People braving the true final frontier — the gap between people born at slightly different times.
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Valero Doval
Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. BEEPED VERSION.
Prologue
Last fall, some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code. (11 minutes)
Sam Yellowhorse Kesler tipped us off to this story.
The Wedding Zinger
When Courtney Maum was eighteen, her mother married a guy she despised. At their wedding, Courtney read a poem she wrote – a pretty dark poem! – which made her mother furious. More than 30 years later, they finally talk about it. (27 minutes)
Courtney Maum’s latest novel is Alan Opts Out.
Cinema Veri-teen
When Ike Sriskandarajah was a teenager in Madison, Wisconsin, he thought he had the greatest job. He worked at the movie theater, wore a cummerbund, and snuck friends in through the back door! It was magical. That was more than 20 years ago. Is it still as great as he remembers? Ike goes back to find out. (8 minutes)
Mama Can You Hair Me
Every morning, Myra Flynn finds herself in a standoff with her daughter over her hair. Recently, to understand why these hair sessions are so fraught, Myra started recording them. What she heard sent her on a quest to get answers from her own mother. (11 minutes)
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