Love Her" - Etgar Keret
*TAL episode|04|275|Two Steps Back
**Show description: On the decline of Washington Irving Elementary School in Chicago, once a model for success in public education reforms
**Act 1: "1994" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "2004" - Ira Glass
*TAL episode|04|276|Swing Set
**Show description: On swing voters, who were thought to play an important role in the U.S. presidential election, 2004, which took place a few days after the episode first aired
**Act 1: "My Buddy, Hackett" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Cold-Cock the Vote" - Jack Hitt
**Act 3: "One Son, One Vote" - Sarah Koenig
**Act 4: "He's Got Legs" - Lisa Pollak
*TAL episode|04|277|Apology
**Show description: On apologizing
**Act 1: "Repeat After Me" - David Sedaris
**Act 2: "Dial "S" for Sorry" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Two Words You Never Want to Hear From Your Doctor" - Starlee Kine
*TAL episode|04|278|Spies Like Us
**Show description: On surveillance and eavesdropping by private citizens
**Act 1: "The Lobbyist" - Burt Covit
**Act 2: "Life With the Haters" - Beth Lisick
**Act 3: "Mystery Shoppers" - Lisa Pollak
**Act 4: "Stop Bugging Me" - Jane Feltes
*TAL episode|04|279|Auto Show
**Show description: On dB drag racing, vehicle theft, car salespeople, and elderly drivers
**Act 1: "Crunk in the Trunk" - David Segal
**Act 2: "Baby You Can't Drive My Car" - Jamie Kitman
**Act 3: "Objects in the Rear View Mirror My Be Alarmingly Familiar" - Curtis Sittenfeld
**Act 4: "Not Your Father's Chevrolet Salesman" - Sarah Koenig
**Act 5: "End of the Road" - Lisa Pollack

External links

* [http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx?year=2004 This American Life's radio archive for 2004]

ee also

*List of 1995 This American Life episodes
*List of 1996 This American Life episodes
*List of 1997 This American Life episodes
*List of 1998 This American Life episodes
*List of 1999 This American Life episodes
*List of 2000 This American Life episodes
*List of 2001 This American Life episodes
*List of 2002 This American Life episodes
*List of 2003 This American Life episodes
*List of 2005 This American Life episodes
*List of 2006 This American Life episodes
*List of 2007 This American Life episodes
*List of 2008 This American Life episodes
*List of This American Life (TV series) episodes