Ira Glass

This story is by writer Edgar Carat and read for us by actor Matt Molloy.

Matt Malloy, reading a story by Edgar Carat from Edgar's story collection, Suddenly a Knock on the Door.

Edgar sends stories and poems to subscribers in his sub-stack newsletter, Alphabet Soup.

Our program was produced today by Nancy Opdyke and our senior producer at the time, Julie Snyder, with Alex Bloomberg, Jay Marie, Sarah Kane, Lisa Pollack, Robin Semien, and Alyssa Shipp.

Production up from Aaron Scott.

Seth Lind was our production manager, and Emily Condon was our office manager for this show.

Our musical consultant for the show was Jessica Hopper.

Help on today's rerun from Adrienne Lilly, Molly Marcello, and Ryan Rumery.

Special thanks today to The Moth and to Paul Tuff.

This American Life is delivered to public radio stations by PRX, the public radio exchange.

Thanks as always to our program's co-founder, Mr. Troy Malatia.

You know, I'm a happily married man.

So does it mean anything when he swims over to me at the company retreat and says things like, The water makes me feel so free.

I'm Ira Glass.

Back next week with more stories of this American life.

This is Ira Glass.

On This American Life, we tell stories about when things change.

Like for this guy, David, whose entire life took a sharp, unexpected, and very unpleasant turn.

And it did take me a while to realize it's basically because the monkey pressed the button.

That's right.