As a joke, Jessica Williamson posts a fake “CAT FOUND” poster with pictures of a possum instead of a cat. To her surprise, she gets hundreds of phone calls that ultimately shift her view on humanity.

Host Ira Glass reminds us that, before they change the country, all major Supreme Court cases start with just a person, in a place. (3 minutes)

Ira talks with Cassidy, a 10-year-old who has to take a very long route when he encounters an unfamiliar word in a book.

Elna Baker tells Ira about two detectives who solved a murder remarkably quickly, especially considering that they were still in middle school.

Ken had created a website and abandoned it. Years later, a stranger reaches out to him and tells him he can make money off it.

Host Ira Glass zooms in on five surreal minutes of Hungary’s opposition campaign. (5 minutes)

Like a lot of parents, Yibin Li’s dad dedicated himself to making sure his daughter stayed on a path that would lead her to a better life than his. But the obstacles her dad had to surmount to achieve this are unlike those any parent anywhere has faced.

Late at night on the evening Russia invaded Ukraine, Ira talks to two people who escaped to Lviv, near the Polish border: a woman we call Natalie, and the Ukraine Correspondent for The Economist, Richard Ensor. Natalie’s harrowing story about escaping Kyiv is not the sort of war story that makes you think, "I can't imagine what it'd be like to go through that.” In fact it’s just the opposite.

Ira talks with a radio announcer in Truckee, California, about the increasingly alarming content of his fishing reports.

Ira introduces the first part of the latest podcast from Brian Reed (S-Town) and Hamza Syed — which all started when Hamza was a student with a burning question.

Ira summarizes part one of our story.

When Miles and Katie are burglarized by a few teenaged criminals, Katie decides to use her rookie sleuthing skills to take them down.