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Phoebe tells Lauren the story of how one man planted more than 30 bombs around New York City - and how he was eventually caught using criminal profiling. Plus, Phoebe tells us what a “sardicado” is, Lauren shares some flower arranging tips, and they both reveal their least favorite commercials.

Read more about the "Mad Bomber of New York" here:

"Unmasking the Mad Bomber" (Smithsonian Magazine)
"The Mad Bomber Who Terrorized Manhattan" (New Yorker)
"‘Unhinged, unrelenting’: The Mad Bomber who terrorized New York" (Washington Post)
"Mad Bomber Case Closed by Police" (The New York Times)

Phoebe's couscous recipe is here: https://buff.ly/3WxxglZ

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In 1991, two police officers stopped Tupac Shakur for jaywalking. He said he was knocked unconscious during his arrest, and sued the city of Oakland for 10 million dollars. His lawyer says many of the police brutality cases he's worked on started with jaywalking stops.
Peter Norton’s book is Fighting Traffic.
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In 1980, posters appeared in subway stations and on telephone poles in New York City with a phone number to call. When you called it, you would hear a message: “This is Apology. Apology is not associated with the police or any other organization but rather is a way for you to tell people what you have done wrong and how you feel about it.”
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When he was 14 years old, Ron Bishop testified in a murder trial. Decades later, he told an investigator everything he said on the stand was a lie – and that it was just what he was told to say.
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Phoebe tells Lauren about a 1970s murder in Chicago that police couldn't solve — and then a doctor came forward and said his wife seemed to know things about the case that she couldn't possibly know. Plus, Phoebe’s hot dog order, practical skills, and a new potato chip to try.

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When people started saying that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was responsible for the deaths of two women and 11 children near a coal mine in Colorado, he decided to do something unusual. He hired “the father of public relations.”
Scott Martelle's book is Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West.
Amy Westervelt's podcast is called Drilled.
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