881: I Want What I Want
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881: I Want What I Want
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People deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.
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- Prologue: A new documentary called The Boys and the Bees captures a moment where a six-year-old has a very unlikely wish. And his dad decides to grant it. Host Ira Glass talks with filmmaker Arielle Knight about what happens next. (9 minutes)
- Act One: John Tothill tells the story of Edward Dando, a 19th-century British glutton who would eat hundreds of oysters at a time and then run out on the check. And makes the case that we should all be more like him. (15 minutes)
- Act Two: Producer Tobin Low listens in as Evan Roberts calls up an ex for the first time in years. And tries to make the case that they should have been friends all along. (16 minutes)
- Act Three: Producer Zoe Chace brings us a dispatch from a courtroom in Texas this week, where on the very first day of a landmark federal trial about Antifa, the judge makes an unusual decision that no one sees coming. (15 minutes)
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