The week on the podcast, three stories about our most intimate comrades — and their unique and powerful ability to support or destroy us.

This week on the podcast, three stories that show that sex is sometimes not as easy or natural as we want it to be. Or think it is for everyone else.

This week on the podcast, three stories about lovable, kooky, and resourceful sports fans who’ll do anything to support their team.

In honor of summer travel, three tales of testing love through the perils — and pleasures — of striking out for the unknown.

This week on the podcast, three stories about parents told from the perspectives of their children who, as the saying goes, know more than anybody realizes.

This week on the podcast, three stories about the adventures that ensue when opposites attract.

This week on the podcast, three stories about the hijinks that transpire offstage in theater and film, including lots of cigarettes, mimes, and at least one orgy.

This week on the podcast, three stories of people obsessed with rock stars — and the lengths they’ll go to feed their obsession. (Hint: Stalking alert!)

This week on the podcast, in honor of July 4th, a story from a man who is in love with America, but isn’t sure America is in love with him.

This week on the podcast, three stories of people who find themselves FAR out of their comfort zone.  

This week on the podcast, three travel tales that prove that it’s the journey — not the destination — that is so weird.

This week on the podcast, three tales from the Way Out There. A ghost, a seance, an exorcism — and 20 creepy clowns.

This week on the podcast, three stories of people taking a stand.

This week, we pay homage to the will to survive with three stories about jerks whom we hope are now nice adults.

This week on the podcast three tales about sex that, well, aren’t that sexy.

In honor of Mother’s Day, we offer three tales that will have you asking — as the storytellers did — What was that mother thinking?

This week on the podcast, three stories of dudes who, in the words of the Moody Blues, want to be singers in a rock n roll band. Really bad.

This week on the podcast, we offer three stories not of brushes with fame — but brushes with infamy, including stories about a blind date with the world’s most famous intern; an encounter with Mr. Trump (before he’s president); and a brief stint as the prankster who made “pornographic cookies” a felony.

This week on the podcast, the incredible story of a mother and her daughter who reunite after 40 years of living parallel lives.

This week on the podcast, three tales of people struggling to live under one roof. The son of illegal Chinese immigrants wants nothing more than to be “American.” An older woman creates a “Golden Girls” situation, and discovers a new model for “aging in place.” And a young activist living in a radical collective in 1960s Baltimore discovers that the father he thought didn’t support him may have saved his life.

This week on the podcast, the tale of  a young man’s struggle to come to terms with being raised a Scientologist — and the toll exacted on him and his family.

This week on the podcast, three tales of the relationships between humans and animals. Starring a gerbil, a goose, and an iguana.

This week on the podcast, three tales of losing virginity, from one involving a Canadian Mountie to one involving a Tampax box, to one involving a security guard.

This week on the podcast, three tales of women’s lives intersecting with a larger political moment. In the wake of the recent presidential election, a woman ends a relationship after her boyfriend tells her he can’t tolerate her activism. A woman files an EEOC complaint after being told she can’t apply for a job because she’s “a girl.” And finally, a young intern in the Nixon White House has to choose between honoring her personal beliefs and supporting the President in the landmark Roe V. Wade Supreme Court case.

This week on the podcast, three two-fers: stories of couples falling for each other (awww!) told by both members of the couple (awww!). From the made-for-Hollywood tale of a TV reporter falling for a local sports mascot to a 1957 teenage romance reignited nearly four decades later to a romantic meeting on a Bud Light Party Cruise, these tales will make you go awwww!