#62 | Harker Jones | The Middle of the Ladder.
Writer Harker Jones on freelancing to pay the bills, short films that did well, and clawing his way to the middle of the ladder.
@HarkerJones
#61 | Mike Mulkey | The Perfect Wave.
Author Mike Mulkey on Ian McCormack, the surfer stung by a box jellyfish who died on the hospital table, woke up, and has spent his life telling the story.
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#60 | Sunny Stroeer | The Ten-Egg Omelette.
On the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational, Sunny Stroeer ate everything she could, including a ten-egg omelette and four pancakes, and lost only about 10 pounds.
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#59 | Joel David Bond | On a Kidnap List.
Joel David Bond was working in Iraq when the State Department called: he was on a kidnap list and had to go. He packed his life into two suitcases in 24 hours.
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#58 | Russ Farnsworth | Midnight Basketball.
At 22, Russ Farnsworth joined a midnight basketball league to get back in shape. He hadn't realised it was a programme to get kids out of gangs.
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#57 | Andy Rehfeldt | Happy Jazz, Death Metal.
Composer Andy Rehfeldt on taking a death metal band's separate vocal tracks, writing happy jazz underneath them, and finally getting the rock star attention through YouTube.
@andyrehfeldt
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#56 | Dr. Karen Semien-McBride | Not at 6am.
Dr. Karen Semien-McBride on boundaries at work: you don't have to answer the 6am email, and why she schedules her own late emails to arrive the next morning.
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#54 | Mike Knox | Collecting Shanks.
Retired parole agent Mike Knox on a lifelong curiosity about prisons, the art shows he put on of shanks he collected, and why he feels healthier now than at any time in 23 years.
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#53 | Titus Walker | 33 Games on the Wheel.
Titus Walker on building the Ultimate Endgamers League like the UFC of gaming: 33 games on a roulette wheel, every genre, and the player with the most points after four hours wins.
@tightasswalker
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#52 | Bob Ross | My First Solo Pickup.
Bob Ross grew up in the family funeral business. At 16 he made his first solo pickup, at 1:30 in the morning, and it did not go to plan.
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#51 | Patricia Fortlage | There for the Cause.
Documentary photographer Patricia Fortlage on the photographers she saw push cameras into the faces of the dying to build portfolios, and why the programmes she worked with kept bringing her back.
@PFortlage