Prologue

The next-to-last day of the month.

Salesman Manny Rosales keeps to himself in the showroom, with his own sales philosophy.

The last day of the month begins.

Lots of things go unspoken between family members, sometimes for years.

Ira Glass talks to journalist Jochen Bittner about a political lie from 1920s Germany and the lessons it holds for 2020s America.

Ira talks with Connie Rex about the deer she and her sisters kidnapped and ended up putting into their school’s Christmas pageant in Woodruff, Utah, in a starring role.