Ira with former baseball player Bobby Morris, on leaving baseball. (7 minutes)
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Act One: Grime Scene
Reporter Nancy Updike spends two days with Neal Smither, who cleans up crime scenes for a living, and comes away wanting to open his Los Angeles franchise, despite the gore — or maybe because of it.
Act Two: Phone Home
Seth Freed Wessler reports on people going the opposite direction over the US/Mexico border.
Act Six: Boston, Logan Airport; Chicago, IL; Springfield, OR
We hear from the people in the land of the non-working: Fred Beaton on hislast shift driving a shuttle bus at Logan Airport before he retires; LincCohen and Sandi Weisenberg talk about what chores get done once retirementbegins; and Angela Jane Evancie tries to get her boyfriend, Morgan Peach, tostop relaxing quite so much.
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Act Two: Deer in the Footlights
Ira talks with Connie Rex about the deer she and her sisters kidnapped and ended up putting into their school’s Christmas pageant in Woodruff, Utah, in a starring role.
Act Four: The Kid Namastays in the Picture
Jaime Amor does yoga storytelling for kids.
Act Five: Nine Months Later
Host Ira Glass calls Jennifer to talk about the new security law. (12 minutes)