Hey there, podcast listeners.
It's Ira with a quick message before the show.
I don't know how many of you know this,
but we've been putting out bonus episodes every other week for months now.
We now have 20 of them.
They're available to people who signed up to be This American Life partners.
The bonus episodes include some stories that have never been on the show.
There's AMA sessions.
There's recordings of live events on stage.
But most of the episodes that we've done are ones where one of our producers will sit down in the studio with me and they pick some deep cuts,
like greatest hit stories from long ago that we think most people have never heard or
if they've heard,
they barely remember.
And we started doing these and we weren't sure what they would be like.
And we've made so many
because they quickly became listeners' favorites and they became our favorites too,
my favorites, definitely.
When we would record them,
I would find myself listening to these stories that I hadn't thought about or heard in decades.
And it was really fun.