Former writer for SNL and author of nonfiction books such as "America's Dumbest Criminals," Leland Gregory, presented some of the silliest and craziest 911 calls, including recordings, which ranged from a woman who wanted someone to free her son from a snake that was swallowing his hand, to a burglar who got stuck trying to break into a house, to someone who thought 911 would call him a taxi.

One of the strangest calls was a man who was tied up and gagged after a robbery and trying to make himself understood. Some of the recordings were either bizarre, sad, or very funny, with some featuring elements of all three. Gregory described what he does as "scuba diving in the shallow end of the gene pool." Art also described his year as a 911 dispatcher and the stress that caused him to quit.

In the first 30 minutes of the program, Richard C. Hoagland discussed the Spirit rover, which had just landed on Mars, and the logistics and goals of the mission, such as the search for evidence of ancient or current water.