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Last Week's Show: Starting from Scratch
This Week's Show: Poultry Slam 2008 The Complete This American Life Archive Last Week's Show: Starting from Scratch
Originally aired 03.07.2003
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Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.
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This Week's Show: Poultry Slam 2008
Originally aired 11.28.200
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A man in Pakistan wants to break his friend out of prison. He buys him an amulet that supposedly has the power to protect anyone from harm. But just to be on the safe side, he decides to test the amulet by trying it out first. On a chicken. Stories about the powerful combination of chickens, faith and God in our not-quite-annual, all new for 2008, Poultry Slam. Since our first year on the air, this has been a This American Life tradition, a show about poultry for this time of year when poultry consumption is at its highest.
Special note to chicken enthusiasts: the name of this episode—The Poultry Slam—has nothing to do with slamming poultry. We are not anti-poultry. Our editorial stance is proudly pro-poultry. The show's name is a pun on Chicago's Poetry Slam.
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