Say it this way
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Say it this way
audio from my blog --> http://hammad.we.bs Each month, a new story about people doing something funny, exciting, inspiring, or provocative. People like you and me, but up close and personal.
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Wrong Number
We got the weirdest phone message from out of nowhere. I thought the voice on the other end was having a stroke, then all of a sudden the operator chi...
Strange Roommates
I thought I was living with the craziest roommates ever. Turned out I was the crazy one.
Music is All His Exes by Sylvie Lewis, and Oh...
Death with Dignity
How movies get death wrong. And why two paramedics think physician-assisted suicide is a good idea.
Music is Elegie by Sergei Rachmanin...
Mouse trap
A classic story of rodent vs human.
Except in this case, it wasn't just any mouse. It was our mouse. A tiny one that we had rescued fro...
Let Her Go
The worse her Alzheimer's got, the more he loved her. Arthur tells the story of how he took care of his mom for several years until she died from AD....
Manboobs save the day
His thesis was stopped at the border. His future as a college student in America was on the line. But Komail gave border agents the slip with a little...
Tom Bomdadil of Georgia
We're caught wearing shorts in tick-infested woods. But that's because when packing for our trip to Georgia, we had no idea we would be going hiking o...
Powers the Visionary Dog
A seeing-eye dog learns to find bus stops. In this episode, we meet Powers, a black lab who helps out my visually impaired friend Mike. Powers is smar...
Hilary Duff meets Nietzsche
Who won the 2004 Hilary Duff essay contest? Several tween girls. And a six-foot-six man with a two-foot beard.
This is a story about D...
Ma Knows Best
Two South Asian women lie to their mothers.
In this installment of the podcast, three stories:
The first one's a teaser. It's ab...
Pleasurable Alternatives
You can't always say yes. It's hard to say no. But what happens when you try to say both at the same time?
Saurabh Tak tells the story...
Radio as a Second Language
You might speak English, but do you understand it ?
Me: 'Give up' means you stop doing something. 'Give in' means you start doing somet...
Under Pressure
Three men coach me as I try to record myself peeing.
Me: Oh! I think I'm gonna do it ... [waiting] ... nope. Just stopped. Man 1: What...
Inauguration Sounds
Took a recorder into DC for Obama's big day. Craziness. "We just broke through a bus caravan on G Street. We're like locusts, you can't hold us down."...
The Running Jump
How do you spend recess if you don't want to play kickball?
There are exactly two nylon sacks. Balls in the right sack. And jump ropes...
The Reel World
Scary stories about slot machines, as told by anthropologist Natasha Schull"At night while her husband was asleep, she would drive to the supermarket...
Joy to the world so high
A children's song mash-up. Vocals by Patrick Callier. Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I won- world -kle world world so worlds. What you worlds. In...
End of my childhood
Talk about the end of innocence. My 12 year-old brother interviews my 24 year-old brother about going to Islamic summer camp. "I remember seeing an in...
Switching Exercise
Andrea's got some advice for couples: Next time you're having an argument, switch sides.
Over the years, Andrea and John have had plent...
The Perfect Interview
A hypothetical radio conversation where the worst possible host interviews the worst possible guest. In this, I took a 12-minute phone conversation be...
Sell your silverware
Take note, all you dumpster divers and free furniture junkies: metal prices are on the rise. And that means competition at junkyards is getting toughe...
Smokestacks and Annals
"How utterly the alabaster spreads / to shade the coming light." Good poetry gets better with background sound and music. Here are two poems: "Schuylk...
Lost in Ritual
Muslims pray five times a day, even if they happen to be stuck in Harvard Square on a hot June day. My aunts use the sun to figure out the direction t...
Float to the Bottom
A sound journey: escape from a burning office building into the peaceful grip of asphyxia. "The devil doesn't buy individual souls anymore. Now, he bu...
Facebook vs. the RIAA
Just hope you don't get caught.
When the record companies sent Jared an email asking for three thousand dollars for music he’d download...
Can't touch this
But you can touch this.
"I walked a couple of streets and then I called 911." I remember seeing Selvaraj the night he was mugged. He wa...
Early Music
You can hear it all over the place.
"People into meditation and stuff have discovered it. I would say musicians and probably... older ‘...
Mr. Anonymous
You've got a secret admirer.
"At the conversation kept going, something came over me. Talking to Mr. Anonymous... it felt like home."
Evil Chubbetta
See this story's evil twin.
"Chubbetta would sneak up behind the bald man and rub his head, vigorously... I would say 'Chubbetta, stop...
Black Islam
Take off your shoes before stepping in.
"Damn, Brother! I didn't know you was pretty like that. What you going through the sisters' sid...