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This Sound of Young America podcast was recorded live at the Seattle Sketchfest in Seattle, Washington.

My guest was Pete Rothbart, one of the editors of an amazing magazine called Found,

composed exclusively of things that people have, well, found. Let's get to the stage of the

Seattle Sketchfest. For people who might be out there listening and have never seen an issue

of found magazine, if they opened it up, what would they find? They would find a collection of

notes and letters and pictures and homework to do lists, dead frogs and other such things

that have been found by people across the country and actually across the world. How did it start?

One day in Chicago, my brother was a snowy day in Chicago and he went out to his car,

which parked on the street and you know when it snows all the cars end up kind of looking the same.

So he found a note on his car that was addressed to a guy named Mario and it said, Mario,

I hate you. You're a liar. You said you had to work. Why is your car here at her place?

I hate you. I hate you. I signed Amber and then at the end it had a little Coda PS page

me later. He just thought that was such a sweet. It was sweet and funny and also at the same time

little heartbreaking because you can sense how upset Amber is but also how much she cares about

this guy Mario and he showed it to a lot of his friends and they would tell him about things that

they had found as well and he thought it was such a shame. You know people always have these notes

that they found posted up on their refrigerator or something like that and he thought it was such a

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