The Best of Long Shot Stories
6/25/202639 min
Long shots don't always pan out the way you hoped. Sometimes they catch fire. Sometimes they mug you.
Shauna McGarry, a TV writer who can't shake her mother's thrift-store instincts, talks herself into a $2,500 used hot tub from a shady Craigslist dealer named Dan. Things don’t turn out so great.
David Crabb waitered through the days after 9/11 at one of the only open restaurants in lower Manhattan, listening to strangers unburden themselves over candlelight. By the end of the week he'd saved $900 for a U-Haul, and on the walk home from his last shift, drunk and carrying a magnum of wine, he felt an arm clamp around his neck and something jab into his ribs.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[gentle music] Welcome to the I Can't Sleep podcast with Benjamin Boster. If you're tired of sleepless nights, you'll love the I Can't Sleep podcast. I help quiet your mind by reading random articles from across the web to bore you to sleep with my soothing voice. Each episode provides enough interesting content to hold your attention, and then your mind lets you drift off. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. That's I Can't Sleep with Benjamin Boster.
Speaker 20:45
Hey, folks. Have you ever wondered what you should do if you run into a bear while hiking? Or maybe you wanna know about a single leopard that killed over 100 people in India. If you've got thoughts like these, do I have a show for you. Tooth and Claw is a storytelling podcast that takes listeners through tales of hair-raising and often violent encounters with wildlife, as well as the often very human reasons behind the attacks. Story topics cover everything from a black bear rampaging