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Ira Glass
1997

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85: Poultry Slam 1997

Dec. 5, 1997

Act Two: Headless Chicken In Topless Bar

Ira with Lloyd Natoff, on killing chickens.

60: Business of Death

Apr. 18, 1997

Kaddish

An Allen Ginsberg poem and Ira Glass.

Act Two: The Forbidden Zone

Michael Lesy reads.

51: Animals Die, People Ponder

Jan. 24, 1997

Act Three: Dead Animal Man

Ira with Clarence Hicks, who picks up dead animals for a living.

50: Shoulda Been Dead

Jan. 17, 1997

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Ira with a girl gang member about the day she nearly died.

Act One: Die In Six Months

Kevin Kelly is interviewed.

Act Three

Claudia Perez talks about how her 21-year-old brother was shot and the family thought he'd die.

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