Mischke wrestles with a “critical” issue in hospital jargon. Then we meet “Custodians of Wonder,” people around the planet maintaining extraordinary and eccentric practices, along with the man who wrote about them, Elliot Stein. Plus a visit from an old musical friend, and a shot at love for a lonely soul.

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