One morning, Cathy found a takeout bag on her porch. It had the name “Rodolphe” on it, and contained one half-eaten order of french fries. The next morning, she found another bag. And then another. That’s when her neighbor Harley got involved: “We need to take this to the next level.”

Harley Rustad wrote an article about the french fry mystery for Toronto Life.

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One night, a stranger came up to comedian Dan Perlman and told him he looked just like the singer Michael Bublé. She asked Dan if he would impersonate him for one night. He had six days to get ready.

Dan Perlman's short film is called Being Bublé.

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Delia Ephron has worked on some of the most famous romantic comedies of all time – like Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail – alongside her sister, Nora Ephron. In You’ve Got Mail, two people fall in love over email. Decades after writing that screenplay, Delia Ephron found herself in the middle of a very similar story. “I really did think I’d fallen into my own romantic comedy.”

This episode was originally released in 2022.

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A dog went missing in a park in Brooklyn. A local Facebook group decided to help.

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“It felt like a magical experience. It felt like some sort of spell. I was living a childhood fairytale, of the comings and goings of this extraordinary animal that didn't need me, but seemed to be comfortable and willing to rest alongside me.”

Chloe Dalton’s book is Raising Hare: A Memoir. 

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In 2010, a man named Forrest Fenn took a bronze box filled with treasure into the Rocky Mountains and hid it. He told one treasure hunter, “You just need to put the clues together and go get it.”

Justin Posey’s book is called Beyond the Map’s Edge.

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The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside. She assembled a team of the most accomplished divers in the world, and they traveled for 12 days through the rough waters of the Southern Ocean. Attempting to dive into cracks in the iceberg, her life was in very real danger three times. And the third time, she would be saved by an animal so small, so transparent, that you can see its heart beating right through its skin.

Jill Heinerth’s book is ⁠Into the Planet⁠.

This episode first aired in 2020.

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Heather Lende has written nearly 500 obituaries for people in her small town in Alaska. She’s known just about everyone she has written about. 

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When Emma Gatewood was 67, she told her children she was going on a walk. “The next they would hear from her would be via postcard… And it said, ‘By ‘walk’ I mean I'm thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.’”

Ben Montgomery’s book is Grandma Gatewood’s Walk.

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When Minh Nguyen was in school, he didn’t ask anyone to sign his yearbooks — he says he was too uncomfortable. But twenty years later, he started reaching out to all his former classmates. He asks everyone the same questions.

For more, check out Jordan P. Hickey’s article for D Magazine.

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