881: I Want What I Want

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People deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.

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People deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to
do.

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Prologue: A new documentary called The Boys and the
Bees captures a moment where a six-year-old has a very
unlikely wish, and his dad decides to grant it. Host Ira Glass
talks with filmmaker Arielle Knight about what happens
next. (9 minutes)

Act One: John Tothill tells the story of Edward Dando, a
19th-century British glutton who would eat hundreds of oysters at
a time and then run out on the check. John makes the case that we
should all be more like Edward Dando. (15 minutes)

Act Two: Producer Tobin Low listens in as Evan Roberts calls
up an ex for the first time in years and tries to make the case
that they should have been friends all along. (16 minutes)

Act Three: Producer Zoe Chace brings us a dispatch from a
courtroom in Texas this week, where on the very first day of a
landmark federal trial about Antifa, the judge makes an unusual
decision that no one sees coming. (15 minutes)

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