He yelled whoops, and then lay still since he saw the swing coming back over him. 11:06 AM, Fred skidded on the floor so that he fell with his body partially under the swing. The sister looked very surprised and annoyed. 6:33 PM, Bradley walked deliberately to where his sister sat playing with a puppy and hit her on the head twice, just as hard as he could hit. In the late 1940s and early '50s, scientists followed kids in houses, schoolyards, and streets across the town of Oskaloosa, Kansas, taking pages of notes on the littlest things they did or said. The scientist wrote, 7:01 AM, Raymond picked up a sock. The boy squirmed out of bed and reached for his clothes. The scientist, a stranger to the boy, just stared- didn't say a word. When the boy opened his eyes, he saw a scientist with a clipboard and timer standing in the corner of his room. His mother walked into his bedroom and said, Raymond, time to get up for school. On a Tuesday morning in the spring of 1949, a seven-year-old boy named Raymond Birch was fast asleep in his bed. Ringwald talks about how for the first time, she saw the movie from the parents' point of view, not the kids'.Here's how it worked. (12 minutes) Act Three: Ira Glass interviews actress Molly Ringwald about what happened when she watched one of her own movies, "The Breakfast Club" with her daughter. Until one day he discovers actual raw data - secretly recorded conversations - that threaten to change his picture of everything. (8 minutes) Act One: Writer Domingo Martinez tells a story from his memoir, "The Boy Kings of Texas," about when he was forced to face how he might look in 20 years if he kept doing what he was doing. (12 minutes) Act Two: A man has a very clear vision of how he always stood up to his father, protected his mother and fought hard for the truth. She also talks with other people about moments where someone made an observation about them that was shocking. So why does it often take an outsider to see things about you that are obvious, and set you straight? Prologue: Guest host Nancy Updike talks about learning something new, and unpleasant, about herself in, where else, a makeup store. You've been seeing yourself, getting to know what you look like, your whole life. Kathie tells the story of the night he disappeared, and about how, in the weeks following, she and each of their three children were visited by a bird, who seemed to be delivering a message to them. (9 minutes) Two months later, his body was pulled out of the East River. Witnesses said they saw him on the Staten Island Ferry that night. It's performed with dressed-up styrofoam balls, it's sung in Italian and, no kidding, able to make grown men cry. (14 minutes) Act Three: Ira accompanies photographer Tamara Staples as she attempts to photograph chickens in the style of high fashion photography. The chickens are not very cooperative. (15 minutes) Act Four: Kathie Russo's husband was Spalding Gray, who was best known for delivering monologues onstage-like "Monster in a Box," and "Swimming to Cambodia." On January 10, 2004, he went missing. Jack Hitt reports on an opera about Chicken Little. (10 minutes) Act Two: Yet another testimony to the power chickens have over our hearts and minds. (2 minutes) Act One: Scharlette Holdman's story continues, in which she and the rest of a legal defense team try to save a man on death row by finding a star witness - a chicken with a specific skill. Why did she suddenly end the moratorium on press? Because her story is about something important: namely, a beautiful chicken. Prologue: Ira Glass talks with Scharlette Holdman, who works with defense teams on high profile death row cases, and who has not talked to a reporter in more than 25 years. During the highest turkey consumption period of the year, we bring you a This American Life tradition: stories of turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks, fowl of all kinds-real and imagined-and their mysterious hold over us.
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