Episodes 148
Avg. Duration 34m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.7 (9,111)
Since Jan 2018
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
Consistency
87%
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Love is more than you think. From the creators of Criminal. New episodes twice a month. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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The Photograph

Jun 03, 2026 49m

Bob Brigham always knew he was adopted, but growing up, he didn’t know anything about his biological parents. When he was seven years old, a social worker came for a visit and Bob heard her whisper…

Wimbledon in a Cornfield

May 20, 2026 33m

Mark Kuhn grew up in Iowa in a family of corn farmers. When he was 10 years old, he heard a BBC broadcast of the Wimbledon finals. He couldn’t stop thinking about it — he would daydream about tennis…

SOS

May 06, 2026 57m

Brandon and Gina hadn’t known each other long when they found themselves lost 8,500 feet high on a mountain. “We started yelling and nobody yelled back.” Bill Donahue’s article is Lost & Found in…

The French Fries

Apr 15, 2026 37m

One morning, Cathy found a takeout bag on her porch. It had the name “Rodolphe” on it, and contained one half-eaten order of french fries. The next morning, she found another bag. And then another.…

Feeling Good

Apr 01, 2026 37m

One night, a stranger came up to comedian Dan Perlman and told him he looked just like the singer Michael Bublé. She asked Dan if he would impersonate him for one night. He had six days to get ready.…

You've Got Mail

Mar 18, 2026 45m

Delia Ephron has worked on some of the most famous romantic comedies of all time – like Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail – alongside her sister, Nora Ephron. In You’ve Got Mail, two people…

A Needle in a Haystack

Mar 04, 2026 33m

A dog went missing in a park in Brooklyn. A local Facebook group decided to help. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Want to listen to This is Love…

Chloe and the Hare

Feb 18, 2026 43m

“It felt like a magical experience. It felt like some sort of spell. I was living a childhood fairytale, of the comings and goings of this extraordinary animal that didn't need me, but seemed to be…

The Treasure Hunt

Feb 04, 2026 34m

In 2010, a man named Forrest Fenn took a bronze box filled with treasure into the Rocky Mountains and hid it. He told one treasure hunter, “You just need to put the clues together and go get…

Into the Ice

Jan 21, 2026 36m

The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside. She assembled a team of the most accomplished…

The Obituary Section

Jan 07, 2026 30m

Heather Lende has written nearly 500 obituaries for people in her small town in Alaska. She’s known just about everyone she has written about.  Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show…

The Long Walk

Dec 17, 2025 40m

When Emma Gatewood was 67, she told her children she was going on a walk. “The next they would hear from her would be via postcard… And it said, ‘By ‘walk’ I mean I'm thru-hiking the Appalachian…

How's Your Life?

Dec 03, 2025 29m

When Minh Nguyen was in school, he didn’t ask anyone to sign his yearbooks — he says he was too uncomfortable. But twenty years later, he started reaching out to all his former classmates. He asks…

Cry

Nov 19, 2025 34m

In 1971, for his mother’s birthday, Alvin Ailey gave her a ballet. The dance was grueling – sometimes the women who did it bled. “I remember very well seeing my mother on her knees scrubbing these…

Ava and the Pickpocket

Nov 05, 2025 41m

“He stole my watch. He stole my jewelry. I stopped wearing jewelry – just to see what else he would steal.” In 2004, Ava Do met a professional pickpocket at a bachelorette party in Las Vegas. And…

One More Time

Oct 22, 2025 31m

A visitor to the islands of the Pacific Northwest once described seeing “a forest of totem poles.” But by the time Robert Davidson was born, there wasn't a single one left standing in his…

A Sky of Kites

Oct 08, 2025 35m

People in India have been flying kites for hundreds of years – using them to predict the weather, carry love letters, and compete in the air. But they share the sky and a name with hundreds of…

The Throne

Sep 24, 2025 34m

In 1964, a landlord in Washington, DC, noticed that his tenant hadn’t paid rent and went to look for him. The tenant wasn’t in the building – but he’d left behind something strange – something that…

My Penny

Sep 10, 2025 37m

In October of 2006, a press conference was held at a hospital in Denver. During the press conference, a man asked if anyone watching could tell him who he was, or how he got there. Because he didn’t…

The World According to Rick Steves

Aug 20, 2025 28m

Never check a bag, always bring a journal, and consider duct tape: a conversation with Rick Steves. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Want to…

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