Radio Sweethearts

(Editor’s note: Kerry’s on something of a tear tonight. Who knows what they put in the water at the MRD practice facility, but she’s on one of those mean streaks again. She doesn’t mean most of it. At least, I think she doesn’t.)

Randall sent us a link to an episode of Sound of Young America that featured an interview with Brooke and Bob.

When I got home tonight, I queued up the episode, and in the opening bars of the self-sung theme music proclaiming the host as “America’s Radio Sweetheart”, I came to a very important conclusion: I don’t like this guy. At all.

Jesse sounds like he graduated from the Kai Ryssdal School of Finger Guns and would be friends with my ex-boyfriend. Anyway.

The interview itself is great – I  like hearing Brooke and Bob outside of their normal habitat, laughing and joking and saying things they probably shouldn’t. And apparently, they have some kind of weird relationship that words can’t exactly describe. Maybe those words would be “the love that dare not speak its name”. Just sayin’s all.

Granted, as the interview goes on, I start to not mind Jesse as much because he stops trying to be cute and starts asking questions.

Also, Brooke has ADD and takes Adderall? Hey, me too! Well, with the ADD, at least. (I gave up on Aderall, though I’m terrifyingly productive when I take it. Which is, come to think of it, probably why it’s best that I don’t.)

Anyway – the interview is totally worth listening to, if only for hearing Bob’s explanation of why he constantly mourns newspapers. Bob is sad, Brooke is totally excited about the future of news, and we’re totally with her.

And Jesse, I don’t want to dislike you. Your show is kind of good, but there’s a lot of facepalming going on at R/S HQ tonight. Will you be in NYC or Boston next week? We should talk.