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797: What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking
Act One

Pirates of the Cari-BEAN-TOWN

Producer Ike Sriskandarajah revisits a maritime disaster that left an impact on a group of friends from his youth. What he learns forever changes their impressions of that day. (23 minutes)

By Ike Sriskandarajah

Song:

“Ballad of the S.S. Marjorie” by Samson the Truest, Aerial East, Chances with Wolves, and Glasser. Gordon Minette on the accordion. (Original song commissioned by This American Life)

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