191: I Know What You Did This Summer
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From WBE Z Chicago, Public Radio International. It's this American life. I'm out of glass It is just so hot That's my big thought it is just so hot and so together everybody one two three Everybody one two three That's better at the Holstein Park pool here on Chicago's West Side Here in Chicago. We've had some truly horrible days this summer Days where the areas had a kind of meaty thickness. It is so humid. No wind off the lake Thank you very much mr. Weather Torper sets in Torper actual torper After jumping into the swimming pool Vanessa Elizabeth and Patrice do one bracing lap and then spent Hang on the side in her before hours Next to the pool the lifeguard that everybody is in love with Adrien Plays on his side among a group of intensely captivated 12 and 13-year-old girls plus a few little boys See that one song a kid ass That I'm gonna have in Tura my Mexican song Oh You Know Hey, you look up at the group see what I'm under you honestly I'm lullabying you to sleep Who can blame Armando who for that matter can get up the energy to give a damn in this heat today on our program What to do in the hottest heat of summer? When you're not sleeping right and simply walking to the car or the bus takes it all out of you And you know that you are not thinking straight and there is not a thing that you can do about it We know what you did this summer a program today in three acts that one Just three thousand more miles to the beach In that act Scott Carrier on a road trip no air conditioning too hot to stay in the car too hot to get out of the car Back to it's not the heat is the humility In which we move into an environment that is so fantastically oppressively hot that the people there have convinced themselves that sweating Sweating by itself is actually getting something done Back three you can have your cave and eat it too Sarah val brings us the story of a national dispute involving a cave a sandwich Park Rangers scientists and yes always good for a laugh the world famous United States Congress Stay with us Equin just three thousand miles to the beach Like so many summer stories This one from Scott Carrier starts with a whim and ends with a whimper It was summer the middle of a hot summer I drove to San Francisco to visit a friend and escape the heat But when I got there almost right as I got off the Bay Bridge my truck began to die It lost its power and I could barely make it up the steep hills I was stalling traffic thrown out big black clouds of smoke Forcing people to cover their faces and walk on the other side of the street It had never been a good truck always a collector of bad luck dance crack cylinder block broken clutch push rod broken brake lines smashed headlights all sad stories I Considered driving it to Fisherman's Wharf taking the plates Ceremoniously shooting the horse and walking away from it But then I slept on it and in the morning. I thought maybe a mechanic can fix it someone who actually knows about engines
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