828: Minor Crimes Division

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🗓️ 7 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

People taking it upon themselves to solve the tiny, overlooked crimes of the world.

Prologue: Host Ira Glass bikes around Manhattan with Gersh Kuntzman, in search of illegal license plates. (11 minutes)
Act One: Writer Michael Harriot reexamines the DIY criminal justice system his mom invented to deal with his bad behavior as a child. (20 minutes)
Act Two: Producer Aviva DeKornfeld talks to Caveh Zahedi about a crime he may or may not have committed, depending on who you ask. (7 minutes)
Act Three: Micaela Blei accidentally solves a crime that had been going on for a long time, right under her nose, and has to decide what to do next. She told this story onstage at The Moth. (7 minutes)
Act Four: Editor Bethel Habte examines video evidence of two parents trying to get to the bottom of a minor crime committed in their own home. (7 minutes)

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0:00.0	Hey, I think about guest listeners, Ira here with a quick announcement before the show,
0:03.5	and that is, if you have not heard, Sarah Kaneg is back with a new season of cereal,
0:09.3	and it is about quantonimo.
0:12.4	And I just want to say, even if you think you know everything you want to know about Guantanamo already,
0:18.0	and even if you think you have no interest at all in Guantanamo,
0:21.0	you want to listen to the first episode of this show and check out what they found.
0:26.4	What's happened is that enough time has passed that people are talking guards, prisoners,
0:30.4	interrogators, commanders, detainees, and what Sarah and her co-host Dana Chivas
0:36.0	are interested in is what was it like?
0:38.0	What was it like to be inside this experiment
0:41.0	that the United States wheeled into existence this weird prison and court that we made from scratch with its own
0:47.4	surreal rules popped in the middle of the Caribbean where in their off hours the
0:51.4	young military personnel were drinking and partying like crazy
0:55.5	serial I'd say I kind of invented a whole way of telling stories in podcast form and you will
1:00.0	hear they still do it better than anybody.
1:03.2	Serial, season 4, Guantanamo,
1:05.7	from the New York Times and Serial Productions.
1:08.4	Get it wherever you get your podcast.
1:11.3	Okay, here's today's episode.
1:14.0	A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeeped in today's episode of the show.
1:19.0	If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website this American life.org.
1:24.3	Ladies and gentlemen let's be honest about something most of us we see wrongdoing
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