406: True Urban Legends

406: True Urban Legends

Apr 23, 2010

Can a rat crawl through your plumbing and end up in your toilet? Can your cell phone give you a brain tumor? Download a transcript or read much more information about our Steve Poizner story. Christopher Ketcham's GQ cell article is here.

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Act Two

Fleeing is Believing.
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Foreigners arrive in the United States believing all kinds of misinformation about us...misinformation that turns out to be true. Mary Wiltenburg tells the story. (10 minutes)Immigration
- Mary Wiltenburg
Song: "Banking on a Myth", Andrew Bird
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A New York City manhole cover on the same block in East Harlem where, in 1935, a group of teenaged boys found something most New Yorkers assume is just a myth: An alligator in the sewer.