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March 31, 2017

OK, I’ll Do It

Stories of people who decide that they are the best person for the job, no matter how dangerous. Including a story about a stay-at-home mom with a history of gun running for a guerilla organization, and a surgeon who does surgery...on himself.

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Vladislav Rogozov, Neil Bermel: BMJ (2009;339:b4965)

Prologue

Host Ira Glass tells the story of what might be one of the most daring surgeries ever performed. (10 minutes)

By

Ira Glass
Act One

Line in the Sand

A Border Patrol agent takes us deep inside his experience patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border. Read by Francisco Cantu, and excerpted from his memoir, “The Line Becomes A River.” (26 minutes)

Act Two

Da-Do-Run-Guns-Mum-Da-Do-Run-Guns

Journalist Reya El-Salahi tells the story of learning something very surprising about her mother’s past, involving a fake marriage, guns and guerrillas. (19 minutes)

By

Reya El-Salahi

Song:

“Rebel Without A Pause” by Public Enemy & “I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I'll Get It Myself” by James Brown

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