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827: All the King's Horses

2024/3/24
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Ira Glass讲述了其家族中因遗产分配不均导致的长期不和，以及自身婚姻破裂的经历，以此引出主题：有些破碎是无法修复的，人们需要直面并接受这种不可逆转的损失。他以Humpty Dumpty的故事为例，阐述了这种破碎的普遍性和对人们心理的影响。 David Kestenbaum讲述了Peter Akko与其父亲因Big Track玩具的发明权而产生的纠纷，以及由此引发的诉讼和家庭关系的破裂。尽管诉讼以失败告终，但Peter Akko和其父亲最终都从这段经历中获得了成长，并走向了新的生活。这表明，即使无法修复过去的破碎，人们仍然可以从中吸取教训，并继续前行。

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The things we break and the ones we can't fix.

  • Prologue: Ira tells the stories of three things that broke–two of them in his own family. (8 minutes)
  • Act One: A teenage whiz kid invents a new toy for Milton Bradley. Then the trouble starts. (28 minutes)
  • Act Two: Reporter Dana Ballout sifts through a very long list—the list of journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas War—and comes back with five small fragments of the lives of the people on it. (10 minutes)
  • Act Three: A skateboarding legend makes a final attempt at a high-flying trick. (6 minutes)

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