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 One: The Audition
Ira’s story of Yibin Li continues.
Act Three: Maybe Pay Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain
Disinformation and propaganda works differently in Putin’s Russia than it did during the Soviet Union.
Act Four: A Matter of Principal (podcast only)
Protestors came out across Russia after the Ukraine invasion.