Ira Glass

Now, were there people who didn't talk to you before the sidekick, who, when you got the sidekick?

So they just want to use the sidekick?

So they just want to use the sidekick?

These girls actually had a very grown-up attitude about all the stuff they covet. That stuff matters to them, but it doesn't totally matter. Kegel wasn't wearing Nikes or Cons, and nobody cared. Selena and Amy recently got iPods, and they're the first to admit it didn't change how anybody saw them.

These girls actually had a very grown-up attitude about all the stuff they covet. That stuff matters to them, but it doesn't totally matter. Kegel wasn't wearing Nikes or Cons, and nobody cared. Selena and Amy recently got iPods, and they're the first to admit it didn't change how anybody saw them.

I remind them that it's in the Bible that we're not supposed to want stuff or be jealous of people who have stuff we don't have. Do you think it's realistic that people aren't going to want stuff?

I remind them that it's in the Bible that we're not supposed to want stuff or be jealous of people who have stuff we don't have. Do you think it's realistic that people aren't going to want stuff?

But then you're saying in a way it's natural that we're always going to be breaking one of the Ten Commandments.

But then you're saying in a way it's natural that we're always going to be breaking one of the Ten Commandments.

If we needed any proof of this, we're always going to want stuff. Sometimes we're going to want stuff that we probably shouldn't. It was just a few feet away. A girl named Nadie had written on her arm, down the length of her arm, Nadie N. David. That's N, the letter N, with a heart underneath it.

If we needed any proof of this, we're always going to want stuff. Sometimes we're going to want stuff that we probably shouldn't. It was just a few feet away. A girl named Nadie had written on her arm, down the length of her arm, Nadie N. David. That's N, the letter N, with a heart underneath it.

And is he in your grade?

And is he in your grade?

That's her girlfriend, egging her on.

That's her girlfriend, egging her on.

He's walking arm in arm with another girl.

He's walking arm in arm with another girl.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says the Tenth Commandment concerns the intentions of the heart. The Catechism talks about desires that are often good, wholesome desires, but come to exceed the limits of reason and make us want things too much, especially things that really belong to somebody else. Wanting things too much, it says, is a form of sadness.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says the Tenth Commandment concerns the intentions of the heart. The Catechism talks about desires that are often good, wholesome desires, but come to exceed the limits of reason and make us want things too much, especially things that really belong to somebody else. Wanting things too much, it says, is a form of sadness.

And the Tenth Commandment, that's what it's trying to eradicate.