A jail stint can really disrupt someone's life.

You can lose a job, a relationship, or thousands of dollars on fees, fines and bail.

Have I ever gone to jail?

Yeah, I just got out, actually.

If he doesn't show up to court, we've got to pay the $50,000.

No green exchange, no kiss the bride.

There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding.

Off the block, all six episodes tracing the path from city block to Jailblock and back are now available on

KCRW's iTunes page.

From KCRW, this is here be monsters.

It's hard to describe what a hundred thousand square feet of pest world looks like. It's big, big enough so that voices and words turn into soup, and it's big enough to give you sore feet.

It's two football fields, side by side side with a 25 foot ceiling.

Everywhere I looked I could see booths and vendors from the pest management industry.

I got a t-shirt from a pesticide company and mouth-shaped chocolates from a

poison company and there were people walking around dressed as seven foot tall blue

ants. I came to Past World to go on a miniature vacation from the news. It was

late October and the election cycle was getting me down.

It was giving me anxiety in a way I've never had it before.

Actually, I initially thought this episode was going to be about the election,

because this is a podcast about fear itself, but really what I learned is that there's still some things too scary for me to talk about,

presidents being one of them.

I have this friend named Rose Eckert. She sells these space-age looking boxes that you can buy if you get bed bugs. They're kind of like a

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