9-17 - UnFictional from KCRW

Today Radio Roulette features two episodes of KCRW’s UnFictional

Teresa and Helene were two spirited girls who loved to terrorize their neighborhood with silly pranks. One day, on a lark, they decide to cover the local convent with toilet paper. The girls loved the nuns, and were sure everyone would get a big laugh out of it. The stunt quickly spirals out of control, and ends with one of the two girls learning a quick lesson about discipline and forgiveness. 

Producer Julia Botero recorded and edited her mother telling this story from her childhood.

Then, Father Tony Flannery seems the very picture of an Irish County priest. That's until you learn that he's made a career of writing critically about the Catholic Church, on controversial topics like contraception, divorce, gay rights, and women in the priesthood, for starters.  His critics call him a hypocrite or a heretic... or worse. For awhile the church tried to ignore him, but Tony Flannery knows how to work the media and he kept turning up the volume, until one day he got a phone call -- the kind you just don’t want to get, whether a Catholic priest or a regional sales rep. It was the home office. The Vatican. 

This story was produced by XRAY.fm News Director John Sepulvado, and edited by Jacob Conrad.

Then, there's a story that Joanna Solotaroff 's mother, Claudia, once told her; a story so shocking that Joanna impulsively pushed her in the street when she heard it. (Mom was fine) The story goes like this... When Claudia was a young woman in disco-era Minneapolis, she met a guy in a Bee Gees suit who invited her to his house for dinner. What followed was one of the strangest encounters she ever had. The guy had creepier plans than just dinner, and unfortunately the plans involved the bizarre contents of his body-sized freezer. This story was painfully awkward and disturbing, but it was the very weirdness of it that lead to a turning point between Claudia and her daughter. If a mother can tell her daughter a story like this, she can tell her anything.