Ira Glass
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Podcast Appearances
Everybody laughed but Timothy Stokes.
Michael Chabon, reading an excerpt from his short story, Werewolves and Their Youth.
You can find it in the collection of short stories with the same name.
Coming up, kids talking kid talk, adults not understanding, but you will...
As our special Kids Say the Darnedest Things edition of our program continues in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues.
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Each week on our program, of course, we choose some theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme.
We wanted an hour filled with stories in which kids employ kid thinking, especially the kid thinking that is perfectly logical but completely wrongheaded.
And we've arrived at Act 3 of our program, Act 3, the game ain't over till the fatso man sings.
When little kids talk about a crush or love, are they talking about more or less the same thing that adults mean by those words?
Well, Howie Chakowicz remembers how he thought about love in grade school.
He wanted girls to like him, but they never seemed to.