Negative Scanning

ACT I

Jorge Just and Jonathan Goldstein order for each other at a Surf ‘n’ Turf diner. Revealed: Basil gives Jonathan Goldstein diarrhea.

Featuring:

ACT II

Starlee Kine reads her story “Scanning the Pandas,” originally published in the New York Times on March 4, 2007.

Featuring:

  • Starlee Kine

ACT III

Jen Kirkman and Jonathan Goldstein discuss her fear of eating apples. Jen Kirkman expounded on this on her blog on June 10, 2007.

Featuring:

  • Jen Kirkman
  • Jonathan Goldstein

Act IV

Jonathan Goldstein and Jorge Just visit a palm reader.

Featuring:

  • Jorge Just
  • Jonathan Goldstein

Act V

J. Robert Lennon reads “Tea,” from his 2005 book Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes published by Granta.

Featuring:

  • J. Robert Lennon

ACT VI

Gregor alerts Jonathan of his possible lung cancer and pitches a new invention.

Featuring:

  • Gregor Ehrlich
  • Jonathan Goldstein

Other Notes:

Listen now at SuperNintendoChalmers.net.  Posted on February 11, 2008.

3 Responses to “Negative Scanning”

  1. Negative Scanning « The Unofficial Wiretap Blog Says:

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  2. Drunk History, Vol. 3: Oney Judge « The Unofficial Wiretap Blog Says:

    [...] remember Jen Kirkman? She’s the woman who can’t eat apples in Negative Scanning. Anyway, she was in this series where Derek Waters gets one of his friends drunk and makes them [...]

  3. Starlee Kine’s Breakup Song « The Unofficial Wiretap Blog Says:

    [...] So, this week’s This American Life podcast has a very Starlee Kine-centric episode (originally aired August 24, 2007) in which she enlists the help of Phil Collins and Joe McGinty (ex-Psychadelic Furs) and Julia Greenberg to write a breakup song.  I know this isn’t directly Wiretap related, but Starlee Kine has been mentioned in several Jonathan Goldstein National Post diaries as of late and she has appeared in quite a few Wiretap episodes (i.e. Negative Scanning). [...]

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