893: Testosterone

This American Life vor 2 Monaten

Everyone at This American Life tests their testosterone and compares results.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered everyone over 30 in
the military to have their testosterone tested. That inspired us
to rerun this classic episode where everyone at This American
Life tested their testosterone and compared results. It did not
lead to workplace harmony.

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(00:00:00) Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks with producer Alex
Blumberg, who explains that he wanted to do this show
because of his conflicted relationship with his own testosterone.
He tells Ira that the reasons go back to a girl in his
8th-grade homeroom. We also hear from a man who stopped producing
testosterone due to a medical treatment, and found his entire
personality was altered. (10 minutes)

(00:10:45) Act One: What’s it like to get injected with
testosterone? When Griffin Hansbury transitioned, he got massive
shots of it and was surprised at the effect it had on
him. (17 minutes)

(00:27:56) Act Two: The men and women on staff at This American
Life decide to get their testosterone levels tested to see
who has the most and least, and whether personality traits
actually match hormone levels. (13 minutes)

(00:40:16) Act Three: What happens when a man suddenly loses all
of his testosterone? We return to Alex Blumberg’s interview from
the top of the show with a man who that happened to. He says
life without testosterone is life without desire. By that he
doesn’t mean sexual desire. He means any desire. (6 minutes)

(00:46:47) Act Four: Novelist Miriam Toews interviews her
15-year-old son, someone at an age when boys experience a jolt of
ten or twenty times the testosterone they had as children, about
all the things she doesn’t understand about what he’s going
through. (11 minutes)

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