Ira goes to a crowded singles bar where it wasn’t hard to find serial ghosters — people who kiss and disappear. (8 minutes)
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Act Two: Winter’s Bone
Elna Baker notices a change in how people in New York City are dating during the pandemic. (12 minutes)
Act Three: Best Laid Plans
Kurt Braunohler and his girlfriend had been together for thirteen years, and they were still only 30.
Act One: Dream Weevil
Kim Jong-Il loved movies, but hated all the movies made in North Korea. So he kidnapped a famous South Korean director and his ex-wife—a South Korean film star—locked them up in a villa in North Korea, and forced them to make movies for him. Nancy Updike tells the story.
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Act Two: Deer in the Footlights
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.
Act Four: The Kid Namastays in the Picture
Jaime Amor does yoga storytelling for kids.
Act Two: The Fight
Jennifer, Ira, and producer Emanuele Berry go to a protest and get tear gassed in front of a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. (6 minutes)