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== The Best Strangers In The World ==
=== Stories from a Life Spent Listening ===
=== Ari Shapiro 2023 . West Slope Lib . 070.92 Shapiro ===
=== host of National Public Radio's '''All Things Considered''' ===
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'''.p001 Introduction: Thank You for Listening'''

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'''.p011 Chapter 1: Nature Boy'''


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'''.p019 Chapter 2: Impact'''

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'''.p036 Chapter 3: Happy Endings'''

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'''.p053 Chapter 4: Musical Interlude 1: ''Je ne veux pas travailler'''''
 . I don't want to work

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'''.p070 Chapter 5: The Bubble'''

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'''.p088 Chapter 6: War People in War Places'''

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'''.p105 Chapter 7: War People in Other Places'''
 .p105 Nadia: "What's actually happening is one hundred armed people are proclaiming a new republic.  It's not the one million people who live in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk | Donetsk ]]"
 .p112 Russian trolls spend $1800 for a 2016 Facebook ad "Back the Badge"
 .p112 ditto "Heart of Texas" secession page, with 250K followers, more than Republican PLUS Democrat Facebook pages
 .p113 ditto "BlackMattersUS"
 .p113 same trolls versus Ukraine, claiming 2022 invasion was "de-Nazification"

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'''.p119 Chapter 8: The Other Man I Married'''

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'''.p134 Chapter 9: The Third Rail of Journalism'''

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'''.p147 Chapter 10: The Best Strangers in the World'''

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'''.p171 Chapter 11: The Whole World Falls In'''

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'''.p183 Chapter 12: Answers Versus Questions'''

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'''.p194 Chapter 13: You Can't See Schvitz on the Radio'''
 .p196 [[ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schvitz | schvitzing ]]


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'''.p203 Chapter 14: Musical Interlude 2: Crowd Surfing with Cigarettes'''
 .p215 [[ https://www.bigdickshalfwayinn.com/ | Big Dick's Halfway Inn ]]

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'''.p219 Chapter 15: You Can't Kill Me.  I'm an Idea.  I'm Timeless'''
 .p219 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_nightclub_shooting | Pulse Nightclub Shooting in Orlando ]] 2016 June
  . 49 killed, 58 wounded by 29yo ISIS wannabe [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Mateen | Omar Lateen ]]

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'''.p228 Chapter 16: Playing Favorites'''
 .p239 [[ https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Waria | warias ]] Indonesian transgender women
 .p240 [[ https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/12/19/kebaya-house-fights-double-stigma | Indonesian Mami Vin ]] in [[  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogyakarta | Yogyakarta ]]