![]() ![]() ![]() (8 minutes)Act One: A middle schooler really wants to trust the adults have her best interests in mind. Prologue: Guest Host Chana Joffe-Walt asks her kids when they first encountered adult fallibility. What happens when you realize the people in charge don’t have the answers. Kathie tells the story of the night he disappeared, and about how, in the weeks following, she and each of their three children were visited by a bird, who seemed to be delivering a message to them. Two months later, his body was pulled out of the East River. Witnesses said they saw him on the Staten Island Ferry that night. (15 minutes)Act Four: Kathie Russo's husband was Spalding Gray, who was best known for delivering monologues onstage-like "Monster in a Box," and "Swimming to Cambodia." On January 10, 2004, he went missing. (14 minutes)Act Three: Ira accompanies photographer Tamara Staples as she attempts to photograph chickens in the style of high fashion photography. It's performed with dressed-up styrofoam balls, it's sung in Italian and, no kidding, able to make grown men cry. Jack Hitt reports on an opera about Chicken Little. (10 minutes)Act Two: Yet another testimony to the power chickens have over our hearts and minds. (2 minutes)Act One: Scharlette Holdman's story continues, in which she and the rest of a legal defense team try to save a man on death row by finding a star witness - a chicken with a specific skill. Why did she suddenly end the moratorium on press? Because her story is about something important: namely, a beautiful chicken. Prologue: Ira Glass talks with Scharlette Holdman, who works with defense teams on high profile death row cases, and who has not talked to a reporter in more than 25 years. During the highest turkey consumption period of the year, we bring you a This American Life tradition: stories of turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks, fowl of all kinds-real and imagined-and their mysterious hold over us. ![]()
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