An Update from Ira

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This American Life

2025-10-16

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Ira Glass shares some news about This American Life To sign up as a Life Partner, visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners
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  • Hey there, it's Ira. So a year ago,

  • we launched our paid subscription, This American Life Partners, to help fund our show.

  • The economics of making a podcast had changed so much that we felt like we really had no choice.

  • And now it's been a year.

  • And I'm here to say two things.

  • One, this has been a huge success.

  • Life Partners now fund nearly 25% of the budget of our program.

  • People seem to like the bonus episodes we're cranking out and the other stuff they get.

  • All of us here at our show are sincerely grateful to all of you who signed up.

  • Thank you.

  • And that brings me to the second thing I'm here to say,

  • and that is life partners are 25% of our budget right now.

  • We needed to be 50%.

  • That's what's going to protect us from shifts in the economics of podcasting.

  • 50% is our goal.

  • Here is my brief pitch on why you should sign up.

  • I'm guessing that if you're a regular or semi-regular listener to our program,

  • a lot of what you probably like about our show is that we're finding these surprising stories big and small with feelings and,

  • you know, funny moments and everything else that makes a good story.

  • The thing that you like is surprisingly expensive.