This is Love

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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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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best This is Love episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to This is Love for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite This is Love episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

The Adventures of Dillon Helbig

This is Love

02/23/22 • 24 min

Dillon Helbig is 8 years old. He's been writing books since he was 5. One day, he decided he wanted to see his book on the shelf in a library.

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6 Listeners

1 Comment

Something Large and Wild

This is Love

02/21/18 • 26 min

An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild.

Grayson, by Lynne Cox

Lynne's latest is Swimming in the Sink.

You can find more about Lynne at her website: http://www.lynnecox.com/

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5 Listeners

The Run

This is Love

02/14/18 • 32 min

In 1971, David Alexander went for a run in Central Park and started talking to a stranger. For our first episode of This Is Love, a story about what's possible when we bet everything on each other.

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4 Listeners

1 Comment

The Wolves

This is Love

04/01/20 • 41 min

We go searching for wolves in Yellowstone, and learn about the dramatic and surprisingly relatable relationship between a powerful young wolf and the small, elderly wolf who had raised him.

We’re trying something new. Two stories about the same family of wolves in Yellowstone. One is a love story, and one is a crime story. For the crime story, check out Episode 137 of Criminal. It’s called Wolf 10. apple.co/2JBu7uR

Rick McIntyre's book is The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog.

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4 Listeners

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City Birds

This is Love

06/24/20 • 28 min

Meet a woman who decided to devote her life to the wild birds of New York City, and a Los Angeles man who formed a once-in-a-lifetime friendship.

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4 Listeners

The Care and Keeping of You

This is Love

01/24/24 • 32 min

When Valorie Lee Schaefer was asked to write a book about puberty for kids, her first thought was, “Why me?” But as she got to work on it, she realized, “Every girl thinks that they're a freak of nature.”

A new, updated edition of The Care and Keeping of You is out now.

We're going back on tour in February! We’ll be telling brand new stories, live on stage. You can even get meet and greet tickets to come and say hi before the show. Tickets are on sale now at thisiscriminal.com/live. We can’t wait to see you there!

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3 Listeners

Albert and Alberta

This is Love

02/07/24 • 36 min

One day, as a student at the University of Florida, Kourtney LaPlant was reading the student newspaper. “And there was this little tiny ad in the paper about, hey, we’re looking for new mascots. And I was like, why not?”

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3 Listeners

Tau = 10.8

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01/10/24 • 47 min

When twin rovers named Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars twenty years ago, they were only supposed to last 90 Martian days. But years passed, they were still alive, and engineers kept taking care of them. “I remember telling myself, ‘Please don’t die, Opportunity. Please don’t die.’”

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Charlotte as Romeo

This is Love

03/20/24 • 36 min

When Charlotte Cushman arrived in England, she was heartbroken. But she began looking for work as an actor. There was one part she really wanted: Romeo.

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3 Listeners