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Summary:

Stories of crime and stories of miscommunication. There are funny moments, there are serious moments, there are surprising situations. Unless otherwise noted the stories are one hundred percent true.

Table of Contents:

• Disc 1: Squirrel cop / a police officer somewhere on the east coast
• Loser / Aimee Bender
• Flight vs invisibililty / John Hodgman
• Watching the detective / Ira Glass with Jonathan Rosenberg
• The greatest phone message of all time / Jonathan Goldstein.
• Disc 2: Jesus shaves / David Sedaris
• Say it to me in guy language / Ira Glass with Will Powers
• When the wall came tumbling down / a teenager and his dad
• Everyone speaks Elton John / Starlee Kine with Jon Langford
• Music lessons / Sarah Vowell.

Contributors:

Glass, Ira

Bender, Aimee

Hodgman, John

Rosenberg, Jonathan

Goldstein, Jonathan

Sedaris, David

Powers, Will

Kine, Starlee

Langford, Jon, 1957-

Vowell, Sarah, 1969-

National Public Radio (U.S.)

WBEZ (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Included Works:

Crossed wires

Related Works:

This American life (Radio program)

Related Series:

This American life

Subjects:

Crime

Criminals

Humorous stories, American

United States — Social life and customs — 20th century — Humor

1900-1999

Manners and customs

United States

Genres:

Audiobooks

Radio programs

Humor

System Details:

ACD (audio cd)

Performers:

Ira Glass, host.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (approximately 148 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; 1.4 m/s

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

ACD 215

ISBNs:

073892590X

OCLC Numbers:

82459181
54063793 [Invalid]