With Great Power
5/10/20261 hr 1 min
People who end up with far more power than they bargained for, and everything that comes with it.
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Prologue: Ira tells the story of two friends who had this incredible power to save someone. And with that great power came great responsibility. (4 minutes)Act One: Alex Kotlowitz reports on a woman with the power to change two people's lives — and at the height of her power, she doesn't even know she has it. (25 minutes)Act Two: Ira Glass talks with a mother and daughter who spent...
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Ira Glass· Host0:29
Years ago, back when the movie Schindler's List came out, I was friends with these two missionaries. They, um, worked with Chicago gang kids who they would meet in prison and try to bring to God. Anyway, one day I got a call from them, and they just had seen Schindler's List, and they wanted to talk about it because, you know, call your Jewish friend. They'd seen Schindler's List, I was their Jewish friend. Anyway, so we got together, and, um, what they said was, "First of all, w- we think we understand you better now, thanks to Schindler's List." And I think what that was about was they knew about the Holocaust, of course, before this. Um, but, but it was more of a, as a kind of a, a historical fact, like you read about in a book. The reality of what happened in the Holocaust I don't think ever had really hit them. You know, the emotional reality of it, it just hadn't hit them in the gut, all those people dying. So we got together and we talked about it, and, um, they said the scene that touched them most, uh, was at the end of the film, and, um, maybe you s- seen Schindler's List. It's a scene,