List of 2004 This American Life episodes

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In 2004, there were twenty-four This American Life episodes.

Episode 256 – Living Without
- Act 1: Do You Hear What I Hear? - Nubar Alexanian
- Act 2: The Journalism of Deprivation - Sarah Vowell
- Act 3: The Call of the Great Indoors - Chelsea Merz
- Act 4: Tin Man - Judith Budnitz
Episode 257 – What I Should've Said
- Act 1: Freeze Frame - Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: In the Bush Leagues - Charles Monroe-Kane
- Act 3: A Can of Worms - David Sedaris
- Act 4: Life Sentence - Mike Miller
Episode 258 – Leaving the Fold
- Act 1: I've Got a Secret I've Been Hiding From You - Alex Blumberg
- Act 2: God and Hockey - Ira Glass
- Act 3: Nuns Amok - Susan Drury
Episode 259 – Promised Land
- Act 1: Across the Street from Heaven - Starlee Kine
- Act 2: Life in the Fast Lane - David Rakoff
- Act 3: Mystery Train - Hillary Frank
Episode 260 – The Facts Don't Matter
- Act 1: Straight Eyes on the Quirin Guys - Chris Neary
- Act 2: Mush Polling - Sarah Koenig
Episode 261 – The Sanctity of Marriage
- Act 1: What Really Happens in Marriage - Ira Glass
- Act 2: The Defense of Marriage Act - Adam Felber
- Act 3: I Want to be a Statistic - Starlee Kine
Episode 262 – Miracle Cures
- Act 1: Changing the Channeler - Davy Rothbart
- Act 2: The Entities Known as The Food and Drug Administration - Ira Glass
Episode 263 – Desperate Measures
- Act 1: Hasta La Vista, Arnie - Scott Miller
- Act 2: We Built This City on Rock and Coal - Ira Glass
- Act 3: The Router Less Taken
- Act 4: The Rocks at Rock Bottom - Hillary Frank
Episode 264 – Special Treatment
- Show description: On the ethics and reality of preferential treatment
- Act 1: Lunchtime with the King of Ketchup - Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: Except for that One Problem, it's Perfect - Gregory Warner
- Act 3: Mommie's Psychic Helper - Aimee Phan
- Act 4: The Way to a Boy's Heart Is Through His Stomach - Lisa Carver
Episode 265 – Fake Science
- Show description: On cranks, distortions of science, and the application of pseudo-scientific methods to questions outside the realm of science
- Act 1: Spook Science - Jake Warga
- Act 2: Government Science - Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: Beauty Science - Adam Sternbergh
- Act 4: Radio Science - Brent Runyon
Episode 266 – I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
- Show description: On the work of private defense contractors in post-invasion Iraq
- Act 1: Airport - Nancy Updike
- Act 2: Hank - Nancy Updike
- Act 3: Green Zone - Nancy Updike
- Act 4: Electricity - Nancy Updike
- Act 5: Karen - Nancy Updike
- Act 6: Cops - Nancy Updike
- Act 7: Hank Redux - Nancy Updike
Episode 267 – Propriety
- Show description: On civility, profanity, and the Federal Communications Commission
- Act 1: Government Says the Darnedest Things - Ira Glass
- Act 2: Dems Gone Wild! - Ken Kurson
- Act 3: Swiss Near-Miss - Samantha Hunt
Episode 268 – My Experimental Phase
- Act 1: That's Funny, You Don't Look Jewish - David Segal
- Act 2: Miami Vices - Sascha Rothchild, Mortified
Episode 269 – Someone to Watch Over Me
- Act 1: Doctoring the Doctor - Jo Giese
- Act 2: The Over-Protective Kind
- Act 3: Are You a Man or a Mouse? - Aimee Bender
Episode 270 – Family Legend
- Act 1: Take My Cheese, Please - Ira Glass
- Act 2: We Don't Talk About That - Kevin O'Leary
- Act 3: Admissions - Katia Dunn
Episode 271 – Best Interests
- Act 1: I'd Rather Not - Ira Glass
- Act 2: Exodus of One - Alex Kotlowitz
Episode 272 – Big Tent
- Show description: On the Republican Party during the campaign season preceding the U.S. presidential election, 2004
- Act 1: Pink Elephant - Patrick Howell
- Act 2: Right and Righter - Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: Indecent Proposal - Shane DuBow
- Act 4: It's My Party
Episode 273 – Put Your Heart In It
- Show description: On motivation and passion, especially regarding career choices
- Act 1: Farm Eye for the Farm Guy - George DeVault
- Act 2: Diary of a Long-shot - Teal Krech
- Act 3: Contrails of My Tears - Brett Martin
Episode 274 – Enemy Camp '04
- Show description: On the Iraq war and the War on Terrorism (a discussion with James Fallows and Richard Perle), the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, and parasites
- Act 1: Our Own Worst Enemy? - Ira Glass
- Act 2: Confession - Carl Marziali
- Act 3: Blood Agent - Ira Glass
- Act 4: And I Love Her - Etgar Keret
Episode 275 – Two Steps Back
- Show description: On the decline of Washington Irving Elementary School in Chicago, once a model for success in public education reforms
- Act 1: 1994 - Ira Glass
- Act 2: 2004 - Ira Glass
Episode 276 – Swing Set
- Show description: On swing voters, who were thought to play an important role in the U.S. presidential election, 2004, which took place a few days after the episode first aired
- Act 1: My Buddy, Hackett - Ira Glass
- Act 2: Cold-Cock the Vote - Jack Hitt
- Act 3: One Son, One Vote - Sarah Koenig
- Act 4: He's Got Legs - Lisa Pollak
Episode 277 – Apology
- Show description: On apologizing
- Act 1: Repeat After Me - David Sedaris
- Act 2: Dial "S" for Sorry - Ira Glass
- Act 3: Two Words You Never Want to Hear From Your Doctor - Starlee Kine
Episode 278 – Spies Like Us
- Show description: On surveillance and eavesdropping by private citizens
- Act 1: The Lobbyist - Burt Covit
- Act 2: Life With the Haters - Beth Lisick
- Act 3: Mystery Shoppers - Lisa Pollak
- Act 4: Stop Bugging Me - Jane Feltes
Episode 279 – Auto Show
- Show description: On dB drag racing, vehicle theft, car salespeople, and elderly drivers
- Act 1: Crunk in the Trunk - David Segal
- Act 2: Baby You Can't Drive My Car - Jamie Kitman
- Act 3: Objects in the Rear View Mirror My Be Alarmingly Familiar - Curtis Sittenfeld
- Act 4: Not Your Father's Chevrolet Salesman - Sarah Koenig
- Act 5: End of the Road - Lisa Pollack

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