Poultry Slam 1998

#116 - 27 November 1998

For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, it's our annual program about turkeys, chickens, and fowl of all types.

First Day

#115 - 13 November 1998

Stories of the first day on the job, the first day in a relationship, the first day in school. On the first day, any first day, we're expected to live by the rules and customs of the culture we're entering, but we don't know those rules and customs just yet.

Last Words

#114 - 23 October 1998

Stories of people's last words before death. Their one last shot at figuring things out, summing things up. One last moment of asserting the fact of our existence, at the moment of our annihilation.

Windfall

#113 - 16 October 1998

What happens when you suddenly strike it rich. And the power money has over our lives, for good and bad.

Ladies and Germs

#112 - 2 October 1998

Germs, and how they make us leave the world of rational thinking.

Adventures in the Simple Life

#111 - 11 September 1998

I thought this was supposed to be easy. Tales from the simple life.

Mapping

#110 - 4 September 1998

Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way — by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.

Notes on Camp

#109 - 28 August 1998

Stories of summer camp. People who love camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about camp. In this program, we attempt to bridge the gap of misunderstanding between camp people and non-camp people.

Truth and Lies at Age Ten

#108 - 7 August 1998

Two stories of children lying to themselves and others. A woman who'd been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis talks about the lies she told herself as a child. And Dan Gediman tells the story of how he was cast in the public TV show Zoom, which aired from 1972 to 1979, at the age of ten. Then he was cut from the cast before the show ever went on the air. So for years, he lied about it. He let friends believe he was on Zoom.

Trail of Tears

#107 - 3 July 1998

For the July 4th holiday weekend, writer Sarah Vowell and her twin sister re-trace the "Trail of Tears" — the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land by President Andrew Jackson.